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On today’s Washington Watch episode, we take a look at the first-ever GOP Midterm Convention, the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and the upcoming 9-11 remembrances. We also consider the past, present, and future threats from radical Islamists and China, and reflect on the spiritual health of America.
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On today’s Washington Watch episode, we take a look at the first-ever GOP Midterm Convention, the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and the upcoming 9-11 remembrances. We also consider the past, present, and future threats from radical Islamists and China, and reflect on the spiritual health of America. ...more Show the full description Show less On today’s Washington Watch episode, we take a look at the first-ever GOP Midterm Convention, the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and the upcoming 9-11 remembrances. We also consider the past, present, and future threats from radical Islamists and China, and reflect on the spiritual health of America.
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In this video 0:00 The Stakes of the Midterm Elections5:14 Remembering 9/11 and Assessing Current Threats13:58 AI Risks, Guardrails, and International Cooperation17:38 Congressional Insights on AI Policy and the Midterm Convention28:23 Charlie Kirk's Legacy and the War on Reality
The Stakes of the Midterm Elections 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. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Casey Harper.0:19 In 55 days, Americans will be going to the polls in 1 of the most important elections in our country's history. Your vote will decide whether our country stumbles at the starting gate0:31 of the next 250 years or surges forward and never ever looks back.0:37 That was president Donald Trump last night speaking at the Republicans midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. Welcome to this Thursday, September 10th edition of Washington Watch. I'm Casey Harper, your guest host0:49 for today. Thanks for tuning in. Coming up, tonight is the 2nd night of the Republicans' 1st ever GOP midterm convention. Texas congressman Nathaniel Moran, a member of the House Ways and Means1:01 Committee, will join us to talk about the highlights and takeaways from the event. And 25 years after the 9 11 attacks, is radical Islamic terrorism still the greatest threat to1:13 America's national security? Looking ahead, what's likely to pose the greatest threat, and what might AI's role be in all that? Well, retired lieutenant colonel Bob McGinn, a senior fellow for national
1:25 security at FRC, will join us to discuss that and more. Plus, today marks 1 year since Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Doctor Frank Turek, a mentor of
1:37 Kirk's, who was with him when it happened, will join us to discuss his life and legacy as well as his new book, The War on Reality, Recovering Truth in a World that Celebrates Lies. All that and more straight
1:48 ahead. Let's begin with some campaign news. Tonight is day 2 of the Republican Party's 1st ever midterm convention
2:00 in Dallas. And joining us now to discuss is Washington Watch reporter, Mary Stackhouse. Mary, what happened last night, and what can we expect this evening?
2:09 Well, Casey, last night in his speech, president Trump urged folks to get out and vote. He made a big promise to voters too. He said that if Republicans keep control of Congress in November's midterm elections, that
2:20 every American adult would be issued a 5000 dollar Trump dividend. Now there's a caveat. He said that it would have to be spent here in America. Now during his speech, Iran also came up, and he warned it to be cautious.
2:32 He threatened that the US may strike Iran's pickaxe mountain. He also touted his policy achievements and highlighted his administration's work to protect women and children from trans ideologies and policies.
2:43 Here's president Trump last night issuing a challenge to Republican voters.
2:47 We will make our voices heard perhaps like never before. That's the beautiful challenge that the midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president, and we're gonna change
2:59 that, and we'll make it an even more important time in our country and presidency. It'll be something very special. We have to do it.
3:08 In a surprise move, Democratic senator John Fetterman made a brief appearance at the convention via video message. He said that he would always stand with Americans and that he would reject the extremes and socialism and
3:20 just that anti American way of life. President Trump also condemned socialism and communism, which has been rising in popularity among Democrats. Now in regard to those 5000 dollar Trump dividends, I wanna note that
3:32 Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council, and host of Washington Watch, shared a post on x saying, quote, the government does not produce wealth. It spends what it taxes or borrows from the American people.
3:44 If Washington collects more than it needs, return it through permanent tax relief. But a government deeply in debt should stop overspending and reduce that debt, not distribute borrowed money and call it a dividend. He
3:55 went on to say that returning a genuine surplus is 1 thing. Borrowing from our children and grandchildren to send checks to today's voters is something else entirely. Now tonight at the convention, vice president
4:07 JD Vance is scheduled to speak at 9 PM eastern with president Trump closing the event out. Casey?
4:13 Thanks, Mary. Very interesting. But I wanna shift now to a new poll about how Americans view 9 11 given the anniversary. Walk us through the findings of that survey.
4:23 Absolutely. Casey, a new poll shows just how great of an impact that 9 11 had on Americans. 25 years ago, now after the September 11th attacks, the survey reveals that roughly 0.5 of American adults still view the
4:35 tragedy as the single most important historic event of their lifetimes. 0.667 believe that it impacted the nation a great deal. About 30 percent of adults said that the attacks permanently altered the way that they live
4:46 their lives. Despite its lasting national imprint as evidenced by this poll, only about 10 percent of US adults adults have plans to do something in memory of the 25 year mark since the attacks.
4:58 Casey.
4:59 Alright. Thanks for the updates, Mary. I wanna continue the discussion on 9 11. In addition to the Ipsos poll, a separate poll by CBS News found that 74 percent of Americans
5:11 say remembering 9 11 is very important, But only 0.5, a little less than 0.5, 48 percent, believe the US is adequately prepared to deal with another terrorist attack today. So
Remembering 9/11 and Assessing Current Threats
5:23 as we look back and look ahead, where has radical Islam settled on the list of threats to national security? Well, joining us now to discuss this and more is retired US army lieutenant colonel Bob McGinnis. He's a
5:35 national security analyst who served at the Pentagon. He's currently a senior fellow for national security at Family Research Council. He's the author of 14 books, including the new AI cold war. Colonel McGinnis, welcome
5:46 back to Washington Watch.
5:48 No. Thanks, Casey.
5:49 So before we dive into some analysis here, I have to bring this up. You were at Family Research Council on 9 11 in person serving vice president as vice president for policy. When you look
6:01 back on that day in the aftermath, what stands out most to you?
6:06 Well, we are having a staff meeting, Casey, in the media center. I've just come back from overseas where intelligence officials said that they expected, you know, something, you know, very significant against
6:18 the United States based on terrorist, levels. And so that morning, someone walked in and said at at 9 after 9 o'clock in the morning that, the Twin Towers has
6:30 been struck by an airplane. And it wasn't, but a few minutes later, we heard an explosion in the distance, which ended up being the the Pentagon. And then, of course, the streets of Washington filled with
6:42 sirens and people and, you know, the day, you know, really turned upside down, especially for me in part because, you know, I was talking about the things that I knew about
6:54 terrorism. I never expected to, you know, fill the entire day with, that sort of, you know, dialogue and interviews, but it was very significant day.
7:03 You know, everyone kind of remembers where they were when 9 11 happened, assuming they're old enough to remember. But I think many people have maybe forgotten the source, and you hear a lot of people raising
7:15 questions. We've covered on the show. There's sort of a recasting of the narrative around 9 11. So I'll put this question to you. How does the threat of radical Islam today compare to 25 years ago?
7:28 Well, the threat hasn't gone away, but it's not nearly as significant as it was then in part because we've gone after them in their own territory. And, of course, we put defensive measures in the
7:40 United States such as homeland security, that pursues, that sort of issue. But it's still serious. It is persistent. It is still ideological.
7:52 But fortunately, the threat is more decentralized. It's it's really morphed into kind of a digital connection. There aren't training camps like we used to see in the, you know, late
8:03 nineties, and it's less dependent upon that sort of thing. But, you know, it's it's not a problem that's gonna go away completely, but it has dwarfed itself in comparison to, you you know, some of the
8:15 other things we face today.
8:18 No training camps we know of, but the the point is well taken. I mentioned that CBS News poll that found only 48 percent of Americans believe the US is adequately prepared to deal with the terrorist attack. Why do you
8:29 think they feel that way, and do you think they're
8:31 right? Well,
8:32 in part, it's because of the millions of people that came into this country illegally under the Biden administration that had had some pretty bad backgrounds. And so as a result, we have to deal with that
8:44 as well. And and some of those were terrorists, no doubt, or at least had sympathetic terrorist, you know, inclination. So that's something we have to take into account.
8:53 Well, you sort of mentioned the there's not training camps for terrorists anymore, but you've become an expert on AI. You've written, many books about it. At this point, we've had you on the outstanding podcast to talk
9:03 about the artificial intelligence and the threats there, but I've never made the connection between terrorism, radical Islamic terrorism, and AI. Doesn't even have to be radical Islamic, but it is the week of 9
9:15 11. Do you think that's a real threat? I mean, as AI gets more and more powerful and and more and more widespread, we've seen AI escape. Do you think that this could get into the wrong hands?
9:26 No. There's no question about it. In fact, there's an article in today's New York Times that talks about the anthropic trying to, shut down, users of its clawed,
9:39 GPT in order to make biological weapons. Now it's suspicious. I don't know that it's confirmed by, you know, authorities, but artificial intelligence, Casey, is a tool,
9:51 whoever uses it, and it can be used for both good and for evil. And no doubt, you know, our you know, terrorist groups, small radical nations, you know, criminal syndicates can use
10:02 this for cyber warfare, certainly for autonomous systems like drones, and attack, you know, airplanes like they tried to apparently
10:14 against, president Zelensky here recently. They can go after people in stadiums, you know, nuclear weapons. You know, there's no limit to how you can use artificial
10:26 intelligence to make the novice into an expert in the deployment of deadly means that are going to, you know, for whatever, political reasons, ideological reasons, or, you know,
10:38 some other excuse, maybe a a wealth excuse or blackmail. So these these are very, very serious capabilities.
10:46 Yeah. It's a pretty ominous picture, and you gave some pretty striking examples, drones, stadiums. I I think it's kind of feasible to wrap your mind around that. I wanna ask you, what about hacking and the potential for
10:58 hacking of infrastructure or shutting down the entire energy grid or hospitals or hospitals or even, you you know, using our, AI to drain bank accounts, to attack
11:10 the financial system. Is that realistic? Is that a Hollywood,
11:13 projection, or is there
11:13 something to that? No. It's very realistic.
11:18 Recently, the FBI, NSA, and others, published a report that indicated that, especially some Chinese, hackers, probably with the the
11:29 permission of the Chinese government, went after some in infrastructure. Now they can plant malware inside our electric grid or our water systems. We've already had a problem in 7 states with
11:41 water systems being, infiltrated by, AI entities. So this is the the new world we live in. You know, we can be attacked on infrastructure
11:53 or, you know, bank accounts. No wonder. You know, most of us are now using a 2nd way of, getting into our accounts and trying to put up firewalls to prevent outside hackers. And
12:05 these hackers now have, tools that, only a few years ago, were only imaginable, and they're incredibly effective. And so we'll probably end up going to 3 or 4
12:17 levels, of protection in the not so distant future in order to protect our personal wealth, as well as our safety, in a country that is now, you know, the target of all
12:28 sorts of, nefarious characters around the world.
12:32 Little over a minute left. We've painted a grim picture, escalating problems, but what are the solutions here?
12:39 Well, the solutions are you need guardrails. You need good defensive mechanisms. You need some international cooperation. We need to get congress to pass some laws. They haven't passed a
12:51 single law that's useful in what I've just described. Now the Trump administration's made a number of measures, that are important, but they aren't, you know, the color of law as
13:03 yet. So the international community has to come to agreement that there's got to be, some off limit areas. And I would hope that on the 24th of September when president Xi is
13:15 here with president Trump in Washington that they'll discuss these sorts of things. We need an international regimen on how to deal with this. Otherwise, these renegades, terrorists,
13:27 criminals, or rogue nations are gonna take advantage of this new capability, and it's gonna be to our all all to our disadvantage.
13:37 Well, it's hard to imagine trusting some of these nations to, to keep the rules that we set in place, but maybe that's our only option. We have to leave it there. Retired lieutenant colonel Bob McGinnis, thanks for
13:47 coming on. Really appreciate it.
13:49 Thanks, Casey.
13:50 Well, coming up, we're gonna dive deeper into the issue of AI with Texas congressman Nathaniel Moran. You don't wanna miss it. This is an important conversation. Stick around.
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Congressional Insights on AI Policy and the Midterm Convention
17:38 Anthropic of racing toward AI advancements without acting responsibly. Now this development comes as a government cybersecurity advisory has been released that revealed that several China
17:50 based AI companies are stealing American AI tech at an industrial scale. What do these developments suggest about where we are when it comes to AI and what needs to happen here? Well, joining
18:02 us now to discuss this and more is congressman Nathaniel Moran, a member of the house ways and means committee and the select committee on the Chinese Communist Party. He represents the 1st congressional district of my
18:13 home state of Texas. Congressman, welcome back to Washington Watch.
18:17 Hi, Casey. Great to be with you. I'm coming to you from Dallas, Texas at the RNC convention.
18:22 Well, that's great. I'd love to ask you before we dive into AI about that convention in Dallas. Can you share with us, you know, what have you been seeing and hearing at the convention so far?
18:31 Fraction. Yeah. We've had some great speeches. Really, the the drawing of the stark contrast between, capitalism and communism, the, the ideas of president Trump and the American people of freedom and faith and
18:43 liberty. And yesterday, we heard a great speech from, the lieutenant governor nominee, Shannon from Oklahoma who said 3 things. He said he was guided in his life by Christianity, by the constitution, by
18:55 capitalism. I thought, really, that was a remarkable speech from the youngest speaker of the house in Oklahoma that's now running to be the lieutenant governor there. Really set the stage for the difference between the
19:05 Republican Party and the Democratic Party.
19:07 You know, when you hear the Democrats talking so much about socialism these days, and many of them who aren't socialist being really unwilling to condemn it, you're not really overstating the case here.
19:17 Oh, no. I'm not overstating the case. They're they're leaning into it. I mean, they, they are consistently with every election getting further and further to the left and moving directly into communism. We gotta call it
19:27 what it is. It is communism versus capitalism. It is a rationality versus irrationality. And, frankly, we're headed down a a bad path if we do not reelect, republican congress
19:39 or republican senate and make sure that president Trump continues the great wins he's had in the last 2 years.
19:45 You know, I there's plenty of socialist communist countries you could happily move to, but that's just my opinion. What do I know? I do wanna ask you. This is pretty interesting. Democratic senator John Fetterman of
19:55 Pennsylvania gave Republicans a surprise visit last night. He appeared on video. He praised his Republican counterpart, senator Dave McCormick. He touted working with president Trump. What's your response to that?
20:08 Yeah. What what incredible courage senator Fetterman showed by doing that and how remarkable it is to, as a Democratic sitting senator, come, to a a Republican convention and introduce your friend, somebody
20:20 where he works with consistently and he talked about, as a close friend and somebody that he's willing to work with. I'm not sure he's gonna get quite quite the, the good reception when he goes back to Washington DC from
20:30 his democratic colleagues, but you know what? We'll take him on our side.
20:34 Yeah. Sometimes you can measure someone by their enemies, and maybe that's the case here. I do wanna ask you about something we talked about in the last segment, and that is the dangers of artificial intelligence. Now
20:44 you recently traveled to Berkeley to hear directly from these AI safety leaders. What was your takeaway there?
20:50 Unnecessary. Yeah. The takeaway is we have to take this seriously. We have to, approach this AI topic with, seriousness, with prudence, with wisdom, with actual courage to get something done
21:01 quickly. I mean, it's gonna have to be a bipartisan solution, and I don't think there is bipart there is partisanship formed already on this issue, and we need to keep it from being so because, AI is a great technology,
21:13 and we've but we've gotta keep it under human control. I filed a bill called the AI Incident Reporting Act earlier this summer, and then I have a bipartisan bill with Ted Lieu called the AI Killswitch Bill that would
21:23 help to, bring some of these incidences, to the forefront, for us to understand what's happening more quickly from the industry themselves as a mandatory reporting through the AI incident reporting
21:35 act. And then to the AI kill switch, they'll have a kill switch in place so that if these models get out of line and get beyond human control, we can turn them off. We can roll back the user access. We can do the things
21:46 we need to do to protect, human safety and, and our control.
21:51 Yeah. And I think these concerns are not unwarranted. I'm really glad to hear that you and your colleagues are talking about it. And I I mentioned, just at the top of this this segment that a researcher with the AI
22:01 company, Anthropic, said he was leaving his industry over this, and he's accusing OpenAI and Anthropic of being irresponsible by making these developments and not considering safety. I mean,
22:13 that's pretty alarming, isn't it?
22:15 Well, the these instances are certainly alarming, and I don't know the relationship between this guy and, and his company. And so I'm not gonna comment specifically about his departure except to say this, that we we
22:27 appreciate and want to, incentivize innovation. There's no reason to slow the innovation down, but we need to put some guardrails on it to keep it keep it safe as it continues along the way. I give people the
22:39 analogy all the time. You could drive your car faster if it has a brake in the car. If you don't have a brake in the car, you can't drive it very fast. We want innovation to be fast paced, but we also want to have a
22:50 break to slow down when necessary, to stop when necessary,
22:53 to pull off the side
22:54 of the road when it's absolutely necessary for national security interest, for the public safety interest. And that's what my bills do. Again, we don't wanna stifle innovation, and these companies have been good to
23:04 disclose these instances, when they've happened, but we wanna make sure that that continues in the future.
23:10 Well, that that makes a lot of sense. But there's also the issue of potential bad actors like China, which is stealing American AI tech, which we now know is coming at a huge, industrial scale according to, you know,
23:22 recent reports we've seen from the federal government. As a member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, how big of a concern is this to you, and how do we address it?
23:30 It's a massive, concern. China is using, old techniques to this new technology. They've always, been the chief, thief of our technologies, and then they've gone back
23:42 to undercut us, in their own country by subsidizing that industry and then coming back to America. So we need to stop them. They're using this process of distillation, to take our innovations and then to go back and
23:53 recreate them. We can do that through some export controls, through some trade negotiations, through a lot of discussions, because I think, China recognizes quickly that recursive self improvement,
24:05 is as much of a danger to or more than a danger to their command, economy and to their, communist government than it is to our government. So they have a a stake to come to the table and
24:17 then agree to some parameters, maybe some international principles that will guide AI going forward. We have to have those discussions. We had similar discussions with our adversary, Russia, when it came to, and the
24:29 Soviet Union when it came to, a nuclear arms race. We need to have that same discussion with the Chinese and others around the world to make sure that we can agree on a set of principles that will guide,
24:41 AI development in the future. But right now, we've got, the strength to force them to agree to things that we need them to.
24:47 Yeah. It's a great point. I think in apt comparison to the arms race. We have to leave it there. Thanks for joining us, Texas congressman Nathaniel Morin. Appreciate it. Coming up, more Washington Watch after the break.
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27:02 Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm your host, Casey Harper, filling in for Tony today. Now laws, they govern nearly every aspect of daily life from preventing drivers from speeding to the
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