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Can you talk about it? what is that? >> well, i can't really go into specifics because we're past the bond proffer, but i can just tell you this. normally when we do things of this nature, all the evidence isn't provided up front. so there are some other things that just don't support the original version of the story that we got. >> okay. so let's talk about some of those things. you said there's additional evidence, but you can't talk about it. what about this whole thing about the check? you know, he's saying he wrote on the line that it was for training and whatever, and it wasn't to stage...

Saw white skin. he said that to you, to police? >> yes. if you read the bond proffer -- >> i did. >> you'll see that in there. >> i have you here. i just want to make sure. again, you stand by the evidence you have, and you said you have more evidence than when you presented at the press conference and in the proffer that leads you to believe that this was something that he cooked up himself? >> i absolutely stand by the investigation. the detective dollars a hes did job, and i want to commend them on their thoroughness in that investigation. so i have no reason to believe right now than it's ...

Truth. superintendent johnson joins me now. good evening, sir. thank you so much for joining us here. i really appreciate it. >> good evening. thanks for having me. >> absolutely. a lot more evidence. can you talk about it? what is that? >> well, i can't really go into specifics because we're past the bond proffer, but i can just tell you this. normally when we do things of this nature, all the evidence isn't provided up front. so there are some other things that just don't support the original version of the story that we got. >> okay. so let's talk about some of those things. you said there'...

Bond proffer. i mean, chris -- >> i don't know how his lawyers read that and were okay putting out the statement that he had to put out. i don't know where they get off saying that the police are doing some disservice to smollett. unless this is the biggest fabrication not just in chicago but in the nation's history of policing, this guy has got big problems. >> chicago police, the department has a long history of doing some things right but a lot of things wrong. >> mm-hmm. >> this case is so high profile. there appears to be from this so much evidence that it's hard to see how this would ind...

>> so i just have a word for people who i see on tv just spinning it, twisting themselves in pretzels trying to figure out a way, how do i -- just a word, please, to the folks who are saying, well, we all know the chicago police can't be trusted, this is a setup. just stop it. i want you to stop and think about it this way, okay? let's just stop and think about it this way. the police did not pull smollett over in traffic. they didn't stop and frisk him. they were called in for his defense. what reason would they have to set him up? he brought the police to him, not the other way around. read ...