they also reportedly provided some insight into why all this may have happened. mike tobin is live in chicago with more. mike? a, melissa. this smollett investigation is hung up on this point right now with police pressuring smollett to come up for that interview. his legal team has and refuse the interview, they just say not now. chicago police tell fox news they re going to give the actor an undetermined reasonable amount of time to submit to the fall of questioning and that they will do something else. reports have suggested that means the case will go to a grand jury. official sources the police can t talk about a grand jury until they have another talk with smollett. the investigation shifted trajectory after police tracked down and then interrogated the osundairo brothers. after lengthy interrogation they release the brothers and said they developed new information. the chief medications officer for the cpd told fox news that smollett is no longer considered a victim. anonymo
brothers to stage the attack. dave and rehearse it. an actor tweeted that he read with smollett the play, take me out. that s about eight gay by rachel bissell. subject to violence. and that s the day that he flew back to chicago. the cbs affiliate in chicago reports that the osundairo brothers said the hoax was conceived after smollett sent a threatening racist and homophobic letter to himself, complete with letters cut from a magazine. he didn t receive enough attention from that, according to anonymous sources one piece of evidence believe have now is a magazine with letters government. the fbi did get involved in this investigation, according to police sources, but only to do with that threatening letter. melissa? melissa: what a story. thank you for that. for more all of this, let s bring in criminal defense attorney steven greenberg. let s start with the idea of him at this point refusing to come back in for more questioning. it seems. they said they are going to give him a r