Radio host
Alex Jones says his CNN confrontation with host Piers Morgan last
night was so volatile that one of the producers of the show burst
into tears during the commercial break.
According to
Jones, the fact that the showdown became so out of control and off-script
overwhelmed CNN staffers and sent them into a tailspin, including
Piers Morgan Tonight producer Rachel
Burstein, who began to shed tears.
Jones was supposed
to appear in a third segment on the show to debate lawyer Alan Dershowitz,
but CNN managers and Morgan himself were so outraged at his refusal
to play ball that they changed the format of the whole program on
a whim.
After the second
segment, Morgan told Jones, Youre done, to which
Jones responded by accusing Morgan of chickening out of the confrontation.
We will
defeat you, Jones told Morgan, to which Morgan responded by
snickering.
Jones said
he also confronted Dershowitz on his support
for creating warrants that would allow police and security services
to torture suspects, adding that Dershowitz was not interested in
debating Jones.
Before he even
arrived at CNN center in New York, Jones described how he and cameraman
Rob Dew were being followed around by undercover police.
Watch a video
of Jones account of what happened after the cameras stopped
rolling below, as well as the debate with Morgan itself.