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he's in maga country. that's his story. and then police investigated. they said he's an evidence and a liar and he's the criminal, that he staged the attack because he's unhappy with something about his show. then a grand jury indicts the actor and singer on 16 counts of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report. along the way, police are accused of leaking information, hospital workers are fired for accessing his records. today cook county prosecutors pull a stunning reversal. they drop all the charges, seal all the evidence and close all of the records. they cite his community service and saying the city keeps his $10,000 bail. smollett claims vindication. the mayor calls it a white wash of justice and a sham. the police superintendent says smollett is hiding hide secrecy. if anything like this before has happened, we missed it. >> do i think justice was served? no.

again, at the end of the day, this is mr. smollett that committed this hoax, period. if he wanted to clear his name, the way to do that is in a court of law so everyone could see the evidence. >> that happened just after jussie smollett held his own news conference. >> i've been truthful an consistent since day one. i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of what i was accused of. this has been an incredibly difficult time. honestly one of the worst of my life. >> shepard: so what about the two guys that helped him stage the attack? they said smollett paid him to do it if smollett is a victim, will they be charged in what about the threatening letter that started it off that police say smollett sent to himself. the feds are investigating that. why if the charges are dropped does the city keep his $10,000 in bail? what about the state attorney that recused herself and said she wanted the fbi to handle the

whole thing in the first place? no answers, not yet. matt finn has been following this from jump and he's live at the spot where smollett said he was attacked. matt? >> shep, this afternoon chicago's police supervisor slamming the decision to drop all the charges against jussie smollett saying justice has not been served and that the actor still owes this city an apology and chicago's mayor, rahm emanuel said the 16 felony counts against jussie smollett indicted by a jury could not be any clearer. >> did this all in the name of self-promotion. he used the law for the hate crime legislation that all of us over years put on the books to stand up to be the values that embody what we believe in. this is a white wash of justice. >> chicago police say a month they carried out a meticulous investigation and alleged that smollett cut the brothers a

$3,500 check to pretend to beat them. however, smollett's attorney says that $3,500 was for a fitness plan and says chicago's police superintendent, eddie johnson was wrong when he alleged the $3,500 check was payment for the hoax. here's smollett's attorney. >> i have no idea where that came from, which is why you should allow investigation and allow the state to investigate a charge before you go to the press. >> jussie smollett forfeited the $10,000 bond he paid to get out of jail. he said not a moment of this was in vain. it was the darkest time of his life and he thanked the state of illinois for their decision. 20th century fox released a statement writing -- >> shep? >> shepard: there's still an fbi investigation, right? >> yes, a short while ago we reached back out to the fbi.

as usual, they did not comment. chicago police say the fbi is investigating the alleged death threat letter that police say smollett sent to himself a week before the attack. chicago police say when the letter didn't get attention, he carried out with this alleged hoax. we reached out to the postal service. they confirmed that they have assisted investigators in the investigation into the alleged death threat letter and jussie smollett potentially face as full charge of mail fraud, which is a substantial charge. shep? >> shepard: matt finn on scene. now bob bianchi is here. >> shep, i have a question. why not give the guy a kiss? this is unbelievable. it's a disgrace to those truly victims of hate crimes, to the police that went through this. to a prosecutor that accepted that he committed these crimes, to the grand jury that indicted him. and there are defendants that we have -- that i represent right

now that have done far, far less and they wouldn't get this treatment. it's a white wash and then seal the records? he gets to go out and say i'm innocent? the mayor has been thrown under the bus, the judicial system is under the bus and the chicago plus department is. this is what really got me. let's listen to what the prosecutor said. there's one valid reason to reverse a grand jury investigation and that is newly discovered evidence. here's the answer to the prosecutor gave for making this unbelievably disgraceful decision. after reviewing the facts and the circumstances of the case -- yikes! you'd think you do that when you present it to the grand jury. in agreement to forfeit his bond, which is $10,000, which is nothing, we believe the outcome is just and the disposition of appropriate resolution of this case. it's outrageous. >> shepard: the prosecutors make a decision not to prosecute. and then the mayor and the police chief come out and say

there's a deal that's been brokered behind which he's hiding, but by definition, there's no deal. charges are dismissed. everything is dropped and everything is sealed? >> right. >> shepard: will we never know? >> you know what i would do? if i were the police department, i'd say i want to sue him civilly and bring him to the court for the tens perhaps hundreds of thousands of police resources that could have went to real crime that were wasted on this investigation. >> shepard: didn't the prosecutor say he didn't fake this? >> they didn't say he didn't do it. they felt it was an appropriate disposition. you can't take the bond money for know reason. >> shepard: what they did was, he did nice community service and gave us $10,000. so we're dismissing the charges. >> exactly. what they didn't say is he didn't do this. you can't take his $10,000 for no reason. you have to take it because there's an admission. if you give this as a penalty. so the prosecutor is saying that

is punishment enough. he didn't say he didn't do it. if i were the chicago police department, i would bring a civil suit to get him on the record. >> shepard: there's got to be something we don't know. we do know the state's attorney recused herself in the early going. he said that the family was unhappy with the way it was being handled, that she received communication from the former chief of staff from the former first lady. we don't know if she was involved in this in any way. >> people argue about the differences and disparities of race, incarceration, i say it's about green, power, influence making these decisions. there's many poor minorities that have marijuana records that go to jail. what he did here is put a hoax that put police in danger, the community in danger, the minority community was very upset about this. understandably so. ratcheted up racial tension.

a conspiracy with multiple individuals to fool the public and the police and lied to police. that guy gets off with this? gets this kiss? it's a disgrace. in fact, as a prosecutor, the police department isn't even apprized of this prior to the decision being made and they find out about it on the media? that's not how police and prosecutors operate. >> shepard: the mayor stands up and calls it a sham. have you ever seen anything like this? >> i have never seen anything like this. usually people hold their nose because you have to make a prosecutorial decision based on evidence. that's why i want to see what this statement said about this. this was nothing. it was just a whitewash, political influence used in order to get him out from under. all the minorities in chicago for being convicted for things less than this, i'd like to see what their defense attorney are going to do when they go to the prosecutor and say how about my

guy? >> shepard: it's my experience that prosecutors and investigators meaning the police department work hand and hand on matters like this. when a big decision like this has to be made and it will face a lot of public scrutiny, they get together and discuss a strategy for how to present it all. instead, they stood up, one side said one thing and the other side called him horrible. >> i ran an agency. sometimes i had to make decisions that the police were uncomfortable with. i brought them in the office, explained my reasons for those decisions. they may hold their nose but okay, that's fine. but it was based on the facts and the law. the fact that they never communicated to this and the police and the mayor blind-sided when they find out about this emergency hearing that happened so quickly with this kiss of an agreement -- >> shepard: and they call all the reporters this morning. you have to come. have to come down here. a news conference. >> this should be investigated. there's something not correct with what went on here. i've never seen anything like this where you have a mayor and police department that are not

at odds with the prosecutor's office where they work with them day in and day out about what they believe -- they feel like they got thrown under the bus. everybody is saying, the police investigated them. it was a sham. how can you as a prosecutor -- i've indicted cases in the grand jury. the citizens of the county make a decision whether or not there's an indictment. 23 folks said there was enough evidence to move this case forward to trial and the prosecutor unilaterally decides to give it away? it's not right. >> shepard: bob bianchi. i think there's probably more coming here. >> i imagine. i hope there is. >> shepard: bob, wow. thank you. so much news today. did you hear about this computer outage that has rippled across the nation's airports, left passengers furious with long lines? a major happening today. we're learning about the glitch and tell you about it next. also, the 40 terrifying seconds that would make the difference between life and death on a doomed 737. brand new details about the

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checking in or getting their boarding passes due to this computer program with the computer reservation system. jet blue, american and alaska. the glitch short-lived and airlines got things back to normal. jeff blue said -- >> now, saber is a massive tech company. they're specializing in hospitality, travel services. they say every day millions of consumers and employees interact with our technology. saber releasing a statement saying earlier today, they experienced an outage. customers are reporting normal operations and we apologize to those affected. saber has not elaborated what caused the glitch. it's worth noting that they suffered glitches in the past, this is not the first. something that they're working on. shep? >> shepard: molly, recent tests

of the boeing 737 max plane said pilots had less than 40 seconds to fix an error and avoid disaster. two people involved in the testing say i resembled to a situation what went wrong in the lion air crash in indonesia in october. that crash and this month's ethiopia killed hundreds of people and both involved the boeing 737 max 8 jet. trace gallagher reporting live from the west coast news hub. trace? >> let's break down the critical 40 seconds. in the 737 max, the anti-stall system pushes the nose of the play down for 10 seconds at a time and pauses for five seconds. by the time the system engaged the third time, the jet is in an unrecoverable dive. the plane's pilots didn't

realize how powerful the stall is until they get in a simulator. there's a switch that counteracts the nose being going down. counter acting the system is not the same as overriding it. to do it, the pilots had to turn off two more switches. boeing chose not to reveal the anti-stall system in the operator's manuel. so imagine if you will have 40 seconds to disable a system that you do not know exists. that's why boeing is inviting 200 pilots from various airlines for a training session in washingston state. boeing clearly hoping to get the 737 max back in the air as soon as possible. >> shepard: trace, the feds are weighing in on the decision not to tell about that stall system. >> yes, they're talking about the future of airports and the

grounding of the 737 max planes will be talked about. the acting administrator of the faa will testify before the senate commerce committee. congress wants to know about the roles of boeing and the faa during the certification process of the max airplanes, specifically why additional pilot training was not mandated. we're told the faa administrator will tell the senate the agencies oversight approach must evolve. that's a big understatement considering there's a lot of evidence that the faa and boeing have gotten too cozy and the faa has allowed engineers to police themselves when it comes to safety. shep? >> shepard: trace gallagher live in los angeles. there's breaking news just in. the israeli military has just reported a rocket fired from gaza has landed in an open field in israel. the latest escalation after yesterday's violent flare-up twice israel and hamas.

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border is where protesters are calling on benjamin netanyahu to launch more strikes on the gaza. trey? >> that's right. protesters here in a town that borders on the strip are calling on the prime minister to continue his military campaign inside gaza. they said they want to be treated like any other city if a rocket is fired toward their town. they want a military response. you can see the protesters here. the demonstration was larger earlier today. after the rocket was fired into israel, there's new questions about whether or not this could lead to more escalation tonight. we didn't see any rocket fire from the gaza strip, we didn't see any air strikes. it appears at this time that things are going to remain calm. quickly, shep, i want to show you the scene here. it is very much a positive

scene. there's no violence here. just demonstrators calling on their prime minister to ultimately strike gaza more often because they say that they're receiving some of the small arms around small rocket fire like we saw early or tonight. shep? >> shepard: what do you know about the israeli military's preparation now? >> shep, what we understand, the israeli military will be sending thousands of troops to the border. directly related to the violence with rockets fired into southern israel and having to do it with a major demonstration that will take place this coming saturday. thousands of palestinians will be marketing the one-year anniversary of the great return march demonstrations. palestinians there in gaza will continue their protests to call on the government to end the blockade on the trip.

we had seen tanks here. they were preparing for a ground invasion should things escalate. now they're showing that they're prepared should things escalate over the weekend. >> shepard: trey yingst on seen. let's go to john alterman. good to see you. >> good see you, shep. >> shepard: what are we seeing here? >> i think you're seeing each side playing a game of chicken. they're trying to prod the other one and persuade the other one not to go further. this could tumble into a lot more violence very quickly. >> shepard: to what end? for americans that pay a little bit of attention to this but not too much, what is this about? >> well, i think the ruling power in gaza, which is hamas, is interested in demonstrating to israel they're not going to just fall down and collapse. they still have the ability to harm israel and they have power

against israel. the israelis are determined in general to persuade hamas that they're much stronger, they can deter them from those kinds of actions. for the most part, they do deter hamas and hamas punishes palestinians that attack israelis at the wrong time in the wrong place. because we're in the middle of an election campaign and prime minister netanyahu is running against three former chiefs of staffs, he's especially careful to project himself as strong on defense and tough defending the israeli people. if you have a military operation and something goes wrong, that is really going to hurt the prime minister's election chances and the election is two weeks ago way. >> shepard: so how do you tamp this down? what is the solution here? >> i don't think there's a solution to this. it has to be treated -- the israelis are sending messages to

hamas. don't push us right now. hamas is sending messages that we're willing to make a deal, we can work with you. hamas announced that there was a cease fire. israel said there's no cease fire. there's a decent possibility that they can get through in, but there's a lot of tinder out there. if this goes bad, it could go bad quickly because of the political environment that this is taking place in. >> shepard: is there -- is hamas asking for anything? >> nothing big. hamas is generally presiding over a place that is less and less pleasant to live in. there's more violence. there's more protests against hamas for their inability to deliver jobs and services and all of those things. by the way, hamas is also fighting with the palestinian authority which wants to rule the gaza strip instead of hamas. so it seems like hamas is trying

to hold on to a weak position and the israelis want to come to stay weak. >> shepard: you think this will simmer down or this is how it's going to be until the election? >> it's -- we're going to have moments of tension. if i had to bet, i'd say there's a 60% chance that this just quiets down. the arab press has nothing on the web pages in arabic about this. it's only on the english web pages. i think there is a sense that this isn't really the time and there's a willingness to go by, but it takes one idiot with a rocket to get lucky and suddenly you're in a different world and a whole world of hurt. >> shepard: good of you to be here. thank you. >> thank you, shep. >> shepard: breaking news just in during that discussion. the former trump aide george papadopoulos now tells fox news and i quote "my lawyers have formally asked for a pardon. if it's granted, i would be honored to accept it."

the white house team has reached out about this matter and have gotten no response yet, this comes on the same day that the transcript of george papadopoulos private testimony was released. the transcript out today. so will the president offer george papadopoulos a pardon as he's now requesting? we'll know soon enough. and an update on our top story of the day, which just came in to us during this segment. it came in the form of an orange alert from the associated press. it's one line. i will read it to you now. chicago, associated press. prosecutor says he still believes jussie smollett lied about the attack despite dropping the charges. chicago. the news continues next.

>> shepard: another update on our top story and more details

from the prosecutors in chicago, cook county, illinois who today decided to dismiss all charges against jussie smollett but to keep his $10,000 in bail money. this just in. prosecutors say a stunning decision to drop charges against jussie smollett does not mean that they know longer believe he staged a racial and homophobic attack against him in january. the state's attorney said he still believes smollett filed a false police report. he said the prosecutors "stand behind the investigation and the facts." he added, and i quote "this is not an exoneration." a minimum require for the dropping of charges is typically that a defendant accepts some responsibility and offers an apology. speaking after prosecutors said that they were dropping all charges, smollett conceded nothing and did not apologize.

he insisted he was truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. more to come from chicago, no doubt. the top democrat in washington on capitol hill telling her colleagues to be calm as they get together for the first time since robert mueller entered his final report and bob barr gave us his summary of it. the associated press reports that the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, told democrats to switch the focus from president trump to the campaign promises that helped them take control of the house last fall. the president also on capitol hill today, robert mueller's team according to the report by bob barr did not find evidence that president trump or members of his campaign colluded with russia to meddle in the 2016 election. according to the barr report, the special counsel could not reach conclusion on whether or not the president obstructed justice. democrats say they want william barr to release the full report as every member of congress has

requested and the president said he wanted. the chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel reporting live. mike? >> good afternoon. roy blunt said that president trump seemed appropriately relieved at lunch with senate republicans today. >> the mueller report was great. could not have been better. it said no obstruction, no collusion. could note have been better. >> here on capitol hill, there's been a major push to get the full robert mueller report released as soon as possible. mitch mcconnell told us a short time ago that attorney general barr should be careful to not let sensitive information out. >> throwing innocent people under the bus and throwing open classified records doesn't strike me as a good idea. i trust him to go through this, i hope he will be as transparent as he can. >> justice department official tells us that william barr told

senator lindsey graham it's a matter of weeks and not months to release a redacted version to lawmakers on capitol hill. shep? >> shepard: mike, what are democrats saying now? >> it's clear they want to see the fine print of the robert mueller report and the underlying documents as soon as possible. >> there was clearly evidence of collusion. i want to see the mueller report, not the barr summary for all of the evidence and see how close it came to prove beyond a reasonable doubt. that's the very high bar that is used to judge whether there is a prosecution. >> the house speaker is taking issue with the attorney general and not with special counsel mueller. >> great respect for special counsel mueller. but let us see what the report is. we don't need and interpretation by attorney general who is appointed for a particular job

to make sure the president is above the law. we need to see the report. that's my message to our members. >> some of her members have been pushing for impeachment but speaker pelosi is not there at this stage, shep. >> shepard: mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. thanks. and breaking news regarding the former trump adviser george papadopoulos who is asking for a pardon from the president. john roberts reports the following. at the moment, white house officials are offering no comment on the papadopoulos application. john roberts goes on to report that in the past they have said there's no discussion of pardons for any of the players in the mueller investigation. when this changes, we'll bring a report to you. democrats in the house have failed to override the president's first veto. as a result, the declaration of a national emergency at the border stands. now the fight turns to the courts. earlier this month, the house

and the senate passed a big blocking the declaration. the president vetoed that. today democrats needed 2/3s of the house of representatives to nix the veto. they fell short by 38 votes. the national emergency declaration allows the government to shift $3.6 billion from military construction projects to work on a barrier along the southern border. the trump administration throwing its support behind a ruling that would scrap the aentire affordable care law. some 16 million americans could lose health coverage and major protections. in december a federal judge in texas ruled the affordable care law is unconstitutional. now the justice department is arguing in court that it's time to get rid of the entire thing. peter doocy reporting live from capitol hill. peter? >> the judge in texas ruled that the affordable care act is unconstitutional because the

judge believed that the republican tax reform bill, the part that gut the individual mandate makes the affordable care act unviable not legal. the trump justice department weighed in with this. the department of justice has determined that the district courts comprehensive opinion came to the correct conclusion and will support it on appeal. this afternoon while president trump was walking into a policy lunch with republican senators here on the hill, he teased that healthcare could be the next big fight. >> let me tell you what my message is. the republican party will soon be known as the party of healthcare. you watch. >> but democratic lawmakers that spent the last two days how to prolong the fight over the mueller investigation are now embracing the coming fight over healthcare. >> the republicans because they can't stand the word "obama" are determine to kill the affordable care act which guarantees to americans that you won't be

discriminated against because someone in your family has a pre-existing condition. >> healthcare was an issue that motivated voters in the mid-terms and helped democrats flip the house. in previous cycles, it was a motivating issue for republican voters. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, rolled out a plan that would be a series of bills, small bills, that would expand or beef up subsidies on the exist obamacare exchanges. it's a lot less progressive than democrats running for president would like. those are the ones that are out there pitching medicare for all, shep. >> shepard: peter doocy live on the hill. thank you. a busy day on twitter for michael avenatti. the lawyer firing off multiple tweets after being hit with number charges to land him in prison for life potentially. the case he's making coming up

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>> shepard: two astronauts were set to make history with the first all-woman spacewalk. one couldn't get in the spacesuit so nasa swapped her with a man instead. anna mcclain wore a large suit and said it was hard to maneuver. only one medium size was space worthy, so the other women already had dibs. so they had to send somebody else out in her place. michael avenatti is taking his case to twitter. the high profile attorney sending out a string of tweets after the feds accused him of trying to extort tens of miles from nike. in his tweets, avenatti said the company is trying to take attention away from its own alleged crimes. avenatti best known for representing stormy daniels in

her case against president trump, he was in court yesterday after his arrest. michael avenatti faces charges in unrelated cases from prosecutors on both coasts. a california case the feds say he stole a client's settlement for himself among other things. laura ingle reporting live for us. laura, he had a lot to say the past few hours. >> he certainly has. he's been on twitter all day. when michael avenatti was released on $300,000 bond in new york, he was given travel restrictions, ordered to hand over two passports and not restricted from taking to social media. so with that, avenatti has been doubling down on his tweets, naming names with the very thing he threatened to go public with in the first place. accusing nike of making payments to high school and college athletes and concealing the payments. prosecutors allege avenatti went to nike last week and threatened to reveal rule violations involving an amateur youth team

sponsored by the company unless nike had a him over $20 million to keep quiet. in a statement to fox, nike said they have been cooperating with federal investigators into ncaa basketball for a year. avenatti tweeted this today. if nike was cooperating with the government for over a year relating to this scandal, they weren't, this is a lie. where are the disclosures in their sec filings? there are none. wait until the sec begins their investigation. avenatti followed up on his promise to making cash payments to bol bol. we reached out for comment and have not heard back. >> shepard: he spoke after his court appearance last night too, right? >> he did. he had the same defiant tone that he has had. he said all of his career he's fought against the powerful and will never stop fighting the good fight. here he is. >> i'm highly confident that

when all of the evidence is laid bear in connection with these cases, when it's all known, when due process occurs that i will be fully exonerated and justice will be done. >> shepard: he's facing bank and wire fraud charges in california for an alleged defrauding a bank through fake tax returns and embezzling money of a client. avenatti facing 97 years in ply son if convicted on all counts. he's been ordered to appear in court next month, shep. >> shepard: thanks, laura. ahead, some of america's top pediatricians are throwing their support behind taxes on soda. first, how many times have your parents told you be careful when driving your 600 horsepower lamborghini? [bleep]. that happened at a super car

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>> shepard: a new study out that finds doctors diagnosed women years later in life for the same reasons. danish researchers looked at health data from seven million people. doctors diagnosed women when they're about four years older than the age at which conditions are recognized in men. for cancer specifically, women received diagnoses 2 1/2 years after men on average. researchers say they don't know whether it's because of genetics, the environment,

possible basis in healthcare system or some combination of reasons. that's what they found. two of america's top medical groups are pushing for a crack down on sugary drinks calling it a grave health risk to kids. susan li with more. >> it's been two years in the making. for the very first time, two leading medical groups are encouraging soda taxes. the american heart association and the american academy of pediatrics. they say taxes are necessary to help fight obesity, type 2 diabetes, cancer, heart disease and other diet-related illnesses that cost the healthcare system billion as year. they have come up with six recommendations besides taxing soda. that i want to reduced a very tieing to youth, better warning labels and limiting soda purchases on federal assistance programs. that's because children and adolescents are still consuming too much added sugar.

guidelines recommend 10% of total calories coming from added sugar. right now it's 17%. half of that coming from sugary drinks. and soda taxes are being charged in san francisco and the likes, philadelphia, chicago, seattle and boulder and connecticut's governor proposing a statewide soda tax as well. they have seen a 20% reduction in soda consumption because of these taxes. they're not unique drivers of beesty rates. >> shepard: according to rule 9 in the u.s. golf association handbook, if a bird moves your ball, you're allowed to put it back where it was. in tampa, that rule applies to golf balls and also to fish. >> remember the osprey that

couldn't take off? >> shepard: the fish shall forever be grateful. >> neil: attention boys and gills. see how i did that? we're live at the white house where president trump is meeting with lawmakers and now the mueller probe is wrapped up, we're on capitol hill where a key vote on the green new deal is about to go down. we're live at the justice department where obamacare is back to front and center and maybe down and out. welcome back. i'm neil cavuto. thanks for charles payne filling in while i did jury duty. you're welcome, america. my civic duty. we're following the fast-moving developments with rand paul. fox team coverage with catherine herridge on the mueller fallout and