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In this video 0:00 News Headlines and Updates4:35 Washington Watch with Jody Heise18:39 Religious Liberty and Legal Challenges31:59 Protecting Girls' Sports and Religious Freedom38:25 Biblical Worldview and Current Events
News Headlines and Updates 0:06 Good afternoon. I'm Victoria Marshall, and welcome to the Washington Watch news desk. Transportation secretary Sean Duffy has announced that the Department of Transportation will build a new air0:17 traffic control system by 20 28. This comes after Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey experienced not 1 but 2 30 to 90 second0:29 black outs of air traffic controller screens last week and this morning. In a speech yesterday, Duffy said the agency will be replacing core infrastructure, which includes0:41 radar, software, hardware, and telecommunications networks, including the copper wiring that failed impacting flights at Newark.0:50 What we are going to do when we get the money, we have the plan, we actually have to build a brand new state of the art air traffic control system as we ask NATCA1:02 to keep our airplanes flying in the air, taking off, landing. That's complicated, but we are America. We have let this go far too long. We are gonna1:14 stand up. We are gonna stand together. And as 1 great country, we are going to build a brand new system that is worthy again of the greatest country that has ever existed on the1:26 face of the earth.1:28 Duffy said that the technology air traffic controllers use is 50 years old and needs a complete modernization. According to his plan, by 20 28, over
1:38 4600 sites will get new high speed network connections. He also plans to replace 618 radars as well as install over 25000 new radios and
1:50 475 new voice switches. Duffy is also focused on combating shortages among air traffic controllers. Here's what he told Fox News last night.
1:59 With regard to air traffic controllers, we're 3000 controllers short. They didn't stand up to school during COVID. Wow. And as, controllers were retiring, they didn't have a pipeline of new controllers coming in through
2:10 the academy. So we've done 2 things. Air traffic controllers who can retire after 25 years of service, we're gonna pay them a bonus. We're gonna ask them to stay past their retirement date to serve their country. I
2:22 think we're gonna get a lot of, controllers to do that. But then we're gonna expand the pipeline at our academy in Oklahoma City to get the best and the brightest air traffic controllers through that system and trained
2:34 up. And then, you know, I think it's gonna take us, you know, a year to 3 years to get fully staffed.
2:39 And in other Trump administration news, White House officials are touting their new trade deal with the United Kingdom as a model framework for future agreements with other countries. Here's United States trade
2:50 representative, Jamieson Greer, with more.
2:53 Can't really overstate the importance of this deal. The United Kingdom is the sixth largest economy in the world. They've agreed to open up their markets to our agricultural products, to our industrial goods, and
3:04 importantly, to align with us on an on economic security. You know, to your question, you know, what does this mean for other countries? Is this a framework? This certainly is the framework. I've been talking to dozens
3:14 of countries, and I I tell them this. I I walk through different buckets where we need to talk about tariffs, non tariff barriers, economic security, etcetera. And this is the right framework, and other countries should
3:25 look to this as a model.
3:26 Greer also said US officials would be meeting with China in Switzerland on Saturday to discuss trade negotiations. President Trump has suggested decreasing tariffs on China to 80 percent ahead of
3:38 the talks, but said it is up to treasury secretary Scott Benson to decide. Currently, US tariffs on Chinese imports are at a hundred and 45 percent. And in other domestic news,
3:50 Colorado governor Jared Polis is set to sign a bill that would make misgendering a transgender identifying person illegal under the state's anti discrimination act. It criminalizes it also
4:02 criminalizes using a person's dead name or the name they were called before identifying as transgender. The bill also requires courts to consider a parent's dead naming or misgendering their child as a form of coercive
4:14 control when making child custody decisions. The Colorado Senate passed the bill in a vote of 20 to 14 on Tuesday night. The bill will now make its way to democratic governor Jared Polz's desk where
4:26 he's expected to sign it. Parental rights groups characterized the bill as an attack on parents in the first amendment. And those are today's headlines. I'm Victoria Marshall. Up
Washington Watch with Jody Heise
4:38 next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. We'll see you next week with more news.
4:51 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
5:02 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heise.
5:10 Good afternoon. Hope you have had a fantastic week. It's already Friday. I am Jody Heise, a senior fellow here at the Family Research Council. So glad to have you joining us today. We've got a lot to
5:22 bring your way. Here are some of the headlines. First of all, president Trump is gonna be making his way to the Middle East next week for his first major foreign trip.
5:32 The president looks forward to embarking on his historic return to the Middle East, visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates next week, where he will focus on strengthening ties between our
5:44 nations.
5:47 Well, that was White House press secretary Carolyn Levitt earlier today. Well, what are some of the hopes as the president makes his way through the Middle East? Well, I'll be discussing that here in just a couple of
5:57 moments with Texas congressman Randy Weber. He and I also, by the way, will be discussing some of the changes that we've been seeing in some of our nation's higher education institutions. While
6:09 there have certainly been some troubling anti Semitic protest, there has also been some encouraging responses like this 1 from the acting president of Columbia University.
6:20 Let me be clear. Colombia unequivocally rejects antisemitism and all other forms of harassment and discrimination. There's a line between legitimate protest and actions
6:32 that endanger others and disrupt the fundamental work of the university. Today, that line was crossed and I have confidence the disciplinary proceedings will reflect the severity of the action.
6:46 Wow. That was Columbia University acting president Claire Shipman on Wednesday, and we'll talk about what other responses came out this week as well. And then we have some a
6:57 troubling new law out of Washington state that is raising a lot of concerns in regard to religious liberties.
7:06 Senate bill 5 3 7 5 requires members of the clergy to report child abuse and neglect even if the information is divulged in confession or sacred confidence. This bill protects Washingtonians
7:18 from abuse and harm.
7:21 Wow. That was Washington state governor Robert Ferguson at last Friday signing of that bill, s p 53 75. The legislation is so concerning
7:33 that now the US Department of Justice is looking to investigate it. So we'll be discussing a lot on that when I'm joined by Eric with Eric Niffen. He is with the,
7:45 Ethics and Public Policy Center, an extremely important religious liberty issue. And then meanwhile, in another corner of our country, we have a lawmaker in Maine who continues
7:58 to fight for the right to vote and speak in behalf of her constituents.
8:11 Competing against girls. Well, now, now she is being supported and backed up by attorneys generals from 15 different states as she's taking her case to the
8:23 Supreme Court. And that state representative from Maine, Laurel Libby, will be joining me a little bit later in the program for an update. And then we'll close out the program today
8:35 with the David Claussen for our weekly biblical worldview segment. We've got a lot to discuss in the headlines this week, including the battle to defund abortion giants like planned
8:47 parenthood through budget reconciliation. And just speaking of that, by the way, I wanna encourage each of you to send a message to your members of congress. If
8:59 you've not already done done this, you can do it quite easily. Just simply text the word Congress to 67742, text Congress to
9:10 67742, and we'll provide you a way that you can send a message to your entire congressional delegation. And you can urge them to end taxpayer funding of abortion providers
9:21 and those who provide gender transition procedures while congress at the same time is, hammering out bills to fund the federal government. So now is the time to speak, and you
9:33 can speak to your representatives again. Text congress to 6 7 7 4 2. Alright. Now let's jump into our first topic for the week. As I
9:45 mentioned, already, we've got universities from New York to Washington and other places who've experienced another horrible week as it relates to anti
9:57 Semitic behavior where students and citizens have damaged and or forcefully occupied school property. And those demonstrations, by the way, are,
10:09 shutting many of them have been shut down and many of the perpetrators have been arrested. But all of this is, a stark contrast to what we saw under the Biden administration.
10:21 So what exactly has led to the change in the approach? And does this have any chance really to squash antisemitism? Well, here to discuss this and more
10:33 is congressman Randy Weber. He sits on a couple of different house committees, but he's also the cochair of the bipartisan task force for combating antisemitism. And he
10:45 represents the fourteenth congressional district of Texas. Congressman Weber, always great to see you, my friend. Welcome back to Washington Watch.
10:53 Thank you, Jody. Thank you for what y'all do. We appreciate it.
10:57 Well, thank you. Listen. I wanna get into this antisemitism stuff. Real quickly before I get into that, president Trump is about to make his first trip to the Middle East. He'll be in Saudi
11:09 Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates. What do you anticipate the president is gonna be focusing on while he is in the Middle East?
11:20 Well, of course, supporting Israel is our best ally, obviously. You know, he was the 1 who moved the embassy to Jerusalem, the rightful capital of Israel.
11:30 And
11:30 so I I'm assuming he's gonna, go down that path again, support Israel. And I hope he gets to meet with BB, Benjamin Netanyahu, and reassure him that we're gonna make every effort we can and
11:42 certainly make sure that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. And, of course, he'll probably talk about the Abraham Accords, and that's probably the gonna be I don't know how many days he's gonna be
11:53 there. I guess he lost my phone number. He didn't call me and ask me for topics.
12:00 Well, I'm sure had he not lost his number, he would have called you. No question about it.
12:06 Yeah. But But he's he's gonna be there with our good friend Israel. You yeah. With her back. You bet.
12:11 Absolutely. Alright. Well, let's come back if we can to discuss all the the activity taking place on campuses across the country. We had Columbia University, about 80,
12:23 different individuals protesting there. The police were called. They shut it down pretty quickly. And, of course, that impact was praised by the Trump administration as an encouraging development.
12:35 You would think that this will be normal. Why is it now that when we have these individuals, these perpetrators arrested, that that is looked upon as encouraging?
12:45 You know, the world has gone crazy. It's absolutely crazy. You and I have been around a a long time, and we've never seen anything like this. And just saying and, you know, that, president
12:57 Trump, by the way, sought to, eliminate the tax status of 1 of the I read a a quick 1 on that university. Was it yesterday? The
13:09 before yesterday, was it Harvard? I forget which 1 it was. And we're we're seeing these people we're seeing these people where I mean, it is so bad, Jody. They're you know this, and the last time the Bible says men
13:21 will call good evil and evil good. You're seeing all this transgender stuff, and I know this isn't necessarily about the the colleges per se, but I'm glad Columbia is waking up at least. But did you see the I think it
13:32 was this morning or was it yesterday evening, Pete Hegseth is saying they're getting transgendered out of the military. Did you see that?
13:39 That's fantastic.
13:41 Absolutely. It is. Absolutely. It is. So we're watching this with a great degree of interest. It's it's a for Christians, you know, we we have been absolutely bombarded with we're
13:53 uncaring. You know what? We're so tall intolerant. Well, it turns out the only intolerant people or mainly the intolerant people are these protesters, these people who hate Israel, these people who hate god's
14:05 law. They're the ones who are intolerant.
14:09 Yep. Absolutely. Well, you know, you we've we've got this at Columbia University. We've got it's happening at the University of Washington. Brooklyn College had some incidents this week. But all
14:21 of this just it seems like there is a different attitude now. The reactions are so different now from the way the, colleges treated these protests under the Biden administration.
14:33 Why is that? What's the big difference, you think?
14:36 Well, did I mention that Trump is threatening to take away their tax exempt status?
14:42 You did mention that with Harvard. Yeah.
14:44 You know, follow the bouncing dollar. You know? And I think you you'll you'll get an answer to that because there's a new sheriff in town. He's not gonna tolerate this kind of stuff. You know, these kids,
14:57 a lot of them, they they wanna go to college to learn, these Jewish kids particularly. And the fact that they're being threatened, they don't feel safe. They can't get into their own classroom, their own dormitories,
15:06 their own institutional buildings, whatever that might look like. That's unacceptable. It's unconscionable. It's unconstitutional for that matter. And so I'm I'm glad that Trump's finally doing something about it and
15:17 that these universities are waking up to the fact that there's a new sheriff in town.
15:23 Absolutely. Well, let me if I can switch gears with you, congressman Weber, to the topic of immigration. I know this is another 1 that you are, heavily involved with and have been for a long, long
15:35 time. Homeland Security secretary, Kristi Noem, told senators on, Thursday, yesterday that as many as 600000 migrants who were on their way to the United
15:47 States have now turned around when they realized that president Trump had closed the border. Your reaction to that?
15:54 Oh, it's it's unbelievably great. You know, they're like I said, they they know that Trump means business. I don't know if you saw Tom Holman's report. The first was at 3 months of this year.
16:06 9 people were apprehended at the border compared to under, o Biden. Have you heard me say I call him o Biden because I think it's Obama's third term. And his first 3 months, was it the last year the last year he's been
16:17 in office or I forget which year it was. There was, like, you
16:21 know, a
16:21 third thousand. That was an unbelievable number or maybe it was a little less than that. I forget this right number, but it was multitudes larger than 9 people at the border. People down south, people
16:33 in other countries are learning that Trump is not going to put up with this stuff, and it's showing up in the statistics.
16:42 Well and now I understand as of, earlier this week, the the administration, DHS, at least started offering the thousand dollar stipend for illegal aliens to self deport if
16:53 they do do so through the CBP app. You have an opinion on that?
16:59 Well, it's a plane ticket and a and a thousand dollars. You know? I I'm a Texan. I I guess I'm I'm I'm old school. I think that they ought to really be punished in some fashion. You know? Maybe
17:11 they either get, I'll say this tongue in cheek. You know? They get a plane ride. They can either have a and we fly over their country, open the door. They can either have a thousand dollars or a parachute so they can
17:23 you know?
17:25 It all depends on location.
17:28 Yeah. And I'm not gonna say that. I say that in front of the camera. But, no, I mean It is cheap. It's it's cheaper for them to do that, obviously. You know, the administration Trump's administration has has counted
17:39 those dollars than it is for us to have to pay for airline to get them down there and do all the paperwork stuff. If they'll do it voluntarily, then, I'm sure they've counted the numbers. It's gonna be a little cheaper.
17:52 We've only got a couple of seconds left. Real quickly, are we going to get the reconciliation bill across the finish line?
18:00 Well, it's gonna be tough. We're working through this. As you know, Energy and Commerce has the largest amount, 880000000000 dollars. Democrats are trying to say we're gonna kill Social Security. We're gonna kill,
18:14 Medicaid, Medicare. We're not doing that. We want these able-bodied young men who don't belong on Medicaid to get off of it. We want all the people who have lined up, signed up for 2 or 3 times worth of Medicaid because
18:25 they do it in different states. They gotta get off the waste, fraud, and abuse has to be ferreted out and done away with.
18:33 Congressman Randy Weber of Texas, always great to see you. Thanks. Have a great weekend. Thank you very much. Coming up, Washington State, a new law they're requiring Catholic clergy to violate
Religious Liberty and Legal Challenges
18:45 privacy and confession. We'll get into it right after the break. Stay tuned.
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21:53 Welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to have you joining us today. I'm your Friday host, Jody Heise, and an honor to have you on board with us as well. Alright. A bill that has now
22:05 been signed into law, In fact, it was signed in law last Friday by the state of Washington's governor, Bob Ferguson. Well, that bill now is raising all kinds of religious liberty
22:17 concerns to the extent that the US Department of Justice has now opened an investigation into it. The legislation in question is senate bill 53 75.
22:29 It mandates clergy to report instances of child abuse and neglect with no exemptions of privileged communication between priest and parishioner. And
22:41 in response to that, the Archdiocese of Seattle has said that it would excommunicate excommunicate clergy who follow this law and violate the seal
22:53 of confession, which they say must remain, quote, sacred, secure, confidential, and protected by the law of the church. Well, how might all of this play
23:05 out? That is the big question. And what could be the potential religious liberty implications of all of it? And here to discuss this is Eric Niffin. He's a fellow at the Ethics and
23:17 Public Policy Center who's been sounding the alarm on this issue for really about the last 2, 3 years. He's also represented plaintiffs in 3 different matters
23:29 against the state of Washington. Eric, welcome to Washington Watch. It is indeed an honor to have you.
23:35 Thanks. Good to be with you.
23:38 Okay. Let's jump into this bill, s p 53 75. Tell us more about this law. What does it specifically mandate?
23:48 Sure. I guess to begin, all 50 states have mandatory reporter laws saying that certain people, whether it's everyone or certain professions, have to report suspected child abuse or neglect, to public
24:00 authorities. All 50 states also have a recognition of the clergy penitent relationship, which respects the confidentiality, of certain, religious communications. So the question is what
24:12 happens when these come into conflict? So Washington in passing this bill, recognizes that there are privileged communications under the law in a lot of different professions.
24:24 The clergy, penitent communication exists traditionally alongside the attorney client privilege, the physician patient privilege, the spousal privilege, and other privileges. And what's really remarkable
24:36 about this bill is Washington state Washington state has said, we will respect every other privilege except for the clergy privilege, and that's what makes this law really unique.
24:48 Yes. So can they do that? I mean, this is singling out 1 specific group while allowing, exemptions for others. What is the reasoning behind
24:59 that?
25:01 There's no reasoning, and that's 1 of the things that make this really remarkable. I worked together with others with the sponsoring senator last year in order to create a narrow religious exemption, which, the
25:13 senator, she seemed to be okay with last year. And this year, she came out and said that she was abandoning that for no other reason that she's tired of compromising, and that's not a good reason enough.
25:23 So what is your take on the other side of this coin on their response from the archdiocese of Seattle? It's a pretty strong statement that they've made.
25:34 It is really strong. And I think it's important to note that this is not, the archbishop of Seattle's rule, that this is part of the canon law of the Catholic church. The canon law actually says that,
25:46 violating, the sacrament of, the the confidentiality of the of the confessional is so important. It ranks right alongside physically assaulting a pope. This is just an absolute no no. And
25:58 it, a priest automatically excommunicates himself if he does so.
26:02 So alright. Let break this down. Your your interpretation of this law as it relates to religious liberties. Okay. What what is the what is the
26:14 potential violation in terms of divisions between church and state that you see as being at stake here?
26:22 Sure. Well, fortunately, both the federal constitution and the Washington state constitution have strong protections for religious liberty. And I think to look at this and, you know, religious liberty is not absolute,
26:34 but the state is put to a high burden when it, invades religious liberty. And so here you look at 1 thing. You can say that the state is treating, other secular privileges with more respect than the religious
26:46 privilege. So that's 1 really important thing to note. Another is that the vast majority of other states have found that they do not need to invade the clergy, penitent relationship in order to protect children. And
26:58 those, I think, are gonna be the 2 big problems, that Washington state runs up with, as it seeks to defend this law.
27:05 And you may not have an answer to this question. I think those are 2 excellent points you bring up. But does this does this bill adequately even define child abuse? I mean, these days, I'm getting
27:17 to these days, wrong pronoun is looked upon as child abuse. I mean, does this clarify exactly what abuse is?
27:26 It does not, and that's a really good point is that these laws are meant. And and, you know, states across the country say this that, they want mandatory reporters to air on the side of reporting. And so if something
27:37 might be abused, if it's something that might be neglect, they want, mandatory reporters to tell the government and let the government sort it out. And so what counts as neglect? What counts as abuse?
27:49 Those are really unanswered, undefined questions, and that's what makes the cloud over religious liberty all the more, important here.
27:58 Wow. Okay. So now we have the US Department of Justice. They've launched a civil rights investigation into all of this. What are you hoping that the DOJ
28:10 might find in its investigation? If you could just kinda have a bird's eye look at this, what do you hope is the outcome? What do they find?
28:18 I think they will find as, I think they will confirm what they already said in their statement that this is blatant discrimination against religion. It would be 1 thing if religious,
28:30 clergy were asking for something that nobody else got. But as the Washington law itself acknowledges, there are privileged communications. And it is unfair. It is unconstitutional,
28:42 for Washington state to treat secular privileges better than religious privileges. That is what DOJ is gonna focus on, and I think that they will agree with me that this law is unconstitutional.
28:54 And it's very frightening. You know, when you see things like this happen, the when when they get a foot in the door, it seems to never close again the door. It it always, in this case, could lead
29:06 to greater violations of religious freedom. And, you know, I like we used to say in congress all the time, you give some of these people an inch and they become a ruler. And, that could
29:17 very well could be the case here. Thank you so much, Eric Niffin, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. We deeply appreciate your, frontline
29:29 involvement in this issue, and thank you for coming on Washington Watch to break it all down for us.
29:34 Thank you for having me. Good to be with you.
29:37 Alright. Coming up, I'll speak with a state of Maine representative, Laurel Libby, to discuss what's happening in her case to protect girls' sports. You don't wanna miss this. We'll be back in just a
29:49 moment.
29:51 At Family Research Council, we believe religious freedom is a fundamental human right that all governments must protect. That's why FRC president Tony Perkins went to Capitol Hill
30:03 to testify on behalf of persecuted Christians in Nigeria. Islamist terror groups target Christians and other religious minorities in Nigeria with brutal violence. Representative
30:15 Chris Smith, who chaired the hearing, said 55000 people have been killed and 21000 abducted in the last 5 years alone. The congressman also stressed that
30:27 89 percent of Christians in the world who are murdered are from Nigeria. Yet
30:32 the government of Nigeria has failed to make progress against religiously motivated persecution of Christians despite religious freedom being enshrined as an essential human right in their constitution.
30:43 Tony Perkins called for the United States to send an unmistakable message.
30:49 This is systematic religious violence. Nigeria must be redesignated a country of particular concern. Biden administration's removal of this designation was a reckless mistake
31:00 that emboldened the very terrorists who are slaughtering Christians.
31:04 Redesignating Nigeria will enable the US government to pressure Nigerian leaders to protect vulnerable Christians.
31:13 These are not just numbers. These are fathers, their mothers, their children, their families.
31:19 Bishop Wilfred Anagabe risked his life to speak out, sharing firsthand accounts of the danger faced in his church district in Central Nigeria.
31:29 We live in fear because at any point, it can be our turn to be killed, but to remain silent is to die twice. So I have chosen to speak.
31:39 FRC is calling on president Trump to act now to promote religious freedom around the globe and speak up on behalf of Christians in Nigeria.
31:54 Thank you so much for joining us today on Washington Watch. I am your Friday host, Jody Heise. Glad to have you. Alright. Whether it's intentional or not, okay, theShow more
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