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last night Chicago past 1000 shooting
for 2017 was this a war-torn country
what are we doing and we have to stop
the violence President Trump called out
Chicago's troubles and campaigned on
finding the solution 12 days after
inauguration a pastor named Daryl Scott
told President Trump he had won Scott
said top gang thugs in Chicago had
personally contacted him as a message
for the president they respect you they
believe in what you doing and they
wanted to sit down about low on that
Vatika Daryl Scott is from Cleveland and
doesn't have many contacts in Chicago
but he's got the attention of the White
House is what's happening in Chicago I
should not be happening to this country
Scott and Donald Trump first met back in
2011 when Trump was flirting with the
thought of being president during the
campaign got introduced Trump at Ohio
rallies and spoke at the Republican
National Convention God Donald Trump god
bless you and God bless america
he's now the CEO of the national
diversity Coalition for Trump and his
promise has made him the de facto fix
Chicago advisor
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I figure on August I haven't seen all
types of death only don't think it even
affect me like anymore Torrance
cooks is a former South Side gang member
turned community organizer his cousin
introduced him to a pastor named Luther
McKinstry who then introduced cooks to
Daryl Scott
it was his one-off conversation with
Daryl Scott that turned into a promise
to the president 88 million people have
been talking about saving Chicago for a
long time
while he waited for Daryl Scott meeting
Torrance cooks organized his own Town
Hall for the south side I've never are
all years of my life ever seen as many
children dad before the parents we need
to bring those young people that were
talking about into the room and talk to
them no actual gang members showed up if
it's hard to get them to show up to
their own community center what's going
to happen when people from the Trump
administration want to come and talk to
them - we don't need them that with the
trunk meeting we need to get something
done from out of the trunk Mary Tyrone
is a pastor who does community outreach
on Chicago's West Side he was skeptical
of Scott's comments and decided to reach
out to Scott who then invited him to be
a part of the meeting do you buy it that
Trump is the guy who can change Chicago
I bother he has the power to do if jobs
are going to come to my city
I don't care we wake Hitler up out the
grave and Hitler says I'm going to help
the african-american community in the
inner city of Chicago I'm going to roll
with Hitler there are some people who'd
say that it's about as likely that Trump
is going to help a lot of people in
Chicago as Hitler rises in the grave to
help blacks in Chicago do you think that
Trump has an accurate understanding of
Chicago and that he can treat its people
right the police tried it their way the
preachers tried it their way
you know we're praying our way out we're
laying on the ground we're marching that
didn't that didn't work
the plan was for cooks to bring the
Southside Forte Barone to handle the
West the two sides historically haven't
been able to get along the meeting was
set for March 21st at a Marriott near
the airport
deep down the majority of us want the
same thing we want the homicide rate to
stop in Chicago
I personally in 2016 did over a hundred
pills myself it's hard enough to get
community leaders to work together it's
even harder to get the games to it no
longer looks like the organized crime of
the 80s and 90s the original leaders are
dead or in prison
and gangs have fractured into cliques
fighting bitterly for money and
territory why every day are you carrying
that around with you you think you know
the trust of not to change me the house
about this is right you Hume it's like
you you basically said she had my
life loves her
so when you wake up in the morning Wendy
and first granddad so as you put on your
clothes if I could be closer
how you been out of toyosu are you going
to bear for the washoe face of Brussels
teeth that gory hit like you put your
better the last thing do it was right
about the police are about to do a three
years in a penitentiary a life in a
cemetery Birdman and little G our
Gangster Disciples on Chicago's West
Side he's doing a lot better there when
I first get out the hospital I was each
one of my brothers could bring back one
of my D homes they had both a time and
it'd be 13 of my homies every night
Birdman was shot in November and the
wounds are still fresh
he replaces his bandages with his
grandma's napkin and tape he borrowed
from our cameraman this reality is a
world away from hotel conference rooms
much less the Oval Office Birdman and
little G have never heard of Daryl Scott
pastor Tyrone or Torrance cooks I bet
you that whole table be fuller
everybody has some sometimes bang kind
of item you know just like I enjoy
why don't you think you get invited to
meetings like that how they think we to
IGNOU have somebody like us go get
to someone like that you don't say
Buddha go see it probably gonna get
invitation the night before Daryl Scott
scheduled meeting Scott's team sends out
two conflicting press releases the first
cause of meeting a gang summit with a
negotiated ceasefire the second walks
the promise of a ceasefire back less
than an hour later Scott postponed
meeting this meeting happened on the
impromptu and it was because of the
cancellation of dr. Scott and he cooks a
frustrated pastor Tyrone invites people
to a makeup meeting on the west side no
South siders or Trump associates in
sight or gang members Xing out the
Donald Trump syndrome and you know stop
jumping on the bandwagon that Donald
Trump is this monster and he hates black
people you know we need to know for
ourselves and that's that's where I am
right now
back in Cleveland pastor Daryl Scott
prepared to make things right and
reschedule the meeting there's been some
confusion around what this meeting would
look like because you know began at the
Black History Month table with the
sounding like Trump might actually sit
down with top gang thugs from Chicago
and then there was a release that said
that there'd be a ceasefire and
immediate job openings for the kids
where are we now
ceasefire if the Lord Jesus Christ
descended from heaven right now that
would be hard for him to do at any point
when you consider for some people though
the life-or-death stakes here and the
complicated geography of the city of
Chicago and I'm learning it learning
process me I don't know so do you ever
not ever feel like damn maybe I bit off
more than I could chew here no do you
know why because I'm not trying to
grandstand I'm not trying to sell boat
and my motives are pure nearly three
months after his promise to the
president Scott held the meeting this
time within walking distance from the
White House at the four-star st. Regis
Hotel dr. Scott what Seligman President
Trump is unpopular in the black
community and he wants to help he wants
to make good on his campaign promises
and if I got anything to do with it he
gonna come true but everything he said
he's gonna come through for the black
community in the room there was a mix of
pastors I have churches in Africa Haiti
and one in Campfield Ohio businessmen I
own a pharmaceutical company in India
178 employees we make genetic oncology
drugs in Friends of Trump and Scott
we're here to really take action to make
change so thank you for taking action of
coming here to DC seat it across from
six Outsiders from Chicago pastor Jay
Braun didn't get the invite in Torrance
Kooks
missed his flight that morning the
conversation went on for five hours you
know in the streets they say put up or
shut up we put up and we hear we got to
bring home hope
because we would have good before not
just a report because because of we've
restructured the meeting yeah I remember
in together where people are poor
cynicism is heightened man it ain't will
happen man what's up with this so we
have to bring some back the Chicagoans
wanted money for nonprofits housing
economic development and programs to
keep kids off the streets what they
received was a promise that there'd be
another meeting what's important for us
is establishing next steps and I always
said this wasn't the last meeting I said
it from the very beginning the first
time they pounced on me above saying I
was engaging with the people of Chicago
I said this ain't a fret last meeting
this just officially in Chicago waiting
on promises and processes means more
people dead over 70 people have been
shot in Chicago since the meeting
everybody want to say took the guns then
put the girl example it's impossible to
put the girl down where this side will
kill somebody I grew up with well this
side don't kill my brother this side and
killed my foot the war you know sir
can't you just decide I'm not gonna
retaliate oh if somebody was to kill
somebody that was close to you right in
our wallet Edie I have no idea no
because really honest and there is like
a key to go to court rule that point
this bit out of you or to speech
ourselves right so so at what point do
people say like this is just too much
cadence to watch because we're too big