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>> anything you'd like to say -- >> i have nothing to say. >> all right. ryan, we're back. we're back. what were you -- you were making a point. we're with you, ryan young. ryan young, can you hear me? we're just taking this -- we're taking the -- >> reporter: i can. >> say it again, eric. >> reporter: it's unreal. i will tell you, as a reporter who has done that before, it's tough to do those. you don't like doing that, but this might be the only chance to get to talk to the family. nick watt's back here. what sort of struck you about what we just witnessed in terms of the crush and everyone ...

>> we had a conversation the other night where i said i hope he didn't 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 that's another connection between the three. >> reporter: you know, the thing that stood out to me and i heard some conversations earlier, so many people...

>> reporter: excuse me. so, brooke, you're seeing this play out. the live crushing media as the district attorney's office is going to walk out that direction at some point. they're 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 that's happening right now. what we believe will happen is that the folks that are here are going to walk over and they're going to basically read this. so i don't know if we'll get any questions to them about...