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8/4/2025 Jody, Tony, and guests expose the truth on activities from Israel and Gaza, to New York and Iowa.
August 4, 2025 · 59 min
Feeding the hungry in Gaza as Israel prepares to reclaim the territory, eradicating discrimination in Iowa higher ed under the cloak of DEI, and persecution of conservatives and pro-lifers in NY.
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In this video 0:00 Current Events and Political Challenges3:24 International Conflicts and Humanitarian Issues18:49 Domestic Policy and Legal Battles38:38 Advocacy and Spiritual Reflections
1:52 to a 20 20 lawsuit, it blocks ICE agents from conducting arrests in places like schools, hospitals, and churches unless they get prior approval. But the case isn't
2:04 closed. It's now headed for another hearing in September. In other news, President Trump has fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner. This
2:16 comes after a July jobs report came out showing that the American economy added only 73000 jobs and unemployment rose to 4.2 percent
2:28 which was worse than expected. When asked why he fired the Biden nominee, Trump accused her of intentionally falsifying statistics both before and after the 20
2:40 24 presidential election.
2:43 I think her numbers were wrong. You go back and they came out with numbers that were very favorable to Tom Holland. Okay? They're trying to get him elect and trying to get her election. And
2:55 then on the fifteenth of November or thereabouts, they had an 8 or 900000, I know, overt statement reduction right after the election. It didn't work
3:06 because you know who won, John? I won. I've had issues with the numbers for a long time. But now that you we're doing so well. I believe the numbers were phony just like they were before the election, and there were
3:18 other times. So you know what I did? I fired her.
3:22 Some critics claim Trump is politicizing the agency. But the White House claims the firing aims to ensure accurate data with the new commissioner to be named soon.
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3:34 And 1 final story, Texas Republicans are trying to secure their congressional majority for the 20 26 midterms. How so? They're pushing to redraw US house
3:46 maps. President Trump himself is fueling the charge. The changes could help cement GOP control in the red state. But in an alleged attempt to block the vote on this,
3:58 over 50 Democrats fled to Illinois. Texas governor Greg Abbott called them out and if they're not back to work by Monday, he said he will invoke a Texas attorney
4:10 general opinion to remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas house. To this, Democrats said, and I quote, come and take it. Stay tuned to see
4:22 how this feud plays out. And those are today's headlines. I'm Sarah Holliday. Dive deeper with the Washington Stand at washington stand dot com. Watch this and other news on the Stand Firm mobile
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4:52 From the heart of our nation's capital in Washington DC, bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking
5:13 Well, good afternoon, and welcome to this August fourth edition of Washington Watch. I am Jody Heise, senior fellow here at the Family Research Council and your normal Friday host. But I'm honored to be
5:24 sitting in this August for Tony. Alright. We've got a lot to bring your way. Let me kinda break down some of the highlights for you. All the lies about a so called famine in Gaza
5:36 continue to be pushed by the Hamas terror group, along with several of our European allies who are now buying that lie hook, line, and sinker.
5:46 How come the Brits are so critical of Israel? I don't remember the British feeding all of the Nazis in World War 2 and feeling it was their responsibility to do it. I don't remember the French doing that either. This is
5:58 an uncanny kind of twist of history.
6:02 That, of course, was ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee. And we will be getting the latest truth about the war between Israel and Hamas when I'm joined by congressman Randy Fine in just a few
6:14 moments coming to us live from Israel. So he'll be with us here in just a moment.
6:20 There is not a conflict over the last decade with this broken corrupt humanitarian system managed entirely by the United Nations has not prolonged and exacerbated these conflicts. And you can you can
6:32 rest assured that this current war would have ended a long time time ago if the UN wouldn't have been complicit in all of this. And, you know, the the crazy thing is every day, despite all of this, we ask to help them
6:43 get their food to more people because people need help. But they don't want help from us because, apparently, shining on them is just a little too bright.
6:53 Well, that was Johnny Moore with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. He's the executive chair. We'll be hearing from him on what exactly
7:12 DEI, well, it's not completely dead on the University of Iowa's campus, and this is despite the fact that there's a state law that bans the woke agenda from the taxpayer
7:24 funded university. Well, Iowa attorney general Brenna Bird will share how she is combating this woke mob's lawlessness on DEI. And then to close out the
7:35 program, I'll be joined by Family Policy Alliance president and CEO Craig Desroche will be discussing an outrageous case coming out of New York where the attorney general
7:47 there, Leticia James, is targeting yet another conservative with trumped up charges that have led to an unjust sentence of jail time. So don't go anywhere
7:59 for the next hour. We've got a lot to unpack and bring your way. You don't wanna miss any of it. But if by chance you do, you can always catch up by going to our website, tony perkins dot com. So keep that
8:11 handy. Alright. Let's, jump into it today. Breaking earlier today, many news reports are indicating that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided
8:23 to fully take over Gaza. This would include areas where the remaining hostages are believed to be held. And as this is happening, of course, we have France and Britain who are 2
8:35 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. They're saying that they intend to recognize a Palestinian state. And they're not alone. Canada is doing the same thing. They're all
8:47 bowing to Hamas's demands for recognition. So how should the United States respond both to the prime minister's takeover decision and our
8:58 allies dangerously misguided decision to recognize a Palestinian state? Well, joining me right now live from Israel is congressman Randy Fine. He represents
9:10 the sixth congressional district of Florida. Congressman Fine, thank you so much for joining us. I know it's late where you are. Thanks for staying up. Welcome to Washington Watch.
9:22 Good to be here. It's an honor to talk to you.
9:26 Well, let's, know you're traveling there, obviously, in Israel right now. You're speaking with a number of leaders while you're there. To the extent that you can, what are you hearing from them?
9:39 Well, I just got here this morning, and so there haven't been that many discussions at this point. But what it seems clear is that the Israeli government has made the decision to fully annex Gaza. And I think it's an
9:49 unfortunate decision, but 1 that has to be made. I mean, what is clear is that Hamas has no intention of surrendering, has no intention of releasing the hostages, and is going to wait for their allies, which is
10:01 what you have to call them now, and France and Britain and Canada, countries that have succumbed to Muslim terror to back them up. So Israel has no choice if we wanna bring this war to an end but
10:13 to conquer the enemy. And so I fully support them in doing
10:18 that. Yeah. It's really it's a head scratching thing to watch, nations like, Great Britain and France and Canada and wondering what in the world are are they doing. At the same time,
10:30 we we have prime minister Netanyahu has decided to fully take over Gaza. What's your your thoughts on that?
10:39 Look, I think those countries are saying what they're saying because they have submitted to radical Islam. I mean, they have allowed people who have no desire to integrate, who come into their countries largely
10:51 on government benefits. They don't seem to wanna plead for asylum in Muslim countries. They seem to wanna come to their countries. And now they're a meaningful percentage of the electorate. So they're just having to to
11:01 kowtow to their voters. But as for what what prime minister Netanyahu is going to do, look, he has an obligation to bring this war in for an end. And the way wars end is 1
11:13 side wins and 1 side loses. But for decades, the West has said to Israel, you can't win. You can't win. I mean, right now, we have the you must feed the
11:25 enemy. You must provide make them comfortable so they can regain their strength and try to kill you again. And so BD, it sounds like he's decided he's gonna win the war. He's going to conquer the enemy
11:37 and make them submit. That's how wars work. And to be clear, that is what Hamas has said they want to do to Israel. They have said they want to conquer Israel and they want the Jewish state,
11:49 which by the way is incredibly important to Christians as well. They wanted to submit. And I think that would be a a scary thing for both of our religions.
11:59 Yeah, absolutely. So right in the middle of both of these scenarios when we're talking about Prime Minister Netanyahu's decision on the 1 side and other countries like
12:11 Canada and and France and UK. Right in the middle of that is the United States. How should we, in your opinion, respond both to the issue with other
12:23 countries trying to recognize a Palestinian state and, the the decision of, the prime minister? What what is the role of the US in all of this?
12:34 Well, I think what we can do is say to Israel is ignore the idiots and and do what is right. I mean, the fact of the matter is, look, France is just they're addicted to surrender. That's just what they do. The UK and
12:45 Canada, again, have both embraced radical Islam in their countries. So why would we be surprised when they say they are going to support it in other parts of the world? What the US has to do is be strong,
12:57 and we have to support Israel however they need it. And I think we have to do something, and I'll be calling on BB to do this when I see him this week, is what is clear is that Israel and the West is winning the
13:09 military war. But to some degree, we're losing the PR war. The Muslim terrorists are very good at lying, and we have to do a better job of making sure the truth gets out
13:21 there because so many people are just willing to buy it as is. It's like these pictures of starving children next to fat mothers and other children that are perfectly fine. And people refusing to deal with the
13:33 hard facts of the conditions on the ground, which is we can talk about. There's a reason there are a lot of kids in bad shape in Gaza. And it turns out, you know, if you marry your cousin, which almost half of Gazans
13:44 have done, you're gonna have a pretty good chance of your kid having a problem.
13:50 Yeah. Good point. And I know I I saw today that Israel is calling on the legacy media to start showing pictures of the, starving hostages that they're holding and the
14:01 horrible conditions that they're in, by way of comparison. But you you refer to them as, don't listen to the idiots, I believe, is the way you said it. And, I mean, look, that's just putting it straight forward. But
14:13 unpack for us, congressman Fine, what what are some of the real world consequences when our allies start believing the lies of a terror group?
14:24 Oh, I I think the consequences is we we lose them as allies. I mean, these countries, it's it's it's less about what they're doing with Israel. It's what they're allowing to take place in
14:36 their own countries. France has Muslim Sharia no go zones. In the UK, if you criticize Islam, you go to jail. But if you wanna
14:48 call for the deaths of Jews, that's a okay. I mean, it it's it's what worries me less is about these countries, their support of Israel. Look. Israel doesn't need their support. Israel's used to being
15:00 alone or being alone with the United States. What worries me is about the collapse of Western civilization because that's what I see. I see people who have no desire to assimilate, no
15:12 do not share the values, of the countries they're going to, and do not seek to add value to those societies coming and ruin them. You can look at the same problem in the United States in our immigration system.
15:24 Too many of the wrong kinds of people who don't wanna add value, don't wanna assimilate, and don't share our values. It's not about the color of their skin or or what they look like. It's just do they want to come and
15:35 add value. And and and these countries have allowed these people in. They've talked about taking children from Gaza to give them health care. But once they do that, then they have to bring their extended families. It's
15:46 a disaster for these countries to be thinking about doing these things.
15:51 Yeah. And you talk about these countries that have allowed these people to come in and really transform their country. I mean, we've we've watched through the open borders that we have here a lot of this type of stuff
16:02 coming across our own borders as well. How do you think that these lies, potentially have contributed to that, to the exploding antisemitism that we're seeing right here in America on
16:14 college campuses, not to mention worldwide, like some of the countries that we've mentioned?
16:20 Look, it's bad. I'm not just a a member of congress. I'm a Jewish member of congress. I'm 1 of 4 Republican Jews. And so this affects me personally and my family personally. And I will say that,
16:32 when the world said never again, it lied. Because never again is going on right now. And the level of antisemitism that you see online, on social media, that you
16:44 see on our college campuses, that you see in our streets, Jews being attacked, their homes being graffitied. It it is it it is it is reminiscent. It is exactly what happened
16:57 in the 19 thirties in Germany. And I've got news for people. If your life isn't going the way that you wish, it isn't because the Jews did it to you. It's because you screwed up your own life.
17:08 But people hate Jews because, frankly, no prosperous. And I think you got a lot of people who are just miserable and
17:20 want someone else to blame.
17:23 Well, real quickly, are there some things that we can do perhaps congress, but just as a as an audience even to combat some of these insidious lies that Hamas and their
17:35 allies have been spewing on the world stage?
17:39 Well, I think I think the biggest thing that people can do is they can call their their elected officials. Look. Most Republicans, there are 2 exceptions that are that are pretty anti Semitic, but
17:50 most Democrats have abandoned Israel. And look look at who they wanna be the mayor of New York. I mean, a guy who's a flat out Muslim terrorist from Uganda. So they need to they need to register to
18:02 vote. They need to vote, and they need to tell people in their party if they're Democrats that this isn't okay. Not all Democrats believe this nonsense, but they also have to tell the facts. So the fact is this. And your
18:13 your speaker that you played the clip from from the Gaza humanitarian actually, no. It's Mike Huckabee who said it. Never in history
18:20 Just got a few seconds.
18:21 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Never in history as as a winning army been told they have to take care of the losing army, and that's what's happening here. It needs to stop, and I think the war is gonna come to an end soon.
18:31 Congressman Randy Fine, thank you for staying up late coming on live for us from Israel. Hope you have a fantastic week with your trip there. Thank you. Alright, friends. Coming up on the other side of the break, Iowa
18:43 Attorney General Brenna Byrd will join me to discuss how she is combating DEI at the University of Iowa. Stay tuned.Show more
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