Alex Jones met with 1/6 committee and says he pleaded the Fifth ‘almost 100 times’

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By Annie Grayer and Oliver Darcy, CNNRight-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones met virtually on Monday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, he announced on his broadcast.
“I just had a very intense experience being interrogated by the January 6 committee,” Jones said on his broadcast on Monday.
Jones also relayed on Monday that the committee had asked him whether he had heard of any plans for violence on January 6.
Jones said the committee also asked him whether he used Oath Keepers or Proud Boys as security.
On his show, Jones said he had tried to discourage people from entering the Capitol but described containing the crowd as “mission impossible.”“We learned there were a bunch of people inside the Capitol,” Jones said.