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While some celebrate corrective measures to stop DEI, abortion, and corruption in our national bureaucracies, Tony explores the necessity of confessing, repenting, and seeking God's forgiveness.
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0:06 Good afternoon. I'm Victoria Marshall, and welcome to the Washington Watch News Desk. Today, the United States and Mexico agreed to a month long pause on the implementation of tariffs.0:18 On Saturday, President Donald Trump ordered a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico, as well as a 10 percent tariff on China. The tariffs are set to take effect on Tuesday.0:30 Mexican president Claudia Scheinbaum was able to halt the 25 percent tax on Mexican exports by promising to supply 10000 Mexican troops to the southern border. These soldiers are meant to0:42 help stop the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. President Trump also wrote on social media that the month long pause will allow the United States to negotiate with Mexico to come up0:54 with a trade deal between the 2 countries. Over the weekend, vice president J. D. Vance said the tariffs are necessary to stop the United States from being taken advantage of.1:05 The problem with this whole idea that they're gonna retaliate is they have already been taking advantage of America for decades. The retaliation is Donald Trump saying no more. We're1:17 not gonna be taken advantage of anymore, and I think it's important the president is doing what he's doing. Now, look, it looks different ways and comes in different forms, whether you're talking about Canada or China or1:27 Mexico. We know that Mexico has allowed the facilitation of the illegal drug trade and illegal sex trafficking for years and has done nothing about it. If they want to be a better partner to us, the time1:39 starts now.1:40 In response to the tariffs, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canada would be imposing more than 100000000000 in retaliatory tariffs on American goods.
1:50 Like the American tariffs, our response will also be far reaching and include everyday items. If president Trump wants to usher in a new golden age for the United
2:02 States, the better path is to partner with Canada, not to punish us.
2:09 Trump's rationale for the tariffs against Canada is 1 of national security. He says that Canada is not doing enough to stop the flow of migrants and fentanyl across the northern border with the
2:21 US. The tariffs will have a massive impact on Canada's economy. Canada currently sends 75 percent of its exports to the US. And in other domestic news,
2:33 today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he is the acting administrator of the US Agency for International Development or USAID. This is after Elon Musk said earlier
2:45 this morning that President Trump had agreed to shut down the agency. USAID will likely be placed under the umbrella of the State Department.
2:54 Everything they do has to be in alignment with the National Interest Inform Coliseum of the United States. And the attitude that USAID has adopted over the years is, no. We are independent of the national interest. We
3:05 fund programs irrespective of whether it's aligned or not aligned with the foreign policy. That's ridiculous. These are taxpayer dollars. Every penny that we spend in foreign aid needs to be in furtherance and aligned
3:17 with the national interest and the national an important foreign policy of the United States. So this is not about ending the programs that USAID does per se. There are things that it does that are good, there are things
3:27 that it does that we have strong questions about. It's about the way it operates as an entity. And, they're supposed to take direction from the state department, policy direction, they do not. But I do not take policy
3:37 direction. They're completely uncooperative. When you ask questions, when we try to go in and find out, okay. What does this program do? Who's getting the money? Why was this funded? Why are we doing this? Why aren't you
3:46 coordinating with the embassy or the state department? Their attitude is we don't have to answer to you because we are independent. We answer to no 1.
3:53 Rubio's announcement comes after 2 senior USAID officials were put on leave Saturday night for physically barring Department of Government efficiency employees' access to the agency's building.
4:05 And in other domestic news, in the wake of the tragic plane crash that killed 67 people last week outside of Washington, D. C, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is focused on
4:17 making safety the number 1 priority of his agency. In an interview with CNN yesterday, Duffy talked about some of the DEI policies that hampered the work of the previous
4:29 administration. He said that the Department of Transportation will investigate all the ways DEI has impacted the agency and the FAA and will release a report on it. And those
4:41 are today's headlines. I'm Victoria Marshall. Up next is Washington Watch. We'll see you tomorrow 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
5:03 newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
5:11 We'll deal with tragedy, but we need to improve safety. We need 200 plus recommendations fixed. We need people to take action. We go to East Palestine, a community that gets devastated. Still nothing's happened.
5:23 With several hundred recommendations open for aviation, wanna do something about it? Adopt the recommendation of the NTSB. You'll save lives.
5:33 That was National Transportation Safety Board member Todd Inman over the weekend addressing last week's tragic collision between an American Airlines jet and an army helicopter. Welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks for
5:45 tuning in to this Monday edition. Well, lawmakers in both parties indicate that congress will play a key role in the federal response to last week's air disaster. Now the safety board may have everyone's attention and
5:57 reforms could be on the way. We're gonna talk with Utah congressman Burgess Owens, a member of the house committee with oversight of the Federal Aviation Administration. Also, Elon Musk says president Trump will
6:08 shutter USAID. Now, that's the agency responsible for providing US human itarian aid abroad. And he says that because of gross inefficiency.
6:19 I just went over the numbers twice with you in the amount of aid that actually makes it into the hands. I mean, could you could almost say this a little bit hyperbole, but there's probably more dollars that go towards
6:29 state dinners around the DC Beltway than what actually goes into rice and beans abroad. That's the the state of what's going on with USA.
6:37 That was congressman Brian Mass, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this weekend. We're gonna speak with Mark Moyer, who is the author of Masters of Corruption, How the Federal
6:49 Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency about the problems within USAID and alternatives to its bloated bureaucracy. Well, late Friday, a Louisiana grand jury
7:00 indicted a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills online without medical consultation and sending them through the mail. New York's pro abortion governor Kathy Hochul declared that New York
7:12 would not extradite the doctor to Louisiana under any circumstance.
7:17 I will protect this doctor and all health care workers because this is the continued collateral damage of the overturning of Roe v Wade that we saw at that moment and we sound the alarms about it.
7:29 But sadly, this is the law right now where it's left to individual states.
7:34 We'll get details on the case and possible outcomes from the law's author in Louisiana state senator Thomas Presley. Also, what does this Louisiana case coming from 1 of the most
7:46 pro life states in the nation reveal about the Biden era policy that's still in effect on mailing abortion pills into pro life states? Can the federal government call abortion a state
7:58 issue while permitting abortion pills to be mailed nationwide? FRC's Mary Sock, director of our Center for Human Dignity joins me to discuss. And finally, this Wednesday is the National Gathering
8:10 for Prayer and Repentance at the Museum of the Bible here in Washington, DC. Many participants including Rabbi Jonathan Kahn, Michelle Bachman, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and about 2 dozen other members of
8:21 Congress. Former ambassador at large for international religious freedom, Sam Brownback, will also be there. And he'll actually join us later on this edition of Washington Watch to talk about Wednesday's event. Now, the
8:33 event is sold out, but you can register and join us online. So go to pray d c dot o r g to find out how. That's pray d c dot o r g to find out how
8:45 you can join us Wednesday. Well, it could take at least a year to complete a full investigation into last week's deadly mid air collision here in DC, but investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board are
8:57 hoping to have a preliminary report within 30 days. While the investigations and recovery efforts are ongoing, Democrats continue to berate president Trump over his remarks last week connecting the
9:08 wokeness of the FAA to the tragic crash that took the lives of all those onboard both aircrafts. But is it really a stretch to believe that DEI and other distractions took focus away from the
9:20 mission at the FAA and elsewhere? Joining me now to talk about this is congressman Burgess Owens, who serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, as well as the Education
9:32 and Workforce Committee. He represents the fourth congressional district of Utah. Congressman Owens, welcome back to Washington Watch. Always great to see you.
9:41 I'm looking forward to chatting with you, my friend. Absolutely.
9:44 So there appears to be interest on both sides of the aisle to very quickly address this issue and work with the National Transportation Safety Board to come up with
9:55 recommendations to make our airways safer. Is that a is that a an accurate read?
10:01 A very accurate. And and I'm I'm blessed to be on a on a committee, the Transportation Infrastructure Committee, and it's chaired by, chair McGraves, who's actually a pilot. So this is 1 of those committees you'll hear a
10:12 lot about because it's very thoughtful, very bipartisan. It's all about getting the right things done. So I look forward to having these conversations. And at the end of the day, we wanna make sure that we will never
10:21 allow this type of tragedy to happen again. And and I'm sorry about, again, getting to the bottom line of this for sure.
10:27 Now I I wanna play a clip from this past weekend. This was former DNC chair Jamie Ricardo Harrison at the National Harbor right outside of
10:39 DC in in Maryland talking. It just it gives a a great example of the left's fixation on DEI. And and that after all that's happened, even
10:50 the election and the rejection of their agenda, they still don't seem to get a play clip 5.
10:55 As you know, we are required to use the vice chair positions to gender balance our leadership team. Our rules specify that when we have a gender nonbinary candidate or
11:07 officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining 6 officers must be gender balanced.
11:16 What do you make of that?
11:18 Well, this is why they lost, and they keep it up. They can continue to lose. Americans are tired of this. This is a country based on merit. If you wonder why all of a sudden the conversation around this even this
11:28 tragedy, DIs is part of it is because they did this. They're the ones that have started putting in place a a policy that they're not looking at merit at all. They're looking at everything else, color, skin, gender,
11:38 things that make no difference. And the minute you get into a position where you get in an airplane, get in a car, get in a taxi, anything we do, we want the very best to be in control of that process. So we're getting
11:49 back to that. This is, they tell they say the chickens come home to roost. This is what happens when you start putting everything else before true merit. And that's why, by the way, we got rid of affirmative action
12:00 because that was also a, a very racist, a very demeaning, ideology or process when it comes down to black Americans and their ability to think. So, no, we're we're, we're gonna get to the bottom of this. We're
12:12 gonna make sure moving forward, and I'm so thankful for the fact that all this this stuff is being pulled out from the roots from our from our government. And we're gonna be putting the same process into our school
12:21 system, teaching merit, and make sure that we're holding people to the highest standards. And I'll tell you, Americans will stand up. They will they will come to the plate and do the very best when they know that's what
12:29 the expectations are.
12:30 I mean, congressman Owens, you're a professional football player. Alright? You played with the Oakland Raiders. Would DEI work on the football field?
12:40 And to that point, isn't it interesting that DEI does is not put into athletics and is not put into sports? In sports, you expect to win. So you put the very best talent on the team. Anybody
12:51 who did it a coach who did that DEI stuff will be fired in a heartbeat. So here here's the point I'm making, Tony. They don't mind doing this when it comes down to, intellectual stuff. When it comes down to athletics
13:03 where where where we have to show ourselves our strength, then they they don't. So it is a true racist thing, and and I'm just glad we're pulling away from this and getting back to what really matters.
13:13 Well, I mean, it's known from our listeners. I'm not a huge sports fan, so they'll they'll take this in context. But I think it's more important than an airplane land safely than someone win a Super Bowl
13:24 football game. I mean Yeah. I think when Americans get onto a plane or they get onto a train or whatever it might be, they expect it to do its very best to arrive at its destination, and the the individuals
13:36 directing it, driving it, flying it ought to be Okay.
13:40 Qualified. Period.
13:42 And we're gonna get back to that. The fact is we have, for for years, gotten on these on a airplane. We say safe travels. It's just a way we we just say have a good trip, but we also expect to be there to
13:54 land safely and not to have this conversation about whether people were, the very best. And I'm hoping that's not the case in this particular situation. We'll find that out, but we need to to realize across the board our
14:05 country's based on merit. That's how we respect each other. That's how we gain, command respect, and we're gonna get back to to that basic rule of of of getting that done, and and I'm excited about that process.
14:15 Congressman Owens, to that point, I mean, your success, sports, education, let's talk about a a measure that you're working on. You're also on the education committee, school
14:26 choice, giving parents an opportunity to give their children the best opportunities to succeed.
14:34 The blessing of the last 4 years is that we now are 1 as a nation. Our families across the country looked over all this the shoulders of their children, rise of education was not up to par. We just came out of a study
14:45 that 30 percent only 30 percent of our country's kids are proficient in math and reading. That is, that is unacceptable. So we're we're we're putting together something called Education Choice with Children's Act. It's
14:56 it's a that's an opportunity for for individuals and corporations to invest in a what's called a scholarship granting organization. It's a nonprofit. There's no link to the Department of Education at all. And from that,
15:07 those who invest can actually get tax credits. It it it does and this and and and and from this c CGO, parents can now get request funds for anything they want to, public,
15:19 private, parochial, homeschool, whatever they want, and that money comes to them to to to take their send their kids to to the educational process they that they wanna go to. I'm excited about it. It's truly the bringing
15:30 meritocracy into the process of education. And at and at some point, Tony, we're gonna also make figure out a way to to reward the best teachers in our country, to bring those who love this this profession, love to
15:41 teach, bring them to this industry so they can make a lot of money. And the better they are, the more they can make. And we can we can make sure we're rewarding those who are doing a good job. And those who don't wanna
15:49 do the teaching the right way, let's have them find something else to do. This is 1 of the most important national security issues in our country's history is our education of our children.
15:58 And when you look at it from a school choice standpoint, many people get, you know, worked up about that saying you're attacking public education. No. What you're doing is you're allowing the best to rise to the top, but
16:09 you're also doing something else is that you're involving parents into the education of their children by giving them a choice and a vested interest in it.
16:18 Well, this the great thing about this legislation, it does not touch 1 red cent of public educational funds. It does not does does not touch district local. This is something that people are investing themselves. And
16:29 what it does and they find out, by the way, 6 different states that the more they have, the more merit, the more competition, the better public school systems get to be. It works out. It's it's very much common sense. We
16:40 are a country that likes to compete and the very best be paid the best. So this is a very it's a it's a common sense legislative process. It does not take away from public school systems, but allows us as Americans to
16:51 invest in our kids. The return on investment is that we're gonna have the smartest, most innovative, the most productive kids and and adults in the entire world. That's what we should be looking at. And it doesn't matter
17:02 what ZIP code they live in. No 1 should be given a death sentence of education because they live in a certain ZIP code. We're changing that in American people behind us, and, we're gonna make sure we educate particulars
17:14 those at risk communities. And those who do not vote for this, they need to be voted out. Our kids should be the most important thing of all things we could do. And if they if they don't see a way of getting that done,
17:24 they wanna highlight labor unions instead, and we need to figure out how to get new people in in in in DC.
17:30 I I could not agree more, congressman Owens. I think competition is the key to improving everything because everybody, they they're on the top of their game or at least they they try to be if they wanna be in the game
17:41 when they have competition. And I think without it, everybody gets lazy. And I think that's what's happened in our education system in the United States. I'll give you a final word.
17:50 This is the only way per place that we have not had, a a a innovation. Innovation and education should be the the top of mind for all of us. We're gonna get that done through this process and bring the very best
18:02 minds into the in in our country to where they can teach our kids so we can we can produce the very best minds in the world. So I'm looking forward to that. I just wanna congratulate all all all the people out there
18:12 who's given us this opportunity by bringing president Trump into this process. The the last 3, classes of in in congress, we're gonna make a big difference. We just need to to make sure we explain this and
18:23 educate everybody as we move forward.
18:25 Alright. We'll be tracking it very closely. Congressman Burgess Owens, thanks so much for joining us. Always great to see you, my friend.
18:31 Thank you, Tony. I appreciate it. All the best.
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21:53 Welcome back to this Monday edition of Washington Watch. Great to have you with us. Well, a grand jury in West Baton Rouge Parish, that's just across the river from where I live in East Baton Rouge Parish, has issued an
22:04 indictment, an arrest warrant. The grand jury has issued an indictment, and the district attorney has issued an arrest warrant for a New York doctor for issuing abortion drugs to the mother of
22:16 a pregnant minor. Now notably, the mother did not travel from Louisiana to New York. Rather, she received the abortion chemicals after making an online request that came to the mail. Right? This is the Biden era policy
22:27 that remains in place. So how can it be that a doctor in New York provided abortion access to a state where the procedure has been outlawed? And what are the implications of this case? Here to
22:39 give us the details on this case, Louisiana State Senator Thomas Presley, whose bill, Senate Bill 2 76, made Louisiana the first state to classify abortion pills
22:51 as controlled dangerous substances, which is what this case is about. Senator Presley, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us.
22:59 Thanks so much for having me on, Tony. I appreciate it.
23:01 So give us the the the facts of this case.
23:04 Sure. So what happened in this in this case is that the mother of a pregnant teenager conspired with a New York doctor to obtain chemical abortion
23:16 pills in the mail. They were then given to the teenager who did not want to have an abortion in order to induce that abortion to occur.
23:26 Now was she other was she aware that she was be given given these pills?
23:31 She was aware, but she had also already planned a a party to announce the gender of the baby and was very excited to have the baby is what I've been told.
23:43 Mhmm. But the mother of that teenager worked with the New York state doctor to conspire to force the the teenager to have an
23:54 abortion using chemical abortion pills.
23:57 Yeah. This is let let me just stop you right there because this is very this is very similar to the reason that you actually introduced this law. Was it not?
24:06 Yeah. I I initially introduced the the law because my brother-in-law, at the time, unbeknownst to my sister, chose to grind up a misoprostol bill, place it
24:18 in a drink that my sister was having, a glass of water, and tried on 7 different occasions to try to kill my now 2 and a half year old niece, Josephine.
24:29 Catherine was able to recognize what was going on, realized that when she was having a medical emergency that she could take the abortion reversing pill, which she did, and
24:41 was able to save the life of my niece.
24:44 So that this is I mean, this is almost a a casebook, a classic case of what you were trying to prevent with this mother getting this for a teenager. Now this could
24:55 also happen with those who traffic, know, young people, minors in sex trafficking, and and they try to cover it up by getting these abortion pills, contrary to
25:07 their own desires. So let's talk about this this the grand jury issued an indictment, arrest warrant has been issued. Where does it stand now?
25:16 Yes. So I spoke with, the DA, Tony Clayton, this morning as well as with attorney general Merle, about where we are. And we have, according to attorney, the attorney general as well
25:28 as the DA, an arrest warrant has been issued for the doctor in New York, and we are awaiting New York to do its duty under the constitution, and and arrest the
25:40 doctor. Based on the the conversation that the governor of New York has had publicly, it does not sound like she will be willing to do that. However, if this doctor were to travel to any other state
25:52 that would be willing to extradite the doctor, then Louisiana will do everything we can to extradite the doctor to the state, in order for her to, face the criminal
26:04 charges that she, is is currently facing.
26:08 Just for the benefit of our listeners, as a former police officer, what would be happening? She's driving down the interstate in some other state, maybe, you know, who who knows where she might travel to for vacation.
26:18 She stopped for speeding. They run her driver's license, and it comes back that she has a warrant for her arrest that's outstanding in Louisiana. They would arrest her, hold her, contact Louisiana officials say,
26:30 hey. We have such and such. You have an warrant. Do you want her? And that's
26:34 how it works. There's a there's a national database that all warrants go into, and police officers are able to use that information in order to determine if a state would, extradite,
26:46 someone that's facing criminal charges to that state. And in Louisiana, we certainly would be interested in prosecuting this doctor, which is why the indictment was made in the first
26:58 place.
26:58 So, senator Pressler, I'm asking this question. This is a so the FDA removed the in person medical consultation that had been in place for
27:10 Mifepristone for for many years. And then the Department of Justice under the Biden administration said that the Comstock law does not apply to abortion pills and
27:21 therefore they can be sent through the mail. Now, that policy remains in place that the Biden administration put enacted. So a state like Louisiana that has pro life
27:33 laws, they're almost, I mean, they're circumvented by this policy that's currently in place allowing abortion pills to be mailed into the state.
27:42 Yeah. This policy needs to needs to be changed in a in this instance, again, Tony, 1 of the fascinating parts is the child, the teenager that was, pregnant didn't even have the
27:54 consultation with this New York based doctor. It was her mother that actually had the consultation and was able to get the pills. So, you know, it it's even worse than not having it, or having a
28:05 medical, telemedicine, consultation. There was no consultation at all that I'm aware of. But no question that the laws in the country need to be changed in order for states'
28:17 rights, in the tenth amendment to take effect on on this, issue, regarding abortion. And and Louisiana is a pro life state. There's no question about that, and we want to have
28:28 abortion illegal in this state. And the the current federal policies are not allowing that to to occur.
28:36 You know, senator, I I have a feeling this is this is not the end of this law in this case. I I think this is something that could end up before the supreme court.
28:45 I think you're exactly right. I I would be very surprised if this doesn't end up, before the supreme court, and I trust, attorney general Merle, to use her team at the attorney general's office to ensure that
28:57 Louisiana, puts on a a important tenth amendment case and in a case that that's state rights. And we need to ensure that the full faith and
29:08 credit laws of the United States constitution is in effect and that the state of New York turns over this doctor who has committed a crime in Louisiana.
29:18 Well, senator Presley, wanna thank you for joining us today, and I wanna thank you for your pro life stand. You're representing Louisiana quite well, and we're grateful for it.
29:27 Thank you, Tony. I appreciate you having me on today.
29:29 Absolutely. Alright, folks. We're gonna continue this conversation after the break. We're gonna talk about what president Trump needs to do to ensure that states like Louisiana, my home state, can actually have their pro
29:40 life laws. Mary Sack from FRC joins me next here on Washington. Watch it. Don't go away. A lot more still
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32:06 toolkit to 6 7 7 4 2. Alright. With president Trump's return to the White House, many of his first administration's previous pro life policies are being reinstated. And to that, we applaud. It it's
32:18 great. He's doing good. But Democrat state officials are fighting back, even openly and proudly subverting the pro life laws of other states that were put in place to protect their citizens
32:29 from the harms of, like, the abortion pill. Now, you'll recall that the Biden administration during the the last 4 years had the FDA changed so that the
32:41 abortion pill no longer required any type of medical in person medical consultation. And they also got a ruling from the Department of Justice that the Comstock Act, which
32:52 prohibits abortion material from being mailed, through the US mail service, didn't apply to the abortion pill. That's still in place. And that's what we were just talking about
33:04 with, senator Presley. So how how can how can this be? Well, here to discuss this is Mary Sock, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council. Mary, welcome back to Washington Watch.
33:16 Thanks so much for having me on.
33:18 Now let me just so we can set the context here for our our viewers and listeners. What is the estimated number or percentages of abortions that now occur through the
33:30 use of the abortion pill?Show more
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