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Laws necessary to stop this madness. heather: thank you for joining us. some major developments in the jussie smollett case. chicago police releasing hundreds of documents from the empire actors so-called hate crime investigation. aishah hasnie has the latest on the fight for a special prosecutor. >> reporter: 160 pages of case files, but one important nugget here. just days after jussie smolletts arrests prosecutors told police he probably wasnt going to jail. he was arrested february 21st accu...

Weinstein as you suggest is he is going to trial september 9 on two counts. rape count and a sexual assault count. so, he is probably thinking to himself yeah, nice to get the civil stuff off the docket. but mainly he is worried about going to prison for years. he has a new dream team. josé baez who was involved in the aaron hern dez case and -- aaron hernandez case and the casey anthony case. he is rolling the dice. >> jason: he may not have a choice. when you get insurance company to make the...

Heard of thus far. obviously, like you said, we havent heard the case files, we dont know exactly what will be presented, but from what we know thus far, there is an incredible volume and a large amount of incriminatingmo evidence in his part, including and especially in his communications. a point about the civil settlement as well, thel, advisers for the weinstein t co still have to approve it. if they do it settles the new york attorney general civil suit against the company for violating civ...

Weinstein, as you suggest, is he is going to trial september 9 on two counts. a rape count and a sexual assault count. so he is probably thinking to himself, yeah, nice to get thein civil stuff off the docket. but mainly he is worried about going to prison for years. he has a new dream team. jose baez, who was involved in the aaron hernandez case and the casey anthony case. harvey weinstein can afford theh best lawyers and hes going to roll the dice and hope he doesnt get bad news in new york in...

Wealth of evidence we have heard of thus far. obviously, like you said, we havent heard the case files and we dont know exactly what will be presented but from what we know thus far there is an incredible volume and a large amount of incriminating evidence in his part, e. in his communications. a point about the civil settlement as well, the advisers for the weinstein coast have to approve it. if they do it settles the new york attorney general civil suit against the company for violating civil ...

Killing an injured man among other war crimes, all while serving as a navy s.e.a.l. overseas. now "the new york times" reports president trump is considering a pardon for chief edward gallagher. cnn can confirm the department of justice pardon office asked for files on gallagher and another service member accused of murder. as cnns barbara starr reports, some former military members are now warning the president to reconsider. >> reporter: president trump is considering pardoning military member...

>> my understanding this administration has six months to complete this review of these case files and then report back on the separated families. what happens if we hit six months? what are the consequences if that deadline ends up not hit? >> great question. the judge in the southern district of california is the one that ordered the reunifications of all of those children. he also ordered the trump administration to figure how many were separated before zero tolerance. the administration miss...

U.s. service members accused of murder. this was a first reported by "the new york times" and this comes weeks after president trump pardoned army first lieutenant michael denna, convicted of killing an iraqi prisoner. the cases have been championed by conservative pundits. we are in d.c.. in one of these cases, chris, the former navy seal hasnt gone to trial. >> thats right. they were hoping to announce on memorial weekend. we talked about this last week. donald trump has pardoned two people in...

Its not something thats been getting much attention yet, but to me this is something jumping up and down and yelling look at me, look at me and i think it deserves a little more attention. for all the indictments and court filings and the plea deals and the, you know, statements of the offense and all that stuff, for all of it, if you think about it, we havent had much courtroom action, right? i mean theres been lots of hearings before judges and stuff, but in terms of actual litigation with a j...

Much courtroom action, right? i mean, theres been lots of hearings before judges and stuff, but in terms of actual litigation with a jury and a defendant and everything, thats only happened once. weve only had one trial so far. that was when paul manafort took his case to trial in federal court in virginia. didnt work out well, right? manafort got convicted there. thats part of why he is now starting his seven-plus year federal prison sentence. regardless of what happens with the unredactions or...