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The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Chicago Under Siege: The Truth Behind the Violence and Political Inaction with Gianno Caldwell
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Christina Quinn
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Christina Quinn
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Lisa Booth
Lisa Booth where we cut to the heart of the issues that matter to you. Today we're joined by one of my best friends. He's also a FOX News political analyst, Giano Caldwell. We'll talk about the spiraling crime crisis in Chicago, a city that's really under siege from violence. We'll dive into President Trump's bold proposal to send potentially send in the National Guard to try to restore some order. And we'll debate what it means for our communities and for the country. Plus, I'll talk to Giano about his powerful new book, the Day My Brother Was Murdered, where he shares his personal journey through America's violent crime epidemic and about the night he lost his little brother Christian, who was murdered in Chicago. Plus, we'll talk to Giano about his powerful new book, the Day My Brother Was Murdered, sharing his personal journey through America's violent crime epidemic after losing his little brother Christian, who was murdered in Chicago. Now, the book tells the stories of other families around the country who also lost loved ones, whose loved ones were murdered the same night that he lost Christian. So we'll get to the truth of all of this with my dear friend, Gianl Caldwell. Stay tuned. Giano, it's great to have you on, my friend. Wish it was about a better topic than this, but I appreciate you making the time to come on, my friend.
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Giano Caldwell
It is, it is always my pleasure to be on with you, my very dear friend. And certainly this topic is something that I think for a lot of people causes stress, especially knowing the city that we're talking about. But glad to dive into this.
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Lisa Booth
You know, I think it's hard for a lot of people to understand. I mean, you look at Chicago, just over Labor Day weekend, 54 people shot, seven fatally. You know, if you don't live in a major city like Chicago or a City with as high as a murder rate of Chicago. Like, you really don't understand. Tell us about, like, what is it like to. Obviously you're from Chicago, you don't live there anymore, but what is it like for the citizens of Chicago every weekend when you look at numbers like that, 54 people shot, seven fatally.
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Giano Caldwell
To be honest with you, I'm very much concerned with my family who still live there. I've moved the number of folks out of Chicago, but not everyone is so willing to go. And the fact of the matter is, the scary part of it is walking outside of your house every day to do something as simple as go to school. For these children, Children, it's a nightmare. They don't know if they're returning back home. The parents don't know if they're returning back home or going to the grocery store or something that a person that may be listening does on an everyday basis. They may take a walk in their community. You know, you're not doing anything that you would think is super dangerous. But that is the fear that many people in Chicago live with on a daily basis. Just imagine all these people who were shot over the weekend. These people have families. These folks have a lot of folks. I'm sure they care about them and that are concerned with their well being, but their families have been impacted. And I can almost assure you that out of these 50 plus people that were shot over the weekend, this isn't the first time that their families have experienced that. I can imagine there's people in that bunch who've had multiple people in their families shot in or murdered. And that tends to be the reality for a lot of folks that live in the city of Chicago. So when Brandon Johnson or Governor J.B. pritzker say there's no crime here, there's no issue, there's no crisis. They're lying to people's faces. They're lying to the victims of violent crime who've experienced these tragedies and know them all too well. They're lying to the citizens who have been demanding justice from them and members of the Democratic Party for many, many years. They're lying to the national media and they're lying to themselves if they actually believe that.
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Lisa Booth
You know, I saw an interview with Pritzker recently and you know, he was asked about the, the shootings over the weekend of Labor Day and he was like, yeah, well, you know, like every major city has crime, but not like Chicago, I guess. How do we get to this point where like a politician, a governor, like Pritzker is just not concerned about such substantial loss of human life.
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Giano Caldwell
I mean, what, what it tends to be, I think these. And oftentimes, you know this, Lisa, I know this, too. The perpetrator and the victim are oftentimes black. When you just look at the pure numbers. And this is the same group of people who've yelled out, black lives matter, and they honestly don't give a damn. Black lives don't matter to them. It's the black boats that matter to them. And they've made that. The focal point for many of these conversations is about elections. How can they win? How can they get more black folks to support Democrats when Democrats are creating the most damage to the communities in which they say they care the most about? You look at the numbers in terms of education in Chicago and across the state of Illinois as an example. You have dozens of schools where not one single student can read or write at grade level, can do math at grade level. That's a deficit not just for the people of those particular areas in those, in those cities, Chicago and elsewhere in Illinois, but the entire nation. Our. Our treasure is in our children. More, more often than not, you want to build a generation that's going to make life better for the generation that came before them. You know, our seniors, our mothers, our grandmothers, those are very important people. But you also got to have that same kind of pride when it comes to these children. And right now, they're not even able to go get educated in schools because they are afraid of what may happen to them when they leave trying to get back home. This is a very. This is a. This is a national crisis.
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Lisa Booth
You know, and. And to the point about the numbers, you know, Chicago had 573 murders in 2024, compared to 377 for New York City and 268 for Los Angeles, just as a point of comparison to two other, you know, major cities. You talked about how, you know, these politicians say things like black lives matter, but then, you know, allow so many black people to get murdered in, in their cities and in their states. Then why do they say black lives matter if they don't mean it?
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Giano Caldwell
Man? It's for politics, the rationale behind it. I believe what the Democrats have taken up this banter not because they believe black lives actually matter, but because they want to stay in power. This is about power and has always been. If you look at Illinois, they have a super majority in their general Assemblies, the House and the Senate, they have. All constitutional offices are ran by the Democrats. All but three congressional offices out of the 17 are ran by the Democrats. They will gerrymander the hell out of anything to retain power. And they know that they've been losing the grip on the black community, not just in Illinois, but nationally. So what do they do? They jump on these bandwagons. For them, it doesn't really mean anything. It doesn't cost anything. It's popular. It's trendy for them with no policy to support it. If black lives really and truly matter, then you wouldn't eliminate cash bail. If black lives truly and legitimately matter, you would be tougher on crime. You would be much, much, much tougher on crime, and you would ensure that those individuals who are out here committing these atrocities are held responsible and publicly so. But that's not what they're willing to do. We see this across the nation. They're willing to jump on the bandwagon of illegal migrants that have come into our country who've committed crimes, who. President Trump has said, no, you shouldn't be here. You need to go home. And when it's time to send them home, all of a sudden, oh, no, we got to keep this person here. This is one of the good ones. You mean the guy who raped a little girl or the guy who murdered someone? Or the guy who came over and he said, selling fentanyl to our people, which is killing them in droves. These are the people you want to defend. These are the posted children that you want to. You want to get behind. It's asinine.
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Lisa Booth
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Jacob Goldstein
Jacob this is Jacob Goldstein from what's yous Problem? Business software is expensive and when you buy software from lots of different companies, it's not only expensive, it gets confusing. Slow to use, hard to integrate. Odoo solves that because all Odoo software is connected on a single affordable platform. Save money without missing out on the features you need. Odoo has no hidden costs and no limit on features or data. Odoo has over 60 apps available for any needs your business might have, all at no additional charge. Everything from websites to sales to inventory to accounting. All linked and talking to each other. Check out Odoo at o d o o.com that's o d o o.com if.
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Christina Quinn
You eat too many ultra processed foods, you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this from the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this. Dig in with me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now, wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.
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Lisa Booth
You lost Christian, your little brother Christian, just 18 years old. Obviously, there are seven families without a loved one after the Labor Day weekend. How much of this comes down to, like, some of these politicians, like Pritzker, obviously, he's like, incredibly rich or even, you know, Brandon Johnson, you know, you know, how much of this is because, you know, like, Brandon Johnson, I would assume he's got security detail. I'm not actually sure.
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Giano Caldwell
No, he does.
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Lisa Booth
He does.
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Giano Caldwell
He does.
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Lisa Booth
So how much of this is because these politicians are sort of like, in. Right. It's not their family member. It's not someone that they know personally. Like, their personal lives have not been impacted. How much of this comes down to that? Like, you know, they can push these policies because they're insulated from the consequences of them.
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Giano Caldwell
I mean, we've. We've largely seen that for many who were saying, defund the police back in 2020, but they had their own police force or private securities. We know that. And certainly for people like Brandon Johnson or J.B. pritzker, who are protected, they are elected officials that have their own security, but JB Pritzker can afford his own with or without being governor. They don't understand the realities that people, everyday people, the working people that they claim to support, they don't know the realities that they're living through. They don't know. They don't care. They're insulated. To your point, they're very much insulated. So what do they do? They push out policies that should be supportive of these particular communities, but they are not. Brandon Johnson couldn't tell Joe Scarborough on MSNBC the truth, which is 5,000 police would help the city of Chicago without question. So many people left after the defund the police movement. So many people retired after they seen the disrespect that was being handed down by our elected officials and the handcuffing of police. So, yes, many have left, leaving vacancies of thousands. So 5,000 police officers would make a tremendous difference in the city of Chicago, especially if they're not handcuffing the police. So, yeah, they can. They can speak from their ivory towers. They can make these commentary, make this commentary that, that everything is okay in these communities. Well, you don't live there and you don't really know. And if you actually care, you would say, yes, we need President Trump's help. Let's partner with him, federal resources. Let's do it. Doj, atf, dea, FBI, let's get them in there. Let's work together and partner. It may not agree with him on everything, and I can understand that. That's how our politics works. I get that. But to say that you don't want to get the support of the federal government, somebody who actually wants to help the city of Chicago, unlike President Barack Obama, this tells you how far, how deaf they are to the reasonable calls from citizens in the state of Illinois and in the city of Chicago begging for help, saying, we need to get President Trump here. Regardless of what the elected officials have said, they've totally failed.
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Lisa Booth
You know, and you look at what's happened in D.C. since the president declared a crime emergency there in our nation's capital, you know, violent crime has fallen by 45%. Carjackings are down 87% when compared to the same period in 2024. So clearly enforcement works.
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Giano Caldwell
Yeah, it does.
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Lisa Booth
Right? And it's like, it's really. So why is that such a difficult concept for some of these people to understand? If you enforce the laws, people are going to commit less crimes. It's pretty simple.
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Giano Caldwell
Yeah. Because the woke left has painted them in a corner. They made them believe that justice for the criminal was much more important than justice for the citizens. They fallen into the trap of the progressive left, which said that they were going to take the Democratic Party in that direction. You remember what they said about Joe Biden? They said that they were going to drag him far to the left, which they did successfully, I may add. But that's also dragged a lot of other Democratic leaders to the left as well, if you can consider them leaders, I should say. So they're falling for the trap which is going to get them pushed out of office. Brandon Johnson is the lowest approved mayor in Chicago history. J.B. pritzker has a lot of issues, even though I know he's going to try to buy his way into a reelect campaign because he needs to stay around long enough so he can try to run for president, which I think is going to be a loser for him. But this is where they are right now. And this is where the Democratic Party is right now, too. Those black lives that they claim that mattered for many, many years. We're seeing the policy specifics, the endangerment to these communities based on what that rhetoric was. We're seeing it play out. Who comes up with a safety act, which is the bill that they use to eliminate cash bail in Illinois. We're seeing Multiple people who are getting arrested for various crimes, and they're getting out. I saw a publication just today where they were saying, this is our sixth time writing about this individual committing crimes, but he's been let out six times. You know, they're not holding these folks accountable, and people are waking up to the realities of it. And my hope is that it doesn't become too late for some family who could lose a loved one because of this inaction and destructive policies being pushed by the left.
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Lisa Booth
You know, I blame Obama for a lot of this because, like, especially with Michael Brown, you know, his own Justice Department determined that Michael Brown was the one that, you know, he robbed the store, and then he reached for the police officer's gun. There was a scuffle that ensued. And his Department of Justice determined that Michael Brown was actually the one in the wrong. Right, and cleared Officer Wilson. Yet he, like, continued to cast doubt on it. He, even prior to that, was really, you know, pushing the whole, like, cans up, don't shoot narrative of Michael Brown. Then it led to the Black Lives Matter movement, and it sort of, like, set off this discord in the country and, like, kind of appended our criminal justice system where, you know, police officers then had a target on their own backs and then his own chief of staff, mayor, or, you know, and former Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago would eventually say that police officers were in the fetal position since Ferguson because they're so afraid to do their jobs. You know, So I. I mean, do you blame Obama or. You know, I don't know. What do you think about that?
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Giano Caldwell
No, no. I mean, I. I do agree with you, largely, and I think many people in Chicago agree with you on that. That sentiment as well, because it's, I think, is even deeper than that, because to your point, it did create this narrative that police officers, especially around this time, were just bad people. And I know that that's been a narrative that's been going around for a long time, but we never had a United States president really submit that sentiment for a lot of folks. So people felt in the right to be pushing back against police. And mind you, this doesn't. This is no respect to any bad apples in any police department who doesn't follow procedure or has proper conduct. I'm talking about good police officers, good police who do their job every day with integrity and character, and they're here to serve and protect those men and women by President Barack Obama. And many Democrats since then have cast down doubts on the good intentions of policing. Those are the ones like the New York City Democrat Socialist candidate for mayor who says he said that he wanted to defund the police, voted for it, and now it's kind of had a little bit of a change of tune, which we know his real interest is defunding the police and putting social workers in that place. This has created that kind of casting, if you will, which is disenfranchised citizens everywhere, no matter what color.
- [24:01]
Lisa Booth
Quick break. If you're enjoying the episode, please share on social media or maybe send it to a friend who's really on your side when it comes to your health insurance companies, pharmacies that refuse valid prescriptions? Not a chance. The truth is our healthcare system is broken. That's why more people are turning to All Family Pharmacy, an independent pharmacy that's actually on your side, the right side. They fight for your medical freedom, making it simple to get the treatments you trust without the insurance runaround. Right now, Ivermectin and mebendazole are 25% off starting at just $2 a capsule and you can save another 10% with code USA10. Choose from over 200 medications, antibiotics, hydroxychloroquine, NAD plus, methylon, blue, antivirals and more, all with a doctor's prescription included and shipped straight to your door. Go to AllFamilyPharmacy.com USA and use code USA10. Again, that's AllFamilyPharmacy.comUSA and use code USA10. If you believe in medical freedom or well, this is your pharmacy.
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- [26:04]
Jacob Goldstein
This is Jacob Goldstein from what's yous Problem? Business software is expensive, and when you buy software from lots of different companies, it's not only expensive, it gets confusing. Slow to use, hard to integrate. Odoo solves that because all Odoo software is connected on a single affordable platform. Save money without missing out on the features you need. Odoo has no hidden costs and no limit on features or data. Odoo has over 60 apps available for any needs your business might have, all at no additional charge. Everything from websites to sales to inventory to accounting. All linked and talking to each other. Check out Odoo at o d o o.com that's o d o o.com if.
- [26:49]
Christina Quinn
You eat too many ultra processed foods you could be starving your gut microbes and they'll get hangry. That's one of many things I learned after working on a new audio course about the gut microbiome. You can learn how to keep your gut happy by listening to Try this From the Washington Post. I'm Christina Quinn. I host Try this Dig in with Me on practical advice for life's common challenges. Follow Try this right now where I wherever you're listening. Seriously, try it.
- [27:19]
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Lisa Booth
You had mentioned previously that, you know, you hope no other families experience the kind of loss that you've experienced and that, you know, families over the Labor Day weekend experience just in Chicago alone. I know in your book the Day my brother was murdered you tell the stories of other families who lost loved ones whose loved ones were murdered the same night that Chris Christian was murdered. How hard was it to write that book and obviously relive the night that you lost Christian, but then also to hear these stories of other people who have faced the same kind of pain that your family has and that you have.
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Giano Caldwell
It was. It was in many, many ways tough. I mean like it was. It was really heartbreaking for me spend many times in tears just by not just only recounting the facts around Christian's murder on June 24, 2022, but also these other families. And you know I wrote this book the day my brother was Murdered my journey through America's violent crime crisis because I wanted to put a face to a crisis that I think has affected families of all, of all levels. You're talking about black, white, Hispanic and other. No matter what your political party is, Democrat, Republican or independent, everyone has been impacted by the crime crisis in this country one shape or another. And I think it's extraordinarily important to say that as a country, we need to solve this issue. I don't think it's just an issue for black folks to solve or white folks or Hispanics or what. As a United States of America, we all need to get on board with solving this issue. I live in Miami, Florida right now. Very peaceful, very safe. I can walk down the streets and not have to look over my shoulder. And it feels good to not have that kind of pressure. But I remember when I used to have to live in that scenario when I was in Chicago, even living downtown Chicago. The reality is just the same. In the book, I talk about people like James, who was an army veteran, who would oftentimes go to a park at 1 or 2 in the morning because in the military he got PTSD, he couldn't sleep. And it was a group of kids there, we're talking about 13 year olds, 12, 11 in this park. And he says to him, what are you doing here? You should be at home. And they beat him to death with a traffic cone. I was reading just today stories from people in Chicago who were saying there's a major concern here because there's eight year olds that walk around with guns, eight years old. Lisa, it is true. I've heard these stories many, many times. Eight year olds. You see Judge Jeanine talking about Washington D.C. on how she cannot prosecute teenagers because of the laws there. And we're talking about people who, even younger than teenage, who also had guns in D.C. so it's not just a Chicago issue, although obviously it happens more there. And it is the murder capital, largely. President Trump calls it the murder capital of the world, but it certainly has bigger numbers than New York and Los Angeles are major, major cities in the country. And this is an issue, I think that the country has to stand up and say enough is enough. Yes, President Trump, go into these communities, help fix it. But yeah, elected officials who've been voted in, you must work with him because you've not offered us any solutions whatsoever. You've only made matters worse with your policy failures. And that's a conversation we all must be having. And that includes folks who may have been Democrats their entire lives, knowing that their party does not support them. Their party is not about the working class anymore. It's about the elites. It's about the billionaire class. That's who they serve. They need to say enough is enough of voting for those folks and vote for Republicans, even if it's a race that they may not win. You need to send a loud and clear message to the Democratic Party that you failed us decade after decade. And we won't take it enough, won't take it at all anymore, I should say. And I'm reminded of what President Trump said. What do you have to lose? You remember that, that, that, that campaign that he.
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Lisa Booth
Yes.
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Giano Caldwell
What do you have to lose? The schools are bad.
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Giano Caldwell
The crime is bad. True. What do you have to lose by giving Trump a chance? Well, we see what we have to gain because he just did it in.
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Lisa Booth
D.C. the National Guard would be more limited going in to Chicago if he were to send them, just because it's.
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Giano Caldwell
Not a federal city.
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Lisa Booth
Exactly. And, you know, he's able to control the D.C. metropolitan Police in D.C. but he wouldn't be able with Chicago's police. Do you think it would still help for him, like, the presence alone or, or what do you think he should do? You know, because obviously there's been a lot of resistance from Pritzker and Brandon Johnson saying that this is, you know, unconstitutional or that it's a bridge too far. What do you make of that?
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Giano Caldwell
Well, over the weekend, they were just having protests, anti Trump protests. And the way appears to me is that J.B. pritzker and Brandon Johnson are looking to frame this in such a way that if Trump does come, he's giving the citizens permission to push back on the National Guard, if that would be what it is. Whatever the federal response is and whatever the federal presence is, I think what they would like to see is chaos in the street. They want to see George Floyd all over again. That is the goal, and that's what they were hoping for in D.C. but to that point, the presence in D.C. has certainly reduced crime. The criminals are hiding away, and they have arrested a number of criminals. That would be very effective for Chicago to take some of these people off the street. But the thing is, how do you prosecute them? Is the question. Are you prosecuting them through the doj, or are you prosecuting them through the Cook County? Cook County Prosecutor's Office? Is the Safety act going to apply the elimination of cash bail where they can just get put, just recycled back onto the streets? Those are, I think, questions that need to be answered. And the federal presence have to be a bit more descriptive as to what we would be looking to see. And I think that's kind of what they're working on now. But it's going to be a little more difficult to work on it, especially if you don't have the local partnership from the governor and the mayor, because they refuse to accept the help, because they know that it would make such a drastic difference that Trump would get the credit for it. And people will say, well, Trump is right. We need to invite this into our city. Because Chicago is the poster trial for the worst ran, most corrupt and criminal haven. I think, of any city in the country right now, we've had the most politicians go to jail, governors, mayors, any form of elected officials. We've had the most crime of just about any major city that you can think of. Most murders. I believe it was about 150,000 crimes committed thus far this year. That's. That's serious. That's pretty serious stuff. So, you know, if you're able to make a difference in Chicago like you did in D.C. then the Democrats are put out of business.
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Lisa Booth
You're thinking about running, or at least entertaining the idea, potentially running for Senate in Illinois. Do you think a Republican can win?
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Giano Caldwell
My hope is that a Republican can win in Illinois and a Republican should win in Illinois. We know that most voters are looking for results. The Democrats haven't delivered on that. I feel like we're going to have a law and order midterm election. Durbin just decided that he's not going to run again, which essentially makes it an open seat. I spoke at Illinois State Fair for Republican Day, and there, immediately after I spoke as the keynote speaker, there was a camera in my face asking if I was running for U.S. senate. And that started a lot of the conversation around the potentiality of me running. I've heard from folks both nationally and locally on the ground who are very excited and interested in me running, and they believe that I am the guy to do it. Now, I am absolutely seriously exploring this as an option and an opportunity to serve my home state. But if I don't run, I'm still going to be very focused on ensuring whoever does run has an opportunity to win that race, whether that be me, you know, just campaigning on the ground, knocking on doors, making phone calls for that person, or speaking at their events. This is a state that Republicans must win, and we must have someone in that office that can work with this administration, because I believe that the Trump 2.0 number 47 is the best administration that we've ever seen. And they're willing to do things that I think Democrats would love to have done. They would have loved to have taken over D.C. and you know, I guess I should say the old Democratic Party, old Democratic Party would have loved to have made a difference on crime, because remember, crime used to be an issue that every party was concerned about, just like border security was one that everybody was every party was concerned about. You see what Obama said on it, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, these used to not be polarizing issues. Everybody agreed we need safety, security. We need our nation's sovereignty not to be violated. We need we. Those are things that we all agreed on. It was just a abortion and maybe taxes was the biggest consideration between two parties. But now we're so far apart on these issues. Republicans are more in line with what the citizens want. No matter what that issue might be. Biological men and women's sports, Republicans don't want that. But based on the polling, most Americans don't want that, including a majority of Democrats don't want that. And I believe about 60%. So there's a lot of issues that I think we can tackle, and we need representation in the state of Illinois that can actually work with this administration to get things done for the state. And right now that doesn't exist.
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Lisa Booth
You know, and I know that you're working on all these issues too, at the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety, trying to push for policies that would reduce crime in a lot of these places like Chicago, and support people who want.
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Giano Caldwell
To enforce the law 100%. And I would encourage people to go to caldwellinstitute.org support our efforts, or caldwellsafety.org for our foundation, the Caldwell foundation for Public Safety. And I can't thank you enough for hosting our event in Mar a Lago. You did a fantastic job. And, you know, the word is out. We want to disrupt the violent crime and the crime crisis that's been going on in our country. And that for what we do at the Caldwell Institute for Public Safety is around the elected officials who held these offices, whether they be progressive prosecutors funded by George Soares, or they're the far left folks of the Democratic Party and mayoral roles, the gubernatorial roles, or honestly, the whole Democratic Party is pretty far left at this particular point. So we wanted to make an impact after my brother was was murdered in the city of Chicago. And this is my way of paying his legacy forward. And I'm so honored to partner with you on this. Lisa.
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Lisa Booth
Well, Gianna Caldwell, you're one of best friends. You're basically a family. I love you.
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Giano Caldwell
You are my family.
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Lisa Booth
Well, you're my family too. I'm proud of you. Obviously I've, you know, seen or knew and you know, was there and saw all the pain that you went through and still are going through with losing Christian. So I'm just, I'm really proud of you for taking something that, you know, most people will never experience that kind of pain and turning it into a motivating force to try to make sure other people don't have to feel that kind of pain. So proud of you, my friend. Thanks for making the time.
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Giano Caldwell
Thank you Bestie. I'm always appreciative to join you on your platform. Thank you for the opportunity.
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Lisa Booth
That was Gianna Caldwell. Appreciate him for taking the time to come on the show. Push you guys at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. Also want to thank my producer John Cassio for putting the show together. Until next time.
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