The Osundairo brothers -- the two men who helped Jussie Smollett stage his hate crime hoax -- say they were taken aback ... not by his conviction being overturned, but because he never copped to what he did.
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00:00The reaction to Jussie Smollett having his conviction over-returned, over-turned.
00:06Over-returned.
00:06Over-reversed is where I got.
00:10Anyway, signals got crossed in my head.
00:12So, there are two guys that have skin in the game.
00:15Exactly.
00:16Well, that was an odd turn of phrase, skin in the game.
00:21Because the Asindaro brothers, we know are the two guys.
00:25No, I know, but the reason I was thinking that is because you remember when Jussie first
00:29reported this, he said that there were two white men.
00:32Oh, right.
00:33There were two white men who were yelling.
00:35I forgot about that part.
00:36Who were yelling, this is MAGA country.
00:38Right, right, right.
00:39And using a homophobic slur.
00:41True.
00:41And then when we found out the two people who actually did it, they were-
00:44Were Nigerian.
00:45Very clearly not two white men.
00:48But they obviously are the ones who went to police and said this thing was all a hoax.
00:52That's when police first found out this was staged.
00:57They were, the Asindaro brothers were arrested.
00:59Yeah, they were initially arrested.
01:01So, they got caught up in this whole thing.
01:03Right.
01:03So, they're the ones who revealed the hoax.
01:06They got, this is what they had to say last night about his conviction being reversed.
01:10We should just explain.
01:11That just in case you didn't hear yesterday, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously said
01:16that there was no, there were no basis to try Jussie because he had struck a deal with
01:22the prosecutor, served community, did community service, forfeited his bond.
01:28Yep, a thousand dollars.
01:29And the case never should have been tried again because it would be double jeopardy.
01:34So, he's a free man now and will not be retried.
01:37But there's something that hasn't happened that is really upsetting to the Asindaro brothers.
01:42We were taken aback initially, not because of the Supreme Court's decision,
01:47but because Jussie never admitted guilt.
01:51We understand that he has due process rights and double jeopardy shouldn't,
01:56and is not allowed in America.
01:59However, Jussie should have admitted guilt.
02:01And that's where we stand.
02:04Jussie got that deal because he has influence and power.
02:07So, it shows that there are two different citizens in America,
02:11one with power and one without.
02:13And that's why he got that sweetheart deal.
02:16We're going to get into whether it was a sweetheart deal or not,
02:19because we're going to have the state's attorney on who actually prosecuted that
02:23and struck that deal, Kim Fox.
02:25But what's interesting about what they said is,
02:28they really do understand the legal side of this thing in terms of double jeopardy.
02:34They just want Jussie to confess and say, I staged a hoax.
02:38They want him on the same page as they are,
02:40because they've said it was a hoax.
02:42And the guy who was, they say, plotted the whole thing, isn't saying it.
02:46Guess who else said it was a hoax?
02:49The jury.
02:50Yeah.
02:50The jury did.
02:51Right.
02:51You know, it all makes sense.
02:53You understand their perspective on this.
02:54But let's, they're not total victims in this thing.
02:57They signed on to perpetrate the hoax in exchange for money.
03:02So, yeah, they want his apology or admission of what happened.
03:07But I don't really think that they're in the position to really demand that.
03:11The taxpayers of Chicago.
03:12But wait a minute, Jason.
03:14If you really take Jussie at his word,
03:17Jussie is saying those two guys attacked him.
03:20Now, it doesn't make any sense because they don't get in the profile of what Jussie said.
03:26But he's saying two guys attacked him.
03:28And these brothers are saying it was us who attacked him, but it was all fake.
03:33But they accepted money to be, to perpetrate a hoax,
03:36that they were the ones who attacked him.
03:38And I got it.
03:39They wanted, once the jury was up and they were found out,
03:42they wanted Jussie to come in clean and say, no, no, no, it was a hoax.
03:46But they don't, they're not owed that.
03:48They took money.
03:48But no, but taking money is one thing.
03:52Actually assaulting somebody is more serious.
03:54But everyone knows that they didn't assault.
03:56Jussie is saying that didn't happen.
03:58Jussie is saying I was assaulted.
04:00But Jussie is not saying those two guys assaulted him.
04:02Yeah, but you have to connect the dots here.
04:04Those were the two guys that were there because you see them in the video.
04:08So I know what you're saying.
04:09Right.
04:09But Jussie is saying, yes, I got it.
04:12This is a warped reality.
04:13I know.
04:14I know.
04:15Hi, it's Danielle from West Virginia.
04:17And as a former fan of Jussie and his empire career and his music, I loved his music.
04:23I have to agree with the brothers.
04:25It's time for him to admit his guilt.
04:26What he did was wrong.
04:28Well, that is not going to happen.
04:30He is not going to ever confess.
04:32No, there's no reason for him to at this point, because I mean,
04:35the only reason he would do that is if someone in Hollywood said,
04:39look, we're not going to do a movie with you unless you admit it.
04:42That's true.
04:43And although even then, it's just not going to happen.
04:47By the way, by the way, I believe one of the Asindaro brothers on Yellowstone season three.
04:54Well, Yellowstone is over.
04:56Look.
04:57But he's promoting it.
04:59Maybe he wanted to audition.