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	This is Jay Sekul, Logan Seculo is with me.
	We head up the American Center for Law and Justice.
	You see Howell Senior Lawyer here.
	We've got a lot of legal things to talk about because there's a lot of legal things going on.
	We just talked about Supreme Court of the United States.
	We took that case to Colorado's where they took Trump off the ballot.
	By the way, that affects at least 15 other states.
	Right now.
	I guarantee you, by the first week of January, that will be up to 20.
	They're going to consider this, so that's why the Supreme Court needs to react.
	We did just get word that the Secretary of State of Colorado has said that uh former President Trump will be on the ballot because we filed that case yesterday.
	Now, Rick Rennell's joining us.
	He is a senior advisor to the American Center for Law and Justice, former director of national intelligence, former ambassador to the UN, uh Ambassador Germany, and official at the United Nations for the United States of America.
	And Rick, there's another matter pending, and I know you you you're concerned about free speech like I am.
	Jack Smith, the special counsel who has very convoluted theories of the law, quite frankly, has now, after losing last week, his attempt to get the court to skip over.
	Uh the court of appeals and the challenge that the president's lawyers have made to the uh issue right now, which of course is that the president is immune from prosecution for acts that were taken while he was president, which in January 6th he was still president.
	They wanted to skip over the court of appeals, the court of appeals, so they went to the Supreme Court saying, hey, skip the court of appeals, you take it right away.
	Supreme Court said, no, we're not gonna do that.
	That was a couple of days ago.
	Then Jack Smith came around today or yesterday, last night, and filed a new motion Saying, quote, through public statements, filings, and arguments and hearings before the court, the defense has attempted to, quote, inject into this case partisan political attacks and irrelevant pre and prejudicial issues that have no place in a jury.
	They go on to say, and this is to me is the is the I think the line of lines.
	They talk about, they actually use the word, of all things, the court should not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which he propagates irrelevant, ready for this folks, disinformation.
	Bring back Miss Jankowitz, she'll be the disinformation uh clerk there at the court and she'll decide what's what's good and what's not good.
	Now, I'm not making a joke, obviously.
	But the fact that they think they can do this, Rick, and silence the president from uh in and his lawyers from putting on a defense in court about the political nature of this when this is a political case, should have every American outraged.
	Yeah, Jordan Logan, well, what we have to remember is that Jack Smith came to the United States from The Hague.
	He had been a prosecutor at The Hague.
	Uh working at the Hague means that prosecutors really get to do whatever they want.
	Uh Jack Smith put the president of Kosovo, who I was negotiating with, and President Trump was negotiating with uh between Kosovo and Serbia.
	Jack Smith put him in prison, indicted the president of Kosovo in the middle of our negotiations, and put him in prison.
	Hashem Thachi is his name.
	Hashem Thachi, the president of Kosovo, is still in prison in The Hague two and a half years, almost three years later.
	Think about that.
	This is the Hague values.
	This is what works at the Hague is not what works in an American court.
	Exactly.
	Routinely get to take away people's rights and do whatever they want.
	And so Jack Smith has brought the Hague values, the Hague view of the law to the United States.
	And what he's finding out is that the United States just doesn't put up with that.
	Little known little known fact.
	Uh I have made two appearances at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
	Not a lot of lawyers have in the United States.
	Uh in one case, it involved the situation what they called in the matter of Israel.
	In the second one, it was in the matter of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, where the United States was the target of the ICC.
	And I will tell you this.
	We do a lot of work in international tribunals.
	I when I sat and watched the first case that I heard before the International Criminal Court, before I even argue the case I was involved in, Rick, I watched I went in with Israelis, by the way, to watch one, and they were trying some African general, warlord,
	who I think was 17 years old and was obviously taken from his village with the threat that his family was going to be killed, the kind of horrible things that happened there, and they're prosecuting this guy, and they're bringing in evidence, and then the prosecutor was withholding evidence and ended up getting in trouble for that to take those values and try to put that in an American system, that's just not right.
	No, it's, and you touched on, on the evidence issue and that is probably the biggest difference between the head court and the United States in that the evidence is just not put to the same rigor.
	You can say anything as the prosecutor.
	You know, the the reality is, if any listeners are interested, they should go and Google Jack Smith, Kosovo, and all of the European media that are attacking Jack Smith's tactics.
	He put uh uh people up, witnesses up who have recanted their stories and said that that Jack Smith put someone in front of them that appeared to be a CIA agent who turned out not to be a CIA agent.
	So the charges against Jack Smith's tactics are long and troubling, and our media here in the United States should do a better job of looking under the hood of Jack Smith.
	I'll finish with this, Jay.
	You know this.
	I've said this before.
	The Prime Minister of Albania, who is a member of NATO, has a fantastic speech attacking Jack Smith's tactics, and telling Europeans who are listening to him while he's giving this speech in Strasbourg, telling them you are hypocrites for allowing Jack Smith to put Hashem Thachi, The president of Kosovo into a prison without a rule of law that makes sense.
	They don't have indictments.
	They don't have cross-examination.
	I mean, we CC does a lot of this as well.
	We deal with these international tribunals.
	We're accredited with the United Nations.
	And CC, it is a whole for the this audience needs to understand when you're talking about these international tribunals, it's a whole different world.
	Right.
	And it's just like Rick said, I mean, rule of law, it's thrown out.
	You you said, you know, they don't have cross-examinations, but what's funny is Jack Smith is has asked this court in the United States to not let to limit even the cross-examination questions of Trump's attorneys.
	He has basically asked this court to say President Trump does not get the right to defend himself.
	And again, these are the Hague tactics.
	This is not what happens in a United States court.
	Here's the truth about Jack Smith.
	Okay.
	He's very good at getting indictments.
	He's not so good on convictions.
	And let me tell you, let me give you three examples.
	Bob McDonald, governor of Virginia, prosecuted by Jack Smith.
	Jury convicts them.
	It goes eventually to the Supreme Court of the United States.
	The Supreme Court of the United States, I was involved in that case.
	Nine to zero.
	The most conservative members of the court, the most liberal members of the court reversed, saying that Jack Smith's interpretation of honest services, that's what it was called honest services and the bribery and fraud statute.
	Would if that interpretation was right, then governors could never do their job.
	Let's take and that was a Republican.
	Now let's go to a Democrat, John Edwards.
	He was running to be the vice president of the United States with John Kerry, Senator from North Carolina.
	Jack Smith brings a corruption case against him.
	The jury, I think, was out for you know hours before they came back not guilty.
	Bob Menendez, the senator from New Jersey, in his first uh hearing, was it his defense lawyer was my friend Abbey Lowell, one of the best criminal defense lawyers in the United States, another Jack Smith prosecution, not guilty.
	So he has this history, and now he's taking Rick these unbelievable stretches of the law, if you can even call it that, and applying it to the leading candidate for president of the United States.
	It's all politics.
	We see it.
	And I just got to say that I I think this is the fight that we're in right now in America.
	Lawfare.
	The weaponization of the courts, the weaponization of DOJ, they're coming at Trump with everything they have.
	And I thank God that Trump is the one who is taking these hits because I know he can take them.
	He's got a great legal team.
	And if if somehow they can manipulate our court system to get Trump, we are next.
	He is standing in the way for what they're trying to do to us.
	Let me let me tell you about the leak the legal side of this, because we're involved in all this Rick just mentioned.
	We're involved in a lot of these cases.
	This one on executive immunity.
	The idea that a president could face civil or criminal suits for actions they took as president of the United States would would impact every single president.
	So the answer to that should be no.
	The idea, as CC just mentioned, that you cannot cross-examine witnesses if you're saying the political nature of this, when this is a case about a political event, if you want to call it that.
	Hey, this is not the way it works in the United States of America.
	But you he was so desperate after being denied this expedited review, jump over the court of appeals on the executive immunity claim.
	He was so upset about that that he comes back with this motion.
	And then to make his matter his job more difficult, one of the January 6th uh protesters files a petition for review, just like we filed for the Colorado Supreme Court with the Supreme Court of the United States on saying, you know, that obstruction of Congress statute, which is the big thing they're going after with all of these people.
	Hey, that has been viewed as being overbroad and unconstitutional.
	Judge Katzis, uh a court of appeals judge dissented.
	There was two judges said nope, it's allowed.
	One judge said no.
	He said it violates free freedom of speech, freedom to redress government for grievances, freedom of association.
	And shockingly, to Jack Smith, the Supreme Court took that case too.
	So Logan, when you look at all of this right now, let me tell you what it looks like.
	They are very desperate and they are running out of options, and they're throwing everything they have against the wall right now.
	Yeah, and if anything, it's just going to make uh President Trump stronger, people more infuriated and and look, it certainly doesn't diffuse.
	That was one of my friends who uh I was talking to when this happened, and he's a moderate.
	I'd say moderate goes, it's what a thing to do to help not let the country heal, to not let us defuse sort of everyone's this is actually just gonna make this so much much more of a stressful moment going into the election that you can't be honest.
	You can't have that feeling right now because you're so pent up going, this doesn't feel American.
	Well, it doesn't, and Rick, the last thing here before we we gotta let you go, and that is like in this Colorado case, where they're basically saying, you know, we're taking them off the ballot and we have the right to do it, and we're out obviously we've taken it to the Supreme Court already, the American Center for Law and Justice, um, because we've said this is ridiculous.
	But if we lose the right to vote, we've lost it all.
	Yeah, look, uh I'm old enough to remember a time when reporters would hold the court, politicians, uh newsmakers to account.
	If they overreached, they would be mocked by the media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and others.
	They would they would be pushed to to moderate, to to not be so partisan.
	The problem right now is that the reporters are allowing this to happen.
	They're cheerleading it.
	And so there are no consequences for people like Jack Smith to bring the Hague values to America and try everything he can to change our courts and manipulate and politicize them because the media are not pushing back on him.
	So there's no consequences for him.
	He's gonna continue doing it, it's gonna get worse.
	Yeah, but let me tell you this, we're fighting it every step of the way.
	We're at the Supreme Court in the United States right now in Colorado.
	We're gonna file a brief in the case involving the executive immunity.
	I argued a similar case for President Trump at the Supreme Court three and a half years ago.
	We know what this is, folks, and uh Rick, we are not gonna let the Haig become the values of the United States of America.
	Thanks for being with us.
	We appreciate it.
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	Yeah, so we have the working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances that we filed with the 10 um hostage hostage families, yes.
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	Um in Jerusalem.
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	Jip Balabon's a senior lawyer for the us at the ACLJ runs that office.
	Uh Jeff is with us on the phone.
	And Jeff, you know, I'm looking at headlines, and we followed this horrible situation that took place on October 7th.
	We're doing a lot of legal work for the families.
	But you look at the headlines.
	Turkey's Erdogan says Israeli Prime Minister Nest Yahu, no different from Hitler.
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	Well, that's an another matter.
	But let's focus on the Israel situation here.
	You just got back.
	I know you're returning.
	Where do you see things right now?
	Well, Jay, it is in fact a multi-war front, and I don't just mean in the south of Israel, in the north of Israel, potentially their largest, most dangerous and vulnerable border, which is with you know Judean Samaria and Jordan, and in the middle they have a lot of authority controlled areas which are pure terrorist havens.
	And so it's a multifront war, but then there's the multi-front war in terms of lawfare around the world, which we work on in terms of uh the political dynamic, the incredible pressure.
	Israel and Israel alone is never allowed to defend itself.
	Israel and Israel alone is called genocidal when it just seeks to defend itself from actual genocidal maniacs.
	And that's what's happening.
	It's a multifront war against the existence of the Jewish state, and now against the existence of the Jewish people.
	I said to you, you and I had a conversation the other night, late at night, I said this is an existential threat to the Jewish state of Israel and to Jewish people.
	I said it is an existential threat because as world opinion quickly changes, which is what happens in these in these conflicts with Israel, and the atrocities were unbelievable.
	People are already forgetting about the horrific atrocities that took place here.
	I mean, the the it's almost as though the only significant pocket of support for decency, humanity, morality, is in America, a little bit in some of the states in Europe, but otherwise, the world has gone mad.
	They're out there.
	You saw it there wasn't even a breath to take.
	It was immediately after the most disgusting massacre, really in in memory, uh horrific act, and they started becoming public, and people are out in the streets.
	Forget about the Arab world, forget about the Muslim world, in the West, on the side of the genocidal maniacs, calling for the eradication of the Jewish state, and indeed calling gas the Jews, not destroying Israel, gas the Jews, kill the Jews.
	You know, the anti-Semitism, we're re we've represented students that are facing horrible acts, but we're also operating at the United Nations.
	I I need to say this.
	We have an office in Strasbourg, France, our European Center for Law and Justice, just 10 days ago, finished a family delegation with multiple families of hostages.
	They were at the European uh Parliament, they were at the Council of Europe, they met with government leaders to tell the story so people don't forget.
	Now the hostage situation is looking grim.
	I I'm gonna be the first two minutes.
	Look, there was a report today that another American hostage was actually killed on October 7th.
	They thought they were a hostage, they apparently were not.
	But I I you I want people to understand that you've got to keep this at the forefront.
	And CC Howell's with us, who heads up a lot of our work at the United Nations, and we have taken aggressive, aggressive action at the UN on behalf of Israel.
	Yeah, and what's important to note is at the United Nations there are more resolutions condemning Israel than any other member state.
	And our ECLJ, which is an NGO at the United Nations, we always stand up and we always fight for Israel because they do have a right to self-defense.
	But with this hostage situation and what happened, the horrific acts that happened on October 7th, we filed with the working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances, which is a working group body within the United Nations that handles hostage situations, and we did so on behalf of ten um clients.
	And we've done we've done letters to the Commission of Inquiry, we've done submissions to the Commission of Injury, we've done letters to the Secretary General demanding that they condemn the horrific acts of Hamas against Israel.
	You know, Jeff, that attack, I think it you know, I never like using a Holocaust example, you know, comparison, but it has that exact feeling.
	Jay, I mean, we we share a certain family history here.
	You know, my my family, my mother is a survivor, her parents were killed, and and the entire family essentially was wiped out.
	And uh, I will tell you, no hesitation, what's going on now is worse.
	It's worse because number one, the world knows that genocide of the Jews is always been on the agenda, and they saw it could claim to have been shocked in in in the last war.
	They cannot claim to be shocked now.
	Number one, number two, the amount of support across Palestinian world for this dwarfs the support that Hitler had among the Germans.
	Number three, the amount of support around the world for this dwarfs what was seen then.
	This is potentially worse.
	And you know what?
	In our day and age, there's nowhere for Jews to run and hide because of monotechnology.
	What we're seeing now is in fact, as you just said, an existential threat for the state of Israel, but also for Jews, Jewish populations everywhere on the globe.
	That's why, by the way, what we're doing is so important on so many levels, Jay.
	Everything you're talking about, where ACLJ is confronting it, there's really no limit to the fronts in which it has to be confronted.
	And it's amazing that ACLJ is really there any place.
	Yeah, we've been doing it for a long time.
	Wilgan, I was gonna ask you this because I know you've got a friends that are your age or in your your late thirties.
	Is this issue resonating?
	It did initially.
	What about now?
	Yeah, I think it is resonating.
	Sadly, uh, I'm not sure if Israel's winning the PR war in that's the problem.
	And uh yeah, I'm spending a lot of time I I feel like talking about this and trying to explain it to people.
	Because you do see images, the images that are posted out of Gaza and out of uh Judea Samaria It's hard not to talk on your heartstrings just as it did back in on October 6th.
	So it's hard not to um have those conversations.
	And then you have the problem is there there's what feels like a technological bot war happening uh if you post something pro-Israel.
	Yeah.
	Uh and I noticed that last week um on Christmas Eve, Stephen Fry, who's you know, British commentator and speaker, and uh, you know, he posted a whole Christmas message and it was about growing up first half was about growing up uh you know, being unsure of being you know openly gay uh in in Britain and how that that was something that he had to deal with, but he never thought about being openly Jewish and that being a concern, and now that's the number one concern as we have progressed.
	But look at the comments on that.
	They had to turn the comments off on YouTube.
	Really?
	They had to you look at the response, mass boycotts of Stephen Fry.
	Again, not exactly the voice of conservatism, not exactly the voice of of of anything that probably this audience would would appreciate, other than maybe his work.
	Um so you see that and it it it is pretty shocking.
	Because you watch it as a what would be considered a normal American or or a Westerner, and you watch it and go, how can anyone have any problems with this?
	But you look at the comments and it's all well, you know, you're ignoring the genocide happening.
	And sadly, that's what's happening in Western society.
	Sure, a lot of it is bots.
	Sure, a lot of it is going through and saying, okay, which again may also mem remember, because I think it's easy for us to kind of connect Gaza and the connect uh Hamas with almost like a uh Taliban or even a you know, like it it's easy to almost like put those two together.
	Yeah.
	But this is a technologically, you know, they're working on these things to where there's massive response.
	There's massive digital response.
	Yeah.
	Uh in a way that frankly, Israel does not have.
	Yeah, and you know, Jeff, we taught you and I talked about this, the messaging from Israel uh it needs some help.
	I agree, Jay.
	You know, part of the problem is uh, you know, Logan's expressing uh concern what he sees at the response is Stephen Fry's beautiful message, Very simple message about just goodness and and brotherhood.
	And that's what's happening.
	Israel unfortunately projects the humanity onto the world, not recognizing that for much of the world, maybe even most of the world, they view Jews as evil.
	It's only the loudest ones.
	I don't know most of them.
	And so Israel thinks it's going to be judged by its behavior.
	And on that standard is the most moral army in the world, and it's waging a war.
	Actually, it's shockingly low civilian collateral death count.
	Shockingly low, according to every military expert, but according to the world, you know, it's pure evil.
	And that's what Israel has never understand.
	They're not being judged by their behavior.
	They're simply being just evil for being Jewish.
	There's nothing more complicated than that, and that's the reality.
	I've been to the ICC, the office of the prosecutor dealing with the matter involving Israel.
	And we was all resolved successfully.
	But it was it kind of tells you the nature of this.
	Jeff, we appreciate you being with us.
	Thanks for taking the time.
	Jeff Balabon is a senior counsel for the ACLJ out of our office in Jerusalem.
	We appreciate that.
	But I'll I'll tell you the other aspect of this that's important is you've got to be there.
	You've got to fight these fights.
	So like I said, we've got an office in Jerusalem.
	Jeff's heading back there now.
	We're fighting at the United Nations right now.
	Our European Center for Law and Justice just had families of hostages throughout the European uh uh Parliament and the Council of Europe.
	In the United States, we just had our our our government affairs team at the American Center for Law and Justice hosted a series of families to meet with leaders of both Republicans and Democrats at the House of Representatives.
	CC and I were in Israel, I mean Israel at an event for Israel just last week with representatives from South Korea to show the the support that they're getting there.
	But you've got to keep this at the forefront because people do forget.
	Absolutely.
	And you have to be, we have to be the voice that supports Israel.
	Because again, at the United Nations and throughout the rest of the world, Israel gets wrongfully painted as the bad guy, and they are not.
	They have a right to self-defense.
	They were horrifically attacked by Hamas on October 7th, and their response has been very much legal and appropriate and proportional, and yet they still get painted as the bad guys.
	So we have to be there.
	We have to be defending, we have to be speaking the truth, and the ACLJ is there.
	Yeah, and our European Center for Law and Justice affiliate, we sent a letter already to the ICC prosecutor, uh saying for, hey, listen, we rep you said you wanted to talk to families.
	Well, we represent families, and these families have had their loved ones killed in a horrible, horrific incident.
	But I what I want to tell you is the American Center for Law and Justice, our organization, the ECLJ, the European Center for Law and Justice, the ACLJ's office in Jerusalem, all of those offices are working together.
	And those officers are supported from people like you.
	Because we're a nonprofit organization, and what that means is we're support, we have donors from around the country that support our work.
	And Logan, people need to understand that we don't charge for our services.
	We do this everything's pro bono.
	Everything's free to the clients.
	We obviously we have to pay our staff and our lawyers and our media people, but your support of the ACLJ makes a huge difference.
	That's right.
	And right now we're in the ACLJ Faith and Freedom year-in drive.
	It means it wraps up in just a couple of days.
	And we've been able to unlock a three times match right now.
	And look, when you hear those the conversations coming out of Israel in our offices there, I mean, this could not be a time that's more important to support the work, not just what we're doing, but also to get yourself involved.
	Maybe you're feeling maybe you're feeling like the world is on fire.
	I mean, and you don't know what else you can do.
	This is a good way to really start the process of helping.
	I was at a Christmas event and uh whatnot the lead singer, and it was Michael W. Smith was performing, you know, it's the most wonderful time of the year, and he at least had to stop himself sort of uh you know, halfway through their performance, not the song, but of the show, and say, you know what, we can't just sit around here though, pretend everything is okay.
	You know, the world is on fire.
	It is something that we're dealing with right now.
	And he was like, I'm not gonna get political.
	But we kind of all know where where we stand, and I feel like this is that moment.
	That this feels that way.
	I mean, it feels like a very dark time.
	It looks a lot of dark time for people, they need hope.
	They need something.
	Uh, so we have to be there for them and and really be able to support and look, this is a good good way to do it.
	Yeah, and so if you're looking at year and giving uh to a nonprofit organization, you get the tax deduction, ACLJ.org, and as Logan said, we're on Faith and Freedom Tribe, but for the first time in our history, it's a triple match.
	What that means is if you donate $50 or $100, we're gonna get $300 or $150 from other donors.
	So I encourage you to support the ongoing work that we're talking about on this broadcast, whether it's Supreme Court in the United States here for your right to vote or over in the Middle East, depending those that cannot defend themselves.
	The American Center for Law and Justice is there.
	We're gonna continue to be there.
	Go to ACLJ.org.
	That's ACLJ.org.
	Support the work back with more Hannity in a few minutes.
	Welcome back to Hannity.
	This is Logan Seculo with Jay Secul and CCIO.
	And uh we are going to keep talking about the work of the ACLJ, but also talk about obviously the cases that are going on with President Trump.
	Right now.
	Really?
	Maybe this audience needs to know sort of at a level of importance.
	What do they need to be paying attention to?
	So I think number one is your right to vote, and that's the Colorado case that is now at the Supreme Court and the request for expedited review.
	The other side even agrees it needs to be expedited.
	I was watching some of the commentators.
	That's our case of the American Center for Law and Justice.
	We represent the Colorado uh Republican Party.
	So that's a that's a huge case.
	The executive immunity case at the Supreme Court of the United States.
	Well, not yet, it's at the DC Court of Appeals.
	Jack Smith tried to, you know, basically hijack that case and move it to the Supreme Court.
	The Supreme Court said, not so fast, you gotta go through the Court of Appeals.
	That was a big rebuke to Jack Smith.
	That's a big one.
	Uh and then you've got these state challenges in with the like Colorado in 15 states right now.
	So there's a lot going on on and all of these affect your ability to vote for the candidate of your choice.
	But let me tell you about this Colorado case and why I think it's the most important one.
	Folks, we live in a constitutional republic.
	If you do not have the right to vote, you have no liberty.
	We fight for religious freedom at the ACLJ.
	We fight for freedom of speech, we fight for pro-life issues.
	None of that's gonna happen if your right to vote is marginalized to what a Secretary of State thinks it should be, or who thinks who you should vote for.
	So we took that case to the Supreme Court of the United States, the highest court of the land, on an expedited basis.
	It was filed yesterday.
	We just got the case number.
	So that's how quick this is moving.
	So I would encourage you if you're concerned about these issues, check us out at ACLJ.org to find out information about the American Center for Law and Justice.
	Also, all your social media fees were on there.
	And support the work of the ACLJ.
	It's tax deductible, it's the end of the year.
	It's our faith in freedom drive, ACLJ.org.
	That's ACLJ.org.
	And any amount you donate, we're gonna get it matched three times.
	ACLJ.org.
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