Alice Marie Johnson, pardoned by Trump after given a life sentence, reacts to the final Trump-Biden debate on 'Fox & Friends.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
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Joe, I ran because of you,
you did a poor job.
You put mostly young black men
in prison, and now you are saying
you are going to undo that. Why didnt you get it done,
didnt you get it done.
We had a republican Congress,
Ainsley former Vice President
Joe Biden, blaming the Republican
Congress for the Obama
administrations, lack of
criminal justice reforms and
here to react, is Alice Marie
Johnson, who was pardoned by
President Trump
Good morning to you Alice
good morning.
Good morning.
I want to roll through some
things that President Trump
talked about when it comes to
race.
He praised him for what they did
with opportunity zones.
He said men come into his office
to fund historically black
colleges.
We have to come back every year
and ask for more funding. He said,
let me give you an extension for
ten years
funding, definitely for ten years
and, of course, prison reform. What
he did for your life.
Were you pleased with what he
said last night,
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Ainsley tell me why
I believe what you do is who
you ever
I was incarcerated for over two
decades
and behind the crime bill.
President Trump had mercy for
meal and im home.
I have. There were five other
people this week that the
president brought home, who were
serving decades behind bars.
Ask the families of Curtis
Mcdonald of John Bolin of
Duke Tanner
of La Nora Logan. Michelle ask
them how they feel to have their
loved ones back at home, because
for years they set across a
table and saw an empty chair,
Ainsley Alice. What do you
think about what Biden said
he said? If you have a drug
problem, doesnt agree, they
should be put in jail, they
should go to rehab.
You were in prison and some of
them were behind bars because of
drug problems.
Do you think that rehab facility
would be better?
The people who I was in
prison with were sitting behind
bars
too many of them because of the
crime bill.
Many of them lost their life,
it impacted their families.
You cannot go back and undo and
give those years back to these
families
I mean, and there are still
people who were there, who the
president continues to identify
and continues to look at their
cases and brings them home
so im just listening what what
was said about what is really on
the ballot.
What you did is on the ballot
too
thats true, he said the crime
bill was a mistake.
You are right, if you think about
the people who have spent
decades behind bars. Because of
that mistake, is that
satisfactory for them?
No, its, not
not satisfactory, for the
families still waiting for their
loved ones to come home? There
are people sitting in prison
serving life sentences now who
have been identified, who
working on to bring home many of
them in are in there for
marijuana case
marijuana crimes,
so that was just not
satisfactory to me. What is being
done now, moving forward
pushing forward this
administrations, criminal
justice, reform efforts? That is
what is important to me.
Ainsley, the president, got more
percentage of black voters than
Mitt Romney did in the election
prior to that. How many
thanksgiving do you think he
will get
what percentage of the black
voter will vote for? President
Trump,
I dont have a percentage,
but I think its going to be a
much larger percentage than
anyone is expecting
because we see through many
things
we have our own minds to think
and I think people are waking up.
I dont owe anyone my vote
im going to vote based on
policies
based upon what impacts my
family
im, not looking for someone that
is charismatic or any of that
im. Looking for what impacts my
family,
what impacts my faith, what
impacts my ability to survive as
a american citizen to be able to
have good wages,
im voting for the opportunity
that my family will have for
opportunities
im voting for those things.
Ainsley. We watched that video
of you running into the arms of
your family.
You were supposed to be behind
bars forever for the rest of
your life and he got you out and.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-23.