George w. Bush and fox news contributor, Ari Fleischer. We say hes outnumbered, but he brings it good to see you. Ari good to be back. Harris lets get to the news. Such a busy day. Police say smollett paid two brothers 3500 to stage an attack. As we look at the Surveillance Video showing the men buying supplies before the incident last month. They are considered cooperating witnesses in the case, and smollett has gone from victim to shut down mike suspect. A short time ago, Chicagos Police superintendent Eddie Johnson did not hold back his reaction to the alleged hoax. Im left hanging my head and asking why. Why would anyone, especially an africanamerican man, use the symbolism of a noose to make false accusations . How can an individual who has been embraced by the city of chicago turn around and slap everyone in the city in the face by making these false claims . Harris our matt finns live in chicago. Matt . Harris, 20 century fox which employees Jussie Smollett on the show, empire,
order. or, executive privilege, to do that. how is the scene differently customer democrats are threatening and you say, well, maybe this could happen if you wanted to do it over gun violence. that sort of thing. but how is this different? ari: i think that s a fair point. in the tit-for-tat world of the politics today, that s a justifiable position to take. harris: the other presidents have done it. marie: it s a money issue. ari: barack obama s president don mike penn has fallen. when he said he couldn t do 216, he started his path to undermine the rule of law. when president obama found a way to do money for obamacare that wasn t appropriate, he started this again. i have a hard time saying that he did something that wasn t done before, especially by his immediate predecessor. harris: but you think it creates a snowball effect? yes. i think it should be an emergency. it s not going to yeah, i understand that. having served, i like to believe that. we should all be, f