HARTFORD, Conn. _ Families of some of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are angry with NBC News and host Megyn Kelly, who plan to air an interview with a conspiracy monger who denies the shooting occurred.
Alex Jones has pushed the conspiracy on his website, Infowars, and victims' families say some of his followers have harassed them.
Kelly, in a tweet, defended her interview with Jones, noting that President Donald Trump has given Jones' website press credentials at the White House.
"POTUS's been on & praises (Jones') show. He's giving Infowars a WH press credential. Many don't know him; our job is 2 shine a light," Kelly wrote on Twitter.
Neither Kelly nor NBC responded to a request for comment.
The family of Vicki Soto, a first-grade teacher who died in the Dec. 14, 2012, shooting at Sandy Hook that killed 20 first-graders and six educators, posted a letter to Kelly and NBC News on Facebook late Sunday as the network began airing promos for Kelly's interview.
"We would like it to be publicly known that we are greatly disappointed in your decision to give Alex Jones airtime," Soto's family wrote. "Alex and his followers have done nothing but make our lives a living hell for the last 4 { years."
Soto's family said Kelly and NBC should be ashamed for giving Jones and his views such a prominent platform. "We hope you never are subjected to the kind of torture that Alex Jones and his followers inflict on us," the family wrote. "We hope you never have to endure what we have at the hands of that man."
Nelba Marquez-Greene, whose 6-year-old daughter Ana Grace Marquez-Greene died at Sandy Hook, took to Twitter after learning of NBC's plan to air the interview.
She posted a photo of her daughter to Twitter and wrote: "Here you go @megynkelly _ her name is Ana Grace Marquez-Greene. Say her name- stare at this & tell me it's worth it."
And to drive home her point, Marquez-Greene also posted the many tweets she received from Sandy Hook deniers after criticizing NBC and Kelly. "This is what it looks like when you shine light on (Jones). They double down," Marquez-Greene wrote in a tweet showing a message she received.
