Alex Jones of InfoWars talks to reporters outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing concerning foreign influence operations' use of social media platforms, on Capitol Hill, September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer | Getty Images

Electronic material that Infowars host Alex Jones turned over to the families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who are suing him contained images of child pornography, according to a court filing Monday. The filing also accuses Jones of threatening Christopher Mattei, a lawyer for the families, and his law firm, during an online broadcast of "The Alex Jones Show" on Friday in which he angrily claimed that unnamed people were "trying to set me up with child porn." "I'll get your a--," Jones said, before offering a $1 million bounty for information that led to the apprehension and conviction of whoever sent him emails containing child porn. Jones, who is being sued in Connecticut for allegedly defaming the Sandy Hook families, adamantly denied having known that child porn images was contained in email attachments sent to his Infowars media company.

Jones said the FBI has informed him that there is no evidence that he ever opened the emails containing the porn, or that he ever sent porn himself. And he implied that the lawyers for the families suing him were behind an effort to put child porn into his electronic files. On the broadcast, Jones' lawyer Norm Pattis said: "Somebody directed child pornography into your email accounts hoping that you opened it." But Pattis said he would be "shocked" if the plaintiffs' lawyers were involved. In a filing late Monday, Pattis said that on the InfoWars progam on Sunday, Jones "issued a public apology to Attorney Mattei." "Mr. Jones apologized for the statements he made [during] the previous day's broadcast saying, 'I'm not saying that the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families set me up or did this,'" Pattis wrote. Pattis' filing also asked the judge in the case to stay the proceedings because lawyers for the plaintiffs have "raised serious allegations" about whether there are conflicts of interest between Pattis and Jones. A hearing in the case, which already was set for Tuesday, will address the claims that Jones threatened Mattei and his firm. "Threats against counsel have been made on air to a very large audience," lawyers for the plaintiffs wrote. "The plaintiffs therefore request that the Court review the video in advance of tomorrow's hearing. Plaintiffs intend to move to seek specific relief on an expedited basis, but this is an issue that the Court should be fully aware of at the earliest possible moment." In their filing, lawyers for the plaintiffs quoted Jones at length to substantiate their claim he was threatening the attorneys. After pounding his fist on a photo of Mattei, Jones fumed, "And then no magically they want metadata out of hundreds of thousands of emails and they know just where to go. What a nice group of Democrats. How surprising. What nice people." "Chris Mattei. What a good American. What a good boy. You think you'll put on me what. ... Anyway I'm done. Total war! You want it, you got it!"