右翼电台主持人和阴谋论者亚历克斯·琼斯出现在众议院特别委员会调查1月6日国会大厦遇袭他在节目中透露，他告诉他的观众，他援引第五修正案来保护自己免受“近100次”自证其罪

琼斯被委员会传唤提供证词和记录，他在1月5日华盛顿特区的一次集会上发表了讲话，并与定于1月6日举行的集会的组织者取得了联系，当时支持特朗普的暴徒袭击了国会大厦警察，扰乱了选举计票。

“我去那里是为了举行和平的政治集会，给国会施加和平的政治压力，”琼斯说。“这是一场可怕的历史性惨败，我希望它永远不会发生。”

琼斯说，对委员会的虚拟采访“至少可以说非常有趣”，调查人员“彬彬有礼”、“固执己见”。

他告诉调查人员——调查人员给他的印象是他们经常监视他的节目——他不知道1月6日有任何暴力计划。

琼斯说，委员会有“总体上相当合理”的问题，尽管他拒绝回答其中近100个问题。

“我想回答这些问题，但同时，我没有回答是件好事，”他说。“我是那种试图正确回答问题的人，即使我不知道所有的答案，他们也可以声称这是伪证罪，”他说。

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琼斯说，委员会在会议期间向他展示了电子邮件和短信，这是调查人员在长达一个月的调查中从几十名证人那里获得的数千份记录中的一部分。

他还表示，他“没有看到”2020年12月31日节目中的一个片段，当时一位嘉宾主持人马修·布莱肯(Matthew Bracken)提出了冲击国会大厦以扰乱选举计票的想法。

琼斯说，调查人员还询问了他参加佐治亚州国会大厦“停止偷窃”集会的情况，以及他在特朗普白宫与谁有联系。

“他们问我是否和《骄傲男孩》在一起，是否和《誓言守护者》在一起，”他回忆起和极右翼团体成员在佐治亚州酒店的一家猫头鹰餐厅吃饭。

“我只知道我所看到的和我所目睹的，”他说。

在卡普蒂尔遇袭后的节目中，琼斯说白宫要求他“领导游行”到国会大厦。但他在周一的节目中表示，他从未支持进入国会大厦的努力，他的主要联系人是特朗普竞选筹款人卡罗琳·雷恩(Caroline Wren)，她帮助组织了1月6日在白宫外的集会。

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reveals he appeared before Jan. 6 committee

Right-wing radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appeared before the House select committee investigating theJan. 6 Capitol attack, he disclosed on his show, telling his audience he invoked the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against self-incrimination "almost 100 times."

Jones, who was subpoenaed by the committee to provide testimony and records, spoke at a Jan. 5 rally in Washington, D.C., and was also in contact with organizers of the rallies scheduled for Jan. 6, when pro-Trump rioters attacked Capitol Police and disrupted the electoral vote count.

"I went there to have a peaceful political rally, to put peaceful political pressure on Congress," Jones said. "It's a horrible historic fiasco and I wish it never happened."

Jones said the virtual interview with the committee was "extremely interesting to say the least," and that investigators were "polite" and "dogged."

He told investigators -- who gave him the impression that they regularly monitor his shows -- that he had no knowledge of any plans for violence on Jan. 6.

Jones said the committee had "overall pretty reasonable" questions, even though he declined to answer nearly 100 of them.

"I wanted to answer the questions, but at the same time, it's a good thing I didn't," he said. "I'm the type that tries to answer things correctly, even if I don't know all the answers, and they can then kind of claim that's perjury" he said.

Jones said the committee showed emails and text messages to him during their session -- some of the thousands of records investigators have obtained from dozens of witnesses during their monthslong investigation.

He also said he "had not seen" a clip from his show on Dec. 31, 2020, when a guest host, Matthew Bracken, floated the notion of storming the Capitol to disrupt the electoral vote count.

Jones said investigators also questioned him about his participation in a "Stop the Steal" rally at the Georgia Capitol, and about who he was in touch with in the Trump White House.

"They asked me if we were with Proud Boys and if we were with Oath Keepers," he said, recalling eating at a Hooters restaurant at his Georgia hotel with members of the far-right group.

"All I know is what I saw and what I witnessed," he said.

On his show after the Captiol attack, Jones said the White House had asked him to "lead the march" to the Capitol. But on his show Monday, he said he never supported efforts to enter the Capitol and that his main point of contact was Trump campaign fundraiser Caroline Wren, who helped organize the rally outside the White House on Jan. 6.