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A Biblical Perspective on Current Events 0:01 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and sound bites into conversations with our nation's leaders and0:12 newsmakers, all from a biblical world view. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heise.0:20 Well, good afternoon. Welcome to this August eighth edition of Washington Watch. Can't believe it's already Friday, but it is. And we're glad to have you on board. I'm Jody High, senior fellow0:32 here at the Family Research Council and your Friday host. Thank you for joining us. Coming up on today's program, President Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin are planning to hold a summit0:44 at the end of next week to discuss a ceasefire in Ukraine. And the Kremlin so far is opposed to the idea of Ukraine's president being there.0:54 To meet with him, he doesn't have to agree to meet with Zelensky. Is that what you're saying?0:57 No. He doesn't. No. No.0:59 So who do you think1:00 that'd be1:00 They would like to meet with me, and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killings.1:06 That was, of course, president Trump speaking yesterday with some q and a with reporters, and I'll be discussing this topic in just a moment when I'm joined by Ohio congressman Warren Davidson, who's a1:17 member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And Israel's security cabinet has approved a major expansion of his campaign in Gaza with the goal of demilitarizing that region.
1:30 And, of course, the United Nations is not happy about it while the US is leaving the decision entirely in the hands of Israel.
1:38 Our 3 focuses as the secretary outlined yesterday remain getting humanitarian aid into Gaza without it being looted by Hamas, remains seeing the hostages released, and remains making sure that Hamas cannot continue to
1:48 exist because there could be no long term prosperity with Hamas as a as a governing force or otherwise within Gaza. So that's what our policy is. That's where our focus is.
1:58 That was state department principal spokesperson Tommy Pigott yesterday when he was asked about Israel's plans. And I'll discuss this later in the program when I'm joined by Chris Mitchell, who is the Middle East
2:10 Bureau chief at CBN News. And then here domestically, we have 22 state attorneys generals who are urging the FDA to reinstate some critical
2:22 safety protocols for the abortion drug mifepristone. And I'll discuss this with 1 of those attorneys generals, Marty Jackley of South Dakota, a little
2:34 bit later in today's program. And then the closeout today, we will have our regular weekly Biblical Worldview segment. Doctor Owen Strand will be joining me for that as
2:45 we deal with the top headlines of the week from a biblical perspective. So as always, we've got a lot coming your way today. Wanna encourage you to stay tuned for every part of it. But if you do miss a portion, you can
2:57 always catch it by going to our website, tony perkins dot com, where you'll find a host of other archive programs as well as tons of resources available there for you. And I'll hit on this a
3:09 little bit later as well. But don't forget, we have our Prevost Stand Summit coming up October seventeenth and eighteenth in Chino Hills, California. We urge you strongly to make plans now to be there. You
3:20 can get more information by going to Prevost Stand dot org. Alright. Let's jump into our first topic for the day. Yes for, today. Yesterday, the the Kremlin
3:32 announced that they do plan to meet with president Trump and, Vladimir Putin. And, obviously, the overall principle is, to
3:44 deal with the ceasefire, and they plan to meet just coming up in the next few days. Is this a genuine step forward? And as it relates to peace with the Russians in Ukraine. Well,
3:56 joining me now to discuss this and much more is congressman Warren Davidson. He's a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Financial Services Committee. He represents the eighth congressional district of the
4:06 great state of Ohio. Congressman Davidson, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you, my friend.
4:13 Definitely an honor to join you and, great that you're hosting today. Nice to spend time with you.
4:19 Well, thank you, Warren. Let let's start with your thoughts on this potential, at least, face to face meeting between presidents Trump and Putin. Do you think this is a genuine good
4:31 faith effort towards peace?
4:33 Well, it's really encouraging. I mean, president Trump came in and look. Peace through strength. He was a very strong president in his first term. He's been even stronger in his second term. But he laid out a very clear
4:44 objective in Ukraine. He just wants peace. He wants to restore a state of peace. He wants people to stop dying. Under the Biden administration, you had everything from that on the 1
4:56 hand to regime change in Russia on the other. No Russians in Ukraine, no Russians in Ukraine or Crimea. And we kept doing this hollow slogan, as much as it takes, as long as it takes, which is a great way
5:08 to fund an endless war. If we're not gonna fight it, we seemed committed to at least cutting the checks for it. So, thankfully, president Trump's brought real leadership here. I know he's been frustrated, particularly
5:18 with president Putin lately, but he had a lot of wrestling to get Zelensky to the negotiating table and in a negotiating state of mind as well. I hope that they can restore peace, and I think it's a good thing when
5:30 president Trump sits down with people. I mean, I know you've been in the room with him. No 1 negotiates a deal and makes people wanna say yes more effectively that I've met. I mean, I think, he was gonna give every
5:41 chance for it to work.
5:44 Yeah. I agree with you on that. And, you know, I agree with you too about the the frustration. There's gotta be frustration. It seems like, to be honest, Russia just seems to be all over the map, and
5:55 Putin being seems to be all over the place. How do you, think the Trump administration has so far approached Russia? Do you think they it's been effective, would you say?
6:07 Yeah. I think look. He's made it very clear that he's got expectations for Zelensky too, And I think, Russia didn't wanna come to a negotiation where they felt like it was all, give by Russia. And,
6:20 they had already tried to have some state of peace, and they and and Western governments basically scuttled an effort for peace in the early stages of the war. Russia's mostly been clear in saying that they don't want,
6:31 Ukraine to be part of NATO. They would prefer that Russia that that, Ukraine's not part of the European Union, but they're very committed that they don't become part of of NATO. And,
6:43 a lot of NATO countries want Ukraine to be part of NATO. NATO said Ukraine says they wanna be part of NATO, but I think president Trump's very clear that's not gonna happen on his watch and certainly not when there's a
6:54 state of war there. So that at least has Putin receptive. But the other thing when you look at in economic economic interest there, Russia's, export is energy. President Trump wants to export energy. So you're like,
7:06 well, we're kind of wanting to do the same things here. Russia, would has plenty of rare earth minerals, but to the extent there are some, it's in areas where Russia was invading, Ukraine.
7:18 The United States basically negotiated a deal for those rare earth minerals to take that out of reach and off the table without drawing United States into conflict with Russia. But on the other side, both of those kinds
7:28 of things serve as as opportunities for Russia to do something different. And then lastly, note that this comes at a time when president Trump started squeezing India. And India is 1 of the key export markets,
7:41 for for Russian energy. So they've been cut off from a lot of energy. They've lost a lot of business, and they've lost every kinda connection to, the western world in the wake of this war.
7:53 So president Trump has said, look. I think we should find a way to include Russia into the, world trade framework, and we should have a way to have some forgiveness and restoration of these relationships. And I
8:05 think that's the, the olive branch, and president Trump's also made clear with the strike in Iran, well, he's got sticks too.
8:13 Very interesting connecting some of those dots. We'll we'll see how all this all all these pieces come together. While I have you, Congressman Davidson, more domestic
8:25 news. You're part of financial services, and I'm sure you're keenly aware that President Trump signed a new executive order guaranteeing fair banking for all Americans. I know
8:37 this is something that you've been involved with for quite some time. Give me your thoughts on this, debanking executive order.
8:45 Well, it's necessary. The reality is people were losing access to banking and particularly conservatives. Basically, it was the Biden enemies list, and this wasn't new. It was termed choke 0.2 0 because under
8:57 president Obama, they had choke point, operation choke point. This is a code word for basically directing the bank regulators, who have coercive power over banks to say, well,
9:09 we don't wanna bank those people. And, you know, sadly, if you think about it from a civil rights perspective, people from across the political spectrum and racial religious lines, things like that, have been the those
9:21 people, and they were denied access to banking. But in the case here, it wasn't just you weren't getting loans. They wouldn't even take deposits from conservatives. They were literally closing off access. And it wasn't
9:32 just, like, conservatives, but it was crypto in particular. Barney Frank, who was, the democrat from Massachusetts, you know, pretty far left of center democrat, but he was chairman of
9:44 the House Financial Services Committee when Democrats were in the majority for the Dodd Frank Act. And he was on the board of of, Signature Bank, and they were they were basically shut down by the
9:56 Biden administration. And he said it wasn't because we weren't solvent. It was because we were banking crypto. So this kind of war on the Biden enemies list needs to end, and we need to follow-up in the House Financial
10:07 Services Committee and pass laws that make it impossible for bank regulators to do this without somebody going to
10:14 jail. Yeah. I'm really glad to see this taking place. I personally have known folks impacted by this as I'm sure you have as well. And and frankly, ought to be bipartisan support. Everyone ought
10:26 to hear colleagues on the other side of the aisle. As you mentioned, Barney Frank, sir, it there ought to be agreement now on this. You would think we'll see how that comes up. If I can, let me hit another big issue.
10:38 President Trump has been making waves about also with this mid decade census that he's putting together. This time, of course, it will be excluding illegal immigrants.
10:51 You agree with this? Why is this a necessary move?
10:55 Oh, Jody, I'm so excited about this. I've had a bill since I've been in congress trying to get the census so that they when they count it, they at least well, count everybody. I want you to count the illegals because I
11:05 wanna know where they are. We can ship them on out. But, when you draw maps for congress, it needs to be based on US citizens only. I represent US citizens. I don't care
11:17 even if you're here legally. Personally, you've got an embassy or a consulate that represents you. I represent US citizens, and so does everyone else in the in the United States Congress. So but right now, the
11:29 map's based on everyone who happens to be here, and California is picking up, I don't know, 6 or 7 extra seats. That's more than a lot of states have for representatives. And to be fair, Arizona and Texas and other
11:41 states are picking up because they have large noncitizen populations as well. And, you need an honest map. The honest map, has US citizens drawn in it. And to get an honest map, you've
11:53 gotta be able to do an honest census. And president Trump tried to set the conditions for this in his first term. He was blocked by the courts, and we need to really highlight the urgency that congress really should
12:05 be looking at president Trump's leadership and his executive orders, and we ought to be voting on 2 or 3 of those executive orders every week we're in session. But this is 1 of the most urgent things. And I will say,
12:16 I'll commend my colleague, Chuck Edwards, who's been a great ally on this since he got to congress.
12:22 Well, I wish we had more time to hit on all of this, congressman Davidson. But real quickly and we've only got about a minute or so left. But the Texas state house is making all sorts of big news with Democrats. They are
12:33 fleeing to Illinois to prevent a quorum so that that state can, move forward on redistricting as you brought up. Real quickly, what's your thoughts on that? Where is this all going to go? What impact could it
12:45 have nationally?
12:47 Well, look, district maps can be partisan. In Ohio, our constitution recognizes they can be partisan. If there's a bipartisan agreement on the maps when the first census is done, then the maps
12:59 hold for 10 years. But if there's not bipartisan consensus, then the maps are only good for 4 years. So Ohio's in the process of redrawing them. That's our constitution. But if it weren't for double standards,
13:11 democrat would Democrats wouldn't have any. Illinois' maps are very gerrymandered, very skewed for democrats, and Texas is basically saying, well, we can do that too.
13:22 Wow. Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio. Always great to see you. Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy district time right now and traveling schedule
13:34 with Codells and so forth. Thank you for joining us on Washington Watch. Great to have you.
13:38 Yeah. Definitely an honor. God bless you and all your listeners and viewers.
13:42 Thank you. Alright, friends. On the other side of the break, CBN's Middle East Bureau chief Chris Mitchell is here with all the latest regarding the war between Israel and Hamas. So stay
13:54 tuned. We'll
14:01 be back right after this.
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17:03 Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiser, Friday host, and we are thrilled to have you joining us this evening. Alright. There's a major development in the war between
17:14 Israel and and the Hamas terror group. Earlier today, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu's cabinet voted in favor of expanding its operations in Gaza and with the
17:26 ultimate goal of demilitarizing the entire region. So what could this new development mean for the whole war? Well, joining me now to discuss this is Chris Mitchell. He's the Middle
17:38 East bureau chief at CBN news. Chris, great to have you. Welcome back to Washington Watch.
17:44 Jody, great to be with you once again.
17:48 So, tell us about this vote in favor of temporarily, taking over Gaza city. What was it, a close vote or what what are your thoughts on this?
17:59 Well, I think most of the cabinet the security cabinet voted to go ahead and do this. It's, Israel has been at the crossroads of, what to do, whether not to have a negotiated, a settlement with Hamas,
18:11 whether to free more of the hostages, maybe have a ceasefire. Hamas wanted certainly, the end of the war and the withdrawal of all, Israeli troops out of Gaza Strip. That was something
18:23 Israel's unwilling to do. So this is a major step, Jody, in the war against Hamas. They plan to take over Gaza City. They also are asking, most of the residents
18:35 there to go south to humanitarian areas where even now they're setting up hospitals and camps for people to get out of harm's way and to be safe. This is a policy that the IDF has
18:47 done throughout the war, giving evacuation notices to people to get them out of harm's way. In the meantime, this is, like, 1 of the last phases of the war to be
18:58 able to surround Gaza City to eliminate this 1 of the last strongholds of Hamas so they can achieve the goals of the war, which is to defeat Hamas militarily and to make sure that
19:10 Hamas is never able to rule the Gaza Strip, ever again.
19:16 Wow. So what kind of timeline do we know? When when is this all going to get underway? I'm assuming, there there as you just mentioned, they're giving time for people to evacuate,
19:28 but I'm assuming the timeline's gonna be pretty rapid.
19:31 Yeah. Well, I've heard a couple of weeks or a month to prepare these humanitarian centers, for the people of Gaza, and then the, major operation military operation, will begin while they're
19:43 amassing, troops and, equipment to go into Gaza City. It'll be a very difficult, military operation, because, there is many, Hamas fighters in Gaza
19:55 City, many tunnels, many booby traps. Urban warfare is the most difficult warfare there is. But compounding that, Jody, is the fact that there is a labyrinth of
20:07 tunnels under Gaza City as in most of Gaza that the IDF has, discovered. The good news is that IDF has been fighting this kind of warfare for nearly 2 years.
20:19 They know how to do it. Sometime last year, I had the opportunity to go in with a number of number of other journalists into 1 of those tunnels, and just that kind of warfare fighting above ground and below
20:31 ground is extremely dangerous and extremely difficult. 1 reason why they want all the people of Gaza to leave that are not related to Hamas and, and why they also want to
20:43 finally eliminate Hamas as a military threat. 1 other thing they're doing, Tony, is, I mean, sorry, Jody, is they are preparing humanitarian areas. They're trying to
20:54 quadruple the number of human humanitarian sites where they're distributing food and medical supplies to the people of Gaza from 4 to 16. What that is gonna do, Jody, is
21:06 eliminate, this this aid that Hamas has been using as a weapon against their own people, as a weapon against Israel by selling the food and by using it to control the population.
21:18 This is very key to the operation is the humanitarian aid that can, usurp the, the control away from, Hamas by using this humanitarian aid.
21:31 So when you consider the humanitarian aid and all that Israel has and continues to do in that regard, were you at all surprised by, Germany's, decision to stop
21:42 military exports, in protest to this whole attempt to go into Gaza? Did that it all come as a surprise to you?
21:52 To some people, it had because, Germany had been supportive of, of Israel, in its fight against Hamas. So the decision to stop arms sales, to, to Israel was a surprise
22:04 to some people. There was another German, issue in the last cup few days, Jody, and that has to do with the German publication Bild, which exposed some of the,
22:17 PR campaign by Hamas talking about a starvation campaign in Gaza. And what Build had done was to show sort of behind the scenes, they pulled back
22:29 the curtain on Hamas has been using some of these staged photos of, of these children that are clamoring for food. And that's part of the campaign that, Israel,
22:41 has been facing by Hamas, a really orchestrated and coordinated campaign that, that Israel is deliberately trying to starve the people of Gaza. On the contrary, they are trying
22:52 to pour massive amounts of humanitarian aid. They have almost 2000000 tons of food have gone into Gaza, since the beginning of the war. And even now,
23:04 there's literally hundreds of trucks waiting to go into Gaza. So this, which undermines the whole notion of this deliberate starvation campaign by Israel.
23:16 Yeah. So, I mean, just yourself as a longtime reporter, what do you make of all the the legacy media's seeming willful misinformation, about, all this starvation and all that sort of thing?
23:29 Where is the truth finally coming out?
23:33 I think it is, and I'm glad for it. I would say, has been reporting here, 25 years next week, here in Israel is that we've seen this movie before.
23:45 We've seen the ways that Hamas, or the Palestinian Authority or Islamic Jihad has tried to manipulate the images that people get in the news media. And I will also cite
23:57 Jonathan Conricas. He's the former IDF, spokesman for the IDF. Now he's with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He was telling us earlier this week that,
24:08 the the international media, much of it, he calls them useful idiots by because many times, they have been used by Hamas in in, to
24:20 accelerate the campaign and these images, that really provide a skewed version of what is really happening here. We also talked to Gil Hoffman. He's with the honest reporting
24:32 dot com, and he said this is something that the the news media has done. Everybody probably has seen that picture in the New York Times on the front cover of an emaciated child.
24:43 Wrap it up, Chris.
24:45 Okay. But that wasn't a starving child. That was a child that was also had a preexisting medical campaign condition.
24:52 Chris Mitchell, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it so much. Friends, don't go away. Much more Washington Watch straight ahead.
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27:03 Good afternoon. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heise. Glad to have you joining us today. Alright. As we've been highlighting quite often here on Washington Watch, the majority
27:15 of abortions today, as you well know, are done through the abortion drug mifepristone. And the dangers of this drug, obviously, that it posed to the unborn, but also to
27:27 the mother. These dangers are well documented. But in spite of those flashing warning lights, the food and drug administration slowly dismantled the safeguards over the
27:38 years to the point where these drugs can now be mailed to your door with no in person doctors visits involved whatsoever. With the second Trump administration now firmly in charge,
27:50 a group of 22 state attorneys general have signed a letter calling on the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy junior, to re
28:02 examine the FDA's approval of the abortion drug. And 1 of those state attorney generals joins me now to share more. South Dakota attorney general Marty Jackley, welcome to
28:14 Washington Watch. It's great to have you.
28:16 Thank you for having me.
28:19 So why why did you feel it was so important to sign onto this letter?
28:25 I think I and some of the other attorney generals felt it was about the safety of a pregnant woman. It was concerns how both under president Obama back in 20 16 and then
28:36 now Biden on his way out, put in place reduced restrictions and protections when it came to this, drug. We felt, we need to be a strong voice. We're responsible
28:49 for enforcing our laws across our states here in South Dakota. It can be a felony if it's not appropriately administered. And so we just felt now was the appropriate time that somebody would be listening and we could
29:00 make a difference.
29:02 Yes. I mean, we all know these abortion drugs, killed the unborn baby Tragically, horribly so. But as you just brought up, it also is very harmful to women. Shouldn't
29:14 that concern everyone? I mean, what is the hold up? Why is this so easily made available to people?
29:22 It certainly concerned the attorney general community. We felt that some of the statistics show that there are adverse health effects in over 10 percent of the cases that this drug is administered. So we
29:34 feel that there needs to be more clinical studies, that there needs to be more protections in place. We did not support removing those protections by either president Obama or president Biden, and we just feel
29:46 now is the time. That's why we wrote to secretary Kennedy, to have another look at this drug, how it's being administered, the need to put in some protections, including physician visits, better record keeping.
29:59 Under the prior administration, they were only record keeping if there was a death. Obviously, there can be more adverse health, consequences. And we just feel now is the time. We have an administration that's listening
30:10 and we can make a difference.
30:13 So what do you make of these blue states right now? All the shield laws where they're trying to protect the doctors and, all those involved in in mailing mifepristone into states like
30:24 yours. What what's your take on what they are attempting to do?
30:30 I think this is about the health of the mother. I I think when you reduce those standards and you begin mailing drugs to another state, I certainly don't support that as attorney general. I've been fortunate early on
30:41 when the Dobbs case decision came down, I wrote to and did releases to, various pharmacies that were distributing the drug asking them to stop pointing out that it would be illegal under South Dakota
30:53 law, and they complied. And so it's certainly a concern when a blue state or other states are mailing these these illegal drugs to our state. It it makes challenges not just for enforcement, but it puts
31:05 an issue that the the health and safety of a pregnant mother.
31:09 Well and there's laws. I mean, you have some pro life laws on the books there. How how does the these other states mailing it in? I mean, it's a conflict of laws. Is that that that's gotta be an extremely
31:21 complicated issue on multiple fronts.
31:25 It is. Certainly, we were are respectful of other states' laws, but I take the position as attorney general that's a felony in South Dakota to distribute illegal drugs, under our laws. You're not
31:37 able to do that, which is why when I wrote to and did the release to the pharmacies in South Dakota, they graciously complied. We haven't had any issues. But, again, if it's my
31:48 position as attorney general that if, an entity, or a business is sending illegal drugs into our state, we would do enforcement action.
31:59 Well and that that's where all this comes down to. I mean, it's a state state trampling the laws of another state. And that is where this whole issue comes in. For example,
32:11 the Trump administration has often said that the life issue belongs to be left up to the states. But what is happening there in South Dakota and other states is illustrating the need for the federal
32:23 government to speak into this. In fact, they're gonna have to speak into this. Don't you think?
32:28 I do. And that's why the attorney generals, the the 22 of us, wrote to secretary Kennedy and asking him to take a look at the dangerousness of this drug, to look at the additional studies that are out there,
32:40 to put in the the reasonable protections that were in place before, the 10 week gestational period, the 3 physician visits, the follow-up, those are all designed to protect the
32:52 health, of the pregnant woman. And and we felt those are important. You know, when you look at, distributing the drugs from other states, I mean, we've had that experience in South Dakota where when Colorado
33:04 legalized marijuana, we took the position. That's their decision, but you can't bring those drugs into our state.
33:11 Do you anticipate hearing back from secretary Kennedy?
33:14 We do. 1 thing that I can say as an attorney general, this Trump administration has been very responsive. When we write to the administration, whether it's a whole fentanyl act, whether it's this, they're very,
33:25 responsive. They ask for our input. At times, they will call some of the attorney generals in and ask us further details. So we fully expect they will take a serious look at this, and hopefully, we'll we'll we'll bringShow more
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