“I’m being asked by several federal agencies and law enforcement agencies to provide (the records),” Mark Bankston, an attorney for the plaintiffs, told Judge Maya Guerra Gamble. “Absent a decision that says you can’t do that … I intend to do that immediately after this hearing.”
“I think there is absolutely nothing, nothing, that Mr. Reynal has done to meet his obligations to protect his client and prevent him from doing that,” she said, referring to Jones’ attorney Andino Reynal.
“The January 6th committee has asked me to hand over the documents,” Bankston added later.
Bankston declined to specify to CNN which other investigators outside the House committee expressed interest in obtaining Jones’ text records.
Bankston revealed in court Wednesday that Reynal’s company, in an apparent mishap, sent him two years of cell phone records that included every text message Jones had sent. Jones was a center fielder on January 6. However, he was at the demonstration before the riots. he did not storm the Capitol. The Infowars founder testified virtually before the committee on Jan. 6 earlier this year, but said he repeatedly asserted his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent during the interview.
The judge overseeing the case advised Reynal to take time off while they await a verdict to investigate a legal argument to prevent Bankston from disclosing information to the Jan. 6 committee and others.
Later Thursday, the jury hearing the case determined that Jones will have to pay the parents of a victim of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School more than $4 million for defamation and emotional distress.
CNN’s Tierney Sneed contributed to this report.