alex jones! alex jones! >> alex jones has become an alt-right influencer, and his theorys have become mainstream, delivered to an even wider audience, often with a violent message. >> i want to break your jaw off and grab it with my hands and rip the mandible off your head. i want to bash your brains out. i want to bring you low. >> a lot of alex jones' content is deeply dangerous. the nature of his delivery and its violence in its words is effective, i think in drumming up anger and really playing on people's sense of fear and anxiety. >> they want a fight, they better believe they got one. >> some who listen to jones have committed acts of violence. one killed police officers. another fired shots at the white house. another opened fire in a d.c. pizza restaurant. and on january 6th, 2021, alex jones and his influence were on full display at the u.s. capitol. >> stop the steal! stop the steal! >> long before they became infamous on january 6th, leaders of the proud boys, the oath keepers, the st

jones. >> alex! alex! alex! >> his former employees are now convinced jones and infowars are a sham. >> i think i was facing a personal reckoning. it took me a lot longer to get the courage to lee. >> almost sounds like you're breaking away from a cult. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i think there are many aspects of being in jones' world, being a listener, subscribing to those ideas that are cult like. >> it took kay lynn robinson six months to break away. >> what do you say to the people who are wrapped up in this world of infowars and believe these conspiracies? >> oh, i would just tell them directly that alex doesn't care about them and they're just being used for money. >> and his business model, making money from supplements, not ads, means his empire is virtually untouchable. >> alex jones operates a media organization unlike any other. you can't put pressure on him by going after his advertisers. as long as he has that core of people buying those products, he'll do whatever he wants. the only thing

about alex jones asked him, you know. i bet it before you even sat down with him before they were even recording said you're going to take down this material you are going to take down alex jones. yes. i did it you're going to do platform it i said three weeks. yeah deep platform and he was like, no. he said no. he said that's ridiculous. i'm not and i said, oh no you are and he goes, he's essentially said who's gonna make me and i'm like me. yeah, so you brought it up in the end. i brought it up right away. yeah and thinking that he would avoid that question of the the thorny question about alex jones nice segway right over to the holocaust. yes, and unfortunately yeah being basically oh, those people are just mistaken. no. he said they don't mean to lie. yeah, and i felt it was a definition of a holocaust denial that they actually mean to lie and malevolently. yeah, and so what happened in that case and i want you to react to this is yeah, i wasn't surprised by what he did what they did facebook did was when he moved fr

that was before alex jones got abducted. what did he like about it? works to him as an intellectual exercise. but if you looked at what the government said about the moon landing? we look at what the conspiracy their essay. how is a sausage made? how did they figure out what is the basis for their doubt being photographed, he thought it was fun to just look at those things he didn't think it was toxic in any way. and what know at that time alex jones from his association he definitely was a different person who is a lot less toxic and broader than he was on 2020. >> at shifted from those cap things are propaganda angle. the idea of client fake news i caught propaganda news. lies is another way toe put it. some are purposely done for propagandalu purposes. sometimes propaganda to drive an agenda. not negative this early. he is in fact underdogs was actually true for this loud bells and whistles that go along that i'll get tod. that second period the idea was this guy was doing this step in living along the edges pretty new so

he's everybody knows who alex jones is correct if you okay. yeah, which wasn't the case actually right like seven years ago people didn't you know, this entire room would be like, i don't know coming up empty. yeah. i i it's hard to exactly he is conspiratorial by sure, i you know one of one of his employees told me it doesn't really matter if alex jones believes what he says it matters that his listeners do and you know, there were millions of them and they were willing to defend those false beliefs with violence and he was operating on the fringes of media at the time and i remember interviewing i was perfect. i was completely struck by it, but i oddly enough had ralph reed at one of my early code conferences. i was right noticing that the right wing was doing rather. well, yeah online and it was because they had been zeroed out of other media and so here they found a very fertile ground to get their information, but talk radio was another area but which was jones which was jones but but alternative media was what they were looking for in so

yes, so alex jones. we love this part out of our narrative was a regular on our tea so he would get up. this is russia today. yeah, russia today kremlin funded state tv. he would get up in the middle of the night, you know, his ex-wife told me clamber out of bed, you know ready to go on our tea at all hours. he was eager to expand his platform by whatever means necessary. he's been a putin fan and apologist from the start. he admires that and i actually think and you know, paul and i have talked about this. when i was a reporter in eastern europe, it was you know, even then not terribly long ago. it would have taken a pretty sophisticated foreign adversary like russia to sew the kind of disinformation that we are doing ourselves and if we're worried about russia interfering in our next election, don't worry about it because we've already done it and we'll do it again, right? so it's ours. it's not where these groups in this country. yeah, but was he funded now, but talk about bots one, you know, i asked

jones. >> alex! alex! alex. >> >> reporter: pamela, once we started digging into this story we were stunned by something else, the staggering amount of money that alex jones makes, how easy it is to apparently fool people to buy products that he sells mostly from fear, and what is frightening is how many people believe these lies and now consider alex jones a trustworthy source of information. pamela? >> yeah, literally profiting off of fear, preying on that. drew griffin, thank you, and you can watch that "special report, megaphone for conspiracy, alex jones" coming up in a few minutes at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> well, a massive heat wave has 110 million americans dealing with heat alerts right now. you may be one of them. meteorologist karen mcginnis joins me with the very latest coming up next here in the cnn newsroom. which are ♪ three times the electorlytes and half the sugar. ♪ pedialyte powder packs. feel better fast. ♪ ♪ women have to overcome more obstacles to reach t

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it was alex jones and some people online that gained some tragic because of the nature of their theories, they gathered online and fed each other theories. these are not people really known to us. it did grow into quite a phenomenon. through 2013, 2014, 2015, there were thousands of people online talking about this and saying that the sandy hook shooting was a hoax, and that it was a false flag staged by the government. as i mentioned, it started to attach itself to that kind of theorizing after every kind of high-profile mass shooting. you've all day to me is a new thing. this is something where you see the spread of conspiracy theorizing like the coronavirus and, just in your last segment, around the elections. this is the same kind of phenomenon. it is a muddying the waters. it is almost a tribal signifier that you would spread disinformation after a massive shooting. >> yeah, and after uvalde, as i mentioned, you talked about door policy here. after uvalde, we have seen in other bizarre disinformation talking point by republicans, the door control, if you will, hysteria. at the 2015

alex! alex! >> damaging lives. >> alex jones lied about sandy

the alex jones. jo, because there's a war on for your mind. i'll tell you the bottom line. 98 percent chance. this was a government orchestrated control bombing. i've been telling you this was going to happen just 2 weeks ago. they need, this is a pretext to bring you and your family martial law. donald trump also weighed in on the very day of the attacked. i said, how could i play even a play even a 767 or 747 or whatever it might have been? how could it possibly go through this deal? i happened to think that they had not only a plane, but they had bombs that exploded almost simultaneously. fury surrounding 911 became breeding grounds for people with anti democratic ideals. now, oh, i trump and the world of conspiracies. the belief that $911.00 was an inside job planned by the administration of george w bush but president bush would subsequently launch his own attack on the truth. the bush administration was making an overtly openly fraudulent case. they put colon power in a chair at the united nations to lie to promote this notion that iraq

i conspiracy theorists like the american alex jones are now banned from youtube. oh boy. you tube. what site diem? youtube has done a lot of tweaking since then. and what is this community that's grown over the years of accident? you can't just get rid of it. quick management, new you to bruise only shift the danger. today we're in paris and we're in a state of law and the in a western democracy. but let's go online, we're not in a democracy anymore. we are in yemen, we're in a failed state. ah, the phone is commune the common these forms of escalating communication didn't come into being with the internet. you does. and we know from psychology that the concept of an enemy can, of course, lead to a very strong mobilization in defense of one's own values. you stagen will be 0, can often mobilize much more strongly than positive ideas of actually standing up for something doesn't begin this most. the, this method was used in propaganda, the 20s, thirties, and forties. yeah. and it's being used to day by populous parties, would have it over deed. this is berlin's former propaganda min

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radical conspiracy theorist alex jones brought info wars caravan. numbers of the proud boys roamed the streets looking for fights. white nationalists committed the crowd's attentions. violent rhetoric became a key feature of the events. during november softest rally, oath keepers called on trumpo invoke the insurrection act and declare martial law. >> if he does not do now while he is commander-in-chief, we're going to have to do it ourselves ler in a much more desperate, much more bloody war. >> late december, ali alexander claimed credit for organizing the events that would take place on january 6 along with three congressmen. >> i was the person he came up with the january 6 idea with three congressmen. >> alexander spent weeks leading up to the attack: for rebellion. even appeared to call for physicalttacks on mbers of congress. >> what would you do if somebody broke into your house and stole something -- i don't want to say stealing your front yard because i know what we would do, let's say they made it out to the room. i don't want to be accus

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this is the kind of thing that gets broadcast on alex jones's show. and yet it was one of the people that tiger carlson was hosting as the hearing was taking place live. >> next level crises what we are talking about. angela, the next committee has gone to great lengths to not politicize the hearing, to insist that this is a matter of importance for all americans and for democracy. it is not an attack on the republican party. is there anyway, though, to get past all the partisan perceptions of this investigation, if the right-wing media in this country is doing the bidding of the crazies and the right-wing party in this country. >> no. there is always going to be extremist operations. there was always going to be fringes. so certainly we could find some consensus even with the fringes. but there is no way to ever get past this. or even just sustain any kind of civil society our democracy as we understand it, when you have a network like fox news giving its role and its prominence and its place in the information landscape. operating in the way that it

about alex jones. but ginni thomas is a cute player, here and i am hoping you are right that we will see some action on the court. one thing i need to add for what tara said, elections have consequences, but it wasn't just donald trump, it was mitch mcconnell basically illegitimately putting two members of the supreme court, 18 days before a presidential election, the other of course we know merrick garland. so, it is not just elections, it is the violation of norms and you have to fight back against that. i'm not seeing much fighting going on. >> yeah, i completely agree with you. i don't think the democrats are -- you know, really in this fight to save our democracy at this moment. at least that is how i am seeing it -- >> not 50. >> absolutely. eddie,, norm tara, thank you so much for your time tonight. greatly appreciate it. we will be right back after this quick break. is quick break ♪ you've got a lovely day to do it in, that's true ♪ [ chuckling ] ♪ and i hope whatever you've got to do ♪

and that lent that created a fertile ground for the kind of scapegoating that people like alex jones and others capitalized on. and then finally as you and i have talked about countless hours the rise of social media, so whereas once you had kind of a media establishment that was critical of these issues offered critical viewpoints of it and wouldn't privilege the lunatics, you know with space on the dial with editorial access right with the most valuable real estate like on an op-ed page. the reality is facebook has no filters and since it became widely available. i mean you had the advent of the internet and the mid 90s as it moved from an academic medium through the interface of the world wide web to a big public place and you know, we've seen this over here since there was dial-up service we had on bulleted boards extremists trying to exploit that new technology. but then with the advent of facebook, they could literally and there and the the subsequent, you know availability of the iphone. the extremist capitalized on this dramatically and they exploited the loopholes in the sys

jones. the ruling is part of a deal with the parents of sandy hook school shooting victims. they promised to end their suits against those three companies. that dismissal allows the parents deformation lawsuit against jones for calling the shooting a hoax to continue in texas and connecticut. judges in both states found jones liable for damages. ukrainians presidential advisor now says up to 200 ukrainian soldiers are being killed every day in russia's military onslaught. advisor adds that only more advanced western weaponry will turn back the russian offensive and reduce the casualties. and forced moscow to the negotiating table off the battlefield. the european union is preparing to slam moscow with fresh sanctions on oligarchs and entities in russia. boxes. mike tobin reports from keith seems like these are commonplace across eastern ukraine, as russian forces bombard several key cities in the donbass moscow has increased attacks in recent days as they aim to take over the entire region.

jones was riding high he had revenues of 50 million a year. >> $50 million, much of it sandy hook. genius business model. all he was doing was sells products absolutely geared to the paranoia and fears of his audience. dry food for your doomsday prepper shelter, untraceable gun components. you've got a weapon you don't need to register when the end of times comes, it is vitamin supplements and diet supplements for those who don't trust traditional medicine. fluoride the government puts is meant to write your brain. from the warehouse from his headquarters, $50 million a year. he is taking advantage of his customers. and at the same time using crap to sell that. >> it works. >> watch the full program online anytime, booktv.org. elizabeth williamson or sandy hook. >> you have been watching booktv every sunday on c-span2. watch nonfiction authors discuss their books. television for serious readers and watch them all online anytime, booktv.org and find us on twitter, facebook and youtube,@booktv. >> if you are enjoying booktv, sign up for our newsletter using the qr code on your screen

you sound paranoid.ar alex jones stuff that's just happened in canada. so what stops it from happening here ? weer already know the authoritis are abusing the red flag laws on the books. kendra parris is a lawyer based in florida who specializes in them. we in a recent interview, she said clients are able to hire lawyers have quote vastlye higher odds off getting their firearms back from the government. of course,ba gov laws likepe this always penalize the weakest. er she said courts are takingto a quote better safe than sorry approach to avoidre political blowback and the police are taking advantage of that . so court records show copsom in florida often show up to the homes of citizens to present them with , quote, stipulations. ifee you agree in writing toyo surrender your firearms, you have a chance of getting them back after a year. as it happens, that's a pretty tempting office offer when you have armed people in your living room. but item is and it remains. and again, weha don't need to guesss because the supreme court just ruled on this. it's's u

, my, sammy jones good is public. if just the new are you at the call just to begin with a boy with i really believe that it is still m. oh, when is the bundle? it does show the dylan dog, osha dealer. lydia, who did the border. it is monday, though. so would you like the shuttle? yeah. with this really interested, she's working with a woman with a specific one. well her on issues with no, i'm not going to the grandma salary and you'd like to just get with the shopper dealer wasn't going to stay emotionally considered. a initial record that you said you like, like almost like what i've shared with home like this, the with them about i'm go very far for july, you know, if you were to jumpstart with my, in my mind, me a blog with that's what the new from a guy you bundle with a bit of noise is nationwide, so i'm, i'm going to share with you what hopes most quarterman clear monday you'd known to song called the use while you was on the number my hard but i does or do it, but it is abroad my actually his blue basil, 63, b

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hello and welcome to your thursday one show, live on bbc one and iplayer, with alex jones. and welcome back to roman kemp. you were busy last weekend and you were brilliant, by the way. how was it, you were the man with all the gossip? i was lucky enough to slip into the after party after the party at the palace and into the after party after the party at the palac— at the palace and let me tell you, that was a — at the palace and let me tell you, that was a big _ at the palace and let me tell you, that was a big drop _ at the palace and let me tell you, that was a big drop already, - at the palace and let me tell you, that was a big drop already, with | that was a big drop already, with the royals, and the best thing about it, you would think at the end of a party at buckingham palace they would slowly and cautiously usher everybody out, but theyjust would slowly and cautiously usher everybody out, but they just switch the lights are, just the same as they do in destiny nightclub in watford. —— the lights off. they do in destiny nightclub in watford. -- the lights

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hello to you, alex sandra. so germany, the host of this year's g 7 summit has in fact been criticized for not doing enough to support ukraine. but today we just heard from the u. s. president, calling germany one of the fastest and closest allies in the world. what do you make of this? well, i think that this a brief exchange that we so was very telling or so well orchestrated. so we heard you asked president joe biden saying that he wanted to our company men to all of shoals for stepping up as he did to a when taking over the chances that position as the german chancellor. and then he also added that to the way how germany was moving had a great impact on the whole europe. so he was making a point to praising germany's leadership. despite all that criticism that germany has been facing, of course, it is important. germany is a heavy weight in europe. germany is the host of this g 7 meeting. and that is why germany is so crucial in making this meeting a success. and to making sure that the signal that is going

alex forsyth, bbc news, kigali. we can now speak about the rail strikes with alan jones. we can now speak about the rail strikes with alanjones. thank you for trying again. we know what the rmt wants and the rail bosses, but is there any sign of a way out of this stalemate?— is there any sign of a way out of this stalemate? there is very little si . n this stalemate? there is very little sin at this stalemate? there is very little si . n at the this stalemate? there is very little sign at the moment _ this stalemate? there is very little sign at the moment that _ this stalemate? there is very little sign at the moment that this - this stalemate? there is very little l sign at the moment that this dispute will be settled any time soon. there was a strike today, a knock—on effect tomorrow, another strike on saturday. i'm pretty sure the rmt will announce more strikes next week unless there is a breakthrough. having said that, it has been unusual this week. normally when there is a strike the two sides go into their corners and don't speak until after they are finished.

>> shannon: alex, thank you so much. we're going to go check in on georgia now where former president trump's preferred candidate in the primary runoff in the tenth congressional district has been defeated tonight. vernon jones losing to small business owner mike collins. correspondent jonathan serrie tracking the returns in that race and what it means tonight. good evening, jonathan. >> reporter: good evening to you, shannon. endorsement from former president trump was not enough to help vernon jones this evening, the former democrat who switched parties to become one of mr. trump's most outspoken supporters, lost his g.o.p. runoff to trucking company owner mike collins. the margin was nearly 3-1. jones told supporters "we know the best person doesn't always get elected. you can look at joe biden." although it was far from a concession speech, it was a clear confession of defeat. jones has yet to speak with his opponent. he's making sure that republicans are going to take back georgia in november. >> i'm going to grow t