this didn't rise to the level. his statement was pretty emphatic. thank you very much. ♪ >> laura: good evening. for two years we have set on the sat and listen to democrats tell us that the mullah report will reveal the final truth about russia and the collusion. wait for it. on sunday the report delivered that truth. there was no collusion. now the left is telling us that that verdict itself is part of a larger conspiracy. that just ahead. first tonight, hours ago prosecutors in chicago dropped all chargers against jussie smollett. he was facing 16 felony counts for faking an elaborate hate crime against himself back in january. police say he hired two nigerian

body builders to hang a noose on his neck and poor which on him. because that kind of thing happens a lot in downtown chicago and winter. he then told reporters he would bite assaulted by two white racist trump supporter's. as of tonight, police believe he was long about all of that. so do prosecutors. they said so yet again today. and yet the state of illinois is somehow for some reason dumping the case anyway. in exchange for the $100,000 he has already paid and bond he will walk free. as record will be expunged and everything will be returned to normal. he described his decision as a victory, not just for him but for the broader cause of civil rights. >> i've been truthful and consistent on every level. i would not be my mother's son if i was capable of one drop of what i was accused of. this has been a difficult time.

one of the worst of my entire life. i am a man of faith and i have a man that has knowledge of my history and i would not bring my family, our lives or the movement through this. i would not. i would like nothing more than to just give back and move on with my life but make no mistake i will always continue to fight for the justice, equality and betterment of marginalized people everywhere. >> tucker: a couple of pretty obvious questions. what is this movement he refers to? is he in contact with other perpetrators for kate crimes? have they formed a union? will they hold a convention? how exactly has smollett who was an actor fought for the justice, equality of marginalized people? was pouring bleach on himself part of that? how did he nigerian body builders figure into this?

why aren't the rest of us laughing at this. it is too absurd. cnn doesn't think it is funny. they are taking him very seriously as they always have. jeff smoker's tiny spokesman said this was a mystery of faith, like the shroud of turin. >> the narrative changed from victim to villain and then back to victim. it has been very confusing. people don't know what to believe and we may never know what that meant on the street that night and chicago. >> tucker: we may never really know! and looks like we will have to agree to disagree on this whole jussie smollett thing. does anyone know any news reporters? they should have some free time these days, post-russia hysteria. maybe they could find out more about this. why isn't he concerned about the two white racists he said attacked him? shouldn't you be leading the charge to lock these balloons

up? according to him, they are still on the loose. they can attack other actors. we need to stop them before they do. what about the chicago police department? it is led by an african-american sheep but that doesn't mean it is not part of the wider racist conspiracy. it must be. chicago cops just framed jussie smollett as a liar and destroyed his reputation. for some reason he does not seem to care about that. he says he wants to move on. that is odd. what about the nigerian brothers? last month both r.kelly and the "chicago tribune" reported they had told police he had read rehearsed the attack. without a live? will he sue them for defamation? other outlets say he discovered rope, bleach and masks and the brother's apartment. apparently his phone records show he was talking to the brothers immediately before and after the attack.

what was that all about? we could go on and on. why bother? we know exactly what is happening here. he isn't getting off because he is an ascent. he is not an ascent. he is better is famous. the charges against him were dropped because someone in power called someone else in power and side let him go. none of this had anything to do with justice, the opposite. famously corrupt chicago, it was too obvious. the mayor tended to be very shocked by it. >> if you want to say you are innocent, you take your day in court. i would never if someone accused me, i would never hide behind a broken deal. where's the accountability in the system? you cannot have because of a position, one set of rules apply to them and another set of rules apply to everyone else. in another way you are seeing this play out in universities

where people pay extra to get their kids a special position in university. this is a whitewash of justice. >> tucker: a whitewash of justice. how to the states attorney dropped these charges answer that? they issued a statement saying the charges were dropped because of his volunteer service in the community. okay, what was that service? according to a news account, he spent a total of 18 hours over two days of the lobbying organization. while he was there he spent his time and this is a direct quote, stuffing membership envelopes and working in the groups bookstore to sell merchandise and critiquing it saturdays broadcast. he also worked with the music director on a plan to build the choir. apparently the community was greatly enriched by all of this. we should note that jesse jackson who runs it is one of

the most politically powerful people in chicago. if you don't believe it, try it yourself. go on in stage eight vacate crime in which you slander or an entire group of people on the basis of their skin color and then head over to quit over america and conduct a tearful interview. describe yourself as a victim of racism in this country and then get caught doing it. tell us how you do? let us know in the visiting hours are. he is not going to prison. he was smarter than that. he knew he would never be punished. he knows jesse jackson and his friends with kamala harris, barack and michelle obama. jussie smollett may claim it to fight for marginalized people but he is not one of them. in fact he occupies the highest rank a privilege and our society. he is above the law. there seem to be quite a few people like that and this country. you will recognize them because they are the ones lecturing you

about help bigoted and unfair america is. but they don't understand is that they are proving that point. kevin, the police in chicago and he joins us now. thank you for coming. this seems like a travesty. am i missing something? >> you are not missing anything. there was no justice that happened today. it is a disgrace to the police officers work so hard. the detectives who knocked their socks off. they worked that case and all they got for their hard work was told, we will let him go. >> tucker: if i'm understanding this. he spent 18 hours volunteering for jesse jackson and forfeited the $10,000 bond. is that the sum total? >> that is my understanding. we are hoping, we asked for an investigation last week and we

sent a letter to the attorney general with the northern district of illinois asking for an investigation on kim fox. i think we were right on the money and we are doubling down. i make sure that they had the letter today and i hand-delivered it to the federal building here. >> tucker: cops in chicago, the fop which you run have complained about the state attorney kim fox. why do you think she is doing this? >> first of all she is not prosecuting the people who need to be prosecuted and it is not just in the jussie smollett case. it is low-level offenders and getting people on bombs. it is people that should've been sitting in jail and unfortunately shooting up a car over the weekend. cost in the life of a fine

person. one of our members was killed and sitting in a car by a person who is sitting in jail. they decided to give him a little pond and he was out. this is a travesty of justice all the way around. detectives are mad and our members are angry. they want justice. i hope that the attorney general for the northern district response to this because there were still letters that jussie smollett claimed that were said to him. if that is proved to be also a hoax than federal charges can be brought. >> tucker: and looks to us from outside chicago looking in that this was a pure political deal. somebody called somebody else. he knows people that he knows the obama's and kamala harris and he somehow pulled strings to get out from underneath these charges. is that right? >> i think you hit the nail on

the head. it stinks, it was stinking from the beginning and it smells worse now. >> tucker: why and a city like chicago which famously has a high rate of shootings and murders would you ever let violent criminals out early? >> i have no idea what goes on at that office. we've had our complaints for over a year. we have written about it on our blog. we have made sure that people know that we are not happy with the state attorney. when i talk to chief chief strongly county they are furious that we are not getting the prosecution that we need. the case as always, we don't have enough prosecutors and money. they did before and they need to find it now. >> tucker: you guys have a really tough job. god bless and thank you for coming on. >> thank you.

>> tucker: the independent journalist and we are always happy to have them on a show. were looking at this unfold and you are drawing lessons about america 2019. what are those lessons? take a jussie smollett may have spent 18 hours stuffing envelopes but his true community service was getting the attention of the russia probe. what seems to be actually happening. this is the corrupt democratic city and action. this is the literal swamp that produced the obama's. here we have the perfect stewardship of the democrat party in the entertainment industry and the media all in one. what does jussie smollett do? he hires harvey weinstein's crisis control people and that he hires, the attorney who works for cnn who was michael jackson's attorney and to his chris brown's attorney. a man who made a career getting

and wife beaters off the hook and then we realized that not only did he grow up in a communist household, he also works with kamala harris. she was one of the first democrats to jump on this, this obvious hoax to use it to advance her own political agenda and also on the other side of the political spectrum, you have kim fox. you have kim fox who kamala harris, she was her mentor. kim fox his campaign was funded by george soros and we know this now. all it takes was a phone call from the obama's merger trapped is prosecution. this is the reason why president trump won and this is the reason why president trump will won again. not because russians are hiding in your cereal bowl and not because there are and white supremacists, this level of corruption.

this evil level of corruption that everybody sees and people may be dismayed by this, but i don't think they will be displayed on november 2020. >> tucker: what you think would happen to you if you did this or something like this? or a rush of a conspiracy or if you take the housing market? to think he would get free? >> of course i would. i would be in prison for the rest of my life. all have to do i like president trump as a gay man. meanwhile, look at all the damage he caused. look at all the money wasted and all the man hours wasted from the chicago police department who did a terrific job. he gets off scot-free and he nearly caused a race war. meanwhile you have black men who don't have privilege like jussie smollett who were rotting in

jail with bags of marijuana. he is the first one to insult. people who like the president. >> tucker: i am wondering, what you make of the press take on this and be harder from jeff sucker spokesman on cnn. there is no wait to know who is lying or telling the truth. it is one of the great mysteries, the yeti. >> after the charges were filed against him from a grand jury who only heard a sliver of the evidence and decide foul 16 charges. the media and the democrats were no longer saying that he didn't do this. everyone knew he did it. they were trying to cover up for him and their terrible reporting. now it has been reversed they have gone back and said, i guess we just don't know. it is just a mystery. >> tucker: [laughs] just waiting for evidence.

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literally. ratings on cnn and msnbc omitted immediately in some cases more than 50%. they promised their audience a conspiracy and one that evaporated so to their viewers. democratic officeholders faced a similar problem. what you say to the mob on twitter that believes that trump speaks russian? tough question. we decided to say nothing, nothing has changed. watch senator cory booker, this continues, only now the newly insulted attorney general as part of the conspiracy too. >> bob mueller did not find a chargeable collusion conspiracy. here's how you described it as recently as 2017. >> out there continues to be smoke that might result in an actual fire. we're collusion going on between us and the soviet union. >> tucker: real collusion. >> do you have to advise that is

a nondischargeable? >> and attorney general in my opinion is suspect filtering a report that i have not seen. i'm not willing to conclude anything else. >> tucker: congressman eric swellable is less creative than that. he doesn't have a theory about that or anything. they worked for him. he doesn't want to hear about any of your evidence or facts. he likes the world as it was last week. don't bother arguing with him. if you don't like it then you can sue. >> i stand by what i said about evidence of collusion. if you have a problem with that you can sue me and i would win." >> tucker: just sue me. in cnn there was near panic about the news, let's say you spent decades claiming to be the most trusted name and news and then it turned out you are way less reliable than alex jones by the way you forced off the air alertly on the grounds that he was too inaccurate to be heard

by the american public. you would be worried all the sun. you would want to apologize because that is the same as acknowledging your fraud so you keep lying. watch the governor's brother do just that. >> this network have tortured this man for two years with collusion and nobody is apologizing! before we talk about that, apologize to the overreaction of collusion. >> not a chance. >> apologized! >> never. i didn't do anything wrong. these questions are real. they need to be regarded as such. >> tucker: apologize? apologizing never even occurred to don lamon. he is a busy man. he doesn't have time to read the entire summary of the report. he has people for that. from the back of his may block heading home from dinner, a line on instagram was enough. he knows what he knows. >> he quotes him saying while

this report does not conclude the president committed a crime but does not exonerate him. it does not exonerate him. it does not exonerate him. and it does not also exonerate him. >> tucker: it also does not exonerate him. this point donald trump isn't the one who needs to be exonerated. john kerry, a former cia officer joins us tonight. thank you for coming on. he worked at the ca for a long time under john brennan will back your prosecution wished he were sent to prison for a crime that i don't think would be considered a crime today. tell me with that perspective your reaction to watching john brennan trot it before the cameras for the last two years. he said he was an expert on the conspiracy. >> this was scandalous for a number of reasons. the most important of which was that john brennan has repeatedly used the word treason, the word trader describing the president.

treason is a death penalty charge. as he seriously saying or has he been saying that the president ought to be executed for something having to do with a scandal that never existed? to me he is not a serious person. he shouldn't be taken seriously by us or by anyone else. i will get personal. i worked with him for many years and i always thought that he was an over his head intellectually and i think is proven that repeatedly in his response as the reaction to the news coming out. >> tucker: that is funny you said that. the default assumption is that the director of the cia is a very smart man. that is a complex job. i watched him closely over the last couple of years and i've concluded that he is not very bright. i'm not attacking him. it is clearly the case. how does a guy like that run the cia? >> you get that job by latching onto george tenet before he even

entered the cia. john brennan it in the 1990s was as brief or one george was at the national security council as a director of intelligence programs. when he became a deputy, he took john over with him and then just promoted him through the ranks until he was practically cabinet level. >> tucker: such as peer cronyism? >> he was on a rocket ride to the top to his career. >> tucker: the results of all the stuff that we have watched for a couple of years is that the ordinary person come everyone else knows that these agencies are run by people who were much less impressive than we thought with political agendas and in some cases they are ruthless and cruel. you are one of the people who felt the sting of that and went to prison. >> i did things to john brennan. >> tucker: guys like roger stone are headed to present because of things like that. we are the pardons right here? is it time for the branch to

send a clear message that we will stop the destruction of innocent people die completely out of control bureaucrats. >> i think it is the time. i heard lindsey graham say that pardons would not be met very well right now and united states senate and i think he is wrong. i think of the american people understand that the people have been robbed. look at mike flynn and with that poor guy has gone through. look at roger stone. these are all processed and we talked about this. these are felonies that didn't exist until these people were thrown into this investigation. they are crimes that would have never been committed otherwise. since investigation has come to not, it is time to wipe the slate clean. >> tucker: it doesn't make sense not to pardon people. this is a scam and a hoax and the people in charge are legitimate then you may obligation to make it right. i hope you are on that list. great to see you tonight.

>> the pleasure is mine. >> tucker: sean davis is the cofounder of the federalist company just wrote a great piece describing the collusion debacle as a catastrophic media failure and even that may be an understatement. if you're happy to have him join us tonight. as you wrote this piece you obviously collected what you been watching and thinking abo about. how big was your conclusion with the magnitude of these grew up here? >> this is probably the biggest, most consequential screwup of the last 25 or 50 years. it is difficult to really comprehend or overstate the damage that the media did to the country into their own reputation to the constitution. this was an absolute catastrop catastrophe. >> tucker: i don't know any -- i know liberals would feel that way. i don't know anybody running a media organization on the left who was committing to admit it.

the editor to "the washington post" and jeff zucker of cnn, all bragging about what a great job they did. how could they say that? >> i wouldn't say, they were given pulitzers? they were showered with adulation by their peers and able to pat each other on the back and tell them that they were heroes. that they're going to bring down the next president and hold him accountable. there is no incentive in the media for them to have gone this right. all the incentives the wrong direction, viewership or ideology. there was no reason for them to get this right. >> tucker: the mueller report comes out sunday afternoon and the next day shows cnn and msnbc drop by as much as 50% viewership, just on the news. does that tell you everything about their incentive to pretend that there is collusion? their audience goes away without it. >> absolutely and we saw the

reaction, a children whining of the tooth fairy isn't real. their bread and butter in the age of trump is to ratchet up the hysteria to get people completely freaked out so they feel they have to watch the news every day and every minute to figure out what is going on. they did a huge disservice to their country. >> tucker: it is hard to know what comes next in this environment. i mean, when the smoke clears and trump is gone or whatever happens in the next ten years. where'd you go for news? will anyone ever believe cnn assuming it still exists for "the washington post" or "the new york times"? how could you? >> that is their problem. they didn't just destroy their own reputations. for all the talk that donald trump has eroded and damaged her vital norms and institutions. it is the media who let it credence to his charge. it is the media themselves who broadcast everyone, you don't

need to trust us. we are not trustworthy. i don't know how they come back from this. >> tucker: if you don't want to be called a liar than stop line. that is my advice. great to see you, thank you for that. robert mueller isn't the only following democratic hero tonight, the creepy porn lawyer. his lung plans to bring down the president, he might be president himself. he dramatic and new amazing development. more on operation, after the break. ♪

>> one is the last time you saw porn? >> tucker: oh, you busted me. is it humiliation porn? that in the rundown, months later he makes the hair on your arm stand up. it was not that long ago that he was a daily fixture on cnn. just six months ago cnn was hyping his bid to become the creepy porn president and now that has crumbled to dust along with a list of felony charges, extortion, embezzlement and wire charges. trace gallagher has details. >> the alleged misdeeds of stormy daniels are numerous but

we chose five for the sake of time. him allegedly keeping his clients settlement bonnie. they show that he presented his client with a phony document saying that a $1.6 million settlement check would arrive and march of last year when it arrived in january of last year. prosecutor said he had the money transferred from a client trust account into his own account to pay his personal expenses. that the allegation by a former financial officer, the employee said even though he directed her not to pay the company's payroll taxes he was funneling coffee shop money into licensees and sponsorships for his racing team and separately when the irs contacted him about on pay taxes for his coffee company, prosecutors say he changed the company's name, shifted bank accounts and pocketed the money. prosecutors also say his former attorney used phony tax returns to get millions of dollars in

bank loans and now the fed say not only did he receive nearly $4 million in loans, he never actually filed with those tax returns and never actually paid any taxes. they say he was spending money for example, he paid nearly a million dollars to an ex-wife or child support and alimony. $176,000 to a private vacation club, 69,000 on luxury watches and 82,000 on a porsche and he shall not millions for homes. in laguna beach and newport beach which are right next to each other. you think you would pick one. >> tucker: creepy porn lawyer, living large. thank you. things have changed a lot since last august. members of the press are suggesting that creepy porn lawyer was the best candidate the democrats could dominate because he could crush donald trump. >> look at the field of democrats at michael avenatti is the one who stands out.

if he can go toe-to-toe with trump that he stands out. speak lever may win, if he could give a good speech. why not? >> what you democrats value most? if they can value a fighter than you would be foolish not to support him. >> tucker: speaking of foolis foolish. she is not bullish at all and she joins us tonight. occasionally as you know we like to just -- things are moving fast. it is good to pause and think about what the world look like six bucks ago. people were touting this man has the women's candidate. >> oh, boy. the only thing missing from michael avenatti's lineup is that he hasn't eaten dirt yet. maybe he can add that in he has some time. what i really enjoyed was your initial coverage of this fool with the fact that he appeared to be exploiting one of his

clients stormy daniels. he was making money from her and she was reduced to doing tours of strip clubs in the process of him representing her. that is what it spoke to. >> tucker: i said that to him and i've always felt sorry for her. i have never doubted most of her story for the record. i'm not embarrassed to say that. i felt bad for her and he said for stripping in some sad club in virginia wasn't active female empowerment and he actually said that. >> obviously not. when you are seven years old, shall be a 7-year-old says when i grew up i want to be stripping at some club in virginia. no girl says that, that is not what we aspire to. ms. daniels has an opportunity to remake herself. she has had problems with him as well and if all the charges were true then this guy is like these leg of criminals. he is trying to adjust for what seems to be involved and so many

different kinds of behaviors and crime. it could be explained by a comment he made to the view. they asked him explicitly, somehow it went to on his fantas and they all included handcuffs. it looks like he has gotten one part of his dream fulfilled. >> tucker: you always get what you want in the end, don't we? >> he adapted to everything around him and this fellow seems to be in competition with somebody. for all of us, i wish that he would have been the perfect democratic candidate only if all of this then came out in the spring of 2020. it would have been even better. >> tucker: it would've been unbelievable. i'm still in that line. great to see you. i grew up in is pushing to lower the voting age to 16, but all democrats and one republican and he is brave enough to come on

and explain why that is has possession. we will talk to them after the break. ♪

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his policies were popular, and said they decided that they didn't like voters. they went looking for new ones. if not to give illegal immigrants and felonies the right to vote. regular democrats in congress has led a campaign to lower the voting age nationwide to 16. nancy pelosi endorsed it. one republican who is not crazy by the way, michael burgess of texas has joined them to support lowering the age to 16. he was brave enough and gracious to come on her show and explain that we are grateful for tha that. >> thank you for having me on. >> tucker: you have children? i have 416-year-old spring to give my life to them where they shouldn't be voting. you must know that. you are a physician and you've delivered a lot of babies. 16-year-olds are not ready for vote. >> certainly not ready after delivery. this was an amendment that failed, so stop fighting people

that this is a structural change in our society. however, i'm on the rules committee and part of my job on the rules committee is to evaluate ideas that come before the rules committee as amendments and when this representative from massachusetts said here's my idea and i want to consider by the rules committee. i first thought was, that is not a good idea. as i thought about it, you see things through the lens of your own experience. and i was 16 did i pay taxes? i worked my paid payroll taxes. here's the other thing that really -- the 24 hours between the rules committee and the members on the floor. what about the structural.we are leaving to 16-year-olds? the national debt. this generation of adolescents will inherit more debt than any other generation. i think i've heard you talk on this, not just the structural debt, the acquired debt the student loan debt that they are

picking up. for sure colleges are encouraging and facilitating facilitating it and this is a debt -- >> tucker: i totally agree it is wrong in my view. 16-year-olds if allowed to run the government would approve of a lot more debt and that is why you don't give them credit cards. they spent too much. i don't think it wise parent would give her 16-year-old in unsupervised credit card. >> i want say doesn't happen. they are participating in our society, but here's the bigger thing. what are we afraid of? 16-year-olds will be 18-year-olds in the next election cycle. 2018, 2,020. >> tucker: i am afraid of bad government. >> they will not be in charge of the government any more than an 18-year-old would be. >> there is a margin that could make a big difference. >> if what we are afraid of that

they will vote democratic than that is on us. we need to talk. we are the party of emancipati emancipation! >> tucker: why not 12-year-olds? >> again, we draw the line somewhere? 16 seems to be -- with the information was presented to me and i thought about it, you see things through the lens of your experience and at age 16 there was not a brighter bulb than yours truly. >> tucker: i believe you! >> have tempered that little bit. if we are not willing to engage and talk to people in late adolescence or early adolescence then we will lose that. >> tucker: i think you're right. allowing them to vote is a different question and if we allow them to vote on the pretext that they pay taxes. that means foreigners should vote to? >> of course not. >> tucker: people who pay taxes shouldn't be allowed to

vote? >> that would never occur and you know that. let's back up. let's have the amendment and pass. it was brought to the floor of the house, 25% thought it was a good idea of 75 percent did not. this is not something that is going to happen. i thought it was an idea of worth consideration because i was willing to vote for it to be included in the package we brought to the floor. speech love your open-mindedne open-mindedness. i happen to think this is insane, but i love open-mindedness! last question, where democrats in favor? >> they are making the assumption that these individuals will vote democratic. again, this is where we need to be working. we have to talk to people. guess what? i promise you beto o'rourke was in my district night and day when he was running for senator and texas. he made a lot of equity with people who can vote, they will

beat with him in the next. >> tucker: i think you are right. that is true. congressman, thank you. more just ahead on the biggest story of the day, there are so many. will isolate the charges against jussie smollett. the report of the new development, the defender of jussie smollett is here to state his case. straight ahead. ♪ icy tuna in a pouch! smart choice, charlie. (charlie) no drain, no pain. just tear, eat... and go! try all of my tuna, salmon and chicken pouches.

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>> tucker: well, the mayor of chicago, chief of police, seem stunned today that prosecutors were dropping all 16 felony counts against actor jussie smollett. those charges stem from his bogus hate crime in january. what exact we happened to make those charges go away? we're still getting information on that. in the courtroom today, from chicago. matt? >> tucker, they are slamming prosecutors for dropping charges today against actor jussie smollett for chicago's top to cop says justice have not been served, the actor holds this should do an apology. the jury indictment of 16 charges after jussie smollett could not have been any clearer. >> mr. smollett is still saying that he is innocent, still running down the chicago police department. how dare him. how dare him.

>> at the end of the day, this mr. smollett who committed this hoax, period. if he wanted to clear his name, the way to do that was in a court of law. >> smollett was scheduled to be back in court april 7th for the 16 felony charges of wanting to police, but suddenly an emergency hearing today, prosecutors dialed a nolle pros motion, which mean to stop prosecuting, and they granted that motion. the cook county state attorney office as it did not exonerate smollett and it stands by police. the charges were dropped in exchange for community service and forfeiting that $10,000 bond. in a statement, the cook county states attorney office wrote "after reviewing all of the facts and circumstances of the case, including mr. smollett's volunteer service in the community and an agreement to a forfeit his bond to the city of chicago, we believe it's outcome is a justice position and appropriate resolution of this case."

and here is smollett after today's starting ruling. >> i've been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one. i would not be my mother son if i was capable of one drop of what i was accused of. >> jussie smollett attorney said that they have nothing to say to police in response to all of the man-hours and resources chicago police poured into this investigation, other than not to try the case in the media. tucker? >> tucker: matt, thank you very much. we want a quick correction, by the way. use a tape of the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel, and he repeated twice the phrase "how dare him, how dare him," and we just want you to let you know what you be "how dare he, how dare he" there just wanted to make that clear before we proceed. joining us that was jason nichols, professor of african-american studies at the university of maryland, and i was happy to have him. it seems to me, professor, nobody disputes the guild, the police, the mayor, the

prosecutor's, even the state's attorney who let him off, saying it didn't happen. it doesn't does seem like a clr example of a rich, famous guy with connections getting a different standard of justice. getting away with something because he can. >> first of all, i think jussie smollett deserves the presumption of innocence. >> tucker: for sure. >> it hasn't been proven that he is guilty of any kind of crime. the thing that was really disgusting to me was to hear it rahm emanuel and the superintendent of police sit there and say this has been a black eye on the city, he holds no market was the city an apology. i think of anybody owns the city and apology it should be rahm emanuel himself, the superintendent of police, that they sell 5% of nonfatal shootings in chicago. so that is basically, you shoot someone, nearly 95% chance -- >> tucker: i literally couldn't agree with you more. i'm not an absolute agreement from i think rahm emanuel has done a horrible job as mayor, and i think the police superintendent should be ashamed, i totally agree.

but jussie smollett made it worse. because he is rich and famous and went on gma, cried with robin roberts, he sucked up a huge percentage of the resources of the chicago police department but should be going to solving shootings. >> but they weren't going to solving shootings. or at least they weren't actually working prior to jussie smollett. >> tucker: he made it worse, don't you think? >> to claim that the blackeye on the city of chicago comes from jussie smollett, i think is just preposterous. >> tucker: okay, but hold on, wait a second. >> they cover that up for a year! >> tucker: i'm agreeing with you vehemently, it is a badly won city, a one-party state, and the people who can leave our leaving. it's very sad to watch, i agree completely. but jussie smollett is not the victim here. here's a rich guy who pretended to be the victim, and because he has connections with the obama's and kamala harris, he is skating. isn't that the wrong message? >> the thing is, so much of this

has been in secret, so much of this has been covered up. i watched some of your earlier segments. i think it is a little unfair to blame kim foxx because she recused herself, she wasn't part of this. the guy who actually, , i beliee his name is, he has 23 years of expense as a prosecutor, and he set up this deal, not even a plea deal. >> tucker: honestly, they're going to let the guy out early, and i'm not always against that, shouldn't he at least concede what he did. saturday stop line first? >> at this point, we don't know what is going on. i'm waiting for the facts to come out just like you are. >> tucker: hopefully they will. professor, great to see you. >> thank you, talker. >> tucker: we are out of time, sadly. we will react tomorrow night and faithfully to show that is the sworn enemy of mine, pomposity, smugness, and a group think and we encourage you to dvr it.

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