MAJOR UPDATE: Epstein Prosecutor FIRED!

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You may have seen the major update. What is it? And that is that the prosecutor for not only Jeffrey Epstein. But also, Frediddi has been fired by Department of Justice, aka through Pam Bodhi's office. And this one.

May seem a bit familiar, Will, because what's the name of this attorney? This is the second Comey that the Trump administration has fired, because the first was obviously James Comey as FBI director in the first term. This is James Comey's daughter, Maureen Comey, who is prosecutor for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan in the U.S. Attorney's Office there. She obviously has worked on some of these high-profile cases you talked about.

She was one of the prosecutors on the Epstein case, then on Ghelain Maxwell's case, as well as the Diddy Combs case. And now we have no longer employed Comey at the DOJ. There hasn't been a specific reason given at this point, but with all the fallout with the Epstein documents, the Epstein list. I mean, just the last few weeks of all that conversation. There's a lot of speculation about the reasons, and we can talk about some of that in the next.

Next segment is there hasn't been a specific reason of why she's like, Go, look, I don't think anyone needs to be judged by, I guess you'd say, the sense of their father.

So, in that way, like, I don't know what she did, or just because she's a comie doesn't mean that's how she deals with things, doesn't mean that she's anything to do with her father. I have no idea, but of course, we got to give you the facts, and the facts are pretty interesting, which you have high-profile. Member. high-profile attorney. She happens to be a Comey.

She happens to be the child of James Comey. And of course, then you have on that she did Jeffrey Epps team. And of course, Sean Diddy Combs.

So that is where we're at right now. Phone lines are open for you. We also have a huge update. You know, the ACLJ, we have been fighting in that situation where the Army was training specifically their teams at Fort Bragg. That Look out for terrorist organizations, including top terrorists like Operation Rescue, the National Right to Life.

Maybe it's somebody like Will's parents driving around with that yellow pro-life license plate. It's Choose Life. Choose Life. I'm sorry. But pro-life in general.

Pro-Life in general. And we've been fighting hard on that because we thought it was ridiculous and egregious. And now we actually have an answer. And we're going to get to that a little bit later in the show. And we got an answer from Will, someone pretty high up.

That's right. And we're just going to tease that out. We are going to get to it, but it is a major development, something we've been fighting hard for. And really, I think a lot of you are going to be very pleased with this announcement as we bring that up a little bit later on. Phone lines are open for you: 1-800-684-3110.

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These are prescription? And I gotta go find my regular glasses. But right before the show, this is what happened.

So you can explain that to your friends. I'm not gonna keep saying it for those who are just listening.

So, you know, tell that when people say, Logan wise in sunglasses, because I'd be blind. All right, we'll be right back. Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110, 1-800-684-3110. Restating the facts here that the Justice Department has fired.

That's right. Another callie. Another Comey? Don't play that well. That's right.

This is Maureen Comey. This is, again, we don't even know why she got fired. She was a prosecutor, specifically on the Epstein case and specifically on the Diddy case.

So you could say maybe she didn't do a good enough job of what happened with the Diddy trial and everything that went down. But we don't know the facts. We just know that this is another one of those kind of suspicious moments and another moment that keeps this story. Our number one story. And again, it's not something I want to talk about each and every day, it's Jeffrey Epstein.

I don't. Or James Comey or any member of the Comey family. But somehow.

Some way They keep doing this. They keep getting their spot in the top of the pops.

Well, top of the news, you got always a comey. And always an abstain.

Well, and when you look at this also, while we don't know a reason, we do know that there was some kind of maybe embarrassment, some egg on the government's face in the Diddy trial where the big charges they went for, the RICO, the conspiracy charges, they didn't get the conviction.

Now, once again, she is a senior trial attorney in the prosecutor's office. I don't know if she was the lead prosecutor, so I haven't done enough research into that case specifically, whether or not you can blame her exclusively for that, but it was her trial. But then she was a part of the Ghelaine Maxwell case where they did get a conviction for 20 years for Ghelain Maxwell. Obviously, we know that Jeffrey Epstein, his case never went to trial because he died while in the jail. Glad you left that open-ended.

Thank you.

Well, I just said he died. I didn't say how he died, right? But those are kind of the facts. I don't know her other prosecution record, how many convictions she has, how good of an attorney she was. But the high-profile ones, it is interesting that she was a part of many of these, especially now you also take that and look and say, okay, a lot of times people that have that expertise are assigned to those types of cases.

I'm not here to besmirch anybody. She may be a very qualified attorney who is doing her best. Even if it's a Comey, that doesn't mean anything. Again, you shouldn't be judged by the fact that we don't care for your father.

Okay. We don't care for his seashell games. He's out there doing a shell game, well, if you will. A shell game, yes, with very specific shell patterns in ways. James Comey now works on Coney Island, you see, and he does a shell game.

You can go and win some prizes if you can follow the ball. Yeah, if you can pick the ball, you get a teddy bear. But in this case, his daughter's no longer employed with the DOJ. I had nothing else to say. Which one is my daughter underneath his shell?

Is it Teddy? Is it Epstein? We don't know which one's underneath here, huh?

Well, this is also at the same time we've learned this week. We had John Solomon on earlier this week about that grand conspiracy investigation that the FBI is doing and looking into members of the DOJ, the FBI, the Intel community that played a part in tipping the scales in favor of one party or candidate over the other. The other thing, we know she's no longer working there, but this wasn't necessarily criminal charges filed against her or any allegation that she did. Anything like that.

So it is one of those things, too, that you talked about yesterday, Logan, where you said this is something that maybe could go away, but the administration keeps doing things to bring it right back up to the top. She did a great job. Let's say she did a mediocre job. Either way, do you want another Epstein story in the news this week? Could you not have moved her to something else?

Like, is there not another job for her? We couldn't have found her something else to do while we let the Epstein situation quiet down a bit. Instead, you have to fire the lead prosecutor, who, by the way, also happens to be James Comey, another prominent figure's daughter, who also happens to be leading the Diddy trials. I mean, this doesn't all check out and sound great. Again, more what feels like unenforced errors.

Now, coming up in the next segment, and we're not going to talk about unenforced errors, we're going to talk about some big, big moves from the ACLJ. Things have been going really well. On our fight for life. And look, there are times where it can feel like that specific topic becomes a lost cause, especially when you had Roe versus Wade overturned. A lot of people kind of shut off the pro-life commentary and thought, okay, well, it's over now.

We know that's not true. It went back to the states and a lot of the states, even the ones that are more conservative leaning, voted for pretty radical pro-abortion laws. It's unfortunate, but that's where we were. There was a lot of planning that did not get done. There was a lot of mistakes that were made, and now we're trying to help clean that up.

One of which was the Army targeting specifically in one of their PowerPoint presentations, if you will, saying, Hey, look out for terrorist organizations. Here's something you need to watch out for: the national right to life. Operation Rescue, people with that pro-life, choose-life bumper sticker or license plate. And we weren't going to have that, and we've been fighting for it for years. We finally have some pretty big responses from some high-level people.

You're not going to miss that. Cece Howell's going to be joining us in the next segment. And then later on, we are going to be discussing even what's going on in New York a bit with Rick Rinnell, as we know that it has been another time where we have seen in New York, meaning the mayoral race, that is heating up as you see Mondami. Uh, going at it and trying to kind of clean up some of his errors from before, as well as uh, Andrew Cuomo saying, Hey, I'm back, I'm gonna be running as a third party independent. And does this split the vote?

What does it mean? And do we care really who the mayor of New York is? I would say yes. Because New York, obviously, as they say, is the capital of the world.

So much business is done in New York.

So much happening in New York. New York is sadly taking a pretty turn. I saw yesterday that King's College had to officially close up shop in New York.

Okay, that's a sad day. A legendary institution that had been there and one of the few conservative institutions, Christian institutions that have been there nearly 100 years, if not more, at that point.

So look, we got to. always keep our eye on what's happening here. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Let's take a quick call.

Let's go to Gene in North Carolina watching. Oh, by the way, on the Salem News channel, which you can watch each and every day from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. We're live on Salem News Channel. You get it for free on their app, or you can find it on Pluto, Samsung Plus, a lot of places you get.

Oh, it's called Fast Television, Free TV. It's there. Gene, go ahead. Sir, I believe this information has to come out, and people have to follow the money. We can talk about conspiracy theories all day long.

It costs a lot of money to run an island, a lot. If it's in international waters, you've got security concerns, medical issues, food delivery, a lot of money. Where did the money come from?

Well, I mean, Gene, that's actually been one of the big questions all along: is how did he even make his money? We refer to him no man is an island, right? That's about a boy that's in that as well. Yes, but it's true, right? Like, because not one person can be running an island, right?

That's what I think the metaphor was. Oh, a lot of people specifically that metaphor is the Jeffrey Epstein. Got it. But, Gene, that's been a big question the entire time when he was even charges were brought against him that he's this billionaire, but where did all that money come from? And that's where a lot of the rabbit trails about intelligence agencies and things of that nature come out of is just the fact of where did he make all this money?

Because it wasn't publicly reported. There weren't all these reports. He was a financier, but it wasn't like he was running a hedge fund.

So, I mean, that is a big question. There are big questions that have never been answered about Jeffrey Epstein. It's whether they are relevant to today's story.

Well, and that's where now there's calls from some members of Congress, and even President Trump, with our friend John Solomon on Just the News, gave a little bit of a head nod saying maybe we do need a special prosecutor on this case to really look down and see what's going on. Because also, when you think about the prosecution, if they're building a case against Jeffrey Epstein, which he was in jail, he was headed for trial for his crimes. His abuse of minors. That is what the focus of the investigation would have been. Evidence against him.

So, if the prosecution, people like Maury and Comey, are only focused on their target. then they could have blinders on, not looking for outside things, all that stuff.

So if you are wanting to get to the bottom of it and get answers, someone like a special prosecutor that would have a broad scope, able to go and look at a lot of different things, that would be a better way to do it. Although we kind of aren't big fans of special prosecutors around here. Will, there's two things happening. There's speculation being fueled by you right now in the chat. I see so many comments coming in.

Some aren't great.

Some are people who have a lot of conspiracy theories.

Some people are wondering why I'm wearing sunglasses. Those are the two reasons, the two main things that are coming in. Those are the conspiracy theories. They're both mysteries. A lot of people said I look like Joe Cool.

Which I thought that's a reference. Snoopy? I think Snoopy's alter ego. Right.

So, you know, I'm okay with that. I'm big Schultz man, myself. Scholz. There's some other people that want you to wear a hat tomorrow. People are adding to your wardrobe as we go, and all you wanted to do was be able to see on air today.

Because these are prescription. Because if I took my glasses off, one eye would go that way and I wouldn't be able to read the screens in front of me. 1-800-684-3110 to have your voice heard today. And look, these are big days. I know we're having some fun here, but we're talking about this news.

Look, did I want to be talking about Jeffrey Epstein every day? No, I do not. Uh but some reason The FBI can't help, but make it the number one story of the day.

Okay, I would much rather have something else to talk about, and we're going to talk about that coming up because the ACLJ did have some big movements.

Sometimes we got to stop and actually talk about the work we do here because it's so important. Cece Howell's going to be joining us, senior attorney here at the ACLJ. I know a lot of you tune in because you make this your daily watch because you want to know what's going on in the world. And then you know what? 1 p.m.

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Welcome back to Sekulow. Cece Hiles, Senior Attorney here at the ACLJ, is joining us. And I always want to keep you updated on what's going on in the world of the ACLJ because there's some big movements happening right now, especially for our fight. Life. This is one that I look is never super fun to talk about on air.

Okay, let's just be honest. We know we got kids listening sometimes in summertime and to talk about the real fight for life. Can be a little graphic, a little heady. That's not what this is.

So don't worry. If you're watching, listening with your kids, this is a different one. Because what we're talking about here is specific organizations that were being targeted by the Army. And the Army was saying, specifically, when they were doing these presentations to their members, and we have a lot more information about that, we can go through to kind of give you a backstory. They were saying, hey, look out for these groups.

And they were labeling them terrorist organizations. And we're talking about ones that we've worked with for decades, whether that's Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, whether you're simply one of the families like Will's. I always go to your parents. I appreciate it. Because when I think of your mom, Terrorists doesn't pop up.

The first thing from your mind is a terrorist. I mean, really. I mean, I can think of a lot of things. I mean, she's hardcore. Like, I wouldn't want to mess with her.

Right.

But I don't think she's a terrorist. Exactly. She's just a pastor's wife. You don't mess with the pastor's wife. But she's got.

You know, that plate did with least. And like, I wear my kids go to school, I see them all the time. Right.

You see the choose life. And I don't think a lot of times, oh, these are, I got to make sure I'm keeping an eye on these people. These are usually the sweetest, kindest people. These are the volunteers of America a lot of times.

So, Cece, we said, look, this is too far. It's gone too far. It's been a couple of years as we've been going back and forth. And we got some big movement, but I know you can give some backstory here. I'll give some backstory.

And it's interesting because it was actually July 10th that one of the soldiers posted on X a copy. Copy of the slide. And I think we, July 10th of 2024, and we were actually, I think it was the three of us in this studio that day that said, hey, this just got posted. We want to talk about it. It's not been verified, but we're not, we wouldn't be shocked if it were true.

But then, of course, it came out to be true.

So that was July 24th or July 10th of 2024. We immediately sent off a letter to the Biden administration, to the Secretary of the Army under the Biden administration, saying, Look, you cannot. Paint our client, Operation Rescue, a pro-life organization, and all these other pro-life people as terrorists. You cannot do that. And the response we got from the Biden administration.

Yeah, less than. Less than what you want. It wasn't enough. And not truthful, a little bit misleading. Of course.

And, you know, they were saying, oh, this was just a mistake. It was just a mistake. And a slide that just got implemented. And when we found out more about that, it was not through FOIA. It was not a mistake.

And they had actually been doing this since 2011.

So this was not just an in, this wasn't just, oh, we just did it. It was just implemented. It was just a mistake. No, this had been going on for a long time. And we found all of that out through our FOIA.

Freedom of Information Act requests. For people who don't know, I try to always break those things down. You can submit to the government and say, we need more information because this is yours as much as it's theirs. Because we are a free society.

So you request it and said, hey, we need more information. A lot of times that takes a while. A lot of times it comes back very censored. It does. And it did.

But we figured it out. Even through the censoring, we figured it out. And you again have an administration that's maybe a little bit more on your side here. And that's what we found out. Yes, that's right.

And so we didn't like what the Biden administration had said. We didn't think that it had corrected and asked for what we were asking for, that they corrected this training, that they apologized to our client, and that they fixed it and they made sure that it was not going to do so going forward. Again, the response was basically, oh, it was just a mistake. And so we sent off another letter to the Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Defense, now under the Trump administration. And Will, I'll let you address that we actually got a response back from them.

And it was a good response. Very recent. Yes. We just got this letter. The date on the letter is July 16th.

So yesterday.

So that is when it was written. Yeah. Our team just got it. Yeah, and they just broke it on Fox News as well. We were able to work with our friends over at Fox to make sure our team and our publicist, our great team, was able to get this word out there because it's a big moment.

And I want to read this for folks. I mean, it may take a little bit longer than normal, but it's important because this is from the Secretary of the Army. And this is the response.

So, Secretary of the Army. Right.

That may not even be a position you think about, but that's a big deal. It's not responding on behalf not only of the Secretary of the Army, but also the Secretary of Defense. Exactly. He makes that clear. He's responding on behalf of both of them.

And this is addressed to Jordan Sekulow, Benjamin Sisney, and Christy Compagnone, three of our attorneys. Obviously, you've seen Christy and Ben on here as well as Jordan. But dear Mr. Sekulow, Mr. Sisney, and Ms.

Compagnone, thank you for your April 24th, 2025 letter to the Secretary of Defense and to me regarding your client Operation Rescue. I am responding for both of us.

So key point there. I was troubled to learn that an Army anti-terrorism and protection training conducted at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, had mischaracterized Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, and other pro-life groups as terrorist organizations. This mischaracterization was not only inaccurate, but also deeply inappropriate. Equally concerning was the previous Administration's inadequate response to this serious incident. Its failure to provide full transparency or take responsibility for such a grievous error is wholly unacceptable.

Let me be clear, the Army does not consider Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, and other pro-life groups to be terrorist organizations. Further, the Army does not view pro-life beliefs or state-issued pro-life license plates as indicators of terrorism. Additionally, the Army has reviewed all security mission training materials, including anti-terrorism and protection training across all Army commands, service component commands, and direct reporting units to ensure these trainings are factually accurate, comply with the law, and align with Army values. While I cannot undo the harm this training caused, I want to offer my sincerest apology to Operation Rescue, National Right to Life, and all pro-life groups negatively impacted by the false characterization of all pro-life organizations made by this training. Please be assured that I am firmly committed to rigorous oversight of all our Army training materials to prevent such incidents from occurring in the future.

Sincerely, Dan Driscoll, Secretary of the Army. That is a powerful letter. It is very powerful. Cece, I guess the main question coming out of this when you read it, obviously, this is somebody who's taking it very seriously. Yes.

We want to make sure they do what they say they're going to do, though, as well. The ACLJ team, as much as we want to look at this and go, okay, kind of case closed. We also have to make sure that. It's stuck to it actually happens because they're so these organizations are so big way like the army or whoever it is like you said that this could float around for 12 or 13 years without before somebody said this has gone too far yeah absolutely i think probably we'll send maybe another foyer following up to say okay let's see that what where this implementation where you have implemented this let's see that you have sent out a letter across you know your army commands making sure now he says it and i going to trust that he's done that and going to do that. But we will follow up and make sure that it does happen because it was very egregious.

It wormed its way in and it had been there like we found from our FOIA request since 2011.

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Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever. This is Sekulow. And now your host, Logan Secular. Coming up, we actually have an update that came in from our top topic. That, of course, is that the Justice Department has let go of Maureen Comey.

That's right, James Comey's daughter and prosecutor for the Epstein trial, as well as the Diddy trials, someone who is clearly fairly high up in the DOJ, but also that means Pam Bondi's DOJ said, you know what, enough. We don't know specifically why or what happened here. But we now have a statement, a comment that comes directly from Maureen. Comey that went out to her team today, I assume, when they said, Hey, she probably sent an email out saying I'm no longer working. And, well, she didn't pull any punches.

That's right. This was being reported by Politico. It was a note to her former colleagues that she sent today, and it says, We have entered a new phase where, quote, without fear may be the challenge. And that's referring to the without fear or favor motto. And then she says, If a career prosecutor can be fired without reason, fear may seep into the decisions of those who remain.

Do not let that happen. Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought. Instead of fear, let this moment fuel the fire that already burns at the heart of this place: a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power, of commitment to seek justice for victims, of dedicated to truth above all else. And then she also called. Confirmed, Politico says that she was not provided a reason for her termination, but it was conveyed to her by a memo from the Justice Department.

This is really interesting to me, Logan. She then gave the speech from Independence Day. Right.

You know, Bill Pullman was out there saying, you know, we will not go quietly. And you know, I. I personally, when I first was hearing this story last night, was, you know, okay, I don't know her prosecution record. I just know her last name. I know a lot of people in our, you know, kind of media sphere have been talking about her, but I didn't really have a decision.

But this line that she wrote to her colleagues, fear is not a tool of a fear is a tool of a tyrant. We suppress independent thought. We speak truth, the power, a right, a fire of righteous indignation. It says it all.

Okay. Okay, we started this show and we said, okay, you know what? You don't blame Maureen Comey for being a Comey. That's not something. That's not cool.

You can't do that. You know, she could be great at her job, could not have anything to do with James Comey. But what's clear is the apple no far too far tall. Why would I say they're right? Fall too far from the tree, Lord.

It's hard for you to say it, too.

Well, because you already implanted there in my brain the apple seed. Johnny Apple seed. Johnny Apple seed, he created gravity. That's what I've heard. Yeah, 1-800-684-3110.

But this is kind of an interesting moment because now you have these, you know, vibrato statements, these big statements saying, oh, it sounds like something out of Braveheart. And I don't care for that. You know what? Go quietly into the night. That's what I say.

You know what? Just enjoy. You had a job for the time you had. You couldn't convict Diddy. You went too far.

Clearly, there's some Epstein problems. Like I said, though, I wish this wasn't the topic of the day. It was either that or talking about Coca-Cola, Will, which, by the way. Big excited about that. Big excited.

Big excited. Big excited about Coca-Cola saying, you know what? No more. They said high fruit and toast corn syrup is fine, but they said we're going to go. To natural sugars.

That's right. President Trump put that on truth. And, you know, it used to be you'd go to the grocery store and you'd get the glass bottles, Mexican Coke. Mexican Coke.

Now he's making American Coke great again. Gulf of American Coke. Right.

Yeah, I'm fine with that. It's fine. You only can have a Coke heavy every so often, but when you do, What a treat. What a treat it is. All right.

Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. I want to hear from you. We do have a few lines open for you right now at a second half hour. Coming up next, Rick Rinnell is going to be joining us. We're going to continue talking a little bit about this as well as the New York race for mayor, why it's important to pay attention to, by the way, who the mayor of New York is.

By the way, I don't think I can name my mayor. But I can name the mayor of New York. It probably can name you the last 10. Because of how important it is. Why'd you smirk at me?

I was trying to think of my No, I was smirking. Could I name my name the Nashville mayor? Right.

But like my little town suburb mayor? I'd like to know him. Maybe I could be him. I could name the mayor of Laverne. But he's a f personal friend.

We'll be right back. Welcome back to Secula. Rick Rinnell's joining us right now. Rick, I know you're seeing me, the sunglasses, just disregard.

Okay, you know, things happen, okay? Their prescription. But let's move on to the topic of the day. I try to not spend too much time on this, but I see all the sunglasses emojis. I understand, okay?

But look. Things happen. Rick, I wanted to talk to you about the fact that the New York mayoral candidacy and election is heating up. It is something that has become a national story. And there have been some discussions, and I've seen the comments saying, why do we care about this?

And then I sort of reminded our audience, hey, I. I don't necessarily even know that I can name the last five or maybe the current mayor in my suburban town outside of Nashville. But I could tell you the last probably five mayors of New York because of New York's global impact.

So, when you have some of these candidates that are now making their rounds, of course, like Mamdani, making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to court for more money, to court for support. At least we need to be paying attention to what happens in this race.

Well, first of all, if you would have told me that I could wear sunglasses just to look as cool as you right now, I would be wearing suggestions. Sunglasses, you look like comfortably, comfortably smug. That's a lot of people are saying, you know, I look California smug, as they say now. Looking good, looking good. Look, I think that what's happening with Mamdani is spilling over into the rest of America right now.

And it's spilling over in a very fast way. I just saw today and was trying to go public with the fact that in my home state of California now, we've got Congressman Roe Conna, who represents Silicon Valley. has endorsed Mombani.

Now you think about this. The representative, the political representative of Silicon Valley. The most creative part of America, the entrepreneurial spirit in America. Is represented by somebody who just endorsed a a communist, someone who cannot embrace Capitalism He's said, I'm not a fan of capitalism. I don't understand what's happening across America and specifically in Silicon Valley when Silicon Valley sends a congressman to Washington, DC, and that congressman is working against capitalism, working for communism.

I think they just jumped the shark in Silicon Valley with their representative. This is a red alert. This is something that should not be happening. And I think across America, if you're a congressman, if you're senator, if you're Mayor is somehow flirting with Mamdani. A person who has been very clear about who he is to lead the largest city in America, this is a crisis for America.

This is like that moment when the Democrats came forward and said, we've got this great idea, we're going to call it sanctuary cities, and we're going to protect people when they break federal law. Conservatives, Republicans, people who are full of common sense should have been screaming immediately when they came up with this concept of sanctuary cities.

Well, now the red alert is about the largest city in America cannot be led by somebody who flirts with communism, who says that communism is a better way, who can't defend capitalism. This is America, people. You got to get loud and you've got to put pressure on your local politicians who are saying nice things about this guy.

Well, and Rick, to that point as well, when you think of the political concept, the Overton window, you know, what's the realm of what's okay to say within politics? And that's kind of how even politicians gauge what. Issues they can take, if something's on the line, if it's going to be okay. But when you start seeing almost, you know, signal flares or red flags like this mayoral candidate that is very likely going to be the next mayor of New York unless something completely remarkable happens. Have you seen Cuomo and some of these others, independents, thinking they have a chance and running?

He's almost like that signal, smoke signal going up of saying, okay, can we shift the Overton window? Further to the left.

So, this realm of possibilities of what we're allowed to even talk about, you become numb to it. And people on the right, the things that someone like this mayoral candidate is saying. Should be shocking to the core. But I feel like for many of us, we're hearing it and are almost numb to it, of like, that's the left these days. And I think that almost is one of the more dangerous angles of it: not just that he could be the mayor of New York, but that what he's openly championing and what these elected members of Congress are fine associating with.

Is becoming either commonplace on the left or just kind of old news on the right as we hear it.

Well, I think this is my, you said it better, but this is my point on your local. Politician endorsing this guy is that Democrats now have to answer for why they're allowing this guy to run and win, possibly win, in New York City, the largest city in America. Democrats are going to have to answer the question: this guy's in their party. He's a radical, pro-communist, anti-capitalist. And this is a red flag.

And good Democrats, common sense Democrats need to be feeling the pressure from the media and from others to answer why they're allowing this to happen. I think this is a really dangerous moment. And we all need to unite to defeat this. Rick, I try not to ask you about Gavin Newsom every time that you're on here, but he's just making it so hard not to talk about him. But I see these as parallel stories because while you have the mayoral candidate in New York who's running and openly saying these ideas, you have someone like Gavin Newsom who is going on conservative podcasts like The Sean Ryan Show and trying to talk, going to South Carolina, coming to Nashville.

Trying to talk to an audience that are conservative, that maybe are more centrist. And he's trying to make himself seem like this rational guy talking about on Mother's Day going skeet shooting. He's not anti-gun, things of this nature, trying to make himself an attractive candidate, obviously, for the next Presidential election cycle. And you hear ideas like what's coming out of New York with private property rights. And you Gavin Newsome tries to be like, no, no, no, no, I believe in these things.

I believe in capitalism. I'm a, you know, just a normal Democrat. But you also see that he lied to the people of California about the fire areas where the destroyed property he said would not be redeveloped into low-income housing. And now they're doing just that thing with a new proposal in California, which would kind of upset the order of how those areas even were.

Well, look, you know, there's a lot of competition between the East Coast and the West Coast, whether it's music or sports. And now Gavin Newsom has a little run for his money with Mom Dani. Gavin Newsom is the West Coast Mom Dani. He is somebody who's tried to do exactly what Mom Dani is doing in many ways. He's the godfather of sanctuary cities.

He's the godfather of woke. He's the godfather of shutting down our beaches. And I think what Californians have realized is That we can't have this. I mean, they've reached their limit. We've gone over the cliff.

And so, what I would say is that while you see California rising up and really rejecting Gavin Newsom, Gavin Newsom feels the pressure and he's leaving California to now go run for President. He's going to try to do the same con job that he did to Californians early on. He's going to try to do that to swing state voters. And I just don't see swing state voters going for Gavin Newsome. I hope he runs because I think he gets defeated.

But something else I would be remiss if I didn't bring up that's happening in California. Thanks to state rep, state assemblyman Carl DiMayo. We now have voter ID in California on the ballot.

Well, I should say, back up, not quite on the ballot. We are seeking signatures to get it on the ballot. But I gotta believe that it's going to be on the ballot because people are so excited about this. But if you're from California, you need to immediately sign and get your friends to sign. To put this on the ballot for voter ID.

And that would be remarkable because it would win in California, and we could switch. The state of California into requiring IDs in order to vote, something that 70 to 80% of the people believe in, but it's not enacted in California. But we're gonna do it. And so I would push people to go sign this. Petition so that we can get this on the ballot and really change the way we do elections because you would have to have a voter ID, approved government ID, in order to vote.

And that would be groundbreaking for California. The Democrats wouldn't have any problem with that in California, clearly.

So I think it's going to win. Nice. But, Rick, nice and easy. Look, I mean, we have all the media up in our offices. And right now, even Fox is talking about sort of the homeless crisis that is happening still in LA.

We only have a minute left here. But when you have reports that 70,000 people in the LA area are homeless, you would think that the people would go, okay, we have gone too far here. And I'm hopeful for you and for your state that they can see through it.

Well, I hope so too. I mean, we're giving billions of dollars to illegal immigrants for health care. We're attracting illegal immigrants. We're attracting the country's homeless population because we're just giving out benefits and allowing them to camp out on people's stoop. It's chaos, and Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass are responsible.

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Some phone lines are ringing, but we'll get through them: 1-800-684-30110. I want to jump first to an ACLJ champion who's been on the hold for a little while. But again, if you're an ACLJ champion, You get bumped to the front of the line. But right now You're also the one who's been holding the longest because we haven't taken any calls today. Let's go to Linda in New York online too.

Linda, you're on the air. Hi there. Thank you for taking my call. Love what you do, and I love your unbiased reporting on everything that's going on. The reason I am calling is because I do believe that there may not have been a formal list I think in today's day and age, everybody knows that list can be unearthed.

And I wouldn't be surprised if Epstein had these parties and knew the other kinds of. Pedophiles or the pedophiles in the party knew he had it, and if it was just more of a nod to go upstairs or whatever else. But what I think is about What I am confused about is why Ghillaine Maxwell was arrested. like where the evidence was for that. Because I thought her role in this Was to find girls.

So I just need a little clarification. That's not great either. But Linda, we'll discuss that second part, the Ghelain part here coming up. Will, I know, has a lot more information on that. In terms of the list, I don't necessarily disagree with you.

These are people that are running at such a high level. They understand security, privacy, all of that definitely existed.

Now, does that mean a list could not be compiled and you could not find the evidence of who was there, what they were doing, all of those things? I don't necessarily believe that. But when you're talking about, was there like a black book, a traditional what you think of as a list? No, and I think that's too simplistic, but it's how sometimes the American people want to believe things are. It's like the JFK files.

You wanted the JFK files to be released, but then when they were released, you were like, this is not what we're looking for. We were looking for a one paragraph that said, here's who actually did it. That doesn't exist because that's not the way our government runs. If anything, you know, it's extreme paperwork. But Will, in terms of the reasons that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghelane are in prison or were in prison, obviously he is dead.

But that is cause of things, the laws that were broken. That's right. And and we're not going to. It's like 20 years. 20 years.

We're not going to get into, obviously, the details of it. But, I mean, he was he had a sweetheart deal that was cut with prosecutors in Florida, you know, 20 years ago. And that in and of itself was based off crimes because, once again, won't get into details, but he was committing crimes himself against. Minors. And she was convicted with trafficking charges of transporting and trafficking minors.

So She committed crimes.

Now they were targeted at her for procuring and enabling and facilitating crimes that he would commit.

So she broke crimes and was prosecuted and found guilty and is serving time for that.

So that is not in question at all. I want to jump to another call. Linda, thank you for calling and thank you for being a champion. Know how much that means to us.

So we have a call coming in. Looks okay to hear from people who disagree with us or on the other side. Let's go to Susan in Florida, who is watching on Facebook. Go ahead, Susan. Hi, yes.

My comment is that I guess I strongly disagree with the Um the conclusions you guys are coming up with. I feel that Epstein was just part of a huger problem, and I don't know if that's deep state or not, but when you get rid of one mafia person, it's not like another mafia person isn't going to fill those shoes. There's going to be more victims. And I really lost respect for Trump. And I'm getting a lot of slack online for it here.

based on you know, that doesn't mean I don't agree and I want things done on the border and things like that. This is a huge problem. There were promises made not only by Vance and Trump and Bongino that we were going to get to the bottom of this. There are real victims, young girls being victimized. And if we don't stand up for them, nobody will.

I want to make things very, very clear, Susan, is that I don't feel like we are covering or making excuses for anyone in that sense. I think this was a huge blunder. I think. What they ran on, you are 100% right. They ran on this being fully disclosed and for us to find out the information to then pretend that it doesn't happen or it doesn't exist or.

To run on it and then find out it doesn't exist, you need to do a much better job in your role out as the Department of Justice and as the FBI and as the President of the United States. In doing so. Because you have lost a lot of trust from a lot of people. I think here's the other angle on this, too, as well, Susan. President Trump told Just the News with John Solomon, who we had on the broadcast earlier this week, that he's open to a special prosecutor or special counsel to investigate all this.

That would have a much broader mandate to look into other people because it wouldn't just be trying to get a conviction against Jeffrey Epstein or against Ghelane Maxwell.

So if that were to happen. Then they would have a budget. They would be able to chase down leads and see if there is a broader conspiracy to uncover. Here's the big question, though. For for the listeners and for everyone.

If a special counsel is appointed, Mm-hmm. and doesn't find What you think is there. Will you accept that? Is there any realm of even just a little bit more? Or other people found out that it was a little bit broader, but you can never find because there isn't evidence of, or the evidence is destroyed, of this broader conspiracy with other named high-profile individuals.

Would that be sufficient? And that's, I think, one of the bigger problems and maybe why there is frustration from President Trump. If the FBI didn't have that because it's not what they were prosecuting or it was deleted or whatever reason. Uh And so he can't release something they don't have. What would it take to get...

You to either accept what is the end game unless it is 100%. This is a list, and you have it, and these people are prosecuted if it doesn't exist in that way. We only got a couple minutes. I want to try to get to the other calls. Let's go to Ann in Pennsylvania real quick.

Ann, you're on the air also on Facebook. Thank you.

Love you guys so much. Yeah, I don't blame Trump. I just think he's being misguided. I think that there is. certain people speaking in his ears, not saying the right things.

There's absolutely a list. We told there was a list for years. This is why he was actually set to go to trial, Epstein. He was indicted. And this is why that what's her name is in prison because there is a list.

Now, the victims are the what matters. There's more to the future than there's more. I am only cutting you off because we had two minutes left, and I want to try to get to the other call. Let's take Kathy's call, and then maybe we can try to wrap up with your comments here. Kathy, Kentucky, go ahead, last call of the day.

Hello. I'm just wondering about the constitutionality. Of a lot of things that have happened during the Biden administration. I'm wondering about the constitutionality. of the mayor candidate Running as a population.

Even with the Army, we know that the issues that were going on, and we know that they did not give us a sufficient response. And now we have what I feel like is a very sufficient response from the Secretary of the Army in support of pro-life groups and really deeply apologizing. Of course, we're going to stay on that. We're going to make sure that's not the end of the case. We'll make sure that's not the last they hear from us because we want to make sure they actually do what they say they're going to do.

But thankfully, you have a new administration in charge. Will they take down a lot of what's been going on in the Biden administration? What happened? I think we're seeing that already. We've seen a lot of growth in there.

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