Empire actor and black Pinocchio.

A year ago, he told an incredible story

about being jumped on the street by two Trump supporters.

And now someone might finally go to jail

for that attack.

The dramatic new turn that's thrust

the Jussie Smollett case back into the spotlight.

That's right. He's once again facing charges in Chicago

for claiming he was the victim of a hate crime attack.

NEWSMAN: This morning, Smollett is facing six new charges

of disorderly conduct for lying to police.

The move a stunning reversal after prosecutors dropped

all 16 charges the actor originally faced.

In this new indictment, the special prosecutor's office

says Smollett made numerous false statements

to Chicago police on multiple occasions,

reporting a heinous hate crime

that he, in fact, knew had not occurred.

Yes, Jussie Smollett is back in the headlines,

this time for being indicted

over reporting a fake hate crime.

And it really sounds bad

until you remember that his plan all along

was to get a recurring story line that doesn't go away.

So he kind of got what he wanted, you know?

This is what he wanted.

And look, I know what Jussie did was wrong.

But I won't lie. At the same time,

I kind of feel bad for him, all right?

Because he gets into trouble now for calling in fake crimes,

but those Permit Pattys who made those bullshit calls to 911,

they live their lives. They just do their thing.

-(cheering and applause) -In fact, maybe...

Maybe that should be Jussie's punishment.

He should be forced to get a white lady nickname.

That should be it. Yeah?

Everywhere he goes, people will be like,

"Well, well, well, there goes Subway Smollett.

There he is."

But let's move on to Roger Stone,

Trump campaign aide

and the Monopoly Man's cocaine dealer.

This week, he was about to be sentenced

for lying to the FBI and threatening witnesses.

But luckily, he's got friends in Oval places.

NEWSMAN: Late tonight, all four federal prosecutors

on the Roger Stone case have quit

after the department undercut their recommended sentence.

Just yesterday, those career prosecutors

recommended he get seven to nine years behind bars.

But late tonight, the DOJ in a filing

calling the initial recommendation

excessive and unwarranted

just hours after President Trump

tweeted overnight, blasting the sentence

prosecutors initially recommended

as horrible and very unfair.

The president deny he had anything to do with it.

Yeah, I thought it was ridiculous that...

No, I didn't, because the Justice...

I'd be able to do it if I wanted.

I have the absolute right to do it.

Uh, I stay out of things,

uh, to a degree that people wouldn't believe.

"That's right, folks. That's right.

"I stay out of things.

"I stay out of everything.

"Intelligence briefings, church, Melania's bedroom.

"I stay out of all of it.

I stay out. Stay out."

(applause)

This is actually crazy, what happened here.

The Justice Department recommended Roger Stone

get seven to nine years in prison, all right?

Trump then tweets

that their recommendation is too harsh,

so they then cancel their recommendation.

And then Trump says he's totally staying out of it.

That's not what he did. He's staying out of it

the same way the Kool-Aid Man stays out of a room.

"Did use the door? Oh, no."

(laughter)

Because here's the thing.

Trump is acting like his Twitter account

can't influence the Justice Department,

like they can't see his tweets.

You know, it's like someone saying,

"I didn't ask her to marry me.

"I just had 'will you marry me?' written in the sky.

Anybody could have said yes. It could have been anybody."

And not only was it wrong

for Trump to get involved in his friend's case,

it was also totally unnecessary because there...

If there's one person who looks like he can break out of prison

on his own, it's this guy.

All right, and finally,

you guys remember how the Titanic crashed?

Well, uh, it happened again.

A new report claims the wreck of the Titanic

was hit by a submarine last year,

but the U.S. government kept it a secret.

That's according to legal documents reviewed

by the British newspaper The Telegraph.

It says a $35 million underwater vehicle

hit the Titanic wreckage in July.

It comes ahead of what could be a landmark court battle

over the future of the wreckage.

Yo, this is insane.

The Titanic was involved in another crash?

Oh, their Nationwide premiums

are totally going through the roof, man.

I'm glad that no one was hurt.

'Cause how would you explain that to people?

Yeah? It'd just be like,

"Brian died in the Titanic.

Yeah, this year, this year, yeah."

Titanic versus submarine is such a weird story.

I mean, technically, though the Titanic is also a submarine.

Yeah, really, any ship can be a submarine

if your captain is shitty enough, when you think about it.

You know what would be crazy though?

Is if getting hit makes the Titanic un-sink.

Like, that could be a rule, right?

If you crash, you go down.

If you crash again, you get to come up.

Yeah. So now it floats up to the top,

and then they're back up on the surface.

Everyone's like, "Yeah! We're alive!"

And then the iceberg shows up, like, "Well, well,

who didn't learn their lesson?"