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9/25/2026 U.N. Meetings Conclude, the Trump-Xi Summit, and America at the Crossroads of Socialism and Freedom
September 25, 2026 · 54 min
The U.N. General Assembly meetings reach a conclusion following some tumultuous sessions, including a challenging presentation from the Israeli Prime Minister, a careful consideration of why Christians should embrace Israel, a grandmother’s tragic death at the hands of Canadian Healthcare, and the uniqueness of America’s freedom in a culture more broadly embracing socialism.
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The U.N. General Assembly meetings reach a conclusion following some tumultuous sessions, including a challenging presentation from the Israeli Prime Minister, a careful consideration of why Christians should embrace Israel, a grandmother’s tragic death at the hands of Canadian Healthcare, and the uniqueness of America’s freedom in a culture more broadly embracing socialism. ...more Show the full description Show less The U.N. General Assembly meetings reach a conclusion following some tumultuous sessions, including a challenging presentation from the Israeli Prime Minister, a careful consideration of why Christians should embrace Israel, a grandmother’s tragic death at the hands of Canadian Healthcare, and the uniqueness of America’s freedom in a culture more broadly embracing socialism.
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In this video 0:00 Trump-Xi Summit and U.S.-China Relations13:00 Legislative Updates, UN General Debate, and Defending Homeschool Rights27:00 Netanyahu's UN Speech and Israel's Right to Judea and Samaria42:00 Canada's Euthanasia Laws and the Death of Brigitte Stegman48:05 The Rise of Socialism and America's Need for a Spiritual HomecomingComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
Trump-Xi Summit and U.S.-China Relations 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 worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.0:19 We've had a a tremendous visit from 2 spectacular people, and, we really enjoyed it. And I think we've, made tremendous strides. We've made0:31 great strides, very positive for both countries.0:34 That was president Donald Trump earlier today at the White House on the final day of his summit with Chinese president Xi Jinping. Welcome to this Friday, September 25th edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony0:46 Bergens, broadcasting live from Leesburg, Virginia at Cornerstone and Chapel, site of this year's gray vote stand summit. Thanks so much for tuning in. Well, coming up, the Trump Xi summit0:58 wrapped up earlier today as Republicans at the same time are seeking to draw a sharper contrast with the growing influence of democratic socialism here at home. So what did this week's summit with the leader of the1:09 Chinese Communist Party reveal about the ideological and strategic challenge posed by China. Former Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachman, who served on the House Intelligence Committee, joins us to analyze
1:21 the summit. Also, were there messages beneath the surface of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks to the United Nations yesterday? We'll take a closer look. Plus, the granddaughter of an 83 year
1:33 old woman who was euthanized in Canada despite her objections joins us to explain what happened and why her family is demanding an investigation. And the Gallup and Gallup released a poll
1:45 yesterday showing a record high number of Americans now have a positive view of socialism. Doctor Oz Guinness, author and social critic, joins us to discuss what may be driving the growing attraction
1:57 of social socialism in America. All of that and more straight ahead. Alright. Let's start with news out of
2:09 Washington. Chinese president Xi Jinping concluded his state visit to Washington earlier today. The visit featured an extraordinary display of American pageantry, including a 21 gun salute and a military
2:20 flyover when Xi arrived at joint base Andrews on Wednesday. Joining us now to break down what came out of the Trump Xi summit is Washington stand reporter Casey Harper. Alright, Casey. What was,
2:33 what were some of the most significant takeaways from, the meeting with Xi and Trump?
2:37 Yeah. Thanks, Tony.
2:38 And, of
2:38 course, all eyes on this today, the final meeting between the president and Xi before he sent him off. 1 big takeaway that, got my attention was, the the the administration said that there was a warning and a sent to
2:50 China that they can no longer help Iran if they've been doing that. And we've seen some troubling reports that, actually, China was providing military assistance to Iran so they could target US troops in Jordan. And so
2:59 that was that was getting bipartisan, concern, and and the administration said that concern was brought up. Also last night, president Trump had the whole cadre of AI CEOs in person at the White House really showing his
3:11 priority of artificial intelligence in these conversations. And in fact, today, they finished those talks, and we do have a a clip of those conversations.
3:20 We'll be speaking a lot. I think our farmers are gonna be very happy. A lot of very positive things happen. But, America is very happy about this visit, and I'm sure China is very
3:32 happy also. Great things for both countries, and it's been just very, very productive.
3:39 So we've been low on details. Of course, president Trump and Xi spoke well of the visit, the economy, and AI. But 1 thing that's notably absent was discussion of religious persecution. In fact, president Trump took, Xi
3:50 to the National Archives today. They saw the constitution and the bill of rights, but you have to wonder if he made him read those bill of rights while they were there.
3:57 That would seem to be a perfect setup to talk about, human rights and the the abuses that we see coming out of, China.
4:04 Yeah.
4:04 Yeah. It would be. We we see ongoing persecution of Christians there. Well, pastor Ezra Jin,
4:09 the Christian pastor, was released after president Trump talked to Xi. But pastor Ezra Jin, as soon as he got back in the US, he said, hey. There's plenty of my brothers and sisters in Christ who are still behind bars in
4:19 China. And people may not realize, it's not as if they're demonstrating directly against the president. I mean, in China, they make you put cameras in your pulpits. Every church decision has to be run by the Chinese
4:28 Communist Party. And so I think, you know, that strikes Americans as, pretty problematic and, obviously, for a good reason.
4:34 Alright, Casey. Let's, let's move closer to home here in Washington DC. The senate wrapped up its business headed home for the week, but they're coming back, next week. And, what's on the agenda when they return as they,
4:46 are about to enter the sprint for the midterm elections?
4:49 Yeah. That's right. So senator John Thune, he said there's quite a few things, but a couple I'll highlight. 1 is just ongoing debate over the protection of College Sports Act. This is not falling neatly along party
4:59 lines. They wanna put broad or regulations around how college athletes may be paid or not. And then there's also the ratepayer protection act, which is, a way to begin the process for making these AI and tech companies
5:10 start to pay the price for the infrastructure for these data centers, which is hiking electricity costs and water costs and the like. Now some senate Democrats are saying it doesn't go far enough, so we'll see how it
5:20 plays out next week.
5:21 The I've heard some Republicans grumbling a little bit about the time spent on the sports bill, that that's not something that is really a pocketbook issue that's affecting families across America. Yeah.
5:30 I mean, I think if you're a big college football fan, it's, very important to you. But as far as addressing the rising cost of, you know, inflation and gas and different things, it's not the type of bill that you're used
5:40 to seeing, right before the midterms. That's for sure.
5:42 Alright. Today marked day 4 of the general debate at the United Nations as they droned on. What were the takeaways from, today?
5:50 We saw the prime ministers of Lebanon, Iraq, and Pakistan speak. Now those are, especially important right now as we see the really falling apart of Yemen among the civil war there as the Houthis take over more and more
6:01 of Yemen and are exchanging fire with Saudi Arabia, blowing up pipelines. It's become a pretty dangerous, situation there, and that's affecting global energy prices. But we've also seen, something pretty interesting that
6:13 I thought is worth noting is that Lebanon called for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the country, which sort of counteracts what they previously said about allowing a buffer zone because Southern Lebanon has been a
6:23 favorite spot for terrorists to fire into onto civilians in Northern Israel. Now walking that back, but the things you know, the statements have changed a lot, so we'll see how long that sticks.
6:34 Alright, Casey. Thanks so much for, for the update. Thanks, Tony. Alright. Alright. Before I bring in, my 1st guest, I have an action item for you. I mentioned this yesterday. Earlier this week, we highlighted the case
6:45 of, 22 year old Andrew Coats, a volunteer fireman from Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska. He applied to become a full time firefighter in nearby Fremont, but was rejected after the
6:57 city changed the qualification standards to exclude those who were homeschooled. Now the civil service commission has denied an appeal, so I want to ask you to join me in
7:09 helping Andrew and other homeschool families across this nation by reaching out and touching the Fremont City Council and urging them to end this blatant discrimination. So we've made
7:21 it very easy for you to send a message to the city council. You can visit f r c action dot o r g slash firefighter, or here's something very straightforward. Text firefighter
7:33 to 6 7 7 4 2. That's firefighter to 6 7 7 4 2. I'll send you a link so that you can communicate with the city council and let them know they need to end this discrimination. Will
7:45 you join me in that? We cannot tolerate this type of discrimination. Alright. Let's turn back to today's bilateral meeting between president Trump and Chinese communist party leader Xi Jinping.
7:57 With me now to discuss this and more here at the pray vote stand summit before a live audience is former congresswoman Michelle Bachman,
8:09 distinguished professor at large for reg Regent University and chair of the FRC board of directors. And during her time in congress, she was a member of the house permanent select committee on intelligence. She is
8:20 also the cochair of the Jerusalem prayer breakfast. Michelle, welcome back to Washington Watch.
8:26 Tony, thank you so much. Always a privilege.
8:28 Alright. So let's talk about this. What do you make of this week's summit? And it as you've heard thus far, you know, some Republicans weren't on, on board with the lavish treatment
8:40 of the that the Chinese president received. What's your take?
8:44 Well, I think the lavish treatment is a typical Donald Trump move. He understands negotiation. So with people who have big egos, big countries, he knows how to butter them up. And you couldn't be
8:55 more buttered up than being honored by a state dinner at the White House. So I think president Trump usually butters them up and then in goes the request. So I think he had a big request, and I think the request
9:07 had to do with Iran. And I think that was the right thing for him to do.
9:11 Well and he was at had a state visit in China. Yes. And, they rolled out the red carpet for him.
9:17 Yes. They did. Absolutely. They did. And he worked very hard when he was there. The only thing we knew about were all the bones that the Boeing sevens or Boeing planes that China bought. So we don't know
9:29 what the details are. We still don't know the details of what happened in this meeting, but undoubtedly, this was about Iran more than anything else. That's upper deck because we're dealing with a global energy crisis
9:41 right now. You've got Ukraine and Russia that are attacking each other's energy supplies, but then you also have the Yemenis, and they are choke holding in the Straits of Hormuz and the Ba'al
9:53 Mandab Strait and also the East West pipeline in Saudi Arabia. So this is a huge reduction in available energy supplies. Probably the most genius thing president Trump has done, and they
10:05 his party should win the midterms on this alone, the 65000000000 barrels of oil deal that he made with Venezuela. He did that 1st before the Iran war. And
10:17 so as he said between Venezuela and the United States, that 60 percent of global oil supplies. And so he put the United States in a very advantageous place by making that deal.
10:29 1 of our problems when it comes to our our fuel is the fact that we do not have the capacity to to to make more because of the EPA regulations that were in place for so long. Building new
10:40 plants, petroleum plants is just extremely difficult, but the administration is taking steps to make it easier for these companies to expand their production.
10:50 Yes. And so what the president has done is a wholesale, revision of these regulations, which needed to be done. We had the most difficult ability for oil refiners to be able to build new
11:02 refineries. So he's done a good job, but you can't build those overnight.
11:05 Right.
11:05 It takes a long time to do that, but he has us in the right posture.
11:09 It it it was almost if you look at the position that we were in, it was intentional to make America weak and vulnerable.
11:15 Oh, without a doubt. There's no question. You look at the 4 years of the Biden administration, the whole point was to take the America ship of state and put it downward. And president Biden was very good at that.
11:27 He was very good at destroying American values and American production. But what we've seen is that you can actually fairly quickly turn an economy, but it's only been 2 years.
11:38 Right.
11:38 And the president needs 2 more years with a Republican house and a Republican senate.
11:42 Michelle Bachmann, we just have a couple minutes left, but you're gonna stick with me in the next segment. We're gonna talk about, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But I wanna ask you this final question in
11:51 this segment. Many people were hoping to see the president bring up the issue of human rights, the religious persecution that's taking place in China. When when we look historically at how Ronald
12:03 Reagan was able to crack the Soviet Union, USSR, it was the issue of human rights that he did not let go of. He kept pounding that issue, pounding that issue, and it was really the thread that
12:15 caused it to unravel.
12:16 It was. For Ronald Reagan, that was the 1st order of business. He had the names of 7 prisoners on his hand, and that impressed the Russia premier. And because
12:28 Ronald Reagan looked at the individual and their religious rights, that really caused a changing of thought for Russia, and they had great respect for Ronald Reagan.
12:39 So this is a different era, different president, different order of issues, and I agree with you. Religious rights, religious freedom I
12:49 mean, those are the the the every human being is yearning to breathe through. Yes. And if you want to excite a population to question its own government, you give them the hope of freedom.Show more
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