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$250 million. steve: thats right. our first two stories this morning first about the covington situation and then about jussi smollett out in chicago essentially in the rush to judgment the mainstream media apparently got a couple of stories really wrong. remember, the early video showed and the story was that that young man in the maga cap was mocking the native american who marched up to him as we learned later. according to the lawsuit, they are -- the post targeted him and bullied him becaus...

Structure. this is going to run like a well-oiled machine. steve. brian: what role do you think you will have? what is different this time. >> i will be overseeing all our communications with the press in coordination with our calm comms director. the false kyrons we see. we will be on offense not defense. we will be out there. exposing the press. attack these democrats and guarantee you its offensive, its proactive. not reactive and we are ready to go toe to toe. brian: decide the shutdown many...

Did they express any concern? nobody looked to stop me. thats just the thing. he came ton say because devin nunes and others, they are not allowed to talk about what the fbi briefs them with. so they cant even come back and say he never briefed me. did brief me. i was concerned, i wasnt concerned. he wanted to say something that cant be challenged. ainsley: he was accused of being the source for the "new york times" he told meghan mccain yesterday i was not the source. thats why he got fired. br...

Weather. steve: individual grow outside of washington, d.c. this morning. by the way federal government already cancelled. cancelled it last night. brian: more than 1100 flights already cancelled. janice dean is tracking the storm because we asked her to. janice: i am going to change coats because im not dressed appropriately. next hour you will see me in a giant puffy coat. snow? new york city. 17 in buffalo. 28 in chicago. you can see where you have that cold air in place. then its going to be...

Fighters who have promoted terrorism need to be held accountable. brian: absolutely. ainsley, steve? steve: the media are getting fired fbi director andy mccabe a platform to attack the current president. >> we were all operating under incredible stress. we were all grappling with this idea that we have a president who we think may have committed obstruction of justice. >> that the president himself might in fact be a threat to the united states national security. >> you know, i was experiencing...

Are not people who love this country. >> its possible that jussi smollett may stop cooperating with police and police could seek an arrest warrant by taking the case to grand jury. >> monster winter storm today nearly 1,000 flights already cancelled. ♪ im top of the world steve: i dont know about on top of the world but we are here on top of the studio. brian: imagine dragons and hundreds of people. steve: we know a lot of the country today is having cloudsy weather on this wednesday. thank yo...

I think people and i give donald trump some credit on this. he spoke to people. he thought that people would believe him that he would actually change things. bernie sanders is that person who is out there with that message. brian: chuck, he is not even a democrat? he has his own reprisal to the presidents state of the union address. he doesnt even march within those circles. why is the party even letting him in? >> you have a great point. you know, he did a state of the union himself to just pe...

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Insisting in jussi smollett is the victim in this case. started to refer to him as the person who reported the incident. brian, steve? brian: wow. steve: lots to that story. matt, thank you very much. ainsley you have another story about the police? ainsley: yes, thats exactly right. a new jersey police officer is going viral for an act of kindness. the officer went into a diner and ordered just a salad and a water about nine bucks. he left the pregnant waitress in tears when she realized that h...

That did not happen. two sources tell us smolletts legal team provided some type of information that paused the grand jury process. and this morning chicago police are still waiting for jussi smollett to respond to their request for a follow-up interview since this story took a dramatic turn. smolletts crisis manager says he did not talk to police on monday and did not talk to them yet again on tuesday. also on tuesday, cook countys states attorneys kim fox recused herself from this case. statem...