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look, we've all been waiting to see what lies might cost, eventually. we know what they might cost a family, maybe a country, maybe a democracy. the toll, the human misery. but the question for a texas jury today is what it should cost conspiracy theorist alex jones. we now have our answer. nearly $50 million. now, recall jones was already ordered to pay more than $4 million this what's called compensatory damages just yesterday. that to the parents of a beautiful 6-year-old child, a little boy killed in the 2012 attack. but today, they added $45.2 million on top of that, awarded him...

Distress award of $60 million. and our punitive award was only $25, because at that time, gawker's represented net wort was thing $150 or whatever and the law would have bankrupted them. you can't -- most states will have a law that say that punitives cannot be used to bankrupt a company, which is why there is a discussion of net worth. the numbers don't offend me. whether they hold up becomes a by-product of texas law, where they're trying it. and that usually is going to be somewhat well-established state law on the relationship that punitives bear towards the compensatory award. you get a c...