Profile cases. That was from the sun times. So many people have talked about the case. Lets not forget at the end of january, Jussie Smollett said he went to get a sandwich as subway. On the way back he said two men attacked him wearing masks, with a red hat on. They said this is maga country. From that point 12 detectives started working the case around the clock. They started gathering all sorts of evidence. It is not until they met the osendero brothers when the case started to break. It was 47 hours of investigation in terms of trying to get the brothers to turn evidence. Eventually they started talking to police saying Jussie Smollett paid them for the hoax. Then the 16count indictment came out after going to the grand jury. So much of the twisting and turning, we thought this was going to trial. Then all of the sudden abruptly all charges were dropped. Listen to the District Attorneys Office or here the States Attorney Office talk about the decision to drop the charges. The court has not found him guilty. Based on the facts and the evidence this office believed they could prove him guilty. Reporter we were talking to people outside the court trying to figure out what could happen to Jussie Smollett. From the beginning we were told they never thought the actor would go to jail, even if proven guilty. They thought there would be a plea. Then remember the first few moments in court. Jussie smollett and his team basically saying they wanted cameras in the courtroom to prove his innocence. All of the sudden we heard about a diversionary process where Jussie Smollett went to the Rainbow Push Coalition for two days, forfeited the 10,000 and the case would just go away. The charges were dropped. Then Jussie Smollett himself walked to the mike and said he was innocent. That set off the mayor and the superintendent of police who said that left the city in a lurch because he never apologized for anything that happened during the case. Just think about this. We still havent heard from the two men who told police and a grand jury all this. How did we get here . How did the charges get dropped . I will throw this in. Lets not forget people were fired at the hospital where Jussie Smollett went because so many people were looking into his Health Care Files that they started firing employees there, too. It seems every single day another detail of the story drops and gets more confusing. Hopefully well get more information. I will leave you with this. Today at 9 00 here in chicago we may find out whether or not they unsealed the files so he could see the investigation and what detectives were able to pull together. That would be fascinating. Indeed. Ryan young with bonus reporting there on this subject. Ryan, thank you very much. Joining us now, anna palmer, jackie gucenich, and tul tulu aranapa from the the washington post. I want to talk with you here, anna. There are federal issues here to investigate. The issue of did Jussie Smollett send a letter to himself in the mail that would be a federal case. There were other hate crime investigations i can imagine could be taking place. Whats unusual is to have the president of the United States make a statement, an announcement like this on twitter this morning in the midst of many other things he decided to comment on that there is a federal investigation. What does he get out of this . Tweeting about morning joes ratings as well. The president deciding to tweet about this is a base play. Clearly after mueller hes trying to throw things at the wall. Health care. They had a bad day when it comes to the Special Olympics. His base will get riled up with this. Its unusual to say the least. I cant imagine any other president making a statement whether on twitter or publicly about a case like this. Clearly hes fascinated by the Jussie Smollett case, as am i. I can understand why President Trump is. Whats interesting to see President Trumps style here is that, as many people pointed out, on a week that should be good news for the president after the barr report that hes tackled morning joes ratings, health care, Jussie Smollett. The president likes to spin a lot of plates at once. Hes good at that, but it is hard to know what the agenda of the white house is this week. Exactly right. If you look at two weekends ago the president sent out about 50 tweets and retweets on a number of different topics. That explains where we are with the white house. General john kelly is out and Nick Mulvaney doesnt want to try to control the president s impulses and the president has a lot of exec tooutive time to wa tv, tweet and decide what to do based on whats on the morning news shows. Thats where we are in this presidency. The president is unleashed. He wont relish in what could have been a good week for him after the summary of the Mueller Report came out. In his view exonerated him on the crime of conspiracy to collude with the russians. Hes focused on a number of issues. Talking about health care, morning joe and thats a preview of what well see, a president who bounces from topic to topic without focusing on one specific topic to drive his agenda from the white house. I dont want to give the president credit for having any degree of linear thinking or logic here, but to me you can make an easy case that the president knows that the Health Care Rollout was not what he wanted it to be. There are questions about what his Health Care Plan is. The white house doesnt have a current Health Care Plan. This could be the president trying to pry back the focus to an issue where he feels more comfortable. The fact that you used the word rollout is fun. Without a plan. No, no, im kidding. Of course. Part of me thinks the president was watching tv and is tweeting about celebrities now. When he was out of office, you could search any major celebrity in the past ten years and the president has tweeted about whatever was going on in their lives. So theres that. The thing is this does inject politics into a case that really didnt have it before. When the president puts himself into this, it does rile up the base. It gets them engaged. It adds another layer to a situation that is already as the last reporter talking about this in chicago said, is a little bit of a mystery and is very confusing. So him putting himself into it doesnt necessarily help situations for folks on the ground. I dont have a. D. D. , so i like to focus. Its sometimes hard when all this stuff obviously is thrown out trying to figure out which one to do. I think most people are concerned about health care. I think we should really drill down and focus, even if this morning the white house isnt, about health care. They have raised the topic. It surprised some republicans to know there was a new plan and thats what the president wanted to focus on, at least yesterday. And we are having a hard time i hear various republicans have snippets of plans. But its hard to know if there will be a plan by the end of the year as they are promising. There is little agreement. There are definitely a lot of thoughts about health care. Republicans have been debating for years the future of health care, how they see it instead of obamacare. There is no uniformity in terms of the downtown republicans, the think tanks, and members of congress on this issue, much less the Trump Administration. There are a lot of disagreements even terinternally in the administration about what the future of it should look like. What they can say is they will make a health care proposal. The rollout we have seen, and this is a credit to you. It was not a rollout it was hulk smash. Wanting to strike down obamacare immediately. Now the white house says they dont have a plan but says they will have a plan. What will be in the plan . Listen to how the president tried to explain it using words that im not sure he fully can explain to sean hannity. Listen to this. So many things we are going to do Incredible Health care that the democrats, frankly, wouldnt even know how to do. Theyre going to have Great Health Care. The Republican Party will be the party of Great Health Care. We are going to have preexisting conditions, absolutely. I tried this before. We have the best preexisting conditions. We have some. I dont see evidence that the president understands the issue surrounding preexisting conditions. He continues to throw out the word but doesnt get that you have to do more than say well guarantee access to health care. The republican plans that we have seen do not guarantee affordability for people with preexisting conditions. We have seen this movie before. The republicans tried to do Health Care Three times last year and failed each time. Every time the president supported a plan it was clear the plans didnt provide the same level of protections for preexisting conditions and affordability that we currently have under the Affordable Care act. We have seen the president support plans without knowing whats in them. At one point he supported the House Republican plan. Then called it evil after it passed and he saw what was in it. This is a president that wants to fulfill his president of repealing and replacing obamacare. Isnt really concerned about the details as much. Hes obsessed with the issue because we saw him tweeting about senator john mccain recently saying thats the reason we werent able to pass the Health Care Bill that failed last year. Its clear that the president wants to fulfill the promise and campaign on it in 2020. He hasnt gotten into the details at all. I spoke to a former Administration Official right after the announcement came out. What toluse said is what they said. This is about 2020. This isnt about the policy. He doesnt care who this affects down the line. Its all about fulfilling a promise. Its very, very simple. Let the chips fall where they may. Republicans, including Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy minority leader you could make the argument thats one of the reasons, one of the big reasons republicans lost the house in 2018 was because of the health care issue, because democrats really made that a signature issue as they went into the election. Anna, what i hear is the president doing what i think hes good at which is slogan eering. He says were going to have Great Health Care over and over, loud and proud. That seeps into voter consciousness. For many voters thats enough. Maybe not those with preexisting conditions. I think thats what hes doing. If you say it enough, you own it. Sometimes it works. He says a lot of things with confidence. That rallies the base. Hes going to michigan today to talk to people in grand rapids. Im sure this will be one of the things hell talk about. Im putting out a book in april. We reconstructed the health care whole debate. There was no unanimity in terms of how republicans would go forward, the president just wanted to pass something. Not get into the details. He had no actual comprehension of what needed to get done. Health care is complicated and bigger than saying the words preexisting conditions. You say you have a book coming out. We are excited to read it. Anna knows about this. She covered it. Amanda wakes up. Now available in paperback by alisyn camerota. I remember, thank you very much. Can i ask a question . The plug is over. Oh, okay. The event in michigan. What do you think we are going to see from the president tonight on that stage . This is a rally, a political event. The president is unleashed i heard from sources close to him. There will be fireworks at the rally. We have seen him take off the chains if there were any at previous rallies and lean into his agenda and the type of rhetoric he believes got him elected. Especially this being the first rally since the summary of the Mueller Report was put out and the president feels exonerated. He wants to enact revenge on people who he believes spent two years investigating him, not only the Justice Department and the democrats in congress, but also the media. You can expect the president to really take on all of his perceived enemies and lean in during this rally and focus on how he believes he was vindicated and he wants to take revenge on different people who have been persecuting him for the last two years. A heck of a political platform. Thank you all very much. All right. More breaking news this morning. Someone has the Cheddar Cheese in wisconsin. One Winning Ticket sold for the huge 768. 4 million jackpot. The lump sum would be 477 million. Okay. 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A senior white house official tells cnn the Trump Administration has no fresh plan to replace the Affordable Care act if it is killed by the courts but they plan to submit one to congress this year. The administration backed a District Court ruling to strike down obamacare in its entirety earlier this week. We are joined byicn. Great to have you expertise on that as well. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing . Doing well. I know you met with the president about health care. Share with us what the plan is. I think first of all the president emphasized we have to embrace preexisting conditions and he wouldnt sign health care that doesnt take care of preexisting conditions. He talked about taking care of the 28 Million People who still dont have health care coverage. Very much the president is in tune to this. We talked about the real problem which is the cost of health care. We talked about ways we can start driving the cost of health care down. Okay. How do you cover people with preexisting conditions and the 28 million you say still need insurance . Whats the plan for monetarily making it work . I think first of all looking at the big picture, america has a clear choice that both democrats and republicans want to repeal obamacare. The question is how do we replace it . The democrats want medicare for all. Our plan will put patients and doctors in charge of their health care. Anything we can do to drive the conditions locally will start driving the cost of health care down and give people more access. Not all democrats want medicare for all. I hear most democrats say they want