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We met with jussie's attorneys and arranged for him to turn himself in. as you know he turned himself in at 5:00 this morning. today at 1:30, jooussie will be going before a bond court judge. >> it was uneventful. he showed up with his attorneys and a few other individuals, but it went smoothly. >> if you had enough evidence to charge him why take it to a grand jury? >> that's typically what we do. once we believe that witnesses are valuable witnesses and credible, then we take them to the grand jury to lock their testimonies in. >> you said that he sent that false letter to himself.

Again very closely with the states attorneys office in this. as you know, at the last minute jussie's lawyers called and said they had evidence to postpone the grand jury that they wanted to provide to us. it was at that time that they called us. and i met with them, with the team of our detectives and essentially they gave us no new information. so i reported that back to the states attorneys office. it was at that time that we locked in both of these witnesses to the grand jury. i'm told they did an excellent job. and then the states attorneys office approved charges against jussie for the f...

Was staged and that jussie hired these two guys to stage this for his benefit and then spin this into a criminal investigation put them in a really tough spot, as well, to the point where now they were arrested for a hate crime and only because of just the incredible work by the entire team did we get to the point where we are able to get the truth from them and we are where we are today. >> why did smollett hire those two brothers? can you describe what their relationship was? >> so one of the brothers worked on empire. they had a relationship, an association. he probably knew that he needed ...

Goes unreported because it doesn't get the media attention that this particular case got. it was financial gains. >> did good morning america play role in the investigation in that jussie essentially identified who the brothers were? >> he identified who the two individuals were. we knew that then. he didn't know that we knew. he helped us out when he identified them. >> did he identify the brothers specifically? when was it that you realized who they were? >> that was after the ride share account. >> what day was that? >> superintendent, the one piece of evidence confirming he wanted was not ...