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Well, the lying continues as it is it relates to all things.
Harris Walls, Biden, the economy, immigration, uh, Simone Sanders, Kamala Harris deserves credit for the drop in border crossings.
Never mind all the people that are here that are uh that have terror ties, you know, from Iran and Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, China, Russia, Venezuela, etc.
Um, credit for what?
Do you take credit then?
Are you responsible for all the unvetted 11 million?
Uh, and do you take credit for those people that have murdered and raped and committed horrific violent crimes against innocent citizens?
I I don't know if that's what Simone Sanders is referring to, but I tend to think not.
But listen.
You don't run for president not ever wanting to sit in the seat, right?
She ran for president before, did not have a successful first presidential campaign, joined the Biden Harris ticket, and has served as vice president for the last three almost four years, and in in that time, has literally been doing the work.
Border crossings are down because Mexico is enforcing their border.
Do you know how Mexico enforces their border?
Diplomacy.
Do you know who is in charge of the root causes of migration and working on that diplomatic effort?
The woman who will be standing on this stage tonight.
There's just, you don't get to this moment without the first three years of this administration and the vice president doing that work.
Um, so that's Simone Sanders speaking, and it's just they're trying to just lie and rewrite history.
Now, Elizabeth Warren, Senator of the Great State of uh Massachusetts is actually out there saying uh nothing, dodging a question on how Kamala has changed every major position, every policy position she's taken for years.
Listen.
I see it right now as we're dealing with the issues that are right in front of us.
She's put out some really strong plans like this on price gouging.
Donald Trump's got nothing.
Anyway, joining us now, really long time good friend of the programs, a very special woman, uh that I've gotten to know, and I dare say has I've become friendly with and think the world of, and that is Alice Marie Johnson.
Now you might remember Alice Marie was once in jail for twenty-one years.
She had no hope of ever getting out of jail, and rather than becoming bitter, she was a f by the way, uh it was a first time offense.
And rather than becoming angry and bitter and giving up on her life, which I think it would be a natural thing for people to do, uh she embraced her faith and she became a mentor to all these young girls in prison.
Donald Trump heard about her story, commuted her sentence, and anyway, was fully pardoned, and she now speaks out against the lies of the identity politics that have been peddled by the left to confuse at-risk communities who actually believe the democratic elites care.
If they cared, well, I wouldn't have to be scrolling the names of all the innocent people shot and shot and killed in Chicago since 2009 on TV.
Uh she is just an inspiration.
You know, people talk about identity politics.
Well, nobody has done more for criminal justice reform that has benefited minorities than Donald J. Trump.
Uh the one that was out there calling them predators, that would be Joe Biden.
The person that partnered with the former Klansmen to stop the integration of schools, that would be Biden.
Kamala Harris praises Biden.
She once criticized him for it, but when it came to her power, she was willing to overlook it.
Anyway, our friend uh Alice Marie Johnson is back.
Uh Alice Marie Johnson, God bless you.
How are you?
We love having you on the program, and I know you were in Milwaukee.
I didn't get a chance to see you.
I wish I did, but you know, here I am in Chicago at the DNC.
I wish you were here with us.
Oh, I wish I was there with you also, Sean.
And I'm so happy to be back on your show again and speak to the public.
There's a scripture that I have to give you, Sean, and it's out of song out of Proverbs thirteen and twelve.
And it says hope deferred makes the heart sick.
I'm sick of broken promises.
I know there's a big message out there of hope right now, but I haven't seen this hope.
I wonder how much hope there is on the streets of Chicago.
How much hope there is with veterans who are homeless, how much hope there is from this message of hope.
We've had a lot of good singing, a lot of good dancing that is taking place.
But if I want to hear a song, I can buy a ticket to a concert.
I'm ready for a strong leader to be placed back, who has really and truly done so much for the black community, a leader that will turn our nation in the right direction, who cares about justice, impacted people.
So I'm I'm just really excited uh to see what is taking place right now with President Trump.
And I think that people sometimes forget that we as black people, we can think you can't just feed us a f and a dance and think that's going to that's going to get my vote.
I'm voting because President Trump promises made, promises kept.
That's hope to me.
The things that he's already done with criminal justice reform and what he plans to do in the future, I'm very excited about that.
You know, people forget, I mean, COVID was a, you know, once in a hundred year pandemic, and uh you had to deal with that prior to that.
He had unleashed economic prosperity, the likes of which this country had not seen in a very long time.
Yes.
And and part of what he unleashed uh benefited it uh uh for those that like to break things down demographically or play identity politics, but he set record low after record low after record low, unemployment for African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, women in the workplace, African American youth unemployment.
And I look at Kamala Harris and I look, well, what has she done?
Nobody did more for historically black colleges and and gave such a large financial commitment than President Donald J. Trump.
He never seems to get credit for it.
I mean the the constant implication is that he must be racist.
Uh I doubt that that Alice Marie Johnson that he was if he was racist that uh that people that are African American like yourself that were unfairly sentenced and targeted.
You don't get one you know guilty of one offense in your life and get a life in prison.
That is insanity.
Plus 25 years in prison this is what I want to say about what President Trump did for me.
He looked at me as a person.
When I've met with him in the past and I've spoken to him he don't speak to me as I'm a black woman.
He speaks to me as I'm a human being he I can tell you right now I'll say it because I've had conversations about you with him.
He loves you.
He thinks the world of you and I and and you don't even know this yet I said you know would you ever think about bringing Alice Marie Johnson in to do more work on this issue and he said absolutely and I thought if I saw you at the uh RNC I was going to tell you that it was just it was a private conversation.
I was gonna bring it up in an interview and I was just talking to him about it and he says I want to do a lot more on criminal justice reform.
I I am not a talking head I'm not pandering to anyone I'm not this is not a personal attack against anyone but it's personal to me because these things are impacting my family and my community personally when we have out of control immigration jobs are being taken away from my grandchildren that they should have gotten because they're being they they've got lower people who are willing to accept lower wages.
I look at what is happening to a city in Chicago where I have relatives at I was speaking to one of my relatives who was complaining about a facility that they said that they were not gonna fix.
I mean, it was in a park area.
And the next thing you know, they found the money and now is housing immigrants there.
Is that hope that you cannot trust your elected officials who sell you a lot of promises but don't deliver?
When that hope is deferred and you see something totally different happening there is no way that I could go along with this and to to say that people change and all the policies have changed excuse me talk is so cheap.
It's so cheap nobody can ever forget the image of when when you got out of prison after you got your pardon from Donald Trump and you ran into the arms of your family it was it was such a beautiful moment and and when did you first get word you've been in jail all of these years.
You really didn't have any hope of getting out anytime soon.
When did word get to you that that you were being considered for this and how did that all go down?
Well Kim Kardashian reached out to Ivanka and reached she reached out to Jarrett and so they started fighting for my release in fact they called themselves Team Alice.
So I had so much hope knowing that family someone sees me and it's taken my calls up even though there were other advocates out there fighting they actually were right there in the trenches also they met with President Trump on my birthday May 30th.
Seven days later the war washed as I ran across this street into the arms of my family and I have been running every since for those justice impacted individuals.
I've helped people gain their freedom through clemencies.
I've worked on compassionate releases.
I worked with Ivanka on 23 of the cases of people who got their freedom and these people just didn't get short in sentences they were let out of prison.
They weren't just given uh some of the parents that I've seen even though those were very important I'm not criticizing Biden for giving those pardons but no one got out of prison.
He gave those who marijuana convicts pardons he cleared their records.
But I want to know what else it was promises made that how sorrowful he was about the 94 crime bill.
Well you were in a position to do something.
I keep hearing what I'm going to do if I'm elected you've been there for almost four years and what have you done president Trump came out of the box running.
He had not even been in in in position two years when he set me free.
He heard about my case and he had so much compassion upon me.
And he set me free.
And he asked me if I knew of other people like myself.
And I I dedicated my life, honestly, to help him find those people, tell their stories, get them to the White House.
I've met with, I've met with on both sides of the aisle, because this is not a partisan issue.
But what makes this Well well, as Kamala Harris or or Joe Biden, uh you know, have they ever done anything to help you?
Absolutely not.
I have no, I have to say that.
But it's bigger than me.
It's the people who are believing and knowing that President Trump, who has been just as impacted himself.
Sean, I don't I don't know if you know this, but the word expelling, their progressives did not want to use that word anymore.
They say call people who not expellents, because that was a bad term, call them justice impacted persons.
Well, all of a sudden, President Trump is just as impacted, and they resurrect that name expelling.
I think that is absolutely shameful.
But he has given so much hope in his talk about what he is going to do with criminal justice reform.
He's not stopping.
Now he really understands because he's been impacted, what it feels like to be justice impacted.
You know, whenever you can trust our justice system, people feel safer because they know that they're not under a corrupt, they're not under this whole whole thing of corruption.
When you can have trust in it, it makes our community safer.
You know, something that I want to bring after President Trump did was he signed into law.
He didn't just talk about it, he signed the first step act.
And so far, Sean, over thirty thousand people have come home early.
The recidivism rate for them for the ne on a national scale is forty-three percent.
But people who came out on the first step act is an all-time low of nine point seven percent.
They are not out here committing new crimes because they were closely vetted.
So when you try to tear down everything he's done, even when it's good for the comp country, something is wrong about that.
Something is sick about that.
It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.
So all I is what he didn't do.
I I really can't hear what he didn't do because all you need to get back on the road.
I know you're still doing working hard and helping these these young kids and young women that are in prison and and getting their lives turned around so when they do get free, uh, they can they can have productive lives and and find the destiny of which God created them for.
But you're a national treasure, and uh it's an honor to be able to call you a friend, Alice Marie Johnson, God bless you, and we'll have you back on, I promise.
Well, I'm looking forward to being back on, and just know that I will not shut up.
I will not be quiet because this is an extremely important election.
We all have to get out here and vote our faith.
We've got to not look at anything that has to do with identity politics, but vote our faith, vote for this country, vote for your grandchildren, great grandchildren, vote literally to turn this nation around.
We love you.
Alice Murray Johnson.
Uh, we'll talk often.
I'd love to see you out on the road with President Trump.
I think that would be a great addition.
Uh thank you so much and uh keep up the great mission and the work that God put you on this earth to do because you're doing phenomenal.
Uh 800 941 Sean, when we come back, the great hot dog moment.
I am recommending you don't do it.
You have my full permission not to eat it.
But you're you're hell bent on doing it.
Is that it?
I am.
Okay.
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We're gonna we're gonna actually stream part of this program because I had a bet with Linda uh when the entire Eastern Seaboard, every airport was shut down.
She took the insane position that she was that her plane was taken off.
Because after all, she talked to some pilot who didn't even know there were weather issues, and that one pilot that hadn't checked the weather actually said all this.
Uh-huh.
So we are now gonna, and I made a I said, you're not taking off.
And she goes, No, I'm actually boarding now.
I said you're not taking off.
I said, We didn't take off.
We were on the tarmac for six hours.
And I said, It's not happening.
And anyway, so you just insisted.
And then finally, I'm like, Are you gonna be that stuff?
She goes, We're move, we're moving now to the runway.
We're taxing.
We're taxing to the runway.
And I'm like, you're not taking off.
And I told you before you got on the plane, don't get on the plane because you're not gonna take off.
And then you ended up getting on the planes, spending hours and hours on the plane.
That's true.
And then you had to wait for hours and hours to get your bags.
You never got your bags.
No.
And then the bags got sent to Chicago unbeknownst to you.
When you went back to the airport the next day, you were shocked.
My bags are in Chicago.
And then we enlisted Kristen and she went and she got the bags for you.
Now, so we made a bet.
I said I'll give you a thousand dollars if your plane takes off.
Uh huh.
Within an hour.
Okay.
Didn't happen.
It didn't.
And you were in a very foul mood.
You were you're wrong.
I don't know why you do this, but um the bet the bet was actually that I couldn't be more than an hour late.
Okay.
So that was the bet.
I couldn't be more than an hour late.
Fine.
Technicality, but one and the same in terms of differences.
All right.
So and then I said, okay, I'll bet my thousand to your hundred and eat a Chicago hot dog.
When we get to Chicago, because you have been so resistant towards eating a hot dog.
Why?
I don't eat hot dogs.
Oh, well, you're about to.
You're about to eat a Chicago.
And then I was listening I'm a foodie and you are a foodie.
I actually, this trip has been an eye-opener.
Whenever I get to a place that I really like that I love whatever the local great food that the people the people like.
Like I like In N Out Burger.
I like Crown Burger in Utah.
I like I I I even I didn't think I'd like deep dish Chicago pizza, but I really liked it.
That's awesome.
What was the name of the place we went to with a deep dish?
Do you remember?
Who knows?
Uh no.
Yeah.
All right.
so all right.
Now, with all of that said, I have stated that I would prefer that you not in any way do this.
I have said, I don't want your hundred stupid hundred dollars.
I don't want you to eat the hot dog, because I know you don't really want to eat the hot dog.
I can't wait to eat this hot dog.
Okay, stop.
Now you're now you're not telling the truth.
Unlike liberals, I am I am a uh, you know, staunch Christian conservative, and I am happy to hold up my end of the bargain, which we're gonna do.
You brought a a Ritz Carlton.
What is that?
Well, we can give shout-outs now.
We're leaving.
Yeah.
That's fine.
You know what I mean?
You we've been here and they've been amazing.
You're wearing what is that?
A uh apron?
This is an apron, and uh the GM, Peter Simon Selly gave it to me.
Thank you, Mr. Simon Selly.
You've been incr you've been incredible, honestly.
Um, and we adore you and Jill and your entire staff.
And by the way, I want to give a big shout out while we're talking about it.
Yeah.
To Simon Sully and the family.
The mom is 85 years old.
And anyway, Peter, who's the GM here, who's been the nicest guy in the world, so nice to us.
Uh Peter, you know, it just is the kindest people we've ever dealt with.
Ever.
Yeah.
Okay, so I'm telling you right now, again, you do not have to do this.
First, we're gonna we're gonna pay the bills, right?
So you're gonna go.
I want to remind people about these.
Because I'm gonna go into a food coma after I eat this.
So this is actually what is a food coma.
You know, because it's 5 30.
So that this it's what happens when you eat terrible food for your body.
It knocks you out.
So the my pillow uh is Okay, you can't whine about it.
These are f I might be wrong.
This is a fact.
You eat delicious food, which many people consider this delicious.
That's delicious.
I have a feeling it's gonna knock me on my booty.
Listen, I got off my diet this week because I ate so many hot dogs.
I didn't.
I had soup every day.
That was really good.
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All right, so we continue from Chicago.
And I am, I don't know how to do it.
Oh my god, are you phones?
Are you coming in for the real thing?
Am I coming in?
I am going to walk.
Oh boy.
Oh boy, here we go.
And I want to do an examination if I can.
Sean Hannity is on the move.
I am actually standing, and well, I stand for some radio.
Yeah.
And I'm just double checking.
This is a real Chicago hot dog.
Now, let me point out a couple of things.
Relax.
All right.
I just want to point out the poppy seeds.
Right?
And it has relish.
It has mustard.
You can see the mustard there.
It has tomato.
It has pickle.
It has the the hot peppers.
All right, are you sure you want to do it?
I'm ready.
And you're eating the whole thing.
I'm eating the whole thing.
Okay.
Let's go.
But for the record, you don't have to do it.
Uh-huh.
Oh, here we got good.
We got hot dog music.
I want to know if you love it.
Take your first bite.
All right.
There it is.
First bite is now.
She's chewing it.
It's a lot.
But wait a minute.
Do you like do you like it?
Does it taste good?
I thought that's funny.
It does taste good.
Oh.
Touchdown.
Do you regret not having them earlier in the week?
No.
No.
Because Linda likes these.
I wish we had the disgusting, you know, projectile vomit puke green shakes that we could show.
Oh my god, it's really hot.
It's really hot.
Well, if you don't want the peppers, that's fair enough to take the peppers off.
I'll eat it all.
Um, good grief.
Now she's being stubborn about it.
She's a woman of a word.
Um unlike Kamala, I'm not gonna flip-flop, you know.
Oh, hey now.
Let's bring a little politics.
Politics with your hot dog, all right?
Look at that.
Oh, look at that.
Taking a nice big bite of that hot.
Is that not delicious?
It's so by the way, look at her face.
On a scale of one to ten, how good is it?
One to ten.
It's a ten.
A ten!
A ten and all this reluctance and resistance.
Absolutely.
My goodness, all you have to do is listen to me about food.
I know everything about food.
I will say I have learned something this week about you.
What's that?
Which is that you're not just a fast food guy.
You are an all-food guy.
Oh, I love food.
If there is food, Sean Hannity is all about it.
But I but I'm mostly protein.
I eat like steaks and eggs and by the way, the way I eat the Chicago hot dogs is I only take Well, why don't you have one with me, boss?
I mean, there's only three more.
I've only had three already today.
I take only the poppy bun, and then I put everything over it and I eat it like this.
And I usually scoop out the button, because I don't like I don't like carbs.
You're spilling a lot.
Should I get you a fork so you really fulfill your promise?
Just use my hand.
That's eaten in like real Chicago style.
Did you get like a manicure for this?
Because I see sparkles on your your Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
How good is it?
It's so good, right?
You're really giving it a 10.
You're not kidding.
You really like it.
I'm gonna eat one every day for the rest of my life.
I doubt that.
I promise you America.
I promise you America.
You just promised America.
I promised America.
America knows I'm a woman of my word.
I will say, shout out to the chef who actually made me a mini hot dog.
Yeah, which was really cheating.
Just in case.
That would have been cheating.
Well, you know, he's used to people lying here in Chicago, so you know.
If you really didn't like it and like you were like gagging this thing, I would take it away from you.
I would say that's enough.
We're done.
No, but you're gonna finish it.
I'm gonna retrieve this really good radio, true.
This is the best radio.
I'm sure Jason and Katie and Ethan and New York are loving every minute of this.
It's all live stream right now on X. It's pretty unbelievable to watch this.
I think I should get kudos for being a woman of my wearable.
I I well listen, I think I should get kudos for giving you an exit, a graceful exit.
I did try.
And I was serious.
You know I was serious.
I'm like, Linda, don't do this.
You're not gonna like because the the All right think of this.
If you think of the exorcist and Linda Blair's head that goes around in a circle, that that putrid projectile vomit green that she fires out.
Yeah, that is what she drinks every day, is like a healthy drink.
Or she has an orange version of projectile vomit.
Uh oh, we're almost done.
Look at this.
Now, I don't think the Nathan's hot dog eating contest is in your future.
Uh but now could you eat two of those?
Oh yeah.
I don't think she's eating two of them.
All right, last bite.
Here we go.
Alright.
I gotta give you, I gotta give it to you.
Boom.
All right, there you go.
Linda, great job.
We're very proud of you.
Do you have any?
All right, now you can take a swallow.
And then say, okay.
Yes, I'm here.
I'm back.
All right, you're back.
Now, let's talk about the hot dog.
My life is forever changed.
Come on.
No, I'm serious.
You sound like hyperbole.
You know, it's not hyperbole.
You know, when you have when you have the delicious food that you've been told you can't eat because you know you want to wear your jeans.
You know.
It's difficult.
My jeans fit perfectly.
Oh, please, you're in a baggy shirt.
I'm in tight little jeans and a little shirt underneath my channel.
I am cut.
I work out like crazy.
You know I'm I'm a grow.
It's different for chicks.
It just is a fact.
It's different fores that mean I'm not a chick.
Are you questioning my.
I am not questioning your gender.
I'm stating your gender.
You're not a chick.
How do you how do you know one does not identify as a particular sex?
How do you know one does not care?
That's exactly right.
No, but it was it was really, really good.
I have to say.
The only thing I will tell you if I had to do it over, is it's a lot of toppings and my mouth is on fire.
I mean, no, the these peppers are very hot.
I'm gonna be honest.
Oh my gosh.
I take the peppers off.
But I I leave the pickle.
I leave the pickle.
I offered to let you take it off.
I know, but I thought that would be like, you know, weak and father.
You eat it the way you like it.
I don't want to be fake news like CNN.
I want to give you the real deal, guys.
Come on.
Yeah, but the thing is, you you're allowed to have variations.
Now it also has on it, and you didn't probably taste that is celery salt.
Oh no, I didn't taste that.
I will tell you, um, the thing that stood out the most is the onions.
So um look forward to our flight home together.
I'm gonna be very friendly on the plane.
Do you want to do it?
Do you want to do you want to make a bet about your flight home?
It's a different kind of flight.
Because you get to get out earlier than I do.
I know, man.
I tell you, American Airlines is coming back at you.
I actually have, you know, a show to do tonight.
Yes, I know.
I get to leave early.
I'm looking forward to it.
But that you know, listen, you won this bet fair and square.
I did.
I uh I'm proud of you for doing it, but I really I was actually worried about you because I thought No, it's good.
I'm gonna have two more.
Absolutely.
Well, I'm gonna eat them plain, you know.
But I I you know they made them for me, I'm gonna eat them.
But you have a lot of extra that you can just put on top now.
Like on your plate.
Listen, I got stretch pants, I'm ready.
Let's do this.
I'm in.
Is that why you don't like is it because you of like you want to eat healthy?
I want to eat healthy, so I'm paranoid, you know, like like lots of chicks.
I'm paranoid like.
No, that that is a very, very male chauvinistic, heavily uh unlike MSDNC and fake news CNN talking about what a Dana Baget, low testosterone.
She doesn't like testosterone.
I'm like, well, you've been looking at the wrong testosterone then.
I don't know what's going on because there's plenty of wonderful testosterone out there.
I I just don't understand.
And men have got to be comfortable.
I'm like, excuse me, I treat I I put women on a pedestal.
Absolutely.
That's how I was raised.
Yeah.
I had three older sisters.
Let me tell you something.
My father, if I mistreated my sister, oh, I paid a huge.
Oh, yes, there was a premium on that.
And meanwhile, they're pounding on me, and he's yelling at me that he they're behind him.
Ha ha ha.
You know, that was that was how I did it.
Well, there was no ha ha today.
Today I did my bidding.
I had my hot dog.
Thank you, Chicago.
Thank you, Sean Hannity.
Very proud of you.
Anyway, thank you, X, for letting us post this and do this live.
Uh, but that's gonna wrap things up in Chicago for us.
I'm headed right out to the convention for the last night.
Uh, but anyway, we'll have Hannity on tonight.
Newt Gingrich, uh, Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia, the all-important state of Georgia.
We'll hopefully get to my interview with James Carvel tonight.
Tommy Larren, uh, Charlie Hurt, Kellyanne Conway, Maria Marie Harf will be on tonight.
Her first appearance.
Nine Eastern, set your DBR, Hannity on Fox.
We'll see you tonight, back here tomorrow.
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And again, thanks to Peter Simon Selly for all of his hospitality at the Ritz.
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