November 16, 2023 • 33 mins
Sean covers the target that is on American's backs around the world and just why it's so important that we stand up for freedom and security.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, thank you, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks
to all of you for being with us. Here's our
tot free telephone number. It's eight hundred nine four one
Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
Coming to you from beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, the home of
tonight's Patriot Awards. We're doing a live Hannity at where
were we tonight? The Grand Old Opry, which is pretty
exciting for me. The history behind that is unbelievable. And
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I get to stand on that ground where every great
exact it's what kind of wood is it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's sacred ground wood, sacred sacred ground. Would you're welcome?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
All right, I'm going to start with a serious note.
I cannot believe the times that we are living in.
My buddy Gianna Calwell is here. We're going to talk
to him in a minute. I can't believe the times
we're living in. Blincoln. Wincoln. Blincoln has a fit and
like it's wincing away, like you know, a little baby.
Because Joe Biden called President she what he is and
that's a dictator, Well, why didn't he just applaud and say, yeah,
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I agree with him.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He's a dictator.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And you know what China's doing this, They're spinning this
is the biggest win. As I told you they would do,
and of course, as I promised, Joe was pretty much
incoherent as this meeting was going forward. They've been begging
and sucking up for this meeting per year. But they
don't bring up COVID, they don't bring up intellectual property theft,
they don't bring up let's see unfair trade practices. They
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don't bring up the spy balloon, which is insane. They
don't bring up that all of these Chinese nationals are
making their way to our southern border, and then when
they get in here, we're allowing them stupidly to buy
up thousands and thousands of acres of farmland and ranch
land and land near military installations.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We don't do a thing.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
When they're fighter jets are confronting our fighter jets in
international airspace.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We don't do a thing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
When our navy is being confronted in international waterways by
the Chinese.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We don't do a thing.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
When they continue to fly their fighter jets and try
and intimidate our ally Taiwan, we don't do a thing.
And so what does Joe do. He says, Oh, we'll
make a deal, we won't use artificial intelligence in future
weapon making. How stupid is he? Is he even calling
the shots? I can't answer that question now. Just when
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you think that's bad enough, but we got other bad
news here China blasting Biden right after this for calling
President she a dictator.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, what do you call him?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Then?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He's a murdering thug dictator.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
By the way, has anybody heard of the wigers, the
oppressed minorities that are in China that are being used
for slave labor, modern day slave labor? Does anyone pay
attention to the mind that atrocity that's unfolding, or the
fact that they have now formed an alliance with Putin
and Russia, that they have formed an alliance with the
Mala in Iran Am I like the only one paying
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attention to this. By the way, sad news laptops were
covered from Gaza's largest hospital. The Israelis were right, they
found weapons, they found they know that there were hostages
below the hospitals in Gaza. The medium mob, the same
medium mob that lied and told everybody in the world
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taking nothing but hamas propaganda that Israel bomb. The hospital
killed five hundred innocent you know, doctors and nurses and children.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It never happened. The hospital is still standing.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And by the way, the only thing that got hit
was a parking lot, and that had like six cars
in it and only two of them got damaged. And
that was fired by the Islamic Jihad's. You know, there
is moral clarity, there is right, there is wrong, and
there are moments when there's no ambiguity. The victim here
is Israel. You don't, oh, can you take a pause
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in your war? You know they need a little time
to regroup and re arm and restrategize. Excuse me, that's
like I'm going to be in the middle of a
fistfight with somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Do you mind if we take a pause.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You're kicking my ass and I'd really like to, you know,
have an opportunity to regroup, get my bearings. And while
I'm getting my bearings, you know, you just sit there
till I'm ready to punch you again. I'm like, no,
I'm going to kick your ass and the fight's going
to be one. Then we can have a truce after
I win the fight. And it's so stupid. Another squad
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member by the way, is now out there lecturing the
Jews on what it means to be Jewish. You can't
make this up. This Congressman Jamal Bowman. Isn't he the
guy that fell the fire alarm thing? What a jack ass.
I didn't know what I was pulling, it says fire
you know, sorry, you know, here we go. Oh, so
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we found out under the hospital that was where one
of Gaza I'm sorry, one of Hamasa's headquarters was put.
So they were using as they always have, doctors, nurses,
hospitals as human shields. All the rockets, the tens and
tens of thousands of them that they've been firing into
Israel all these years. They've always used schools, They've always
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used hospitals, They've always used areas, knowing that the Israelis
care too much about innocent human life that they don't
want collateral damage. By the way, Al Jazeera pulled the
plug on an interview after a Gaza hospital patient revealed
that Hamas fighters were.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Hiding among the wounded. I mean, how does.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Israel fight this war when they got their hands tied
behind their back, and then you got Joe Biden telling
them to take a pause. It's pretty unbelievable. Now I
want to get to this other point that I wanted
to make here, So I just there's certain things in
life I just can't It's inexplicable. I don't have an explanation.
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I don't have understanding. You know this, this hatred of
one group of people. I've raised a Christian. I believe
God created every man, woman, and child. The only difference
is that every human being has choices, and we have
a propensity for good or evil in our lives based
on the choices that we make. Period center, end of sentence.
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So the same pro Hamas anti Israeli movement that has
trapped and terrorized even members of Congress last night, if
you saw that at the DNC last night, they have
adopted a letter written by nine to eleven terrorist mastermind
Osama bin Laden as a rationale for their hostility to
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Israel and America. Now, it's always been Prime Minister Netanyahu.
I've been friends with them for decades. He's always talked
about the little Satan that of course is Israel, but
the great Satan they view as America.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And there was a reason.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The one thing that the nine to eleven Commission report
got right, is they were at war with us. We
were not at war with them. And anyway, so all
of a sudden, a vile letter written by Anyway, they've
adopted a letter written by bin Laden as a rationale.
Here and this letter, vile letter written by the warlord
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behind the nine to eleven atrocities. We lost twenty nine
hundred and seventy seven Americans in a single day. If
you compare for population, the Israelis lost on October seventh,
the equivalent of thirty eight thousand or forty thousand Americans
in a single day. Anyway, this has now gone viral
on TikTok with users if you can believe it, saying
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that reading bin Laden's letter has led them to quote
understanding why the horrific attacks were carried out in two
thousand and one and wrote this letter to America. I've
got a full copy of it. A big part of
me that doesn't want to read it. I'll read you
some of it, and that are going to play some
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of what's being said on TikTok. In the name of Allah,
the most gracious, the most merciful, permission to fight against
disbelievers is given to those believers who are fought against
because they have been wronged, and surely Allah is able
to give them believers victory, and he cites the Koran.
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Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah. Those
who disbelieve fight in the cause of what they call
taggett anything worshiped other than lot Allah they view of Satan,
and goes on to say, so you fight against the
friends of Satan. Ever, feeble is indeed the plot of
Satan and they and he cites the Koran again. Some
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American writers have published articles under the title of quote
on what basis are we fighting? These articles have generated
a number of responses, some of which adhere to the
truth and were based on Islamic law, others which have
not been. And here we wanted to outline the truth
as an explanation and a warning, hoping for Allah's rewards,
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seeking success and support from him. While seeking Allah's help,
we form our reply based on two questions directed at Americans.
Why are we fighting and opposing you? And what are
we calling you?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Two?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And what do we want from you? For the first question,
why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is
very simple, because you attacked us and continue to attack us,
which is a load of crap. America is standing against
radical Islamic terrorists that kill innocent men, women, and children,
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that have a belief of convert or die, that have
no qualms about killing innocence, that actually brain and doctrinate
young people, and to quote martyrdom, and that if they
kill innocent men, women and children, especially Jews and Americans,
that Allah above in Paradise will reward them with seventy
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two virgins. That is what they are brainwashed about. And
then it goes on, you attack us in Palestine. Look,
I don't really want to give any more attention to
bin Laden. You know what, I'm pretty confident he's in
hell where he belongs. I'm not Jesus, so I don't know,
but if I had to guess, he's in hell where
he belongs. But here's the dangerous part. And we've talked
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about all the virulent anti Semitism in the halls of
Congress and all around the globe and in Australia, Gas
the Jews and f the Jews on the college campuses,
the most prestigious universities in America, and it's sickening the
level of hatred. I never thought it's like nineteen thirties
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all over again, and I never used that analogy in
my entire career. Let me play for you the TikTokers
praising bin Laden's nine to eleven Letter to America.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
This morning, I read Letter to America, which is Osama
bin Laden's letter to America explaining why he attacked Americans.
It's wild and everyone should read it. If you haven't
read it yet, read it, however, be forewarned that this
has left me very disillusioned, and I feel the same
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exact way I felt when I was deconstructing Christianity. I
feel a little bit just confused, like I have entered
into another timeline. What is this?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
So? I just read a letter to America and I
will never look at life the same. I will never
look at this country the same. I will never please
read it. And if you have read it, let me
know if you are also going through an existential crisis
in this very moment, because in the last twenty minutes,
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my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed
and I have lived has changed.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I feel like I'm going through like an existential crisis
right now.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So this is a really good example of narrative control.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Reading this letter, it becomes apparent to me that the
actions of nine to eleven and those acts committed against
the USA and its people were all just the build
up of our government failing other nations.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
America has never been at war with people in the
Muslim faith. And I'm going to be very clear, and
I've always made a distinction between Islam and radical islamis
there are things in the Koran that I find deeply
disturbing about not taking Christians nor Jews as your friends, etc.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The call for Holy war, etc. Now that bothers me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And however, I do believe in the concept of freedom
of religion. I've never liked the anti Semitism and outright
racism of guys like Lewis Farakhan. I think he's been
nothing but a divisive figure. One of the most interesting
moments I've ever had in radio happened somewhere between nineteen
ninety and ninety two when I was sixty. When I
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was ninety minutes south of where I am today in Nashville, Tennessee.
I was in a town called Athens, Alabama, for a Huntsville,
Alabama radio station, a talk radio station, and one Saturday
member Khaleag shake Muhammad. Kill the women, kill the babies,
kill the children, kill them all, kill the people who
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were gay, a derogative term, kill them all.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Killing.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But you say, don't kill the babies. You got to
kill you gotta kill the babies. And I mean he
said all this crazy stuff. He was so full of rage,
this guy. Three hours he stayed in my studio that day,
three hours. Couldn't believe it, and we went back. I
wish I had a tape of it. I don't even
have a tape of it anyway. Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn.
We're in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. We're here for the Fox
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Patriot Awards tonight. By the way, my buddy Gianno Caldwell
is in the house. He just stopped by the studio,
which we're really excited about. We're going to talk to
him in a minute. We got a great show for
you as well, all right, as we continue, eight hundred
nine four one, Shawn, our number, my buddy Giano Calwell
just stepped there.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Hey, you know, man, man, I'm glad to be here
with you. In Nashville.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Shown in Music City, USA. We're at the Patriot Awards
for Fox. I never get to see you. Yes, we
talk all the time. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We'll talk a little bit about this on the other
side of the break. But if you don't remember, we
don't know Giano's story, his brother in Chicago, your younger brother,
Innocent gun down, all the names that are unknown names
I've scrolled on TV starting in two thousand and nine,
and nobody ever knows that those names. Why because they
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don't have a famous brother like you in the case
of you and your brother and b is if they
can't politicize it and use it for as a weapon,
why bother who cares?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
B is ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, And I'm telling you, really doesn't every life matter?
I think so it should. It should, but it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We'll continue when news breaks, you get the inside story that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No one else has and the behind the scenes chatter
that the mainstream media doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Even know about.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
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Welcome to the Patriot Awards. Welcome to Nashville, sir.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, I'm so honored to be here, and I got
to tell you, it is always an extreme pleasure to
be around so many of the viewers, the supporters, the fans.
But it's taken on a much different meaning for me
after last year June twenty fourth, Well, my brother was
murdered in Chicago. So when I see the people here
and oftentimes they want to pray for me on the
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spot and tell me this.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, isn't that the coolest thing when people do something
like that.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm honored, I'm humbled, I'm blessed because these prayers have
got me through some very difficult times. You, my friend,
have got me through many of these difficult times our conversations,
which a lot of people may not know. When my
brother was murdered, you and I cultivated and developed our friendship,
and for all that, I felt terrible for you, but
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it was more than just that. For months, you would
call me multiple times a week and we would be
on the phone for about an hour. How are you doing,
how's your family doing, what's going on with the investigation?
This how you should handle this? This is how you
should consider this. I mean really big brotherly love, advice
and support.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Whether when you say big brother, you're saying you're really old, hannedy,
I'm older than me.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I love you back.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, let me say something about you because I reminded
you that. And most people don't know this, but it
was inexplicable to me when Barack Obama became president and
his hometown of Chicago, and every weekend you could predict,
usually with some pinpoint accuracy, how many people are going
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to be shot, how many people will be shot and killed,
and it's like and then I would started scrolling the
names and I'd say to my audience on TV, I go,
these are names I doubt you ever heard of. Other
nights I would scroll the names of police officers killed
in the line of duty, names Americans never ever heard of,
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and it infuriated me. All those years he never won,
they barely mentioned Chicago and the violence in Chicago. Your
brother did not have to die. If they would have
taken action and done simple policing, they could keep that
city safe and secure and put the people that killed
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your brother in jail. And here's the worst part of
what you've had to go through. And this is where
my heart breaks for you as my friend, and you're
like my brother. I feel that close to you is
you have been busting your ass going to police departments,
trying to get answers on who it is that was responsible.
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You think you know who it is now yes, and
going to the FBI, and now go into congressional hearings
and they don't seem to care. They don't care, and
they're like, oh, crap, here's giano. He's gonna, he's gonna,
he's gonna remind us that we're not doing a good job.
And to your credit, you're not just fighting for your brother.
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You're fighting so that there are not other families that
have to suffer the way you suffer.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Describe it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
When you talk about your brother, I want you to,
just the way you always do so eloquently. You talk
about what he won't experience in in his life. I
wait to tell his audience what won't he to experience
a life.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
My innocent, teenage baby brother will never get married, You'll
never go to college, which you so desperately wanted to.
He will never have his first job, You'll never have
his first kid. Those moments have been stolen from him
and many others, whether they be in Chicago, Detroit, Nashville,
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anywhere across the country. We know that violent crime has
been on the rise over and above the twenty nineteen numbers.
And the truth of the matter is we have leadership
in the White House and in a lot of these
major cities who have made matters worse. When you think
about Chicago as an example, by the end of this year,
which would be next month, we'll see almost eighty thousand
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violent crime incidents in the city. In Chicago, crime in
and of itself overall up sixty percent by the end
of this year over twenty nineteen. Astounding numbers, but yet
instilled Sean. They passed something called the Safety Act, the
Cash Bell, cash list Bell. That's what we have in
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the city of Chicago basically Bell, no Bell. And then
we have a no chase policy where officers have to
call into their supervisors in order to chase the suspect,
meaning they just got away or even if they're in
their cars, they have to call it in. This is insanity, Sean.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
What we see add to that defund detismantle that no
ball laws. Yes, and now they're saying, now you're saying
they have a no chase policy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yes, in the city of Chicago, there's a no chase
policy that was let the criminal get away literally literally,
it was enacted under Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson is
continuing it. And then what's making matters worse in places
like Chicago is the migrot crisis. Yep. For a lot
of those individuals, they you know, they had parks and
all kinds of things that they had for the young
kids to try to keep them away from the violence,
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and they snatched that away to give people who just
came in town a day or two or so an
opportunity that these young people may actually lose their lives over.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Let me ask you this, why is it we only
hear about certain cases. I'll give you two quick examples.
George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin. Okay, now I learned very early,
and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, hands up, don't shoot,
that's right, Okay, never happened, Yeah, never happened.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And you know how we know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And I knew early that that didn't happen because it
was one of my sources, very high ranking source told
me early on that they had so many African American
because they tried to make that about Michael Brown and race,
and Darren Wilson happened to be a white officer, and
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so many African Americans that witnessed that testified that everything
Darren Wilson said was true. So I knew early on
that that hands up, no shoot nonsense was never going
to fly. Or Freddie Gray in Baltimore, I was told
early on the facts. I'm like, not one of those
cops is going to get convicted. Nobody really cared. I
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actually spent time down in Florida with George Zimmerman, and
I knew before everybody else knew that there was going
to be an eyewitness that testified that Trayvon was doing
a ground and pound on cement to George Zimmerman's head
and at that point, the walls of Florida. You get
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to defend yourself, stand your ground now, all of the
and then we have George Floyd. I would think I
was the first person to say that the neck is
the most vulnerable part of the human anatomy. The guy
was handcuffed. They you know, putting your knee on somebody's
neck that is handcuffed and pushing it into asphalt to
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the point where there are breeze on George Floyd's face.
The fact that he lasted as long as he did
is miraculous because you know, I do martial arts. If
I did that to you and I hit your caroated,
you would drop to the ground. You try and stand up,
and you'd fall down again. And that's a you know,
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one second half a second shot. Nobody can withstand that
to the carotid artery. And I was the first to
say that this should not have the cop All he
had to do was manipulate the guy's fingers that were handcuffed,
and you'd have full compliance. I promise you, I can
manipulate you, manipulate your fingers and do that.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Here's the worst part though, to me.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You have talked to all of these You've talked to
the FBI, you talk to local police, you've talked to
the politicians, you've testified before Congress, you have done your part,
you've been on the media, and you still are not
getting this case solved.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Why. I think there's a to answer your first question.
Why this certain cases get that kind of exposure and
oftentimes is because they can be weaponized politically. That's simply
put it. You see, especially around election times, no matter
who the Republican candidate is, they're a racist, point blank period.
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That's it. It doesn't matter who they are, they can
be Tim Scott, he's a racist, you know. That's that's
exactly what the I know, Yes, I know. And what
did they call him? Something in blackface or whatever the
case may be. So that's generally speaking, why and with
it comes to my set of circumstances with my little brother,
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uh very unfortunately from the very beginning speaking with this detective,
he basically told me because he was murdered on a Friday.
I spoke with him on that Sunday. We got other
cases have come in since then. This isn't essentially, in
my view, important to us. This isn't a priority. We
got this case in that case, and then he got
off the phone with me. By the following week he
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called me back because he said, Hey, we saw you
on last night with Sean Hannity, we saw you on
Fox and Friends this morning, we saw you on Fox
thirty two Chicago yesterday. Don't worry, We're on it. And
I felt a bit of solace because, Wow, maybe after
all of this hard work, starting in politics when I
was fourteen, has got me to a place where it matters.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Do you think that call would have come had you
not been on TV?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
No, absolutely not. I don't know if I ever would
have gotten a callback, because weeks later after saying don't worry,
we have it, I couldn't get in touch with him
until I went on TV and said they're not calling
me back. So fast forwarding beyond all of that and deciding,
after a year of inaction with the Chicago police that
I need to call for the FBI to get involved,
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it still meant nothing. I got a lot of press
attention out of it. I called them multiple times, they
didn't call me back. I had FBI agents calling the
Chicago Field Office didn't help. I've been doing a lobby
campaign down in DC since the beginning of the year,
since the first speaker fight meeting with me of Congress. Hey,
can I take you to lunch? Can I take you
to dinner? Because I want to talk to you about
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my brother. I want the FBI to get involved. I
want to bipartisan letter asking for Judiciary Committee's Democrat and
Republican to sign up.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
And you did testify when.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And I testified in Chicago before the House Judiciary Committee
that went to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
That's right, the field hearing in Chicago, and it wasn't
into the Congressional Action Chairman's of committee who decided to
put in letters for the record for the FBI director
that I finally get a callback, and I got a
call back from the Special Lation in charge of the
Chicago Field Office.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Anything really happening, you think, well, I'm thankful that if
he is calling me, And we've had multiple calls since then,
which is the Special Lation in charge of the Chicago
Field Office is like the police chief of the region,
if you will.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
For people.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Let me get this because I'm only I'm looking at
my clock. Do they feel that they know who this
person or persons are. I don't want you to give
away too much information.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Right there's some one currently in custody, and there was
a desire to connect the cases. But they were trying
to make sure that there was a nexus and it
made sense and evidence was there.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But you think they have enough evidence?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I don't know, Sean. They won't tell you. No, they're
they're they're they're they're stealed lips over there. But the
good news is I have a network that's supporting me
and following the story. You're following the story, and we're
just going to continue to push, push the gas pedal
on this and it's not just for me. I had
a conversation with doctor Drew, who is a guy. No,
(30:37):
he's a great guy. I love doctor Drew. He's a
dear friend as well. But he was telling me, look,
when people have these situations happened in their family, where
someone is violently taken from them or any other way,
the impact of that is permanent, essentially. But he said,
in order for you to really try to make some
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room in peace for yourself is to do something that
furthers their legacy. So that's what John Walsh did exactly right,
and John Walsh told me very similarly the same thing.
And America's most wanted John Walsh I actually met through
Sean Hannity, who called me on a Friday and say,
do you know John Walsh? Well, of course I know
who he is. I don't know him personally. Don't worry,
(31:23):
he's gonna call you what he did, and we did
a commercial together for my brother. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Let me just say this, I'm so proud of the
fighter that you are, that you know and it's discouraging
what you're going through, and what you've been going through
is discouraging, but you're not stopping and you always say
it's not just about my brother, and so it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
To other people.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And you've used your platform, your voice, which is powerful,
and you don't give up. And I love that part
of you because a lot of people just throw up
their hands and say, you know, the hell with.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
This, and you can't do that. I don't have a choice.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And by the way, one other thing, Giano spent all
his money to move his entire family out of Chicago.
I'm not gonna give away where you live, but to
a much nicer, safer place.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Is that fair? Yeah, No, that's fair. That's fair. And
if people want to follow the journey, please do so
on social media Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at Giano Caldwell
G I A N N O Caldwell c A L
D W E L L and I'm single too, right,
I should say that?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Seriously, Linda, you can't. You can't hook him up me up?
Come on, Linda at.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Your job in my thirties in hands and let's do it.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Listen, you're just not you know, I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
With my big brother. How could I not say this?
You keep saying I need to get If.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
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All right, thank you, thank you Scott Shannon, and thanks
to all of you for being with us. Here's our
tot free telephone number. It's eight hundred nine four one
Sean if you want to be a part of the program.
Coming to you from beautiful Nashville, Tennessee, the home of
tonight's Patriot Awards. We're doing a live Hannity at where
were we tonight? The Grand Old Opry, which is pretty
exciting for me. The history behind that is unbelievable. And
(00:25):
I get to stand on that ground where every great
exact it's what kind of wood is it?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
It's sacred ground wood, sacred sacred ground. Would you're welcome?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
All right, I'm going to start with a serious note.
I cannot believe the times that we are living in.
My buddy Gianna Calwell is here. We're going to talk
to him in a minute. I can't believe the times
we're living in. Blincoln. Wincoln. Blincoln has a fit and
like it's wincing away, like you know, a little baby.
Because Joe Biden called President she what he is and
that's a dictator, Well, why didn't he just applaud and say, yeah,
(01:02):
I agree with him.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
He's a dictator.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
And you know what China's doing this, They're spinning this
is the biggest win. As I told you they would do,
and of course, as I promised, Joe was pretty much
incoherent as this meeting was going forward. They've been begging
and sucking up for this meeting per year. But they
don't bring up COVID, they don't bring up intellectual property theft,
they don't bring up let's see unfair trade practices. They
(01:26):
don't bring up the spy balloon, which is insane. They
don't bring up that all of these Chinese nationals are
making their way to our southern border, and then when
they get in here, we're allowing them stupidly to buy
up thousands and thousands of acres of farmland and ranch
land and land near military installations.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
We don't do a thing.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
When they're fighter jets are confronting our fighter jets in
international airspace.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We don't do a thing.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
When our navy is being confronted in international waterways by
the Chinese.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
We don't do a thing.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
When they continue to fly their fighter jets and try
and intimidate our ally Taiwan, we don't do a thing.
And so what does Joe do. He says, Oh, we'll
make a deal, we won't use artificial intelligence in future
weapon making. How stupid is he? Is he even calling
the shots? I can't answer that question now. Just when
(02:26):
you think that's bad enough, but we got other bad
news here China blasting Biden right after this for calling
President she a dictator.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well, what do you call him?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Then?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
He's a murdering thug dictator.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
By the way, has anybody heard of the wigers, the
oppressed minorities that are in China that are being used
for slave labor, modern day slave labor? Does anyone pay
attention to the mind that atrocity that's unfolding, or the
fact that they have now formed an alliance with Putin
and Russia, that they have formed an alliance with the
Mala in Iran Am I like the only one paying
(03:01):
attention to this. By the way, sad news laptops were
covered from Gaza's largest hospital. The Israelis were right, they
found weapons, they found they know that there were hostages
below the hospitals in Gaza. The medium mob, the same
medium mob that lied and told everybody in the world
(03:23):
taking nothing but hamas propaganda that Israel bomb. The hospital
killed five hundred innocent you know, doctors and nurses and children.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
It never happened. The hospital is still standing.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
And by the way, the only thing that got hit
was a parking lot, and that had like six cars
in it and only two of them got damaged. And
that was fired by the Islamic Jihad's. You know, there
is moral clarity, there is right, there is wrong, and
there are moments when there's no ambiguity. The victim here
is Israel. You don't, oh, can you take a pause
(04:01):
in your war? You know they need a little time
to regroup and re arm and restrategize. Excuse me, that's
like I'm going to be in the middle of a
fistfight with somebody.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Do you mind if we take a pause.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
You're kicking my ass and I'd really like to, you know,
have an opportunity to regroup, get my bearings. And while
I'm getting my bearings, you know, you just sit there
till I'm ready to punch you again. I'm like, no,
I'm going to kick your ass and the fight's going
to be one. Then we can have a truce after
I win the fight. And it's so stupid. Another squad
(04:36):
member by the way, is now out there lecturing the
Jews on what it means to be Jewish. You can't
make this up. This Congressman Jamal Bowman. Isn't he the
guy that fell the fire alarm thing? What a jack ass.
I didn't know what I was pulling, it says fire
you know, sorry, you know, here we go. Oh, so
(04:59):
we found out under the hospital that was where one
of Gaza I'm sorry, one of Hamasa's headquarters was put.
So they were using as they always have, doctors, nurses,
hospitals as human shields. All the rockets, the tens and
tens of thousands of them that they've been firing into
Israel all these years. They've always used schools, They've always
(05:22):
used hospitals, They've always used areas, knowing that the Israelis
care too much about innocent human life that they don't
want collateral damage. By the way, Al Jazeera pulled the
plug on an interview after a Gaza hospital patient revealed
that Hamas fighters were.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Hiding among the wounded. I mean, how does.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Israel fight this war when they got their hands tied
behind their back, and then you got Joe Biden telling
them to take a pause. It's pretty unbelievable. Now I
want to get to this other point that I wanted
to make here, So I just there's certain things in
life I just can't It's inexplicable. I don't have an explanation.
(06:04):
I don't have understanding. You know this, this hatred of
one group of people. I've raised a Christian. I believe
God created every man, woman, and child. The only difference
is that every human being has choices, and we have
a propensity for good or evil in our lives based
on the choices that we make. Period center, end of sentence.
(06:26):
So the same pro Hamas anti Israeli movement that has
trapped and terrorized even members of Congress last night, if
you saw that at the DNC last night, they have
adopted a letter written by nine to eleven terrorist mastermind
Osama bin Laden as a rationale for their hostility to
(06:48):
Israel and America. Now, it's always been Prime Minister Netanyahu.
I've been friends with them for decades. He's always talked
about the little Satan that of course is Israel, but
the great Satan they view as America.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And there was a reason.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The one thing that the nine to eleven Commission report
got right, is they were at war with us. We
were not at war with them. And anyway, so all
of a sudden, a vile letter written by Anyway, they've
adopted a letter written by bin Laden as a rationale.
Here and this letter, vile letter written by the warlord
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behind the nine to eleven atrocities. We lost twenty nine
hundred and seventy seven Americans in a single day. If
you compare for population, the Israelis lost on October seventh,
the equivalent of thirty eight thousand or forty thousand Americans
in a single day. Anyway, this has now gone viral
on TikTok with users if you can believe it, saying
(07:48):
that reading bin Laden's letter has led them to quote
understanding why the horrific attacks were carried out in two
thousand and one and wrote this letter to America. I've
got a full copy of it. A big part of
me that doesn't want to read it. I'll read you
some of it, and that are going to play some
(08:09):
of what's being said on TikTok. In the name of Allah,
the most gracious, the most merciful, permission to fight against
disbelievers is given to those believers who are fought against
because they have been wronged, and surely Allah is able
to give them believers victory, and he cites the Koran.
(08:30):
Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah. Those
who disbelieve fight in the cause of what they call
taggett anything worshiped other than lot Allah they view of Satan,
and goes on to say, so you fight against the
friends of Satan. Ever, feeble is indeed the plot of
Satan and they and he cites the Koran again. Some
(08:55):
American writers have published articles under the title of quote
on what basis are we fighting? These articles have generated
a number of responses, some of which adhere to the
truth and were based on Islamic law, others which have
not been. And here we wanted to outline the truth
as an explanation and a warning, hoping for Allah's rewards,
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seeking success and support from him. While seeking Allah's help,
we form our reply based on two questions directed at Americans.
Why are we fighting and opposing you? And what are
we calling you?
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Two?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
And what do we want from you? For the first question,
why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is
very simple, because you attacked us and continue to attack us,
which is a load of crap. America is standing against
radical Islamic terrorists that kill innocent men, women, and children,
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that have a belief of convert or die, that have
no qualms about killing innocence, that actually brain and doctrinate
young people, and to quote martyrdom, and that if they
kill innocent men, women and children, especially Jews and Americans,
that Allah above in Paradise will reward them with seventy
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two virgins. That is what they are brainwashed about. And
then it goes on, you attack us in Palestine. Look,
I don't really want to give any more attention to
bin Laden. You know what, I'm pretty confident he's in
hell where he belongs. I'm not Jesus, so I don't know,
but if I had to guess, he's in hell where
he belongs. But here's the dangerous part. And we've talked
(10:36):
about all the virulent anti Semitism in the halls of
Congress and all around the globe and in Australia, Gas
the Jews and f the Jews on the college campuses,
the most prestigious universities in America, and it's sickening the
level of hatred. I never thought it's like nineteen thirties
(10:59):
all over again, and I never used that analogy in
my entire career. Let me play for you the TikTokers
praising bin Laden's nine to eleven Letter to America.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
This morning, I read Letter to America, which is Osama
bin Laden's letter to America explaining why he attacked Americans.
It's wild and everyone should read it. If you haven't
read it yet, read it, however, be forewarned that this
has left me very disillusioned, and I feel the same
(11:31):
exact way I felt when I was deconstructing Christianity. I
feel a little bit just confused, like I have entered
into another timeline. What is this?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
So? I just read a letter to America and I
will never look at life the same. I will never
look at this country the same. I will never please
read it. And if you have read it, let me
know if you are also going through an existential crisis
in this very moment, because in the last twenty minutes,
(12:02):
my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed
and I have lived has changed.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I feel like I'm going through like an existential crisis
right now.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So this is a really good example of narrative control.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Reading this letter, it becomes apparent to me that the
actions of nine to eleven and those acts committed against
the USA and its people were all just the build
up of our government failing other nations.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
America has never been at war with people in the
Muslim faith. And I'm going to be very clear, and
I've always made a distinction between Islam and radical islamis
there are things in the Koran that I find deeply
disturbing about not taking Christians nor Jews as your friends, etc.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The call for Holy war, etc. Now that bothers me.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
And however, I do believe in the concept of freedom
of religion. I've never liked the anti Semitism and outright
racism of guys like Lewis Farakhan. I think he's been
nothing but a divisive figure. One of the most interesting
moments I've ever had in radio happened somewhere between nineteen
ninety and ninety two when I was sixty. When I
(13:21):
was ninety minutes south of where I am today in Nashville, Tennessee.
I was in a town called Athens, Alabama, for a Huntsville,
Alabama radio station, a talk radio station, and one Saturday
member Khaleag shake Muhammad. Kill the women, kill the babies,
kill the children, kill them all, kill the people who
(13:42):
were gay, a derogative term, kill them all.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Killing.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But you say, don't kill the babies. You got to
kill you gotta kill the babies. And I mean he
said all this crazy stuff. He was so full of rage,
this guy. Three hours he stayed in my studio that day,
three hours. Couldn't believe it, and we went back. I
wish I had a tape of it. I don't even
have a tape of it anyway. Eight hundred ninety four one, Shawn.
We're in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. We're here for the Fox
(14:08):
Patriot Awards tonight. By the way, my buddy Gianno Caldwell
is in the house. He just stopped by the studio,
which we're really excited about. We're going to talk to
him in a minute. We got a great show for
you as well, all right, as we continue, eight hundred
nine four one, Shawn, our number, my buddy Giano Calwell
just stepped there.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Hey, you know, man, man, I'm glad to be here
with you. In Nashville.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Shown in Music City, USA. We're at the Patriot Awards
for Fox. I never get to see you. Yes, we
talk all the time. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We'll talk a little bit about this on the other
side of the break. But if you don't remember, we
don't know Giano's story, his brother in Chicago, your younger brother,
Innocent gun down, all the names that are unknown names
I've scrolled on TV starting in two thousand and nine,
and nobody ever knows that those names. Why because they
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don't have a famous brother like you in the case
of you and your brother and b is if they
can't politicize it and use it for as a weapon,
why bother who cares?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
B is ding ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, And I'm telling you, really doesn't every life matter?
I think so it should. It should, but it doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We'll continue when news breaks, you get the inside story that.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
No one else has and the behind the scenes chatter
that the mainstream media doesn't.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Even know about.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
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Speaker 1 (15:45):
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Welcome to the Patriot Awards. Welcome to Nashville, sir.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Well, I'm so honored to be here, and I got
to tell you, it is always an extreme pleasure to
be around so many of the viewers, the supporters, the fans.
But it's taken on a much different meaning for me
after last year June twenty fourth, Well, my brother was
murdered in Chicago. So when I see the people here
and oftentimes they want to pray for me on the
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spot and tell me this.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Okay, isn't that the coolest thing when people do something
like that.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
I'm honored, I'm humbled, I'm blessed because these prayers have
got me through some very difficult times. You, my friend,
have got me through many of these difficult times our conversations,
which a lot of people may not know. When my
brother was murdered, you and I cultivated and developed our friendship,
and for all that, I felt terrible for you, but
(19:32):
it was more than just that. For months, you would
call me multiple times a week and we would be
on the phone for about an hour. How are you doing,
how's your family doing, what's going on with the investigation?
This how you should handle this? This is how you
should consider this. I mean really big brotherly love, advice
and support.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Whether when you say big brother, you're saying you're really old, hannedy,
I'm older than me.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I love you back.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Well, let me say something about you because I reminded
you that. And most people don't know this, but it
was inexplicable to me when Barack Obama became president and
his hometown of Chicago, and every weekend you could predict,
usually with some pinpoint accuracy, how many people are going
(20:18):
to be shot, how many people will be shot and killed,
and it's like and then I would started scrolling the
names and I'd say to my audience on TV, I go,
these are names I doubt you ever heard of. Other
nights I would scroll the names of police officers killed
in the line of duty, names Americans never ever heard of,
(20:39):
and it infuriated me. All those years he never won,
they barely mentioned Chicago and the violence in Chicago. Your
brother did not have to die. If they would have
taken action and done simple policing, they could keep that
city safe and secure and put the people that killed
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your brother in jail. And here's the worst part of
what you've had to go through. And this is where
my heart breaks for you as my friend, and you're
like my brother. I feel that close to you is
you have been busting your ass going to police departments,
trying to get answers on who it is that was responsible.
(21:22):
You think you know who it is now yes, and
going to the FBI, and now go into congressional hearings
and they don't seem to care. They don't care, and
they're like, oh, crap, here's giano. He's gonna, he's gonna,
he's gonna remind us that we're not doing a good job.
And to your credit, you're not just fighting for your brother.
(21:44):
You're fighting so that there are not other families that
have to suffer the way you suffer.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Describe it.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
When you talk about your brother, I want you to,
just the way you always do so eloquently. You talk
about what he won't experience in in his life. I
wait to tell his audience what won't he to experience
a life.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
My innocent, teenage baby brother will never get married, You'll
never go to college, which you so desperately wanted to.
He will never have his first job, You'll never have
his first kid. Those moments have been stolen from him
and many others, whether they be in Chicago, Detroit, Nashville,
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anywhere across the country. We know that violent crime has
been on the rise over and above the twenty nineteen numbers.
And the truth of the matter is we have leadership
in the White House and in a lot of these
major cities who have made matters worse. When you think
about Chicago as an example, by the end of this year,
which would be next month, we'll see almost eighty thousand
(22:48):
violent crime incidents in the city. In Chicago, crime in
and of itself overall up sixty percent by the end
of this year over twenty nineteen. Astounding numbers, but yet
instilled Sean. They passed something called the Safety Act, the
Cash Bell, cash list Bell. That's what we have in
(23:08):
the city of Chicago basically Bell, no Bell. And then
we have a no chase policy where officers have to
call into their supervisors in order to chase the suspect,
meaning they just got away or even if they're in
their cars, they have to call it in. This is insanity, Sean.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
What we see add to that defund detismantle that no
ball laws. Yes, and now they're saying, now you're saying
they have a no chase policy.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yes, in the city of Chicago, there's a no chase
policy that was let the criminal get away literally literally,
it was enacted under Lori Lightfoot and Brandon Johnson is
continuing it. And then what's making matters worse in places
like Chicago is the migrot crisis. Yep. For a lot
of those individuals, they you know, they had parks and
all kinds of things that they had for the young
kids to try to keep them away from the violence,
(23:56):
and they snatched that away to give people who just
came in town a day or two or so an
opportunity that these young people may actually lose their lives over.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Let me ask you this, why is it we only
hear about certain cases. I'll give you two quick examples.
George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin. Okay, now I learned very early,
and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, hands up, don't shoot,
that's right, Okay, never happened, Yeah, never happened.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And you know how we know.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
And I knew early that that didn't happen because it
was one of my sources, very high ranking source told
me early on that they had so many African American
because they tried to make that about Michael Brown and race,
and Darren Wilson happened to be a white officer, and
(24:51):
so many African Americans that witnessed that testified that everything
Darren Wilson said was true. So I knew early on
that that hands up, no shoot nonsense was never going
to fly. Or Freddie Gray in Baltimore, I was told
early on the facts. I'm like, not one of those
cops is going to get convicted. Nobody really cared. I
(25:12):
actually spent time down in Florida with George Zimmerman, and
I knew before everybody else knew that there was going
to be an eyewitness that testified that Trayvon was doing
a ground and pound on cement to George Zimmerman's head
and at that point, the walls of Florida. You get
(25:34):
to defend yourself, stand your ground now, all of the
and then we have George Floyd. I would think I
was the first person to say that the neck is
the most vulnerable part of the human anatomy. The guy
was handcuffed. They you know, putting your knee on somebody's
neck that is handcuffed and pushing it into asphalt to
(25:58):
the point where there are breeze on George Floyd's face.
The fact that he lasted as long as he did
is miraculous because you know, I do martial arts. If
I did that to you and I hit your caroated,
you would drop to the ground. You try and stand up,
and you'd fall down again. And that's a you know,
(26:18):
one second half a second shot. Nobody can withstand that
to the carotid artery. And I was the first to
say that this should not have the cop All he
had to do was manipulate the guy's fingers that were handcuffed,
and you'd have full compliance. I promise you, I can
manipulate you, manipulate your fingers and do that.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Here's the worst part though, to me.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
You have talked to all of these You've talked to
the FBI, you talk to local police, you've talked to
the politicians, you've testified before Congress, you have done your part,
you've been on the media, and you still are not
getting this case solved.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Why. I think there's a to answer your first question.
Why this certain cases get that kind of exposure and
oftentimes is because they can be weaponized politically. That's simply
put it. You see, especially around election times, no matter
who the Republican candidate is, they're a racist, point blank period.
(27:19):
That's it. It doesn't matter who they are, they can
be Tim Scott, he's a racist, you know. That's that's
exactly what the I know, Yes, I know. And what
did they call him? Something in blackface or whatever the
case may be. So that's generally speaking, why and with
it comes to my set of circumstances with my little brother,
(27:39):
uh very unfortunately from the very beginning speaking with this detective,
he basically told me because he was murdered on a Friday.
I spoke with him on that Sunday. We got other
cases have come in since then. This isn't essentially, in
my view, important to us. This isn't a priority. We
got this case in that case, and then he got
off the phone with me. By the following week he
(27:59):
called me back because he said, Hey, we saw you
on last night with Sean Hannity, we saw you on
Fox and Friends this morning, we saw you on Fox
thirty two Chicago yesterday. Don't worry, We're on it. And
I felt a bit of solace because, Wow, maybe after
all of this hard work, starting in politics when I
was fourteen, has got me to a place where it matters.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Do you think that call would have come had you
not been on TV?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
No, absolutely not. I don't know if I ever would
have gotten a callback, because weeks later after saying don't worry,
we have it, I couldn't get in touch with him
until I went on TV and said they're not calling
me back. So fast forwarding beyond all of that and deciding,
after a year of inaction with the Chicago police that
I need to call for the FBI to get involved,
(28:43):
it still meant nothing. I got a lot of press
attention out of it. I called them multiple times, they
didn't call me back. I had FBI agents calling the
Chicago Field Office didn't help. I've been doing a lobby
campaign down in DC since the beginning of the year,
since the first speaker fight meeting with me of Congress. Hey,
can I take you to lunch? Can I take you
to dinner? Because I want to talk to you about
(29:04):
my brother. I want the FBI to get involved. I
want to bipartisan letter asking for Judiciary Committee's Democrat and
Republican to sign up.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
And you did testify when.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
And I testified in Chicago before the House Judiciary Committee
that went to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
That's right, the field hearing in Chicago, and it wasn't
into the Congressional Action Chairman's of committee who decided to
put in letters for the record for the FBI director
that I finally get a callback, and I got a
call back from the Special Lation in charge of the
Chicago Field Office.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Anything really happening, you think, well, I'm thankful that if
he is calling me, And we've had multiple calls since then,
which is the Special Lation in charge of the Chicago
Field Office is like the police chief of the region,
if you will.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
For people.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Let me get this because I'm only I'm looking at
my clock. Do they feel that they know who this
person or persons are. I don't want you to give
away too much information.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Right there's some one currently in custody, and there was
a desire to connect the cases. But they were trying
to make sure that there was a nexus and it
made sense and evidence was there.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But you think they have enough evidence?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
I don't know, Sean. They won't tell you. No, they're
they're they're they're they're stealed lips over there. But the
good news is I have a network that's supporting me
and following the story. You're following the story, and we're
just going to continue to push, push the gas pedal
on this and it's not just for me. I had
a conversation with doctor Drew, who is a guy. No,
(30:37):
he's a great guy. I love doctor Drew. He's a
dear friend as well. But he was telling me, look,
when people have these situations happened in their family, where
someone is violently taken from them or any other way,
the impact of that is permanent, essentially. But he said,
in order for you to really try to make some
(31:01):
room in peace for yourself is to do something that
furthers their legacy. So that's what John Walsh did exactly right,
and John Walsh told me very similarly the same thing.
And America's most wanted John Walsh I actually met through
Sean Hannity, who called me on a Friday and say,
do you know John Walsh? Well, of course I know
who he is. I don't know him personally. Don't worry,
(31:23):
he's gonna call you what he did, and we did
a commercial together for my brother. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Let me just say this, I'm so proud of the
fighter that you are, that you know and it's discouraging
what you're going through, and what you've been going through
is discouraging, but you're not stopping and you always say
it's not just about my brother, and so it doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
To other people.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
And you've used your platform, your voice, which is powerful,
and you don't give up. And I love that part
of you because a lot of people just throw up
their hands and say, you know, the hell with.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
This, and you can't do that. I don't have a choice.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And by the way, one other thing, Giano spent all
his money to move his entire family out of Chicago.
I'm not gonna give away where you live, but to
a much nicer, safer place.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Is that fair? Yeah, No, that's fair. That's fair. And
if people want to follow the journey, please do so
on social media Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at Giano Caldwell
G I A N N O Caldwell c A L
D W E L L and I'm single too, right,
I should say that?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Seriously, Linda, you can't. You can't hook him up me up?
Come on, Linda at.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Your job in my thirties in hands and let's do it.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Listen, you're just not you know, I'm.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
With my big brother. How could I not say this?
You keep saying I need to get If.
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