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we start with the breaking news. a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to sandy hook elementary families and an fbi agent in the connecticut defamation trial against alex jones. eight families and a first responder sued the far right conspiracy theer orists for the lies he told. this is the second of three against jones, concerning the sandy hook massacre, comes after a texas jury decided in august that jones and his company should pay nearly $50 million. the connecticut jury, nearly a billion. let's go outside the courtroom. bryn, you were in there when the big figure...

four. with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. w, igood evening >> good evenin, rachel. i will be on the port side of the vote from where you -- from where you will be sitting. what's a shocker. i mean, this committee has been very carefully scheduling. and then, the only thing they were doing with the schedule was pushing it further out. and actually, in effect, giving us bigger breaks. just suddenly, i have to jump to position for a hearing from this committee. by the way, for any committee, i mean scheduling a hearing overnight, that's just the rarest thing in committee wo...

>> why do you think there is -- why is there a rush? i mean, if they got something new, obviously, they could've factored it into the readings that they've already scheduled for july. they could've factored it into hearings they have scheduled a week from now. why, what could possibly explain why there is a rush to get the new evidence, get the new witness testimony before the american public, urgently on zero notice? >> and here we crash into the limits on my ability to guess. [laughs] but here's what i think is really striking about it, rachel. some of these members, adam schiff, h...

>> the idea of mike pence, as his staff, gets into cars, pence says we're not leaving here, we are going to stay, and i'm going to do my constitutional duty as vice president of the united states. get out of the cars, get back into the capitol. i mean, that's a very moving scene. and good for mike pence. and to see those pictures of him at this loading dock, wherever that was. you mean, this was a moment in american history that could have gone either way. i think that's, you know, so reinforced. i mean, there could have been a lot more deaths. there could have been a constitutional ...

us. do something. just do something. for god's sake, do something. after columbine, after sandy hook, after charleston, after orlando, after las vegas, after parkland, nothing has been done. this time, that cannot be true. this time we must actually do something. they issue we face is one of conscience and common sense. the second amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute. it was justice scalia who wrote, and i quote, like most rights, the right of the second amendment -- the rights granted by the second amendment are not unlimited. not unlimited. they never have been. it com...