- Actor Jussie Smollett off the hook.

The police spent, theylaid out the evidence

in this case and at press conference

that we all saw last month.

Why do you thinkprosecutors now have decided

to just drop these charges?

- It seems to me thatthere are only a couple

of possible explanations.

One is that the prosecutors,who were initially

attempting to intervene in this case,

Kim Fox who is the DA in this case,

apparently was tryingto intervene with CPD.

She then supposedly recused herself,

but it was her office thatdecided to let Smollett off,

so it's possible that shehad political motivations

for letting Smollett off.

Obviously she's at odds with the heads

of the Chicago Police Department.

Possibility number two it seems to me

is that the prosecutiondecided that they didn't want

to prosecute Smollettbecause they were afraid that

Smollett's defenseattorney's were going to make

an issue out of Chicago PDs racial history

or the DAs racial historyand just didn't want

the media scrutiny on her at this point.

Neither one of those is a good excuse

for letting off the mostnotorious hate crime hoaxer

of the last several years.

- Ben, could it be thatJussie Smollett is innocent,

is the victim as a lotof people are saying?

- Nope, that's a bunch of crap.

Not to put too fine a point on that,

but no, that is notcredible in the slightest.

His story originally was deeply flawed

and CPD has announcedthey have a signed check

to the people who apparently did this.

His initial accusations aboutthe accusers did not match

the people who actually endedup apparently beating him up.

The evidence is fairlyclear, they have video

of the two brothers,the Nigerian brothers,

with who he was friendsactually buying the goods

with which they performed this fake crime.

Smollett's behavior all theway through was dishonest.

No, the chances thathe was an actual victim

of a hate crime are zero or below.