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>> anything youd like to say -- >> i have nothing to say. >> all right. ryan, were back. were back. what were you -- you were making a point. were with you, ryan young. ryan young, can you hear me? were just taking this -- were taking the -- >> reporter: i can. >> say it again, eric. >> reporter: its unreal. i will tell you, as a reporter who has done that before, its tough to do those. you dont like doing that, but this might be the only chance to get to talk to the family. nick watts back here...

>> we had a conversation the other night where i said i hope he didnt fake this. you said, you know, for a black man i hope he did in a way, because the thought that that could happen is very, very shocking. the drug use, yeah, so they were -- smollett apparently started his friendship with these brothers in the fall of seven and the text message evidence shows that one of the brothers would supply molly, ecstasy, to smollett on occasion. so thats another connection between the three. >> reporte...

>> reporter: excuse me. so, brooke, youre seeing this play out. the live crushing media as the district attorneys office is going to walk out that direction at some point. theyre providing sort of a list of the charges and everything that was read in court. as nick watt did an excellent job kind of explaining the color of what happened in court. you see this sort of media free for all thats happening right now. what we believe will happen is that the folks that are here are going to walk over an...