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Today’s program looks at protecting female athletes, the role China is playing in persecuting Christians and undermining America, in consideration of the meetings between Presidents Trump and XI, the upcoming confirmation hearings of an important Trump nominee, and what we can learn from Karl Marx and D.L. Moody about our current cultural divide.
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Today’s program looks at protecting female athletes, the role China is playing in persecuting Christians and undermining America, in consideration of the meetings between Presidents Trump and XI, the upcoming confirmation hearings of an important Trump nominee, and what we can learn from Karl Marx and D.L. Moody about our current cultural divide. ...more Show the full description Show less Today’s program looks at protecting female athletes, the role China is playing in persecuting Christians and undermining America, in consideration of the meetings between Presidents Trump and XI, the upcoming confirmation hearings of an important Trump nominee, and what we can learn from Karl Marx and D.L. Moody about our current cultural divide.
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In this video 0:00 Global Threats and the United Nations General Assembly13:00 Protecting Fairness for Women in Sports17:00 The Threat of Radical Islam and Religious Freedom31:00 Mifepristone, FDA Leadership, and Protecting Women46:00 China’s War on Faith and the Gospel Versus Marxism
Global Threats and the United Nations General Assembly 0:01 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington, DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation's leaders and0:12 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.0:19 The relationship between the United States and China will define the 21st century. What happens in that relationship? The idea that we would not interact with them at the highest levels is irresponsible. It's outrageous.0:31 We have to. That doesn't mean we don't have strong disagreements. Of course, we do.0:35 I was secretary of state Marco Rubio earlier today at a press conference in New York City talking about tomorrow's meeting between president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping. Welcome to this0:47 Wednesday, September 23rd edition of Washington Watch. I'm Tony Perkins, your host. Thanks for joining us. Well, coming up, the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly continued today, bringing0:59 hundreds of world leaders to New York City. Congressman Randy Fine, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joins us to discuss today's developments, including a defiant speech from the Iranian1:11 president. And president Trump's nominee to lead the FDA faces her senate confirmation hearing tomorrow with the abortion drug mifepristone certain to be a major issue. Alabama attorney general
1:22 Steve Marshall joins us to discuss what's at stake. Plus, president Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping meet tomorrow for talks expected to include trade, technology, and, of course,
1:34 Iran. Former US ambassador at large for international religious freedom, Sam Brownback, joins me to discuss another issue that should be on the table, China's record on human rights and religious freedom.
1:47 All of that and more straight ahead. Alright. Today is day 2 of the annual general debate at the United General United
1:59 Nations General Assembly in New York. Joining us now to walk through the major developments is the Washington stand reporter, Casey Harper. Casey, so what stood stood out to you today from today's,
2:10 speeches?
2:11 Yeah. Thanks, Tony. Couple things. We're closely following these UN General Assembly speeches today, and we saw Iranian president Masoud Pozeshkian as well as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky give an address to the
2:23 world. Now starting with the former, the Iranian president really had a pretty defiant tone in his address to the nation or to the to the leaders gathered. He framed his country as a victim of terrorism, which is a bit
2:34 ironic in given they're the biggest state sponsor of terrorism. He said that foreign aggression has victimized Iran and that Iran would never surrender to the US. Now he did say he still believes in diplomacy. However,
2:45 his speech comes a day after president Trump threatened potentially annihilating Iran if a peace deal to end this conflict is not achieved. And on top of that, the US delegation walked out in protest of the Iranian
2:57 leader. Now Iran's president said Iran wanted nuclear tech for energy, not for military reasons, Tony. I guess we're just gonna have to trust him on that 1.
3:06 Yeah. You trust them.
3:08 Right.
3:09 Let's shift to, some news out of Washington here. The topic of fairness for female athletes was, front and center today on Capitol Hill. Casey, what came out of that hearing in the senate?
3:20 Yeah. The Washington stands covering this important hearing earlier today. US Senate Judiciary Committee held this hearing focused on standing up for women in sports and really just ensuring safety and fairness in that
3:31 regard. Now the hearing brought together legal experts, sports industry professional, and a former professional athlete to testify on this threat to fairness for female athletes. Now Kim Jones, who's cofounder of
3:43 the Independent Council on Women's Sports, testified about transgender athletes at the hearing. Here's a clip.
3:49 There is no reboot. There is no undo. No human can change sex, and this is why a women's category exists. To date, Icons has consulted with
4:01 dozens of national, international, and professional sports organizations on policy. We work directly with female athletes and back 3 federal lawsuits against the NCAA for violating the rights of
4:12 women.
4:13 Now the focus of today's testimony in particular centered around the protection of women and girls in sports act, which aims to amend title 9 to restrict participation to be based
4:25 strictly on biological sex at birth. Now that legislation passed the house back in January of 20 25, but it's currently stalled in the senate, Tony.
4:33 Well, maybe we should take that boot and kick it, kick it up a little bit. Get it through, get it through the upright. Alright, Casey. Thanks for the update.
4:42 Thanks, Tony.
4:44 Alright, folks. Let's, I I wanna go back to the the UN General Assembly where, Iran's president delivered a, as was described, a highly defiant speech earlier today. Joining
4:55 us now to discuss this and a bit more is congressman Randy Fine. He is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Friends of Judea and Samaria Caucus. He represents the 6th congressional district of
5:07 Florida. Congressman Fine, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us today.
5:12 Thanks for having me.
5:13 So I'm gonna jump right into this. I wanna get your take on, the Iranian president's remarks today.
5:20 Well, look. I I found them disgusting. You know, the idea that we let a terrorist organization, a country that we're fighting with into our country where they can avail themselves of our freedoms to come
5:32 in and lie at the United Nations as a joke. The United Nations itself is a joke. They actually voted to put Iran on a nuclear regulatory group, an organization that just
5:43 last week said Iran was violating it. Iran stood up and lied repeatedly, said no, no 1 in Gaza had been a terrorist, not a single person. And it was just disgusting.
5:55 I'm glad the United the United States walked out. But But the fact of the matter is we have to ask ourselves a question of why do we facilitate this mouthpiece for Muslim terrorists in the United States? I just don't
6:06 know the answer to that.
6:07 Yeah. What what I found, ironic is he was claiming that they were victims of terrorism. I mean, the the the those who are the the greatest,
6:19 terrorist threat and supporter of terrorism around the world says they're a victim of terrorism.
6:26 Well, look. That's Taqiyah right there. And look. You they funded October 7th. They fund the Houthis. They fund Hezbollah. They have funded so many terrorists. They have funded terrorists
6:37 who've tried to kill president Trump, and and they are the greatest source of short term danger around the world. And and the idea that we have to listen to these people talk, it's simply absurd.
6:49 President Trump needs to do what is necessary to end this Muslim terror regime in Iran and allow the Iranian people to rejoin the community of nations where I think they'll be an incredibly successful and vibrant country
7:01 once they throw off the yoke of mainstream Islam.
7:04 Speaking of terrorism, congressman Fine, you have been pushing to designate the council on American Islamic relations, CAR, as a foreign terrorist organization. What can you tell us
7:16 about that effort?
7:18 Well, they are a terrorist organization. They were they were funded by the Muslim Brotherhood. All of their people involved have been involved in other organizations that were involved. They were an unindicted
7:29 coconspirator in the Holy Land Foundation, trial a number of years back. And the executive director, a month after October 7th, said killing 1200 Jews made him happy.
7:41 And this is an organization that that clearly is a front group for Muslim terror, and it should be designated as such.
7:48 I'm gonna go back to the United Nations, General Assembly today because the French president, Macron, suggested today that Hamas isn't a factor in the West Bank. You know,
8:00 France now says, that they're trying to clean up what he had to say. They said that he meant Hamas doesn't govern there. That that's true. But Hamas certainly operates there. There is a record of
8:12 Hamas being a part of terrorist activity and and and funneling material into Judea and Samaria.
8:20 And within hours of him making that statement, Hamas killed a French person in Judea and Samaria. So the idea that the French president said that
8:32 it's disqualifying the fact of the matter. It's disgraceful to the French people, to the victims of Muslim terror that he would say that. And by the way, he says these things because France has
8:44 allowed their nation to be flooded with mainstream Muslims who do not share traditional French values, and now he feels the need to appease them. What we see in France
8:55 is a warning sign about what will happen in the United States if we do not take this threat more seriously.
9:01 I I think that's a a extremely important point because we've seen the same thing coming out of England, out of Great Britain. But but it's it's it's not just France. I mean, they're they're they're trying to change the
9:13 narrative. I mean, they're standing on the international stage. This is a president of a country making these statements. And, of course, he's referring he didn't refer to Judea and Samaria. He called it the West Bank.
9:24 They're doing everything they can to marginalize those Jews, these Israelis that are living in the heartland of that nation historically. That's where everything
9:36 we read about in our Bible, 80 percent of it, is found right there in Judea and Samaria.
9:41 When when Moses led the Jewish people to the promised land in Exodus, that where he could not go, where they entered was Judea and Samaria.
9:52 So it is the it is the heart root. It's the heartbeat of the Jewish people. It is the part that was in our history. And so to claim that it is occupied is is ridiculous, but we
10:04 have to understand why do politicians from Western Europe say these things. I don't even know that they believe them. But having now allowed mainstream Islam to run rampant
10:17 in their countries, they now have to cater to these people for votes. And I say this because Americans need to take this threat seriously. We will see our politicians
10:29 start to do it as well if we continue to import into this country people who hate our values.
10:36 Well, it is it's driven by fear. By the way, let me just mention I mentioned Macron. It was yesterday he made those comments, not today. But Uh-huh. This is it's because of fear and intimidation.
10:48 And and these political leaders cower at the at the face of this. And we need leaders who will stand up and and call it like it is. And I I was grateful for many of the the things
11:00 that president Trump said yesterday at the United Nations. He was very forthright, very clear in calling out Iran, black and white, no gray area. And I think we need that's what we need. We need there is good and there
11:11 is evil, and we need to be able to say that.
11:14 Absolutely. Look. There's evil in this world. We have to fight it every day. We have to acknowledge that civilizations that say cousin rape is acceptable, that marrying little girls is acceptable, that not allowing
11:26 women to go to school or to have to cover themselves from head to toe, that those civilizations are not as good as western civilization. And we have lost the willingness to say there is
11:38 good and there's evil in this world, and we need more people who are willing to stand up and fight for Judeo Christian values. Because if we don't, we will end up like Afghanistan or Iran. That's certainly the
11:49 direction that that France and the UK are moving in.
11:53 Congressman Fine, someone would say, well, in America, we have religious freedom, and so we have to let them, do that. I mean, how do you respond to that? Because they're they're they're proposing and undertaking
12:05 activities that are inconsistent with and opposed to our constitution, and we don't have to
12:10 I would take 2 things. I would take 2 things. Number 1, if I create a religion that says I don't have to pay taxes, can I just say, well, my religion forbids me? Or if I say I wanna have a religion that says I can eat
12:20 people or murder people, does that have to be allowed? No. There are guardrails on these things. And in mainstream Islam, in the countries that are governed by Sharia, the punishment for leaving Islam
12:32 is death. Now the freedom of religion means you have the right to practice your religion, but you have the right to not practice religion too. And any faith that says the consequence for leaving is death is not only not
12:44 protected by the 1st Amendment, it violates the 1st Amendment. And we need people to understand that that threat actually exists.
12:52 And so when when our leaders and others go silent in the face of that threat, you know, it marches on. And I think we need to, you know, we are very clearly
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13:04 a nation that allows religious freedom. But we're founded on a Judeo Christian religion. We're we're founded on a faith that allows other faiths. And as you pointed out, Islam does not allow those other faiths. In
13:16 fact, if you as you pointed out, if you convert from that faith, it's the end. That's not to say that's not, the way it is in the Jewish and the Christian faith. Congressman Randy Fine, I wanna thank you for
13:28 joining us. I wanna thank you for, constantly, leading out on these important issues and for also being a key part of the Judea and Samaria caucus.
13:36 Thanks for having me.
13:38 Alright. Alright, folks. Coming up, president Trump's nominee for the FDA, the the next leader of the Food and Drug Administration has her confirmation hearing tomorrow. 1 of the
13:49 big issues is mifepristone, the abortion drug. That's next.
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