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Logan Sekulow: Welcome to Sekulow. This is Logan Sekulow. Will Hains in studio. We be joined by Jeff Balabon from ACLJ Jerusalem as the Israeli elections are right here. They're happening. People are voting. Thousands and thousands more people are showing up to vote this time around. Obviously, a lot of controversy surrounding who will be the next leader and how that all shakes out. Again, it gets a little complicated in Israel cuz it's not just like America in terms of the way of one vote or one person with the most votes wins and you they got to form governments. We're going to get into all that. So if you want to know more information, we know you're seeing the headlines. We're going to get into that as well. Of course, now one week away from the midterms. And you know what? If there's someone who likes to get themselves in the news right around election time, somewhere between a week or two weeks before an election, it is our boy James Comey. James Comey shows up somehow always right around now. Now this time he may have not been the he may not have been the the person making it happen, but he is in the news.
Will Hains: That's right. So what we're finding out is that the Department of Justice and federal prosecutors are charging James Comey with transmission of national defense information and conspiracy to commit or conspiracy to transmit national defense information. So two charges here.
Logan Sekulow: Something that we all probably thought he should have been charged and maybe had already been charged with many times ago, but a lot of his other charges had to do with stuff like uh Seahorse Gate.
Will Hains: Right. That's right. So what we're looking at now though is whether or not this is going to be uh a third time's a charm for the federal government. What we have here is actually a criminal information document that was filed under seal on October 5th. So a few weeks back, 22 days ago to be precise, now it has been unsealed. We are finding out also that his defense team is pushing back saying this is more games from the federal government. We will get into all of that in the next segment and explain all of this. But we also have at the same time this morning we're finding out their Eric Swalwell's mansion in Beverly Hills was raided by federal authorities. If you remember back in August, he was detained at the San Francisco Airport. His electronic devices were seized by federal authorities and now his home has been raided. All of this happening around the same time period that we are finding out that James Comey is now once again under the microscope of federal authorities when this time having to deal with the leaking of national defense information. So we're going to get into all this. What does it mean? Do you think anything will happen with this third time's a charm with James Comey? We know with Eric Swalwell because of allegations he had to drop out of the governor's race. He was vying to be the next governor of California and now he is under scrutiny by federal authorities. So if you want to talk about this on air, 1-800-684-3110. We're going to break it all down for you.
Logan Sekulow: That's right. Again, as Will said, phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. If you have a question related to this, we're also going to play you that ad you've seen it maybe going around uh in support of Al-Sayed. Of course, it is maybe one of the more extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic ads that you could possibly imagine hitting the airwaves. What happens? Does do they distance themselves? How do they get involved in this uh really horrific ad that's running and trying to be done in sort of a tongue and cheek way where you even have CNN's Van Jones coming out and saying it's time to distance themselves completely from this type of rhetoric. He's been a good friend of Israel I have to say of all the things you may disagree with him on. One thing is for sure, he has been a very consistent friend to the Jewish people and to Israel. Phone lines are open for you. And again, as we are one week out from those midterms, we're going to break down more about this James Comey situation, but I do want to hear from you. How are things looking in your area? Do you feel confident about your candidate? Do you feel like it's a long shot? Maybe you're in a blue state, maybe in a red state. I want to hear from you right now. Let's do a little let's do our own little polling, Will. Just kind of across the country.
Will Hains: Is that an official poll?
Logan Sekulow: I mean
Will Hains: Will be added to the aggregators as an official poll?
Logan Sekulow: I mean we can submit it. We'll see.
Will Hains: It's probably more real than others. I mean they talk to real people.
Logan Sekulow: Yep. Phone lines are open for you. 1-800-684-3110. That's 1-800-684-3110. We'll be right back.
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Logan Sekulow: We are so excited to announce the ACLJ's brand new app. Completely redesigned to provide you with the best tools available to partner with us at the ACLJ. You can watch the daily Sekulow program, sign the petitions, customize your ACLJ membership experience, donate with the click of a button, and receive up to the minute critical updates that the mainstream media can't censor. Just scan the QR code on your screen or go to your phone's App Store, search ACLJ and click install. It's that simple. Welcome back to Sekulow. We do have some phone lines open. A lot of you are just joining us right now. So we're going to kind of re- uh state the main topic of the day. Of course, we're talking once again the man who won't go away. And he even said that himself in a video saying, well they're back at it again cuz it seems like now for a third attempt they are going after James Comey. The Trump administration is doing this this time under uh a moment that really feels like one of the charges that should have been made very early. When we know all the different things that James Comey's had issues with, this is one. The count is transmission of national defense information. Account two is conspiracy to transmit national defense information. Almost something that he has a little bit admitted to in the past with all the leaking and all of that that he certainly um they have at least a reason.
Will Hains: Well and once again, the very first time he was charged it was dismissed not because of the facts of the case, but because of the issue with the US attorney that was serving uh in a temporary position at the time, but they were saying overstayed. So it was a a did the individual have the right to bring the charges kind of situation. That was why the first charges that were from back in September of 2025 in the Eastern District of Virginia and those related to false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch and count two was obstruction of a congressional proceeding. In those actually those charges related to what this charge is. They the obstruction and the false statements were related to him and how he operated with this individual that was a special government employee that he was using to leak information. So they were trying to go the first the perjury route and obstruction route rather than the actual leaking of the information. Now uh more than a year later, they are bringing this charge uh and and that's where it gets also we need to be clear with people. This isn't an indictment by a grand jury. So he has not been officially charged by a grand jury, uh indicted criminally.
Logan Sekulow: I know that can get a little confusing for people.
Will Hains: But they have what they did was they filed this count one and count two that the United States charges that at all times relevant to this information count one and count two that are related to the transmission of national defense information and conspiracy to transmit national defense information. But this doesn't automatically go to trial because it's not an indictment yet. What the Comey team has done is filed a motion to dismiss based off of the statute of limitations. It was a 10-year statute of limitations on these charges which because they are alleging that they took place on October 5th of 2016 before the first Trump election.
Logan Sekulow: So this is trying to push the time frame. Move the goal post.
Will Hains: That's right. So it's called it's called tolling the statute of limitations. It's putting pause on what would expire. They filed this October 5th of 2026. So exactly 10 years later.
Logan Sekulow: And whatever you think about it, this is fairly common practice.
Will Hains: So that's the the issue at hand now.
Logan Sekulow: But you may you may not like the idea that they're doing this, but in general this isn't anything new to the federal government.
Will Hains: The Right. And that is why his defense team charge said now the statute limitations has run. Throw this out. Don't even worry about it. However, the spokesperson for the DOJ says that a filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations, which is exactly what they have done here, is a widely recognized practice in federal court and has been approved by multiple circuit courts of appeals. This is an ongoing criminal investigation and we will not comment further. So you're at a situation here and I think what what I the big question I have and I'm sure many of the audiences is why you even have to extend this? Why did you have to get to the statute of limitations date and extend this? Why wasn't this your first way to look into this? Because we know James Comey, remember he told Susan Collins uh this is Bite nine in a hearing in 2017. So nine years ago about showing copies of his memo to uh people outside the DOJ Bite nine.
Susan Collins: Did you show copies of your memos to anyone outside of the Department of Justice?
James Comey: Yes.
Susan Collins: And to whom did you show copies?
James Comey: I asked um President tweeted on Friday after I got fired that I better hope there's not tapes. I woke up in the middle of the night on Monday night cuz it didn't dawn on me originally that there might be corroboration for our conversation. There might be a tape. And my judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square. And so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. And so I asked a close friend of mine to do it.
Susan Collins: And was that Mr. Whedon?
James Comey: No. No.
Susan Collins: Who was that?
James Comey: A good friend of mine who's a professor at Columbia Law School.
Will Hains: So even this here he's admitting that this is a practice of his.
Logan Sekulow: Right. This was nine years ago now.
Will Hains: But also that isn't even the instance that is at the heart of this uh criminal information filing by the United States Department of Justice. They are alleging that he was leaking things to Yahoo News and things of that nature. All of this stuff that we know about from the Russiagate hoax that was perpetuated on the American people that he was doing that even before President Trump was elected. So that's where it gets interesting. Why and and we don't know the answer to this? Why did it take 10 years for the DOJ to uh to go down this path? Why did they go for the obstruction of Congress and the the other path of the of the line to Congress first instead of going down this path?
Logan Sekulow: The threatening of the president, all of that
Will Hains: And now the threatening of the president, the 8647 that one is still in court and that's actually been delayed uh until early 2027.
Logan Sekulow: Well we got till 20 uh 37 I guess to actually get it done. You know
Will Hains: Right. And so that's where we're looking at these very interesting strategy here by the DOJ that why they decided to wait until the final day of the statute of limitations to try and extend it. To me there that's where the don't get your hopes up moment is that clearly even though he's admitting that this was his practice
Logan Sekulow: Yeah. And look, he loves this again. Let's I think we do need to play this. You know he did go to social media as you would expect cuz James Comey not a man who's considered camera shy by any means anyways to make it in the news. We know he loves it. And it's okay. Look, some people feel that way. They want to be on camera. We know he'd love to make news. We know he'd love to throw Hillary Clinton under the bus and then back off at the last second. We know he'd loves to play you know it's essentially not only the victim, but he loves to meddle with what's going on. And when you're talking about being a week away from elections, it's not going to stop the social media accounts of James Comey. Let's hear what he had to say uh Bite one. This was just today.
James Comey: Well they're back again. It would almost be funny if it weren't such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing's changed with me. I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary. And I'm still lucky to have an amazing family and an incredible group of lawyers that will stand up in court and fight the latest and whatever comes after this. The next couple of years are going to be hard for all of us. It's really important that we stand straight and keep the faith in America.
Logan Sekulow: Of course, that was James Comey just yesterday on social media. Pretty interesting to see those back to back. You really can't see the time, the 10 years that has passed or the eight years that has passed on all of us, not just on James Comey, but how long we've been it really shows you you know sort of the telegraphing of time of how long we've been talking about these issues.
Will Hains: Well and once again, when you look at this as well and we we talked about this over the years about how crafty James Comey was, the things he would admit to and the things the games he would play with the law and his abuse of power at the FBI. When you start to look at this and and this is count two, this is the conspiracy to transmit national defense information. It says between uh between on or about a date unknown, but not later than October 4, 2016 and up to and including the date of this filing in the District of Columbia, defendant James Brian Comey Jr. and others known and unknown knowing and willfully conspired and agreed together and with each other to violate 18 USC assert forth in count one to wit while lawfully possessing assessing controlling all this national security national defense information. Uh they in furtherance of the conspiracy and objects thereof the defendant through one or more co-conspirators directed individual number one to disclose national defense information to a reporter for a national news publication. They're even showing that he tried to insulate himself with this conspiracy charge that it wasn't even directly he was the one that handed it off. He handed it off and then someone told someone else leak it. It's setting up those layers of protection around him and why they are charging this conspiracy. The fact that they are saying one or more co-conspirators uh I feel like that's where their investigation is. That is part of the question, but also once again why are we just now getting to this when we've known about these issues? But are they investigating other people of which they could get to turn or flip on James Comey and saying, yeah I didn't hear directly from James, but I heard from my superior who told me to leak and push it forward to get this narrative out there. But once again then you're building a case on hearsay. I think that's why this is a more difficult uh prosecution than maybe why they went with the perjury one first if they could convince people or they could convince a jury, look he lied. Here's the evidence. That is probably easier than when you're dealing with a conspiracy that may have some hearsay that they'd have to prove.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah and again, that ties into the whole like deep state phenomenon of which we've been talking about also for the last decade. The ACLJ team we're on the front lines right now and we need your support. Right now with cases we have moving forward we just send me a whole list. There's a deadline upcoming as we battle again the deep state including some of our foyer cases each to major discovery demand and lawsuit Washington State. We've got a nativity battle happening right now and an Easter display coming up. So much happening as we head towards the end of the year. We're going to discuss that and more coming up. Right back. Welcome to the all new ACLJ app. Expert analysis and insight big tech can't censor. Customize your news and get real-time alerts on the issues you care about. Advocacy is now at your fingertips. Take action, make a difference, support the causes you care about with just one tap. Be the first to know. Breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Everything you need all in one place. Stay informed, stay empowered. Download today. We are so excited to announce the ACLJ's brand new app. Completely redesigned to provide you with the best tools available to partner with us at the ACLJ. You can watch the daily Sekulow program, sign the petitions, customize your ACLJ membership experience, donate with the click of a button, and receive up to the minute critical updates that the mainstream media can't censor. Just scan the QR code on your screen or go to your phone's App Store, search ACLJ and click install. It's that simple.
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Logan Sekulow: Moving towards the midterm elections being one week away. Of course, a lot of you in your local market you're probably getting ads like crazy of all your different getting text messages. You're getting everything from all your candidates.
Will Hains: And people love those ads by the way.
Logan Sekulow: Love them. I was in New York City just a couple days ago and I have to tell you more Republicans spend money I have to say on ads that I think probably should based on the voters in New York City. Cuz I'm watching it going, I wonder if this is moving the needle at all. There's so many Republican candidates like pro-Trump ads that I do like look around and go like does this worth it here in New York City? Now I'm sure there are a lot like you have entire Staten Island which you know is a a very red area. There's a lot of red areas for the state, uh but according of course to the city is what I'm talking about. But those ads were non-stop. I mean it was the whole time we were there. And maybe you're in a market where the ads are getting a little bit more wild and a little bit more radical. We're going to get to that here in just a second. But I think this phone call will kind of lead us in the right direction. I want to take a call coming in from Anthony in Florida. Anthony, go ahead.
Anthony (Guest): Hey uh uh long time reporter and long time listener and glad to do that. Uh I'm not a prophet, but based on what I heard and with the intentions on after 9/11 that they were sitting one in the set of mosque right on Ground Zero, I foresaw a rise of three individuals. Now again, not a prophet, but in his it's come to fruition. Also I ate Piker and the clown and who took the mayoral role in New York. Uh during intentions are if you understand their religion and their agenda is fully clear, uh do you believe that the eyes of people are starting to open up and and clearly see through the facade that these guys are putting forth as being guys you can trust your son as a cub scout leader or your daughter to a picnic.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah Anthony, I don't know if they're hiding anything at this point. You know I I agree with you that I feel like maybe it's changed the last decade as you had these sort of more modern uh candidates that are running. Like I said Al-Sayed or or Imam Danny. And look, there are Imam Danny t-shirts everywhere. My son talks about him cuz you know he was dropping references to Avatar the last airbender this week. You know he's a very likable guy. He's someone who I have actually said I'd love to talk to. I'd love to have to sit down with cuz what drives me crazy is almost everything he has to say. Uh all of his positions drive me crazy, but they put off a very good like you said personality that make you feel like they're very likable human beings. However, sometimes the facade is is not even that thin. And I want to play an ad and look, this is an ad that is being run in the local market right now and this is of course in support of Al-Sayed. Now this um let's just be transparent and say they said this has nothing to do with us as always what you hear uh when there's an ad that gets run in your local market that of course they need to be at least taking some more of the blame here because this is the kind of rhetoric that is being so easily spread and is really germinating and becoming this just vile part of not just American politics, but America in general right now. So this is a a bit uh a campaign ad. And I don't like necessarily just playing a campaign ad, but I think you need to have it in context. And Will, why don't you set it up just a little bit? For those who are who are watching or who are just listening, uh it's a couple they're in a grocery store.
Will Hains: That's right. And and this is uh uh an attack ad on Mike Rogers who is running for Senate against Al-Sayed. And we this is where they decide to go with it. It starts off thinking it's an economy-based ad, but then it takes a really dark turn. Let's go ahead and run it for people.
Logan Sekulow: Actors portray. I know.
Guest (Female): What about the bananas?
Guest (Male): Yeah I got them too. But honey
Guest (Female): What?
Guest (Male): You're going to have to put those eggs back.
Guest (Female): They don't like eggs anymore?
Guest (Male): No. They like eggs, but we have to set that $7 aside for killing Palestinians.
Guest (Female): What? I mean don't we give Israel $4 billion a year anyways?
Guest (Male): Yeah. And now we're giving them another $26 billion. Do you know how much that is per American taxpayer?
Guest (Female): No.
Guest (Male): It's like $161 per person. Apparently it's costing us a lot of money to drop bombs on Gaza.
Guest (Female): It's terrible. Yeah. I think at Universal Health Care too.
Guest (Male): Yeah they do. We're paying for that too probably. Might as well put the bananas back.
Guest (Female): Why the do we have to pay for all of this?
Guest (Male): Don't curse at me.
Will Hains: Why does Mike Rogers care so much about what Israelis want and so little about what you want? Mike Rogers is for they them. Abdul and Sayed is for you.
Guest (Female): So this ad Logan
Logan Sekulow: I mean this is wild. I mean the last even bit just being like he's for them. You know those uh sneaky Jewish people.
Will Hains: Well and here's the other problem too and we can continue this conversation into future segments here, but they they're trying to push back and say we had nothing to do with that. Once again, this is the another time they're having to push back instead of saying we condemn the language in there because first of all the United States gives foreign aid to 90% of countries in the world. And you may disagree with that as a policy that the United States gives foreign aid to 90% of the countries in the world. But what you can't do is say it's the one country that is causing all of our problems, causing uh the price of eggs, the price of bananas that you can't afford.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah. You can't afford you can't afford groceries because Israel.
Will Hains: Right. When in reality the amount of foreign aid in totality dwarfs what we give to Israel when you add it all up. But here's the problem too. Who put this out? This is from uh uh Jink Weger from the Young Turks who is the uncle of Hassan Piker who Al-Sayed has had to try and distance himself from just saying, oh it's some streamer from California. Don't worry about him. It's not really influencing my campaign. Now Young Turks puts this out in support of him and they don't say we condemn the language or the the message of it. They say we didn't put that out.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah and I want you to hear of course if you want to say, okay well you guys guys of course you're the ones who say this. I want you from Van Jones on CNN cuz Van has been very good about this topic specifically and pushing back. So again, if you think it's just uh you know some sort of you know right-wing broadcast that's talking like this, here's Van Jones on CNN.
Van Jones: Look, I I I I'm trying I want to be very consistent here. I don't like hate. I don't like hate. I don't like hateful rhetoric. I don't like if when it's against the Muslims. I don't like it when it's against the Jewish people or when it's against uh our ally in the in the Middle East. This is a very dangerous ad because what it does is it suggests that the reason that people can't pay for things in the grocery store but bananas is because of you know the United States is giving all this money to Israel. We give a very small amount of money to Israel compared to all the other foreign assistance that we do, but you're picking out the Jewish state.
Logan Sekulow: Bananas.
Susan Collins: Mm.
Van Jones: And you're pointing to the Jewish state. And of all the we we we spend money in Qatar. We spend money all around the world. But you're going to say because of the Jewish state, that's why you're suffering. Listen, when that happens, when you start getting people riled up and you've seen this all through the last century against Jews and blaming Jews for all your problems, you're headed down a a dark pathway. I have spoken aggressively against the anti-Muslim hate in this in this campaign. This is an example of anti-Jewish hate and it should be taken down immediately and denounced. And by the way, Abdul should denounce this ad immediately.
Susan Collins: His campaign has distanced itself.
Will Hains: Distanced itself, not condemned. And I think that speaks volumes. And I think we should continue this conversation in in future segments as well.
Logan Sekulow: Yeah we we're going to We're also going to pop back if you have a question or comment related to the Comey stuff. We'll talk about that as well of course the midterm elections and the Israeli elections coming up. All happening in the next week. Phone lines are open for you though and I want to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110. As we head to the next break though, there's only about a 1-minute break. It's the shortest one. This is top of the hour. We have our bottom of the hour. We have to do it uh for local radio stations. We're back in less than a minute. So if you're watching online, don't go anywhere. If you're listening on terrestrial radio, you may not pick up the whole hour. You can find us either broadcasting live or later on however you get your podcasts. So live we're on YouTube, we're on Rumble, we're on Facebook. Of course at aclj.org has all of it there. You can find it and archived. Again, however you get your podcast immediately following the show we're there. But I encourage you to join us live. It's always fun to be part of the live chat and experience. But I want you to become an ACLJ champion today also if you can. We got a lot of big opportunities for you to support the work of the ACLJ coming up in the next few weeks. Well let's help wrap up this month of October strong. You can do that, be a part of it, become an ACLJ champion or give a one-time gift if you can. That's at aclj.org/champions. We'll be right back with more. Don't go anywhere again. This break is less than a minute.
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