the weekend? they were standing in the front door space of a home in california and they were emptying the pockets of people who lived there. stunning stuff. back on that in a moment. from chicago 10 minutes past. closing arguments today in the hate crime of the hoax trial of jussie smollett, the actor maintained his innocence as he took the stand in his own defense this week but they are coming down to a closer today and matt finn has the late st on the arguments we expect today. closing arguments scheduled for any moment now. the case will likely go to the jury today. trial phase lasted a week and a half and in summary jussie smollett testified that he was wealthy, famous, and actually did not like attention. so the chicago police department and the prosecution are wrong when they allege that this was all a hoax for more notoriety. smollett testifying under oath
house but acquitted on the senate side and what you don t want to do is to allow the president come next fall that say see, i did absolutely nothing wrong. the democrats in the house had a hoax trial. they impeached me, but the senate knew what was going on. they went to the process. i was acquitted. i did nothing wrong. you do not want to lay that down. if you re a democrat, you don t want to lay that down as a foundation going forward. with a democrat or republican president. i get the argument there. but let s look at the facts for a moment. in 2016, the trump campaign sought, held political dirt on their rival, hillary clinton, from russia. you remember the trump tower meeting. the president calling on russia to find hillary clinton s e-mails. you had a mueller investigation. now you re in midst of an impeachment inquiry and today, the president s personal attorney is back in a foreign country and by the way, the