July 2, 2025 • 30 mins
Gianno Caldwell, head of The Caldwell Institute For Public Safety and Fox News political analyst, joins Sean to share a deeply personal and urgent message. In his new book, The Day My Brother Was Murdered: My Journey Through America's Violent Crime Crisis, Caldwell opens up about the devastating loss of his younger brother, Christian, to gun violence in Chicago—and how that tragedy fueled his mission to fight back against rising crime in America.
In this emotional and revealing conversation, Caldwell discusses the failures of progressive policies, the breakdown of law and order in America’s cities, and the need for real solutions that put victims and public safety first. His story is not only one of grief, but also of purpose, advocacy, and resilience. If you're concerned about the future of public safety in this country, you won't want to miss this powerful episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay right here for our final news round up and
information overload.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, News round Up and Information Overload, O are
toll free. It is eight hundred and nine to four
one sean if you want to be a part of
the program. I was pretty disgusted on the part of
the families in this Coburger case. He pled guilty, is
going to avoid the death penalty, but he didn't have
to really do anything or give any explanation to the families,
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nor did the families have any say in whether or
not they supported this. A lot of the families of
these these young college kids are frankly outraged and disgusted.
These families want and need closure, they really do, and
they deserve it. And I think the prosecutors before they
made that deal, they should have included, you know, some explanation.
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I mean, if you if you watch the facts of
this case, and I know them pretty well, kind of
inside and out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Unfortunately, I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
This guy was stalking these young college kids for a
long time at night, driving and past their house, driving
in the driveway of the house. I mean, just very
creepy and bizarre, and it ends up in the murder
of four kids. And we have all of this violence
that takes place, you know, when we talk about statistics,
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and I ran all throughout the twenty twenty four election
the names of people that were murdered brutally by Biden Harris,
the illegals, the people that were raped by Biden Harris,
the illegals, other victims of violent crime Biden Harris, illegals
never mind again known terrorist plotting, planning, scheming, never mind
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cartel members, never mind drug dealers and other violent criminals.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And it's very upsetting. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I used to ask all the time, Barack Obama's hometown
was Chicago. Violence throughout his entire eight years as president
was prevalent in Chicago. We went back and look, we
could only find two times, maybe three, that he mentioned
the violence in Chicago, never lifted a finger to stop it.
And then it really came home personally for me when
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a very dear friend of mine I'm going to introduce
to you in a second.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know him.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He is a fellow Fox employee, Gianno called Well. It
was June twenty fourth, it was twenty twenty two, and
his eighteen year old brother, innocent brother, was murdered. He
was just standing with his friends on the South side
of Chicago on a street. Black suv pulls up and
several unidentified men open fire. Fifty shellcasings later found at
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the sea. Three in the crowd rushed to the hospital.
Two survived, not his brother. And it just is heartbreaking
to me. But out of this tragedy, I have, you know,
stayed in touch with Giano and I've watched him turn
tragedy into you know, an incredible passion and cause in
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his life, as he has now developed a well institute
for public safety. He just authored a brand new book.
It just came out. It's on We'll put it up
on Hannity dot Comments, on Amazon dot com, and it's
in bookstores around the country. It's called The Day My
Brother was Murdered, My Journey through America's violent crime crisis.
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And when you hear his story and he writes about it,
it'll break your heart because nobody cared. And I can't
tell you how many conversations we had. I'm like, well,
didn't you talk to the detectives. Yeah? What they say
they can't tell you. They know who did it, but
they're not going to do anything about it. Like these
conversations that we had, you can't even imagine how bad
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the system is and how little they care about the
families and the aftermath of such horrific evil and such
a tragedy. My friend Jonnald Caldwell's with us, Sir, how
are you am I calling you sir? I call you
my brother?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, why am I the older brother? Why don't you
be the older brother? You're telling me I'm old when
you say that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No, No, you're my mentor, You're my big brother. And
I got to tell you you have been one of
the biggest inspirations in my life. And I really do
truly mean that. After my brother was murdered, we would
talk multiple times a week. What's going on with the investigation?
How's your family doing? And you were really and truly
an angel. I know you may not consider yourself and
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angel generally speaking.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, by the way, anyone that knows me knows that's
not true. We'll go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, no, no, no, it really is true, Sean, and
people around the country have said similar things, Even people
who don't like you politically have said, Sean is a
great guy, and I know that you're a fantastic person.
You're a big brother, and you're a mentor, and I
can't thank you enough for your support over the years.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, I'm just proud of you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And we've had this discussion privately, and why not bring
them publicly. You know a lot of people when something
like this happens, they just crumble and fall apart.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You did the opposite. You turned it into action.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I'm going to tell people what you did and
if you if you don't want me to stop me
at any point. You immediately took charge of your family,
You took your savings, you moved your family out of Chicago.
Don't I won't give out the location. You moved them
to a much safer place. And you just said I'm
not letting this happen again and the pain I'm going through,
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I'm not going to let other families go through it
if I can avoid it. And then you partnered with
John Walsh, and then you're doing a number of projects
to bring awareness to this and stop this madness. I mean,
I mean, you've inspired me every step of the way
because you are You're relentless, You're unrelenting.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And as you mentioned all of that, one of the
things I cannot not mention is the fact that I
met John Walsh through you, and you know I wrote
this book the day my brother was murdered, my journey
through America's violent crime crisis, because I simply felt like
I had no choice. As you mentioned on June twenty
four two, my life changed forever when my innocent, teenage
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baby brother, Christian was murdered on the South Side of Chicago.
He wasn't the target, but it happened, and it happens
to so many families, whether they be in Chicago across
the country. So what did I do? Because I needed
to do something about it. That was the only way
that I can quote unquote have a grieving moment, because
I never fully dipped into the grieving process because I've
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been focusing on action. What can I do to stop
this from happening in our country? And I created the
Caldwell Institute for Public Safety at Calwell Institute dot org.
I encourage people to support our efforts there. And when
I wrote this book, I talked about it with nine
families who experienced the same tragedy, including my own. People
like James from Philadelphia, who was an Army veteran who
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had PTSD and who would often go to a park
at one and two in the morning because he couldn't sleep.
And on June twenty fourth, he went to the same
park that he would go to every week, and there
were a group of children there. I'm talking about ten
eleven years old than some teenagers, and he said to them,
what are you all doing out here this late? They
took a traffic cone and they beat him to death.
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Or people like Catherine. Catherine was a mother, grandmother, sixty
four year old wife, chemical engineer, going home on June
twenty fourth when a shootout took place on a freeway
in Texas. She was hit after a drug deal had
went bad. Both the drug dealer and a drug buyer
was trying to rip each other off and she became
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collateral damage. Or talk about baby Cecilia six months old
or rather five months or four days from six months
old in Chicago. She's in the car with her parents
on June twenty fourth, parents in the front seat, brother
three years old in the back. They thought they hear fireworks.
Baby Cecilia is dead. We know how bad it is, Sean.
We've been knowing how bad it is. We talked about
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it time and time again. But I wanted to figure
out how can we solve this? So I talked to
people like you, the great Sean Hannity, You're fully through
this book is one of the experts on here telling
me how we should process this, how we should move forward.
People like John Walsh, people like doctor Drew on the
mental health challenges in our country and his contributions to
crime faith leaders, educators, because we have to do something
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about the violent crime crisis in our country. And now
this has become fully a part of my brother's legacy
in my very own you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Know, when John Walsh lost his son Adam. Over the
years I've known John, I haven't talked to him in
a while, but I'd always thought the world of him.
And he took this tragedy in his life and he
turned it into a cause the way you're doing. And
I don't know if I would have the strength to
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do it. And I consider myself a pretty strong individual,
but I don't think there's anything more deflating in life
and difficult in life and challenging in life than losing
loved ones like this. I mean, your younger brothers, like
he was like your own, It was like your own son.
You loved this and when you would describe to me,
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he'll never go to college, he'll never get married. You know,
you gave me a whole you would give a whole list.
I'm like, man, that hits you hard, that hits you
right in your solar plexus. It is like a gut
punch of no, like no other gut punch.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But you did not. You did never. You never wavered never.
You were a man of action.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And you know, if I helped in any little way,
I'm I'm I'm honored. But it was really you, Giano.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You did it well. So God was the source, and
he brought people and came in that helped in the process.
Sean Hannity, John Wallash and others that in the Fox
News Family especially, and as I write in my new
book The Day my Brother was murdered, My Journey through
America's violent crime crisis, this is an effort that can
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impact any and every one of us by the time
in America, the fact that we as a community as
a country, because this doesn't just happen in places like Chicago.
This has happened in all over the country. Just for example,
the lady Catherine I mentioned this happened in Burlison, Texas.
That's not the inner city. So this is something that
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we as a community must come together and solve. Now,
the politicians have a role in this. Soft on crime.
Prosecutors have to be pushed out of office. Mayors and
governors who refuse to support law enforcement. Those individuals need
to be pushed out of office. But there's a fatherless
crisis in this country too, and if you grew up
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in a fatherless home, you're twenty percent more likely, twenty
times more likely to get involved in criminal activity. There's
an education crisis in this country that has to be solved.
There's a faith crisis in this country, and it's a person,
a young person, especially if they have faith, if that's
a central part of their life, they're less likely to
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get involved in crimes. And that's the thing. There's so
many issues that we have to tackle, and I'm looking
to tackle them one by one. And that's why I
hope people will pick up a copy of my new book,
To Day My Brother was Murdered, My Journey to America's
Violent crime Crisis.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Quick Break, We'll come back more with our friend Giano Caldwell.
He's at the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety's new book
is just out The Day My Brother was murdered, A
Journey through America's violent crime Crisis's on Amazon dot com,
Hannity dot com, bookstores across the country as we continue.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
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and colleague, Giano Calwell. I don't want it to be political.
Probably going to sound political, but it's not meant to be.
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But I just I don't understand, and I feel the
Democrats are responsible for this. And I'm just gonna straight
up basket. Why didn't Obama lift a finger to help
the violence in Chicago? Why didn't the Democrats? Why why
didn't they? Why did they allow twelve to twenty million
whatever the number is, unvetted illegals including murderers, rapists, known terrorists,
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cartel members, and gang members in the country and not
not bad an eyelash. Why didn't they stand for the
families of Lake and Riley and Jostle and Hungary.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Why?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well, well, tell me what is that?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Well, first off, Sean, that isn't political. It's your You're
giving statements a fact here, and the truth of the
matter is it isn't advantageous for the Democrats to try
to get involved in Chicago because they have to admit
the mistakes they made. They can't talk about the open border.
They can't stand for folks who have been murdered by
these illegals or raped. They can't because then to admit
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their fault in it. So this becomes another situation where
they pretend it doesn't exist when it does. You've seen
it on new segments. The people who are listening, they've
seen it on new segments. They act like this wasn't
a problem. River Biden said, there was no issue at
the border. That's what they said. When Trump would say, oh,
they're bringing over drugs, they're bringing over crime, they said, oh,
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that's not true. Look at them these lines, all of
those things that Donald Trump said end up being accurate,
absolutely accurate. And it's a problem. But thank god the
American people heard and responded because they know what's going on.
They put Donald Trump in office because, simply put, there
was no other choice. There was no other option. You
couldn't have voted for Kamala Harris. You could not have
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because you would get more of the same and even worse.
And I'm honored that President Trump has endorsed my book.
This past weekend, because we need to be talking about solutions.
We need to focus on solutions because we know how
bad it is. People are experiencing these things on a
daily basis. Look at the drugs that have come into
our country through the open border China, Mexico. These are
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legitimate issues, and now we're trying to fix it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, John wallsh turned his tragedy and saved lives and
found criminals, and you're doing the same thing. And I
admire you. I want to just encourage you to keep
doing what you're doing. Gianno Calwell he has the Callwell
Institute for Public Safety. His brand new book is out
The Day My Brother was murdered, My Journey through America's
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Violent Crime Crisis. It's on Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com,
bookstores around the country. My friend, I'm very proud of you.
I'm lucky to be your friend, and I know that
you're going to do a lot of good in your
life with all of this and your energy level it's
almost near mind. No, I'm kidding, but you know, honestly,
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you are tireless and you committed at a level I've
never seen an I just admire the heck out.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Of you for it.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I'm blessed to call you a big brother, a dear friend,
and thank you for all of your help in this journey.
And please, folks, if you would go to call the
listed you dotal org support our efforts there and follow
me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok at Giano Caldwell, GIA,
n NL Caldwell c ld W e L. Thank you
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so much, all.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right, Jennal Colwell, love you man. You're the best. Eight
hundred and nine four one seawn. You want to be
a part of the program. So I've gotten to know
over a period of years now Alena Habba, and I
saw the attack on Aleena today by Corey Booker and
Andy Kim, and it's the people of New Jersey deserve
a US attorney that has deep experience with law enforcement
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and reputation and approach that puts partisanship to the side, and
who will work to keep our community safe and impartially
pursue justice. In our short tenure as an INTERMW attorney,
she has degraded the office pursued frivolous and politically motivated
product prosecutions. It's clear that Alena Habba does not meet
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the standard to serve the people of New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And let me tell you something about New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I know New Jersey, I know pretty well, and there
are areas in New Jersey that are absolute disasters because
there's been no law enforcement, there's been no accountability. There's
been nobody that's cared. And Alena Habb has done more
in the short term as as the interim US Attorney
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than the previous like five attorneys combined. It is infuriating
to me when when good people get attacked. She was
the president of the United States's Council, his his legal counsel,
and with all the law fair and weaponization against her,
guess what she did a phenomenal job, Alena Habba. I've
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read this today and I'll be honest, I just infuriated
me because I know you doing a good job for
the people in a Jersey and I know that this
is a horrible you know, part of some political attack.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
As predictable as it would be.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, it pretty much is. And thank you for that, Sean.
As you know, there's nobody that understands pet better than
I do after what we went through, and it was
such an honor that the President nominated me formally to
be honest, it was an honor to even be made
the interim US Attorney because, if anything, my key and
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lead mission for my office is to never ever weaponize
an office and a Department of Justice ever, because that
is what America needs. And you know me personally. But
this is why I'm so happy to be here. This
is why I know I can do more for the
state of New Jersey, frankly than I could have done
from the West Wing. And it's been the biggest honor
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to work with great prosecutors who have been here. I
have not fired one of them. Despite it doesn't matter
what your political views are. It does not matter. The
Department of Justice is supposed to be the hammer on crime,
and New Jersey needs a hammer, and that has nothing
to do with politics, and that's my real commitment. So
it was insulting, but not surprising, to be honest, just
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to hear their sentiments.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, I thought Todd Blanche captured it in an ex
post that he put out here. You launched three imperative initiatives,
the Election Integrity Task Force, the Human Trafficking Task Force,
the Fentanyl Task Force, and you also initiated in June alone,
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what was called Operation apex Hammer, a month long violent
crime surge resulting in the arrest of over two hundred
and fifty gang members violent offenders all across the state
of New Jersey. Nobody's ever taken on that big of
an initiative. You've taken tens of millions in medicare fraud
off the books, dismantled child trafficking networks. I mean, I
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have chronicled this for my entire care Elena, and people
have no idea how widespread it is. You've seized millions
and millions and millions of dollars in fentanyl and other
hard drugs that are killing our kids. And you know,
you have been fearless, fair and effective, as Todd points out.
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And it's like all of these good things and it
doesn't mean a thing to this grand standard, this performative
artist Cory Booker.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, it's a shame. Honestly. My message is if he's
listening to I'm here and I'm here to.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Help, oh, he'll hear about it, trust me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And the truth of the matter is that, Sean, we
are so much stronger as a country if we work together,
and the President said this a ton of times, if
we could just stop this divisiveness. It's ridiculous political rhetoric.
And if we could just get to work and do
what New Jersey needs, which is to get rid of
this violent crime, which we literally took away two hundred
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and fifty individuals just in June since I've been here alone,
that's just one month. At the rate, we will make
a serious I will make a serious difference for everybody
in the state of New Jersey. And I'm committed to that.
And there are no politics, sean none. As somebody who's
been around it for years, I can tell you that now.
I am not about that. We are about one thing
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at the Department of Justice, Safety, Security and the law.
And if that is not that, that does not bind you,
and you can't get behind that no matter what your
politics are. That's a damn shame for this country and
for the state of New Jersey. So I encourage Corey Booker,
who has never met me. I encourage Andy Kim, who
has never met me, to sit down and get to
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work with me, because we can do a lot of good.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And it came, honestly, well, freeze frame that for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I mean, these guys are condemning you and they've never
even taken the time to sit with you and maybe
decide to work together for the people of New Jersey.
Doesn't want to get to know you, just wants to
rush to judgment and turn this into a political witch hunt,
as they always do.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, that's exactly what we're not supposed to do, and
the Apartment of Justice is committee to not doing that.
This is not political grandstanding.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
This is justice.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
This is a place where we can make our country
safe and restore faith in the constitution and in the laws,
which frankly the country I think lost for some time,
and for the first time, we're back and we're going
to fight to get crime off of our streets. And
if they can't get behind that by picking up the
phone talking to me before attacking, it's a shame. It's
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a shame for our state. It's not really going to
hurt me, it's going to hurt the state of New Jersey.
And I would just urge them to come to the
table and get to know me before you attack. Now,
by the way, you know how this works, right, So
I'm really relieved to not be involved on the political
side of things anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
But you nailed it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I mean it's an absolute opportunity to hit me when
you don't even know me. And the truth of the
matter is, we've done so much good here my office,
the US Attorney's office in New Jersey. We're right in
the heart of Newark. We're in Trenton, We're in Camden.
I go to work every day. I'm either in one
of those locations, and we are working hard. And I
plan to continue to and I.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Plan to stay.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And I really hope they can get behind that. I do,
because I think New Jersey will really thrive. We will.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
No, You're you're getting through. You're going to have this position.
One thing in the very short period of time that
you've been there that really stood out to me is
as it relates to this national healthcare fraud, you had
three hundred and twenty four defendants in connection with what
fourteen point six billion dollars in alleged fraud, and you know,
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fifteen criminal charges out of New Jersey fifty million and
civil settlements this year alone, eight million from data mining.
I mean that that is a remarkable track record. How
long have you even been there. You haven't been there
six months?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, I have not. I've been here for roughly one
hundred days, and it's been it's been just it's been
invigorating to get back to practicing law and doing what
I love. And honestly, I don't plan on slowing my
pace at all. We're just cracking.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Down on the Wait a minute, I think we had
a conversation saying, nah, Sean, I'm definitely not going and
I'm going back to private practice. I remember that conversation.
I might have been maybe I don't know, maybe I
made it up in my head.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, you're right, I did tell you that. I said,
you did forget it. Then I went to the White
I said, Now I'm at the US Attorney's Office and
I'm running the New Jersey FEDS, and I'm working great
with Pam and Todd and all of the wonderful leadership.
Frankly that I've I've had the honor of being with.
And I never thought I would love a job honestly
more than I love this one. It has been such
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a pleasure, and honestly, it's God's work. It's a different
type of work for this country than I've ever been through.
And every hit that I take, Sean, You've had my back.
But I'll tell you one thing, I don't mind, because
you can keep hitting me. But I'm absolutely in love
with our country and i love my home, so I'm
excited to keep fights for it.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And just like, well, that's the interesting part of it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I mean, you had an opportunity to be and you
were working in the Oval, not in the Oval office,
in the White House, and you know, you could have
stayed there, and but you wanted to go home. You
wanted to serve your state, your town, your community, and
the you know, the entire state of New Jersey. That
was a decision that you made. Most people wouldn't make
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that decision. I think most people would probably choose the
White House.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, well, you know what, you can do more good
running one district. New Jersey's very different because we have
one US attorney for the entire district, so it's the
whole state. And these are where my children are being raised,
and this is where I call home for my entire life.
And to get back here and take care of my
home state has been a tremendous gift. And I truly
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have to say, as much as I loved my time
in the West waying and being obviously in the White House,
which was so special in an honor as well. I
can do so much here and the state needs it,
and that's my real commitment. I really it was an
honor to go home and to take care of my home.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I actually would like to pursue this idea of Corey
Booker and Andy Kim sitting down with you, I really would.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Hey, they sat, They probably sit with me in the
same we sat with her. We checked the box, and
you know, I hope they do. Honestly, Sean, you know
me personally.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
There's a lot you'll say with anybody. You'll sit down
with anybody, anybody.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I don't care about politics like that. I care about
the country. And that's that's the reality is. If you
just put your political stuff aside and you sit down
and you talk about things that are going to make
our states safer, and you sit down with me, we
are probably on a lot of the same pages. But
I won't get behind grandstanding, not from the Department of Justice,
(26:59):
not from this set. I absolutely will not. I will
not wore.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Myself to that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You see what I think is going on here, and
correct me if I'm wrong. I think that that people
like Corey Booker and others, I think they fear everything
they did to Donald Trump is going to be done
to them. And the interesting part of that is it's
the exact opposite, is true. You're not political, You're not
(27:26):
going to weaponize justice. You're gonna you're gonna follow our constitution,
You're going to follow the rule of law. You believe
in equal justice and equal application of our laws. These
are not slogans to you.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And I know because we had these conversations both during
the witch hunt and the weaponization of justice under Donald Trump,
and you're like, you know, this is not how it's
the system is to work. And you even said if
we get in charge, this is not what Donald Trump
is going to do, and he's not, and you're not.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, I absolutely am not, And I'll be honest with you.
If I were to lower myself to that type of behavior,
then what is the point in anything happening that changes
in this country, anybody changing US attorneys, anybody changing presidents.
It means nothing. You cannot lower yourself so that which
is done to you. And at the point that I
(28:20):
really believe is frankly, there is nobody that is going
to protect the law and do things and partially more
at this moment than the people that are sitting in
the Department of Justice now, because we do not want
that for this country. That tit for tat the eye
for and eye. That is not what I am about,
I can say, and most certainly not the Department of
Justice and most certainly the people that I came up
(28:41):
in this world with. It just won't happen. I've made
tough decisions while I've been here Sean that have been public,
and some of those decisions have not been favored by
both political parties. And the reality is, it doesn't matter
when I make the decisions. I have to call balls
and strikes as I see them, as they are law
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to fact, and that is it. It doesn't matter who
you are, what your job is, what your politics are.
I will dismiss cases as I see fit. I will
bring cases that I think are worth bringing and are
factually there. And it's very simple. It's very simple math.
It's really there's no interpretation on that one. You have discretion.
It is a big hammer that you can use, but
(29:23):
it has to be used wisely. And that's how I
plan to continue my job here, all right.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But the worst part is, as somebody lives in the
Free State of Florida. New Jersey is not my favorite.
I left the state. I was born in New York
for good reason. Alina Haba, I see no problems regardless
of what these guys might say in terms of your nomination.
And you, Pambondi, Dan Bongino, You're going to make a
(29:51):
great team and make the country safer and more secure
and restore law and order and integrity to our justice system.
And we appreciate people like you that are willingness sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn is a number
you want to be a part of the program. And
that's going to wrap things up. At today A great
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, News round Up and Information Overload, O are
toll free. It is eight hundred and nine to four
one sean if you want to be a part of
the program. I was pretty disgusted on the part of
the families in this Coburger case. He pled guilty, is
going to avoid the death penalty, but he didn't have
to really do anything or give any explanation to the families,
(00:26):
nor did the families have any say in whether or
not they supported this. A lot of the families of
these these young college kids are frankly outraged and disgusted.
These families want and need closure, they really do, and
they deserve it. And I think the prosecutors before they
made that deal, they should have included, you know, some explanation.
(00:48):
I mean, if you if you watch the facts of
this case, and I know them pretty well, kind of
inside and out.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Unfortunately, I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
This guy was stalking these young college kids for a
long time at night, driving and past their house, driving
in the driveway of the house. I mean, just very
creepy and bizarre, and it ends up in the murder
of four kids. And we have all of this violence
that takes place, you know, when we talk about statistics,
(01:17):
and I ran all throughout the twenty twenty four election
the names of people that were murdered brutally by Biden Harris,
the illegals, the people that were raped by Biden Harris,
the illegals, other victims of violent crime Biden Harris, illegals
never mind again known terrorist plotting, planning, scheming, never mind
(01:37):
cartel members, never mind drug dealers and other violent criminals.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And it's very upsetting. You know.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I used to ask all the time, Barack Obama's hometown
was Chicago. Violence throughout his entire eight years as president
was prevalent in Chicago. We went back and look, we
could only find two times, maybe three, that he mentioned
the violence in Chicago, never lifted a finger to stop it.
And then it really came home personally for me when
(02:06):
a very dear friend of mine I'm going to introduce
to you in a second.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
You know him.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
He is a fellow Fox employee, Gianno called Well. It
was June twenty fourth, it was twenty twenty two, and
his eighteen year old brother, innocent brother, was murdered. He
was just standing with his friends on the South side
of Chicago on a street. Black suv pulls up and
several unidentified men open fire. Fifty shellcasings later found at
(02:35):
the sea. Three in the crowd rushed to the hospital.
Two survived, not his brother. And it just is heartbreaking
to me. But out of this tragedy, I have, you know,
stayed in touch with Giano and I've watched him turn
tragedy into you know, an incredible passion and cause in
(02:56):
his life, as he has now developed a well institute
for public safety. He just authored a brand new book.
It just came out. It's on We'll put it up
on Hannity dot Comments, on Amazon dot com, and it's
in bookstores around the country. It's called The Day My
Brother was Murdered, My Journey through America's violent crime crisis.
(03:16):
And when you hear his story and he writes about it,
it'll break your heart because nobody cared. And I can't
tell you how many conversations we had. I'm like, well,
didn't you talk to the detectives. Yeah? What they say
they can't tell you. They know who did it, but
they're not going to do anything about it. Like these
conversations that we had, you can't even imagine how bad
(03:38):
the system is and how little they care about the
families and the aftermath of such horrific evil and such
a tragedy. My friend Jonnald Caldwell's with us, Sir, how
are you am I calling you sir? I call you
my brother?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Well, why am I the older brother? Why don't you
be the older brother? You're telling me I'm old when
you say that.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
No, No, you're my mentor, You're my big brother. And
I got to tell you you have been one of
the biggest inspirations in my life. And I really do
truly mean that. After my brother was murdered, we would
talk multiple times a week. What's going on with the investigation?
How's your family doing? And you were really and truly
an angel. I know you may not consider yourself and
(04:20):
angel generally speaking.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
No, by the way, anyone that knows me knows that's
not true. We'll go ahead.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Well, no, no, no, it really is true, Sean, and
people around the country have said similar things, Even people
who don't like you politically have said, Sean is a
great guy, and I know that you're a fantastic person.
You're a big brother, and you're a mentor, and I
can't thank you enough for your support over the years.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Well, I'm just proud of you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And we've had this discussion privately, and why not bring
them publicly. You know a lot of people when something
like this happens, they just crumble and fall apart.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You did the opposite. You turned it into action.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
And I'm going to tell people what you did and
if you if you don't want me to stop me
at any point. You immediately took charge of your family,
You took your savings, you moved your family out of Chicago.
Don't I won't give out the location. You moved them
to a much safer place. And you just said I'm
not letting this happen again and the pain I'm going through,
(05:21):
I'm not going to let other families go through it
if I can avoid it. And then you partnered with
John Walsh, and then you're doing a number of projects
to bring awareness to this and stop this madness. I mean,
I mean, you've inspired me every step of the way
because you are You're relentless, You're unrelenting.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
And as you mentioned all of that, one of the
things I cannot not mention is the fact that I
met John Walsh through you, and you know I wrote
this book the day my brother was murdered, my journey
through America's violent crime crisis, because I simply felt like
I had no choice. As you mentioned on June twenty
four two, my life changed forever when my innocent, teenage
(06:00):
baby brother, Christian was murdered on the South Side of Chicago.
He wasn't the target, but it happened, and it happens
to so many families, whether they be in Chicago across
the country. So what did I do? Because I needed
to do something about it. That was the only way
that I can quote unquote have a grieving moment, because
I never fully dipped into the grieving process because I've
(06:22):
been focusing on action. What can I do to stop
this from happening in our country? And I created the
Caldwell Institute for Public Safety at Calwell Institute dot org.
I encourage people to support our efforts there. And when
I wrote this book, I talked about it with nine
families who experienced the same tragedy, including my own. People
like James from Philadelphia, who was an Army veteran who
(06:45):
had PTSD and who would often go to a park
at one and two in the morning because he couldn't sleep.
And on June twenty fourth, he went to the same
park that he would go to every week, and there
were a group of children there. I'm talking about ten
eleven years old than some teenagers, and he said to them,
what are you all doing out here this late? They
took a traffic cone and they beat him to death.
(07:07):
Or people like Catherine. Catherine was a mother, grandmother, sixty
four year old wife, chemical engineer, going home on June
twenty fourth when a shootout took place on a freeway
in Texas. She was hit after a drug deal had
went bad. Both the drug dealer and a drug buyer
was trying to rip each other off and she became
(07:27):
collateral damage. Or talk about baby Cecilia six months old
or rather five months or four days from six months
old in Chicago. She's in the car with her parents
on June twenty fourth, parents in the front seat, brother
three years old in the back. They thought they hear fireworks.
Baby Cecilia is dead. We know how bad it is, Sean.
We've been knowing how bad it is. We talked about
(07:49):
it time and time again. But I wanted to figure
out how can we solve this? So I talked to
people like you, the great Sean Hannity, You're fully through
this book is one of the experts on here telling
me how we should process this, how we should move forward.
People like John Walsh, people like doctor Drew on the
mental health challenges in our country and his contributions to
crime faith leaders, educators, because we have to do something
(08:12):
about the violent crime crisis in our country. And now
this has become fully a part of my brother's legacy
in my very own you.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Know, when John Walsh lost his son Adam. Over the
years I've known John, I haven't talked to him in
a while, but I'd always thought the world of him.
And he took this tragedy in his life and he
turned it into a cause the way you're doing. And
I don't know if I would have the strength to
(08:41):
do it. And I consider myself a pretty strong individual,
but I don't think there's anything more deflating in life
and difficult in life and challenging in life than losing
loved ones like this. I mean, your younger brothers, like
he was like your own, It was like your own son.
You loved this and when you would describe to me,
(09:04):
he'll never go to college, he'll never get married. You know,
you gave me a whole you would give a whole list.
I'm like, man, that hits you hard, that hits you
right in your solar plexus. It is like a gut
punch of no, like no other gut punch.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
But you did not. You did never. You never wavered never.
You were a man of action.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
And you know, if I helped in any little way,
I'm I'm I'm honored. But it was really you, Giano.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You did it well. So God was the source, and
he brought people and came in that helped in the process.
Sean Hannity, John Wallash and others that in the Fox
News Family especially, and as I write in my new
book The Day my Brother was murdered, My Journey through
America's violent crime crisis, this is an effort that can
(09:56):
impact any and every one of us by the time
in America, the fact that we as a community as
a country, because this doesn't just happen in places like Chicago.
This has happened in all over the country. Just for example,
the lady Catherine I mentioned this happened in Burlison, Texas.
That's not the inner city. So this is something that
(10:16):
we as a community must come together and solve. Now,
the politicians have a role in this. Soft on crime.
Prosecutors have to be pushed out of office. Mayors and
governors who refuse to support law enforcement. Those individuals need
to be pushed out of office. But there's a fatherless
crisis in this country too, and if you grew up
(10:36):
in a fatherless home, you're twenty percent more likely, twenty
times more likely to get involved in criminal activity. There's
an education crisis in this country that has to be solved.
There's a faith crisis in this country, and it's a person,
a young person, especially if they have faith, if that's
a central part of their life, they're less likely to
(10:58):
get involved in crimes. And that's the thing. There's so
many issues that we have to tackle, and I'm looking
to tackle them one by one. And that's why I
hope people will pick up a copy of my new book,
To Day My Brother was Murdered, My Journey to America's
Violent crime Crisis.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Quick Break, We'll come back more with our friend Giano Caldwell.
He's at the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety's new book
is just out The Day My Brother was murdered, A
Journey through America's violent crime Crisis's on Amazon dot com,
Hannity dot com, bookstores across the country as we continue.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
It's time to take back America.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
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and colleague, Giano Calwell. I don't want it to be political.
Probably going to sound political, but it's not meant to be.
(13:04):
But I just I don't understand, and I feel the
Democrats are responsible for this. And I'm just gonna straight
up basket. Why didn't Obama lift a finger to help
the violence in Chicago? Why didn't the Democrats? Why why
didn't they? Why did they allow twelve to twenty million
whatever the number is, unvetted illegals including murderers, rapists, known terrorists,
(13:27):
cartel members, and gang members in the country and not
not bad an eyelash. Why didn't they stand for the
families of Lake and Riley and Jostle and Hungary.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Why?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Well, well, tell me what is that?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Well, first off, Sean, that isn't political. It's your You're
giving statements a fact here, and the truth of the
matter is it isn't advantageous for the Democrats to try
to get involved in Chicago because they have to admit
the mistakes they made. They can't talk about the open border.
They can't stand for folks who have been murdered by
these illegals or raped. They can't because then to admit
(14:00):
their fault in it. So this becomes another situation where
they pretend it doesn't exist when it does. You've seen
it on new segments. The people who are listening, they've
seen it on new segments. They act like this wasn't
a problem. River Biden said, there was no issue at
the border. That's what they said. When Trump would say, oh,
they're bringing over drugs, they're bringing over crime, they said, oh,
(14:21):
that's not true. Look at them these lines, all of
those things that Donald Trump said end up being accurate,
absolutely accurate. And it's a problem. But thank god the
American people heard and responded because they know what's going on.
They put Donald Trump in office because, simply put, there
was no other choice. There was no other option. You
couldn't have voted for Kamala Harris. You could not have
(14:45):
because you would get more of the same and even worse.
And I'm honored that President Trump has endorsed my book.
This past weekend, because we need to be talking about solutions.
We need to focus on solutions because we know how
bad it is. People are experiencing these things on a
daily basis. Look at the drugs that have come into
our country through the open border China, Mexico. These are
(15:07):
legitimate issues, and now we're trying to fix it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, John wallsh turned his tragedy and saved lives and
found criminals, and you're doing the same thing. And I
admire you. I want to just encourage you to keep
doing what you're doing. Gianno Calwell he has the Callwell
Institute for Public Safety. His brand new book is out
The Day My Brother was murdered, My Journey through America's
(15:32):
Violent Crime Crisis. It's on Amazon dot com, Hannity dot com,
bookstores around the country. My friend, I'm very proud of you.
I'm lucky to be your friend, and I know that
you're going to do a lot of good in your
life with all of this and your energy level it's
almost near mind. No, I'm kidding, but you know, honestly,
(15:55):
you are tireless and you committed at a level I've
never seen an I just admire the heck out.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Of you for it.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I'm blessed to call you a big brother, a dear friend,
and thank you for all of your help in this journey.
And please, folks, if you would go to call the
listed you dotal org support our efforts there and follow
me on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok at Giano Caldwell, GIA,
n NL Caldwell c ld W e L. Thank you
(16:23):
so much, all.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Right, Jennal Colwell, love you man. You're the best. Eight
hundred and nine four one seawn. You want to be
a part of the program. So I've gotten to know
over a period of years now Alena Habba, and I
saw the attack on Aleena today by Corey Booker and
Andy Kim, and it's the people of New Jersey deserve
a US attorney that has deep experience with law enforcement
(16:48):
and reputation and approach that puts partisanship to the side, and
who will work to keep our community safe and impartially
pursue justice. In our short tenure as an INTERMW attorney,
she has degraded the office pursued frivolous and politically motivated
product prosecutions. It's clear that Alena Habba does not meet
(17:09):
the standard to serve the people of New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
And let me tell you something about New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I know New Jersey, I know pretty well, and there
are areas in New Jersey that are absolute disasters because
there's been no law enforcement, there's been no accountability. There's
been nobody that's cared. And Alena Habb has done more
in the short term as as the interim US Attorney
(17:35):
than the previous like five attorneys combined. It is infuriating
to me when when good people get attacked. She was
the president of the United States's Council, his his legal counsel,
and with all the law fair and weaponization against her,
guess what she did a phenomenal job, Alena Habba. I've
(17:56):
read this today and I'll be honest, I just infuriated
me because I know you doing a good job for
the people in a Jersey and I know that this
is a horrible you know, part of some political attack.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
As predictable as it would be.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Yeah, it pretty much is. And thank you for that, Sean.
As you know, there's nobody that understands pet better than
I do after what we went through, and it was
such an honor that the President nominated me formally to
be honest, it was an honor to even be made
the interim US Attorney because, if anything, my key and
(18:29):
lead mission for my office is to never ever weaponize
an office and a Department of Justice ever, because that
is what America needs. And you know me personally. But
this is why I'm so happy to be here. This
is why I know I can do more for the
state of New Jersey, frankly than I could have done
from the West Wing. And it's been the biggest honor
(18:51):
to work with great prosecutors who have been here. I
have not fired one of them. Despite it doesn't matter
what your political views are. It does not matter. The
Department of Justice is supposed to be the hammer on crime,
and New Jersey needs a hammer, and that has nothing
to do with politics, and that's my real commitment. So
it was insulting, but not surprising, to be honest, just
(19:12):
to hear their sentiments.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, I thought Todd Blanche captured it in an ex
post that he put out here. You launched three imperative initiatives,
the Election Integrity Task Force, the Human Trafficking Task Force,
the Fentanyl Task Force, and you also initiated in June alone,
(19:34):
what was called Operation apex Hammer, a month long violent
crime surge resulting in the arrest of over two hundred
and fifty gang members violent offenders all across the state
of New Jersey. Nobody's ever taken on that big of
an initiative. You've taken tens of millions in medicare fraud
off the books, dismantled child trafficking networks. I mean, I
(19:57):
have chronicled this for my entire care Elena, and people
have no idea how widespread it is. You've seized millions
and millions and millions of dollars in fentanyl and other
hard drugs that are killing our kids. And you know,
you have been fearless, fair and effective, as Todd points out.
(20:18):
And it's like all of these good things and it
doesn't mean a thing to this grand standard, this performative
artist Cory Booker.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Yeah, it's a shame. Honestly. My message is if he's
listening to I'm here and I'm here to.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Help, oh, he'll hear about it, trust me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
And the truth of the matter is that, Sean, we
are so much stronger as a country if we work together,
and the President said this a ton of times, if
we could just stop this divisiveness. It's ridiculous political rhetoric.
And if we could just get to work and do
what New Jersey needs, which is to get rid of
this violent crime, which we literally took away two hundred
(20:55):
and fifty individuals just in June since I've been here alone,
that's just one month. At the rate, we will make
a serious I will make a serious difference for everybody
in the state of New Jersey. And I'm committed to that.
And there are no politics, sean none. As somebody who's
been around it for years, I can tell you that now.
I am not about that. We are about one thing
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at the Department of Justice, Safety, Security and the law.
And if that is not that, that does not bind you,
and you can't get behind that no matter what your
politics are. That's a damn shame for this country and
for the state of New Jersey. So I encourage Corey Booker,
who has never met me. I encourage Andy Kim, who
has never met me, to sit down and get to
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work with me, because we can do a lot of good.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
And it came, honestly, well, freeze frame that for a minute.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I mean, these guys are condemning you and they've never
even taken the time to sit with you and maybe
decide to work together for the people of New Jersey.
Doesn't want to get to know you, just wants to
rush to judgment and turn this into a political witch hunt,
as they always do.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Well, that's exactly what we're not supposed to do, and
the Apartment of Justice is committee to not doing that.
This is not political grandstanding.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
This is justice.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
This is a place where we can make our country
safe and restore faith in the constitution and in the laws,
which frankly the country I think lost for some time,
and for the first time, we're back and we're going
to fight to get crime off of our streets. And
if they can't get behind that by picking up the
phone talking to me before attacking, it's a shame. It's
(22:30):
a shame for our state. It's not really going to
hurt me, it's going to hurt the state of New Jersey.
And I would just urge them to come to the
table and get to know me before you attack. Now,
by the way, you know how this works, right, So
I'm really relieved to not be involved on the political
side of things anymore.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
But you nailed it.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
I mean it's an absolute opportunity to hit me when
you don't even know me. And the truth of the
matter is, we've done so much good here my office,
the US Attorney's office in New Jersey. We're right in
the heart of Newark. We're in Trenton, We're in Camden.
I go to work every day. I'm either in one
of those locations, and we are working hard. And I
plan to continue to and I.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Plan to stay.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
And I really hope they can get behind that. I do,
because I think New Jersey will really thrive. We will.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
No, You're you're getting through. You're going to have this position.
One thing in the very short period of time that
you've been there that really stood out to me is
as it relates to this national healthcare fraud, you had
three hundred and twenty four defendants in connection with what
fourteen point six billion dollars in alleged fraud, and you know,
(23:38):
fifteen criminal charges out of New Jersey fifty million and
civil settlements this year alone, eight million from data mining.
I mean that that is a remarkable track record. How
long have you even been there. You haven't been there
six months?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No, I have not. I've been here for roughly one
hundred days, and it's been it's been just it's been
invigorating to get back to practicing law and doing what
I love. And honestly, I don't plan on slowing my
pace at all. We're just cracking.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Down on the Wait a minute, I think we had
a conversation saying, nah, Sean, I'm definitely not going and
I'm going back to private practice. I remember that conversation.
I might have been maybe I don't know, maybe I
made it up in my head.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, you're right, I did tell you that. I said,
you did forget it. Then I went to the White
I said, Now I'm at the US Attorney's Office and
I'm running the New Jersey FEDS, and I'm working great
with Pam and Todd and all of the wonderful leadership.
Frankly that I've I've had the honor of being with.
And I never thought I would love a job honestly
more than I love this one. It has been such
(24:42):
a pleasure, and honestly, it's God's work. It's a different
type of work for this country than I've ever been through.
And every hit that I take, Sean, You've had my back.
But I'll tell you one thing, I don't mind, because
you can keep hitting me. But I'm absolutely in love
with our country and i love my home, so I'm
excited to keep fights for it.
Speaker 3 (25:02):
And just like, well, that's the interesting part of it.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I mean, you had an opportunity to be and you
were working in the Oval, not in the Oval office,
in the White House, and you know, you could have
stayed there, and but you wanted to go home. You
wanted to serve your state, your town, your community, and
the you know, the entire state of New Jersey. That
was a decision that you made. Most people wouldn't make
(25:28):
that decision. I think most people would probably choose the
White House.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Yeah, well, you know what, you can do more good
running one district. New Jersey's very different because we have
one US attorney for the entire district, so it's the
whole state. And these are where my children are being raised,
and this is where I call home for my entire life.
And to get back here and take care of my
home state has been a tremendous gift. And I truly
(25:54):
have to say, as much as I loved my time
in the West waying and being obviously in the White House,
which was so special in an honor as well. I
can do so much here and the state needs it,
and that's my real commitment. I really it was an
honor to go home and to take care of my home.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I actually would like to pursue this idea of Corey
Booker and Andy Kim sitting down with you, I really would.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Hey, they sat, They probably sit with me in the
same we sat with her. We checked the box, and
you know, I hope they do. Honestly, Sean, you know
me personally.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
There's a lot you'll say with anybody. You'll sit down
with anybody, anybody.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
I don't care about politics like that. I care about
the country. And that's that's the reality is. If you
just put your political stuff aside and you sit down
and you talk about things that are going to make
our states safer, and you sit down with me, we
are probably on a lot of the same pages. But
I won't get behind grandstanding, not from the Department of Justice,
(26:59):
not from this set. I absolutely will not. I will
not wore.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Myself to that.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
You see what I think is going on here, and
correct me if I'm wrong. I think that that people
like Corey Booker and others, I think they fear everything
they did to Donald Trump is going to be done
to them. And the interesting part of that is it's
the exact opposite, is true. You're not political, You're not
(27:26):
going to weaponize justice. You're gonna you're gonna follow our constitution,
You're going to follow the rule of law. You believe
in equal justice and equal application of our laws. These
are not slogans to you.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
And I know because we had these conversations both during
the witch hunt and the weaponization of justice under Donald Trump,
and you're like, you know, this is not how it's
the system is to work. And you even said if
we get in charge, this is not what Donald Trump
is going to do, and he's not, and you're not.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
No, I absolutely am not, And I'll be honest with you.
If I were to lower myself to that type of behavior,
then what is the point in anything happening that changes
in this country, anybody changing US attorneys, anybody changing presidents.
It means nothing. You cannot lower yourself so that which
is done to you. And at the point that I
(28:20):
really believe is frankly, there is nobody that is going
to protect the law and do things and partially more
at this moment than the people that are sitting in
the Department of Justice now, because we do not want
that for this country. That tit for tat the eye
for and eye. That is not what I am about,
I can say, and most certainly not the Department of
Justice and most certainly the people that I came up
(28:41):
in this world with. It just won't happen. I've made
tough decisions while I've been here Sean that have been public,
and some of those decisions have not been favored by
both political parties. And the reality is, it doesn't matter
when I make the decisions. I have to call balls
and strikes as I see them, as they are law
(29:01):
to fact, and that is it. It doesn't matter who
you are, what your job is, what your politics are.
I will dismiss cases as I see fit. I will
bring cases that I think are worth bringing and are
factually there. And it's very simple. It's very simple math.
It's really there's no interpretation on that one. You have discretion.
It is a big hammer that you can use, but
(29:23):
it has to be used wisely. And that's how I
plan to continue my job here, all right.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
But the worst part is, as somebody lives in the
Free State of Florida. New Jersey is not my favorite.
I left the state. I was born in New York
for good reason. Alina Haba, I see no problems regardless
of what these guys might say in terms of your nomination.
And you, Pambondi, Dan Bongino, You're going to make a
(29:51):
great team and make the country safer and more secure
and restore law and order and integrity to our justice system.
And we appreciate people like you that are willingness sacrifice.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Eight hundred and nine four one, Shawn is a number
you want to be a part of the program. And
that's going to wrap things up. At today A great
Hannity Tonight nine eastern on the Fox News Channel.
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