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Eric, you were with me yesterday. there's been more details released since then. just looking back, when did you know, based on your experience, that this was starting to unravel for smollett? >> when jussie started making better stories. i have been experienced with people who lie about crimes. what they do, they start embellishing and start wanting people to believe them. quite frankly, when he said he was a gay tupac, i knew he was lying. that was the most ridiculous thing i have ever heard. he dug a ditch for himself. he left a trail of evidence, which is the worst part of this. he left a ...

National media attention. shame on him. >> dana: we should say his defense attorneys say they're going to launch their own investigation and going to prove his innocence. i want you to listen to eddie johnson, superintendent, who was talking today about -- he asked himself why this would happen. take a listen to this. >> why would anyone, especially an african-american man, use the symbolism of a noose to make false accusations? how could someone look at the hatred and suffering associated with that symbol and see an opportunity to manipulate that symbol to further his own public profile? how ...

Trouble. >> dana: eric, if you are a criminal that's not very smart, doesn't mean that you're going to -- that the police should be more lenient on you because you weren't a very good one, right? >> they need to be hard on him because he was so stupid. people look at tv and think, what would make a great crime? this is what i need to do to plan this great crime. often times they go off what they think is believable. when things start unravelling and they start putting more and more icing on the cake, it becomes much more, much more impossible for them to tow the line with the truth. with what ...

Pick up? >> good afternoon. i don't want to under mind in any way the extraordinary capability and success and tenacity of the 12 rock stars masquerading as chicago pd detectives. but the fact is, to parrot eric's comment, who writes a check to the co-conspirator? who uses a phone registered in their name to call them 50 times? who hires their person trainer and co-worker as their co-conspirator? those are three fundamental rules if you're staging a crime. but, jussie made a couple big mistakes. he had amnesia. he thought it was november of '87 with the tuwana brawley hoax. today there's camer...