Report claiming two men attacked him last month. Police hope that he will turn position in. Right now they dont know where he is. A class four felony carry as prison sentence of 1 to 3 years. The actor himself has insisted he did not stage any attack. Who the [ bleep ] would make Something Like this up or add something to it or whatever it may be. I cant even im an advocate. Assuming he is in custody, a bail hearing would be expected today. Nick watt outside Chicago Police headquarters with more. Reporter Jussie Smollett has gone from victim to suspect and now he faces a felony charge. A class 4 felony, Disorderly Conduct for filing a false Police Report. The empire actor of course claimed that he was attacked in the early hours of january 29th on a cold frigid morning here in chicago by two men who threw racial ande home phonetic epitaphs at hick and poured an unnoin chemical on him. Two men were questioned and released. Law enforcement sources told us saturday that they believe Jussie Smollett had paid these two men and staged this attack on him. Now, police tell us that they were expecting smol element to show up at a meeting with them and his lawyers on wednesday. When he cant show up, they decided to go the grand jury route. A grand jish wury was convene ae two brothers testified that smollett paid them to stage the attack. Smolletts lawyers say that like any other citizen, mr. Smollett enjoys the presumption ever innocence particularly in an investigation like this one where information both true and false has been leaked. The story is far from over and the fallout from this story is really just beginning. A spokesperson for the company who produces empire says the studio has no comment at this time. A u. S. Coast guard lieutenant under arrest as a suspected domestic terrorist. Christopher hasson had a hit list that included several high profile democrats. A draft email he wrote im dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth. Ryan browne at the pentagon with more. Reporter good morning. The department of justice charging active duty coast guard officer with gun and drug charges and for being an alleged domestic terrorist who was plotting attacks on senior democratic officials and senior members of the media both from msnbc and cnn. Now, he is also charged with adhering to a manifesto of a norwegian terrorist who in 2011 killed some 77 people in a series of gldomestic teagledome attacks. As part of that manifesto, he is being charged with using drugs as part of an effort to bolster his ability to carry out these attacks. Now some 15 weapons and 1,000 rounds of ammunition were discovered in his home according to the official charge documents and again he was posted here in washington, d. C. At the coast guard headquarters, remains unclear how someone could have such high level access with all these links to domestic terrorist groups and in possession of so many weapons and so much ammunition. Back to you. Just remarkable. Thank you for that. The completion of Robert Muellers russia investigation could be announced as early as next week. Sources familiar with Justice Department plans tell us that soon after that, attorney general bill barr will submit a confidential summary to congress, but that does not mean well get to see muellers report quickly or potentially ever. Right now the scope and contours of what the attorney general will send to capitol hill are unclear. Barr was noncommittal last month. I will try to get the information out there consistent with the regulations and to the extent i have discretion, i will exercise that discretion to do that. The regulations instruct mueller to submit a confidential report to the attorney general, but they dont require that it be shared with congress or the public. Yesterday the president said he is leaving the entire matter up to barr. Should the Mueller Report be released . That will be totally up to the new attorney general. That will be totally up to him, the new attorney general. Yes. [ inaudible question ] i guess from what i understand that will be totally up to the attorney general. Of course depending on what is or is not released, months of wrangling between congress and the Justice Department may follow. The precise timing of barrs announcement is subject to change. Late next week President Trump holds a summit with kim jungun. Cnn is told justice officials dont want to interfere with white house diplomatic efforts. But remember 12 russians were indict last year while the president met with Queen Elizabeth and just days before his summit with vladimir putin. 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On the front page of the post on, they are calling him a liar, police saying that Jussie Smollett facing a felony charge for allegedly filing a false Police Report. Police were hoping that he would turn himself in overnight but it does not appear that that happened and right now they dont know where he is. A class four felony carries a prison sentence of 1 to 3 years. The actor himself has insisted passionately that he did not stage any attack. Who the [ bleep ] would make Something Like this up or add something to it or whatever it may be. I cant even im an advocate. Assuming he is in custody, a bail hearing would be expected today. Nick watt is outside Chicago Police headquarters with more. Reporter and Jussie Smollett has gone from victim to suspect and he now faces a felony charge. A class 4 felony, Disorderly Conduct for filing a false Police Report. The empire actor of course claimed that he was attacked in the early hours of january 29th on a cold frigid morning here in chicago by two men who threw racial and homophobic slurs at him. Hung a noos noose around his neck and poured a chemical on him. Two men were questioned and released. Law enforcement sources told us saturday they believe Jussie Smollett had paid these two men and staged this attack on him. Now, police tell us that they were expecting smollett to show up at a meeting with them and his lawyers wednesday. When he didnt show up, they decided to go the grand jury route. A grand jury was convened, those two brothers, the one time suspects, testified that smollett had paid them to stage the attack. Smolletts lawyers released a statement to us last night and they say that like any other citizen, mr. Smollett enjoys the presumption of innocence particularly in an investigation like this one where information both true and false has been repeatedly leaked. The story is far from over, in fact the fallout from this story is really only just beginning. Christine and boris. Nick, thank you. A spokesperson for 20th century fox which produces empire says the studio has no comment at this time. A u. S. Coast guard lieutenant is under arrest as a suspected domestic terrorist. Christopher hasson had a hit list that included several high profile democrats. He wrote im dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth. Ryan browne at the pentagon with more. Reporter good morning. The department of justice charging active duty coast guard officer with gun and drug charges and for being an alleged domestic terrorist who was plotting attacks on senior democratic officials and senior members of the media both from msnbc and cnn. Now, he is also charged with adhering to a manifesto of a norwegian terrorist who in 2011 killed some 77 people in a series of domestic terror attacks. As part of that manifesto, he is being charged with using drugs as part of an effort to bolster his ability to carry out these attacks. Now some 15 weapons and 1,000 rounds of ammunition were discovered in his home according to the official charge documents and again he was posted here in washington, d. C. At the coast guard headquarters, remains unclear how someone could have such high level access with all these links to domestic terrorist groups and in possession of so many weapons and so much ammunition. Back to you. The completion of Robert Muellers russia investigation could be announced as early as next week. Sources familiar with Justice Department plans tell us that soon after that, attorney general bill barr will submit a confidential summary to congress, but that does not mean well get to see muellers report quickly or potentially ever. Right now the scope and contours of what the attorney general will send to capitol hill are unclear. Barr was noncommittal last month. I will try to get the information out there consistent with the regulations and to the extent i have discretion, i will exercise that discretion to do that. The regulations instruct mueller to submit a confidential report to the attorney general, but they dont require that it be shared with congress or the public. Yesterday the president said he is leaving the entire matter up to barr. Should the Mueller Report be released . That will be totally up to the new attorney general. That will be totally up to him, the new attorney general. Yes. [ inaudible question ] i guess from what i understand that will be totally up to the attorney general. Of course depending on what is or is not released, months of wrangling between congress and the Justice Department may follow. The precise timing of barrs announcement is subject to change. Late next week President Trump holds a summit with kim jungun. Cnn is told that justice officials dont want to interfere with white house diplomatic efforts, but dont forget 12 russians were indicted last year while the president met with Queen Elizabeth and just days before his helsinki summit with vladimir putin. Jeremy is joining us from washington. Nice to see you. So we know it is wrapping up. You look at the movement of lawyers and how people are being resumed to new jobs, it is clear that this thing is wrapping up. What does the fight with Congress Look like once there is a conclusion here that goes to bill barrs desk . Yeah, this could get messy and it could be a very intense fight. After Robert Mueller submits his confidential report to the attorney general, it is up to bill barr to decide what does he feel that he is legalliable and should give to congress. Barr said that he wanted to be as transparent as responsible. But that was within very lawyerly legalees. So we dont know what he will send. Could it be a single page saying these are the prosecution decisions that Robert Mueller made, these rts onare the ones made, or what he found that didnt add up to a prosecution but still could be potentially damaging to the president and his allies. All those are questions that we dont have the answers to yet. I did want to bring up some poll numbers. Because if there is one issue that the American People are united on, it appears to be that they want to see this report. 87 of people said yes when they were asked if muellers report should be made public. And look at the breakdown by party. 92 of democrats, 80 of republicans. You dont see that is the most bipartisanship ive seen in a long time. I think it is a valid question to ask if the president has been honest in saying that there was no collusion with russia, that he knows of no collusion, then why wouldnt he want the full report released to essentially show everyone there is nothing to hide . Yeah, and you know that is the view weve heard from both democrats and republicans on capitol hill. They think that this report needs to be out there. Keep in mind this has been the subject of intense interest i guess is the best way to put it for the last two years now almost. And we have Chuck Grassley former chairman of the Judicial Committee introduced legislation to make the full report public. The legislation didnt go anywhere, but i think it underscores the sentiment that republicans and democrats alike and potentially the white house will want to see the report released. If it doesnt happen, i think that we can expect a major court battle where democrats are likely to subpoena to get evidence from the report, to get the report evidence if they arent able to see it. And it is hard to say that they will be satisfied with just a summary from barr of what mueller found. And another fascinating aspect of this is that next week the president s former fixer Michael Cohen will be testifying while the president is overseas. There is the trump kim summit on the 28th, cohen testifying that wednesday. Im curious how you think some of the republicans on that committee will approach cohen. Obviously you have jim jordan there, mark medical doughadows. People who attacked the probe. It will be feisty to say the least. A memo outlined the scope of the questions for cohen at this hearing. He is expected to testify before both the house and Senate Intelligence committees next week on russia. The public hearing will not be focused on that and will instead focus on the payments to women and trumps finances generally. But i dont expect republicans are going to adhere to the scope that mr. Cummings laid out. Jim jordan has made clear he is questioning the reason for this whole hearing in the first place. And i think that well see republicans really go after the credibility of cohen who dont forget was convicted of lying to congress back in 2017. Yeah, he goes to prison in a couple months and hes had 60 days but a reminder, the cohen affair, you have the Mueller Probe wrapping up, but there are investigation after investigation into trump world, trump organization, trump foundation, the trump campaign, trump inauguration, trump administration. One wonders how much of a i dont know, a certainty and ending comes next week. And how much there is to do. Yeah, it is important to note that the end of the Mueller Investigation is not the end of the investigations into trump and the various trump entities. Mueller has farmed out a lot of the initial investigations he undertook to other attorneys offices. The investigation into cohen came out of the southern sgri d district of new york and there are others into the trump inaugural committee. 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