embattled empire actor jussie smollett is still proclaiming his innocence after being formally accused of orchestrating what is an elaborate hate crime hoax and charged with a felony. and smollett posted bond and went directly to the set of empire. it is reported he told the cast and crew, i swear to god i did not do this. thisn according to tmz, many of his co-stars are not buying it and they are bleeping furious. and today producers announced that smollett s role on empire has been cut from the final two episodes. smollett s lawyers are correct, he must be assumed innocent presumption of innocence. with that said, the evidence presented against him as presented by the chicago police yesterday and others is now overwhelming and, frankly, beginning to border on incontrovertible. according to prosecutors, smollett paid these two brothers
story out of chicago once again. embattled empire actor jussie smollett is still proclaiming his innocence after being formally accused of orchestrating what is an elaborate hate crime hoax and charged with a felony and smollett posted bond and went directly to the set of empire it is reported he told the cast and crew, quote: i swear to god i did not do. this according to tmz many of his co-stars are not buying it and they are bleeping furious. and today producers announced that smollett s role on empire has been cut from the final two episodes. smollett s lawyers are correct he must be assumed innocent presumption of innocence. with that said the evidence presented against him as presented by out chicago police yesterday and others is now overwhelming and frankly beginning to border on inconvo trert tillable. according to prosecutors smollett paid two brothers thousands of dollars to
days. we re breaking down cnn s new reporting and the potential battle ahead to make mueller s findings public. reasons for firing. former fbi acting director andrew mccabe confirms the president wrote a long rambling letter to justify ousting fbi chief james comey. does the letter amount to evidence of obstruction? from victim to suspect. empire actor jussie smollett is now officially a criminal suspect as chicago police believe he falsely claimed to have been the target of a racist and homophobic attack that he was involved in orchestrating. and terror hit list. a u.s. coast guardman has now been arrested, accused of plotting a mass attack targeting democrats and journalists, including cnn anchors. we re getting new details. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room.
operative for republican mark harris is accused of orchestrating, quote, a coordinated unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme and arguably the most arguably the most damaging testimony came from dallas own stepdaughter lisa britt. for the absentee ballot requests, were you paid to get absentee ballot requests? yes, ma am. if it was unsealed and the ballot was not completely voted, you would fill in the other officers? yes, ma am. and who would have directed you to do that? we were directed by mr. dallas. basically what we would do, what i would do would be to vote whoever was a republican. mark harris leads democrat dan mccready by 905 votes. the board will decide whether to certify harris as the winner or hold a new election. february is black history month and this morning we re taking a look at a courtside
that he s uncomfortable is often to wrap himself up in his own arms, which your piece notes he did when the subject of russia came up. i ll read an excerpt from your writing tonight with maggie haberman. president dismissed the importance of the proposed trump tower his team was seeking to build in moscow at the height of the election, but he denied his own lawyer s account, rudy giuliani s account, of how late in the campaign he was still discussing the project. he also denied that his twitter messages about former associates who are cooperating with prosecutors in witness tampering. the first time he s been asked some of these questions, anyway. of course, michael cohen had been the one orchestrating this possible project in moscow. he s the one who first admitted he d been lying about when that conversation had actually gone through. rather than january 2016, it went all the way through the summer of 2016. he said. rudy giuliani later said it actually could have gone all the way