Speaker 1: Okay. A couple of other quick stories that we've been covering. The Alex Jones text
messages have made their way to the Trump Riot Committee based on reporting from a number of
different sources. So let's back up and remind you what's going on. We knew before the Alex
Jones defamation trial that Jones was involved and in contact with people that were organizing. And
at the Trump riots on January six, 2021, we knew that it would be great if Alex Jones was somehow
more involved and under scrutiny from the January six committee, but it wasn't clear if
and how that was going to happen. Then the Alex Jones defamation trial took place, and as you
might remember, Alex Jones own boneheaded lawyer accidentally sent a full digital copy of Jones
entire mobile phone, including text messages and other things to the attorney representing
the plaintiffs in the defamation trial. And there was cartoonish stuff in there. Like,
for example, there was a record of Alex Jones sending. According to the plaintiff's attorney,
Alex Jones sent a naked picture of his own wife to Roger Stone, like bizarre, cartoonish stuff,
but also because of the timeline of those text messages and that digital copy. It was reasonable
to believe or to expect or to wonder that materials related to January six also would have
been on that digital copy. And then we learned the January six committee wants Alex Jones text
messages. And now the reporting from CNN is Alex Jones. Texts have been turned over to the January
six committee. The article reads Approximately two years worth of text messages sent and received by
conspiracy theorist Alex Jones have been turned over to the House Select Committee
investigating the January 6th insurrection, a person familiar with the matter said to CNN.
The messages were handed over to the committee by Marc Bankston, the attorney who represented
the Sandy Hook parents who successfully sued Jones in Texas and won nearly $50 million in
the civil trial. Bankston would only tell CNN that he is cooperating with the committee.
The committee declined to comment during the trial. As you might recall, Bankston revealed one
of Jones lawyers messed up and inadvertently sent him the two years of text messages that Bankston
and Bankston also said during the trial. The committee expressed interest in the material.
You know, it's a really good thing that so many of the people behind January 6th involved in January
six and in this case representing individuals involved with January 6th, speaking, of course, of
Alex Jones, attorney, are kind of dufus. It's very useful. And it aids the investigation to proceed
that a lot of these people don't seem to be playing with a full deck or,
you know, the wheel is spinning, but the hamsters dead, whatever metaphor or phrase you want to
apply to it. Now, none of this means that there are going to be consequences. I think, as we now
have learned of the FBI raid of Donald Trump's Mar a Lago home. It's entertaining. It feels
like at least he's suffering a little because they raided his home. But I am not assuming
that Trump is going to be indicted or that if he is, that there will be consequences. We will have
to wait and see. And similarly, the fact that the committee now has the text messages of Alex Jones,
even though it was not Jones intention for the committee to have them, it doesn't necessarily
mean that there's going to be consequences. Now, one of the things that is important to remember
is any time you're dealing with leaks or transfers of information, the right wingers
love to pull this double standard. When it came to the Hunter Biden laptop, they didn't care how
the blind computer tech got it. They didn't care about anything in terms of due process
or discovery or finding. It didn't matter. It was what's on the laptop. Now they're saying,
well, hold on a second. What about due process? This was an accident. What about attorney client
privilege? What about invasion of privacy? What about free speech? They'll throw whatever they
can at the wall to say the content of the text messages does not matter. All that matters is
how did the January six committee obtain the text messages? Predictable people. We will
see what happens and what the next step is in terms of the committee and Alex Jones, remember
the committee expected to hold more hearings, I believe they said, in September. So we will see