We begin with breaking news. Jussie smollett in court after hes accused of staging a hate crime against himself. Last month, smollett claimed two masked men beat him up, put a noose around his neck and yelled homo phobic slurs. The Police Superintendent says the detectives have the checks smollett used to pay them. The empire actor, Jussie Smollett, took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career. Im left hanging my head and asking why. Why would anyone, especially an African American man, use a symbolism of a noose to make false accusations. Trace detectives say smollett decided to fake the attack after he sent a phony letter to himself and it didnt get any attention. Fox entertainment and 20th century fox putting out a statement. It reads. Trace mike tobin has been covering the story for us. Hes live in chicago. Mike . Trace, things are moving right now. Looks like we may see an appearance of smolletts family. We know it involved the state making a request to det
Stomach moment in this country. As we grapple with questions about whether our president s rhetoric has contributed to some unspeakable tragedies. Back in may, the president held a Campaign Rally in florida where he warned of a literal invasion of immigrants at the southern border. And then this happened. How do you stop these people . You cant. Theres shoot them. Thats only in the panhandle you can get away with that statement. Shoot them. Thats what two people in the room the audience members heard them say. Now they are focusing on ant anti immigrant screed posted moments before a gunman opened fire at an El Paso Walmart killing 22 people, 8 of whom were mexican citizens. The shooter carried out the tree of life synagogue massacre. He also warned of an immigrant in vacation before murdering 1 people. The el paso tragedy was followed hours later by another mass shooting in dayton, ohio. His motive remains unknown. Amid a barrage of criticism from democrats, some blaming him for the c