the post bull idea an innocent child absolute disregard for the pain and destruction its attacks would cause to his life and i imagine he is still experiencing today. ainsley: they say the post must be dealt with the same way every bully is dealt with that is hold the bully fully accountable for its wrongdoing. we need to teach the post a lesson that it will never forget and the amount 250 million is because that s the amount that jeff bezos paid for the paper, the richest man in america, for the post when his company, nash holdings purchased the newspaper in 2013. steve: this certainly is going to get their attention. the paper has put out a statement and they say reviewing a copy the lawsuit, and we plan to mount a vigorous defense. now. brian: good job. there is a loft video to back up with the kid did. how many angles do we see five to 10. steve: the lawyers put together about a 15-minute video it s all together and it tells a story like we have never seen before. now, you might wo
corner on 42 or 44th you see the guys screaming at you all the time. steve: rush to judgment to get the story out and somebody got it wrong. that s the case in this story, too. ainsley: you mentioned that story and you mentioned another story we are covering jussi smollett story. the empire actor could soon be handed an arrest warrant. that s the latest twist in the investigation into the alleged hate crime attack on smollett. steve: matt finn is live in chicago with new information about the actor s criminal record wait, he has a criminal record, matt? yes. actually documents obtained by fox news indicate that smollett was convicted of a 2007 dui in los angeles in which he did plead no condition test to giving false information to police. here in chicago it s becoming increasingly apparent that chicago police are trying to get a portion of this current case in front of a brand jury. whether that s to obtain a subpoena or some type of warrant. fox news has learned that the two brot
$250 million. steve: that s right. our first two stories this morning first about the covington situation and then about jussi smollett out in chicago essentially in the rush to judgment the mainstream media apparently got a couple of stories really wrong. remember, the early video showed and the story was that that young man in the maga cap was mocking the native american who marched up to him as we learned later. according to the lawsuit, they are the post targeted him and bullied him because he was the white catholic high school student wearing the maga cap on that field trip on january 18th. brian: the lawyer gave everybody time to apologize and retract people like that condemned him and others. many did. the post didn t. this is what sam is saying against the post and the reason for him going forward. the post ignored basic journalistic standards because it wanted to advance a well-known and easily documented biased agenda against president trump.
are not people who love this country. it s possible that jussi smollett may stop cooperating with police and police could seek an arrest warrant by taking the case to grand jury. monster winter storm today nearly 1,000 flights already cancelled. i m top of the world steve: i don t know about on top of the world but we are here on top of the studio. brian: imagine dragons and hundreds of people. steve: we know a lot of the country today is having cloudsy weather on this wednesday. thank you so much for starting it with us. ainsley: janice is going to tell us all about it flights have been cancelled already and we will give you details. our top story this morning the washington post being sued by nick sandmann and his family and lawyers the guy from the covington catholic school for
that did not happen. two sources tell us smollett s legal team provided some type of information that paused the grand jury process. and this morning chicago police are still waiting for jussi smollett to respond to their request for a follow-up interview since this story took a dramatic turn. smollett s crisis manager says he did not talk to police on monday and did not talk to them yet again on tuesday. also on tuesday, cook county s states attorneys kim fox recused herself from this case. statements say she might personally know some of the witnesses too well. police say they investigated a tip yesterday that the brothers were seen inside of smollett s building on the night of the alleged attack but they ruled that tip unfounded. brian, ainsley, steve. steve: mr. finn, thank you very much. apparently according to cbs chicago, they re say that the brothers have told the police that in addition to staging the attack where he paid $3,500 to them and said okay, when you come back, i wil