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>> sandra: fox news alert feud we expect to hear from chicago police any moment now on the jussie smollett case. the "empire" actor, who claimed he was a victim of a hate crime, now a suspect in an elected staged attacks. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> bill: and i'm bill hemmer. today, smollett is in police custody. he turned himself in today at 2:30 eastern, charged with making false statements to police. more details expected. that will begin now live from chicago. complete coverage. daniel linskey, former boss and superintendent in charge of police...

Final thought from the judge and daniel linsky. the judges are considered victims. are they exonerated? >> so smollett requested that they assault him. it is not an attack, so there is no criminal liability. once it becomes a false report, if they didn't honestly speak to police and try to obstruct that, that could have been a criminal charge against him, but if he was a willing participant in this and not a victim of assault, no criminal charges, i think the brothers could have been faced with. >> i agree, unless the brothers had reason to believe that this would become a false police report,...

Mr. smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence, particularly when there has been an investigation like this one where information, both true and false, has been repeatedly leaked. given these circumstances, we intend to conduct a thorough investigation and to mount an aggressive defense." judge, how can you -- >> it is hard to say what it would be. i didn't do it, it somebody else. it could be temporary insanity, some sort of a mental block. he didn't know right from wrong. very difficult offense to mount. i can tell you this, by hiring mark geragos, we all know mark geragos. this is one of ...

>> i would encourage the superintendent and his legal team to do just that. to make requests, that it involves repaying the citizens of chicago for resources that may have been wasted. if he is determined to be guilty, but i certainly would like to see the judge, if they find that he did this hold him accountable criminally and civilly. >> sandra: got it. as we know, he conducted interviews on. he made a very emotional statement. final thoughts here, could those be used against him in this? >> absolutely. anything he said in public can be used against them. you know, if it was a statement that...

President was drawn into this, that the maga stuff was drawn into this. a lot of people said we are a racist society. this is an example of it. >> bill: you said you hope not not. i am asking does the judge have to consider some of those in the case now? >> under the law, the judge sentence is the defendant and the crime and not the events around him. so i don't think the judge will take that into consideration. >> sandra: think about the amount of crimes of the city of chicago faces, the amount of resources that were taken away and poured into this investigation for a month, judge. >> that is...