a prosecutor says ghislaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein were partners in crime against teenage girls. sex crime. accused recruiting and grooming girls for the financier to abuse. she says she is innocent. a jury has been seated in the trial of the actor accused of staging a racist homophobic attack on himself and lying to police about it the case brings up difficult issues for vice president kamala harris. this is the jussie smollett case. in a tweet she initially called reports of the attack an attempted modern day lynching. she later said she was sad, frustrated and disappointed at reports of a hoax with jussie smollett. breaking tonight, newly released records indicate cnn ache core and brother of the former governor of new york chris cuomo used his media sources to find out information about his brother's sexual assault accusers. governor andrew cuomo resigned amid sexual assault misconducts. let's get details breaking tonight from fox news media analyst host of fox news media buzz howard kurtz. good evening, howy. >> chris cuomo far more deeply involved in orchestrating the defen

fox 5 in new york with jury selection in the trial of long time jeffrey epstein companion ghislaine maxwell, the 59-year-old british social lite accuse of much grooming young females for sexual exploitation. she denies the charges. this is a live look at grand rapids, michigan. big story there tonight from fox 17. journalist and detroit area native denny finster back in the u.s. after being held captive for nearly six months in a burmese jail. finster was sentenced to 11 years of hard labor on charges of spreading false or inflammatory information. bill richardson helped win his release. that is tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ >> man: what's my safelite story? my truck...is my livelihood. so when my windshield cracked... the experts at safelite autoglass came right to me... with service i could trust. right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> bret: parents rights, especially when it comes to education, are shaping up to be a big issue for next year's midterm elections. tonight case in point with a r

epstein when she was 14 and that ghislaine maxwell was there when it happened. the witness was the first of four alleged victims to testify against maxwell at the start of her trial in new york. she is facing charges she recruited and groomed girls for epstein to sexually abuse. she denies those charges. breaking tonight, the lead investigator in the jussie smollett case is trying to refute the defense notion that police did not adequately look into actor jussie smollett's report of a racial hate crime attack. that was the dominant theme during today's testimony in smollett's trial. matt finn has details. >> good evening, bret. in opening statements, jussie smollett's defense attorney told the jury here that the chicago police department rushed to judgment. well, as you mentioned, the lead chicago police detective in this case is still testifying right now. he has been testifying all day against that claim. he is reviewing the painstaking detail of smollett investigation testifying the chicago police treated smollett as a real hate crime victim assigning more th