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There were reasons to have caution. but not everyone was willing to wait for the please to do their work and piece together what did or didnt happen. plenty of politicians dove right in and turned up the heat. nancy pelosi said if the racist and homophobic attack is an affront on ohumanity. presidential candidates called it a modern day lynching. harris said we must confront this hate. both booker and harris were pressed by reporters when it was becoming clear smollett was becoming the target of...

Derangement. facts come second. in the aftermath of report, everyone, celebrities, and politicians and members of the media rushed to judgment. look at the 2020 candidates. kamala harris and harris compared the attack to a lynching. and speaker nancy pelosi called it an affront to our humanity. activity ellen page used the smollett saga to attack vice-president pence. she was not the only one. rob reiner incued the president of injecting homophobic into americas blood stream. the left are the on...

First. remember in the immediate aftermath of the report, everyone, celebrities, politicians, members of the media, they, as usual, rushed right to judgment. look at the 20 to 20 candidates, kamala harris, sparking a speaker, took to twitter comparg it to a modern-day lynching. speaker pelosi called it an affront to our humanity. from the hollywood left, just as bad. the jump to these conclusions. actress ellen page used the smollett saga to attack vice president by spence and she was not the on...

The street. >> now anger is directed at smollett. >> if it is found that smollett and these gentlemen get in some way perpetrated something that is not true, they ought to face accountability to the maximum. >> bret: in illinois, falsifying a police report is a felony with a maximum penalty of three years in a $25,000 fine legal experts say maga criminal criminal background, nonviolent, if charged, convicted, would probably be looking at probation. bret? >> bret: mike tobin in chicago. thank you...

Follow-up interview. after that, the question about the grand jury can be answered. >> melissa: mike tobin, thank you. in the meantime, reaction to the initial case. some even thought to blame president trump. here is democratic congressman maxine waters reacting on the day of the alleged incident. >> we have to understand, this is happening for a reason. it is coming from the president of the united states. he is dog whistling every day. he is separating into fighting. he is emboldening those f...

On the trail, president trumps border wall and his decision this past week to declare a national emergency in order to build it. democratic candidates are not happy about it. >> what the presidents been doing down at the border is an affront to our national values. its an assault on human rights. its an expression of bigotry and hate that are unacceptable in our country. in many ways, its a lie hes told to the american people over and over again, that hes going to build a wall and have mexico pa...

There was some confusion as to how the whole conversation transpired and then the moment we all saw, the video. in this case what the splig police department puts on record, what they say about the information is going to be the deciding factor. we have not yet confirmed all of the facts that some of the chicago media is reporting. but were going to find out. and thats going to be very telling. >> whats the common thread in all of these cases, maga, make america great again. hi think its a viole...

Politics? >> i think, as weve seen from president trump, that, yes, it is always just about the base. it is about keeping that 30 x percent happy. what i think is interesting and what ill be looking for, i think the wall is becoming equally important symbolically for democratic base. this is red plameat for them. when nancy pelosi talk about the wall being immoral, it reflects a sense among democrats, democratic voters this presidency is an affront to democracy and decency. i think theres a risk...

Call or visit . welcome back to "hardball." president trumps decision to declare a national emergency over the wall brings up questions whether its in his constitutional authority. in his preev -- they criticized president obama for executive over reach. >> its an unbelievable over reach. a matter of tremendous import and its an affront to the legislative process. >> his actions violated the rule of law in the united stateof th. dont take my word for it. >> this administration has been the mos...

Congressman, whats going on here? >> the senate intelligence chairman told us what we have already known. theres no coordination with russia. what they should be investigating, the democrats dont want to do this, all the terrible things that happened at the top levels of the fbi when they started this investigation in the first place in the summer and fall of 2016. these what we should be focused on. this is nothing new. >> charles: and maybe that might eventually happen. the feeling im getting ...