is dreadlocks and smokes weed all day and you have to be kamala harris to think heotherwise. amazing. that's it for us tonight. good night from washington. we'll be back tomorrow, 8:00 p.m., the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. you're not going to believe what happens. sean hannity right now! >> sean: that was really good. great story. great show. welcome to "hannity."" buckle up for another full night of breaking news alllc over the place. coming up, caught on tape. is this a trump supporter f actually being punched in the face? what could be a politically motivated hate crime? the person involved will tell their story in a few minutes. first, we begin in chicago once again and today after posting $100,000 bond, jussie smollett sprinted away from the media. the actor spent the entire day

in jail, a cook county circuit after he was arrested on felony charges for filing a false police report. according to prosecutors, he organized a hate crime hoax leaving a massive trail of evidence. >> he stated he wanted to appear to attack him on the evening of january 28th, 2019, near his apartment building. defendant smollett further detailed he wanted able to attack him, not hurt him too badly, and to give him a chance to appear to fight back. he wanted them to place a rope around his neck, pour gasoline on him and yell, "this is maga country." he provided him with a $100 bill to purchase the rope, gasoline, ski mask, gloves, and the red baseball caps that resemble the ones saying "make america great again". >> sean: the prosecutor saying smollett paid two brothers to stage this. they even rehearsed it. paid with aro check. kind of like jerry springer. pretty brilliant. records show the actor called them before and immediately after the incident. another brilliant move.

and texts show the trio coordinating the alleged hoax. other texts revealing that one of the brothers even sold designer drugs to smollett. police are now saying smollett likely scratched his own face to make the attack more believablel that kind of takes hating trump psychosis to a whole new level. all occurring, of course, after smollett allegedly sent himselff a threatening racist letter containing a white powdery substance. another genius move. we have forensics. this is all true. this turns out to be true, nothing funny about it. smollett wasted precious law enforcement resources in a city that has been wracked with real violent crimes for many, many years now. a city where young people and even women and children are shot. people are murdered every single week in chicago, lots of them. it also appears he used his celebrity status and race to smear and slander the people of chicago, jump supporters everywhere. according to police, he did it

for attention, sympathy, and because he was unhappy with his seven-figure salary? the judge called these alleged actions despicable. the chicago police johnson isent, eddie his name, rightly outraged. this was one of the single most powerful press conferences i have ever watched. take a look. >> this announcement today recognizes that "empire" actorwa jussie smollett took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. 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? bogus police reports cause real harm.

they do harm to every legitimate victim who is in need ofof suppt by police and investigators as well as the citizens of this city. >> sean: a powerful press conference by the police superintendent. it was just one week ago that smollett went on "good morning america" for an interview with robin roberts. this is what he said to her. let's take a look. >> how can you doubt that? it's not necessarily that you don't believe that this is the truth. then it became a thing of, oh, it's not that you don't believe it's the truth, you don't even want to see the truth. it feels like if i had said it was a muslim or a mexican or someone black, i feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot much more, a lot more. and that says a lot about the place that we are in our country

right now. i respect too much the people who i am now one of those people who have been attacked in way. you do such a disservice when you lie about things like this. >> sean: jussie smollett is no longer speaking with the media. there are reports tonight that hesi is back on the set of "empire." his lawyers stated they are planning a "aggressive defense" and that their client be given the presumptions of innocence. he did not have afford the same noble principle to justice kavanaugh a few a months ago. he tweeted out out #ibelievedrchristineford and much worse. on this show, we recognize that being innocent, presumedd innocent a until proven guilty s a right even afforded to those with no principles. in this particular case, the evidence is beginning to look overwhelming and incontrovertible. remember that case?

none of it good for mr. smollett. remember a while ago, i said the same thing about michael avenatti. i'm sure he doesn't agree with much of what i have to say. remember his case? that was a he said-she said. in the end, i kept saying, i will give him the due process and presumption of innocence that he never gave judge kavanaugh. three separate investigations, and he got cleared. in other words, they cleared him of any wrongdoing. despite the massive amount of evidence against the "empire" actor, you have to assume he's an innocent man until convicted in a court of law. so that is standard for anybody. but tonight, this is about so much more than an overpaid, attention seeking, wanting a raise, trump-hating actor. the smollett case represents another example of what i have been saying since '07 and '08. journalism in this country is dead. in case after case after case, the mainstream media, they devour any story that just fits their radical extreme extension

of the democratic socialist party agenda. if it advances the narrative that donald trump is evil and his supporters are bad and america is scary and racist and sexist, homophobic, zima public, islamophobic, the medium bowl shaped into full gear. without performing any due diligence, without even picking up the telephone, without any kind of investigation, not even 5 minutes worth. look at what they did to this 16-year-old covington high school student. off a 15-second blurb, they accused him of being a racist, they harassed him, he accused of as assaulting a 65 euros activist and getting in his face. they tried to ruin this kid's life. slander, smearing, researching, character assassination. they accused justice kavanaugh of gang rape, every other weekend, he and his friends were

drugging teenage girls and literally, you know, lining up in the hall for gang rapes that nobody ever reported and of course they tried to ruin his life. tried to call him an alcoholic.t we know how that ended. he is now a supreme court justice. they falsely accused the uva students of rape.n remember the duke lacrosse players? they accused them of rape. 80 some odd professors at duke bought the story hook, line, and sinker without any evidence. it turns out, i went to meet some of the family members, some of the kids, doing my own due diligence. they falsely accused darren oiwilson. remember, used to be a police officer. his career is over. george zimmerman, everyone said he was guilty but there was an eyewitness that showed up. several police in baltimore, everyone was assured they were going to get guilty pleas. none of them dead. guess what? as we speak, they're falsely accusing president trump of russia collusion. that, too, is a hoax, while ignoring what is now a mountain of evidence of the single biggest abuse of power, corruption scandal in history

where they tried to rig an election, and then undo the duly elected president of the united states. in the era of trump, far left hoaxes, far too common. the media, way too complicit. but they buy these stories again and again, hook, line, sinker vilifying innocent people in the process over and over again. when the stories are exposed, when eliza revealed, so-called journalists and so-called news organizations, they move on. they just pretend likeos it nevr happened. like nbc news, they were talking all about this until this started happening. they were all over the jussie smollett story. speed 19's joe concha, monitored all of msnbc conspiracy tv prime time shows. they totally ignore the charges against smollettot now. after they were pushing the hate crime narrative for weeks and weeks, they backed down like it never happened.

nbc news, prominent democrats, they employ the same tactic. far left presidential front-runner kamala harris, just like cory booker, called the smollett incident a modern lynching. today after a meeting with the reverend al sharpton, she totally ignored any questions about smollett. take a listen. >> senator, could you comment on the smollett case? >> too early? >> reverend? what about smollett? did you jump to the smoking gun defense too early? >> sean: senator harris has since put out a statement sayins that she's sad, all while taking a veiled shot at president trump. a that never stops. meanwhile, fake news cnn has just discovered something called the due process. they are all urging us not to rush to judgment, which is a

joke, after running wild with speculation about the so-called smollett attack. interesting timing. take a look. >> this is a jackie robinson against homophobia in the black community. anco icon. a beloved icon. now you have the fall of an icon at a time when we need heros, we need people to stand up. the level of material, if this is true, is so true. you can see it in your voice, you can see it in your face, it's almost hard to get the words are because of how beloved he is. we still don't know everything. i don't want to see us rush to judgment on this side, rush to judgment on that side, condemn this, condemn that. that's the thing we've been talking about. now we're in this cycle with everyone having an instant opinion every 15 seconds. i don't want to do that. >> sean: is another same guy that said on election night, this is a white slash? you should know that all of the colleagues who are constantly pushing fake news, so long as it

fits their hate trump mob mentality media. listen to radio talk show host rush limbaugh today. he summarized the state of the media pitch-perfect. take a look. >> the left is nothing but phony. hate crimes, phony alleged hate crimes, phony charges, made up stories, they know these things probably aren't true but they want them to be and that is why they report them as true. they thinknk this is what ameria is. in the mind of the american left, these crimes are happening everywhere. even if the smollett case isn't real, it's real elsewhere and we must raise consciousness. the media is signing onto it, the celebrities are signing s o, presidential candidates are signing onto it, tweeting what iran place america is because of it. >> sean: rush is right. the media's bias is disgusting. what they obsess over and what they choose to sweep under the rug. for example, pro-activist

recruiting students for turning point usa was violently assaulted at uc berkeley. watch this. >> [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! >> you want to hurt me? i'llan shoot you. >> [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! >> sean: to be consistent and fair, we don't know what occurred before that video but what we do know isef that police are looking for the person throwing the punters on the

person that was punched, he will tonight tell's story. the individual assaulted will join us later in the show. we are looking for the truth. do you want likely see him on "good morning america" getting w from robin roberts or any mainstream media outlets. this alleged assault of a potential political hate crime does not fit their narrative for a journalism, dead and buried. first, more on the top story tonight, joining us live from chicago and our affiliate, wfld. how many people are giving me crap because you gave me crap? >> i want to thank you for extending my contract after giving me the pink slip. >> sean: i was obviously kidding. >> you are a good man. >> sean: what's the latest?ea this is a serious topic. >> it is. you are talking about superintendent eddie johnson,

the most demonstrative that i have ever heard eddie johnson had a tavern a press conference. real life is coming hard and fast at jesse's mall at right now. he finally had his camera debut and it was anything but a red carpet experience. as hordes of media, myself included, cameras, descended on him in a media scrum that i personally have never seen before. we shouted questions at him, he took no questions, then he got into the back of a black suv, shielded by his bodyguards, and then went to the set of "empire" where he was expected earlier in the day today before i got arrested. that courtroom, when he was in their posting bond, it was so dramatic. the tension you could cut with a knife, as he as the assistant state attorney was reading these charges, a mountain of evidence. you can see smollett staring daggers at her. the evidence was so detailed, down to the fact thatgg this ma, one of the two alleged attackers, his former

drug dealer, and even down to what jesse's mullet wanted them to do and say in the attack. take a listen. >> the defendant also stated he wanted the brothers to catchli his attention by calling him empire f, empire m. he wanted him to give him a chance to appear to fight back. >> even the judge had some fiery rhetoric for smollett, saying that he is presumed innocent until proven guilty but if these statements are true, the judge saying it's outrageous and despicable and he described the noose as a symbol of evil in this country. a few moments ago, i got a statement from smollett's lawyers, and i will read it to you. not the whole thing, just the beginning. "today we witnessed and organize law enforcement practical that has no place in the american legal system. the presumption of innocence, a bedrock in the search for

justice, was trampled upon at the expense of mr. smollett are notably on the eve of a mayoral election. so they are claiming politics is behind all of this. giving every indication they will fight this. his next court date is on march 14th. sean? >> sean: reporting for us tonight in chicago, greater part, thank you. joining us now with more, fox news correspondent at large geraldo rivera. former florida circuit code, judge, host of "whistle-blower." that evidence that is now being presented, both to the grand jury leading to the indictment, presented before this judge, geraldo, is overwhelming. these text messages detailed the video of these kids, if very different than michael avenatti he said-she said or judge kavanaugh when he was 16 years old. seems to be real evidence here.

>> you are looking at the selfish, soulless, cynical person to exploit the worst in american's history as he gets his justice being ex-escort across the media scrum to get into the back of his suv. i thought you got it right, the chicago police superintendent eddie johnson. wow. >> sean: wasn't a great? speak about and articulate man, a sincere, wonderful man. how dare a black -- imagery of a noose, to make his fake story, engineered to get a better contract for you to take that long generations of ugly american history and to seek to turn it to a contractual negotiation, how low do you go? how much on your belly are you crawling that you wouldcr do th,

spitting on the memory of emmett till and all those who fell in the civil rights era and the jim crow era, slavery, for goodness' sakes, and then, just as evil, to try to pin it on the president of the united states. because you despise him and you try to denigrate his supporters and make them all seem like animals that would commit a crime like this. it is beyond disgusting to me. this is a low down and dirty cheater and he's going to get his dress deserts, sean. >> sean: judge, i know you preside over cases, i know you hear stories all the time. i know you ascertain quicker than us if someone is telling the truth or lying. assuming this evidence is real and it seems more and more like it every hour, why would he not hchose to fall on the sword and stop the bleeding and stop making the whole bigger?

>> first of all, i'm retired freighter might hearing cases anymore. to get your point, he is going to fall on the sword. believe me. his lawyers right now our posturing. what they want to give him as a nonfelony conviction and a probationary sentence. that is a home run for them. therele are plenty of reasons -- >> sean: unrealistic? >> plenty of reasons why a judge might go without. in this case, plenty of reasons why a judge within him to jail. first of all, he did lie to the police before when he was arrested a while back. he pretended to be his brother. never mind, who does that? gives her brother's name and throws them under the bus? secondly, what kind of criminal think they'll get it away when the police arrest you police arrested, fingerprinted, the photograph you, and they know which body committed the crime. the same kind of criminal who writes a check to pay for the crime. the fact that they expended so much money, the police expended 24 to eight detectives assigned to this case in ahi city that hs 56 shootings in a weekend, and as reported 30% chance of rain.

they don't have the resources to do this. the fact that this was not just premeditated, this wasn't something that happened in a bar, and let me expand on it, and bella should come and get some mileage out of it, this was a cold, calculated premeditation from the initial letter to the attack, intended to divide the country by making the trump racist argument. these are the kinds of things that judges take into tconsideration. on top of the fact that when it started falling apart, instead of just remaining silent like any good, noncheckwriting criminal would do, he goes on the offensive and starts to sing, i can't believe that my friends would havech been the os who assaulted me. outrageous. t>> sean: your arguments are powerful. the police superintendent was unbelievable today, geraldo, you are believable. let's say he calls you up, you are a lawyer, asks for your help. what would you tell him? >> i would tell him to keep my mouth shut for two, three weeks

and as the judge says, i would say, let me plead guilty and hope that they don't indict me. >> sean: if he's going to do that, do it now so you don't have 24 detectives wasting more time on this. >> now is too soon. let the k's age, else happen, lt michael cohen go to court, but other things happen, then he can do it in the relative quiet of a couple of weeks from now. >> sean: amazing commentary. >> he should get mailed. >> sean: would make make a buc, fake news cnn's don lemon takin. i'll respond coming up next.al also, we'll talk with a conservative activism assaulted on uc berkeley's campus earlier today, caught on tape. what is the background, what is a history, what is the behind-the-scenes? will ask all the right questions is straight ahead. ♪ when we started our business

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simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. ♪ >> sean: fake new cnn's don lemon claims to be a so-called journalist. he is not. i've met him in person, he's a nice guy, was a nice to me last night. back in january, the immediate aftermath ofim smollett's hate crime allegations. lemon publicly told out of sympathy to smollett, in fact, this unit host told entertainment tonight that he texted smollett every day following the incident. now that the facts are coming in, he is trying to spin the story. even blaming me. like i am responsible. i'm apparently running the world and everything else. take ahi look. >> this is playing out every single moment in cable news. sean hannity is going to eat jussie smollett lunch every

single second. tucker carlson is going to eat jussie smollett lunch every single second. the president of the united states is going to eat his lunch and who does the president of united states states watch every p night? cable news. >> sean: the interesting part is, i purposely stayed away from the story to wait for more facts to come in. my sources in chicago almost instantly were warning me, be careful on the story. don, everyone knows you hate trump. part of the hate trump media. you tend to be objective. you are not. so why don't you just admit you're a talk show host like me? be honest with your viewers. joining us now as america first action senior advisor sean spicer, media reporter for "the hill," joe concha. good to see you both. joe, something fascinating you discovered and wrote about. everybody at conspiracy tv, they were all over the story in the beginning. how much coverage was in prime

time last night? >> and prime time msnbc, talking about -- remember, the chicago police announced at 7:53:00 p.m. that smollett would be charged,l the 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m., 10:00 p.m., 11:00 p.m., prime stime. chris hayes, rachel maddow, lawrence o'donnell, brian williams, used to be the nbc -- >> sean: the scene brian williams that's our dead bodies floating where there was no water? >> may be where he's at msnbc at 11:00 instead of nbc at 6:30. but they covered it for 0 minutes. opinion shows, i give a lot of leeway too. if the editorial page. the problem here, the issue for msnbc here, sean, the fact that they covered the story heavily when the narrative fitted with a thought their audience wanted to hear. this was custom-made for an msnbc audience as a rose presented in the beginning. two white males attack gay black actor with bleach and a noose,

yelling mrs. maga country. despite the fact there are many questionable parts of the story from the beginning, why are two men walking around chicago in a polar vortex and 30 a below dege weather waiting for a gay actor they have probably never seen, and then once smollett wasn't handing over phone records are heavily redacted, that is when there was a problem. msnbc, nbc, a lot of other news outlets, not chicago media, they presented it as an attack, as if it were fact instead of using the keyword, alleged, and i was coming back to bite them. >> sean: let k me put it in context. b besides missing the biggest abuse of power corruption scandal in history, and the heat trump bought mentality s media, along with every story that is anti-trump, proven wrong, and move onto the next story, like it never happened. look at how often they have been wrong. richard jewell's attorney,

lynwood, who i've known since 1996, we went back that far. uva, duke lacrosse, cambridge police, then it's ferguson, and baltimore, it's not writing obama, not after eight years telling the real statistics of failure of obama, destroy trump. it is fascinating how wrong they are how often they are so wrong. >> if you look at the last few cases, the covington case and this one in chicago, both of them, a rush to judgment because the narrative fit this idea that anything that is anti-trump has got to be something that we jump on and go with. if you look at what don lemon said, he attacked you last night. look at what he said. jussie smollett had lost in the court of public opinion and "it's not his fault."ic he went on to say, when something's happened and is controversial, everyone is coming for you. i knew everyone would be picking apart his story. it's not for me. that is not my concern.

that wasn't his concern? this gentleman stroked racial hatred, homophobic hatred, used the resources of the police. i'm all for forgiveness but this individual has not even admitted his problem. he hasn't admitted the crime. don lemon is rushing and saying that i am more concerned about him then the thousands of people who didn't have police resource resources. 24 detectives assigned that were doing other things. furthermore, this concern everyone has about fake news and further divides, this is exactly what was happening.. inspired by the left and now they want t to ignore it. that's a problem. >> sean: are you really working for extra? congratulations. >> i am. >> sean: joe, 20 seconds. >> i>> think in the end, msnbc d not cover this last night because they were afraid their audiences would be offended and their safe spaces, as if we don't give them comfort food and

tell themed what they want to hear, they will go somewhere else. people need to be told what they need to hear instead of what they want to hear and we are seeing that across a lot of news organizations at this point. report the news and don't worry about the feelings of your audience. >> sean: lara logan wasab on last night, 90% of the media is left. they are wrong to the point -- >> now they are calling her a conservative. the fact she didn't go along with the narrative. >> sean: i have no idea what your politics are. when you get to the point you are willing to destroy a 16-year-old kid and not even make a phone call to find out if what you are looking at is true, that is why these companies are going to pay. i know when would. he is unrelenting. we'll see. thank you, both.h. wait until you hear how much of a hypocrite -- you will love this -- socialist bernie sanders is when it comes to his wealth. also, a shocking video appears

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2016. all of those ideas, people said, they are so radical, they are extreme, the american people just won't accept those ideas. you know what's happened? all of those ideas and many more are now part of the political mainstream. >> is that the argument against your competitors, which is, i was medical for all before medicare for all was cool? >> [laughs] i guess that is one way of looking at it. >> sean: problem for bernie, he may not be socialist enough. here's where he is confused. his extreme agenda, higher taxes, open borders, government mandated climate shaming, may appeal to the radical phase of the extreme socialist democratic party, it couldn't be more disconnected from everyday americans. get this: we are learning a lot more about sanders' champagne socialist light lifestyle. caviar dreams. he owns multiple homes, has earned over a million dollars

annually, and it doesn't exactly match the rhetoric. democrats, remember, they are only super generous with youret money. bernie is free to redistribute his money to the poor. he can open up his expensive homes to the homeless and provide health care without money. no one hold your breath. of course bernie for a left turn is being embraced by other democraticea candidates like california senator kamala harris who today was a new york city having lunch with the reverend al just like bernie did in 2016. now the reverend al sharpton is still a democrat power broker. as you know about as well history? let's remind. >> you ain't nothing! you a [bleep]! >> [indistinct] >> [indistinct]

>> you all me want to be the only [bleep] on television! >> sean: i wonder if they hate trump media mob is going to ask kamala harris about her friend reverend al. remember, much like reverend al rush to judgment, remember, kamala harris did the same on the jussie smollett case, and on justice kavanaugh. after refusing to answer reporters about your risk of my questions about smollett's arrest, she later expressed that she was sad, frustrated, disappointing. we have a democratic party that rushes to judgment and eliminates due process, presumption of innocence, and doesn't wait for any facts. he democratic party pushing higher taxes, 70 plus percent, wealth confiscation. if you save a few cents. open borders, ending i.c.e. and living personally a life of access. why don't they donate their money? we have democratic party full of hypocrisy. display. we'll continue to give you a front row seat as our

"hannity watch" at 2020 continues. joining us now three next, former white house press secretary, fox news contributor ari fleischer along with trump 2020 media advisory board member, gina loudon. why do you -- why are they generous with other people's money? why don't they use their own? >> this is typical of socialism. for me, i am glad they are finally admitting their socialists. if you years ago, if you would never use the word of socialism or socialist in relation to the democrats, they o would have called you crazy, a conspiracy theorist. now they themselves are labeling, self labeling themselves as socialists, as there is this mad rush to the left and sean, the sad reality is, we have all symptoms of socialism.ci thee bullying, the thuggery, violence, all the things we never thought we would see here in the united states of america and yet they seem proud to be labeled socialists. the thing about socialism we can never forget as it requires tyranny.

that is exactly where we are going. >> sean: ari, abortion up until even the birthing process, late-term abortions? aa lot of states, democrats pushing it. wealth tax, 70% tax rates, free health care, free housing, free retirement, guaranteed free, free, free, even free healthy foods, guaranteed. >> [laughs] stop it. you are depressing me. i think there is a real tension inside the democratic party. the one thing we want more than anything else is to beat donald trump. i think at the end of the day, they really want the candidate can beat trump. because they all think they can beat trump, they will run to the far left of that is their great risk. if they nominate somebody who has no chance at defeating the president because they are too far left. this tension is going to play itself out throughout 2019 and 2,020. every early sign as they keep running left. >> sean: do you see moderate democrats? crazy uncle joe is no moderate

democrat. he embraced all of obama's failed agenda. >> a moderate democrat will say i am not for medicare for all, i won't abolish. it's a race to the left, exactly right about that. it's one of the things that can create a center that donald trump can take advantage of. >> sean: gina loudon, last word tonight. >> there is a race to the left when you talk about free food, let's remember bernie sanders is thean one who has crazed food lines, who has said that food rationing is okay. praise the governor in venezuela. praise castro. people have to realize this is what the democrats are talking about and it's a very clear decision for 2020. >> sean: when people have to remodel their homes in ten years, when we get rid of the all gas, natural gas, oil, wooden airplanes go away, and we will take sailboats to europe and high-speed trades to

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♪ >> sean: admitted the whirlwind of news of political violence in america, lost in the coverage was a very disturbing event at uc berkeley on tuesday. conservative youth organization turning point usa's point usa's uc berkeley affiliate, they had a table set up in the colleges plaza where members were recruitingth students to join. according to multiple eyewitnesses, unidentified individual confront of the turning point to table before physically assaulting hayden williams, a leadership institute field representatives who was

helping turning point. the actual punch wasms caught on camera but not what led up to it. take a look. >> [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! >> you want to hit me? i'll shoot you! >> [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! weep! [bleep]! [bleep]! >> sean: uc berkeley released a statement addressing the incident, "uc berkeley strongly -- that sort of behavior is reprehensible, intolerable or floor. a message was sent by our police

force to the campus community with a picture of the suspect in a request that anyone with information with the incident come forward and report what they know and support of our police department's ongoing investigation we tend to identify and bring the trperpetrators to justice. a photo of the suspect has been released, as you can see on your screen. theea search for him is ongoingt this hour. joining us now with reaction, the student at the center of this controversy, hayden williams is with us, fox news contributor, campus or from editor in chief, our own lawrence jones is here. let me -- obviously, there's a lot going on here. that guy come from this incident? is.es, it >> sean: unopposed as you are watching what is happening with jussie smollett. correct? a lot of people made out your story. what led up to it, and what is the evidence that you have, eyewitnesses that will testify

that you did nothing to provoke this? >> absolutely. so i am a field representative, as he said come over the leadership institute. t it is my job to help organize and train conservative activists throughout california. on tuesday, i was invited to uc berkeley's campus to help a conservative group, turning point, recruit members and while i was there, some students took offense to our sign that we hadt that said "hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims," and this person claimed will be promoting violence on campus, and proceeded to take his aggression out on us. >> sean: how many witnesses do you have? i amin watching -- i train mma, and that shot was a cheap shot, especially at the end. when did you start filming? atat what point in the encounte? >> as soon as the gentleman -- i use that term lightly -- approached our table and begin

acting very erratic, i feared for my own safety, so i started to record at that moment. >> sean: all right. did you try to defuse this? did you try to say -- i guess one of the posters he said, this is a maga country, i don't know what the trigger is for liberals and make america great again. walk us through the very beginning. what did you do, when did he start filming, and how many people were there with you? >> so i had the president of the club with me there, and we were talking to a new member when this happened. these two people approached our table, very erratically, and started cussing at us and that is when i knew that this was probably a troublesomew situati situation. so i pulled on my phone to start recording, and his friend, one of the gentleman that approached the table, smacked my phone out of my hand -- >> sean: but there were other w people taking video, thankfully.

>> that's right. >> sean: how long into the confrontation did video begin that you have seen? >> six, seven seconds. >> sean: wow. lawrence, i've known you for a long time.me you know about this group really well. i know you have been investigating this for us and tell us what you have found. >> sean, we don't rush to judgment on this program, on this network. we try to get all the facts. we have contacted three students that were surrounding this event. they have backed up what hayden had to say. we contacted the university, the university police, and we've even asked for if anyone has any other evidence that could give us a full picture to give that. this is what we do. >> sean: we do know they werees witnesses from the get-go, correct? numerous ones? >> we know there were three witnesses but i think it's also important to note, sean, this is not new for uc berkeley. this is a school that has been burned down almost because they don't like the conservative

pointhe of view on the college campus. and so, if not just an isolated event here, the conservative view is under attack, and you have professors on that campus that don't want the conservative view and students there.st it's something we have to take seriously, sean. >> sean: lawrence, thank you for investigating. hayden, assuming right now because we are in this moment obviously with jussie smollett, that you have those witnesses, that would make you a victim. that person -- we will get to the truth. we wish you well. take care of that and i'm sorry that happened. when we come back, we will read some of your mail, straight ahead. ♪ these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow

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