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Sept. 2, 2025 - Sean Hannity Show
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Chicago Crime and Clash Over Federal Intervention - September 2nd, Hour 2
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Well, the violence in Chicago just continues, all told, over the weekend.
58 people in Chicago shot, eight killed over the Labor Day weekend.
And of course, the city continues to reject Donald Trump's offer of help.
Idiot mayor Brandon Johnson taking steps to fight Donald Trump's expected immigration crackdown and the potential of National Guard deployment in Chicago.
And he signed the Protecting Chicago executive order on Saturday as the Trump administration is preparing to conduct a major immigration enforcement operation, which, by the way, we have something called the Constitution.
It has something in it called the supremacy clause, which means jurisdiction does lie with the federal government, not with the city of Chicago or the state of Illinois.
And sources say hundreds of immigration enforcement agents, ICE agents, could be coming to Chicago.
And at every level of government, all the way up to J.B. Pritzker, is out there saying that there's nothing wrong and we don't want Donald Trump.
The mayor is explicitly saying it.
He vocally rejected President Trump's potential use of the National Guard to crack down on crime, which, as we have pointed out, was tremendously successful in every major category in our nation's capital.
But to have 58 people shot, eight people killed, you would think that maybe they want the extra help.
Even liberal Joe Scarborough was begging the mayor of Chicago, well, if you had 5,000 more cops, he asked him four separate times.
We played it on the program last week.
Four separate times, five separate times.
The guy could not answer the question.
Anyway, the comments were, no federal troops in the city of Chicago, no militarized force in the city of Chicago.
We are going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago.
You cannot, and I say it, I will say it till I'm blue in the face.
I'm red in the face right now.
I'll say it till I'm blue in the face.
And that is, if you cannot have law and order and safety and security, that is a prerequisite to have any chance of pursuing happiness in life.
And that's it.
You have J.B. Pritzker out there criticizing the president on the issue of crime.
And all of this has happened.
Now, the problem is you could take it all the way back to the Obama years and since he was president.
And we went through the eight years of him being president.
He mentioned, you know, the murder rate, all the crime in Chicago, maybe three times.
Nobody cares.
Democrats, they have a monopoly of compassion.
The same people that will riot, 574 riots, nobody should have died.
As a martial artist, I said what they did to George Floyd, who was handcuffed, was morally repugnant, incomprehensible, and unnecessary.
But there's 58 people shot, eight dead, not a word.
It's saying, stay away, don't help us.
One Chicago Democrat, Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez, said he is absolutely in favor of the president deploying the military to the windy city.
The president, you know, trashing the weak and pathetic governor Pritzker over the Chicago killings.
And anyway, this is all part of defund, dismantle, no bail law, reimagine the police and send in, you know, let's send in social workers.
USA Today, Real Clear Politics, picked up their article.
I live in D.C. I'm glad Trump sent the National Guard to fight crime.
I think the people of Chicago would feel the same way.
President Trump did praise the Democratic D.C. mayor for finally working.
This is Muriel Bowser.
An 87% drop in carjackings, 45% drop in violent crime.
We went nearly two weeks, which is, you know, pre-COVID levels without a single murder.
And it's pretty unbelievable.
And Mark Penn, Harvard Harris poll, shows Trump gaining traction with voters on the issue of crime.
Why?
Because people want law and order and safety and security.
New York Post, Democrats' head-scratching reaction to Trump's D.C. crime crackdown puts them at odds with voters.
Even in blue cities, blue states, people have had it.
They can defy the president all they want.
President is going to send in the guard.
And I don't care what any judge is ultimately going to say.
Let me listen.
Let's listen to local Chicago reports on the shootings over the weekend, shall we?
This is a typical weekend, by the way, in Chicago.
It's not abnormal.
If anything, it's predictable.
We begin with a breaking news update on what was a violent night for Chicago police.
Five women and two men were hurt in a mass shooting that was right outside of police headquarters.
That wasn't the only incident.
A mass shooting happened right across the street from the Chicago Police Department headquarters parking lots.
We got somebody in the curve down this way, too.
Fire crews also called out to clean up blood-stained cement.
A few hours later, police say three men were shot in the Pilsen neighborhood.
So far, five have been killed and 31 people hurt during this Labor Day weekend.
We're following breaking news out of Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood.
A mass shooting sent a teenager and four adults to the hospital.
Breaking news, two kids have been shot on the city's south side.
One of those two boys shot was able to make it to the back of a barbershop before collapsing on the ground.
Went back there to take my break, and he was laid out on the gate.
He got shot on the other end of the alley and ran all the way down here.
They chased him down.
Investigators tell us two boys ages 12 and 15 got into a fight with multiple people.
One of them, police say, pulled out a gun and shot the 12-year-old in his chest and the 15-year-old in his hip.
At least 54 people were shot and seven were killed over the Labor Day holiday weekend.
Now, the violence comes as President Trump threatens to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to crack down on crime.
Over the long weekend, Chicago police opened up more than 30 shooting investigations.
And as you said, eight people were killed.
Doorbell cameras captured the eruption of gunfire.
Several people can be seen running away from the area Pepe was found.
Sounds like a typical fun weekend in Chicago, doesn't it?
Here is their dopey mayor, Brandon Johnson, saying no federal troops in the city of Chicago.
We're going to defend our democracy.
No federal troops in the city of Chicago.
No militarized force in the city of Chicago.
We're going to defend our democracy in the city of Chicago.
We're going to protect the humanity of every single person in the city of Chicago.
What about all the people dying?
Anyway, joining us now is Danielle Carter, the vice president of Chicago Flips Red and P. Ray Easley, who will be a candidate for the 7th District of Chicago.
Welcome both to the program.
Danielle, what I'm hearing from people in Chicago is pretty much pretty similar to what I'm hearing from people in D.C.
They like the idea of law and order and safety and security, and they're sick and tired of decades of nonstop, predictable violence and death every weekend.
Yes, just this morning on the Eisenhower Expressway, we just had a shooting on there.
So people can even go to work in peace without worrying about getting shot.
Now, Labor Day weekend last year, 24 people got shot.
Fast forward to Labor Day weekend right now.
54 people got shot, eight people died, and they want us to believe that crime is down.
Those families are now stuck planning a funeral and studying and enjoying their holiday.
They're stuck planning a funeral.
And what does this incompetent BEI mayor?
Did I lose you, Danielle?
No, I'm here.
What about the incompetent mayor?
They're downtown protesting.
They're protecting Donald Trump from coming in and sending help for us, all while protesting to protect illegal aliens.
I've been reporting on this and scrolling the names that Americans never hear of.
I have been doing it since Barack Obama first became president.
Not a single Democrat, no mayor, no governor has ever lifted a finger to stop this insanity, this death.
None of them.
We pointed it out.
I don't want death to happen in Chicago.
I don't want innocent people to die.
Right.
And they want us.
Now they're trying to lie to us.
We're living this experience.
We're living in the hood.
We're not living with Prisker and Brandon Johnson family.
They're living in those countries safe and they're getting communities with security surrounding them.
They're living that.
And they are trying to tell us, the citizens, the residents who have to worry about when you sit in a car, you know that you cannot sit in the car alone without a gun being pointed to your head because you are going to get carjacked, robbed, or shot.
You know this.
When you at a red light, you can even sit at a red lighting piece because you are scared that the car that pulls on the side of you, you're scared they're going to jump out with guns to your head.
And we are not talking about just one.
They're jumping out in three with guns and they're carjacking you, robbing you.
And most of the time, when you give them everything they ask for, they still kill you.
Let me bring in P. Ray Easley, who's going to be a candidate for the 7th District of Chicago.
Both of you, and we'll get to this in a minute, the political side of it, think that somehow Chicago and Illinois might tend or have a window of opportunity to become Republican.
I'm not sure I agree with either one of you, but that's neither here nor there.
What is your reaction?
58 people shot, eight dead, just a typical weekend in the city of Chicago, P. Ray.
Well, thank you again for having me today.
I want to make a point of clarification.
Brandon Johnson lives in the Austin community where I live on Chicago's West Side.
And what frustrates me the most about Brandon or Mary Johnson is that he's driving past these crime scenes just like us.
He can hear the gunshots just like us.
He understands that we are dealing with the fallout of becoming the home turf of the Mexican drug cartel.
They are selling almost $2 billion worth of heroin every year on the heroin highway that runs directly through the 7th congressional district.
We have leadership who has aligned themselves with these illegal immigrants rather than going to the respective wells of their legislative bodies and screaming, we need help on the west side of Chicago.
Nobody's doing that.
And it seems like they are in with this international terrorist organization, which is why they're going out of their way to protect them, to create legislation to make sure that the National Guard can't come here and affect them.
Because it's very important to understand that the National Guard cannot arrest citizens.
They are not here to make arrests.
They are not here to stop gang shootings.
They are coming to stop an international terrorist organization that's literally poisoning our people with the help of this Chinese Communist Party.
They are the ones who are giving the Mexican cartel the fentanyl that's being trafficked off the west side of Chicago.
All roads in America lead to Chicago, which is why it's called the Chicago Loop.
And we are America's number one distribution center, which is why Sears was here at its apex.
And so now the cartel has decided to take advantage of our distribution ability, as well as the fact that we are a sanctuary city.
So therefore, if any of their workers get caught, they won't be turned over to immigration.
So it seems like the mayor and the governor, it's very important that we mention the governor as well, because we are a sanctuary state.
So even if Mayor Johnson was to end the sanctuary city today, the state would still be a sanctuary state, and we would still run into these same problems.
For me, it seems like that they're in with the terrorists and not the people.
All right, quick break.
More with Danielle Carter, VP of Chicago Flips Red, and P. Ray Easley, who is going to be a candidate for the 7th District of Chicago.
We'll get their reaction: why they actually are optimistic that Illinois can actually turn red or Chicago can turn red.
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Final moments: I have one question for Danielle Carter, Vice President of Chicago Flips Red, and P. Ray Easley, who will be a candidate for the 7th District of Chicago.
And as we all know, Illinois is a heavily gerrymandered part of Illinois, part of the country, rather.
58 shot, eight dead over the weekend, and you have a mayor and you have a governor that don't want any help.
Now, Danielle Carter, you're the vice president of Chicago Flips Red.
Call me pessimistic if you want.
Tell me why you think that's even possible because I don't believe it is.
I think people with common sense that would be open to or have an open mind to voting Republican have long since left Illinois like they've left California, like they've left New Jersey, like they've left New York.
Okay, well, let me talk to the Chicago citizens.
Chicago, we're at a point of no return.
That's what your incompetent mayor told you that also stays in the affluent area of Beverly.
We must flip Chicago red.
We have no other choice.
We have to put the right candidates in office that's going to make sure that we save Chicago.
You can't continue doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.
We have no choice if we want to make Chicago safe again, if we want to bring common sense back, if we want to put the citizens first, if we want illegal aliens up out of our community and country, we must change what we're doing.
We see that we've been doing the same thing for 40 years, and what has that gotten us?
What have they gotten us nowhere?
We're actually worse off than we ever were.
So we don't have a choice.
Look at this mayor, this mayor.
He don't care anything about what the citizens are saying.
We are begging for help.
And he's downtown protesting for illegal aliens and protecting them.
So we know that the Democratic Party is gone.
The machine in Chicago is broke.
And now we have a chance, Chicago.
We have a chance to get this right and save our city from becoming Gary, Indiana, California, and the way Detroit was.
That's all I have to say.
P. Ray, same question.
I mean, you're going to be a Republican candidate for the 7th District of Chicago.
What makes you think in your gerrymandered state that's even a possibility?
Our property taxes have gone up astronomically because we are completely funding the third world.
And I mean that by anyone who can get to the city of Chicago can be housed, will receive health care, will receive food subsidies, and we cannot pay for this anymore.
The city of Chicago is broke.
The Chicago public schools are broke.
And therefore, because we are a city about business and money, it's time for us to turn the page on the Democratic machine.
It no longer exists.
And we are moving on.
P. Ray for Congress, P. Ray for the 7th Congressional District, because we are going to put an end to the heroin highway.
We appreciate both of you.
Thank you for being with us, Danielle Carter and P. Ray Easley.
We're going to watch that race and see if any chance that they can flip that state and city.
Mississippi Jara is on the Sean Hannity show.
Jara, glad you called.
Hope you had a good Labor Day.
Hey, Sean, it's great to talk to you.
What's going on?
Hey, I wanted to mention what Chris said last week when he mentioned Memphis and Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
That's where I'm from, when talking about Chicago's crime rate.
And one person has been murdered in Hattiesburg this year compared to over 650 in Chicago.
It's just not like that in Hattiesburg.
There's been one person murdered this year.
The murder rate is 5.9 per 100,000 residents compared to Chicago's 21.5.
It's insane.
You know what?
Innocent lives, great human potential, God-given talent wasted.
Back to our busy telephones as we say.
Hi, Aaron is in the United Socialist Utopia of Gavin Newsom, your part-time governor, full-time Tweety Bird, and full-time Trump stalker.
What's going on?
Well, Sean, I'm just really tired of hearing people call from California that don't really have a good sense of why I'm still here and fighting for the last remaining people who are really going against this gruesome Newsom who simply can't get his priorities straight in the fifth largest economy in the world.
I like gruesome Newsom.
I don't know.
That may be a contender.
I don't know.
I think that's right up there with Nutty Newsom.
Gruesome Newsome.
Gruesome Newsome.
Listen, this is the truth about what you have.
You have a part-time governor who's more interested in podcasting and being Tweety Bird.
And, you know, here you have, they don't have water for predictable wildfires because they don't practice the science of forestry.
The same people that lectured you about the science of COVID, the same people that shut down the state.
Gavin Newsom shut down the state, although his children did get in-person learning, and he did go to the French laundry.
So, you know, one rule for thee and another for me.
But, you know, look, in your state, we know you have the highest income taxes.
You have the highest sales taxes.
You have the highest gas taxes.
You have the sixth highest property taxes.
Gavin can, you know, he can spend all his time being a tweety bird and all his time podcasting he wants.
He still, if he ever gets the nomination to be the Democratic presidential candidate, will have to run on that record.
And I don't think America, I don't think Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Arizona, a lot of the people in Arizona left because of him.
So good luck trying to win.
And you know what?
I hope that we can get Donald to come over and help us out because the Donald has all the answers and he's doing a fantastic job.
And this is why I haven't left is that I'm hoping that the reprieve of the biggest movement we have here can actually bring some light to why our taxes are so high.
I mean, listen, I don't want to dampen your optimism or your hope.
I'm a believer that there's always hope, right?
But I'm just telling you, you're wasting your time.
I don't think you can flip California red.
No, I don't think we can have to flip California red, but I'm doing believe that we can get some assistance in how these things are oversighted.
For instance, our bullet train that's been under Governor Brown, I don't even think that thing's moved more than a mile.
And yet, you know, Donald Trump's able to very quickly come in and say, what are we doing with these budgets?
Why are these we're not going to spend another penny on it?
And if Gavin, by the way, it was supposed to be from L.A. to San Francisco.
Then it became Bakersfield to, what, Mercer, California, which made no sense in and of itself.
They haven't laid a single track and they've spent tens of billions of dollars.
Well, you know what?
They're also not doing is they're not helping any of my fellow colleagues who have lost houses in the Palo area, right?
They can't even get their permit.
There's 13,000 homes burned to the ground, and I think you have like 100-plus permits that have been granted.
I mean, it's taken that long, but that, but that's an expedited process.
And Gavin's too busy, you know, being Trump's alter ego and being Tweety Bird.
100%.
And you know what?
What we need is, again, just some oversight.
I'm nothing but a Trump supporter in a lot of these things, but I don't necessarily appreciate some of his composed ways of going about it.
But there's no doubt that California is a lost city in a major amount of resources, and we simply need some better oversight.
I mean, let's talk about petroleum alone.
We have so much petroleum up and down the coast, we could drill and actually offset our own gas prices in our state by a significant amount.
You have the highest gas prices in the country.
I have a friend of mine that lives out there and sends me pictures all the time.
You're paying more than twice for gasoline per gallon than I'm paying in my free state of Florida.
Down Pacific Coast Highway, Sean, you can see these areas that are being drilled actively.
Why those petroleum pumps can't be in a near target?
It's so frustrating.
Prices are about to go higher, buckle up.
In your state, not for the rest of the country.
And that's why I'm calling Sean because this is just a not clear issue to a lot of people.
And, Aaron, you're staying because you're saying you want to change it, but you're admitting you can't change it.
No, no, Sean, I'm going to be clear.
I'm a health care provider, and I've been here for 15, 20 years now.
I'm in my late 40s.
I've got children.
We have been in this process.
They're integrating.
They're thriving.
I do well.
We have a lot of work ahead of us.
You know what?
Well-adjusted kids will integrate and thrive in Florida or any other state you go to.
You know what the difference is?
Instead of being ranked either 48th or 9th, whatever California comes in at, it's one of the worst, has one of the worst school systems statewide than any state in the country.
Florida's ranked number one or number two every year.
You're welcome.
My support, Sean.
That's why I'm calling, man.
No income tax, very low sales tax.
And the gas again, I'm paying half what you're paying for a gallon of gas.
Yep.
And there's still some affordable areas all throughout the state of Florida.
Pick the one that you think you like the most.
Well, I hear you, Sean.
And I do appreciate you.
A big time supporter.
I just appreciate anything else you can do to help leverage the Gruesome Newsome because we just need some more.
Gruesome Newsome is he's too busy running for president.
You know, I used to get along with Gavin.
Gavin doesn't like me anymore.
I don't know why.
I don't know why not.
I have no idea.
Anyway, Aaron, thank you.
Appreciate it.
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All right, let's get back to our busy phones.
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Chris in California, might as well stay on this topic.
What's up, Chris?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, longtime listener.
Hey, I just wanted to touch base on this, you know, abandoned California.
It's a lost cause.
I totally disagree with that because if you really review the data, it suggests over the last three major election cycles, it's trending conservative.
And that's really why Gruesome Newsome, as the previous caller just called him, is having a special, you know, calling a special election and wants to flip more seats and redistrict and gerrymander the state even further than it already is.
What we really need is we really need the patriots that are here to stay a little bit longer and tough it out.
I know we're paying a high gas tax.
My property tax just went up.
Listen, I have friends in New York that are staying in New York, and they're going to stay New York born, New York bred.
And when they die, I promise you, Curtis Lee will mark Simone will be New York dead.
They're never going to leave.
You know, I look, I had already, maybe it's because of my life experience.
I lived five years in Rhode Island.
I lived five years in your state of California.
I think I was the poorest person at the time that lived in Santa Barbara.
I had no money at that point in my life.
But it did get my radio career started in the 1980s, if you can believe it.
And then I went to Alabama, learned what it meant to be a Southerner, learned a lot, realized that I have Southern values way more than New York values.
Four great years in Georgia.
And then, you know, Fox brought me up in 1996.
And, you know, my life changed.
I'll be celebrating coming up soon my 30th completed year on Fox.
Thanks to all of you.
I never thought that was possible.
If you watch me in the early days of Hannity and Combs, you would think this guy should be fired immediately.
Some of you want me fired now.
Well, congratulations on that.
But, you know, back to the point, like, okay, so what we really need to do is we need to allow to, we need to continue to show the contrast between Florida.
We vacation in Florida.
I love Florida.
We go on cruise.
We go out of the ports all the time in Florida.
We love Florida.
And I, you know, I love no graffiti.
I can go for a walk and not see needles in the street.
I can't do that here.
However, the best thing we could do is show the contrast between the two, the cost of living, the cost of energy, the crime is lower, you know, the homeless problem.
That was a big contrast for me.
Like, where's all the homeless people?
Where's all the graffiti?
You know, I moved, actually moved out of Los Angeles into a rural area, and the gangs out there have started to infiltrate even the rural areas.
I live in a little community called Lake Los Angeles, and Trinidad graffiti is starting to show up the last few years, and that's all because of the open border policy.
So the best thing that we could do is to continue to show the contrast between the two.
And I see the trend line in California continuing to trend towards conservatism because, you know, you got to let them see it.
And as they do that, once California flips red, I'm telling you, it can.
Well, look, it used to be a very reliable red state.
That's the state of Richard Nixon.
That's the state of Ronald Reagan for crying out loud.
But I do wish everybody the best.
Like, I wish my friends that are still back in New York.
I wish them the best.
I have no ill will.
I'm really worried about New York City because by every indication, Mom Donnie's going to be the next governor.
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