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It was the early morning hours of january 29th. smollett had just gotten back to chicago, posting on instagram that he had just spent seven hours on a plane for a flight that was supposed to take only two hours. he told the police that as he was walking back from a sandwich shop, the subway sandwich shop, that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and, quote, yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. this was all in the streeterville neighborhood where he had been staying. i know that neighborhood very well. i worked there for thre...

It was the early morning hours of january 29th. smollett had just gotten back to chicago, posting on instagram that he had just spent seven hours on a plane for a flight that was supposed to take only two hours. he told the police that as he was walking back from a sandwich shop, the subway sandwich shop, that two men attacked him, putting a rope around his neck and quote, yelling out racial and homophobic slurs and pouring an unknown chemical substance on him. this was all in the streeterville neighborhood where he had been staying. i know that neighborhood very well. i worked there for three...

Down below one street level, down on the lower street level across the street from the nbc tower where he says this happened. and this was a pretty elaborate scheme put together according to the police that he essentially hired these two guys, one of whom was known to him on the show "empire" to come and lightly beat him up, as the police superintendent said. the scratch that you saw on jussie smollett's face was perhaps self-inflicted. given the size now we've seen of these two brothers, they're both bodybuilders. if this had been a real attack against jussie smollett, one would imagine two g...

And as this case goes forward, there is going to be a lot of frustration. not just here in chicago but around the country because it became such a talker this story. and the superintendent, the first thing out of his mouth here this morning in the press conference there was he wishes that for all of the people who are victims of gun violence in this town and their families that they could get just a cintilla of the attention the media has paid to this story over the past 23 days. perhaps it would help to solve a lot of crimes in this city. going forward, jussie smollett today, 1:30 local time,...

In the meantime it goes back to journalism, goes back to where are we going wrong with this? >> that's absolutely true, but you also have to look at the complete arrogance of people on the left that believe they can get away with things like that because the media does support them, look what did happen to those kids, they were presumed guilty before there was shred of office, this guy knew that he could get away with it. jillian: too much opinion where journalists are reporting facts. >> journalist should just be reporting facts absolutely and asking more questions. i mean, there were so many...