Facing many new charges. Trace gallagher live in our west coast newsroom tonight with this breaking news and what we know. Good evening, trace. Trace good evening, martha. This is the worst Case Scenario for Jussie Smollett because the indictment actually expands the case against him in two ways. He was facing one felony count for disorderly conduct. Now he is facing, as you say, 16 felony counts but the grand jury also returned two separate sets of charges for making false statements to two different Chicago Police officers and those stories were different. Remember, he gave one statement shortly after the alleged attack and another later the same day where he told police about the racist and homophobic slurs that they yelled maga country, beat him up, put a noose around his neck and poured bleach on him. Each set of charges carries a possible penalty of four years in prison. Experts say its highly unlikely he will serve 8 years, but its now more likely that he could face some jail ti
Seemed to really try to focus on the Inspector General report as if references to the fact that i was caught, really interesting in light of the fact that we knew for quite some time, and ive known for quite some time, that the president was very focused on removing me long before there was an Inspector General investigation, and certainly long before that report was ever finished. In fact the president s draft letter firing jim comey mentioned the fact that comey had not fired you as one of the reasons for firing comey. Thats right. Thats right. So it wasnt disturbing enough to have the president raise me with former director comey on three separate occasions across their somewhat awkward personal interactions. He would bring my name up and say whats the story with that guy, does he have a problem with me. And then of course that culminates with his reference in the letter as one of the reasons why he was firing director comey, because of director comeys failure to fire me. So, truly
Also on the road today and for Different Reasons former Vice President joe bide be. He is talking at a Global Security conference in germany but he is still taking questions about whether he will join that democratic field and run for president again. No, i havent reached a decision. Im in that process of doing that. And i will, in the near term, let everyone know what that decision is. One thing dominating the Campaign Conversations this weekend already, President Trump. And his declaration of a National Emergency to fund the construction of a southern border wall. Now, many of the democratic hopefuls are sitting lawmakers who will be part of the congressional, or the legal challenges, to the president s plan. And wheres President Trump today . In florida. He and the first lady arrived in West Palm Beach last night, just hours after insisting that the nation is being actively and perilously invaded by drug, gangs, and human traffickers. He played a round of golf this morning. Now beto
Thats expected to start in 30 minutes. Last night we got a better sense of the time line and what happened. We know the first 911 calls came from inside henry pratt company, this manufacturing complex in aurora, illinois, reporting shots fired. When police first arrived, they immediately took gunfire. Two officers were shot, when more officers were shot, three more were shot. Initial reports were that gary martin, the 45yearold suspect was shooting out of a window, then Police Believe he retreated further inside the building. Again, it is a manufacturing site, they make industrial valves. You can imagine theres likely a lot of machinery, industrial shelving, a lot of places for him to hide in a massive 29,000 square foot complex. At one point, the police chief said there were some 13 different teams of Law Enforcement who were going into get martin or get victims out and transported to the hospital. Ultimately, it took an hour and a half to locate him. He died in exchange of gunfire. T
Press conference. The nails of the victims as well as the roles at the manufacturing plant. In fact, one of the victims is a student intern. Im going to run through the names this is the most important thing that were going to be touching on today are the victims in the shooting. The first name. Clayton parks, a resources manager at henry pratt. Another name, Trevor Winter of de kalb, he was a Human Resources intern at henry pratt, a student of Northern Illinois university. Russell beyer. Vincente juarez, a stock Room Attendant and Forklift Operator and josh pinkard were learning that the Police Officers five of them, theyre expected to be okay, recovering from their juniors and a sixth coworker injured in the ordeal and were learning more about the suspect. The Police Department put out a photo here not too long ago where you can see him. His name is gary montez martin, 45 years old. Investigators say he was about to lose his job that day. He was set to be terminated. They say he had