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We want to see you next week. See those numbers continue to grow in states across the country that do allow early voting. It's important, I think, that for those of you who can take advantage of that opportunity, you've still got time likely wherever you are. If you do have early voting in your state, make sure you know where to go.
Make sure you know what you need to have and give yourself time because the numbers are getting bigger. It usually is, I can almost certainly say, unless you go maybe right before, you know, people head to work or at lunch hour or maybe right after people are heading home from work, it's definitely going to take less time than on election day. So if you could, you know, take some time in between those hours, you know, we are hearing about sometimes it taking up to an hour. So you have to imagine on election day, that similar place could take up to three. So think about if you can't commit that kind of time and honestly, none of us can predict if we can commit that kind of time on election day. We don't know what will happen to us or family member, health wise, school concerns, kid concerns, grandparent concerns, all those issues, weather issues.
So take advantage. It's the same voting system. This is not like absentee. I only say you only use absentee if you have to. You know, that's something you do if you know you're not going to be able to be in your home state or you had to plan that out.
And I will tell you that is a little bit more of, you know, it's got to get through the mail. There's a lot of ways to mess that up where the votes not counted or you have to call back and see if you have time to correct it sometimes. I mean, so I'm not pushing absentee as the best way to go. By the way, I think most places have already passed that window. But if you can early vote, I just want to encourage you to do it. And again, if you've already done it, encourage your friends and family to do it that way.
And it doesn't have to be this moment, doesn't have to be today, but know it when you can, know when it's over and try to plan it. So if something happens that day, make sure you plan it where you can go the next day or try to give yourself a couple different times because we all know with elections this close that those kind of voters who, again, because something happened and they absolutely can't get to the vote, they can't wait in line for three hours. Doesn't mean you're a bad person if something happened to you and that happened. But we don't have an opportunity to at least try and get ahead of that and make sure those votes are going to be in. They don't start being actually counted by actually who you voted for until polls close so they get treated the exact same way.
It's no different system. I always want to say as we get out before we get into the issue. Now, the issue of today is what Democrats have decided to at least double down on 11 days after the election. I don't know if they're going to keep it up until next week because, you know, they've thrown out another random accuser, former Sports Illustrated person. I think those stories aren't really working with Americans anymore and with Donald Trump. So that kind of doesn't work.
I think they can throw all that kind of trash out. But this idea that he's Hitler is now coming from, we've heard fascist directly from people like Harris, but now you're getting other people to back up that he's actually trying to emulate Hitler because he has a rally this weekend at Madison Square Garden. And that in 1939, before the U.S. had entered the war, so we were not at that point. There was no Pearl Harbor. The U.S. did not have troops overseas yet and had not yet taken a position on whether we would, at least publicly. And there was a pro-Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.
Not good. But guess who else has been at Madison Square Garden? Hillary Clinton herself during her campaign, her losing campaign. Her husband accepted the nomination there. The DNC was there in 92. George W. Bush accepted the re-nomination there in his re-election.
I worked on it in 2004 at Madison Square Garden. It's an iconic place in America. In my mind, a lot more iconic than Houston, Texas for Beyonce since Texas is not a battleground state at all for Harris. But yet, she's willing to go there for a concert.
So who's using their time better? If this is what they're going to, folks, I mean, this is grasping at straws now when you have to call your opponent, Hitler, and Hillary Clinton has to come out and say he's Hitler because he had a rally there, but she's not even though she had a rally there in her election. We'll take your calls.
1-800-684-3110. This is the kind of garbage we're going to have to be ready for. We'll be right back. So Hillary Clinton, she didn't just write this, by the way. She said it. So I want to play the clip for you so you can exactly see how Hillary Clinton is trying to mimic what is the new talking point from the Harris campaign and the Democrat Party about Donald Trump. The one word, you know, fascist, and then we'll have other people start saying Nazi, and we'll have some others say Hitler, and we'll see if that sticks for these next few days.
If not, I'm sure it'll be something else next week, but take a listen and watch. And, you know, one other thing that you'll see next week, Caitlin, is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939. I write about this in my book. President Franklin Roosevelt was appalled that neo-Nazis, fascists in America were lining up to essentially pledge their support for the kind of government that they were seeing in Germany. So I don't think we can ignore it.
Now, okay, then we can't ignore it. Now, in her book, you know, she writes about Franklin Roosevelt. I'm not calling Franklin Roosevelt obviously a fascist, but it was interesting because he was, you know, he died in his fourth term in office and we had to put forward a constitutional amendment so that the precedent set by George Washington was actually set in stone because we saw that there were some leaders who would not just kind of go by tradition and history and after two terms realize the United States of America after eight years, we're going to move on with leadership and even if you could get reelected again. And so we put forward a constitutional amendment.
So you can say all these things about people in the past differently. Everybody goes to Madison Square Garden. I've been there for concerts. I've been there for the RNC. The DNC has been there. Jimmy Carter accepted the nomination there for Democrats.
Bill Clinton did it for Democrats. Hillary Clinton had a rally there. So the idea that it's because it's in Madison Square Garden is ridiculous. It's an iconic place in America. It's almost a venue everyone knows about. Yeah, it's the most famous arena in the world. I'd say definitely in the country.
No, it's been there for decades now. I remember doing it for the RNC and it was actually tough because usually you go to the modern, the most modern place you could find for production value. We were dealing with 500,000 anti-war protesters.
Madison Square Garden. Bush was being called Hitler then too by the way. Now they weren't saying he was Hitler because of where we decided to have the Republican convention. The location stuff to me, remember it was Joe Biden who came out with the black background, the red and black background and the two Marines during a political speech. So he used the US military and their imagery for a political speech to attack Donald Trump. Again, it looked a lot more like you were emulating backgrounds of fascists and Nazis. Even, and what he said was kind of emulating and they actually realized that was a very bad look and they moved on.
Again, bad look and they moved on. Madison Square Garden is probably the most famous, it's definitely the most famous arena in our country. I don't think there's most arenas that people can just name in your local market.
Yeah, the Garden or MSG. People know these things. It's been around, it's hosted some of the biggest events ever.
Billy Joel just wrapped up his 100th and whatever show. It is one of those places that is iconic. It's easy to get to also if you're in New York City.
So it's convenient in that way. Like you said, it's an old dated venue but with so much history and Americana associated with it. It's also one of the most restricted arenas in the country. I know from people that deal with them, they have a lot of restrictions on what you can and cannot do in Madison Square Garden and who can be there and can't be there within certain amounts of time. So there's a lot of things like that in terms of security and all of that that gets taken care of when you work the Garden.
I will say this too just to kind of double down on this. Again, you go to Madison Square Garden, you go to New York City, not only because it's tri-state, also Pennsylvania which is a swing state is not far away, but there are a lot of people who vote at their home states who are temporarily in New York for periods of time because of work. So you're getting basically a snapshot of all 50 states when you're in New York City. Not just the tri-states but definitely add to that a major swing state which is Pennsylvania.
I mean it's sometimes only 40 minutes away from parts here. So you're getting this iconic imagery that Hillary Clinton thought was cool to use because she was there in 2016. And just because Donald Trump wants to, again, not start wars, make America great again by having a strong military so you don't have to go to war, this is the guy who recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This is the President who said the Golan Heights were going to be recognized by the US and he handed it over to Netanyahu as part of Israel. He went as President, not just when he was running for President, to the Western Wall in East Jerusalem, which most supporters of Palestinians think should be going back to the Palestinians. Even though the Israelis keep it open for all major religious faiths to be able to utilize, whether it's Muslims at the Dome of the Rock, Jews at the Western Wall, Christians at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they make sure to protect all of those sites so that people have the freedom to worship and visit them for their historical purposes. But even the Abraham Accords that followed those two moves, and there was no, by the way, people thought you could never do that without a two-state solution. Part of that move was because those countries, people wanted to be able to visit Jerusalem, and it wasn't Israel that barred them from visiting Israel and Jerusalem. It was their own countries who, their passports were no good, it would say that. You cannot travel to Israel on this passport, and you'd be in serious trouble too.
So that was, part of it was just tourism, religious tourism. And so I think, Will, this idea, again, they don't talk about any of his policies. But to me, I mean, maybe they're at a point now where they would call Netanyahu this. It's like, is the term now not, it's like, he's anti, is it really about Jews? I don't even know. Or it's because I guess they don't care about what he did for Israel.
But the idea is if this is what you're throwing out a week before, not good. Well, and we even talked about that this playbook for the Democrats goes back to even President Truman calling Thomas Dewey Hitler and likening him to Hitler as a fascist tool back in October 26th of 1948. So the history of Democrats using Hitler as a label for a Republican challenger is a long one. The problem here is that it seems like they've exhausted all of their other plans to go after President Trump, and they're reverting back to what the entire country was up in arms about and warned about after the Butler, Pennsylvania, failed assassination attempt when President Trump was shot. Everyone came out and said, hey, can we maybe not call him Hitler anymore?
And when you're putting him on the cover of magazines with a Hitler mustache and swastikas and trying to call him literally Hitler, maybe people then that aren't right in the head and can't decipher political speech that you may try to couch it as saying this is political rhetoric and do dangerous things, if you ramp those attacks up, they're doing it much more now than they ever did. They kind of let the surrogates and they let the media run with that and didn't do it themselves. But then you had Kamala Harris in front of the vice President's residence just this week talking about General Kelly's alleged statements and bringing up all of these things.
Now it is the principal and the other high level surrogates that are doing this again. They have not just doubled down, but they have added gasoline to that fire. They are ramping up these attacks at a very dangerous time. And as you have referenced, Jordan, that your concern is about the country in the time after the election to inauguration day if President Trump wins because of how bad this rhetoric has been. They have put and Joe Biden even said we need to put a target on him.
He later apologized and said wrong timing because of the assassination attempts. But that is effectively what the Democrats have done. And they have made running for the President of the United States, if you're a conservative, much more dangerous than it ever has been.
Donald Trump's risking his life every time he goes out. And you could say he was a big enough person, obviously celebrity-wise, that he already took that into consideration. But until he had run for President this time, no one had actually fired a shot at him. I'm sure there were people that have been stopped before and that we don't know about. But now, and not only that, there's someone else trying to do it a few weeks later. I mean, the idea is, again, you demonize your opponent to a point of calling them basically Satan. I mean, the only person that kind of embodied that kind of evil on a grand scale, maybe you could say the Ayatollah in Iran.
I don't even know if they actually at that level even, you would say, because it wasn't as maybe we don't feel it's directly here. But the idea, again, and Logan, the second part of this is the running away from media, which is always interesting too. She's got her supporters now going after Anderson Cooper, including – Charlamagne the God went on and was like cursing at him on CNN. And she's now walked away from being on Joe Rogan, even though they made a big deal that she was going to do Joe Rogan, because Donald Trump is going to go on Joe Rogan. Yeah, so he goes on today reaching millions and millions, the biggest audience probably in the country. If you don't know that Joe Rogan is going to tell all his people, I think Donald Trump's the – No, he doesn't do it either way. And the fact that you're attacking Anderson Cooper says a lot. The fact that you can't get through an Anderson Cooper – If you're a Democrat who can't do a town hall with Anderson Cooper, Joe Rogan is going to be really tough, because she doesn't even want to talk about the border wall. What if you get some of those goofy things he's into, like things that are a little bit more on the conspiracy side, you at least have to know how to handle, right?
And clearly, yeah, she can't handle that. She can't answer any of the questions. I was watching it with my son, the Anderson Cooper segment yesterday, and he even was, you know, at 12 years old, was yelling, like, answer the question.
Why does there not an answer? He goes, why do they always do this? And I'm like, well, now I got to explain a lot more. But we got a lot coming up, and we got a lot of great guests coming up.
You can call in 1-800-684-3110, 1-800-684-3110. So, Mike Pompeo and Rick Grenell join us in just a moment. Welcome back to SEC HILL.
We are joined by our, again, a senior counselor with ACLJ, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. And, Secretary Pompeo, I want to jump right into this, because, again, we're 11 days out. We're seeing, I think, good numbers on early voting, because the bigger they are, you know, you can start to see that there's more Republicans taking advantage of this, and we've done a lot more in the last four years in educating people on early voting versus absentee voting. So we're starting to see some kind of, I think, dangerous move by Democrats, and not just the Harris campaign, but even Hillary Clinton kind of echoing this. And now it's, you know, we're seeing directly that Donald Trump is either, he's either a fascist, they'll either just use that term, or he's trying to emulate Nazis, and then others will say Hitler.
So they've kind of got three stages of it. Harris will use the fascist line, the next stage down will say Nazi, and the next stage down of activists will go directly to Hitler. We walked through, Secretary Pompeo, just a few things that Donald Trump and you did for Israel, recognizing the Capitol as Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Abraham Accords. I can't think of anyone who actually, in one term as President, who's done more for the Jewish people. Jordan, it is pretty remarkable when you just compare facts, right? This is not about hyperbole or politics, just in which case were the American people safer? Was the relationship between the United States and Israel deeper and more secure?
And frankly, was the Middle East more stable than in those four years? When they throw these words around, these words like fascist, or they talk about Hitler, they're fundamentally forgetting the history. They want people to emote, not use their minds, and actually look at rational policies that led to those outcomes. I'm convinced the American people aren't going to buy this. They've clearly failed to make the sale, and now they are resorting to ad hominem attacks, name calling, and talking about fascists, when in fact one of the central features of fascism is that you don't value human beings.
You classify people by race or by other group characteristics. That is the hallmark of these last four years, and you can see what that's done in the Middle East, the risk that it has created and the conflagration that followed from that failure to deter our adversary in the region, the Islamic Republic of Iran. You know, we're starting to see on the international stage, even while the election's going on, more lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and it might be the biggest group so far, we're seeing about 100, it is bipartisan, that are threatening U.N. funding because of its treatment of Israel, this constant censuring of Israel.
The fact that they are the most censured country by the United Nations, even though they are one of the few actual similar democracies in the world, they're not perfect, no one is, but the idea that you can choose your faith or choose to have no faith, again, choosing who your partners are in life and all of that, freedom of speech. The idea that Israel's the most censured is that we should be putting forward legislation to at least let the U.N. know we're paying attention and that it might actually impact their funding. Do you think that that could be effective to the U.N. at a point if there was enough movement behind it?
Jordan, I think it is a worthy project. I hope that legislation passes. I hope that 100 is a small number, that what shocks me isn't that there are 100 members of Congress who are thinking about trying to leverage U.S. support for the U.N. into a U.N. that is not deeply anti-Semitic, deeply anti-Zionist, deeply anti-Israel.
The fact that there's not 435 of them is appalling to me. I don't know how effective it will be. I think the United States will actually have to deliver against that, that is we will actually have to convince the United Nations that you can't do this, you can't behave in this way that is so imbalanced. It talks about Israel being an occupying force in Gaza when there hasn't been a single Israeli in Gaza since 2006, right, as a symptom of the deep anti-Semitism. Whether it changes U.N. behavior or not, Jordan, it would be the right thing for the United States to do to withhold funding, to deny the U.N. funding, to be so anti-Israel and, in that case, anti-American as well. Yeah, and I think the way, again, that's something else I could add to that list while you were Secretary of State, CIA Director, President Trump was in office, the idea that the funding to UNRWA was cut and the U.N. Human Rights Council, the U.S. pulling out of the council itself. And, again, by being the number one funder of the U.N., when you pull out of those even parts, you don't have to pull out of everything. You pull out of parts, it still doesn't give up your seat on the Security Council, your veto power there.
You're still able to be extremely influential, but it sends that message, like you said, even if they don't want to change, you don't have to give them more money to be able to carry out their bad policies or their bad ideas or just their PR campaign against Israel, as so many of these censures are. We also know, because this has happened right in the middle of everything, that the FBI is investigating how this U.S. intel regarding Israel's plans on attacking Iran, how that got leaked to the Iranians. I think that, again, it will be interesting to know if we'll ever know if there's a culprit found and if anybody's held accountable.
I feel like the news kind of covered it, and then it kind of moved on. I think if it wasn't right during the election, Secretary Pompeo, we'd still be talking about it almost every day. This is a big deal. This is not only dangerous. It's curious.
But, frankly, I'll be honest with you. I'm surprised when you put people in senior positions at the Department of Defense and at the State Department and at our embassies in the Middle East, when you put people that aren't pro-Israel, who are talking about the fact that the protesters on campus have a right to do what they're doing, and that includes violence, when the senior leaders all talk about the fact that the Israelis are the problem, they need to cease fire, they need to stand down, not the fact that Hamas is still holding Americans. When you see those things, you are greenlighting exactly that kind of behavior. These leaks of information now have clearly impacted Israeli decision-making and thinking, as best I can discern, and that creates risk not only for Israel, but for the Gulf Arab states and the United States as well. We need to get to the bottom of this. The American people need to understand this, how it happened, why it happened, and then the individuals who did this need to be held fully accountable for what they did.
I haven't seen that happen in these last three and a half years, Jordan. I'm not optimistic that that will, but if there's a new administration, I hope it will get to the bottom of it, and I hope that they will hold accountable to anybody who leaves classified information about an important ally pending operation. Secretary Pompeo, as always, we appreciate your time, especially 11 days out from an election. We know you're working hard for President Trump and candidates across the country, whether it's in media or at events across the country with people. We appreciate it. We know everybody's got pretty wild schedules these days, so to take that time.
And, Logan, I want to go right to this again. The idea that, I mean, we can't even, it's like even in your mind, the head of what has happened in just a week in the United States, a plan on nuclear, how to take out the nuclear facilities in Iran, and we know the U.S. has apologized, so that kind of makes it real from the get-go. I don't even know if them making that public was a good idea, because at least you could have played down whether or not it was real or not, but this administration went right out and said, we don't know who did it, but they put the apology public to Israel. So that means you're almost telling Iran it was legitimate. It was us, yeah, exactly. It wasn't just a job. You know, anybody could write that. It feels like one of those mistakes that happens in the press where they reveal something, like, you know, Geraldo, whoever with the line. You know, I feel like those are the kind of moments where you're like, why did you do this?
Why did you need to explain this? We could have at least taken care of that internally, but for some reason it's this bowing down, it's this apologizing for anything that has to do with Israel, and that feels like that story continues on. And you're now seeing probably a good chance, maybe one of the most Republican voted from the Jewish community, maybe ever, coming this go round.
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So stay tuned. We've had then just, you know, not too far after, I think weeks later, a guy in the bushes with an assault rifle who was going to try and shoot at President Trump on the next hole of a golf course. And then, you know, after the first time, we know that President Biden called President Trump to check in, and we heard this whole move to say, you know, the rhetoric needs to calm down. But now we're 11 days out before the election. The polls aren't looking as good for the Democrats. And the numbers aren't looking as good. And by the way, that means nothing at this point. That does not mean, you know, the Republicans won't either.
Never believe that. You know, take it all with a grain of salt. But when you start saying, you know what, we'll just start calling him the worst names we can start. I mean, the next is Satan. I mean, directly. I think once you get to Hitler, the jump is not too far from Satan. And that's about it. I mean, they're just saying, worst person in the world, worst thing in the world.
I mean, I don't, I don't, deity, I don't, whatever you want to say. You can call him and say he's not human. At this point, this is someone who wanted to end wars. A tough talker because he used words and threats and policy to get people to do, dangerous people to do what we wanted instead of having to put actual US assets and humans at risk and Americans at risk. When we look at this world now, and by the way, John Kelly and all these people, like I've said, been in meetings, and again, we were worked for President Trump at the time as privately counseled.
He's not giving anything away that we shouldn't because John Kelly wasn't in there when we were doing any of that. But he would start fights with President Trump over like TV anchors. This is while, you know, he's running the country and dealing with all these other, you know, issues to try and distract him from running the country, and you've got a chief of staff starting fights with you in front of people, in front of your legal team.
That, again, if that was a real thing, you shouldn't be doing it in front of them. So he was never treating the President, in my opinion, it was shocking disrespect. And if they had a great personal relationship and all that, but we know that wasn't the case, and to me, knowing how people treated past Presidents, disagree with them or not, and then to see that, it was pretty disgusting. Then to see the statements, you know, 12, 13 days out before an election, when all of these guys remember, make a lot more money if we're at war.
And the companies that they're on the boards of make a lot more money when they've got to keep replenishing military assets. By the way, that includes even if you're not actually at war, but you're basically sending all the weapons to a major war like Ukraine. And like we've all said, it's not the idea that Vladimir Putin is right by invading, or that Russia is right, but that why can't we ever come up with an endgame that we'd be comfortable with?
President Trump has. He said what he wants to do, and that's somehow unacceptable to the world. So is the only acceptable outcome the overthrow of the Russian government?
Because that's not just Ukraine, that's a lot of other people's decisions, including a lot of Russians, and it doesn't seem like this is a war that's going in that direction right now. So, again, when you look at all these issues, I think we just have to, as voters, keep your head down, get out the vote, don't be too distracted, but be ready to fight back if people have questions. Certainly, listen, if new voters or people who don't pay as much attention or are starting to ask you questions because they know you do, don't yell at people back. Just tell them back with the facts. Here's what President Trump did for the Jewish people.
Here is the difference in what the Democratic Party right now, including members of its party, have said about the Jewish people, or even Harris, who won't really commit on those issues, and seems like to not really have a grasp, really, of the Middle East or of international policy, foreign policy. So, again, if you want to join us on the show, Rick Renell is going to be on Next Live as well, giving us a report directly from the Trump campaign trail, so you don't want to miss that. If you're tuning in, share it with your friends and family. Support the work of the ACLJ at ACLJ.org. Our election integrity efforts are already moving. We're assisting people.
We're going to launch more of that next week, and we'll get into more details. ACLJ.org, donate today. All right, welcome back to CNCO. Rick Renell is joining us, but a statement just came out. I wanted to read it before we went to Rick, in case, because, I mean, it just came out like eight minutes ago, from the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate about the rhetoric being used and the fact that, again, we know that this rhetoric has encouraged bad actions, including two different assassination attempts on President Trump, one where he was shot, one where the gunman was taken just before he was in his sights.
A golf course hole takes about 15 minutes a hole as a golfer. That's what he was away from, 15 minutes or less from being in the sights of someone else with an AR-15, who was inspired by political rhetoric to some extent. So we were supposed to bring it down. Instead, we're using words like Hitler, Nazi, and fascist coming from Hillary Clinton, coming from Harris, but we have had leadership now speaking out on this.
That's right. This is a strong bicameral statement from both the Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker Johnson, where they write to VP Harris, this summer, after the first attempted assassination of a Presidential candidate in more than a century, President Biden insisted we cannot allow this violence to be normalized. In September, after President Trump escaped yet another close call, Vice President Harris acknowledged that we must, quote, do all our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence.
These words have proven hollow. In weeks since the second sobering reminder, the Democrat nominee for President of the United States has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus. Her most recent and most reckless invocations of the darkest evil of the 20th century seem to dare it to boil over. The Vice President's words more closely remember those of President Trump's second would-be assassin than her own earlier appeal to civility. The statement goes on, but very strong words condemning her rhetoric that she's using in just these final 12 days, 11 days of the election.
Yeah, I mean, so Rick, I want to go right to you. I mean, people are concerned national leaders, again, Republican leaders at this point, but still, national leaders got their own relationships with President Trump, and they are but they are more concerned not as much about, it's not about the politics or the vote at this statement, but about the life of President Trump and the rhetoric being used, and of course, that affects the thousands of people that attend the rallies, the Secret Service and the police and everyone else, because you're putting them at risk as well. Really shocking that more people are not coming forward to tell Kamala Harris to knock it off. It's dangerous rhetoric.
I've called upon Comcast to rein in MSNBC because when you listen to Morning Joe, which I have done the last two mornings, it is shocking that they are allowed to get away with what they're doing. They literally have no dissenting voices. They completely are unhinged and emotional and dangerous in their rhetoric. Every single guest is trying to outdo the next guest in outlandish statements, and somehow, our mainstream media is allowing people like Hillary Clinton and Comcast and others to push this rhetoric that is clearly inciting violence and going to get someone killed. When you call someone Adolf Hitler, you're asking for people to stop a killer of six and a half million Jews. I'm just so outraged that our institutions are not coming forward to condemn this. I'm on the Holocaust Museum board, and I am so outraged that they are silent during this time. They have been very jumpy when anyone on the Republican side even comes close to this rhetoric, and they are completely silent while the sitting Vice President of the United States is running for the highest office in the land is talking like this.
It's outrageous. It starts with fascism, but now it's getting more specific. Rick, I'm trying to think of human beings in at least modern history and modern being that we still have people alive who can tell those stories. Again, it's not as many, but they still are. The jump from Hitler to the next worst thing is Satan himself.
You can't really go anywhere else. Even if you look at the Ayatollah in Iran, he might want to emulate, he might want to kind of be able to carry out some attack like that on Jews, but hasn't been able to do it and has been kind of regionally trapped by taking on that. It's certainly a different kind of threat. That's more just based on, that's a political rhetoric, that's based on actually what they say they would like to do. So that jump there, and again, the idea is that if you've said that, if you really believe that about someone, then taking them, preventing them from the White House, however it takes it, whatever it means necessary, would be some kind of patriotic move, especially if you're dealing with people who are slightly off-kilter.
Not too much, by the way. Yeah, it is exactly how you describe it. You are encouraging people who are unstable and otherwise to take action to stop this, and if they don't think that they are encouraging violence, then they don't understand their words and the power of their words. Every single person should be outraged and condemning this, and we live in dangerous times.
We already know that we've had multiple attempts on President Trump's life, and now Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris are literally telling the world that he is Hitler and people must take action. I think, Rick, listen, both of us are, would defend and fight for the First Amendment and tough political rhetoric. There are so many things you could say, and of course you can get creative, I think you're one of those people that gets creative too, in political rhetoric, that's still very tough, very hard-hitting, but doesn't have to demonize a person to the extent of violence.
You could say, I don't think they'd be good for the country, I think this is why, I think this would hurt us, it would hurt the economy, it could even put our troops at risk because of bad policies or not understanding and letting other people kind of just run with departments because she can't answer questions about the economy, can't answer questions about foreign policy. Rhetoric is one thing, but when you jump to that one word, and I think that's why the Holocaust Museum should be jumpy if anyone uses it, but it should be if anyone uses it, because it also undermines and demeans, and I think, you know, minimizes what was actually carried out by Hitler and the Nazis, and so when you compare a former American President to that who did not start wars but ended them and supported the state of Israel in unbelievable ways that no other former President had done, that just isn't, you could still not like them, but that doesn't add up, and yet they're willing to throw all that out, and I think that again, they might change to something else next week, but what I want to tell people is, Rick, is the words of encouragement too, these early voting numbers and again, no one should be sitting on their hands, because we've got to see this kind of early numbers, we want to see these numbers double and triple the final week of early voting next week, and I know you're swapping the vote, and this idea, again, that those numbers are looking good, and that's why we need to make sure if people have early voted, they've got to get their friends out. It is so important right now for people to understand that they have a role, they can't just sit by and watch this election play out for the next 11 days, and then watch the election returns and cross their fingers.
That's not enough. We need people to literally, every single person listening to this, to call 10 people and tell them why you're voting for President Trump and why you think that it's important right now, what's happening to our country, and the best way for us to win elections is through personal contact. We spend millions and millions of dollars on commercials and literature and text messaging, but nothing works like a personal contact, like picking up the phone and asking someone to just chat, did you vote, let me tell you who I'm voting for, let me tell you why. All of this personal contact is so credible because the people in your life actually listen to you more than the mail in the mailbox. And so every single person has to realize that they have a responsibility over the next 11 days to do something, not just sit back and cross their fingers.
We've got about 30 seconds, Rick. I know you've been traveling across the country and a lot of times you're with President Trump. Just an update too about what you're seeing on the ground and what you're picking up.
Well yesterday I was in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Milwaukee this morning I'm in Milwaukee, Madison and then back to Milwaukee. Tonight I'll be in Grand Rapids and tomorrow I'll be at the Michigan, Michigan State game just in the parking lot talking to people about the importance of Donald Trump. I see on the ground a great excitement, but people have got to take that excitement and actually turn it into voting. So get out and vote.
I love those parking lots. I did a Presidential campaign running those and running those events. You get the footballs out, you get people. And you can also really talk to a whole group of folks to make sure, as Rick said, it's that message that you can make a difference. That we really need you. The people that are just hardcore into this is not enough for us to win it without you getting out the vote. If people need a ride, if people need a place, do whatever you can.
You've got more than just your ability to vote, but you can talk to people, you can help them get to the vote, you can help them watch their kids if they need to go vote. All of those things. Think about how you can add to the number. We'll be back on Sekulow. Alright, welcome back to Sekulow. People have been on the phone. I want to answer the call.
People have good questions. And again, if you think that there's any legal issue that you've encountered while voting, and again, it can't just be you heard something. And again, you can always email it to aclj.org slash help. And I don't want to discourage you from thinking it's not enough to do that. But if it's happened to you, or happened to your husband or wife, or a family member at least, contact us. Again, even if you're not sure if it's a legal issue or if it was something that needs to be handled that way, there's no harm. There's nothing wrong about asking. We're happy to assist and make sure that you can exercise your right to vote, that you can exercise your vote to volunteer for candidates, hand out those voter guides. No, of course there's rules. States have about voting locations, how close you can get, yard signs.
Some places have how big the yard signs can be in neighborhoods, you know, HO, all that kind of stuff. If you've got questions about it, utilize us. aclj.org slash help. We are going to be launching that in a bigger way next week, so stay tuned for that. Let's get right to the phone, Will. Yeah, let's go to Daniel calling from Washington State on Line 1. Daniel, you're on Sekulow.
Thank you for taking the call. It's hypocritical for the Democrats who are pushing a Russian democracy that limits free speech to call Trump Hitler when he's done so much for Israel and pro-Israel. How could they get away with this sort of stuff?
They get away with it hoping that people, one, just hear the term, don't do the research. What we saw under the Trump administration, like you're not going to see CNN or MSNBC putting out directly and in response to that saying, well, he did recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and was the only President that did that even though they were all authorized to do it, Republican and Democrat. He did recognize Golan Heights as under the American Rifle Control of Israel. He also put forward the Abraham Accords which brought more peace and potential prosperity to the Gulf states and Israel directly and more direct ties and tourism. So this idea, again, of supporting Israel not just with military power but with diplomatic power and also going to the world and with more legitimization of the Jewish state of Israel and the capital of Jerusalem. But you know what?
You don't see any of that. You just hear, oh, he talks tough so he must be like Hitler? At this point, people can say what they want, Daniel. I think it's still to a level of speech. Again, there's a line because inciting violence is not covered by the First Amendment. That line in court is very difficult.
It should be very difficult. And we all know that as conservatives, that's the last thing you want to do is running into saying ban speech, ban this. That's not what I'm saying. But you can say it's dangerous. And you can point out that it's just a flat out lie.
You can't even utilize any, the record is the opposite. But I think we're at a point now we're living in such a twisted world, and Will, I mean, I picked some of this up, that they almost, they use this kind of rhetoric about Jewish leaders. Well, and honestly, Jordan, it's so riddled with irony that the Democrat Party, which is infected with a cancer of anti-Semitism and support of Hamas, which shares ideological roots with Adolf Hitler, wanting to wipe out the Jewish people. I think that they should think twice about using that rhetoric because it falls flat with his record, but they should be more concerned about rooting out people that actually support the ideas of Hitler within their own party with the way that they support Hamas. But let's go on to the phones.
It's also an act of desperation. I mean, things aren't looking good at this time for Harris. Now, she still has time.
Just heard it around. Democrats know they have the money and the resources. They've just got to figure out some kind of message, and so far they've realized that they haven't. And the strategists have been open about that. That's why David Axelrod, they're all saying, what you're doing right now is not working.
But there's still 11 days and you've got hundreds of millions of dollars, so try something else and then try something else and then try something else. I mean, they've got Barack Obama coming out attacking black men directly, saying that they're not supporting Kamala Harris stuff. So just because they happen to be the same race, they have to support her as President, or they're sexist.
I mean, this is that idea that we were talking about with Mike Pompeo and Rick. When you just classify people as a group, instead of talking to them as individuals, that's the true racism there. This idea that because of the color of your skin and where you live, or if you're male or female, that that somehow directs how you feel. And that can be the only reason why you wouldn't support someone is because you're somehow bad.
There's something wrong. You're sexist, you're a racist, or both. So somehow, now Barack Obama is calling black men racist. I mean, this is the point we're at of a campaign, but these are because the numbers right now aren't as good. Now, if you're a Republican or a conservative or a Trump supporter listening to this, or someone who wants to not see Harris as President, you don't say now, well, the numbers aren't as good. I heard that from Jordan Sekul.
I hear it from people, so the news. Democrats will start putting that out heavily as well. They would love for you to think this weekend, chill out, you know, nine days out, we got this, we got the early vote, these numbers look wonderful. No, no, no. We have to swamp. Swarm. Such big numbers that again, I can't force Pennsylvania to call their election results, finalize their election results by 3 a.m. on November 5th. I can't.
Or Michigan. And they're already putting out it's going to be the next day or two. But if you swarm the vote, it won't matter. It won't matter. It gets to a point where all of the goofiness, which undermines the entire electoral system, even if it can't be proven, and even if it's not true. But when you can't get votes counted on time and you undermine the trusted people. So, remember, they will start pushing on all of us that you got this and we're good, so it's not worth spending your three hours, if it's rainy or cold or too hot that day, wherever you are in the country or you don't feel so great, it's not worth waiting in line if you waited to vote on election day. Or it's not worth bringing people to the poll or spending money to help watch someone's kids or grandkids or again, educating people, calling people, spending your time and resources, that's value and so they'll make you think, you don't need to, your guys won.
So that can be a very dangerous thing to it. So I'm always careful about being overly positive but I think you can be a happy soldier and you can go into battle with a smile and that is what drives the nuts at the end of the day. Being mad and screaming and angry, that's what they want you to do. Taking their stuff with the greatest salt and saying you're ridiculous, you're absurd.
I think there's righteous anger and I think the point where people are getting shot at, that's true anger and you can be angry about that. But the idea is, you can also know that we've got to keep this up. It's 11 more days, we can do it but it is going to get tougher and tougher each day and they'll try to make you feel like you've won. That will be the next move. By five days out they're going to say, you know what, I think Republicans got this. They've got hundreds of millions to go spend to try and find voters to show up on election day. Don't forget that.
I'm sorry we didn't get to more of your calls but I think we answered a lot of these. And Jordan, real quick Michelle, who was a champion, says if conservatives all vote early doesn't that give people who want to cheat a target to hit? You can respond to that really quickly here.
It's the opposite. You overwhelm you swarm the vote. You're not winning a whole state by eight or nine hundred or ten thousand votes in a state with millions of voters. You need to go in and win by numbers and there are that many people that are possible voters that are out there. Either side can win. There are enough votes still out. Plenty. It's who's able to get them to the polls. Whether it's early voting, same day voting.
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