Jones, 43, has previously claimed that the 2012 Newtown school shooting, where 20 children and six adults were killed, was a hoax.
In a preview of the interview released last Sunday, Kelly does grill Jones on his baseless accusation about the mass shooting; however, Jones on Thursday made publicly available audio that the blogger claims he took of Kelly. And Sandy Hook victims' families have threatened to sue NBC if it airs the interview Sunday.
The law firm representing them said in a letter: "By now, it should be clear to NBC that airing the interview will cause serious emotional distress to dozens of Sandy Hook families".
The recording features Kelly appearing to compliment the way Jones handled himself during a recent custody case, telling him, "I saw a different side of you in that whole thing...."
Ms. Kelly defended her decision to interview Mr. Jones earlier this week partially due to his impressive audience: Mr. Jones claims to reach about 45 million people a week through his Infowars website, radio and internet broadcasts, and notably interviewed President Trump in 2015. I don't know that he has that much influence, but he's someone that the president would talk to during the campaign from all accounts. "It's all going to come out".
Kelly acknowledged that she was surprised by the severity of the backlash to the interview. So we're going to release, oh yea, we're going to release the pre-interview.
Lack noted that he had suggested approaching Jones for an interview to David Corvo, the NBC News executive who supervises the network's newsmagazines.
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Jones admitted that in his 22 years in the industry, he's "never recorded another journalist", but he listened to his intuition this time.
Nonetheless, Jones' non-leak "leak" has his supporters and members of the far- and alt-right media praising the Infowars host's intelligence for taping his interview with Kelly. I hope that she actually asks the tough questions of him because there is a little bit of a contradiction between the statements she put out saying I want to ask those tough questions and what we heard in the recording.
"What I think we're doing is journalism", Kelly has said.
But in the Hartford & New Haven, Connecticut, television market, the controversy will be bypassed completely Sunday, as the NBC affiliate in that market, WVIT, has chosen not to air the interview, according to multiple news reports.
NBC News told The Hill that it is committed to airing the interview.
Mediaite has learned that Alex Jones ex-wife approached producers of Megyn Kelly's program this week and demanded she be included in the segment.
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