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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.

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