[applause] tonight is the first tv interview, two brothers that helped jussie smollett carry out

we know jussie smollett's hate crime was a hoax.the two brothers who helped pull it off are showing us how it came down. he said what did you say to me, and that's when i threw the first punch. i held the blow because i didn't want to hurt him. dan: the police realized pretty quickly that it didn't add up. eddie johnson joins me now. thanks a lot for your time. you were one of the first people to see this so-called evidence in this case, being the cop you are with a lot of street smart. what raised the red flag that something's not right. >> thanks for having me, dan. there are a few things. the first thing that jumped out was the fact that mr. smol the was bundled up it was one of the coldest nights of the year. say the was 15 below zero. he was bundled up. and the intersection where they yelled at him is a large interests section. the chances of two maga white guys being able to know in that intersection that that was the guy gay from "empire" was odd. and the fact they were shouting homophobic slurs and referring to him as the em

we thought jussie smollett was a liar. you remember his story. >> it did seem unlikely. late one night in subzero temperatures and a snowstorm, jussie smollett decided to venture out for a sandwicideh in downtown chicago when he wase as people are accostedd by two physically enormous trump supporters from africa who somehow recogniz twoe him despite his ski hat from his part in a little known musical drama series called empire, because campy musical dramas are apparently huge, nigeriuscle ahead trump voters from nigeria. >> so they knew him instantly right away.tw >> these two crazed african right wing maniacs also correctly guessed that h jesse smollett had voted for hillary clintoe d von and they v that. >> and so, as trump votersot seo often do, they begin pummeling i him about the face and screaming, this is maga country. this because that's one of the things people typically say about downtown chicago. it's maggertis country then because they were still angry. they're always angry. these nigeriany're racists pou bleach on jesse smollett through a noose around his ne

when we come back, the brothers in the jussie smollett race hoax. more coming up. my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger. >> tucker: it was a year ago, actor jussie smollett was sentenced to jail for a fake hate crime in downtown chicago. that happened in 2019. smollett claimed that he was attack by two white supremacists watering maga hats and said this was trump country and targeted him because of his race and sexual orientation. we know that was all false. smollett hired two associates to stage the attack. they're telling their side of the story for the first time in the new fox nation special, "anatomy of a hoax." take a look. >> we got here with ten minutes to spare. we had to plan our escape route. he's building is right here, right above the stairs that we're going to attack him at. we made sure why got him there at 2:00 a.m. sharp on the dot. >> on the dot. >> we had no phones. he didn't not

and to see this man, jussie smollett u.s.he did, i want him to gur. >> under the jail, for juries in future that are faced with hate crime, they may wonder, hey, is he or she pulling a smollett? is it real. because of him. someone and -- i think it was you mentioned poster child for activism? what, this was to make more money, he was already pulling down more money than most people, he wanted more, he pulled this tranq praprank to get what, more money, what a backfire. another thing, since you done ask. appellate court warned his lawyers get your brief in on this appeal, hea he is in an out on an appeal bond. my twins might be watching. >> my twins are always watching. >> smollett is wandering free, whining. he needs to go to jail. kennedy: i mean everyone involved in this, is either corrupt or just odd, are the brothers victims here? >> i can tell you this much, they took part in it willingly for a price they almost went to jail for this. remember smollett was going to let them hang out in the wind. they had to convince auth

them. >> steve: those are the brothers hired by jussie smollett to carry out a staged hate.ial anatomy of hoax. joining us are the two brothers dario and their attorney gloria rodriguez. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> steve: ola, let's start at the beginning, how did jesse find you and what did he ask you to do. >> so he found me through a mutual friend. so i met him off of set of empire. i was an actor on set but wasn't through the set that i met him. it was through my friend. >> steve: so, ultimately and eventually then he hatched this plan and what did he say to you about his plan for the fake hate attack? >> i want you to beat me up. that's how he said it. >> brian: but you were an actor so you are probably thinking okay, he wants me to play a role, right? >> exactly. >> steve: okay. so, your brother told you about this plan, what did you think? >> man, i was like this cannot be real, like, this is some hollywood stuff right here. it was mind-blowing to me. surreal. >> steve: did you think, okay, this is a bad thing to do or it's not going to be a bad th

you have a special on jussie smollett after the hoax, it's on fox nation. this. >> well, as we all know, jussie smollett was convicted by a jury of this massive hoax, thousands and thousands of dollars and policeman hours after he claimed he was attacked because he is a gay black male. it's now been proven that this is just a grab for more money under his acting contract. he was a big star, starring on the empire series. but apparently that money was not enough. a jury convicted him of this horrible hate crime hoax. but, after just six days on what could have been a really long sentence, he was convicted of five different charges. he weekend out after six days and filed an appeal. let me tell you about the appeal. the appeals court finally said to him in january, look, you have had five extensions. either file by march or we're dropping your appeal. so, finally, in the last few days, they have actually filed an appeal claiming something like double jeopardy, although he was only tried once. and claiming that the judge was overbearing and that he was denied

i'll give you a weird example the case of jussie smollett and his fabricated hate attack from 2019. and this is the actor claimed that he was the victim of a heart attack and turned out that he made the whole thing up. exactly. and so it was very frustrating for me to sort of watch a lot. my leftwing friends say, oh, this is a sign of, you know, where america going. and it's just like, oh, i don't think that really happened the way you think it did. and i would, you know, gotten a several arguments with very close friends of about the veracity of it the way that i knew it wasn't going to happen didn't happen the way it said it was was because i was listening to a bunch of right wing people who are that is that's not us. that was not us. we even know the name of the tv show he's on. we'd never heard of him before. and so as this sort of case came together, the the that knowledge sort of being able to kind of gauge the temperature and see the see the the sort of just identification with that attack from elements of the right it kind of shows how sometimes there are facts that are repo

. >> jussie smollett was in a position to help us, us helping him out would have helped us out. >> todd: smollett insists he was attacked despite being attacked of five felony accounts of lying to chicago pd. you will hear more from the brothers, osundairo brothers on "fox and friends," don't miss that. house republicans are following the money to joe biden's daughter-in law, she is tied to the payout from china. >> ashley: congressman greg murphy will talk about that and his investigation into the penn biden center. cut! another health insurance commercial, another aqua-aerobics scene. yup. most health insurance companies see us all the same: smiley seniors golfing, hiking... don't forget antiquing. that's why i chose humana. they see me, not a stereotypical senior. i'm pre-diabetic, so i talked one-on-one with a humana health educator who really helped me. now i'm taking free cooking and meditation classes. not aqua-aerobics? better care begins with listening. humana. a more human way to healthcare. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking

anyway, tomorrow, the brothers who are accomplices in the jussie smollett case, let not your heart beubled, do we want to give a message to my dear friend laura ingraham? [cheers and applause] hang on, say it in unison, what is the message tonight? >> we love laura! >> sean: did you hear that? "we love laura." >> laura: sean, i love them. you are okay. wait a second, wait a second. the guys! i have been waiting, i've been waiting for the cage match, what happened? where's the cage match between you and conor mcgregor. >> sean: he gets a bigger applause and it is my show, this really sucks. anyway, have a great -- >> laura: fantastic show, sean, i loved watching it. congratulations, awesome show and i will be watching tomorrow night, and i am laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle." thanks for being with us tonight, put up or shut up, that's the focus of tonight's "angle." it's clickbait and it is the left go to shiny object for keeping african americans on the line. of course i am talking about reparations, and san francisco's later over-the-top proposals most of which will never

anyway, tomorrow, the brothers who are accomplices in the jussie smollett case, let not your heart beive a message to my dear friend laura ingraham? [cheers and applause] hang on, say it in unison, what is the message tonight? >> we love laura! >> sean: did you hear that? "we love laura." >> laura: sean, i love them. you are okay. wait a second, wait a second. the guys! i have been waiting, i've been waiting for the cage match, what happened?

. >> bill: the jussie smollett saga is not over yet. brothers are talking for the first time telling fox nation in a five-part series available now that smollett choreographed everything. they went along with it. garrett tenney is live in chicago and the fallout of what we've learned. >> good morning. this was the hate crime heard around the world that turned out to be entirely staged. three speaking out to share their side of the story how smollett paid them to carry out a fake racist and homophobic attack against him in january of 2019. since that night the brothers returned to the scene of the crime to walk through what happened and how smollett choreographed the entire thing. >> we started yelling, the famous slurs he wanted us to yell. he wanted it to look like he fought back. that was very important for him. >> the brothers agreed to stage the attack since smollett could help their acting careers and the kind of thing people in hollywood do for attention. last night they apologized to the country for their part in his crime. >> wh

. >> jesse: remember jussie smollett the midnight foot long lover?ache noose he got from the craft store. in the middle of fabricating a hate crime on hisself. hired the two nigerian body builders to yell racial slurs and beat him. the two brothers recently went on fox nation and walked us through jesse's entire plan. >> i remember, man, we was in character the whole time. i was in my bubba character. yeah, we are going to get them. >> yeah. this maga country. batch when we see that [bleep] >> empire [bleep] [bleep] >> what is black power? his building is actually right here. right above the stairs that we're going to attack him at. we made sure we got there at 2:00 a.m. sharp. >> on the dot. >> on the dot. we had no phones because he did not want us to bring any phones. he said so we don't lose him. >> jesse: no phones, smollett didn't want to document his crimes like hunter? maybe he is smarter. after all the man was never afraid of the camera. he once dubbed himself the gay do you pock. half of that is true plus, he is broke. >> they have the auda

. >> jesse, kamala was a big believer in the jussie smollett hoax, which i know fox nation has done anng our knowledge of in just the last few days. but this is a reminder, i think, of a few things. i mean, one is the calculation that so many of these different politicians made and, yeah, you pointed out this is not -- no one is getting to be a millionaire because of these little treaties of friendship that are being signed. but, the tie always go if you will to the hoaxster in this case. any chance that politician has to show that they are in good faith, showing how multi cultural around diverse they're, they are going to take that because even if they asked any questions, i think some of them would be worried oh my gosh, you don't know about kailasa -- i can't remember the name. you don't know about the wonderful nation of kailasa? you must be some kind of a bigot, sir. shows you the calculations. >> jesse: when you were an intel guy because, this is probably more of a new threat. you're probably seeing in the intelligence community people pretending to be woke or victims or ethnic e

and kim foxley gave jussie smollett the sweetheart deal and as our experience in new york shows if you ideas, if the da and the other branches of government are not on board. >> click what happened in new york the electorate was liberal they came out and voted for kathy hochul even though she was behind alvin bragg were lee zeldin said the whole time the first thing i'm going to do is fire alvin bragg the da. >> the people spoke and we had to do with the sconce quizzes. this is a democracy. >> it's unfortunate when you have das, unfortunate is probably not the right word it's tragic when you have das with their own agendas and somehow they feel they are above what they have been in charge to do. >> and backed by george soros. maria: it is crazy. when we take a break we will come back and celebrate women's history month today we highlight grace hopper united states navy and computer scientists. >> we have admiral grace hopper to thank for computer box but not in the way that you would think grace hopper received a phd in mathematics from neil in 1934 when world war ii erected hopper too

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for example the jussie smollett hate crime hoax that was obviously ridiculous, yet a lot of people immediately, uncritically accepted and promoted it, including the current president and vice president. of the united states. this was because it served a bigger narrative about racism, homophobia, block, blah blah. in the case of manson and his supposedly abusive childhood, until you came along, just, pretty much the entire world critically excepted his story that he was a victim of his family and society at large and all that. even john lennon of the beatles bought into it. why do you think that was? what, if any larger narrative fusing was being served by this sort of blind faith and fictionalized narrative of manson? peter: that goes back to where we started our conversation about the mythology of american events. jeff: remember that in 1968 and 1969 in america anything that would have seemed -- anything seems possible that would have seemed impossible years before. young people were radically changing. before in america kids would grow up to be like their parents. suddenly you have young peo

they're more like jussie smollett would say, so what do we do then at this point when, you we have ainto the she can just come back into the news an apology now news for an apology again. now is the at which we should is the point at which we should just is enough life just say enough is enough life is surely, but will that is enough, surely, but will that happen. well the more coverage we to it, i don't this is we give to it, i don't this is a crazy world. we here and that's natural a soap. maybe natural a soap. so maybe the royal have an royal family just have an apology day for apology on a loop every day for the of their lives. that the rest of their lives. that might be the way to do it anyway. right. thanks very much for joining today. really forjoining us today. really appreciate. break appreciate. so after the break on my panel will on free nation, my panel will answering from viewers answering questions from viewers at home, including their thoughts who's thoughts on a german woman who's having relationship having a sexual relationship with aeroplane. don't go now with an ae

they're more like jussie smollett would say, so what do we do then at this point when, you we have ahe can just come back into the news an apology now news for an apology again. now is the at which we should is the point at which we should just is enough life just say enough is enough life is surely, but will that is enough, surely, but will that happen. well the more coverage we to it, i don't this is we give to it, i don't this is a crazy world. we here and that's natural a soap. maybe natural a soap. so maybe the royal have an royal family just have an apology day for apology on a loop every day for the of their lives. that the rest of their lives. that might be the way to do it anyway. right. thanks very much for joining today. really forjoining us today. really appreciate. break appreciate. so after the break on my panel will on free nation, my panel will answering from viewers answering questions from viewers at home, including their thoughts who's thoughts on a german woman who's having relationship having a sexual relationship with aeroplane. don't go now with an aeroplane. d

jussie smallett's attack say they felt like they were part of a movie. >> we was in character the whole time. >> so you think you guys are believable white supremacists? >> 100%. look at us. >> just this month, smollett's filing an appeal. he was out of jail after six days. he will have to appeal and win or go back to jail. so jimmy failla weighs in. first, garrett tenney weighs it out. >> this is the first time the brothers have spoken at length about the attack which they say was entirely directed and choreographed by justsy smollett. in this fox nation special, they detail how the actor paid them $3,500 to stage a racist and homophobic attack on himself. for the first time, the brothers returned to the scene of the crime with our cameras to walk through how it played out. here's a clip of that. >> that's when we started yelling the famous slurs that he wanted us to yell. that's when i threw the first punch at him. i threw him to the ground. he wanted it to look like he fought back. that was very important for him. >> smollett was convicted on five of six counts of disorderly conduct for lying to the police athe attack and sentenced to 150 days in jail, which he served six days of before being releas