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Logan Sekulow: Welcome to Sekulow. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. Let's wrap up this week strong. I want to hear from you. Questions or comments, of course, we are talking about some of the breaking news of the day.

We are going to be joined a little bit later by my brother, Jordan Sekulow, joining us remotely. He's having a big event right now in Montana. We're going to talk about that. We also have Rick Grenell joining us a little bit later to give an update. So it's going to be a packed show, but in between then, I like to hear from you at 1-800-684-3110.

Of course, a lot of news is still focused on what's happening in the war in Iran and the war that's surrounding it right now. We are seeing right now, as we're reporting, there's some breaking news of explosions that are going on in Beirut and a lot of other developments are happening.

One of the big ones that happened that's not related to that is the head of the Department of Homeland Security is no longer. That was Kristi Noem. She is no longer the head of the Department of Homeland Security and will be moved into a new position. I think that is one of the things that is not being reported as widely.

You're seeing a lot of fired language. Look, I think from all accounts, certainly we've worked with Kristi Noem before and we've represented her in the past, so I have nothing bad to say about her in terms of our relationship and what we've had with her before. You're not going to hear that on this show.

It was clear that President Trump wanted to move in a different direction. This is the first big kind of ousting of this term, the second term of President Trump in this way. Of course, there were some before with Matt Gaetz and then it became Pam Bondi. But since he took office, this is the first big one there. But we have seen an actual update where Kristi Noem, though clearly wasn't doing the job that maybe President Trump and the administration was looking forward to and wanted to see for the future, she did do some pretty good things at the border. So they are reassigning her to, it seems like, focus more on that.

Guest (Male): That's right. So one thing you have to give the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem credit for is what a great job DHS has done at getting control of the southern border. That was one of the big campaign promises of President Trump and has been fulfilled. That has been unbelievable how well they have controlled our southern border.

Then obviously, Kristi Noem was a target of the Democrats from the very beginning. Why? Because they have been so pro-open border that the person that did a great job of shutting it down and then was leading the department in charge of the operations of getting illegal immigrants out of the country is going to be one of their main targets.

This happens in every administration. There is always a first cabinet member to leave. So this just happens to be the one here. What I think is interesting, though, is that yes, there had been distractions around the Department of Homeland Security. The Democrats are keeping it shut down right now, refusing to fund it.

I think the move here managerially, if you are the President of the United States, is saying, okay, let's try to shake things up, do something a little different. There have been a lot of criticism from many people even on the right. Let's move Kristi Noem, who he says he appreciates. We're going to give that statement in the next segment.

But let's not just get rid of her because I appreciate what she's done. He's created the Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, a new security initiative in the Western Hemisphere that they are doing a big announcement on this Saturday. So we're going to find out more about that. We can talk and speculate a little bit of what that looks like. But he is moving her into a new role and one thing we do know under the President, special envoys actually do something. It's not just a title that they hand out to give some sort of trophy to people. There's actual work to be done.

Logan Sekulow: Real jobs happening. Look, we'll talk about that coming up. One of the people they said who was majorly a part of this decision also was Tom Homan, someone who clearly President Trump is turning to in these times. Of course, those are just reports.

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The attacks on our constitutionally protected rights persist. Countless unborn babies remain in jeopardy, and across the globe, innocent Christians are being targeted and killed across this country and around the world. This fight isn't just the ACLJ's. It's all of ours. It belongs to every American who wants to preserve the values and beliefs on which this nation was founded.

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Logan Sekulow: Welcome back to Sekulow. Phone lines are open and a lot of you have called in already. We're going to get to as many of you as we can. Of course, we're reporting on the news. Yesterday, the big headline was that Kristi Noem had been fired. That was the word that was being used a lot in the press.

Of course, look, she was the head of Homeland Security. That's a big position. Secretary Noem had taken that position last year. This was a big moment, so I don't want to pretend like this was some friendly move to a different position. But I also don't want to pretend that they don't still see the success that she has had. And that is with this new position that they are bringing her in on they're going to announce soon.

Now, at the same time, you do have a new head of the DHS and that is Senator Markwayne Mullin, who you may remember from sort of the testy argument he had last year where they were kind of getting in each other's faces. It almost came to blows. Bernie Sanders had to break up a fight. He's a former MMA fighter, undefeated MMA fighter, and also again, he's been a Senator for quite some time, along with a lot of other qualifications. But again, he's from Oklahoma. But this does now open up potentially an election, a seat in Oklahoma. So we can break down all of that here as well.

Guest (Male): That's right. So one thing I want to point to as well, President Trump has no issue firing people, right? James Comey didn't get a reassignment as a special envoy when he was fired from the FBI. So when you read President Trump fired Kristi Noem, I think it is a misuse of that term because he clearly values her input and clearly values what she did for the administration and for the country as the leader of the Department of Homeland Security.

For his own reasons, whether it be the ways that the Democrats were able to latch on and attack her so frequently, whether it be distractions, and that some even within the Republican Party had turned on her as far as questioning some of her leadership moves, clearly the President thought it was time to move on and to put someone else that maybe can take some of the scandal that the Democrats were putting out there about the Department of Homeland Security. Maybe put some of that out of the picture and maybe get the department actually refunded to continue to protect our homeland while we're in a conflict in the Middle East with a nation that likes to do things like fund and promote and export terrorism around the world.

Maybe that's a good idea. So the President reassigns her. It's a newly created position that is the Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas. We know a lot of the moves that the President has done in the Western Hemisphere are very important to him. This special envoy position, I assume, much like many of the other special envoy positions that he has created, will actually do work.

Before he was put in office, a lot of people pointed when people got special envoy positions like, oh, that's the consolation prize, you're not a cabinet member. But what we have seen from people like Rick Grenell, Steve Witkoff, who was in the room negotiating with Iran, or Rick Grenell, who has done so much work as a special envoy, that these positions for Donald Trump actually mean something. They mean you will continue to work for the betterment of the country. And if it takes some distractions away to move you into a different position, that's just good management.

So I do also take issue with the word "fired" that the media is loving to run with because that makes a better headline for them instead of actually telling you that she has been moved into a new position, which is the reality of it. But you also brought up Senator Mullin, Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, one of the most conservative states as far as representation and voting and state government.

Logan Sekulow: It's a good and safe one to lose, if you will, as a Senator.

Guest (Male): Right. One, the elites are already attacking him because he doesn't have a bachelor's degree, so therefore is not qualified to do anything. Of course not. That's their line, obviously. Many times you see them turn to their elitist roots whenever they can to try to attack someone. But there is a little bit of intrigue here with the seat in Oklahoma. It is expected to be safe no matter who the next person is of maintaining itself as a conservative, a Republican seat in the Senate.

But the filing deadline, because the way the Senate works, it's not like in the House of Representatives when there's a vacancy, they have a special election. The governor of the state appoints someone to fill the seat until there is another statewide election. That will be happening in the midterms this year. The filing deadline is April 1st. So people that want to run for this Senate seat have to be filing in a couple of weeks. So that's a quick turnaround to try to get a campaign and the thought process.

Logan Sekulow: You want to go?

Guest (Male): I mean, I'm not a resident. I don't think I would meet the qualifications. But here's a new law in Oklahoma. I think we know some Oklahomans we know. Many times in a state, the governor can appoint someone they think is a strong candidate that can then run in the general and win. Oklahoma has a new law that whomever the very conservative Kevin Stitt is to appoint cannot run. So we're going to have two different senators, three different senators within the span of like eight months.

Logan Sekulow: So someone gets appointed now as he takes this new position. That person will not be the Senator.

Guest (Male): They are not able to be eligible. So you have this very brief period of time from when Markwayne Mullin, the Senator, steps down because he...

Logan Sekulow: When would he take it down? This is an interesting decision. It's an interesting run.

Guest (Male): It's the law that somebody in the Oklahoma legislature decided was a good idea and they passed it and the governor signed it.

Logan Sekulow: You said he isn't taking it immediately. Do we know when he would take it on? Because I kind of want a head of the Department of Homeland Security.

Guest (Male): Well, obviously there're deputies that are will be serving in that in the interim. They're saying beginning of April is when he's expected to. I assume he will probably wrap up things in the Senate. He has staffers in the Senate that probably are going to be looking for new gigs, things of that that some may move over to DHS, but get all the logistics in line. And I assume he may even be able to take it as an acting director while waiting for confirmation. But he will have to be confirmed by his colleagues in the Senate.

Logan Sekulow: For sure. You've got to go through all of that. Phone lines are open for you at 1-800-684-3110. 1-800-684-3110. Let's go to Robert in New Jersey calling on line one. Kick off some phone calls. Go ahead.

Robert: Hey Logan, thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it. Just wanted to let you and your brother know I've been watching you guys since day one when your dad started the ACLJ with Pat Robertson.

Logan Sekulow: Thank you. Thank you so much.

Robert: Yeah. Followed you guys since day one. So my question for you and if your brother or Rick Grenell are listening, they can possibly have them comment also. But it seems as though there's a lot of talk now that I'm listening to that people are believing that Trump may have been compromised, especially with going into this war with Iran when his campaign promises was that he would not start any new wars.

Logan Sekulow: Well, of course war is in quotes right now. It is obviously a military strike. I'm okay with saying the word war. I think that it's a little disingenuous always because I think for the common people who are watching, whether you're declaring war or you're not declaring war, it is a little different in terms of the technicality of it.

However, so let's just say in general, this is war. I don't think that he's been compromised, to be honest. I think again, he's listening to some of the right people. I feel that way with his support of Israel. I feel like that's been pretty strong. I think he also is somebody that if you've looked historically, has said, don't press me. And you know what? Historically, that has worked. He has been able to negotiate his way out of a lot of things because he is good at making the deal.

The problem is you're trying to make a deal with countries that are not dealing with normal Western values. And I've said this a bunch of times. Let's remember what we're dealing with here. You're dealing with dictators, you're dealing with people who are holding down their people that are specifically un-American, un-Judeo-Christian in their values. So when you do not have that basic human standard that we all think is kind of what we're born with, we're not. You're negotiating with a very different group of people.

So of course you had a situation in Iran. I did also see the things that got escalated really the day before, that it was going to be potentially a week later or something like that. But they had located exactly where the Ayatollah was and said, you know, this is the time. I had a friend down at Mar-a-Lago performing at an event. President Trump was supposed to speak at that event. He came in and waved and said, you know, I got some things I've got to handle. Hours later, the Ayatollah was no more.

Now the reports are coming out that essentially right before that event as he was arriving there, because this was like a charity fundraiser event, they were told this is where the Ayatollah is. I said you better get that copy of Time Magazine to tell your kids or your grandkids about it because it will be an important day in history. In terms of do I think he's been compromised? Again, no. I think again, you have people who are pretty smart in this. You have people like Tom Homan and other maybe more level-headed people who are coming in there and saying, this is how we need to take care of things.

Here's how we can calm things down. Here's how we can get Minnesota to no longer be the number one trending story because of how the chaos within our country is coming. And not just move away, not just distract with something else, but actually get things handled. I feel that way as happened now with this as well.

Guest (Male): Well, and I also want to say the use of the military in this way, President Trump, yes, said I don't want to start new wars, but he's also been very clear-eyed ever since he ran way before that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. And also, he has very much been the Ronald Reagan peace through strength doctrine. This has not changed from him.

So when you see someone who believes that in order to maintain peace, there has to be a credible threat of military force behind it, and if you never act on that and they keep pushing you around and delaying and stalling and you never act on that, there is no credible military threat from the United States. He just showed the world exactly what peace through strength means, and I think the Ayatollah, who's no longer on this planet, found that out.

Logan Sekulow: Phone lines are open for you. We have about four lines open. 1-800-684-3110. Next segment, we'll be joined by Jordan who, my brother, who is in Montana right now. We're going to discuss why he is there and why it's important to be the ACLJ all over the world. We'll be right back.

Guest (Male): We've witnessed monumental legal victories from defending the 14th Amendment and protecting our sacred American right to vote, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and standing up for the religious liberty of our kids and seniors. But even with the many historic wins we've achieved, the battle is far from over.

The attacks on our constitutionally protected rights persist. Countless unborn babies remain in jeopardy, and across the globe, innocent Christians are being targeted and killed across this country and around the world. This fight isn't just the ACLJ's. It's all of ours. It belongs to every American who wants to preserve the values and beliefs on which this nation was founded.

None of the victories we've won would have been possible without the unwavering support of ACLJ members and ACLJ champions. It's been an honor to fight for you all these years. Join us in fighting for freedom. Have your donation doubled at ACLJ.org/freedom.

Guest (Male): Right now, your most sacred rights are under attack. Your right to free speech, your right to worship, your right to educate your children the way you choose. If successful, these attacks will have a destructive impact on the future of our republic. We're fighting in courtrooms across the country to have a lasting impact, defending and upholding our values that this nation was founded on.

Logan Sekulow: From protecting the rights of kids to pray and share their faith...

Guest (Male): The best thing you can do is take a stand. There's nothing too small. A kid who wants to start a Bible club is how the ACLJ got its first case to the US Supreme Court. And today, we would take that case as long as we needed it. Every victory makes a major impact and it's only possible because of the support of ACLJ members and champions.

This is your opportunity to double your impact to defend freedom for you, your children, and generations to come. Go to ACLJ.org/impact and have your tax-deductible donation doubled today.

Logan Sekulow: Welcome back to Sekulow. We are joined by my brother, Jordan Sekulow, who is coming to us live from Montana. Jordan, maybe just start off with why you're there. Of course, Montana's been in the news, but what's been going on?

Jordan Sekulow: Sure. Well, we've got, this is a meeting here and we are in Big Sky, Montana with two US Senators and one who made news this week, which I think looking back, this may have all been a plan to get us here from all across the country, conservative leaders and organizations coming together to spend time with Senator Daines, who served two terms in the US Senate, just announced he was going to retire.

His kind of replacement pick, which is the same person President Trump has already endorsed and the governor of Montana has endorsed and the other Senator who will be here, Senator Sheehy, that former Navy SEAL, he'll be here as well, but so will the candidate they've endorsed. He's been a US Attorney twice, so the first Trump administration and the second Trump administration. His name is Kurt Alme.

I'm excited to meet him too because of that legal connection we'll be able to make in Washington, DC, Logan. This is part of what we do through ACLJ and ACLJ Action to keep those relationships with US Senators active so that if it's on a text basis, if there's an emergency, if they need help with legislation, anything goes. We like to be able to go directly to the Senator when necessary, and then of course our team and staff can go to their staff when we don't need to go with 24-hour notice right to a Senator. So actually two Senators and likely a next Senator will be here and they'll be joining all of the events and we're actually a co-sponsor of one of the events tomorrow evening.

Guest (Male): Jordan, you say that one of the Senators has been in the news, actually two of them, both of them maybe the first time ever that both Senators from Montana are making headlines in the same week, obviously with Senator Daines saying that he will be stepping down, but the Navy SEAL, Senator Sheehy, that you mentioned, also assisting US Capitol security in removing a protester from a hearing room.

That was kind of spectacular to see, but also shows the toughness of the Senators from Montana. Montana itself is an interesting state I think people should think about. One, a big economic producer in many ways, but one that while very conservative people, can be kind of a challenging state for these Senate races because the kind of vein of people that it produces, even the Democrats can be a little bit more on the moderate side. So sometimes and why it's important to go and get a feel of it, it is an interesting state when it comes to the electoral politics of it.

Jordan Sekulow: That's right. I mean, when we had Senator Sheehy, who will again, I think we should play that video at some point, the former Navy SEAL, take on Jon Tester. You remember him. He was a Democrat. He tried to play off as a moderate, Will, but he never voted moderate. He always voted in line with the party. So eventually, people here figured it out. He didn't resign. He was beat.

So what we're seeing is a state that is moving towards becoming an entire red state and that's why you have to build when a vacancy like this opens up. It's why Senator Daines is having us all together right now to get behind someone because we want to keep Montana red from the governor's office who is a conservative as well. He's endorsed Kurt Alme as well, the US Attorney.

So a lot of exciting things, but you're right. This was not a reliable red state for Republicans and conservatives for many, many years, really until Jon Tester was beat in the last election. So you have to fight really hard, nominate really good candidates. And we're here of course to keep up our relationships with folks like Senator Sheehy, who's new. He's only been in Washington just a little over a year. And also with the candidate that was endorsed by President Trump and Senator Daines, who we have a very close relationship with, who is leaving. We're going to then make that contact while we're here. Those meetings are already ongoing since I've been here.

Guest (Male): And Jordan, you mentioned that take down from a US Senator of a protester. While I'm talking, go ahead and roll that so people can kind of see it as B-roll as I lead into this next question for you, Jordan. But essentially, there was a protester that was a Marine veteran from a long time ago that had broken in in uniform making a statement trying to say things that were against the administration, against the war in Iran. He is very pro, there's the Senator right there, grabs his arm, actually breaks it.

But what you see here is that someone was trying to use their uniform to make a political statement, which is illegal, by the way, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. But how that Senator, the pride he has in America in standing up for that, rushes there knowing what this individual's doing wrong, who is very pro-Islamic regime if you see the posts that have come out from this individual now. But Jordan, just speak to that.

Jordan Sekulow: Yeah, I think it just shows you this is the kind of leaders in Montana. He will now become the senior Senator of Montana. So you have a former Navy SEAL who isn't afraid to help and assist and to make sure his colleagues and the Capitol police that they're also kept safe when you've got one of these protesters who starts fighting back.

It was a Code Pink protester. You know, there's even some discussion about whether or not that person was or is a Marine retired, wasn't a Marine. But at the end of the day, you can't go into a congressional hearing and start spouting off anti-Semitism and anti-Israel statements and that's exactly what he was doing, is that the US shouldn't be there because US troops are dying for Israel. Forgetting the fact that the Iranian regime wants to destroy the United States of America and has killed thousands of American soldiers starting right after the Islamic revolution with the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon.

Guest (Male): Jordan, you also mentioned that ACLJ Action will be co-sponsoring an event. I wanted to get a little bit more information about that. What does that look like for those, we know that we have a lot of people that are always interested in the work of ACLJ Action that they may not hear about every day. What does that look like, what does it mean, and what do you expect to come from it?

Jordan Sekulow: So the ACLJ Action kind of has two folds. It has the Washington, DC fold, the federal fold. We also do some state work as well. And what we're able to do with the C4 is utilize the donations, and we really appreciate that, to ACLJ Action to support other C4s that are in line with the messaging of candidates people likely agree with and issues people likely agree with.

So we're able to expand the influence of the ACLJ because for us to be at events like this is very unique because we've also got a grassroots machine and our of course multimedia that we've got available. Most of the other attendees, very good for us to know, are big corporations and their delegates to these meetings. Well, we've been doing a lot of work with ACLJ Action just a couple weeks ago in Washington, DC on legislation that's now passed. The protection for minors with the App Store, the App Store Protection Act. I mean, that was huge. It got out of committee, so we know it's got the votes in the House. We have to keep fighting there, but we've been working on that with some major tech corporations.

So again, able to bring in new people to the ACLJ, get them... and a lot of what's awesome, Will and Logan, is that these folks just find out that they can work with us that way. They're so excited because they know how good our work is, both in the courts, our policy work, and our political work.

Logan Sekulow: Absolutely. Jordan, thanks for joining us. Looks beautiful out there. But also, that's why it's important during this double your impact drive right now that's happening. Jordan's able to go out there, send a team out there. None of that is cheap. None of it happens without you, and we can have major influence about what's going on in Washington, DC, around the country, and around the world.

And you can be a part of that team as well by just going to ACLJ.org right now and all your donations are doubled. That means they are matched. There is somebody ready to unlock their match. So make your tax-deductible donation today and have it doubled during this double your impact drive at ACLJ.org.

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Logan Sekulow: We've witnessed monumental legal victories from defending the 14th Amendment and protecting our sacred American right to vote, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and standing up for the religious liberty of our kids and seniors. But even with the many historic wins we've achieved, the battle is far from over.

The attacks on our constitutionally protected rights persist. Countless unborn babies remain in jeopardy, and across the globe, innocent Christians are being targeted and killed across this country and around the world. This fight isn't just the ACLJ's. It's all of ours. It belongs to every American who wants to preserve the values and beliefs on which this nation was founded.

None of the victories we've won would have been possible without the unwavering support of ACLJ members and ACLJ champions. It's been an honor to fight for you all these years. Join us in fighting for freedom. Have your donation doubled at ACLJ.org/freedom.

Guest (Male): Right now, your most sacred rights are under attack. Your right to free speech, your right to worship, your right to educate your children the way you choose. If successful, these attacks will have a destructive impact on the future of our republic. We're fighting in courtrooms across the country to have a lasting impact, defending and upholding our values that this nation was founded on.

Logan Sekulow: From protecting the rights of kids to pray and share their faith...

Guest (Male): The best thing you can do is take a stand. There's nothing too small. A kid who wants to start a Bible club is how the ACLJ got its first case to the US Supreme Court. And today, we would take that case as long as we needed it. Every victory makes a major impact and it's only possible because of the support of ACLJ members and champions.

This is your opportunity to double your impact to defend freedom for you, your children, and generations to come. Go to ACLJ.org/impact and have your tax-deductible donation doubled today.