Skip to content 2/26/2026 After discussing abortion drug concerns, Tony and guests cover the good and bad of A.I. Feb 26 · 54 min ...more
2/26/2026 After discussing abortion drug concerns, Tony and guests cover the good and bad of A.I.
February 26, 2026 · 54 min
Today on WW: Hillary Clinton finally questioned about the Epstein Files; a woman was unknowingly given an abortion drug; the current situation in Iran; the use and abuse of artificial intelligence.
Series Washington Watch with Tony Perkins - Audio
Family Research Council is serving in the kingdom of God by championing faith, family, & freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview.
February 26, 2026 · 54 min · Washington Watch with Tony Perkins - Audio
Today on WW: Hillary Clinton finally questioned about the Epstein Files; a woman was unknowingly given an abortion drug; the current situation in Iran; the use and abuse of artificial intelligence. ...more Show the full description Show less Today on WW: Hillary Clinton finally questioned about the Epstein Files; a woman was unknowingly given an abortion drug; the current situation in Iran; the use and abuse of artificial intelligence.
Series Washington Watch with Tony Perkins - Audio Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Support this leader
Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Give
Support this leader Liking this video? Support this ministry.
Up next Autoplay More from Tony Perkins Ron Johnson, Andrew Clyde, Blaise Misztal, Michele Bachmann, Gary Hamrick Tony Perkins
11/9/2026 Reflections on How the Midterms Will Shape the Future Congressional Agenda and Foreign Policy Tony Perkins
From Tekoa to Bethel: A Shepherd’s Warning of Judgment Tony Perkins
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment: God’s Desire to Restore Tony Perkins
David Wurmser, Ryan Bangert, Jeanne Seaver, David Closson Tony Perkins
11/6/2026 America’s Future Foreign and Domestic Policies and Responding Biblically to Cultural Challenges Tony Perkins
Joel 1:14 — Consecrate a Fast: A Pastoral Call to Repentance Tony Perkins
Randy Fine, Chris Mitchell, Amanda Dixon, Igor Bandura, Casey Harper Tony Perkins
11/5/2026 How Will Democrats Govern With Growing Anti-Semitism in Their Party? Tony Perkins
Hands on the Bow: Prophetic Authority and National Repentance Tony Perkins
Eric Burlison, John Rogers, Jack Hibbs, Suzanne Bowdey, Casey Harper Tony Perkins
In this video 0:00 Unveiling the Epstein Scandal: Clinton's Testimony6:08 Vaccine Controversies and the Dangers of Abortion Pills13:54 Prayer for America and Protecting Youth from Transgender Ideology24:52 Iran Nuclear Talks and the Ethical Challenges of AIComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
Unveiling the Epstein Scandal: Clinton's Testimony 0:00 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 worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.0:19 This isn't just about Democrats. This is about anyone that has any knowledge of Epstein, the investigation. I think we all agree the government failed. The government failed the victims. And what our0:30 role is, we can't we can't prosecute anyone. But what we have been doing is getting transparency with the American people.0:38 How was congressman James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, addressing today's closed door depositions of Hillary Clinton related to the Epstein probe? Good evening, and welcome to this0:50 February 20 sixth edition of Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins, your host. Thanks so much for joining us. Well, coming up, Virginia congressman John Maguire joins us to discuss today's house oversight committee1:01 testimony from Hillary Clinton as the fallout from the Epstein files probe continues to reverberate worldwide. We'll also explore the progress or lack thereof in today's US1:12 Iran nuclear talks in Geneva. Plus, we'll examine the case of a Texas man accused of secretly administering an abortion drug to his girlfriend. Doctor Martha Schupping joins me to analyze the broader implications
1:24 of the current FDA policy that allows the illegal drug trafficking of these abortion drugs. Well, former
1:36 secretary of state Hillary Clinton says she has no information about Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell's crimes. This marks the beginning of 2 days of depositions where former president Bill
1:47 Clinton is set to testify tomorrow. Joining me now is Washington Center reporter Casey Harper. Casey, what more came from today's depositions? I know it's closed door, not a lot of information coming
1:59 out. What do we know?
2:01 Yes. I mean, you're right. It's private meeting. Although we did have a a photo slip out of the, of the hearing with all over social media. Oh, there we go. Can you hear me, Tony? Can you
2:12 hear me now? It would it would help if you use the mic.
2:14 Can you hear me now? Good. There we go. Well, you know, there was no mic here, and there was no mic in that room with, Hillary Clinton's testimony today.
2:23 Well, boy.
2:23 And so there's a lot of details we don't have, though we did get a photo that came out and went viral on social media. So that wasn't supposed to get out, but it was leaked out. What we do know is Hillary Clinton made
2:32 her her, opening statement public on social media, and she said, I never even met the guy. Never have no, you know, memory of ever even bumping into him. Although, she is and
2:44 her and her husband are both mentioned in the Epstein files. Now this deposition and the former president tomorrow come after a lot of behind the scenes negotiating behind back and forth between Democrats and Republicans
2:56 over the release of the Epstein Epstein files and these depositions in particular. In fact, here is chairman of the House Oversight Committee, James Comer, speaking to media before the deposition today.
3:06 We have a lot of questions, and the purpose of the whole investigation is to try to understand, many things about Epstein. How did he accumulate so much wealth? How was he able to
3:17 surround himself with some of the most powerful men in the world? Was he an asset, for our government or any other government? These are the questions that, we're gonna ask over the next
3:29 2 days, and, hopefully, we'll be able to, get some answers.
3:33 Now the former secretary of state said the whole thing today is a partisan witch hunt, but, Comer pushed back on that, pointing out that even some Democrats voted to make the Clintons testify this week.
3:44 Yeah. It's interesting, Casey. We were talking about this back in August of, of of last year saying that this this has legs, and, they they need to be transparent. And and this thing is not
3:56 it doesn't seem to be decreasing in its, momentum. It seems to be increasing, as as I mentioned, at top of the program. This has had, worldwide fallout. So it's gonna be, I think
4:07 it's far, far from over.
4:09 I think that's right.
4:11 Casey, president Trump's surgeon general nominee, doctor Casey Means, she say she faced some tough questions yesterday before the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. What unfolded
4:22 during that hearing, and will she be confirmed?
4:26 Yeah. That's a good question. Health policy, and some of the questions she faced used to be very uncontroversial. Now in this day and age, they're very controversial. As of now, it looks like Means doesn't have enough
4:36 votes to get the confirmation as surgeon general, but it's not too late by any by any stretch. Both sides of the aisle, as you mentioned, pressed her in particular on vaccines and the comments and positions she has
4:48 there. Here is a clip of Republican senator and physician Bill Cassidy in a heated exchange.
4:54 Like you, I'm a physician. I believe vaccine save lives. I believe that vaccines are a key part of every public of of any infectious disease public health strategy, and I would work
5:05 with you, the CDC, the NIH, ACEF But
5:08 would you mothers to vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine, seeing how we've had children die and this outbreak in South Carolina?
5:17 I'm supportive of vaccination. I I do believe that each patient, mother, parent needs to have a conversation with their pediatrician.
5:24 Vaccines have become very political, and it was on display there. And, her views that vaccines and other medicines, including abortion drugs, which is something very much on our radar, should be given after discussions
5:35 with doctors were front and center in that hearing. She sidestepped other questions about studying the abortion pill, mifepristone, which the FDA and HHS has been very quiet on, as well as other things like RSV vaccines
5:47 for babies. And she was very careful around prob maybe the most controversial topic, which is any connection between vaccines and autism. So far, Means has most of the support from Republicans on the
5:58 committee. We'll see if she can get it done.
6:01 Alright. Casey Harper, thanks so much for joining us. We, may come back to you a bit later. We were gonna go to, the oversight hearing. However, our guest,
Vaccine Controversies and the Dangers of Abortion Pills
6:12 congressman, John McGuire is actually asking questions as we speak, so he may be joining us a little bit later in the program. I'm gonna go on to another topic, something that has become,
6:25 unfortunately, all too common. A man in Montgomery County, Texas was arrested this week for allegedly surreptitiously giving an abortion drug to the woman he got pregnant without. She didn't
6:37 know that she was he was giving this to her. It was not with her consent. That led to the death of her baby. As we have frequently discussed on this program, the current policies of the FDA are allowing these
6:48 deadly abortion drugs to be illegally trafficked across state lines. And that's why pro life states like my home state of Louisiana are actually suing the federal government, the FDA.
7:00 And that's why we're continuing to draw attention to this issue. Joining me now to discuss this, doctor Martha Schuping, an adjunct instructor in psychology at Belmont Abbey College who joined FRC in
7:12 actually filing an amicus brief in the Louisiana lawsuit against the FDA right along these lines. Doctor Schubing, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
7:23 Thank you for having me.
7:25 Now should we be surprised to hear of incidents like this 1 in Montgomery County?
7:31 No. As we mentioned in the brief, many years ago in the nineties, Daniel Callahan, who is a pro choice researcher and and advocate, stated
7:43 that Guttmacher data showed that 30 percent of abortions were, at that time, were coerced. And he said this kind of a dirty little secret that many men who don't want
7:55 a baby or don't wanna pay child support for different reasons, there is a problem of coerced abortion, and that goes on to this day. Some research shows that it's much higher than 30 percent. Some studies have shown as
8:05 much as 64 percent or a little higher than that. So it has long been a problem, and, you know, we see that some men will father children but not want to, take the responsibility.
8:18 Well, in the news reports out of Texas, actually, based upon the the man was arrested, based upon the the information released, He had, repeatedly, wanted the mother
8:30 to get an abortion. In fact, telling that, telling her he would cover the cost, take her out of state. She repeatedly refused expressing her firm intent to carry the the pregnancy to term.
8:41 So this is this, it's it's really abuse, domestic abuse, is being facilitated now by a federal policy with the FDA that
8:53 he surreptitiously gave this drug to her. This has been, done in other cases as well. So we have a policy in place that is removing women
9:05 from having interactions with a medical provider, which is often the safety valve for domestic partner violence. Is it not?
9:14 Yes. The, American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology has said that they published a committee a committee, opinion about the best practices that they say
9:26 that any woman, certainly in an unplanned pregnancy situation, but really any pregnant woman should be screened for domestic violence in the office at her first pregnancy visit. And it once a trimester, she's
9:38 continuing her pregnancy because domestic violence has been such, an important vehicle of reproductive coercion. And so there there are many women who have been reading about these
9:49 cases that, you can't do a proper screening for domestic violence if the woman is over a screen or just emailing and saying she needs medication for an abortion.
10:02 The the problem is even if she's face to face over screen with clinic staff, they don't know whether there's a man just off screen with a gun Right. Or, you know, someone telling her that
10:14 she has to order the abortion pills even if she doesn't want the abortion. And then we read about these cases.
10:20 Some have
10:20 gone to court.
10:21 But even under the current policy, the the woman doesn't have to request the drugs. I mean, someone
10:26 That's true. That's true. Anybody could. I mean, a man could, like right. He could email in and get abortion pills.
10:32 Which is and, apparently, what happened in this case, the the woman had no knowledge of it whatsoever. He obtained those abortion pills and then put them somehow either in her food or somehow,
10:44 administered them to her. This was the focus of our of the brief that you filed, or that family research council you helped us with that we filed in the Louisiana case is that this is only
10:55 facilitating that, intimate partner violence that, you know, everybody seems to be concerned about except when it comes to the issue of abortion.
11:06 Right. And I've seen that some abortion advocates had filed a brief saying that women who are abused needed to have the access to abortion because that would, free her
11:18 from being trapped by domestic violence, but it's just the opposite. Because if women can go for an in person visit, then they would be required they would be expected to do an, an
11:29 individual screening for domestic violence and to offer the woman resources if she's being coerced into an abortion that she doesn't want or, you know, just offer there's all kinds of domestic violence resources,
11:41 attorneys who can help with protection orders. There's women's shelters. There are hotlines. There's all kinds of resources that women may not be aware of. And when they have to come out for a face to face doctor visit,
11:52 that allows for the screening that the American College of OB GYNs has said is important.
11:57 Doctor Schuping, let me ask you another related type of question. We have seen a rise in human trafficking, and oftentimes that is for, sexual purposes.
12:11 Does this not facilitate covering up the the human trafficking for of of young women?
12:18 The the majority of women who are in trafficking will have 1 or more forced abortions, and that is a huge problem. But when the traffickers can get the pills so easily, it doesn't even require a doctor
12:30 visit, they can have as much as they want to coerce abortions at any time to force the abortions.
12:37 So, I mean, it's a huge problem, but yet, the policy remains in place that allows us to to, to occur. It's it's mind boggling. Doctor Schooping, I wanna thank you for joining us. Always great to, to to see you,
12:49 and thank you so much for joining with us and filing that brief in Louisiana.
12:53 Thank you.
12:55 Doctor Schupping, I mean, this is, this is important stuff, and I I appreciate her insight on this. By the way, you need to weigh in on this. I think this is a defining issue. When abortion rates have gone up in
13:06 this country after the overturn of Roe some may say I sound like a broken record. Well, I'm gonna keep talking about this until we get it right as a nation on the policy. Abortion rates have climbed
13:19 from 930000 prior to the overturn of Roe to over 1100000.0. Why? Because of the abortion pill that's being facilitated by the policy of the
13:31 FDA. And it's being used in cases like this, where women who want to keep their baby, the the men who, impregnate them and and will not care for them and
13:42 wanna get rid of the child are creating double harm because these drugs are very dangerous, not only for the baby, obviously, but for the mother as well. Alright. Don't go
Prayer for America and Protecting Youth from Transgender Ideology
13:54 away. We're coming back with, more on the other side of the break. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for
14:06 1 people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
14:10 and to assume among the powers of the earth
14:13 the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature
14:16 And of nature's god entitle them.
14:19 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
14:24 which impel them to the separation.
14:26 We hold these truths to be self evident.
14:29 That all men are created equal.
14:31 That they're endowed by their creator.
14:33 With certain unalienable rights.
14:36 That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. Deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
14:48 Fiftieth. Happy 200 and fiftieth. Happy 200 and fiftieth birthday, America. May god bless America.
15:02 You see, America has freedom for a purpose. The question is, are we living by that purpose today? See, the founders understood we as a nation
15:14 would be accountable to God for what he had granted to us. They sought freedom for a purpose, and that freedom was given to us as a nation for that same purpose to serve God,
15:26 to honor him, and to live as a people under his authority.
15:32 At the 20 26 National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance in Washington DC, members of Congress, state leaders, evangelical leaders, and intercessors from across the
15:43 nation united as 1 voice in prayer.
15:47 Heavenly father, thank you so much for this gathering. We do repent, and we ask for your continued favor and blessing over our nation even when we don't deserve it.
15:56 I thank you that because of the shed blood and the glorious righteousness of your son, Jesus Christ, a sinner such as myself can boldly approach your
16:07 throne. You said that you helped the humble and we're asking just now that you would help us Lord.
16:29 We pray that you humble us, help us to follow after you with all our hearts so that we can see righteousness exalted in this nation and this nation restored to you. We know that's not by our power. It's not by our
16:41 might. It's by your spirit.
16:42 Freedom has a name. His name is Jesus. And freedom has a purpose. It is to honor and glorify you. We pray that we would return to that purpose. Amen.
17:03 Welcome back to Washington Watch. Alright. We're, we're told that, congressman Maguire still in the, the deposition. It's running a little longer than anticipated, so we hope to get him a little bit
17:15 later to join us when he's able to step out. Alright. It may be that, common sense is returning to the medical community or simply a realization that there's a price to pay for
17:27 bowing to the transgender ideology. Whichever it is, we continue to see welcome announcements like the 1 this week in a major New York City hospital that announced that, it was shutting
17:39 down its transgender youth health program. A hospital spokesman said the move to shut down the program was due to the medical director leaving the department and the, quote, current regulatory environment, end quote.
17:51 Now it's worth noting that the hospital, this hospital Lagoon, is more is 1 of more than 20 hospitals, and clinics nationwide being investigated for subjecting minors
18:03 to experimental drugs and radical surgeries. Also, 2 months ago, the Department of Health and Human Services had proposed rules that would prevent any federal funding from going to hospitals that provide this so
18:15 called gender affirming care to minors. So can we expect to see more announcements like this? Joining us now to discuss this is admiral Brian Christine. She is assistant secretary
18:26 for health and at the, Department of Health and Human Services. He is also the medical doctor who has trained surgeons around the world. Admiral, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much
18:38 for joining us.
18:40 Thank you, Tony. Thank you for allowing me to be on here to speak with you about this incredibly important subject, and you're right. We are winning. You mentioned there are multiple hospitals, actually more than 30
18:51 hospital systems that are now stopping their sex rejecting procedures on minors, including NYU Langone. That's a great thing to see, and it's because of the attention, the leadership of
19:03 president Donald Trump, secretary Kennedy. I think we're winning this war, but we can never take our foot off the accelerator.
19:09 I I 100 percent agree with that. Let let me ask you this question, admiral. I I don't necessarily believe call me, you know, cynical, but I don't believe it's a change of heart.
19:21 I I believe it is a a policy driven decision based upon the money.
19:29 I think you're right. When when they mentioned they referenced NYU Langone referenced the current, regulatory atmosphere. What they're saying is, yes, we are proposing rules where no federal
19:40 dollars would go to institutions or individuals who perform these sex rejecting procedures on minors. You're exactly right. We are focusing attention. We are being very careful to watch them. You know, in the
19:52 year 20 19 to 20 23, 14000 minors had sex rejecting procedures performed upon them. 14000. That's not
20:04 simply epidemiology. That is a social contagion against these poor vulnerable children. And so the fact that we are pushing ahead, the fact that we have these hospitals, refusing to do these procedures,
20:17 for whatever the reason, I'm very glad they're not. You know, just a couple of weeks ago, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons has released a a letter saying that these procedures should not be performed on
20:27 individuals under the age of 19. Countries like the United Kingdom are backing away from this. We see the American Medical Association saying now backing away from their prior more radical
20:39 stance saying that we shouldn't be doing these on on youths. So again, we're moving in the right direction, but we have to keep pressure. We have to keep doing what we're doing to protect these vulnerable children, and
20:50 to make them healthy.
20:52 You know, admiral, I I want people to see very clearly what you just said. This would not be happening or would not have happened previously
21:04 had there not been a gravy train, government funding for this. What this administration is doing is said, no. We're not gonna pay for this. We don't agree with it. The evidence is very clear.
21:16 There's there that this doesn't help. It's not I mean, it just it defies common sense. And so when there's no money, they stop doing it. And we also to add to this, and this is
21:28 obviously not necessarily in your lane, but, you know, as a doctor, I think you can appreciate this, the fact that you have to have malpractice insurance. Now that we have suits going forward, we had a doctor
21:39 in New York that was sued, and, a a plaintiff won 2000000 dollars for malpractice. I think I think the dollars, the lack thereof, or the dollars being extracted from them is going
21:51 to help them come to a place of accepting what is common sense even though they may not agree with it.
21:58 No. I think you're right about that. And you referenced the a case in New York with a 2000000 dollar malpractice or going to an individual Fox variant, who with the age of, I believe, 16 had Right. She had a double
22:09 mastectomy. I mean, that's just that that's amazing that would be allowed to happen. And, you know, in our gender dysphoria and minors report, that's a report produced by the Department of Health and Human Services. We
22:20 released that back in the fall. We looked at gold standard science. We looked at all of the science related to gender dysphoria and minors. And what we determined was that the best way to treat these
22:31 vulnerable children is with compassionate, competent mental health care, not with sex rejecting surgeries, not with castrating chemicals, not with cross sex hormones. Those kinds of
22:43 treatment, surgeries, for instance, can have lifelong complications for these kids. Using cross sex hormones can cause infertility or demyelination of their bone leading to fractures. In other
22:55 words, doing those sex rejecting procedures can have terrible ramifications and irreversible harm. And that's why our gender dysphoria report in minors, I believe, was probably the first shot across the
23:07 bow causing these these individuals, these institutions performing these horrible procedures to back away that and, of course, with the loss of the resources, the loss of the money just like you're saying.
23:18 Admiral, Christine, the 1 of the issues you just pointed out is the underlying mental health issues that needs to be treated. And and and, obviously, this is gonna open the door in many cases for that to happen. But you
23:29 have some states that have has outlawed absolutely outlawed that type of mental health. You cannot take a child that has gender dysphoria to a counselor to
23:41 talk through the, maybe, underlying trauma that led them to be uncomfortable with their biological sex.
23:48 You're exactly right. And and so 27 states have made it illegal legislatively to perform these sex rejecting procedures, on minors. I'm very happy to say being from Alabama that
24:00 Alabama was 1 of the very first. And I will tell you, Tony, when I stood with the state legislature in Alabama, when I argued for that that legislation to be passed, I was really criticized by those from the left
24:12 saying that you're you're performing conversion therapy by saying, that there should be mental health care. No. No. No. It's exactly wrong. I'm proud of what we did in Alabama. I'm proud of the other 26 states.
24:23 Competent, compassionate mental health care is what these children need. And I believe, as a Catholic Christian, I believe if the parents wish, I believe, pastoral care isn't very important as well.
24:34 I agree 100 percent because a lot of this is, spiritual underlying It is. This. But almost in almost every case, there's trauma related to it, and it becomes a mental health issue. Admiral Christine, I wanna thank
24:46 you for joining us. Thank you for the great work that you're doing. We appreciate it greatly and look forward to talking to you again soon.Show more
Tony Perkins93.9K followers
Comments
Keep it kind. Comments are public.