this group injected themselves and talked both guys down. we ended up cool, but we are not tight. we have trust issues. i don t trust him and he doesn t trust me. everyone is talk about chicago violence, he claims his interrupters have talked guys out of 15 murder plots. if you introduce somebody and they cannot tell you the last time they stopped the killing or a potential shooting, they need to step up. the violence interrupters are straight guys. if they don t behave like street guys, the gangs listen to them at all. cops don t like them, politicians are afraid of them and millions of dollars in funding have disappeared. hartman claims they have prevented 15 shootings this year so far, there s no record for gunfire that didn t happen. jenna: a thank you. it s going to hour of the
chicago for a sit-down. they reached out to me because they associated me with you. they respect you and believe in what you are doing and what to have a sit-down about lowering the body counts. in a couple of weeks we re going into chicago. great idea. chicago is out of control. we have to lower the body count. just the body count. they agree the principles that can do it and straight from the street. no politicians straight street guys. they ll commit if they lower their body count we ll do some social programs. they won t solve the problem. what you re doing is the right thing. we ll solve the problem for them. we ll have to do something about chicago. what is happening in chicago shouldn t be happening. they want to work with this administration. they reached out to me. they believe in this administration but didn t believe in the prior administration. they see hope. mr. president, i m a member of the what we call the media where we try to be fair.
that you was down with this movement. fresh to death like a million bucks. come on, we were big dreamers. hip hop was based on that dream of coming up and getting it big. the light at the end of the tunnel was always the pot of gold, the clothes, the fashion. someone said to me your clothes are your wings. if you want to fly, you re going to fly mplt and by doing that, with the style street guys have, once we put it on, it s a whole different story. you know what i m saying. we put on the clothes and we take it to the next level.
threat. there was a death threat that a conspiracy to kill me as a result of my leaving the life because you can t leave the life. but in my case in actuality i could have left the life because my father s power is absolute. your john gotti s son, so you can leave the life but maybe somebody else who is not john gotti s son couldn t. let me ask you something else. okay. i don t understand this. it seems that most of the guys end up dead or in jail. right. so why is it so intoxicating for street guys to nonetheless pursue the life? do they all think, well that s them, but it s not going to happen to me? i ll tell you from my viewpoint. from my viewpoint, being around my father it was intoxicating. when he walked into a room he owned everything that was in that room. i just would look at him in awe. i was starstruck every time i saw him. even in the house in his bathrobe i was starstruck by the guy. the way he comported himself, always erect, always proper