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Today’s program reviews how efforts to fund the government, denounce socialism, reduce birth tourism, and expose government abuse and negligence made the list Congress has undertaken since returning to Washington. We also look at attempts to prevent Virginia from codifying abortion and address the growing dangers of hemp-based products and the distribution of gas-station weed.
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In this video 0:00 Government Funding Deal and Supreme Court Protection15:00 Birth Tourism Hearing and Iran Sanctions20:00 FBI Weaponization Against Catholics30:00 Challenging Virginia Abortion Amendment40:00 Dangers of Hemp-Derived Intoxicants and Kratom
Government Funding Deal and Supreme Court Protection 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 Heiss.0:19 We we just did some important things here on the floor. Of course, we passed the CR in front of the government. Thanks to the House Republicans leadership and the foresight back in in July, we began,0:31 the the necessary processes to ensure that the government would not be shut down. We are not gonna have our troops in harm's way without getting paychecks. We're not gonna have the coast guard, TSA, other essential0:42 functions of the government shutdown.0:46 That was house speaker Mike Johnson earlier today after the house passed a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 11th. Welcome to this Tuesday,0:58 September 1st edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heise, filling in for Tony. Glad to have you with us. Hope you can stay with us for the next hour. We've got a lot to cover. Coming up on1:10 today's program, the House of Representatives passed a procedural vote earlier today to continue legislative business this week, which now clears the way for a vote tomorrow
1:22 on a constitutional amendment aimed at blocking the Democratic Socialists of America's push to alter the Supreme Court. Texas congressman Pete Sessions, who's a member of the House
1:34 Oversight Committee, will be joining us momentarily to discuss that and more. And Stanley Woodward, associate attorney general at the US Department of Justice, will be joining
1:45 us for discussion on the recent Department of Justice report on how the Biden administration weaponized the FBI to target non mainstream conservative
1:57 Catholics. Plus, Liberty Council attorney Stephen Nast will be joining us to discuss a legal challenge against a proposed amendment in Virginia's state constitution
2:09 that would expand and codify so called abortion rights. So all that and more is coming your way on today's edition of Washington Watch.
2:26 Let's start with some news coming out of Washington. The house has approved a continuing resolution to prevent a government, shutdown, that is now, on its way to president
2:38 Trump's desk. And, of course, all of this happening just in front of fall elections. So, joining us now to discuss its and Moore's Washington Watch, Washington stand reporter, Casey
2:50 Harper. Casey, walk us through what's happening. It's been a busy afternoon.
2:54 It indeed has, Jody. In a 3 70 to 48 vote, lawmakers voted to extend federal funding through December 11th, effectively taking a government shutdown off the table. Now 29 Democrats and 19
3:06 Republicans voted against it. At the same time, House Republicans are also pushing for a vote on a resolution designed to formally denounce all forms of socialism and the implementation of such
3:18 policies in the US. Now earlier today, House Speaker Mike Johnson Johnson said that tomorrow, Republicans will bring a bill to amend the US constitution to ensure that the US Supreme Court remains composed of only 9
3:30 justices, which is notable because the Democratic Socials of America have said that they want to undo that.
3:36 1 of their objectives among all the crazy things is they want to pack the US Supreme Court. We're gonna make sure that doesn't happen. So we're gonna put that bill on the floor tomorrow on suspension because it required
3:46 a 2 3rd vote of both chambers of of congress to, amend the constitution, and we will have them put their money where their mouth is.
3:54 Now that's denouncing socialism resolution, Jody, does include an enactment of the Save America Act, but, clearly, congress, is back with the fury of right hitting the ground running.
4:05 Great, Casey. Listen. Don't go anywhere. I want you to stay right where you are. I'm gonna come back to you in just a moment, but I need to switch over right now to our 1st guest. The House of Representatives
4:17 right now as we speak is in the middle of a vote series, and so I need to interrupt our typical, method of, news reporting and and go to the house floor. Joining me now
4:29 is, congressman from Texas, Pete Sessions. He serves on the finance, financial services committee as well as oversight committee. Congressman Sessions, welcome back to Washington Watch. It's great to have
4:41 you. I know you are busy, so let me jump right into it. It's been, quite a week, quite a day. Can you, fill us in on what's happened there today?
4:51 Jody, I can. It's it's, as you know, there's a lot of intrigue with almost every single vote that we have that's related to procedures that
5:03 are gonna go back and forth between the 2 bodies. In this case, we did handle today what is called a CR, continuing resolution. And it accepted,
5:16 the senate when they changed what we volleyed to them. We sent to them before we left at the end of July a what is called
5:28 CR continuing resolution to fund the government, through December, maybe 4th. In doing that, the senate took their time, came back to us,
5:40 and changed that and added a provision that sustained, for about 6 weeks the ability for
5:52 CDB or, marijuana THC to be included to be sold, through the farm bill. I
6:04 disagreed with that. It is a bad policy. It is America's, culture going down the tubes. The United States Senate, passed this
6:16 63 votes. It opens up the door for at least 6 weeks, for bad things to happen across the country, taking advantage by
6:27 merchants of of addiction. So it's it's a it's a bad thing, and I was terribly disappointed. I joined other colleagues that I had, but we could
6:39 not stop it because the speaker changed the procedures to allow all the Democrats who obviously would be for this. And so we lost the vote on the floor.
6:52 I did see the way you voted and I thank you. Yes. And I saw how you you voted personally. Listen. Let me ask you. I know you've got a hard out in just over a minute or so, but
7:04 tomorrow you'll be voting on a constitutional amendment to protect the Supreme Court and keep it at 9 justices. What's your anticipated, expectation for that vote?
7:15 Well, I I fully anticipate that will pass. That's a very dangerous thing. A lot of Democrats and you you well understand this, as when you served for the
7:27 with the distinction you did, that, Democrats will do the things that keep their jobs. There's very little that is policy oriented that they'll stick
7:39 to, but this new left push that the Democrats have is simply to overturn the Democrat party by the
7:51 they openly by the communist. And they, their ideas across the board fit right in line with communism. So, I think they could probably do
8:03 this. They could probably vote with us, a couple of them that they have because they're they're not in districts that they wanna be accused of being with the leftists, with those that wanna
8:14 destroy, the greatest country in the world. So, I think we'll pass it. I I hope we'll pass it, and I think we will.
8:24 Alright. Congressman Pete Sessions from Texas on the Patriot Mobile hotline. Thank you so much for taking time to step off the house floor and join us today on Washington Watch.
8:36 Go get them. I know you're busy. Alright, Casey. Let me come back to you and, turn to some other news out of Washington. A house oversight task force is is held a hearing earlier
8:48 today with a focus on birth tourism. Can you fill us in on what transpired in that hearing?
8:54 Yeah. Sure thing, Jody. More of congress and lawmakers hitting the ground running. So earlier today, the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, that's
9:05 the name of the task force, they held a hearing to investigate birth tourism. Now this comes after a recent Supreme Court ruling that hindered, really, president Trump's attempts to limit birthright citizenship.
9:16 Lawmakers highlighted that companies allegedly marketed maternity service to foreign families, but then helped arrange for them to give birth in the US and, of course, get the citizenship that comes along with it often
9:28 before they went right back to their home countries. Now during the hearing, congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna asked doctor, Stephen Cammarata, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies, about the national
9:40 security threat this could pose when we have people born in the US, but not culturally American and maybe never lived here, brought back to their country of origin. Here's what he said.
9:50 Yeah. And this is a distinction between a more typical illegal immigrant whose child grows up in the United States and has likely developed some attachment identification with the United States. These are individuals who
10:00 purposely wanna go back, and now that child is raised entirely in that culture. And, you know, in a country like Russia or China that's pretty hostile to the United States, it's very likely they're inculcated with
10:12 some very anti American views.
10:14 Now the doctor went on to highlight that those individuals are able to vote in US elections and even receive federal benefits. The administration is considering more restrictions in addition to that executive order from
10:25 the president last month, But the administration is seeking to enforce stricter immigration policies and shut down this birth tourism, Jody.
10:34 I tell you, there's so much, so much going on. It just seems like plates are spinning all over. And I I definitely want to, let you catch us up on what's happening in Iran. Seemed like
10:45 so much going back and forth there. Even potential negotiation talks coming back up, but volleying missiles back and forth. And we have the economic sanctions.
10:58 What where do we stand right now? What's happening there?
11:01 Yeah. That's right. Any quietness that we had in August seems to be far behind us now. As far as Iran, there are more strikes, and US treasury secretary Scott Bessent earlier today said that the US is likely to announce
11:13 sanctions on a bank this week as part of its ongoing economic campaign against Iran. In fact, here is secretary Besson speaking at an event on the sidelines of the US hosted group of 20 finance leaders in
11:24 Asheville, North Carolina.
11:26 Everyone should expect that we know who you are, you know who you are, and we are probably going to announce a bank sanction this week, and we will announce 1 the week after. We are speaking
11:38 to our allies here who have all come forward, and we had a great show of support.
11:43 Now what Bessemer is talking about there is not just sanctioning Iran, but those who do business with Iran, who help them financially to ratchet up the pressure. Now secretary Besson said the US was also looking at
11:53 targeting airline leasing companies and other entities that did business with the IRGC. He said the administration has 0 tolerance and that they're going to economically asphyxiate this
12:04 regime, Jody.
12:07 Well, Casey, listen. A couple of things before I let you go. I wanna say thank you for, being just, mobile right along with our Patriot Mobile
12:19 hotline. That's right. You were very mobile and versatile today, and I wanna thank you for allowing the interruption as graciously as you did. And then as always, I wanna thank you for keeping us up to speed on some
12:31 of the hot items that are taking place in our country and around the world. Casey Harper, thank you so much. Thanks, Jody. Alright. We have much much more to cover on Washington Watch and we'll
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13:42 targeted non mainstream Catholics. What a disturbing thought that is. Well, associate attorney general, the US Department of, Justice will
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17:02 Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heiss, filling in for Tony. On Friday, we made mention of a new justice department
17:14 report on the Biden administration's targeting of non mainstream conservative Catholics. The report by the DOJ's weaponization working group
17:26 details how the FBI's Richmond field office associated beliefs held by many Catholics with domestic extremism. And it concluded the
17:38 report did that the Biden FBI engaged in improper and unjustified law enforcement and intelligence activity. So will history judge the actions of the Biden
17:50 FBI as a grave failure to uphold its responsibility to protecting the 1st Amendment rights of all American citizens? And, obviously, we
18:01 also need to know what can be done to stop something like this from ever happening again. Well, joining us now to go over this report is Stanley Woodward Junior, associate attorney general at the US
18:13 Department of Justice. General Woodward, thank you for joining us on Washington Watch. Let me begin by just, putting this out here. There may be some in our audience that who need a refresher
18:25 on just what happened. It probably rings a bell of familiarity, but can you just kinda rehearse for us what happened in the FBI's, Richmond field office back in 20 23?
18:38 Sure. You bet. And 1st, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure to be here. This you know, we talk all the time about the weaponization of the Department of Justice. We saw it firsthand in this instance. What we had
18:50 was a bad guy, a criminal that the FBI was investigating. They they, in the course of their investigation, decided to talk to his priest. That should be red flag
19:01 number 1. In the course of those discussions, they decided that they would investigate his priest, having nothing to do with the underlying facts of the bad guy, at issue here. They
19:13 just thought that because of the priest's views, further investigation was warranted. That investigation expanded to include that priest's, uncle. They trailed the priest and his
19:25 uncle across the country, even, overseas, investigating what the priest views were and and as you mentioned, eventually labeling them as as radicals,
19:38 doing everything in their power to avoid, triggering any of the process that is due when 1 is the target of an investigation. The FBI, in this instance, wanted to avoid having to
19:50 get a warrant. And 1 can wonder why that was. I think that those actions speak for themselves. And so at the end of this, a memo was issued, in Richmond,
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20:02 labeling, this religious group as a traditional radicalist. That memo was leaked, not surprisingly. Others had concerns about the content of the memo. The
20:13 FBI director at the height of the Biden administration, recanted the memo, disavowed it. The memo was rescinded, but the harm then had already been done as it had been done in so many other cases, during the
20:25 Biden administration. You you asked, you know, how do we prevent this from happening again? What this department of justice is doing is shedding as much light as we possibly can on on the conduct of the last
20:37 administration, especially where the department was weaponized against us Americans, so that we have our eyes wide open and prevent future administrations from taking
20:49 these attacks, in in their investigations.
20:53 Well, I hope there's more than just shining the light. It sounds like laws were broken and there needs to be some serious accountability, and certainly hope that comes to fruition as well. I wanted to ask you this too.
21:05 The the report focuses on the production and circulation of an internal assessment known as the Richmond domain perspective. Can you tell us more about that? What is it
21:16 and what what did it seek to accomplish?
21:21 Well, the Richmond domain perspective, otherwise, referred to as the Richmond memo, essentially, accused folks of guilt by association. So not only are are you implicating, the 1st amendment as
21:33 as you alluded to at the, at the open, But you're saying that anyone associated with these viewpoints, is related to a terrorist organization. That's not how we should be conducting
21:45 investigations in this country. It's not how we should be ascribing guilt. You are innocent until proven otherwise. And the Richmond the Richmond memo in a word was wrong.
21:57 So what are the conclusion? What what came out of the weaponization working group? Where is this ultimately going to go?
22:07 Well, I mean, I think the most, significant action that was taken is that the FBI has relieved all those associated with the creation of this memo of their duties. The investigation, showed
22:19 that there were agents, who lacked proper supervision and were carrying out research into this, religious organization without the proper authority to do so. They were deliberately avoiding the due
22:31 process. The targets of any investigation are owed, and they are no longer with the department or with the FBI. So that I think is the most significant action to have come from the memo.
22:43 But also we've detailed in our report all of the communications and all of the investigative steps that were taken so that others around the country can take notice and see how we got here and how
22:55 we avoid getting there ever again.
22:58 That's the key. How do we avoid getting there again? I know the Trump administration and your team have been heavily involved in dealing, addressing, these abuses. But what is being done to prevent
23:10 something like this from happening again?
23:13 Well, look. I saw firsthand how the department could be weaponized, you know, save president Trump. I'm I'm among the few that know exactly how the levers of government can be used against us, both me personally
23:25 and a number of my former clients when I was in the private sector. The very 1st thing that we are doing is we are letting it be known, what exactly the department, the FBI, the prosecutors,
23:37 we're all we're all doing, whether that is, with regard to president Trump's cases specifically or some of the lesser known cases like the Richmond, memo. The web the weaponization working
23:49 group is working to shed light on all of those matters, that have come before us. We're working now very hard on the, Garland School Board report. We hope to have that released in the next month or
24:01 so, so that people can see what was going on there.
24:05 So do you believe at the end of the day, this is gonna prevent something of this magnitude from happening again? And we've got only about 30 seconds. So quick number.
24:16 Yeah. I'm cautiously optimistic, that if we shed light on all of the ways that were previously unknown to the American public, that the Garland, justice department was weaponized against us, that we
24:28 will hold future justice departments accountable in in a way that should have been done over the last 4 years.
24:34 Well, thank you so much. We, wish you godspeed in this effort. Thank you so much, Stanley Woodward Junior, associate attorney general at the US Department of Justice. We appreciate you joining us today.
24:47 Alright. Coming up, we're gonna talk about a legal challenge against a proposed amendment to Virginia's state constitution that would codify abortion. Stay with us for that
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27:22 Well, this is Washington Watch, and you've joined us for our Patriot Mobile segment. I'm Jody Heise. Thanks for joining us. This November, voters in Virginia may be weighing in on an
27:34 amendment to that state's constitution. This amendment would establish a so called fundamental right to reproductive freedom, abortion. But the proposed
27:46 amendment is facing a legal challenge. And late last week, a motion was filed to the appeals court of Virginia requesting that the case be sent directly to the Virginia Supreme Court after
27:58 a circuit court judge dismissed the challenge back in July. So it gets rather complicated, but joining us now to discuss this is Steven Nast. He's a litigation counsel at Liberty
28:10 Council, which filed the motion. Steven, welcome to Washington Watch. We're glad to have you. And let's let's start with just the amendment. Can you tell us, about it and why you're
28:21 arguing that the whole thing is invalid?
28:25 Well, if you recall, just a few months ago, the general assembly in the state of Virginia ran through a constitutional amendment seeking to redraw district lines to give the Democrats in
28:37 Virginia a 10 to 1 advantage in the Virginia House of Representatives. The Supreme Court of Virginia stated that that is unconstitutional based on the procedures that were not followed. Well, the general
28:49 assembly is at it again attempting to ram through yet another constitutional amendment this November dealing with abortion. The constitutional amendment, if passed in November, would provide a fundamental
29:01 right to reproductive freedom, as they call it, or as you aptly stated, abortion. The right to kill your child, wind in the womb. In the 1st 2 trimesters, there would be 0 restrictions on abortion. And then in the
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29:24 versus Nardo.
29:27 So in July and I was trying to kinda highlight this coming into our discussion here, but in July, the challenge, to this amendment was dismissed. So why
29:39 did the judge dismiss it then? What what did he get wrong?
29:44 He ruled that pursuant to the redistricting amendment case in May, that the dissent in that case had the right idea that this Virginia code
29:56 section 30 dash 13 did not have to be followed. And indeed, he even stated that there's no question that the statute was not followed, that the assembly did not follow the proper procedures. The clerksShow more
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