welcome to "hannity". and in just a moment, we're going to hear from the republican candidate for president, donal wilarfrom thed trump for the hour during our exclusive sit down intervieou w. time a now, we just had igot a short time ago at mar a lago. we're only 152 days away fromy m an election like never before. e the candidates might be the same. but guess what? the countridates might be y hasd drastically. not in a good way. i for the first time in history, the left is using lawfare t a candidate, but it'ss not going according to plan. alvin bragg's absurd case in new york will soon be headed for appeal s. meanwhile, breaking news tonight, the case in fulton countys case, georgia, is now officially on hold pending ans appeal over d.a. fani willis and her possible disqualificationa. and in the state of florida, tre doj's document case against donald trump has now been postponed due to it signifyce again issues surrounding the evidence. and, by the way, the legitimacy of the appointment of the special counsel. and while biden's lawfare seems to be collapsing, his presidency is even worses h the border shambles. it keeps getting worse and worse. violent crime remains high,main inflation continues to spike, housining is totally unaffordable. we have two wars that are raging overseas with no end in sight. and now even democrats are questioning biden's mental acuity. it is no surprise the vast majority of americans believeou that our country is on the wrong track. and so how wil on thel former president trump cut through the lawfare and dirtir ay political tricks to reach these americans and demonstrate a better future? anyway, moments ago, i sat downe with the former president. here's part of thanthet intervi >> we just have breaking news, as i mentioned in my open tonight. and i wantt breas to get your rn to the fact that the appeals court has now stopappeals your election case while appeal on wallace as disqualificationon is pending. this is on the heels florida judge eileen cannon looking into whether or not the prosecutor, jack smith, the special prosecutor, was pointed in an inappropriate wayd which would render the case and the indictments out that is that isde going to take place in fairly short order. a lot can changer lock in couple of days with only 152 days outuh of election and what we call j deranged jack smith, because you look at his career , e he's been overturned by the supreme court unanimously. so many other things . >> he goes too far. let me ask you this. you had said something during the trial in new york. mother teresa couldn't beats wih these charges. one thing that he said and he turned out to b 1g yoe right. and secondly, you you asked about the possibility that judge merchan might send you to jail. he said something that reall y kind of got my attention. didn did you say that it didn't faze you in the sense that if that's what it takes t you don't have to be doing this. you could be playing golf every day and you probably wouldn'ulon charged with anything. well, i think i say it about almost all of these that are brought against me. they are doing it for the purposes of hurtingpponen political opponent of biden and trying to get him to win. tryi president intt the history of our country. but in the case that you're talking about, i said very strongly ise, i'm very proud prd to fight for our constitution, and that's what it takes. everybody said this is suchu do' a minor thing. you don't go to jail for thi ts all but you don't understandg what we're dealing against to we're dealing against thesear a system that is so corrupt. nobody's ever seen anythingis like it. i did nothing wrong in any not of these things. i did nothing wrong. we did nothing wrong at all. and when you look at the analysts, whether it's greg jarrett or andy mccarthy or jonathan or your friend, the great one, mark levin, dershowitz, all of them, they say there's no case here. >> judge was so incredible a two weeks ago. she was unbelievable s angry. she was angry. and you know why they're angry? because they love our countrbeca and they see what's happening. it's totally unconstitutional what they've done. unconstit they dand if you lookh statements made by the people i just mentionede and i'm not friends with any i mean, frie what i'veespect done. they might respect me, they might not respect me, but they said there's no case,ldn't ha it shouldn't have been brought. and the way the judge judge, the jury told the jury gave jury instructions. nobody's heard anything like that. it was basically when you break it down, records issue on a misdemeanor whose statute of limitations had run outn, that they upcharge into a felony on a federal election . and that raises another issue of appeal. what will be your point whencore you say record keeping? you know, the record keeping was they charged an election? if you look a lawyer's fee, a legal thing, and you call it o a legal expense, it's known you call legal fair legal actioni'spoke . the bookkeeper i never spoke to correctly wrote a legale for expense for a lawyer that was paid. we have a similaer thar hillary clinton funneling money to a law firm and.to a that law firm hired an opp research firm and that up research firm hired a guedy by, christopher steele. that became the basis of what i described as dirty russianalle misinformation dossier that became the basie roofs of t one, but for pfizer applications. and it all turned out to be i true. >> sno in that case, well, nobody was charged. nobody was charged with top secret and classified informati. her home wasn't raided on her server, deleted subpoenaede-mai emails, 30,000 of them. we didn't hear bleach. thosthen you have all the people that signed off on those warrants. nothing happens to them. joe biden foned r top secret documents. nobody raided his house. that i guess we have come we'vea added a new wordddin, our lexicw and that is warfare or weaponization of justice. my question to you is peoples pe are saying actually because of an interview we did togethe r . you said i would be dictator for the day and just to secure border and drill for oil. i thought it was tongue in cheek. w i was sitting there with you.in however, my question is veryg tr serious one. >> you know, people are claiming you want retribution. people are claiming you want what has happened to you done to democrats? >> would you do that ever? looke to, what's happened to mes never happened in this country before. beforeand it has to stop becaust a minute. i want to hear that again. it has to stop. >> well, it does have to stop because we're not going to have d. ut if you're electe >> does that mean. define that. look what, i've gone through. nobody's ever gone through. i'm a very legitimate person.so i built a great business. everything's been i have been under siege. nobody's ever seen like thisin r in this country. now, in other countrieriess, in other third world countries are a banana republic, is, as they say, a banana republic. we've become a banana republic at the border. we become a banana republic with so many other elementg nac of our country, we become a banana republic. you take a look at what's repu. ing within a banan inflation. that's a banana republic. inflation. what ws ae have. i think it could be as high as u 50%. if you add everything when you start adding energy prices in, when you start addingd inte interest rates, which have gone go to nine and 10% those for focus on those that want people to believe that you want thtribution, that you will use the system of justice to go aftee tor your political arrow. number one, they're wrong. it has to stop because1 they. >> otherwise, we're not going. to have a country. whens election is over, based on what they've done, i would have everyight right to go after them. and it's easo goy. it's joe biden and you see a all the criminality, all of the money that's going into the family and him all of this s money from china, from russia, from ukraine. during one of the interviews, i said, what about the three and a half million dollars paidth to the biden family from the mayor of moscow, his wife. what about that? and chris wallace defended himts so you can ask that question. well, then it turned out to beer a big deal lonneg aftere that that debate. that was one of the debates and it turned out to b w e a bigd we deal. and chris wallace said we can't go there because we don't knowre that it should turn out to be true. millions and millions of dollars now, if we get a dinner with her at the cafe milano and he said toa he america he never once talked to his son, brother or anybody e about their foreign business deal. >> well, he said it. and then you found out it wal. s every untrue. >> everything he says is untrue. there' is untrues been a presid this. look, he's a horrible president. he's destroying our country at the border. he's allowing millions people to come in from prisons and jails, from mental institutionsls, and insane asylums, which is a step above a big step, above a mental institution. he's allowing terrorists to flood intn allowi o our country. and the numbers are probablyy is 16, 17 or 18 million people. you didn't have over 20 million people, i think i believe, and a lot of other people do, too, by time he hopefully gets out november 5th, election day will be the most. and by the way, it's on september 22nd. it starts earlier because of early voting.bu but november 5th will go down as the most important election in the history of our country. it's going to be the most important day and period in the history of our country. will you to restore equal justice, equal applicationd ap of our laws, end this practicear of weaponization? >> is that a promise you're going to make? have to do iet. but it's awful. look, i know you want me to sa>y . i don't want you to say that you don't want to look naive. i don't. what they've done to the republican party, they want to arresnaïy di theepublicat on. they want to arrest the personpn that won the nomination in a landslide. it was nobody even close nominaa landslide. the person that got millions of votes, more votes than any other sitting president in voy in the last election,e the person that won an electiopn that, he wasn't expected to win against hillary clinton in 2016. they want to arrest that person or ney wano crime they want no to arrest. there was no crime. there was no criminality there's no crime. and you can go back to all b of these legal scholaracs. bele they can't believe what's happening. what's hapit'son't even like me. and they're saying this is a very, very dangerous thing ha now. appening thing we can't let this happen. and i will do everything, let my power not to let. but there's tremendous but y. lit what they're doing to me, if it's going to continue, we'reun really not going to have much of a country left. it's really it is weaponizedle. you call it lawfare, you call it some people call it just warfare, but it is weaponization of the election b. and we're talking about, i think, the most important election in the history of our country. this will go down, i believe, as the most important in the ouu history of our country. we can't have this stuff go on because can'e know what? when biden goes out, everyone says bye bye. and then outon he gets indicteda two days later and they go after2 the country doesn't want that. and you know what? they didn't want it with hillary i clinton clinton either. i thought it was, you know, i'd make a speech. everybody say lock i, lock her up, like and i was at a ufc fight. the other with dana white>> you is fantastic at a terrible receptioception. na's >> i did well, i'm kidding. and tell them i'm kidding. i'm not telling dana that people understand sarcasm. we played it. it was i t was pretty 25,00 underwhelming. it was 25,000 people, whatever they had goinatever tg absolutely. to competitive. but you know what? i watched it was very some of the fighters, two in particular, hate, d their opponent. and this went on for months at the fight you know, was broadcas s broadct out and they announced the fight and they the hatred was real.re it was the real deal. these people have they have a lot of hatred and they hate it. and then the fight ended and they're hugging and kissindg in the ring. they're down sitting on up there hugging and kissing. it's like nothing happened. happened on two fights. tremendous animosity between and the two fighters and the other two fighters. t and the end.n that's what happened. and in a certain way , we won against hillary. people accept, you know, it's a locker up locker. and i said, wouldn't it be terrible if i locked up the wife of the president, the united states former thd locked up the former secretary of state? it's a terrible thing. you know, you're stunning ifan you want to bring the country together, i want to bring the country together. and success doeso bring the country together because we are the most successful economy in the historydcessfu of our co. just prior to covid and even at the end, i got it back. it was an amazing thing. but we had the most successful economy in history, and i was getting calls from radical left, people wantinggetting to. and i'm telling you, success. african american asian american, hispanic, american, women, men, people with diplomas, people without diplomas, people that went to mit, harvard and wharton, people that didn't get out of high school, the most successful economy we've evere v had. and peoplead that i would say say you call them on the radical left, call it whatever you want liberal people, progressive people. they were all callining and they were saying, let's get together this amazing nobody. no, every single group, nobody has everroup better than duringi that period of time in my administration, duringn that pe. and they wanted to get together and it would have happened. we would have happened. it was really something. ay i'm not sure i would have been able to say to you that there was a way to unify, successful, unify. and i think we're going to havec a tremendous success. we have to bring it back fast because this countryweo brin ise a failing nation. we are really a failing nation right now. we're being leftt over out all r the world. >> all right. a lot of ground to cover. part two of my exclusive interview with former president trump is up next. we will ask the presiden part t about hunter biden's gun trial straight ahead. and about the issue of addiction as "hannity" continues tonight, beautiful palm beach, florida, beautiful palm beach, florida, straight. i see hunter, i swear, works fast. fast. it makes it less real.t. the power of contrast zero. so you can rise from pain. >> i see that nail fungus is nasty up to now starts improving the appearance of fungus damaged toenails just two days it's clinically proven formula penetrates the nail results. you can see quickly opti nail give fungus damaged toenails a makeover. >> you've waited all week for this mr. saturday morning. so rise and shine your chariot awaits you didn't get a green works just to hurt your wimpy old gas mowers feeling you got it because greenworks perfected lawn care on the world's most powerful commercial platform and use that innovation to develop the ultimate platform for home. the maximus see all in one utility zero turn from greenworks with more power, more runtime, and all the versatility of one battery that powers over 75 products. you'll forget all about gas there name long have you been out here now? 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>> o.carm. michael richards enters primetime. the actor discusses his new boanget lean absolutely free. that's b 82 215215. and here is part two of my interview from just a few hours earlie>>r with formerrvie president donald trump. >> let me asea fk, are you following at all the hunter biden trial? i am okay. let me ask you about two aspects of it. there's the legal aspect of it. okay. cas case seems pretty overwhelming on the gun charge in this case . in my opinion, he has he does not quite have this hostile venudn't quie in delaware. he has got a very friendly venue. i had the most hostile venuea venu you could have. we asked for a venue change and we asked for a judgee chane ,none of which, and they wouldn't do it. okay. so however there's another aspect of it, and it's something that if you look at like fo andf yor example,lowg the fentanyl flowing into this country that is killing our children ing in massive numbers and opioids killing our children, a massive numbers, there is this issue that is very real. atchin and i guarantee you there's not a person that's watching this show that doesn't know somebody a family member, friend, neighbor that hasn't had to deal with addiction haven'td you've had to deal with it in your life. you don't drink no. never have. i no. never had a drink. hadi had a brother who suffered tremendously from alcoholism and alcohol and it was a terrible thing to watch. he was an incredible guy with the best personality. he was the best looking person you've ever seen. everything was perfect, but he had an addiction. and so i understand because i you know, i was very close. he was very close to me, was incredible guy, but he suffered a trauma. and i've had many friends, but my brother suffered tremendously from this addiction. in fact, a he was older than me and he'd go out and say, never drink, never, ever drink. now, in those days, drugs were not prevalent. >> you know, you didn't have that. but he'd say, never ever drink? he knew exactly what he was saying. i used to say, what is it? he said. as saying whbut i never had a d. and, you know, i'm not bragging about it. i know one thing about addiction is a lot y, what do you tell children? i say, if you don't have a drinf you've k, you're never going to have a problem. if you do have a drink, you have a good chance that you'll be addicted or drugs, because now it's drugs are probably equal to or greater. i mean, that's what's so bad. and they're dying from the from of fug the size, a pinhead, a little bit of fentanyl literally. what could fit on the end of a pin can kill ten people. it's crazy. and so dangerousn out there. a and so many are dying where they think they're getting something. and yoeru ought to have a little fun on a friday night and all of a sudden they're dead because of thll se power of what's happening. and the sad thing is that i had an agreement with president xi of china. i said, listen, you're killing our people. it's going through mexico. and mexico is paying a bigmexico price also from me. it's going through mexico, coming through mos cominr mosttt is 95% coming through the southern border. i built 571 miles of wall we