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In this video 0:00 Global and National Issues Through a Biblical Lens7:15 Religious Freedom and Legal Battles24:48 Abortion Drug Trafficking and Legal Pushback33:59 Israel's Multi-Front Battle and Global Implications
Global and National Issues Through a Biblical Lens 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 and news0:12 makers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.0:19 We arrived here today with 1 goal, and the goal was to take, you know, what, you know, is 28 points or 26 points depending on which version as it continue to evolve and try to narrow the ones that were open items. And we0:31 have achieved that today in a very substantial way.0:35 That was US secretary of state Marco Rubio yesterday expressing hope for a peace deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. Welcome to this November 20 fourth edition of0:47 Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heiss, filling in this week for Tony Perkins, and so glad to have you on board with us. Alright. Coming up, Secretary of State Marco Rubio0:59 says progress has been made on a plan to end the war in Ukraine. But Kyiv's request for security guarantees remains unresolved and concerns over concessions1:11 to Russia certainly persist. General John Tyker will join me shortly to break down what this peace deal could mean. Plus, Missouri attorney general Catherine1:23 Hannaway is fighting Biden era FDA rules to let abortion drugs cross state lines even in the pro life states. She'll join us in a little while to discuss her fight to
1:35 stop these dangerous chemical abortion drugs. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky says
1:47 a proposed peace plan being discussed between the US and Europe now includes the right elements, although sensitive issues remain. But after the talks in Geneva, the plan has been
1:59 streamlined, and Zelensky says he'll now discuss the more delicate points directly with president Trump. And joining me now is Washington stand reporter, Casey Harper.
2:11 Casey, this is exciting news. Where's the hope for ending this war in Ukraine actually coming from? And, do you think there really is progress?
2:21 Yeah, Jody. Well, it's an interesting question. It's 1 that those all around the world have been watching closely as Rubio has been there for these peace talks. But the US said it made significant progress on crafting a
2:32 plan to end the war in Ukraine during those talks over the weekend, but no agreement was reached on how Kyiv could get those security guarantees amid concerns naturally about the threat posed by Russia.
2:43 Now US secretary of state Marco Rubio, he led the talks in Geneva with a high level Ukrainian delegation after Kyiv and its allies voiced alarm about a US backed plan because what they saw and others
2:55 saw as major concessions to Russia, and they pressed for changes.
2:59 It is probably the most productive day we have had on this issue, maybe in the maybe in the entirety of our engagement, but certainly in a very long time. But work remains. And and because this continues to be, a working
3:11 process, You know, the the the I don't wanna declare victory or finality here. There's still some work to be done, but we are much further ahead today at this time than we were when we began this morning and
3:23 where we were a week ago for certain.
3:26 Yeah. A lot of work to be done indeed. I think a key sticking points here, Jody, are the questions on the role of NATO and those security guarantees for Ukraine.
3:36 But now encouraging to hear that progress is seemingly really being made. Casey, I know another story that you've been following is a potential announcement from president Trump regarding
3:48 extending Obamacare subsidies for up to, 2 years. What are you hearing about that? What can you share with us?
3:56 Yeah, Jody. So the White House is expected, reportedly, to announce a plan to extend ACA premium subsidies for 2 more years. There's been reporting on this, and there's also reporting that they may be backing off of it
4:07 because of pushback from Republicans. But there's a plan in the mix that could be coming out any moment. So as you know, Americans are facing steep Obamacare premium hikes at the end of this year. And without something
4:18 being done, millions are set for major cost increases, which kinda proves the point what the critics have been making that the there's instability in these ACA marketplaces if they need these big cash infusions. So
4:30 what about this plan? Well, the plan reportedly includes new limits, such as income cap and required minimum monthly payments, which are changes that conservatives have been arguing for, though it's unlikely that they'll
4:41 actually vote for, any ACA subsidies. Now health insurers saw their stocks rise after the announcement even as questions remain on whether the Obamacare structure is driving premiums higher year after
4:53 year. Republicans, they say Democrats were willing to let the government shutdown stretch for 43 days over this very issue. And now the question is, is this gonna spark another shutdown in January
5:05 when, as you know, Jody, congress has to pass another government funding plan?
5:10 Wow. Yes. So much more ahead yet to go in that battle. Casey, let me let me get your your thoughts on this 1. A judge ruled today in the case, involving former
5:22 FBI director James Comey. I thought it was very interesting. What was that decision?
5:28 Yeah. That's right, Joey. So we're talking about a procedural ruling here, but a very big 1. So a federal judge has thrown out the criminal charges against former FBI director James Comey and New York AG Leticia James,
5:39 who famously went after president Trump. Now this ruling, found that the the appointed attorney to this case was unlawfully installed by the president. Who was that? Well, it's Lindsey Halligan,
5:51 a former personal lawyer to president Trump with no prosecutorial experience, and she was made the interim US attorney in September for the purpose of leading these investigations. But now this judge is pointing to
6:03 that very fact as the reason for dismissing it. So today's decision, it delivered it's a major setback for the DOJ's efforts to go after these high profile critics of president Trump, which are cases the president has
6:14 publicly pushed for. But the White House says it's not over. The DOJ will appeal. So it's definitely something to keep an eye on, Jody.
6:23 Yep. And we certainly will be keeping an eye on it. Well, Casey, thank you so much. I know this is the week of Thanksgiving. Before I let you go, any Thanksgiving news out there for you?
6:34 Yeah, Jody. I know sometimes I'm the Debbie Downer here with the news. But some holiday news. The White House kicked off the Christmas season today. First lady Melania Trump, she received the official Christmas tree of
6:45 fur from Sydney, Michigan, and she's celebrating, of course, the birth of Jesus Christ in this holiday season. White House tours are gonna resume December second after the renovations to the East Wing, including that
6:57 kind of controversial new ballroom. But the president and first lady are gonna mark the Thanksgiving traditions this week, and president Trump is supposed to pardon 2 turkeys on Tuesday in the season of faith, family,
7:08 and gratitude. But, Jody, those initial reports that the turkeys were going to be deported, I can confirm that's not true.
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7:17 Alright. Well, it looks like a beautiful tree. I'll tell you, I always love that time of year watching the the tree, there being lit up is just spectacular year after year. Casey, thank you so much for the updates. We
7:29 appreciate it. Alright. I wanna go back now to the latest developments on the Russia Ukraine war. And joining me now to discuss this is retired Brigadier General John Tigert. He's a former
7:41 assistant deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs. General Tigert, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always an honor to have you, sir.
7:50 Jody, the honor's all mine. Thanks for having me.
7:54 Alright. Well, first of all, let's, how about an update on how the fighting between Russia and Ukraine has been going here lately?
8:02 Jody, I think we've seen in the last 2 years essentially a stalemate. Russia has been taking some territory, but something like 1 percent of its overall
8:14 gains only in the last 2 years, which mean that there has been a lot of bloodshed for very little gain. And while maybe in Putin's mind, he's winning, the fact of the matter is he is
8:26 nowhere close to his maximalist aims that he envisioned almost
8:36 stalemate is a good way of describing it. So so let's start moving towards the the talks. What do you make of what's been coming out out at least of I I don't know if you call these hastily
8:48 arranged talks or not, but the talks in Geneva, what do you make of what you're hearing coming out of these talks?
8:55 Jody, what we've been hearing today and yesterday yesterday is far better than what we're hearing with respect to the 28 point plan later last week that it doesn't seem anymore like these
9:07 are Putin's talking points, that it does sound more like this is a way true way forward to see success for the end of the war, but also for US and Ukrainian
9:19 and European objectives. And I'm really happy that that team in Geneva over the weekend took a look at every point and every word in that initial 28 point plan and made sure that
9:31 they changed it to make it relevant to US interests and to Ukrainian interests as well. Always keeping in mind that it was Russia that started this war, that it's Russia that has
9:43 sustained this war, and and the only 1 that can make it stop is Putin. And we've gotta make it sufficiently painful for him so that he stops the war that's been going on for the last 4 years.
9:53 Yeah. Very well said. And I know there are a lot of concern over the original 28 plant point plan or 26 or whatever it was, but the the 1 that was leaked evidently no longer exists.
10:05 As you described, that was something there was really nothing other than talking points for for Vladimir Putin. But do we know how this new 19 point framework
10:17 or whatever the 1, that Europe seems to be countering, how how is this looking? Are we getting wind of what this looks like? Is this, as you seem to believe,
10:29 really more in line with an actual peace agreement?
10:34 Jody, I think there's 2 points that they considered heavily yesterday. The first 1 is that this is always gonna be a trade off between 3 primary factors, economy, geography, and
10:46 security. And I think those trade offs are all reasonable, but I think this deal hinges on security guarantees that we've got to assume that Russia's Russia and Putin
10:58 specifically are gonna lie and are gonna cheat. And unless we have ironclad security guarantees, then it just sets us up for the further phase of this conflict down the road.
11:10 And what I've been hearing about this abbreviated plan is that it's a lot heftier on US and European security guarantees, again, to hedge against the likelihood that Putin's gonna lie and Putin's gonna
11:22 cheat going forward.
11:24 Well, so are all back to, shall we say, trust but verify. We've heard that kind of thing before, but something similar, to take place now. A a Kremlin of official reportedly said
11:36 the European counter, the 1 that we're talking about now, does not work for Russia. So are we kinda getting back to where we started, or is there real headway
11:48 in these negotiations? Do you think in other words, is he just blowing smoke, or do you think we may really be going back to the drawing board?
11:57 Jody, I don't even think that the 28 point plan was gonna be sufficient for Putin because he really has this envisioning in his mind of taking over the totality of
12:09 Ukraine. And so I don't even think that was gonna work. I think going forward that this newly crafted plan does 2 things. Number 1, it puts the ball back in in Putin's court to
12:20 demonstrate that he never has been negotiating in good faith to begin with. And then number 2, I think it gives time for these recently implemented sanctions to start taking hold.
12:32 I actually think that the strictness of those sanctions from a couple of weeks ago that impact up to 50 percent of the revenue that comes into the Kremlin is the best way to up the ante
12:44 of pain for Putin so he realizes that the costs and risks are not worth continuing this war. And I think the longer we give those sanctions a chance to work and demonstrate that he's never
12:56 been interested in negotiating in good faith, then it gives us a chance to, again, remind ourselves that the reason we're in this mess is because of Putin, and we must up the cost and the risks so
13:08 that he realizes it is in his best interest to stop this conflict.
13:13 Well, I tell you, general Tiger, we always love having you on. Your ability to break this down and and give a good perspective is always appreciated. Thank you so much, general John Teichart, for joining us today on
13:25 Washington Watch.
13:27 Jody, I'm grateful for you and Tony at FRC. Thank you very much.
13:32 Alright. Happy Thanksgiving to you. Our friends coming up, we have a single mom in the state of Maine that has catch this. She has been barred from taking her 12 year old
13:44 daughter to church. Her case is gonna be heard before the Maine Supreme Court tomorrow. Matt Staver from Liberty Council will be joining me next to unpack of all
13:56 of this, so don't go away. You wanna hear this. We'll be
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17:03 Good afternoon. Hope you're having a great day. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Hice filling in today for Tony, and thank you for tuning in. Alright. Tomorrow, the Maine Supreme Court will
17:15 be hearing oral arguments in the case of a single mom who has been barred by a custody order from taking her 12 year old daughter to church or religious
17:29 organizations. According to the custody order, the father took issue with his daughter attending Calvary Chapel Church in Portland because it teaches the Bible verse by verse,
17:41 chapter by chapter. So he hired a sociology professor who testified in court that it was evident that the church posed a potential for
17:53 psychological harm to the girl. Wow. Absolutely incredible. So what's at stake at this case? Not not just for the mother and the daughter,
18:05 but more broadly. Well, joining me now to discuss this is Matt Staver. He's the founder and chairman of Liberty Council, which will argue in behalf of the mother Tamara. Matt, welcome back
18:17 to Washington Watch.
18:18 Thank you, Jody. I wish that your description was an exaggeration, but, sadly, it's not. It's actually even worse.
18:26 Yeah. That's
18:27 fucking thing.
18:27 That's what I wanted to say. Did I miss something here, or is this for real? It's unbelievable.
18:33 For real. It's for real. We weren't the trial attorneys, but we are the appellate attorneys. And we don't get involved in a lot of domestic custody type of cases unless they have a real significant religious freedom
18:45 component and this 1 certainly does, it jumps off the page. So this particular mother, Emily Bickford, she had Ava out of wedlock with Matthew Bradine over
18:56 12 years ago, and Ava now is 12. In January, she'll be 13. And so from the time that she was born until now, Ava has been in the primary custody
19:08 of her mom, Emily, and Matthew has had visitation rights. But so Emily and Ava start attending Calvary Chapel Church in Portland in May of 20 21, and then Ava, as an 11 year
19:20 old, wants to get baptized. Well, that sends, Matthew Burdine ballistic. So he runs to court, finds the sympathetic judge, brings this, as you said, the so called individual from,
19:33 California, a former sociology professor who testifies that churches that teach the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, that believe in heaven, hell, angels, demons,
19:45 salvation, and the second coming of Jesus. That those are cultic and they follow a Moses model when you have an authoritative right and wrong position based upon
19:57 the bible. That's the Moses model. But, you know, we thought Moses was a great leader, but she turned it into a bad example. And so the judge bought that, and then in the order, Jody, I've never seen
20:09 this. Every time the judge in this order mentions God, it's lowercase. Now everyone knows what that means. Instead of having an upper case g o d, God,
20:21 that signifies a significant supreme being, she lowercased it mocking the monotheistic religion and faith of Emily and Ava because
20:33 lowercase God means multiple gods, it means polytheism. So So she not only did that, she also says, by the way, that there's no evidence of harm to Ava from being introduced to
20:45 anything associated with the bible. But these kinds of teachings about heaven and hell, right and wrong, demons and angels, the second coming and so forth and having
20:56 salvation only through Jesus Christ and teaching the Bible, those kinds of teachings, even though there's no evidence of harm, they have the potential to cause psychological harm. So she removed all decision
21:08 making from the mom and put it into this atheist. And since December of 20 24, Emily has not been able to take her daughter to any church, religious event, Christmas event, Easter
21:20 event, hasn't been able to have bible studies with her, nothing. She couldn't go to a funeral, she couldn't go to a wedding. She cannot associate with any person with
21:32 Calvary Chapel of Portland that she's had friends for almost 4 years. She had to completely cut them off based on this court order and it doesn't just apply to Calvary Chapel, it
21:43 applies also to reading the Bible, having any exposure to religious literature, videos, or religious philosophy, whatever that is. This is unbelievably broad and unconstitutional.
21:55 Yeah. I was gonna say, I mean, this is a massive overreach, is it not?
22:01 Yeah. Absolutely. You know, it's So
22:03 so what are the implications of this? What what are the broader implications of this order, man? I mean, I know it's specifically this family, but what what potentially could go beyond this?
22:14 Well, we're at the Maine Supreme Court now, so it affects the entire state of Maine. And then in other states, other states rely upon other state Supreme Courts for precedent. And so this will set precedent not only
22:26 for Maine, but for other courts as well. If this is upheld, what this does to parents who are Christians is allow someone to have a total absolute veto that's
22:38 not reviewable by anyone, just an absolute veto over anything regarding Christianity, church, bible, events, you name it, friends, all of that
22:50 combined. That's why it's so significantly important. It's unbelievable that it's actually in print, but it is. And now it's at the Green Supreme Court. So continue to pray for Emily Bickford and her daughter, Ava,
23:02 and also, you know, even for Matthew that he has a change of heart. But the implications of this, Jody, are far beyond just this case. It affects people all over the country.
23:13 So what needs to happen here, and what do you anticipate is going to happen?
23:18 Well, there'll be 6 justices on the main Supreme Court, and we need to obviously get a majority of those to win this case. But we actually are raising the first amendment under the United States Constitution. So if the
23:30 main supreme court doesn't go the right way, we still have the US Supreme Court as a backup. However, as you know, it's hard to get cases before the supreme court. They only take about 1 percent. So, really, this is the
23:41 ultimate battle. So pray for Emily Bickford and her daughter, Ava, that we have a resounding victory.
23:48 Alright. The fact that the the judge used a little g for God here, would this also apply not just to Christianity, but any kind of religious teaching from, any, any any
23:59 position, that may be deemed religious?
24:03 Yeah. And in fact, you know, we've actually made this argument that it's insulting to to all different religions that are monotheistic, particularly, you know, Christianity and Judaism. And to even use the phrase model
24:15 as though it's a bad thing. It's really an insult to against Christianity in in our Judeo Christian faith.
24:23 Absolutely. Unbelievable. We will be following this. Thank you, Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Council. Always great to have you. Thank you for this. And God speed. God be with you and all tomorrow
24:35 as you deal with the Maine Supreme Court. Thanks for joining us today.
24:39 Thank you, Jody. My pleasure.
24:41 Alright. Coming up, there's a new legal effort to stop the trafficking of dangerous abortion drugs across state lines. More legal battles all over the place. Missouri attorney general
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27:03 Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heise filling in for Tony. Thank you for joining us. Alright. There is growing pushback against the Biden era FDA
27:15 policies that have allowed dangerous abortion drugs to be trafficked across state lines, including into states with pro life laws. And among the latest efforts is 1
27:27 by Missouri's attorney general who last week filed a new challenge to stop these dangerous high risk chemical drugs drugs from flooding the country through mail order distribution. And
27:39 joining me now to discuss this is Missouri attorney general Katherine Hanaway. Attorney general Hanaway, welcome to Washington Watch. We appreciate you coming on board with us.
27:50 Thank you very much, congressman, or should I say pastor or just all around good guy?
27:57 Your your call. It it it is fine. Listen, federal law, as we all know, has long prohibited sending abortion drugs through the mail, but, that's not stopping
28:09 these abortion traffickers right now, is it?
28:12 Yeah. We are very concerned about particularly the drug methopressone, which, you know, causes a chemical abortion often later in pregnancy
28:24 and that these women right now are not required to be seeing a doctor. And we're terribly concerned for the health of the women, not only the fact that they're terminating
28:36 pregnancy, but that there's real risk to the woman that she could have side effects that could be life threatening.
28:44 Yeah. So let's talk about the some of the side effects. You know? I mean, aside from violating federal law, I mean, these apportioned traffickers drug traffickers are undermining state laws.
28:56 But, can you capitalize on what you just said?
28:59 And what are some of the hospitals in Missouri seeing, as
28:59 a result of these drugs?
29:13 Term or at naming a pregnancy, but then their body has to deal with the deceased fetus and expel that from their body. And so when it doesn't go well,
29:25 they may bleed out. They may seize. They may have a stroke. It's it's a real threat to these women and their well-being. And if they don't understand that it is the
29:37 direct result of this drug, they might not seek medical attention right away. And what these hospitals are seeing is that these women are coming in in really critical condition. Whereas if they've been under
29:49 the care of a doctor the entire time, if they've been counseled as to what the risks are, they might have sought medical help much sooner or not needed it at all.
30:00 Wow. Yeah. And, is that the the abortion drug's own labeling, the information there roughly says that 1 in 25 women who take these chemical abortion drugs end up in the
30:12 emergency room. I can only imagine what kind of response there would be if some other product did that. But I would probably all know because
30:24 this is about abortion. Everybody says we need to keep it accessible and is totally safe. What do you make of that?
30:32 I think it's tragic that our culture has come to a point where a drug that ends the life of a baby is something that is and being protected by people. You're right.
30:44 If any other drug was killing people at a rate out of well, killing anyone, and here we have it's pretty much 100 percent effective against the
30:56 babies. But then to have 1 out of every 25 women having real critical health crises as a result, it
31:08 would be, there'd be an uproar. And, certainly, the trial lawyers would be at the front of the line to capitalize on that.
31:15 Yep. I'm sure you're right about that. So what are you asking the courts to do here? Walk us through what you're trying to accomplish.
31:23 Well, specifically, we're asking that the courts halt the sale until such time as there is a requirement that physicians be involved in delivering this care.
31:37 So when do you how long do you expect this process to take?
31:41 Well, sadly, we've already been in court on the drug of methopressone for a number of months. We've added the most recently approved by
31:53 the FDA generic drug, which is it it's still metopristone. It's just another generic. So I would anticipate that we're talking 6 months to a year before we really have
32:05 any action in this case.
32:08 Wow. A lot more damage to a lot more women can and babies, of course, can take place over that period of time. I think it's also worth noting that the Trump administration can also do something about this.
32:29 A
32:33 my message would be that there is a lot of harm to it being done to women. There's a lot of harm being done to babies. There are alternatives to this that are much more responsible,
32:45 and I would just ask that the FDA reconsider its approval of this drug and really think about the risk of just these pills showing up in the
32:56 mail to these women coming from who knows what source, often sources outside the United States, and to protect these women and to protect the unborn and withdraw
33:09 the approvals of these drugs.
33:12 Well, thank you so much, Missouri attorney general Catherine Hannaway. Thank you for your leadership on this, and thank you for joining us today on Washington Watch.
33:23 Thanks. Thank you, mister all around good guy. I really appreciate it, Jody. Thanks for having me.
33:28 Well, it is my honor. Happy Thanksgiving. Alright. By the way, we here at FRC have a petition calling on the Trump administration to restore and strengthen those FDA safety standards for
33:39 mifepristone. And we're asking them to, direct the Department of Justice to enforce federal law. We ask you to get on board with that petition. Text the word life to 6 7
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