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The House takes up birthright citizenship, the U.S. strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, the residual impact of the former Syrian president’s nuclear ambitions, trade talks between Russia, China, and India may affect the United States’ global influence, a Kansas school pushes gender transitions on children, the threat of socialism in America, and the misleading use of “Christian Socialism.”
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The House takes up birthright citizenship, the U.S. strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, the residual impact of the former Syrian president’s nuclear ambitions, trade talks between Russia, China, and India may affect the United States’ global influence, a Kansas school pushes gender transitions on children, the threat of socialism in America, and the misleading use of “Christian Socialism.” ...more Show the full description Show less The House takes up birthright citizenship, the U.S. strikes in the Strait of Hormuz, the residual impact of the former Syrian president’s nuclear ambitions, trade talks between Russia, China, and India may affect the United States’ global influence, a Kansas school pushes gender transitions on children, the threat of socialism in America, and the misleading use of “Christian Socialism.”
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In this video 0:00 Middle East Conflict and Congressional Perspective14:00 Birthright Citizenship, Abortion Drugs, and Socialism Resolution16:00 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit and Global Threats27:00 DOJ Lawsuit Against Kansas Schools Over Secret Gender Transitions34:00 The Biblical and Economic Case Against Christian Socialism
Middle East Conflict and Congressional Perspective 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. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody0:18 Heiss. We've controlled and we are controlling the Hormone Strait. We are, bringing lots of boats out every day with millions of barrels of oil. We are, for0:30 the most part, doing it without trouble. Every once in a while, they shoot a drone and we knock it down. But, we we have control of very strong control.0:42 That was president Trump earlier today in the Oval Office commenting on the conflict with Iran and the status of the Strait of Hormuz. Welcome to this0:53 Wednesday, September 2nd edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host filling in for Tony Perkins and thrilled to have you on board with us as well. Coming up on the program today,1:05 military exchanges between Iran and the United States in recent days have reignited really concerns over a full scale regional conflict in the Middle East.1:17 So where do things stand now? And are we potentially at a tipping point? Well, Indiana congressman Marlon Stutzman is a member of the House Budget Committee will be joining me to discuss that and
1:29 more. Plus, the US Department of Justice has sued Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools for its alleged secret gender transitions happening behind parents' backs.
1:41 Britney Jones, president of Kansas Family Voice, will join us to talk about that. And then later coming up in the program, doctor Peter Jacobson from the University of Canis
1:53 will be joining me to talk about why socialism is not just a democrat problem. Catch this. It's also a problem for the church. So, all that and more is coming your way on
2:05 today's edition of Washington Watch. Stay with us. Let's begin with some news coming out of
2:17 Washington earlier today at congressional subcommittee held part 2 of a hearing on birthright citizenship. Joining us now to discuss this is Washington Watch reporter
2:29 Mary Stackhouse. Mary, what came of the hearing today?
2:33 Jody, the house judiciary subcommittee on the constitution and limited government held today's hearing, which was called subject to the jurisdiction of birthright citizenship and the 14th amendment part 2. The hearing
2:44 focused on the Supreme Court's recent decision that the 14th amendment guarantees birthright citizenship to children born in the US regardless of whether their parents are temporarily or unlawfully there. Now during the
2:55 hearing, lawmakers examined potential legislative responses. Rosemary Jenks, policy director for the Immigration Accountability Project, was 1 of the witnesses who testified. Here's a clip.
3:06 I wanna point out that prior to 19 66, the federal government required parental status information on passport applications. It was a 19 66 bureaucratic
3:17 revision by the state department unaccompanied by any new legal or constitutional developments that dropped the parental status questions and began treating birthright as birthplace
3:30 as solely dispositive.
3:32 Now Jenks argued that while the Supreme Court blocked president Trump from changing birthright citizenship rules, it did leave the door open for Congress to change immigration rules. Jody.
3:42 Okay. Some more domestic news. Mary, a federal judge has delayed a case on access to abortion drugs until after the midterm elections. Can you walk us through the news of that
3:54 issue?
3:55 Sure. A federal judge has paused a lawsuit by Florida and Texas, which seeks to limit access to the abortion drug, mifepristone, nationwide. The judge has delayed the case while the Trump administration completes a
4:06 review a safety review, of of on the drug. The judge also rejected a motion by drug makers of mifeprostone, Gen BioPro, and Danko Laboratories, to dismiss the case. The
4:18 lawsuit has been paused until December 1st or until the FDA completes its review of the abortion drug, whichever comes 1st. Now the lawsuit, which was filed last December, challenges the FDA's initial approval of
4:29 mifepristone back in 2000. It challenges regulations adopted under president Obama and president Biden expanding access to the drug, including a rule in 20 23 allowing mifepristone to
4:41 be dispensed through the mail. Jody?
4:45 Okay. And, Mary, 1 other, region we've gotta go to is the Middle East. So much has been happening there. What are the latest developments?
4:54 Jody, Iran reportedly launched new attacks on US military bases earlier today in the Middle East. Iran says that these were retaliatory strikes in response to US military attacks, which they say included
5:06 a deadly strike on a wedding party. A spokesperson for Iran said that the Iranian military deployed dozens of attack drones to strike radar systems and US military garrisons at 2 air bases in the
5:18 UAE. Now Iran warned that if the US continued its military operations in the region, that it would face a stronger response. Iran also threatened any country, cooperating with US forces would have to
5:30 bear the resulting consequences. Earlier today, president Trump commented on the latest attack. Here's a clip.
5:36 We hit them last night because they took a shot at us in Jordan at our base in Jordan. We knocked all of them down. There were, I guess, 8 missiles that were shot. We they were all knocked down.
5:48 President Trump told reporters that the renewed US campaign against Iran would not continue for too long. Jody?
5:56 Alright, Mary. Thank you so much for getting us kicked off as always. We appreciate it. I wanna turn our attention now to Capitol Hill and get a congressional perspective of some of the developments in the Middle
6:08 East. And joining me now is congressman Marlon Stutzman. He's a member of the House Freedom Caucus, and he is actively engaged in US foreign policy in the Middle East. He represents the 3rd
6:20 congressional district of Indiana. Congressman Stutzman, always great to see you, my friend. Welcome back to Washington Watch.
6:29 Thank you, Jody. Great to be with you. Great to see you as well.
6:33 Alright. Before we get to the Middle East, I did wanna get your thoughts on yesterday's vote in the house on a nonbinding resolution condemning socialism. Is
6:45 surprising to me. Only 8 Democrats broke from the party lines to vote with Republicans to, condemn socialism. Any surprises to you on that?
6:56 Yeah, Jody. Very surprising. I I I didn't think that many Democrats would vote to, to basically say communism and social or socialism is is okay in America. I mean, you know,
7:08 Ronald Reagan was fighting the communist for many years, and we that was the fight that we were all concerned about. And I think this is just a backdoor entry, to communism again, and the Democrat party has become,
7:21 the party that has embraced socialism. In fact, you see the socialist, candidates being elected across the country in in Democrat primaries. And, you know, this is very concerning. It should
7:32 be concerning to every American. You know, when people think of America, they think of freedom, whether it's religious freedom, whether it's, free enterprise, freedom of speech, and, we have to be very vigilant
7:44 through this election series, to be sure that we defeat any candidate who, wants to take America towards socialism.
7:53 Yep. I agree with you. It's really, really surprising. Turning now to the Middle East, the US and the Iranian regime have traded strikes as you know in recent days. And although the the 2 sides have been trying to avoid
8:05 a full scale war, Some believe that we could be at a tipping point. What do you think?
8:11 Well, you know, I I definitely think that, Iran is trying to hold on every to every bit of bit of power that they possibly can muster. I I think that they're a country that is of course, the leadership
8:23 there, the IRGC is the, the the problem here, and I I do think that they need to be removed, eliminated somehow. And what president Trump has done is he's decided that
8:35 this problem has gone on long enough. It's been happening it's it's been going on since 19 79, when the IRGC took, control of the country. You know, our military has done a
8:47 phenomenal job in being sure that they take out the assets of the IRGC. They have a lot of money. That's the 1 thing that Iran does have. They have the ability from the oil and
8:59 gas industry to build up a military, with assets, but we've taken a lot of those out, and we're still capable of doing more. And, you know, these are these are, zealots. You
9:11 you look at the other countries around Iran. You look at the UAE, which has been a great ally for us, even from the financial piece where they have stopped doing business with Iran.
9:23 They are a big financial center in the Middle East where a lot of money flows through the UAE. They've shut that off. You look at, Saudi Arabia, even Qatar, you know, is is trying to play the middleman and the and the,
9:35 mediator here, and we've we have them isolated. You know, even though Putin came out and said that he's gonna stand with Tehran, in this this war, he has very little ability because
9:47 of his conflict in Qatar. And so I'm not surprised by that that he stepped in. The sanctions that are, possibly gonna be voted on soon with Russia will put Russia even in in a difficult
9:58 spot, but I think we're winning. We just have to be vigilant. And that's 1 of the hard pieces, Jody, as you know. Campaign and elections come along. Even through those, moments, we still have to do the right thing and
10:10 defeat totalitarianism, defeat authoritarianism, and, we need to defeat people that want to, control people to the point of, you know, jihad. And that's, that's what's happening with the
10:21 IRGC.
10:23 Ona, in another part of the Middle East, there's a UN report that, reportedly is being circulated to other member states. But according to the Associated Press, which actually saw the report,
10:36 there was confirmation that Syria was constructing a a nuclear reactor under the leadership of ousted former president Assad. I know you have spent a lot of time and interest in the Syria. What are
10:48 your thoughts on that?
10:49 Yeah. Not surprising at all. Again, Assad was, he became a monster. Just like we see the monsters in Iran, they have no regard for their the people of their country. Assad
11:02 killed roughly 1000000 of his own people, and, of course, millions fled Syria during their civil wars. When I visited there, a little over a year ago, you know, the the stories that I heard from the
11:14 people were just unbelievable. I visited the prison that many were sent to that were tortured and finally just murdered. It was, it was almost like a a a
11:26 cattle operation where, Assad just would kill people who disagreed with him. He would bomb his own cities. The billions and billions of dollars of damage that were done there, because of a a
11:37 madman who, was was so afraid of his own people and had to build bigger weapons. So having a nuclear weapon by him, not surprised. The other thing too is he was an
11:49 asset and an ally to, president Putin and the Russians. And, again, we see where Russia is using these sorts of countries, Iran, Syria, and others to, to do their bidding and
12:01 use them as proxies in other parts of the world. And, so I believe that, you know, we're taking the right step forward. Having Assad gone is good for the Syrian people. We're watching closely, the new president,
12:13 president Alshara, who, has had a very checkered past, but has proven to at least keep the country stable and is talking with the Kurds, who are very good allies of the United States, where they
12:25 are merging their military and the government together. So positive steps are going on in Syria, but this again shows why we need to get rid of these mad people who want to, to to control a
12:37 country and use it for their own purposes, and it's a good thing that Assad is gone because he probably would have developed a nuclear weapon there.
12:44 Less than a minute to go, do you think that it's a good idea that the state department removed Syria's designation as a a state sponsor of terrorism?
12:54 I I do. And I think, you know, at some point and, you know, as a Christian, we believe in, you know, reconciliation. We believe in redemption. We believe in 2nd chances. While things are not perfect in Syria,
13:07 the the Christian heritage that is in Syria is incredible. Of course, Paul and the road to Damascus is such a great part of our own Christian heritage. There's Christians there that are looking for opportunities. The
13:19 country is very diverse, but, you know, with the sanctions that we had on them because of Assad and the label of, terrorism on them kept them from being able to grow their economy. So I think it's
13:31 it's good to give them a chance and move ahead. But, again, watch very closely to be sure that they don't take advantage of that.
13:38 Thank you so much for joining us today. Indiana congressman Marlon Stutzman, always great to see you. By the way, FRC has a new issue brief on Syria, and you can find it at f r c dot
13:50 org slash Syria. Alright. Stay with us. Much more Washington Watch is coming your way right after the break.
Birthright Citizenship, Abortion Drugs, and Socialism Resolution
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17:02 Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss filling in today for Tony. So glad to have you with us. Just a quick reminder, don't forget our Prevost Stand Summit is just a couple of weeks
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17:37 China, Russia, and India have gathered in Kyrgyzstan and other heads of states for a summit of their own is the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the SCO.
17:50 This is an organization that was founded in 2001 by China, Russia, and 4 central Asian states. Now it's a 10 member SCO, and they've been billed as
18:02 a counterweight to US global in, influence and a potentially emerging challenge, I might add. So just how serious of a threat could this be?
18:14 Well, joining us now to discuss this on the Patriot Mobile hotline is Asia expert Gordon Chang. He's a senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute and author of
18:25 Plan Red, China's Project to Destroy America. Might add real quickly also that you, can follow Gordon on x under the handle at Gordon g
18:37 Chang. Gordon, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you. Can you tell us a little bit more about the SEO and its members?
18:47 Yeah. Thanks, Jody. The SEO, which was originally known as the Shanghai 6, has become a grouping of countries that do not like the U. S. And China has been trying to use
18:59 it as an anti U. S. Organization, like they've tried to use the BRICS grouping for that purpose. What was fascinating about this 1, you know, normally, SEO summits are snooze
19:10 affairs. No 1 pays attention. Even people who are geopolitical addicts don't pay attention to SEO summits. This 1 was a little bit different, and the reason is because it comes at the time of the Iran
19:22 war. The Bishak declaration, which concluded the summit, was very anti US, very pro Iran, and Iran is a member of the SEO. What was fascinating,
19:34 Jody, was India. Now India signed on to that anti US declaration, but prime minister Modi gave the 1 speech, the only speech at the summit that didn't pledge
19:46 allegiance to Beijing. And so, really, what you've got is India very much a counterweight to China in China's organizations like the SEO, like the BRICS grouping.
19:59 Very, very interesting. So how is China using all of this? I mean, what I think we can all probably guess somewhat what the intention is, but how how are they and how do they plan to use
20:11 this?
20:13 Yeah. What they used it for was, 1st of all, to protect Iran, because Iran is basically China's proxy. So the declaration after the summit talked about condemning the US
20:25 attacks on Iran, declaring support for Iranian sovereignty, declaring support for Iran's peaceful nuclear weapons program.
20:37 And also, they supported, you know, multipolar world, which is China's code term for a world dominated by China where the US is no longer a factor.
20:48 So you've got all of these things that these are Chinese narratives, and China uses these organizations to propagate them. Most of the time, people don't listen, but this 1, this
21:00 summit was different. It was an important 1 because it comes at a critical moment in, this decade.
21:08 It sure does. You know, we hear a lot about Russia's war with Ukraine and, of course, the US, war with Iran. They seem in some degree
21:20 unrelated, But in reality, is it I I think it's fair to say that China at least seems to have their fingerprints on both of them. Is that accurate?
21:31 That is 100 percent accurate, Jody. Matter of fact, you can even say neither Iran nor Russia would be able to fight were it not for China's backing. So in
21:43 terms of the Ukraine war, China's support is across the board, including providing combat personnel. With regard to Iran, China supplied everything but combat personnel.
21:55 But this is serious because these 2 wars threaten, peace and stability could actually bring down everything because they're occurring at a very important moment and in a
22:07 moment where we could see other wars start. So this is really, I think, a critical turning point of our era.
22:16 Well and at the same time, Russia is hosting the 11th Eastern Economic Forum reportedly, at least with some 5000 representatives from 80 some odd countries.
22:28 Now this has been a forum historically that has served as Russia's primary international platform to stimulate foreign investment, and so forth. So
22:40 what have you heard so far about that particular forum this week?
22:45 Yeah. That's in Vladivostok, in Russia's Far East. The important point here is that China's state media is starting to propagate the narrative that Vladivostok
22:57 and a good portion of that Far East of Siberia should be China's. Now China has been the main investor in the Russian Far East. When you have a lot of Chinese
23:09 people crossing the border setting up, homes, and this is, you know, the Russians are apoplectic about this, but they don't have a choice because they cannot provide any sort
23:21 of, funds and support for the Far East beyond just minimal, support. So really what you've got right now is, the Russians are sort of in a impossible situation.
23:33 They need Chinese money, but they know that with Chinese money, they could lose their hold over Siberia.
23:40 So real quickly, we've got less than a minute. But, 1 other thing I wanna ask you. The relationship between, Russia and China, they they seem to be chumming up more and more and
23:52 more. How concerned are you about that real quickly?
23:57 I've gotta be extremely concerned. You know, Russia is called the junior partner, and that's right. But Russia is more important than we think in this partnership because the Russians go out and do what
24:09 Xi Jinping would like to do, knows he must do, but feels he can't do. And that is to go out and disrupt the world, directly. So Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin,
24:21 is very much, an important part in that enduring, no limits partnership as they call it.
24:29 So much happening all around the world. I tell you, Gordon, it's always, great to have you on here to try to break this down and to dissect it for us. I wanna thank you. Gordon Chang, senior
24:41 fellow at the Gatestone Institute. Alright. Coming up, we have more Washington Watch after the break. We're gonna go talk about some big issues coming out of the state of Kansas.
24:53 So stay with us. More to come on the other side of the break.
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DOJ Lawsuit Against Kansas Schools Over Secret Gender Transitions
27:02 You're tuned in to Washington Watch. Welcome back. I'm your host Jody Heiss filling in for Tony and so glad to have you joining us today. Yesterday, the Justice Department's civil rights
27:14 division, joined by the, US attorney for the District of Kansas, filed a 1st of its kind lawsuit against a Kansas City school district
27:26 over its transgender guideline. Now the department says the Kansas City Kansas Public Schools, also known as KCKPS, they've been directing staff to develop
27:38 and implement transitioning plans for children so called gender identity. And here's the key, they've been doing so without informing or obtaining consent from their
27:50 parents. And so doing, the district is violating laws designed to safeguard parental rights including the rights to access and oversee information collected
28:01 and maintained about their children in public schools. We are currently trying to get, Britney Jones who is the president of the Kansas Family Voice which is
28:13 the family policy council in Kansas. They do the same thing on the state level that FRC does on the national level. And we are trying right now, in fact, to get Britney
28:25 to give us the the latest on that. Until she comes, I want to bring in Mark Tapscott. Alright. I've just been informed. Britney is with us. So glad for that.
28:37 Mark, hang on. I may come back to you. Britney, welcome to Washington Watch. Good to have you.
28:44 Thank you so much for having me. I'm sorry for the delay.
28:49 That's that's no problem. Alright. Well, what what can you tell us about the the lawsuit, and, why are we in the situation right now that we're in in the, Kansas School
29:00 District?
29:02 Well, I mean, I think the easy answer to that is sin, in a fallen world. But the details I mean, unfortunately, this woke LGBTQ ideology has permeated so
29:14 much of the country in so many so many places, especially in the public school system. And what we're seeing, it's happening everywhere. It's not just Kansas, and I think it surprises people that it's happening in
29:24 Kansas. But, unfortunately, there are several school districts in Kansas, that are violating federal law by creating these gender identity support plans and hiding this information from parents.
29:36 And we're finding out that they've been transitioning kids in their schools, are allowing their kids are allowing kids to be transitioned, and then allowing the child to hide that from their parents. And we know that
29:46 there's federal laws that have for years said that you can't do that. You can't hide not only, files from parents, but you also can't, require kids to take a survey that the parent doesn't
29:57 consent to. And, unfortunately, these schools have been doing it for a long time, and we are so thankful that the DOJ and the DOE not only investigated what's happening in Kansas, but are now bringing a lawsuit against 1
30:09 of the school districts in Kansas to make sure Kansas kids are protected.
30:14 I think everyone is shocked when they hear that schools are doing this kind of things without parental notification or permission. I mean, that just seems unthinkable.
30:26 I mean, obviously, that undermines trust in schools. It certainly is a major disruption between families and public educators. What what's your thoughts on that?
30:37 Why why are they doing this type of thing?
30:43 Because they want to separate parents and children. They want the state to step in and raise these kids. They think that parents are harmful. We've heard this across the country. But when you
30:55 get down to it, and this is not every teacher, this is not every school district, but there are teachers, there are school district officials, administrators who want to separate parents and children so that they can
31:05 raise their children for them because they think they know better than a parent does what's best for that child. And we worked on a bill in Kansas. It was called the Give and Name Act quite a few, about 2 years ago. It
31:16 didn't make it through the the made it the senate didn't make it through the house. That would have protected, from this sort of thing. It would have ensured that these schools weren't doing this, and unfortunately,
31:26 they've been allowed to continue to do it because we didn't pass that bill. But we heard stories during that time of parents literally finding out their children were going by a different name in school, wearing
31:36 different clothes, using different pronouns, things that are super personal to that child. And their child was struggling, and they didn't know what to do. They didn't even know this was happening to their child, much
31:45 less have an ability to help and support that child and walk their child through that very painful process and help them get the real help and support they needed.
31:54 Well, this is obviously dangerous for for children. Is it fair to say that rather than educating and protecting kids that the school district here is
32:07 actually misleading them and putting them in harm's way? Is the school district responsible for misleading these kids down this path?
32:18 Unfortunately, when you create a system where you're hiding information from parents, where you are promoting this ideology to children that's harmful to them, that tells them that THAT THEY ARE BORN IN THE WRONG BODY.
32:28 I'M SORRY YOU CAN'T BE BORN IN THE WRONG BODY. YOU ARE DESIGNED ON PURPOSE FOR A PURPOSE. AND BY TELLING CHILDREN THAT SOMEHOW THEY SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THEM AND THEREFORE THEY NEED TO
32:40 CHOOSE THIS DIFFERENT IDENTITY AND THAT'S HARMING CHILDREN. And any school district where this is happening in the school where this is happening. It's not good for children. They're actually miseducating
32:52 children, and parents need to do what they can. They need to find out they need to have conversations with their teachers, their kids, their children's teachers and administrators. They need to go to school board
33:02 meetings. They need to vote in statewide elections. Like we've got a big election coming up in Kansas that will be a huge determiner on this particular question. And so it's important that voters get in and and
33:14 parents get informed and make sure that they know what's going on with their children in schools.
33:20 We say it around here. Pray, vote, stand. Brittany, thank you for standing. Brittany Jones, president of Kansas Family Voice. We appreciate you joining us so much today
33:32 on Washington Watch. Alright. Coming up next, we have a topic that probably is going to come as a shock to some of you. We're gonna be talking about Christian Socialism.
33:45 You heard me right. Christian Socialism, a new terminology. What does it mean? Is there a biblical case for it? We'll discuss it all next. Stay with us.Show more
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