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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com that's it for us. let's hand it over to laura coates and "cnn tonight." laura? >> anderson, thank you so much. i'm laura coates and this is "cnn tonight." look, i've got to get right to it. i know we're supposed to think about politics and other notions today. but i've got to tell you about alex jones because i've been thinking about it all day since i heard and watched that testimony. alex jones spent so many years trying to get people to believe in his conspiracy theories, to pretend that sandy hook, the tragedy never even happened, that the ...

>> you know, to top it all off, just before the jury began deliberating today, this clip from jones' "info wars" show was played in court of him actually mocking those jurors. >> extremely blue collar folks. i mean, half of that jury panel does not know who i am. they said that. and when they were asked during the jury panelling yesterday, do you believe the media has ever gotten anything wrong, they obviously said no. so, it's people living in all these different bubbles. and there's the bubbles that are awake and the bubbles that are questioning. but then there's the bubbles where people do ...

And parkland and so many other school shootings. i'm wondering from the more broader context, how is it that misinformation like this could have lasted this long? and how it's not until right now if it's held to account? >> there are people in this country who appear to be desperate for an explanation, for anything just to defy what actually happened. if it's being reported by the news media, they're desperately looking for something. and then there are absolute evil people like alex jones who are willing to come along and feed it to them. i know what planet we're on, and i know what planet he...