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Navigating Political and Spiritual Challenges 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 world world view. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.0:19 Just wanted to come out and say that we believe the long national nightmare will be over tonight. It was completely and utterly foolish and pointless in the end as we said all along. I I just wanna apologize to0:31 any Americans who are out there who still have flight cancellations or delays today. I wanna apologize to the many American families who are made to go hungry.0:41 That was house speaker Mike Johnson expressing his optimism on the vote to end the longest government shutdown in American history. Welcome to this November twelfth edition of Washington Watch.0:53 I'm your host, Jody Heise. I'm honored to be sitting in today for Tony Perkins, and thank you so much for joining us. Alright. Coming up, among other things, lawmakers are back in Washington.1:05 They are actually voting on a deal that could finally end the government shutdown. The house is literally casting votes right now, and congressman Kevin Hearn will be joining1:17 us shortly live from Capitol Hill with the latest on this crucial vote. And on the international front, South Korea's former prime minister was arrested today.1:29 This is raising concerns that the country may be sliding towards authoritarian rule, and Asia expert Gordon Chang will be joining us to discuss what this means for the nation's future
1:41 as well as its Christian community. Alright. After nearly 2 months of deadlock,
1:53 congress is moving to reopen the government. A stopgap funding bill, which by the way is backed by president Trump, is aiming to get federal workers paid to get food
2:05 programs running and to get air traffic control back on track. And joining me now is Washington's stand reporter, Casey Harper. Casey, wow. It's been a long time coming. Is
2:17 it actually gonna get across the finish line tonight?
2:20 Well, it looks like it will, Jody. So the house is expected to pass the stopgap funding bill and finally end the longest shutdown in US history. Republicans, of course, led by house speaker Mike Johnson, and as you said,
2:32 with president Trump's backing, are pushing this bill through the house.
2:35 I just wanna say that we're very optimistic about, the vote tally tonight. We think this is gonna happen, and, we're sorry that it took this long. So, Republicans are gonna deliver for the people. We're ready to get back
2:46 to our legislative agenda. We have a very aggressive calendar for the remainder of this year. There'll be some long days and nights here, some long, working weeks, but we will get this thing back on track. So thank you
2:56 all. Stay tuned for more today.
2:58 Well, Johnson's apologizing, but, really, senate Democrats have been the 1 holding the line here. But finally, 8 of those Democrats broke with their party to support the bill. Now the funding pack package would keep the
3:09 government running through January thirtieth, through the holidays, thankfully, and it could be signed into law by president Trump. Who did, Jody, call the senate passage, quote, a very big victory?
3:21 Wow. Well, you know, I'm actually hearing, Casey, that this issue itself could play a role in next year's midterm elections. And so that political battle is already
3:32 heating up, and this isn't the only issue. There's the also the issue of redistricting, and there's some more information taking place on that. What's up?
3:42 Yeah. That's right. We're already in midterm season, and risk redistricting is a big part of that. Here's here's a new update. A Utah judge overturned the state's Republican drawn congressional map. That judge said he
3:53 gave Republicans an unfair advantage, but critics call the ruling judicial overreach. Now the judge went ahead and replaced the legislature's map with 1 of their own drawn by outside voting rights groups.
4:05 Now this new map creates a democratic leaning district that could actually flip a house seat to Democrats next year. Republican lawmakers defended their map saying it fairly represented Utah voters and kept
4:16 communities together. Now this ruling follows California voters approval of prop 50, which offsets GOP gains made by redistricting in Texas. So the Utah ruling, Texas,
4:28 California, it's all part of this nationwide fight as courts in multiple states get involved as this rewriting of the maps and the redrawing of the maps happens ahead of next year's midterm, Jody.
4:41 Wow. Alright, Casey. Real quickly, let's, draw our attention to some international news. There's reports that some pastors continue to be arrested in China as the Communist Party
4:53 is ramping up its crackdown on Christians and churches there. What's the latest?
4:59 Yeah, Jody. So 3 laid, leaders of Xi'an's unregistered church of abundance have been arrested by Chinese authorities on fraud charges. Now these pastors were previously imprisoned for nearly 3
5:10 years and released on bail earlier this year. But 1 of those pastors who's actually 71 has serious health issues, and church members report he was physically abused during the arrest. Critics say these
5:22 charges are baseless and just part of the CCP's long standing ongoing effort to control unregistered Christian churches, and, of course, it just increases those concerns over religious freedom in China.
5:34 In fact, last month, nearly 30 leaders and members of Zion Church were also arrested or went missing in a broader crackdown on house churches in China.
5:45 Wow. Well, a little bit later in the program, Casey, we're gonna be digging deeper into this issue and go further with the latest developments in China and South Korea. Asia expert Gordon Chang
5:57 will be joining us. Casey, thank you so much for giving us the headlines. We appreciate it. Alright. I wanna go deeper into the, government shutdown that could very well be coming
6:09 to an end later this evening. Joining me now to discuss this is congressman Kevin Hearn. He's the chair of the Republican policy committee and a member of the ways and means committee. He represents the first
6:21 congressional district of Oklahoma. Congressman Hearn, thank you for joining us, and welcome back to Washington Watch.
6:29 Jody, it's always good to be with you.
6:31 Well, it's great to have you. I know you've got a lot going on right there. A lot of, plates are spinning. Thanks for taking time. I know votes are actually taking place. But walk us through congressman Hurr. What's it
6:42 been like the last couple of days? Is is got to have been a an absolute whirlwind there?
6:48 Well, it's sort of been very frustrating to see that on September nineteenth, the house passed a clean CR. Every single Democrat voted against, keeping the government open, with the exception of 1, Jared Golden from,
7:00 Maine. And, he's now now sees not running again because the far left pressure on him has been intense for doing the right thing. But again, every single Democrat on September nineteenth voted against keeping the the
7:11 House open. And now then the Democrats, in the House are trying to make excuses of why they're going to vote again to close the government down. Every single Democrat, we expect, will vote against it. We're they're
7:23 debating the rule right now. We'll be voting here in about 5 minutes. Been on the senate side, we appreciate the 8 Republican senators who came forward and decided the suffering, leveraging the American people,
7:34 42000000 SNAP benefit recipients, the air traffic controllers, the military, the federal police officers, and so many others that protect us in
7:43 this nation. The Democrats have held them hostage. They've used their own comments to say that they're using that for leverage to try to repair the broken Obamacare that they passed in 20 10 when they said it would
7:55 fix all
7:55 of our health care issues. And now they're saying, well well well, we need other relief. We need more money. We need 40000000000 dollars or more a year. It's just, it's really sad what they've done to the American
8:05 economy, the American people over the last 42 days.
8:09 Yeah. It really is stunning to hear you say that you don't expect any of them to, vote to open the government. That's, that's shocking. So what does the rest of the evening look like? What do you
8:21 anticipate is gonna happen?
8:23 So they're debating the rule, which sets out the guidelines about which what's in the bill, what's gonna be voted on. That will happen, here in about 5 more minutes, and then we'll debate, we'll debate the actual bill
8:34 afterwards. It should be finished around 7 30 tonight, 7 30 to 8. I I have full confidence, as the speaker mentioned earlier in the opening comments, that we will get this passed. The government will be open back up
8:45 tonight. All of the things will start unwinding that's been closed down over the last few days, certainly since October first. And, America will come back to normal. Hopefully, we get everything back to normal before
8:56 Thanksgiving. So, it's very, it's very sad for the American people. The suffering that's occurred, certainly, shouldn't have happened. In any other time, it probably wouldn't have, but the the Democrats
9:08 hate, president Trump so badly that they were willing to sacrifice the American people for it.
9:14 I I saw that there's a provision in the senate bill that would allow Republican lawmakers that were targeted by Jack Smith's, Arctic Frost, which people are becoming more familiar with. But that whole investigation,
9:26 these folks could, receive compensation if they take legal action against the government. What's your thoughts on that?
9:34 Well, certainly the American people are gonna be very concerned about that. That's why, congressman Austin Scott from Georgia introduced is gonna introduce an amendment to that next week that we'll vote on. I'm certain
9:43 it'll pass the congress that will push back on the senate for doing that. I I understand the frustration from the senators. We actually have 1 house member, congressman Mike Kelly from Pennsylvania that also had his
9:53 phone records tapped. But it's it's really kind of interesting that during this whole Biden administration, how they tried to weaponize the DOJ, how they protected, Biden's, son Hunter,
10:05 in his involvement in China and Ukraine and other places around the world. The, you know, the the Democrats love to tout the, the idea of a corruption in this government. There will be never an administration
10:17 like the 1 we saw the last 4 years that had so much corruption from foreign intervention, whether it was the Russia gate from president Trump's first, time until what we've seen time and time again to leading up to what
10:29 you're referencing, which was called Arctic Frost and the involvement of Jack Smith and judge Boseberg. Really scary for the American people. I'm sure, you know, what we all remember is Watergate pales in
10:40 comparison to what's happened in the last 10 years.
10:44 Wow. Well, I hope we get to the bottom of it all. And there there's gotta be accountability. I'm sure that's, something that you're working on and a topic for another day. I saw today, congressman Hearn,
10:56 that house minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries has filed a discharge petition to extend the Affordable Care Act, Obamacare subsidies, so those tax credits. Is there
11:08 any traction for that, do you think? Is that, going to go anywhere?
11:14 Well, I'm certain every Democrat will will sign on to that. It will take Republican votes. I think it's incumbent upon all of us to, remind our Republican colleagues that are not on the committee as a jurisdiction like
11:26 energy and commerce and ways and means of which I said of how much work we're currently doing on the health care issue. The reality is is that the all health insurance costs are going up for everybody.
11:37 People on private pay, almost 200000000 on private pay where they're working in a job and getting health insurance, they're gonna see rise of 10 to 15 to 20 percent in the in the private health care industry.
11:49 But what the Democrats are latching on to is the Affordable Care Act. I mean, it's in its name, how unaffordable it really is. I mean, probably the biggest testament toward that last night was Hakim
12:01 Jeffries at 10 o'clock last night said in the rules committee that health care is unaffordable to the American people. Well, it's their plan that they put together in 20 10 where they assured the American people.
12:13 And speaker Pelosi then said, we're you read we're we're gonna pass the bill, then you can read what's in it. And they assured everybody that health care costs would go down. You could keep your doctors. Hospitals will
12:22 be available, and none of that's been true. It's all been a lie.
12:27 Wow. Alright. So looking ahead, when all the dust settles that currently is floating around, how do you see the next couple of months playing out? What what's still ahead?
12:39 Well, the house and the senate will work, diligently with the the administration to work on reducing the cost to find ways to the people that are struggling on the most difficult areas of health care, those on the lower
12:51 income scales that are gonna make it very difficult to, ensure their take care of their health care costs, that we work on actually having structural changes to the health care system, working with the hospitals, working
13:01 with the pharmaceutical companies, working with the insurance companies to come together. I've had meetings today, with 2 of these groups already. The president, you saw what he's doing with the pharmaceutical companies
13:11 and the most favored nation work. He he understands. The president understands. He wants his legacy to be 1 that, you know, first and foremost, he kept taxes low for all Americans. You know, this
13:22 idea that somehow it's tax cuts for the rich is not true. The tax cuts he gave additional to the 20 17 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act were to those blue collar workers out there. No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. Right.
13:34 The
13:34 president wants to make sure that health care can be affordable to all Americans, not just those who are wealthy or in private pay.
13:41 Thank you so much, Oklahoma congressman Kevin Hearn. Always great to have you on the program, and thank you for taking time. I know you got a busy night ahead of you. Appreciate you joining us.
13:50 Thanks, Jerry. Take care.
13:52 Alright. Next next, we're going to discuss China and South Korea. Asia expert Gordon Chang will join me after the break, so stay with us.
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17:03 Welcome back to Washington Watch. I am Jody Hice. I'm honored to be sitting in today for Tony, and thank you for joining us as well. Alright. Over the past month, we have highlighted the crackdown that's taking place on
17:14 church leaders in China and more surprisingly, that is happening in South Korea. And, there's some more troubling developments that would certainly suggest that what
17:26 we've been seeing recently in the 2 countries may be the beginning of a very concerning sea change that's taking place. And joining me now to discuss this is
17:38 Asia expert Gordon Chang. He's a senior fellow at the Gates Stone Institute and author of Plan Red China's Project to Destroy America. And by the way, you can follow Gordon on
17:50 x under the handle Gordon at Gordon g Chang. Gordon, welcome back to Washington Watch. A lot going on.
17:58 Well, thank you so much, Jody. And, yes, there is a lot going on.
18:03 Alright. Let's start with South Korea. I think this is probably taking a lot of people by surprise, but the former prime minister there and the former National Intelligence Service
18:15 chief were arrested today. What can you tell us about that? What's going on?
18:20 Yes. About a hundred police officers swarmed the house of former prime minister Wong, and they were charging him, essentially with what they charged president Yoon before, and that
18:32 is aiding an insurrection. Now that's ridiculous. This is a bogus charge. But what they're gonna do to the prime minister is essentially the same as the previous president, and that they're
18:44 gonna hold him indefinitely on charges. And this is going to be, clearly per her persecution. And this is just a part of a broader crackdown
18:56 on freedom and on religion in South Korean society. President Lee Jae Myung is a ruthless leftist, and many of his senior advisers are essentially communist.
19:08 It's so troubling and unexpected. I think for a lot of people, this is kind of blindsided as I I think even more troubling is the the new president has told his police force that
19:20 hate speech and misinformation that's shared on social media must be considered a hate crime that goes beyond the limits of freedom of expression. He went on to say that,
19:32 it's a threat to democracy and that it it, deserves to to be punished severely. What does that tell us about who this individual is?
19:43 Well, Yi Jae inong is a leftist. There have been previous leftist presidents in South Korea before, 3 of them. But Yi is much more ruthless. He's much more determined, and he's probably much more of a communist
19:55 than his predecessors. And what Yi was referring to there is essentially speech against China. People on the streets say CCP out, and they consider that to be hate
20:07 speech. Now you can say the worst things about the United States on the streets of Korea, and they won't let you you know, they'll let you go. So demonstrations against the United States are
20:18 are permitted. Demonstrations against China are not.
20:24 Is there going to be any cozying up to North Korea, do you think?
20:28 Well, there will be because Yi is a leftist, and they have actually started initiatives with regard to North Korea. And that has been true of previous leftist presidents in South Korea. But
20:40 what Yi is doing, which is basically new, is really going fast to a relationship with Beijing. Now previous leftists have had relationships with the Chinese, but Yi
20:52 has gone much further. And that means we could end up with a military alliance with a country that is allied in effect with China.
21:02 Wow. A lot at stake here. So let me ask you this. We've just seen just to to kinda put a little perspective on this. We've just seen the Democrat socialist, Mamdani, elected as the new
21:14 mayor of New York. Is what's happening in South Korea a warning to us of what happens when you allow, pro socialism, pro communism elements
21:26 to infiltrate the government. Is is this an example of what could happen?
21:32 Oh, absolutely. And in South Korea, it's even worse because, what we have seen in national elections throughout this decade is, severe cases of irregularities, widespread
21:45 cheating. And because the leftist control the National Election Commission, there have been no investigations of this. So, basically, what happened in this year in the special
21:57 presidential election was a lot of fraud. Yi Jae Myung was elected president. He is now using the levers of government to turn South Korea from a democracy into at least an authoritarian
22:09 state. And, Jody, this is the possibility that South Korea will become a totalitarian state. We just don't know where this ends. And, yes, we've seen the same thing in the United States with
22:21 people who've been elected. You know, fortunately, we have more checks and balances in our country. We'll be able, I think, to restrain Mon Dami. But, in South Korea, there's no restraining Lee Jae Myung and
22:33 the communist that were elected along with him.
22:36 Yeah. And it's not just South Korea. I mean, we're we're seeing, more aggression in China, arresting more Christian leaders, recently an unregistered, house church there. What do you
22:48 know about that?
22:50 Yeah. About 2 weeks ago, there was a crackdown where 30 pastors were swept up. 1 of them was a large, what's a church, which was not part of the state's church
23:01 system. In China, they've got 5 so called patriotic churches. And if you're in, for instance, the the Protestant, patriotic church, when you go to services,
23:14 you don't worship Jesus Christ. You worship Xi Jinping. They have changed the Bible. Wow. They have replaced pictures of Jesus with those of sea. This really is a takeover of religion. And
23:26 that's why people don't go to the state churches. They go to the underground ones. And we saw the pastors from the underground churches being swept up this month.
23:36 Wow. Less than a minute, to go before a hard break, but there's also a shakeup in the military in China. Real quickly, what can you tell us about that?
23:46 Yeah. The New York Times says that it was Xi Jinping who's been shaking up the military. We saw in the middle of last month, 9 senior officers were removed, but there is evidence to suggest that Xi Jinping's adversaries
23:58 have been sweeping up Xi Jinping's supporters in the military, not Xi Jinping sacking his own people.
24:06 Wow. Yeah. So it's not only his people, but they're they're a growing threat worldwide, something that we all obviously need to have a close, close pulse
24:17 on. Gordon Chang, as always, it's an honor to have you on here. Your expertise is always welcome. We appreciate it. Senior fellow at Gatestone Institute. Again, thank you so much for joining us today
24:29 on Washington Watch.
24:31 Well, it's been my honor to talk to you, Jody. So thank you.
24:35 Alrighty. Alright. Coming up next, we're gonna keep the, pedal to the metal. We've got a lot to discuss on the issue of election integrity. Should mail in ballots
24:47 be counted even after election day? Well, the Supreme Court is looking into that question, and we'll discuss it next. So stick around. We'll be right back.
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27:02 Hope you're having a great day. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiss sitting in today for Tony. Alright. Earlier this week, the US Supreme Court agreed to take up a case against Mississippi's
27:15 law that allows mail in ballots to be counted even if they're received after election day. Now Mississippi is 1 of 16 states together with,
27:26 the District of Columbia that accepts mail in ballots that are received after election day as long as the ballots are postmarked on or before election day. But those who've
27:38 been fighting against these type of laws argue that this type of setup come is in direct conflict with federal law, and it certainly also undermines trust and confidence in our
27:50 elections. So the question is whether or not the Supreme Court will agree with that. Well, joining me now to discuss this is Kleta Mitchell. She is a senior legal fellow at CPI, the
28:02 Conservative Partnership Institute, and, also, she is the founder of the Election Integrity Network. Cleida, welcome back to Washington Watch. It's always an honor to have you.
28:13 Always an honor for me to be asked to be with you, Jody. I appreciate it.
28:17 Well, thank you. Alright. So I know we In fact, I was there as a member of congress in the oversight committee watching all of this
28:30 unfold right before our very eyes. In fact, I've written about it in my book Sacred Trust. But, Kleta, if you would, go back and remind us what happened to election policies during that time
28:42 of COVID.
28:44 Well, Jody, the, the Democrats in the left took to heart what Rahm Emanuel famously said, never let an emergency go to waste. And so they took
28:55 the opportunity under COVID to completely upend America's election laws in state after state after state. Mark Elias and the consolation of left wing, anti
29:07 integrity vote in voting groups, sued state after state to get rid of the, well, the safeguards that had been protecting our elections for for a
29:19 a century, really. And so 1 of the ways that they did that was to, and they had been moving to get, states, to accept ballots after
29:31 election day. It originally started, Jody, when they wanted they said military voters, overseas military voters. They're the we need to accept, ballots
29:43 received after election day because of the delay in getting ballots from military voters. But but that's just that's not even it's a pretext, and COVID was a pretext.
29:55 They want to be able to get ballots. Some states, it's up to 14 days. And it is it's really I I I will tell you that in my the state where I live, North
30:07 Carolina, they can accept ballots. It's supposed to be only from the military, but they they stop categorizing whether it's military or nonmilitary, and
30:19 they just accept ballots. And in Pennsylvania, they they have defended and started counting ballots with no postmark. So you don't know if it's postmarked before you don't know if it was sent
30:31 before or after the election. So these are really big problems. I'm so glad the Supreme Court hopefully will say that that, 2 United States code section 7,
30:43 which says the election day shall be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, shall be the that's it says that's the date of the federal election, even
30:55 numbered years. So let's hope that the Supreme Court will just uphold that law.
31:01 Absolutely. So let me ask you this. It's going out to the Supreme Court as as you've mentioned. Could a final ruling from them come in time to have a a an effect on
31:12 the 20 26 midterm elections?
31:15 Absolutely. Because the court will no doubt they've accepted the certiorari for this term. Arguments will be sometime between now and, say, the end of April, and the decision would come no later than the, June
31:27 thirtieth. So the decision will be, made before the November 20 26 election. And I just hope that they will uphold election day. Now then the next
31:39 thing we have to do is get states to stop having election season and start saying that if you're you know, some early voting, maybe 7 days, maybe 8 days, but having like,
31:50 Virginia has 45 days of early voting. They started voting in the in the for the November election in on September nineteenth. It's time to stop all that nonsense.
32:03 Wow. Alright, Cleida. Real quickly, while I have you here, 1 more thing I wanted to to hit on. There's a provision in the funding bill that's being voted on right now to end this, shutdown.
32:15 Allowing some Republican lawmakers who were targeted by Jack Smith's Arctic Frost investigation to receive compensation if they take legal action against the government. Let we've only got about a minute or so, but
32:27 what's your thoughts on that and this whole fallout from Arctic Frost?
32:31 Oh, we just got the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, with Arctic Frost. It was a massive, spying and investigative, tyrannical authoritarian investigation of president Trump and
32:43 everybody who was associated with him. It is typical, Jody, isn't it, that the United States Senate would take care of, 9 US senators when there literally are hundreds and hundreds of
32:54 individuals such as myself? They I I'd look I'd learned from the documents that, they obtained my credit rate my credit report from 3 different credit reporting
33:06 agencies. You tell me why. I don't know. But there are hundreds of people, individuals. There are dozens of conservative groups and Republican party groups and committees and all of the
33:18 Trump, campaign committees. So I just hope that they're going to provide for compensation and reimbursement that they'll take steps to do that for everybody and not just the senators.
33:31 Absolutely. Thank you so much. Cleida Mitchell, founder of Election Integrity Network, a great mover and shaker, and we're always thrilled to have you on Washington, Wallace. Thanks for joining us.
33:42 Thanks so much, Jody, for having me.
33:45 Alright. Coming up, I'll be joined by financial advisor David Bahnsen to talk about a couple of ideas from president Trump that he's floated, hopefully, to address the affordability issue out there. So don't go anywhere.
33:57 We've got a lot to cover, and we'll do so right after the break.
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