hire, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on a very busy day of news and more details on what promises to be a blockbuster hearing on the january 6 hearing and we ll have much more on that. we begin with the verdict in the alex jones trial where a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to the family members of the sandy hook victims, people who suffered from the lines that alex jones started spreading hours after the massacre. harry lipman joins us, a former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. let me just not go the down the rabbit holes of alex jones but the families had pain and suffering from the massacre being described as a hoax and the nearly billion dollars in damages does nothing, nothing to deal with their grief but it was as signal, it seems harry, that the jury felt that it was represent henceible. even his defense attorney said in close, nicole. this is a despicable human being and, of course, he s the vilest vermin out there on
the lies continue. this time george santos caught making up a story about his mother being in the south tower on 9/11, this as republicans reward him in congress. emergency measures are in place today as the nation is hitting its debt limit. why congress may be playing with fire. a warning to vladimir putin. ukraine s president said his country will take by crimea. will alec baldwin be charged the killing of a shooting onset? we ll discuss. cnn this morning starts now. we begin with yet another apparent lie from george santos, a republican congressman from new york who fabricated just about everything on his resume. he s been caught lying about his late mother. santos long claimed his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 and later died from cancer. new immigration records confirm santos mother was in brazil and never in the u.s. and now a navy veteran from new jersey is accusing santos of stealing $3,000 from a gofundme account. santos de
the angle conclusive to ig demonstrate that democrats aren t just destroying our economy and our foreign policy. they re also destroying something even more precious our children. >th they re destroying their innocence, uc their education, their spirit, their sense of optimism. they re destroying their future now look no further than liberal montgomery county, maryland . montgo suburb ofanan washington, d.c., where we see the shocking consequence ofki majority liberal democrat ruleri .demic we now, had during the pandemice spent a great deal of time exposing the county executive there, an uber liberal named mark elrich. not long after we knew that covid lockdown s and rules were hurting our kids badly, the man refused to budge. in our opinion, the best solution is to do a temporary post. the school system needs to take a pause and then we take its way to chaotic right now it was vindictive and now the results are in academically. montgomery county students are falling fu
testimony from victims of the recent shootings. this student described watching her friends and teachers die and saying she s afraid to return to school. the devastating story of kimberly and felix rubio who lost their daughter. we told her we loved her and we would pick her up after school. i could still see her walking with us toward the exit. in the reel that scrolls across my memory, she turns and acknowledges my promise. then we left. i left my daughter at that school, and that decision will haunt me for the rest of many i life. we don t want you to think of her as just a number. she was intelligent, compassionate and athletic. she was quiet. shy unless she had a point to make. when she knew she was right, she stood her ground. she was firm, direct, voice unwavering. today, we stand for lexi and as her voice we demand action. somewhere out there, there s a mom listen to our testimony, thinking, i can t even imagine their pain. not knowing that our reality will one day
Loyal to him. Voters not sufficiently pure enough either in the first choice of a candidate, as in the case of haley voters or in their religion, in the case of jews who dont vote republican. The list of political enemies gets longer and longer and while this isnt new, its trump being trump, after all, some republicans worry its not helping him in november, in the same way condemning vote by mail cost him in 2020. Condemning anyone who questions him or maybe doesnt have him as their first choice might cost him in 2024. Theres vaughn. If not in total viewers. And in republicans ability to keep the house or win back the senate. Youre seeing the sausage being made, folks. The former president quote, needs to be sensitive to where hes strong and where hes weak in the political map. Joining us now, as i mentioned, nbc news correspondent Vaughn Hillyard whose face you saw half of a moment ago, New York Times Political Correspondent who wrote a new piece on trump and evangelicals, mike bender