Homophobic slurs. But now the actor has lawyered up and refusing to meet with the police is multiple outlets reporting smollett paid two acquaintances to stage the alleged assault and even rehearsed it. Those two men reportedly were cooperating with investigators, and small it appears to be in big, big trouble. The state of illinois filing a Police Report a felony punishable up to three years in prison. Remember that threatening letter filled with white substance. If there is any chance smollett received that prior to the attack and there were reports may be the fbi investigating and might have been involved in that. If that happened and he is responsible, well, he could also face felony charges. We will have a report from illinois in a moment but first on this show, we tell you, we wait for the investigation to play out. We keep you posted with all the facts as they come in from available and we dont rush to judgment nor do we deny people presumption of innocence and feckless for Juss
Hannity the democratic a Dumpster Fire filled with hypocritical far left candidated say anything for power coming up tonight, full coverage of this, well frankly very disturbing politicians including one unhinged candidate and you can guess who it is who is ready to lock up american gun owners if they do not turn their weapons over to the federal government. But first lets turn our attention to a very important entity watch the investigators the tide is turning dramatically. After thursday of this week, the hate trumped medium mob, the democratic allies for over two when i have here, have been pushing tin foil hat conspiracy theories and outright lies about collusion. They dont know it yet, but it is done. It is over. It is finished. No collusion, no obstruction. Yellow a few to cling to sentences for more lies, more fake news, more fake legal analysis but in the end, they are forever exposed for the layers and partisan hacks that they are. They have put this country in danger. The con
We are covering multiple important breaking news stories tonight. Buckle up. A fast paced breaking news opening monologue. We begin with this breaking news. Cnn is officially being sued for 275 million for their destructive, malicious reporting of Covington High School student 16yearold nicholas sandman. Attorney lynn wood. I told you. This guy is great. He is now representing the sandman family. Has a great long track record of successfully holding these Media Outlets for their irresponsible, accountable for their irresponsible reporting. Smears, slanders, lies, rush to judgment. This is going to be a slam dunk. We first turn our attention to the arrest tonight. Desperate housewives actress Felicity Huffman, lawyori lough accused of participating in an elaborate scheme thats fast tracked their childrens admissions into some of americas top schools and universitys. This was coordinated by a man named william rick singer. He set up a fake charity to pay high iq individuals to frequently
Story out of chicago once again. Embattled empire Actor Jussie Smollett is still proclaiming his innocence after being formally accused of orchestrating what is an elaborate hate crime hoax and charged with a felony and smollett posted bond and went directly to the set of empire it is reported he told the cast and crew, quote i swear to god i did not do. This according to tmz many of his costars are not buying it and they are bleeping furious. And today producers announced that smolletts role on empire has been cut from the final two episodes. Smolletts lawyers are correct he must be assumed innocent presumption of innocence. With that said the evidence presented against him as presented by out Chicago Police yesterday and others is now overwhelming and frankly beginning to border on inconvo trert tillable. According to prosecutors smollett paid two brothers thousands of dollars to stage a homophobic assault against the actor on the streets of chicago using a noose, bleach, all while w
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