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Amid the great number of Americans coming together on the National Day of Prayer and news of young men returning to church and Christ, we are reminded of many things still in need of prayer. One special guest shares her tragic story resulting from taking abortion drugs without appropriate cautions from the medical community.
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In this video 0:00 Headlines: Iran Deal, Epstein Probe, and Primaries10:18 FDA's Reckless Abortion Pill Policy Exposed23:13 National Prayer and Gen Z's Biblical Worldview44:00 Abortion Pill Victims and Legal BattleComments No comments yet. Start the conversation.
Headlines: Iran Deal, Epstein Probe, and Primaries 0:00 Hello. I'm Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and host of Washington Watch. Thanks for tuning in. Every day, we offer a biblical perspective on the news as well as insightful interviews with elected0:12 leaders, newsmakers, and culture experts. We have a great program planned for you today, but first, get up to speed on the top headlines with Washington Stan's news brief.0:27 Welcome to the Washington Stan news brief. I'm Casey Harper bringing you today's big stories. The US and Iran may be close to a deal. A 14 point peace plan has been circulated between both nations, and0:39 media reports today suggest that the US and Iran could be on the verge of agreeing to a 1 page memo to end the war. At the White House today, president Trump said Iran wants to negotiate, but that he would not compromise0:51 on the nuclear issue, saying that the US would get that enriched Iran uranium, something that Iran has been opposed to up until this point.1:00 In the case of Iran, we're not gonna let Iran have a nuclear weapon. And we're not gonna let that happen. And, we won't let that happen. And so we're, we're dealing with people that wanna make1:12 a deal very much, and we'll see whether or not they can make a deal that's satisfactory to us.1:16 This news comes after the US announced Project Freedom, a military effort to escort ships out of the Strait of Hormuz only to abruptly pause that effort. But president Trump issued a new threat this morning
1:28 on truce social. He said that if Iran agrees to its latest proposal, Operation Epic Fury could be over along with the blockade of Iran. But if not, the bombing of Iran will resume worse than
1:40 before the ceasefire. 1 other news, the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein continues. Today, the House Oversight Committee questioned commerce secretary Howard Letnick, the latest high profile
1:52 official to face questions for alleged ties to the deceased Epstein. Here's the committee's chair, James Comer.
1:59 I've been on Oversight Committee 10 years, and there's never been a a chairman bring in cabinet secretaries of their own party. And this this we have Lutnick coming in
2:11 today. We have Pam Bondi coming in in a in a couple of weeks. So, I think people can see that this is a partisan investigation. We're really sincerely trying to get the truth. Our goal is to
2:23 provide justice for the victims, and and hopefully, today will be helpful.
2:27 The recently released Epstein files showed that Lutnick was doing business with Epstein as recently as 20 14 and even visited Epstein Island with his wife and children in 20 12 according to the documents. That
2:39 contradicts previous claims from Lutnick about his affiliation with Epstein. He told the senate in February that he quote barely had anything to do with Epstein.
2:49 This is something that, many of the members wanted to hear from Lutnick, and, I'll add he's come in voluntarily. So I appreciate that. Hopefully, we'll have some some more answers.
3:01 We haven't talked to too many people that have admitted they they've been on the island. So, to my understanding, he wasn't on the island very long when he was there with his wife and kids, but we'll we'll see what
3:12 he says. The White House has rebuffed calls for Lutnick's resignation. Well, back in the US, the results are in from primary elections in 3 states. And this all sets up a battle this
3:23 November. In Ohio, Democrat and former senator Sherrod Brown handily won his party's primary and will face off in the general election against Republican senator Jon Houston, who was appointed to replace
3:35 JD Vance's vacancy when he became vice president. In the state's governor's race, Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy won the Republican primary and will face off in the general election against Amy Acton. She's a
3:47 former state public health director who ran unopposed for that nomination. In Indiana, several Trump backed Republicans did well in their races. And in Michigan, Democrats won a state senate seat in a special
3:59 election. Well, for our last story, antisemitism in the UK is on the rise. In fact, British police are now setting up a new team of 100 officers to help protect Jewish communities
4:11 after a series of antisemitic attacks including the stabbing of 2 men. In recent weeks, there have been a number of high profile arson attacks with 4 Jewish ambulances burned and synagogues targeted.
4:23 Last week, 2 Jewish men were also stabbed. And over the past 4 weeks, police said they've arrested around 50 people for anti Semitic hate crimes and charged 8 of them. Well, that
4:35 is today's news. I'm Casey Harper. Check-in next time for more stories that matter.
4:53 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
5:05 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
5:11 We're in good shape. And, now we're doing well. Now we have to get what we have to get. If we don't do that, we'll have to go a big step further. But with that being said,
5:23 they wanna make a deal. We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it's very possible that we'll make a deal.
5:31 That was president Donald Trump earlier today talking about a potential deal to end the war with Iran. Welcome to this Wednesday, May sixth edition of Washington Watch. I'm your host, Tony Perkins. Thanks for joining
5:43 us. Well, coming up, Family Research Council filed its brief with the Supreme Court today in support of Louisiana's effort to challenge the FDA's policy on abortion by mail. We'll talk with attorney Christopher
5:54 Mills later in the program. Also, congresswoman Diana Harshbarger, a pharmacist by trade, joins us to discuss this case that's before the court. Plus, Arizona Christian University president Lynn
6:06 Munsell will walk us through a newly released biblical worldview survey of Gen z and what it reveals about how they review how they view religion. All of that and more straight
6:17 ahead. Well, primary elections were held yesterday in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. The results suggest
6:29 GOP remains stronger than many in the media portray and that the top issue on voters' minds continues to be the economy. Joining us now to, discuss the results is Washington
6:41 stand reporter Casey Harper. Casey, welcome. Hey. Thanks, Tony. Alright. So what were the main takeaways from, the elections yesterday?
6:49 Yeah, Tony. Everyone's trying to parse the tea leaves here to read into November. I'll go state by state. First off, in Indiana, Trump, endorsed candidates, did pretty well. They received 8000000 dollars, and they won 5
7:00 state senate races against the incumbents. Now notably, those incumbents oppose president Trump's plan to redraw the state's congressional map in a way that we've seen in other states around the country. Now over in
7:11 Michigan, a Democrat won a special election for a state senate seat. And then over in Ohio, there was, several big races that could have national implications. First off, Vivek Ramaswamy, who is a
7:23 longtime Trump ally and was backed by the president, he overwhelmingly won the Republican primary for governor. And then the only Democrat on the ballot was Amy Acton, and and she naturally won hers. Now former
7:34 Democratic senator Sherrod Brown, also in Ohio, won the nomination for US senate, is gonna be a tough competitor for his opponent Republican senator John Husted, who was, of course, appointed to replace,
7:47 vice president JD Vance when he went to the White House. So, you know, you could read this different ways, but definitely a a big night around the country.
7:54 Yeah. And it's just the first wave of, many to come in this primary season. Now there, I wanna move to the international front. There are reports that the US and Iran are getting close, to
8:06 an agreement, a 1 page memo that would end the war. What are the late what's the latest in this?
8:11 That's right. Kind of out of nowhere, Tony, we have this news that there is this we we had the 14 point peace plan sort of over the weekend that, was going back and forth, but there wasn't a lot of hope of it and on it.
8:21 And now we have this 1 page memo that there seems to be, real steam behind a lot of momentum. Now the US expects to hear from Iran on some key points within the next couple of days. There's been a lot of mixed messages
8:32 during this entire Iran war, so we have to take everything with a grain of salt. But that's what we're hearing now. This all comes, interestingly after president Trump's decision to pause Project Freedom, which was the
8:43 US Navy's effort to create really a tunnel out of the Strait of Hormuz to get those thousands of ships that are trapped out of the strait and to the rest of the world and take their oil and, really, their people home.
8:55 But this morning on True Social, the president posted, and said that if Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, this an epic fury is gonna come to an end. The blockade will all, of
9:07 the who moves straight will end. But he said if they don't do that, that the bombing would resume. Now what made this really interesting, the timing that people were thinking this 1 page memo was more significant is
9:18 because he paused that, operation to open the Strait of Hormuz that he had just started recently. And so that sort of fed this idea that maybe the talks really were closer, to a deal than we thought. Now earlier today at
9:29 the White House, president Trump did comment on the conflict, and we have a clip of that.
9:34 We have it very much under control. The blockade is unbelievable. The navy's been incredible. The job they did is like a it's like a wall of steel. Nobody goes through. In particular, the Iranians
9:46 are not getting anything through 1 way or the other, so they're out of business. And we'll see whether or not, they are agreeing.
9:53 Now a key sticking point in the negotiations, especially for the president, is the nuclear aspect. And he made clear at the end of the ad the at the end of that event that they are going to get the enriched uranium,
10:03 which is something that Iran has not been willing to budge on. So, we'll see how how that plays out, but the president seems steadfast on that 1.
10:09 Well, that's good to hear because that's what prompted this, military action to begin with. Casey, thanks for the update. Appreciate it. Alright. Tomorrow, is the filing
FDA's Reckless Abortion Pill Policy Exposed
10:21 deadline for briefs in Louisiana Supreme Court case, the case that, is, against the FDA's abortion drug policy. The court's scheduled to take action on the matter next week.
10:33 Joining us now is congresswoman Diana Harshbarger, a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee where she is vice chair on the subcommittee on health. She has also been a licensed pharmacist for over
10:45 3 decades. She represents the first congressional district of Tennessee. She's also introduced legislation that would deal with the issue of mifepristone being sent by the mail without medical consultation.
10:57 Congresswoman, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to see you.
11:02 Yeah. It's great to be here, Tony. It's a pleasure.
11:05 So you've been as I mentioned, you've been fighting against the Biden era FDA policy that was put in place after the overturn of Roe to try to undermine that court decision.
11:17 Now we have, we we have this issue that is before the Supreme Court. Give us some insight into why this is such an important issue. And and speak to
11:29 this, not only as a member of congress, but as a pharmacist.
11:33 Well, what has happened with the, metal word mifepristone, they've taken all the safeguards away from that drug. You used to have to go in person, when you took the drug,
11:45 make sure that there's, no internal bleeding, things like that. Well, they've taken those safeguards away. And it's, you know, when you had the Dobbs decision come down, this is 1 way they can
11:57 skirt that decision and mail order these drugs into states that forbid abortion or have, you know, trigger loss that say you you can't get abortion until 6 weeks, what have you.
12:08 So you're seeing a huge uptick in, side effects from this drug. That's the whole point of doing this in person. You know, if you've got, 1 in 25 women will end up
12:20 visiting the ER once they take this drug, and it's adding burden to the Medicaid, you know, the Medicaid population and the money that is used there for those patients in these states where they
12:32 are shipping it. And look, you've got 11 percent of these women will have side effects so bad within the first 45 days that you can cause sepsis or internal
12:44 bleeding hemorrhage, things like that. But how would you ever know? And thanks to the Obama administration 2016, 16, the only thing that you have to, you know, no adverse reactions
12:56 should have to be reported anymore. It's just the number of deaths from taking the drug. So this is a detrimental thing. It's senator Hawley and I want to stop that and, codify what,
13:08 president Trump has done to where you can't do that. It's just a skirt around in states that don't allow abortion.
13:14 Right. And so so during the first during the first Trump administration, the policy was in place that you had to have in person consultation. So there's medical supervision. You couldn't be sending this through the mail
13:25 to unknown persons. That policy hasn't been put back in place. The FDA could do it, but Congress now is, thanks to you and, senator Hawley taking that issue up. I I
13:37 I, again, wanna ask you a question from a standpoint as a pharmacist, as a professional that deals with pharmaceuticals. Can can you name other drugs that are treated like this that are as deadly with having these types
13:48 of side effects that are just sent through the mail to unknown persons?
13:53 Well, think about there's a program called REMS, and what that entails is kinda like Accutane. When you get a prescription for Accutane, you have to have pregnancy test and a lot of
14:05 other things, blood work done because it's such a detrimental drug to an unborn fetus. And so when you take away those safeguards to where you have these in person visits, you open yourself
14:17 up to liability in so many ways. And what the Biden administration did was take those safeguards away and, that's just 1 of the drugs that come to mind. It is, a drug that they use in in
14:29 many occasions. Dermatologists use it for acne, and it's a vitamin a. So, when you take those safeguards away, bad things happen. And like I say, if you do not track the
14:41 adverse reactions like, you know, some of the side effects that happen when you take that drug, how are we supposed to know how bad it is if you're only reporting the deaths from the drug? It's ridiculous.
14:53 So what's the rationale for that?
14:57 Well, the the rationale is they want to be able to provide a an abortion drug. Well, take the case in Louisiana when the lady named Rosalie, her boyfriend ordered a
15:09 drug from California, sent it to him in Louisiana, and he coerced her to take the drug. And it aborted the fetus against her will and, you know, you look at that as as as
15:20 even a case of domestic violence in her case. Right. When you're coerced or told, how many times would somebody put it in a drug and give it to a girl that she said she was pregnant or what? We don't know. We don't know
15:32 the circumstances because you do not have to report those things. But, you know, if you force the FDA's hand and say, look. You're gonna have to take that indication down from that drug. Hopefully, that
15:44 will help with some of the problems that this drug is causing.
15:48 Well, the you know, bottom line, they don't wanna report on it because they don't wanna have to deal with facts. They wanna make up the facts. They don't wanna have to deal with them. The other thing you
16:00 mentioned just a moment ago was that states like Louisiana, my home state, but they're not the only 1. There's about a dozen states that, protect the unborn in in totality. And the use of this type
16:12 of, abortion inducing drug is illegal. But under this protocol of the FDA, those state laws don't matter.
16:21 No. No. And that's the whole purpose of what the Biden administration did by taking that in person, you know, a visit away is so they could do that. And you couldn't track
16:33 this drug coming across state lines. And, you know, it's just a detrimental thing, and it's widespread. It's not just Louisiana. It's not just Tennessee. There's many other states, I'm
16:45 sure. If you can get it look. Honestly, getting a chemical abortion should be as easy as going on the Internet and ordering a drug. For goodness sakes, that's not it's
16:57 not healthy for the woman. You know, you're going to abort a baby that should you know, our states are trying to uphold pro life statutes, and and all they're doing is
17:08 going behind their back with, and going against the Dobbs decision. And, in my opinion, it's just, it's terrible. And I can you can bet your bottom dollars that the
17:20 Democrats are gonna step in, and I think they may have an amicus brief now Yep.
17:25 They did.
17:25 Trying to keep this, going to where we can't do anything about it.
17:30 They did. Every, rep every Democratic senator and 212 house members of the Democratic party signed a brief that was filed today. 1 final question. Just just a minute left. Senator Hawley was on the program last month
17:41 talking about this. He has been pressing the Department of Justice to investigate DANCO Laboratories, which is the manufacturer of mifepristone, first registered in the Cayman Islands, receiving backing from
17:53 prominent liberal billionaires like George Soros. Do we not need transparency and accountability from these manufacturers?
18:01 Yes. We do. And, you know, you said it at the beginning of the segment. I sit on energy and commerce, and we have jurisdiction over the FDA. And 1 of the things that we absolutely need to do
18:13 you know, the bottom line is change indication of the drug. Put those, measures back in place and make these people accountable. I mean, why wouldn't we make them accountable for sending the drug
18:25 and making a drug? But that wasn't its original indication. So we have to be tough on this, and we have to let the FDA know to know to be tough. And we're just trying to codify things that should have been done a long
18:37 time ago.
18:38 Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger, thank you so much for, joining us, and I appreciate your leadership on this issue.
18:44 Thank you. My pleasure.
18:46 Alright, folks. Coming up, tomorrow is the National Day of Prayer. We'll talk about
18:51 it next.
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21:56 to Washington. Why? Thanks so much for joining us. Just got a, a message, from the Republican leadership. They'll be filing their brief, in the Louisiana case regarding the
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