Jack Smith, You’re Fired!

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Share and post your comments. Recall 1-800-684-3110. And now your host, Jordan Sekulow. Alright folks, welcome to Sekulow. This is a headline that I've been waiting to read, but of course we had to wait until the election results were finalized and to see the first comments out of the special council. I put that in parentheses because there's a case pending at the 11th circuit that we filed in that could decide whether or not, as the district court judge did in Florida, Judge Cannon, that this special council being appointed outside of Congress and outside of legislative, outside of law, that was different from the independent council that was, again, a congressional statute, is unconstitutional. You can't just pick someone, give them super U.S. attorney power over jurisdiction in the entire country to go after people if there's no law that allows the Department of Justice to do that, and then giving them that separate budget from inside the Department of Justice with little oversight, technically.

And so you have that issue. But there is a move, and I would be fine with it, for Jack Smith. Obviously, President Trump said he'd be fired within the first two seconds he's in office. So instead of that, Jack Smith now will be winding down, likely, both of the cases against President Trump that he still has pending. So, of course, he's got the classified documents case out of Florida, but right now that's pending just on whether or not he can have jurisdiction. The other case, of course, involves January 6.

That's in D.C. It's not even supposed to have a hearing until March, so can't move forward with that. Again, that's more than just Justice Department thinking. You can't continue with a criminal prosecution of a sitting President of the United States. So Jack Smith knew the election outcome would have huge impacts on his ability to move forward, but let's remember why it took them so long.

The Supreme Court said what they were trying to file was unconstitutional, initially, out of those January 6 cases, that basically the President, and this idea of when is the President not the President while they're in office, and what's Presidential acts and what aren't Presidential acts. Those are questions that were going to have to be decided, that now it doesn't appear we will, and it probably doesn't have to be in the future, either, if we can get rid of lawfare. We're going to have Tulsi Gabbard on later in the broadcast.

I want to talk just about that. So it looks like, again, so out of Florida, either Jack Smith will withdraw and his team, and then the Department of Justice would, again, withdraw the charges from the case, and that could happen in both. I would think that what is pending quickly, obviously, is what's happening at the 11th Circuit. Now, if you were talking about the state cases, it's a little bit different, and we're going to get into those in the next segment of the broadcast. Those are pending out of New York. You've got the Attorney General, Letitia James, making comments like she will be the savior of democracy and continue to go against Trump.

Can she really do that? We will discuss it right when we get back from this first break. This is a short part of the show. I do want to thank so many of you who got involved in our election integrity, the support for that work. We are still, just so you know, we're in contact with the right folks on the congressional races.

They're outstanding because there's still many House races outstanding. Now, there is a path for Republicans to get to the majority with, I think there's about 11 of those that would get to the bare majority that you need to get to, 218, 219, somewhere in there, but we'll talk about that as well. What's important today is that we're also launching our 2024 Faith and Freedom Drive. You know that we have seen a massive attack on faith and freedom, and this drive's crucial now more than ever, including in these next 74 days of the Biden White House. As he made clear this morning, you know, he is in charge. He is President of the United States and still Commander in Chief. So we're going to see these attacks against Trump.

I think federal is very possible, especially with Congress and freedom. So we're already ramping up our legal teams to fight back. We filed a brief to have Jack Smith, as we said, we filed in that to have him removed from his unconstitutional prosecution against Trump.

Now he's backing down, folks. That's a huge win for the country and against lawfare. So I thank you for standing us there.

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ACLJ.org. Welcome back to Sekulow. If you've got questions about this, 1-800-684-3110. Of course, about the future as well. We'll be talking to Tulsi Gabbard about that, a part of our ACLJ Sekulow team.

She'll be joining us to talk about those priorities that the team's already working on. You know, transition teams are already in place. I think something that President Trump has talked about a lot, which is important, is to get the right people in quickly. You remember how even going back, how Jim Comey tried to utilize the fact that the American people wanted to elect an outsider from politics. So that in those first couple days in the White House, that because they were not all folks who were, again, and even appointments then, that were used to being in that position, the FBI agents just walked right in and, you know, talking to people.

And that is something that should not have been allowed and that's something, again, that won't happen again. So I think it's going to be a much, I think with the Cabinet process, you're going to see, again, a much deeper look into people that, one, they share the actual vision of President Trump. They don't just want the position, that trust that they'll carry out, that the policy dictates of the President as well. So we can talk about that with Tulsi Gabbard when she is on.

I'd like to hear from you on that too at 1-800-684-3110. Now, what's important too is the legal issues. And a lot of people have been asking, you know, what happens to all these legal issues? Remember, a big part of the campaign was he's a convicted felon, you know, and what's interesting is let's go right to that case. So we talked a little about the federal cases.

We'll do that again in a minute. But the state cases. So let's go to Harry Hutchison. Harry, let's start with a case that's got trial dates on the calendar very soon. And that is the case out of New York involving the – that one involves whether or not, again, you've got the – did President Trump basically – I think the one – the next one in New York, is that the Mershawn case, right?

It's the Mershawn. So this is where he was convicted of the felony counts where they – The kind of felony counts, right? Exactly. The business dealings.

So you remember saying you were inflating the numbers and the numbers to get the loans. And somehow that is criminal. What do we think is going to happen in that case? Because there's an upcoming hearing then. I think there's a hearing either this week or next week. And as I recall, Judge Mershawn has set a sentencing date toward the end of November. My own intuition says those cases will arguably be paused if not dismissed in part because Donald Trump is now the President-elect.

And if he were sentenced to some form of prison, he probably would be entitled to an immediate appeal or at least he would postpone pending appeal. So I'm not convinced that that particular case is going anywhere. There is also a case involving 34 counts brought by the Manhattan district attorney alleging essentially that Donald Trump violated New York law.

How? Because he engaged in illegal federal campaign violations. And I'm not necessarily sure of the status of that particular case. But the two quintessential cases that are before us today involve Jack Smith, who basically has sought to bring a charge, number one, claiming that Donald Trump has violated essentially the federal laws governing the handling of documents. That's in Florida and then has engaged in election interference in violation of the law. And he's brought that particular case in Washington, D.C. before Judge Chuckkin.

Now, it's important to keep in mind that the Justice Department policy prevents the Justice Department from essentially attempting to imprison or bring charges against a sitting U.S. President. Neither case that is pending. In other words, the two cases brought by Jack Smith are likely to be ready for trial before sometime next year at the earliest. So more likely than not, those two cases will be wound down. So if you look at this, we basically have had a kaleidoscope of cases brought against Trump and they were all designed to do what? To prevent him from running from office. Meanwhile, bringing all of these legal cases has backfired.

It has made Donald Trump stronger and hence he won an overwhelming victory a few days ago. So, Will, on Tuesday, Judge Bushon has set a date. Really, this is for him to decide whether or not the conviction should be tossed at this point. And there's a lot of discussion that he may dismiss the felony counts. So that whole idea that he's a convicted felon of 34 counts, that goes out the window. Those were controversial to begin with because of the issues we just talked about with Harry. And again, I don't think we have to get bogged down in this if this moves the way it is looking like it will move, that maybe he tries to keep the misdemeanors. Of course, you can appeal those and President Trump's team can appeal those, but that doesn't really put any kind of delay or harm on the President from being able to move forward with the transition and his administration. And also, would all of these moves really pull a plug, Harry, on any attempts by congressional Democrats to say, well, he's a convicted felon and thus he's under some 14th Amendment issue?

Because we're not even going to get to those cases. So on insurrection, all that, first of all, Jack Smith really didn't bring those charges technically. But second, the idea that there's even felony counts out that that may be done as well, which should make the transition for President Trump a little bit easier when they are certifying the election on Capitol Hill.

Your analysis is precisely correct. And keep in mind that Jeremy Raskin, a representative from Maryland who has threatened to bring charges within the meaning of the 14th Amendment, thus disqualifying President Trump from taking office. He may be bereft of any power to do so. Number one, because more likely than not, the Republicans will retain control of the House of Representatives. But number two, there will be no basis within the meaning of the 14th Amendment to deprive President Trump of the opportunity to take office either. So I think at the end of the day, the 14th Amendment disqualification claims should likely disappear, but we should never underestimate the willingness of Democrats to try to stretch the law, to try to stretch the Constitution to go after President Donald Trump.

Yeah. I mean, so you've got, again, I think you're going to see action, obviously, on the federal side. What's interesting, too, Will, is that you've got, of course, Tuesday, we filed in cases at the 11th Circuit, the one to question whether or not the special counsel should even be constitutional.

I don't think we're going to get a final decision on that now, but we filed, and we would be ready to fight that battle in the future if that is tried to be utilized and weaponized again against President Trump, who ultimately has the authority to fire those special counsels and said, you know what, to Jack Smith, and made it clear he's going to be fired one way or another. Those cases are not going to be moving forward, and I think Jack Smith hopefully will do the right thing, not even put the new President into that position and knows that under the policies, you've got to withdraw. And then out of New York, I mean, Letitia James is tough, is talking tough, but those are civil cases. I mean, so, yes, it's a big bond that President Trump had to put up, but ultimately, again, they really have little impact on running the country or this whole idea that he's a felon, that I think those are going to get tossed aside hopefully next week. And the other charges there on the misdemeanor counts probably can be appealed because those are very weak. And then you look at the felony counts, I think Letitia James could say whatever she wants about being tough on Donald Trump, and they're going to still be this somehow basically keep suing him in state court for civil issues, I guess, that, again, as we've seen from President Trump, he's somebody that's not going to be distracted by that.

People also shouldn't forget the RICO case in Georgia where Fannie Willis was not taken off of it, but there will be, there was oral argument in the appeals court in Georgia whether or not to keep her on, and we should expect a ruling by them sometime early next year. I have a feeling, especially with the political temperature, that they will dismiss her from the case, which that case will go away as well. One more thing about Jack Smith before we move on in the next segment is that that case down in Florida, the one that we just filed in, that's one I think the Department of Justice doesn't have to get out of to some degree, but really wants to, because it's already been tossed the case against Trump. What they're appealing is whether or not that Jack Smith, a special counsel, could stay on. Since it's only a lower court ruling in one district in the United States, I think the DOJ, for policy purposes, would rather get out of that as soon as possible so that they don't have now an appeals court ruling potentially saying that special counsels are unconstitutional.

I think that they want to try to preserve that power, and they're in kind of a tricky spot right now. All right, folks, we will continue to update you. As I just said, we have launched today. It's our 2024 Faith and Freedom Drive. This is what prepares the ACLJ, not just these next couple of months, but also to start the year that we have the resources ready to go to make sure we get the right people confirmed, the right cabinet confirmed, those battles, anything that comes up in these house races that is remaining.

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Donate today, ACLJ.org. All right, welcome back to Sekulow. I want to take your calls, and then we're going to give you an update on where we are with the House of Representatives. Remember, second half hour, Tulsi Gabbard is going to be joining us as well to talk about the getting to, obviously, the victory on Tuesday and then looking forward as well to legislative priorities, priorities for the Trump administration. and for those individuals who came on and joined that team and were very clear with the priorities they had and the reasons why they decided to make the bold steps of whether it was RFK on endorsing President Trump and campaigning with President Trump or even doing the events just with him and Tulsi together to bring in new people to the party and I think that's why that definitely added to these numbers that we're seeing in the popular vote. I mean the fact that Will, before he takes the first color, that it looks like, I mean again all the votes have to be counted. There's still a lot of votes left out there that will affect the popular vote obviously but it looks like right now that we will win the popular vote.

That's right. I mean as we say we that the Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump wins that popular vote which also puts, we said that you know the one move that they wanted to do on you know maybe trying to say that he's under the 14th amendment somehow he's a felon and not qualified that's not going to work. It doesn't look like because of the court cases even out of New York and then when you look at the situation of course on these other issues like the popular vote and should we not have an electoral college well what was shown by going to California, by going to New Mexico, by doing a little extra campaigning at the end in states that were not as close but were again they were populations and demographic groups you wanted to speak to directly to the entire country that that's again it's how you can kind of get over the edge.

It shows you that if Republicans if you just do a little of that of course that's not how you have to win the election. You don't have to get to the popular vote but it shows if you want to will that we can actually win the popular vote which I think would scare most Democrats away from trying to take the electoral college away and thus the power of smaller states of the country. That's right and when you look at where the popular vote tally is right now President Trump leads by about 4.7 million votes. Now California has only reported about 60 of their votes they're kind of slow out there at turning in their returns but you can expect that maybe she'll net a million or two more from the outstanding races because they are coming from more liberal parts of the country. It'll be closer but it's a pretty tough hill to climb for her to make up 4.7 million votes in these last days and as we're waiting for everything to be certified from some of these states. So I don't think that she'll eclipse it that's a big win for the constitution because all of this chatter about the popular vote being the way we need to go which will disenfranchise. You're not legit you're not legit President if you don't win it. Well I mean what are they going to say now because like Will said if you come in with a 2 million like margin if she gets up someone that I mean that's not even close so what are you going to say that he's not that he's not legitimate because one of the charges against him are being dropped federally two even the state charges it looks like are going nowhere and we'll know about that very soon on all of that so that all would be done before he's even taking the oath of office so that he wouldn't even have to fire Jack Smith himself that they they're self-firing right now which is which is great they don't want to have to go through the trump should we play it for everybody we can play for everybody I guess Jack Smith doesn't want to have one of the moments like you know from tv let's play it you're fired get out of here which he said he was doing the first two seconds he was in office and I mean I think anybody coming to office would it what we get to calls I think what's important here though is that a couple major attempts at restructuring our entire country and election system in a way that's worked in a way that does work and we saw in this election and if you look at 2020 it's just kind of this bizarre COVID election in our history and it's four years that lord a lot of people would like to forget politically with the Biden administration and kind of a President asleep at the wheel and the withdrawal from Afghanistan you could go through the horrors but let's look towards the positives in the future now that we can fix it and that's what the job is of this new majority coming to Washington which is going to likely be a Republican majority in the house slim but a majority which the Democrats thought that would be their holdout we know there's going to be a Republican majority in the Senate will the question is right now we're at 52 it looks like we're going to get to 53 in Pennsylvania and there's a couple other races it's possible that we could add one more but 53 is still in a great place to be when you're talking about getting your nominees through to the people that you really want to serve in your cabinet and the people that have to go through the confirmation process judicial nominees as well and then of course legislation I mean they'll look at again will there be more Democrats that are willing to cross the aisle on some of these pieces of legislation knowing that if if not I mean they've got nowhere to go in the house nowhere to go in the Senate nowhere to go in the executive branch so I think it's just a critical time we take the call let's go to Todd out of Georgia on line three because I do think answering these legal questions is going to be important over the next couple weeks and we're not just going to do this today but obviously when when the moves start happening we will update you on this broadcast throughout with all these different cases whether it's Georgia Florida DC and New York we will update you but Todd you're calling in from Georgia and you're on the air yes my question is is there an update in the Hushman case with so that is the case involving Alvin Bragg and the business dealings so they brought that in as the reason why there was a some kind of campaign finance violation thus the New York district attorney a district attorney in New York could start enforcing federal election law to make a misdemeanor which is the falsification of business documents in that case the 34 felonies that's what they they said we brought brought it to a felony and we expect that Judge Mershanu already has it scheduled for next Tuesday whether what he's going to do with these charges I mean that's what the hearing is on and most people expect will again that these are going to be tossed some way one way or the other and Judge Mershanu has an easy out here because remember there was a critical error and some people called it mission creep by Alvin Bragg's office when they brought this case this was campaign finance related while he was running but at trial they introduced testimony from individuals that worked in the Oval Office and so what the and related to things that were going on with the President's work as President United States so the critical error by Alvin Bragg is that he may have introduced testimony which would be covered by the immunity agreement which wouldn't typically apply to in this scenario but because of the way the prosecutor brought it forward that may be the key reason that Judge Mershanu on Tuesday says you know what the the evidence before the jury was tainted because you introduced things that the Supreme Court has now said you cannot therefore I'm dismissing everything get it out of the court no appeals process and then they can just go back to the the shadows of their work as judges you know and I think again in DC with Judge Shutkin I mean that was not supposed to be against until March that that is involving of course the federal so that will get done with Jack Smith and that was the other one involving I bring that one up again because that was the one that they were going to try and tie to some reason not to potentially some move not to seat him now if Republicans stay on track and get to that 219 and hopefully the number is bigger and they've got the Senate of course the White House none of those moves would likely go anywhere and what is going to be important for these first two years is we get to that 219 the the left which I think is is going to be on fire under President Trump we'll see but I think they will is not going to be able to bring a bunch of bogus impeachment trials to waste everyone's time including the President's while he's got these four years to do the work that the American people overwhelmingly voted for him to be in charge of whether you look at the Electoral College or the popular vote support the work of the ACLJ we're now launching our faith and freedom drive that means you know again it's connecting to these house seats that are remaining if any work needs to be done there of course these remaining cases involving a Jack Smith we filed in there and that looks like it's going to be a big win but with Letitia James we're prepared to fight back to if necessary we need your support it's our biggest and most important two months of the year keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever this is secular and now your host Jordan secular fire get out of here you that would be Jack Smith I just just to update people if you're just joining us on the air Jack Smith the special counsel whose special counsel status by the way we also filed the case that's pending at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has been revoked by the district court in this case out of Florida the the case involving the classified documents and they will have to decide again do they even want those cases to move forward about whether or not the special counsel is even constitutional I don't think they will and I think that what we're hearing from all reports is that Jack Smith is going to be in some sense either withdrawing his team and the Department of Justice will withdraw the charges that would involve Washington D.C. the charges from that pending you know coming out January 6th but also the classified documents case and it would put it into the case over whether or not his position was constitutional or not which means the next time around a special counsel gets appointed they could probably still do their work they'd be in the one jurisdiction may have an issue so but it wouldn't be final that that's unconstitutional even though we do believe it is when you look at the situation that there's no law there's no money behind it I mean the list goes on and on now to update you too in New York Judge Mershawn that's the one where they could use the 34 he's you know convicted of 34 felonies well Tuesday he's got a hearing to decide what to do as Will explained there's evidential problems there because he brought in people that now would have been covered likely by the Presidential immunity case out of the Supreme Court and so it gives him an easy way to set up the case to say you know what this whole thing is tainted and we're throwing at least these felony counts out probably the whole case with the misdemeanors too but if those are moved down to the misdemeanors that becomes again a question of money and that will be appealed by President Trump's attorneys same thing goes again with Letitia James and those cases that are the civil cases involving again the the buildings remember she won the seizure President Trump put forward the bond I think that there's going to be again serious issues there but that is not those are not criminal matters and then of course you know you look at Georgia and there's hearings coming up there about whether or not that Letitia James should be able to remain in any way as a DA in that case with all the problems so they weren't even close they were like those were starts and stops and a lot of this was self-created that's what should happen when you're engaging in political law fair which I hope we've lived through as a country once and for all and don't see again and that we're able to get into Washington DC and this is what is going to be so important with the work of the ACLJ is to get into Washington DC and assist in making sure the bad actors in these agencies aren't making decisions that can continue eroding the system of justice we have this our legal system and eroding the confidence we have in our government and you remember you know sometimes you say oh well since President Trump maybe ACLJ won't be as busy we're busier there were probably more lawsuits filed by the ACLJ against the federal government while President Trump was in office and then maybe even the Biden administration over these four years and we'll have to look because again the Biden administration there still might be more lawsuits they still got 74 days left so we might not be done with filing lawsuits there so understand when you talk about you know coming in fixing things getting rid of the bad actors making it easier to remove these bureaucrats who have who are not following their instructions and are actively whether it's leaking information or actively trying to thwart the instructions and the policies of the President of the United States and who they designate to be in the cabinet now this is going to be important too there will be battles but yes there are 52 it looks like Republican senators hopefully 53 that should make it a little easier because even if you lose a couple of the very moderate Republican senators you've still got 51 right so but we know that even if the numbers are there they will go after these people and try to ruin them and their reputations before they ever get to the job so part of our work will be is with those if good nominations are made to get behind in their support it's why we have the ACLJ it's why we have ACLJ action all ready to go on Capitol Hill but we need your support and in these two months we put together really our budget for the beginning of the year so we know exactly what we've got to spend and we're ready to go you double your impact your donation so if you donate $25 that's like 50 right now at our faith and freedom drive donate today ACLJ.org we need that support to be ready all right welcome back to secular we are joined by Tulsi Gabbard who's part of our secular team here on the broadcast and Tulsi first just give everybody a sense I know they've been looking forward to hearing from you of what it was like one to you know to to join that team and those those last couple months running up to election day and then of course seeing the results of all of that non-stop work that you've been engaged in sometimes on your own on the campaign trail on behalf of the campaign sometimes with RFK jr and bringing in I think a whole new group of voters Tulsi that may not have even considered voting on election day or we're looking for how this administration coming in will be different and now that we know people like you and RFK jr will be around but what was it like just to get our team who's been you know getting to know you over the process you've been on air with us leading up to and then on election day yeah it's it's been quite incredible especially on election night as as we all were watching those results roll in really to see how the American people's voices were heard um what what I what I saw and felt was just just so hope inspiring because when you look at what happened throughout this campaign really frankly what happened since 2016 everything that the power elite and the democrat elite the national security state the the military industrial complex everything that they threw at President trump uh everything the propaganda media threw at them everything with big tech trying to manipulate what information we're allowed to see the American people saw through it and they voted for a President who has clearly shown through his record and through his message to the American people in this campaign that he stands for free speech that he is eager to bring prosperity back to America again and make life easier and better for the American people and as he has said over and over that he is the President who wants to end wars not start them it it was hope inspiring to see that in this democratic republic when we use our voices and when we see beyond democrat versus republican but look for a leader who's going to put the American people first it works and so now the the real challenge lies ahead of just helping as I'm here in Palm Beach now to try to help President trump with with great options and a good team of people to help support him and carrying out this work once he takes office yeah I mean that's the the next question Tulsi which is we know um of course that looks like we're going to have a republic we've got a republican senate might be with 53 possibly with 54 but 53 looks uh more likely right now as votes are still being counted which is crazy we can talk about that on the side on a whole another show but as that's moving forward it does again I think give you even broader options to choose in a cabinet and to and not just cabinet but your advisors as well anybody who's got to go through that confirmation process that we know now with with majorities in the senate can't be totally stalled out by senate democrats who just you know are trying to try to usually ruin some they try to pick and choose a few that they try to you know ruin their lives even if they are going to get ultimately confirmed but we know that's a key as as you said to getting you know as President you've got to put those people in place because of all the things we're talking about are big issues that takes more than one person takes more than just the President but a team willing to implement it and pushing back against a bureaucracy which has not been friendly and it's probably not going to be friendly at the beginning but what do you so what do you see from from you too because I think it's unique because you joined that team that what do you see as like top priorities I mean obviously we know free speech and and the ideas of protecting the first amendment but the actual what legislative things we can get done in policy wise when it comes to you know this kind of messy situation we're in in the world with Russia and Ukraine the middle east as well yeah well the first thing as you said with the people that President trump chooses to be a part of his team in my view they're going to have to be ready to to really fight and it's not it's not just we got to be clear-eyed about what the challenges are going to be you know there there are some republicans who are serving in congress who are are pretty entrenched in that establishment people who President trump has had to take on before and and in these battles that that ultimately he has won and not just electorally but with policy so so really this is going to require having a strong team of people who are not thinking about what their next job is going to be or you know the big book deal they plan to to have at the end of it but people who are really willing to go to fight and battle on behalf of the american people to be able to get President trump's agenda enacted it's it's not you know you were talking a little bit about the confirmation process obviously that's where it starts and i think that's where i just would encourage your your listeners and viewers to keep an eye out for how uh the the big special interest big pharma the military industrial complex and others are going to in the national security state they're going to try to undermine President's agenda we ought to remember that these are people who do not respect our democracy they don't respect the voices of the american people so even though our voices were heard in this election it's not the end of the fight they're going to do everything they can to try to uh neuter trump and this is in congress in some places but as you mentioned it's also in the administrative state and the bureaucratic state who want to try to wait him out or slow roll him or block him for the next four years so that he's not able to deliver for the american people this is how uh dangerous a mindset it exists in the entrenched washington establishment the one thing i think is interesting because again he's someone who has served as President and went through those four years uh four years out of office and now we'll have four years back in office is that we all remember the issues that were a lot of them uh kind of i wouldn't say self-induced because this was someone coming totally outside of the process but by some of the advisors and people who just weren't thinking as much about oh this person's resume looks great so let's put them in this position and then ultimately thought well because he's an outsider he's going to let me basically make all the decisions i want and so i'm going to run this department this way and we saw that conflict and i think we saw jim combi even take advantage of that by walking fbi agents in and not going through the normal process of going to the white house council to schedule interviews or even allow those interviews to take place so i don't think that again we have to be in that position again and i think that's the goal is that you can hit the ground right told sim you want to be able to hit the ground running uh the moment that you've taken that oath putting forward that team and getting not just their the the top names in place but their their people in place as well so that from day one and on you can start uh putting forward those policies you've been campaigning on into action especially while you've got uh what should be a much as friendly of a congress as you can ask for as a President i mean you don't usually always get you know the house and the senate you might only have it for a couple years uh you don't want to play out longer than that and so there's a lot to do and but like you said those interest groups right like they they didn't lose on election night they may have lost some of their influence from people that are uh that were in washington dc on the right and the left but they still have the money and the resources to fight back like you said and so we are going to be fighting some big big outside influences as well that's right and i think that's if there's any message that i hope your listeners and viewers take away is this we won we the people won on election night but we got to stick together and stand strong for the battles that that are ahead so that we can remind every single elected official in washington dc that we we the people have the power and so if they if they start to bend to the interests of these uh you know major major corruptive and corrosive entities and and organizations uh and they make decisions that are not in support of the mandate that President trump has brought forward uh we we have to hold people to account in every way possible i i really am hopeful that in this administration we're going to see far more transparency than we've ever had before from any federal government that we're going to see you know with the help of of the elon musks and you know others who are obviously bobby kennedy and people who are are going to tell the american people every single day here's what's going on here's where the problems are here's who the problems are and here's what we got to do to overcome this here's where we need to make cuts here's where we may need to invest a little bit more i think with that transparency and including the american people in this work uh this is very much uh a lot aligned with what President trump has always done i could see him and i'm not speaking for him but i would not be surprised if he continues to make time to go out and have these big rallies to tell the american people what's going on where the problems are and what we got to do to fix them and to solve them so the work the work really is just beginning now that this election is over and as you said it is critical and President trump is focused on making sure that uh he can hit the ground running with uh with uh the a team uh by his side ready to get to work i was last we've only got about a minute tolsey but i did want to say too i think you know there were some new issues too that expanded and i think it's un we don't have to even really dive deep into the numbers to know about when we look at the numbers we look at the popular vote issues like health issues like the like you've talked about this military industrial complex that were kind of new for republicans to really start thinking about this election cycle and voters in general people who may not even voted and we grew the tent i mean and it's a big thanks to you for stepping out taking the heat that you take uh for doing that because it's it's clear with those amount of votes tolsey that with 30 seconds left that we brought a lot of new people on board to this team whether it doesn't have to be a party but about the issues that are important President trump talked about it over and over he said this is a movement of love and it is and that's how all of these people came together out of love of country and love for each other and the knowledge that we got to fight for our freedom and our future uh tolsey thank you for taking that time get a little rest but we need you to keep us keep working we will be right back on secular so back to secular you know as we begin these next uh 74 70 odd days before the inauguration obviously as you just heard from tolsey gavin you heard from our team and you know this uh that you have to be you have to be clear-eyed and ready for the fight uh that you go through until you're even to inauguration day now i think we we did a good job and all of you did a great job by getting out the vote and we said if we swamp the vote there's not going to be election issues that are widespread the issues that were being that were happening on election day were taken care of the issues that we had to deal with the aclj we were able to deal with quickly and and um assist those who needed help uh it was a kind of a different feel and even the criticisms that came in about some remember some of these states that said this is like jim crow voting in georgia it'll be like that this election cycle and there was all that you know focus on uh that this uh the new georgia election laws were going to uh disenfranchise people and the less people would be able to vote because it would make it tougher hey will just tell everybody how many more people voted in georgia this Presidential election that's right uh with about 4.8 million voting in 2020 in the Presidential election uh georgia has had about uh 5.2 million voting this election so they added about three to four hundred thousand votes under the voter protection law measures that were passed by governor kemp in the wake of 2020 election that democrats went on a firestorm saying that this is disenfranchising voters uh the President himself said uh joe biden said this is uh jim crow 2.0 he even said this is like jim eagle he was trying to make make a clever pun about the voting law but instead what you see is when you put voter protections in place more voters were able to turn out there i think that's what you saw we told you folks we said in many states there have been good updates to the loss and you know we're not going to be dealing with just flying around everybody's getting paid ballots mailed to them and did some of those situations occur of course uh but most of those were not widespread and so that what we had to handle was not mass confusion it was issues here and issues there and that's again a machine doesn't break or if they need to recount the votes because it wasn't put away properly you know that poll watcher saw it and maricopa county put you know put the votes back through so no question you didn't have to like uh go to three levels of court to get that done so the transparency then equaled more people voting and i think again it took the democrats off guard off guard because when you look at did you know and we played it from cnn we're not going to play it again but there was not a single county in the country where this is just strange based off demographics too just people moving uh so some places you know just bigger populations of maybe liberal voters things that but still with all of that and all the transition was made in during the covid years there was not a single county in the country that uh kamala harris was able to outperform joe biden even by like 20 votes not one so when you look at that will it is not as surprising that democrats going into the election i thought even if even if they lost the white house and the senate which they had almost basically admitted to because of the the races that were out that were going to be up in this cycle that uh they thought that they had they were going to flip the house i mean they were fairly confident there and and now it looks like that is not going to happen well it's not 100 certain yet but right now if you look the the house republicans are on path to uh the similar kind of majority 218 219 right but it's a majority and that gives President trump a majority in the house in the senate to work with you know what that does prevent likely uh ridiculous impeachment hearings trials in the senate that slow things down it it prevents that for at least a couple years till you get to those next midterms and i think it can also speed up the time to get good people in those positions so that you can implement the policies that you promised you would to the american people you got to have cabinet secretaries you got to have advisors those that need to get confirmed you got to get your people out all around the world and that will be done and i think that people are going to be really excited about who's named not as so there won't be some of those issues that were we uh all dealt with and we dealt with you know directly uh as attorneys um this time around and that's that's great that that i think that there is something that President trump will take away for that first four years and that was what he said was the number one issue that he that that he feels like was he made errors because of just being new to politics was some of the appointments he made and the time it took to get those folks out and if you don't have that issue which there's no reason you should this time that is going to be a lot smoother than to get your policies put in place and then you go to the legislative issues as well and you fight those battles that's right and so ed in the house of representatives right now about 400 races have been called so there are 35 outstanding races that have not been called yet republicans have 209 seats and democrats have 191 now you look at that and you're like there's a good advantage a lot of the races that haven't been called that are are pretty secure democrat seats in california they haven't uh tallied all their ballots there yet they they can't be like florida and do it you know within an hour but uh there are some signs that the republicans do have the momentum to at least it looks like get to that 218 it will be close there's a race in washington state that's guaranteed to be a republican because they do a jungle primary system where the top two vote getters go on to the general election both of those are republicans so no matter what it's a republican versus republican in the general election no matter what that seat's going red alaska 210 alaska hasn't been called yet pretty safe to say that it's going to be the republican seat 211 yeah then you look at there are some uh where there is a good margin for republicans then there's races like this this one is iowa first district the republican leads there by about 800 votes but they are done counting the ballots there's going to be a recount there most likely but in it's only a 400 000 vote total cast in this race making up 800 votes in a election like that it looks good for republicans there's about 11 or 12 that republicans are leading as of right now if they were to take even just a handful of those it gets them pretty close to that 218 yeah and you get to the 218 you get you try to start building on that and obviously you're able to focus your resources now those places are down to 800 votes and if they go to a recount that you've got the right monitors in and if necessary legal steps and that is you know we have made it loud and clear to the people that we need to that if any you know additional assistance is needed legally we're ready to go we've done those cases before a number of times in many cycles as you know and so we will see i mean some of that work will take some time to shake out it's again because they they do move quickly but they'll look at it's the time now and then of course between the beginning of the new congress and and of course the swearing in of the President so that is a critical time i did and i do think this the radical left is kind of you know they're figuring out what are they going to do next right now okay they doesn't like they're going to have the house they don't have the senate they're not going to have the white house and the the man they called hitler just won the white house with a pop with the popular vote and uh amongst vote jewish voters for instance i mean margins that we've never seen before closer to 40 and 50 of the jewish vote in key battleground states had gone republican where in the past it was like 10 to 20 so i mean doubling or even tripling turnout there uh hispanic vote the black vote latino vote women uh people just saw through all of the the words and attacks and said listen i know what i'm living through right now i know what it costs to have to go to the grocery store i know what it costs to fill up my car i don't want to keep hearing about the fact that you know somehow uh none of us are going to be using gasoline or so why are we not using the the oil that we have in the united states but also those same people say you know why is the food we have all these chemicals in it you know you can you can be on both sides you know the same sides on those issues and i think that's why we're this great coalition support our work double the impact your donation donate today aclj.org we need