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The status of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, potential implications for Ukraine-Russia, Christian persecution by the CCP, the 14th day of the government shutdown, and Charlie Kirk’s posthumous award.
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In this video 0:00 Global Challenges and Biblical Perspectives1:42 Middle East Peace and Domestic Challenges9:36 Religious Freedom and Global Leadership17:02 Navigating Peace and Global Influence
Global Challenges and Biblical Perspectives 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 and newsmakers,0:13 all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.0:18 If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. They know I'm not playing games, and it'll happen quickly and perhaps violently.0:26 We did something monumental.0:26 We got the hostages back. Something monumental. We got the hostages back.0:31 That was president Trump today at the White House saying that Hamas will be disarmed, and he's praising the Gaza ceasefire deal that he signed in Egypt. Welcome to this0:43 October fourteenth edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Jody Heiss, filling in today for Tony Perkins. Thank you for tuning in. Alright. Coming up today, a0:54 Trump brokered ceasefire certainly is bringing hope, but Hamas' executions and missing Israeli hostage bodies, well, those are tough questions.1:06 So is this ceasefire a rather fragile 1? And what will happen with the upcoming phase in all of this? Doctor AJ Nolte of Regent University's Israel Institute1:19 will join us later to break all of that down. And China is engaged even as we speak in some brutal crackdowns on churches. Some are saying this is the worst in
1:30 decades. Bob Fu is the founder of China Aid. He's also FRC senior fellow on international religious freedom. He will join us later live from Taiwan
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1:42 with new insights. Well, thanks to president Trump, a ceasefire was signed in Egypt
1:54 to stop the violence in Gaza and to free the hostages, and yet new videos now show Hamas executing 7 men who were accused of working with Israel. Once again,
2:06 just revealing the brutality of that group. And Hamas actually confirmed the video the video that has been seen as they're trying to tighten control of the area. And, of course, all of this is
2:18 taking place while the deceased hostages, the remains are still a key key challenge in all of this. Well, joining me now is Washington stand reporter, Casey Harper. Casey,
2:30 give us the the latest. What's unfolding in the Middle East as of now?
2:35 Yeah, Jody. Well, families of the Israeli hostages celebrated their release yesterday, but the families of those hostages confirmed dead are now demanding the return of their loved ones. So in a letter to the US special
2:47 envoy, the families
2:48 urged that maximum pressure be put on Hamas to fulfill
2:48 the ceasefire deal. Pressure be put on Hamas to fulfill the ceasefire deal. So far, and this is breaking news, Hamas has returned only 8 of the bodies with at least 20 more still missing
3:00 in Gaza. Now the international committee of the Red Cross said today that the returning of the bodies of hostages and detainees killed in the Israel Hamas war will take time. They called it a massive challenge
3:12 because many of those bodies are buried under rubble.
3:15 The research for human remains, it's, obviously, even bigger challenge, than, having, I would say, the people alive being released. That's a massive
3:27 challenge. As you know, there will be, human remains being handed over from both sides, Israeli authorities, but also, Hamas.
3:36 Meanwhile, as you shared earlier, Jody, many were troubled by that video inside the sight of Hamas fighters who have reemerged on the streets, carrying out those public executions, carrying firearms, and just to, you
3:48 know, taking retribution on those who collaborated with Israel. Also, almost 2000 Palestinians were released yesterday, but that raises serious concerns about the long term term stability because many of those released
3:59 have been identified as murderers or even terrorists. So despite the ceasefire and the hostages released, peace still remains pretty fragile, Jody.
4:09 Yeah. It really looks like an extremely delicate situation. If I can, Casey, let's turn back to DC. It's now day 14 of the shutdown. Doesn't appear to
4:21 be any kind of, end in sight. What can you tell us as to what's happening on Capitol Hill right
4:27 now? That's right, Jody. Well, the senate is set to vote for the eighth time on a bill to reopen the government, but it's expected to fail once again as Democrats continue pushing for their spending demands. Now high
4:38 house speaker Mike Johnson, he's kept the house in recess, and he says there's no reason to return until the senate acts. Now earlier today at the White House, president Trump, he blamed the Democrats and their woke
4:49 policies for this shutdown during a meeting with Argentina's president.
4:53 Schumer's a weakened politician. I mean, he's gonna finish his career as a failed he's a failed politician. He's allowed the radical left to take over the Democrat party. So
5:05 if they write books about that, if they write books about him, they're gonna have to say that he his career ended by allowing the radical left to take on the party. I mean, I won an election in a
5:17 landslide because people are not into the radical left and the Democrat party is. People didn't wanna see men playing in women's sports. They didn't wanna see transgender for everybody.
5:29 They didn't wanna see all of the different things that they do that's so crazy. Open borders.
5:34 The president, as usual, not mincing words there. But meanwhile, president Trump is using the shutdown to protect military and law enforcement pay while cutting waste in federal agencies. So the White House, they're
5:46 leading this effort, and they're using special authority to restructure the federal workforce and redirect funding to those core national priorities, Jody.
5:56 Thank you, Casey. We'll, in fact, here in just a moment, be discussing more with the this with congresswoman Claudia Tenney. But what what else are you tracking, Casey?
6:06 Yeah, Jody. Well, today at the White House, even as we speak, president Trump is awarding Charlie Kirk the presidential medal of freedom posthumously on what would have been his 30 second birthday. Now Kirk, who
6:18 was tragically killed last month, he left behind a grieving family. His wife, Erica Kirk, who received the award on his behalf. Turning Point USA COO Tyler Bauer, he called the ceremony a
6:30 deeply emotional but well deserved tribute, Jody.
6:35 Wow. Casey, thank you so much. Appreciate you giving us the highlights as to what's happening. Alright. I wanna go back now to unpack some of the latest regarding the government shutdown. And joining
6:47 me now to discuss this and more is congresswoman Claudia Tinney. She serves on several very important committees in the house, including the ways and means committee as well as the select committee on
6:58 intelligence. She does represent New York, the 20 fourth congressional district there. Congresswoman Tinney, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to have you.
7:08 Great to be on. Great to see
7:11 you. Okay. So, last week, senate minority leader Chuck Schumer was criticized heavily, when he told a reporter that when it comes to the shutdown, every day
7:23 gets better for us. And, of course, we're assuming us would would be referring to the Democrats in his mind. Well, today, president Trump says that the Democrats are literally getting
7:34 killed politically by this, ongoing shutdown. So what is it, if anything, that the Democrats think they're gaining in this?
7:45 Well, it's interesting. I I I just heard you, show the the clip of president Trump, and I think it's, really instruction instructive to listen to what the Democrats are actually saying and doing.
7:56 So, you know, I'm from New York, so we are, you know, hopefully to going to an avert a massive, danger, which is going to be the election of Zoran Mondami as the mayor of the city in New
8:08 York, which unfortunately looks like it's probably gonna happen. The the other thing is the Democrats are actually, you know, looking for some cause to counter Trump. And this theory was posed actually
8:20 by Nate Cohn, who's the political analyst for The New York Times. And, you know, they're not left leaning or right leaning at all. They're left leaning and, in fact, absurdly so at times. But he pointed out something
8:30 interesting, and they did a poll that last year, only 1 percent of, Americans actually are concerned about their health care. And so the Democrats know that's not the big issue, but they've used this
8:42 moment to create this crisis to focus attention on health care, to say that they wanna add, to this continuing resolution their own funding because it's a moment that they can get. They can shine a
8:54 spotlight. They can get a lot of attention. They can use this game or gimmick to get people back on health care, on issues that they've traditionally been good at. And this is argued by this Nate Cohn in his article.
9:04 Well, what's interesting is his base, they just wanna counter Trump. Anything Trump does, they wanna go against him. But the American people actually support a lot of Trump's policies, you know, talking about taking,
9:15 biological males out of women's sports, ending the DEI and going to merit based systems, dealing with the border and sealing the border and making sure that we're respecting our our, own citizens and making sure that
9:27 they're able to prosper, getting dangerous illegal cartel members out of our communities. Those things that president Trump is doing along with oh, by the way, probably the most important important Middle East peace
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9:39 deal in the entire world and probably in history, happening yesterday with president Trump in a real spectacle. And where are the free Palestine people today? You know what they're doing? They're out there complaining
9:50 that they still aren't getting enough, and then they're not for the ceasefire until Palestine gets everything they want. Palestine, you know, the Palestine plight industrial complex, as I call it, driven by Iran, Hamas,
10:01 to disrupt the Middle East. When yesterday you saw all these Middle Eastern leaders saying, enough. We want peace and prosperity. That's what we want. And, that's why I think the Democrats are losing on this
10:13 because people are like, you know, you wanna add 1500000000000.0 when we're 37000000000000 dollars in debt, and we're spending 2000000000000 dollars more a year than we're actually taking in. And our revenues, as you
10:25 said, I serve on the ways and means committee. We have the highest revenues into the US Treasury than we have ever had in the history of this country, and yet we're overspending, and we're seeing this huge deficit.
10:36 People wanna see us prosper, and president Trump knows that our greatest strength is our economic strength, our economic dominance, and, you know, a strong military and projecting that strength, which is why
10:48 he was able to do what he was able to do yesterday on the world stage with so many leaders of so many different countries, with divergent views.
10:57 Yeah. And I think you're you're spot on with that, congresswoman. And, you know, you look at all of this, the the Democrats, I think, are getting hammered with all of this. And at the same time, their ridiculous demands,
11:09 as you say, of another 1 and a half trillion dollars. But while they are demanding that, the the president, I mean, really, for many of us, a silver lining in all of this, is eliminating, most recently, the
11:21 Office of Population Affairs, which is, an agency heavily responsible for funding planned parenthood and pushing all sorts of sexualized material on our kids. But the president is
11:33 releasing a lot of people. The government is shrinking while the Democrats continue trying to push for what you're referring to is just, things are just simply not going to happen.
11:43 You know, and what's really important distinction there, what is the president dissolving? We have a lot of agencies, as you know, who served in Congress. We have decades old, you know, different missions, different
11:55 programs that are unauthorized but are continuing to be funded because the mission is over. And they're going back and saying, why we continue to fund these positions, these people, these that are not doing the job we
12:05 need to do. But at the same time, what president Trump is doing is finding ways to make sure our military gets paid. This is really important. He went and found an 8000000000 dollar research and development fund to be
12:17 sure that our military gets paid because it's not fair that our our military is not getting they're going to work. They're keeping us safe. And they're also, by the way, the shutdown, you know, having them unpaid, having
12:27 them not investing in, the readiness we need tomorrow, having them not invest in the technologies we need to counter our enemies. That is all being undermined and compromised by this shutdown because, number 1, we're in
12:38 a democratic, continuing resolution dispute. This is their funding level. But also president Trump has gone and found other creative ways like using the tariff money to actually fund the WIC program. So, truly poor, you
12:50 know, women and women with children are able to get their the milk and the and the food that they need to keep their children going. The Democrats don't care. It's all about cruelty and inflicting pain, and that's what
13:00 Chuck Schumer is talking about. We'll continue to inflict pain, and they'll have to they'll have to give in. But Trump's finding ways to actually protect the American people, to protect and respect the taxpayers, the
13:12 truly needy people in our communities, and especially our military. And yet we heard this morning that potentially some of the Democrats are thinking about suing the president so he can't get our troops paid because they
13:23 wanna continue to inflict pain so they can provide Medicaid at at, unconscionable levels to people who don't earn it and deserve it. And just a fact, Jody, 8000000 people in the
13:35 state of New York are on Medicaid or on what we call the
13:39 essential plan, which is extended Medicaid, and only 5000000
13:40 are eligible. So that's compromising real. They are the people that are truly real.
13:49 We're trying
13:49 to help them.
13:51 Congresswoman, thank you so much. Fantastic information. Stay tuned, friends. Much more coming your way right here on Washington Watch.
14:00 3 years ago, the Supreme Court issued its historic Dobbs decision, a ruling that
14:05 overturned Roe versus Wade, which for nearly 50 years imposed abortion on demand,
14:06 silencing voters and bypassing the abortion on demand, silencing voters and bypassing the democratic process across the country. The Dobbs decision was a huge step forward
14:17 against abortion, but it didn't outright ban it. It returned the power to the people. Now, 29 states have laws on the books protecting life. However, there's a catch.
14:29 Abortion numbers since Dobbs have actually gone up with an increase of 12 percent since 20 20, climbing from 930000 to over 1000000 in each of the most recent years.
14:41 So how can this be? The answer is simple, the abortion drug. Today, over 60 percent of US abortions involve abortion drugs, many of these without medical oversight.
14:53 In 20 21, the Biden administration quietly removed bare minimum long standing safety protocols for the abortion drug that have existed for 20 years to protect women from life threatening
15:05 risks and ensuring informed consent. The Biden DOJ then declared that they would not enforce the Comstock Act, which prevents the mailing of anything that causes an abortion. This is not only illegal,
15:17 but also dangerous. A study shows nearly 11 percent of women who take the abortion drug end up in the emergency room with serious complications. Unless the Trump administration
15:29 reverses these reckless Biden era policies, pro life laws will remain largely symbolic. Without a full review and repeal of mifepristone, unborn lives will remain
15:41 in grave danger and pregnant mothers will remain at risk. Let's stand for life and end this mail order abortion drug pipeline. Sign the petition urging the Trump administration to
15:53 take action at f r c dot org slash stop chemical abortion.
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