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Today on Washington Watch, Tony Perkins and guests discuss NYC Mayor Mamdani’s threat to arrest PM Netanyahu, Maine’s new Senate candidate, Iran’s attack on U.S. Military Bases, the U.S. annual deficit that is expected to hit $1.4 trillion, a preview of the full agenda for the U.S. House, and growing concerns with the Chinese Communist Party.
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Today on Washington Watch, Tony Perkins and guests discuss NYC Mayor Mamdani’s threat to arrest PM Netanyahu, Maine’s new Senate candidate, Iran’s attack on U.S. Military Bases, the U.S. annual deficit that is expected to hit $1.4 trillion, a preview of the full agenda for the U.S. House, and growing concerns with the Chinese Communist Party. ...more Show the full description Show less Today on Washington Watch, Tony Perkins and guests discuss NYC Mayor Mamdani’s threat to arrest PM Netanyahu, Maine’s new Senate candidate, Iran’s attack on U.S. Military Bases, the U.S. annual deficit that is expected to hit $1.4 trillion, a preview of the full agenda for the U.S. House, and growing concerns with the Chinese Communist Party.
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In this video 0:00 Escalating US-Iran Conflict9:00 Military Strategy Against Iran24:00 The Growing Federal Deficit Crisis30:00 Congressional Agenda and Obstacles42:00 Budget Leadership and Deep State Exposés
Escalating US-Iran Conflict 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.0:18 The United States always remains open to a diplomatic solution. We tried multiple times with Iran, and we'll continue to try. If that o if that door0:31 if they would they wanna negotiate, but their behavior is what we're responding to. And their behavior is they're they're launching missiles and drones against ships, including tonight.0:40 That was US secretary of state Marco Rubio speaking late last night about the conflict with Iran. Welcome to this Monday, July 20th edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony Perkins. Thanks for tuning0:52 in. Well, coming up, the US and Iran continue to exchange strikes over the weekend with more US attacks today following the announced death of another American service member. We'll get the latest1:04 from retired Brigadier General John Tigert, former assistant deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs. The latest congressional budget office budget review shows the1:16 federal deficit continuing to climb with many analysts now projecting it could top 2000000000000 dollars this fiscal year. We'll discuss that with economist Joel Griffith.
1:28 Plus, we'll discuss this week's busy congressional agenda here on Capitol Hill when we're joined by senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who is expected to become the chairman of the senate budget committee following the
1:39 passing of our friend senator Lindsey Graham. All of that and more straight ahead. Well, let's begin with the latest in the
1:51 conflict in Iran. 3 US service members have now been killed in the conflict, 2 in an Iranian attack in Jordan, and another in Northern Iraq during the controlled detonation of
2:03 an Iranian drone. Joining me now to discuss this is Washington stand reporter Casey Harper. Alright, Casey. What can you tell us about these, 3 service members, and what's the latest from the
2:15 region?
2:16 Yeah, Tony. It's a tragic moment here. The Department of War released photos of private Isabella Gonzalez of Texas and 1st lieutenant Tyler James Fean of Hawaii, both young, who were killed in an enemy attack at
2:28 a US base in Jordan. Now that 3rd, soldier you mentioned, their name has not been released yet. But president Trump is responding on true social, and he's vowed that Iran's gonna pay the price for killing any
2:39 American soldier soldier, quote, many times over. On top of that, earlier today, secretary of state Marco Rubio, he was asked about the US's response to Iranian attacks. Here's a clip.
2:50 The only reason why the US is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping. Their Straits of Hormuz are international waterway, and they continue to launch
3:01 against ships in that international waterway. As long as Iran insists on controlling an international waterway, we we're gonna have to respond to that.
3:09 So it seems the ceasefire has been blown to pieces, and, there's questions, you know, you hear from on the US side of whether we're in a full scale war or not. But the Iranians say they are. The Iranian president said
3:19 today that they are in a, quote, full scale war with the US. So they're they're clear on what's going on on their side. But, the US, they're sending more forces to the region, more fighter jets to the Middle East as
3:31 president Trump weighs the next steps here, Tony.
3:33 Alright, Casey. Let's go to New York where the the mayor, Zoran Madani, says he is looking into whether or not he can arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu if
3:45 he comes to New York. What what's this all about?
3:49 Well, mayor Mamdani, always in the headlines. Now he's looking to arrest, as you said, Netanyahu when he comes, in September for the UN General Assembly. Now it's worth noting Mamdani actually promised on the campaign
4:01 trail to do this, to pursue arresting Netanyahu, calling him a war criminal. In fact, here's a clip of Mamdani on The New York Times, The Interview podcast, talking about that campaign promise.
4:11 I believe that prime minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague. He's a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. Whatever the law allows me to do in New York City, that's what we will do, but
4:23 we won't be writing our own laws to that end.
4:25 What does the law allow you to do?
4:27 That's an active conversation with our legal department in seeing what the prospects are we have here in our municipality.
4:35 So quite the eyebrow raise are there. But in 20 24, the International Criminal Court that was referenced there, they did issue that arrest warrant for Netanyahu and actually other Israeli leaders, by the way, for the the
4:45 war response to the tragic and horrific October 7th attacks against Israelis. But it's worth noting, Tony, that both, Democrat and, Republican administrations have been very critical of the
4:57 ICC for for this warrant.
5:00 Alright. Let's shift to, some other news. Earlier today, Andy Burnham became Britain's 7th prime minister in a decade. Yeah. Oh, walk us through that 1.
5:10 Yeah. A lot of turmoil across the pond here. In a speech today, prime minister Burnham said he's gonna bring forward a new plan for Britain, a 10 year plan, which is kind of ambitious considering the track record you
5:20 just laid out. But he's he laid out a 10 year plan where he believes Britain wants to be. He also promised to offer some help with the cost of living and would roll out some of those measures tomorrow. Now Ed Miliband
5:31 has been appointed as a new foreign minister by by prime minister Burnham, Tony. So we'll keep an eye on that.
5:37 Alright, Casey. Thanks for the update, on today's top stories.
5:41 Thanks, Tony. Alright.
5:43 I wanna turn back to the situation in the Middle East, the ongoing conflict with Iran. Joining us now to discuss this is retired Brigadier General John Tigert, former assistant
5:54 deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for International Affairs. He also previously served as our nation's senior defense official in Iraq in Iraq and served as the commander of Joint Base Andrews as
6:06 well as Edwards Air Force Base. Joe Joe Taggart, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always good to see you.
6:12 Tony, it's always great to be on with you.
6:14 So we continue to get mixed messages from Tehran. Earlier, secretary of state said that they're talking about they'd like to to negotiate, continue talking, but at the same time launching missile
6:26 missiles. Secretary of state Rubio seems to attribute that to internal disagreements within the Iranian regime. In fact, today, Iran's president said that Tehran is in a full
6:38 scale war with the United States. Of course, there's been exchanges over the past 10 days straight. So what do we call that?
6:48 Tony, I think it's pretty clear that this regime today is the same regime that's been in Tehran for the last 47 years. And their number 1 priority, they say it, death to America
7:00 is to kill Americans. And sadly and tragically, some of that happened this weekend, but we've gotta use a language that they understand in Tehran, which is strength, capability, will, and
7:12 resolve, and return to major kinetic operations. The ceasefire period has been a disaster. Iran has been enticed by our weakness, and now is the time to return to a language they actually
7:23 understand.
7:24 Now let's talk a little bit about the the targets that have been struck by US forces in the last 10 days. It appears that there's been a little bit of a shift as they've gone after bridges and power,
7:36 plants infrastructure. Is that different than what we saw in the 1st stages of this conflict?
7:42 Tony, it is. And I think there's 2 primary purposes to the striking of bridges and logistics facilities in the area around the Strait of Hormuz. Number 1, it is isolating the Iranian
7:54 forces in that area so that it will be easier for us to impose our will and stop them from projecting power into the region and into the Strait. And number 2, it gives the president the option of a
8:06 ground invasion in that area. It's preparation of the battlefield. And what that means is that because we're isolating their forces and cutting off supplies, it would make it easier and safer for us to undertake a ground
8:17 invasion of operationally significant areas. And I think what we've been doing in the targeting, especially in the last 4 or 5 nights, has been focused on some of those targets to give us some of those advantages.
8:29 So, general, let me ask you that question since you mentioned the ground forces. You're an air force guy, pilot. You you understand combat from the air. Can a
8:41 conflict of this nature be 1 from the air solely?
8:46 Tony, I go back to day 1 in what you learn in something like Air War College, which is that in order to achieve strategic effects, you've gotta use air power so that you map every target you
8:58 strike to achieving your strategic objectives. And I don't think during the 1st phase of active combat operations, as we did strike military targets, we didn't strike those targets that were at the heart of
Military Strategy Against Iran
9:09 the regime. What do they value most? What are the sources of strength? And I think the president has indicated several times now when he's talked about power plants and energy sites and bridges and transportation
9:21 facilities and logistics. He is on the verge of doing that type of activity and that actually is properly mapped to the sources of power of the regime can have a strong far greater
9:33 effect and potentially allow us to win this war by bending the will of our adversary towards our objectives, but only if we map targets to the strategic objectives.
9:44 But can we do this solely by the air? I mean, how many how many how many conflicts have been won historically simply by air power?
9:54 Tony, I know of 1, and it was 1 I was actively involved in in 19 99 against former Yugoslavia. It was a 78 day air war where we achieved strategic objectives by making sure our targeting was
10:06 aligned with those objectives. And I keep going back to the thing that they value most in the regime, which is financing that comes via CarG Island. And once we start to strike those
10:17 targets, it irreversibly and irreparably strangles the regime. In fact, they threatened us today that we must not strike Kyrgyz Island, which is a tell that it values to
10:29 them a lot. And I think that we can indeed win a war like we did in 19 99 by focusing on strategic targets and the use of air power appropriately. And
10:38 and so that weakens the regime because it cuts off their their financing, their money. They have that crushes the economy, weakens their ability to control a population that is
10:50 not in alignment with them. Correct?
10:53 It is correct. And there was actually another threat from the Iranian regime today against the Kurds getting involved. And that's another tell that they're afraid that if there is some sort of an
11:04 opposition force that can either be a catalyst for regime change or the nucleus around which we could see regime change supported by American air power, then that could threaten the regime.
11:16 And I think the more that we can do to undermine the regime and their sources of power and their sources of strength and the things they value most by striking targets like regime centers of gravity or
11:28 internal security hubs or some of those other targets I mentioned previously, then it cuts them off from their levels of support. It strangles their ability to persist and continue, and it ultimately
11:40 provides or sows the seeds for the possibility of regime change, which is ultimately our strategic objective that would be to our benefit and the benefit of all of humanity.
11:50 General Tanker, you mentioned the Kurds. Speak to that for just a moment. The Kurds' long time relationship with the US is we've worked in the Middle East. Where would they come from? What would they need from us?
12:01 Tony, there's about 40000000 Kurdish people in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. I've worked directly with those in the northern part of Iraq when I was a senior defense official to Baghdad. I would
12:12 go up to Erbil, and they are a powerful, capable Western fighting force. And at least according to some pretty good intelligence, they were on the verge during the 6 weeks of active
12:24 combat operations of starting to attack against the regime in Iran and starting to build out from the Iraqi enclave of the Kurds into northwest Iran. And apparently,
12:36 a Turkish conversation with our president caused us to hold them back. But I have seen them in action, and they are massively capable, and we have armed them sufficiently. And if we provided them the
12:48 top cover of air power, then now those strikes that I mentioned previously, coupled with a real threat of a ground invasion, not by Americans, not by Israelis, but by the Kurds, if they trust us,
13:00 would be sufficient to potentially create the wave of what we would need to see the regime flip. But I did provide a caveat there which is important and that they have been burned by US lack of support in
13:12 the past. And I would be concerned if I were them that they would start and we wouldn't follow through on our commitments.
13:19 Yeah. I'm very concerned about that relationship that, the Trump administration has with Turkey because they do not like the the the Kurds. That I I would be cautious if I were the Kurds,
13:30 but a good scenario that you've laid out. General Teichard, I wanna thank you for joining us. As always, appreciate your insights.
13:38 You got it. Thank you, Tony.
13:40 Alright. Coming up, the US budget deficit totaled, 1400000000000 in the 1st 9 months of the fiscal year 20 26. That exceeded budget projections.
13:52 It could climb to as much as 2000000000000 dollars for the year. What does this mean?
13:58 We'll talk about it next.
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17:01 Hey. Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us on this Monday. The website, tony perkins dot com. Find out, lots more information there at the website. Also, a good
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17:24 commentary from a biblical perspective, the Washington Stand, and my daily devotional, Stand on the Word. So go to the App Store and download it today. According to the latest monthly budget
17:36 review from the Congressional Budget Office, the bipartisan office that looks at the government spending. The federal budget deficit totaled 1400000000000 in
17:48 the 1st 9 months of the fiscal year 20 26. Now this this exceeded the original projections. Now according to some analysts, this puts the US on pace
18:00 to exceed a 2000000000000 dollar annual deficit. Now this is not the debt. The debt's upwards of 40000000000000. This is just this year. What does this
18:12 mean? What is this sustainable? What kind of drag will this have on the economy? How will it impact you? Joining us now to discuss this is economist Joe Griffith, a senior fellow at Advancing
18:24 American Freedom with an emphasis in fiscal regulations. Joe, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
18:31 I really appreciate you having me tonight.
18:33 Alright. Can can you break down the numbers for us and and tell us what they mean?
18:39 Well, these numbers are staggering. And when we start talking about hundreds of billions and trillions of dollars, it's sometimes hard to get our arms around that. So I prefer to break this down to the per family
18:51 cost. We're talking about the possibility of 2000000000000 dollars in borrowed money for the federal government this year. That means for each and every family, that's another 20000 dollars to your
19:03 family share of that national debt. And as you referenced a 2nd ago, the interest payments on this debt are staggering as well. We we will likely be paying about 1200000000000 dollars
19:14 in interest payments on the debt this year. That's around 15000 dollars per family of 4. And, of course, we know that only about 0.5 of American families
19:26 currently today are paying income tax. But even if you're in a lower income tax rate or even if you're seeing a refund that exceeds what you paid
19:38 in taxes, you're paying federal government borrows capital to run their daily operations. They're competing with consumers and businesses for loans, and there are a number of estimates that suggest
19:50 that interest rates today are close to 1 percent higher than they would be were the government not borrowing such copious amounts of money. So think about what that extra interest rate costs
20:02 you when you're looking to buy a house or to purchase a vehicle. That can add up to hundreds of dollars of extra per month in interest cost that you're having to pay because interest rates are higher than the
20:14 other wise would have been because the government is competing with you to obtain capital capital to run your life.
20:22 Now doesn't it also become kind of a vicious cycle? Because as the government borrows more money and if those interest rates go up, every time they go up, they have to pay more interest on the debt. I mean, as you
20:33 mentioned, 1200000000000 this year in interest alone, that exceeds what we have paid for in our military this year. And every time interest rates go up, the federal government's gotta
20:45 pay more in interest, which makes it harder for the the average family.
20:51 You're very right. And part of the problem with the longer term estimates that we saw just a few years ago when we also were running large deficits is that the Congress
21:03 and even the White House advisers, and this goes for Republican and Democrat administrations, were projecting long term interest rates on government debt being much lower where the where they're already at
21:15 today. So if you've got in your personal budget, if you owe 100000 dollars and you're estimating, ah, you're just going to pay a 2.5 or 3 percent interest rate going forward, it might make it appear as if you can
21:26 shoulder that burden. But federal government operates in a very similar way to the family. When you take on a copious debt load and then interest rates end up being much higher than you projected, that
21:38 debt burden is much larger. This is exactly what we've seen happen today. We see rates on the 10, 20, and 30 year government bonds much higher than anticipated. We're nearing 5 percent
21:50 on that long term government debt. So this notion of us just being able to refinance this nearly 40000000000000 dollar debt at a lower rate, it simply can't happen. The rates are higher today than than where they were
22:02 a few years ago. In fact, they're higher today than they were 10 or 15 years ago. This isn't sustainable. And, Tony, 1 of the things I'm concerned with is we saw a lot of pundits on the left and right that were talking
22:13 about Doge. We saw those on the left that were criticizing it, and we saw those on the right that were cheering it. And look, I'm in favor of Doge, but the bottom line with that is that only reduced federal spending by
22:24 around 5000000000 dollars. That's out of a nearly 7000000000000 dollar budget. It made virtually no impact on long term government spending. The difficult choices are the ones
22:36 that politicians or the Democrat or Republicans are trying to kick down the road on entitlements, on other types of spending. Those concerns have to be addressed. We can't just cut out waste, fraud, and abuse. That is
22:48 not sufficient to get our fiscal house in order. Far more politically difficult decisions must be made. And the longer we delay it, the more pain that we are going to face several
23:00 years from now.
23:01 And, Joel, you you mentioned that, you know, waste, fraud, and abuse, big chunk, but it's not gonna it's not gonna solve this problem. I would also put forward that we can't raise taxes high enough to solve this problem.
23:13 This is, at its heart, a spending problem.
23:18 You're right. Even if we were to raise taxes on the so called wealthy, even if we were to put in place a 100 percent wealth tax, which would be, of course, immoral, unconstitutional, and it's
23:30 not going to happen. Even if you were to do that, this would not resolve this rampant spending problem and the deficit and the fiscal crisis down the road. The way out of this is to allow our
23:42 economy to grow, number 1. And we've made some positive changes the last year and 0.5 with regulatory reform and with the tax, and with the 1 big beautiful bill on the tax side. But at the same time,
23:54 we're seeing government under this administration just as it was during the Biden administration becoming more involved in the private sector, in this administration partially nationalizing companies, and, of course, the
The Growing Federal Deficit Crisis
24:04 tariffs that are impeding businesses and adding a financial difficulty to families. We need to get government out of the way in the regulatory front, diminish spending, and actually pursue even more
24:16 pro growth tax reform, meaning tax cuts to allow us to grow our way out
24:21 of this.
24:21 Right. And and and much smaller government. Joel Griffith, I wanna thank you for joining us. Appreciate your, your insights on this.
24:30 Thanks for having me tonight.
24:32 Hey, folks. It's it come a lot of it comes back to personal responsibility as well. We need we need strong families because what government often does, it has to fill in backfill where the families fail.
24:44 And, it's just getting it's unsustainable. We're gonna talk more about that in the days ahead. Alright. Don't go away. We're we've got more Washington watch coming up right after this message.
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27:03 Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for being a part of the program on this Monday. Alright. This week will be a very busy week for the house. They have just 4 days, before they leave
27:15 for the, August break. And I spoke with house speaker Mike Johnson about the house Republican agenda during my weekend program this week on Capitol Hill, and I wanted to share part of
27:27 that conversation with you. Here's house speaker Mike Johnson.
27:30 Hey, Tony. Great to be with you. Campaigning, barnstorming through the state of Iowa with with our candidates out here, getting ready for this midterm election, and yet we still have, as you said, back on Capitol Hill, a
27:41 very aggressive agenda ahead of us next week. We're moving, pushing forward the America 1st agenda. Sadly, you know, as we discuss all the time, the Democrats, don't want any part of this anymore. And so we gotta do it
27:52 on our own, and that necessitates the use of of tools like reconciliation and, and a CR, continuing resolution that we'll try to pass next week because, we're gonna have to fund the government on our own. The Democrats
28:03 don't want any part of it.
28:04 And the the there's a
28:05 lot on the plate. I mean, I I know you're accustomed to, you know, 23 hour days, but the the fact is you've got the reconciliation 3.0, you've got the National
28:17 Defense Authorization Act, and a CR that would fund the government through the election. Those in and of themselves could take weeks. You're gonna get all this done next week.
28:29 Well, they they they could, but, you know, we have done a lot of preparation work leading into this. Now reconciliation 3.0, has changed in its scope and some of these changes are by necessity because of
28:41 the the shifting landscape and politics, the loss of senator Lindsey Graham who was a central figure because he was the chairman of the budget committee in the senate and was effectively the quarterback on that side, the
28:53 the dynamics that are shifting in terms of national security and all the rest. So we have to adapt to that and and move forward. But on each of those measures that you discussed, a lot of work has gone into this in the
29:03 previous months leading up to this point. And, desperate time to call for desperate measures. The reason we have to get reconciliation 3.0 done is because it has those 3 elements that you mentioned. It is the vehicle for
29:15 us to deliver the Save America Act to the president's desk. It is the only way to do it because remember, there's no way to get 60 votes for Save America in the senate. The Democrats just simply won't go along with that,
29:25 and you've only got 53 Republicans. But we're gonna make it a reconciliation matter, tying it to the budget with a fiscal impact that will qualify it for that process so we can pass it with 51 votes in the senate and
29:37 finally take care of this problem. Proof of citizenship to vote and a and a and a a proof of ID when you show up to do so. Simple, important matters. The president highlighted that in his speech this week. And I think 83
29:49 percent of the in the most recent poll of Americans understand the necessity. We gotta deliver that.
29:54 Now, mister speaker, I I don't question the house's ability to get this done. You have been able to do some amazing things through prayer and, hard work, but the senate seems toShow more
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