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Pressure increases to end the Ukraine-Russia War, international responses to Israel’s decision to reclaim Gaza, State AGs seek safety protocols on abortion drugs, and debate over IVF and surrogacy.
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Global and Domestic Headlines: A Biblical Perspective 0:06 Welcome to the Washington Watch News Desk. I'm Sarah Holiday with today's top stories. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel's plan to take over Gaza City,0:17 which has sparked responses from nations across the globe. In Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Christensen caught flack for blaming Israel for the war and accusing them of mishandling0:29 aid. He even pushed to pause EU trade, but his coalition pushed back. They called his stance morally wrong and politically shortsighted. Deputy prime minister, Eva Bush,0:41 stressed that the blame falls on Hamas, not Israel. Now Sweden's changing course, planning sanctions on Hamas and eyeing to move its embassy to Jerusalem recognizing it as0:53 Israel's capital. Talk about a diplomatic shift. Meanwhile, Germany is taking a cautious approach to Israel's Gaza strategy. They're concerned about the conflict's humanitarian1:05 toll in Gaza. So Germany imposed a pause on military exports to Israel that could be used in Gaza, effective immediately. Germany's chancellor says his priorities are1:17 the release of Israeli hostages and securing a ceasefire, but his increased sympathy for Gaza has raised some eyebrows, especially given Germany's long standing post World War 2 alliance with1:28 Israel. The UK is jumping into the fray too, condemning Israel's Gaza plan and doubling down on its push for a 2 state solution. Here is how president1:40 Donald Trump reacted.1:42
1:52 focused on as far as, the rest of it, I really I really can't say that's gonna be pretty much up to Israel.
2:00 Netanyahu addressed this matter in an interview with Fox News.
2:04 Will Israel take control of all of Gaza?
2:08 We intend to. In order to, assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza, and to pass it to civilian governance. That
2:20 is not Hamas and not anyone advocating, the destruction of Israel. That's what we wanna do.
2:27 Netanyahu also said this takeover is only a temporary step to eliminating Hamas once and for all.
2:34 We don't wanna keep it. We wanna have a security perimeter. We don't wanna govern it. We don't want to, be there as a governing body. We want to hand it over to, Arab forces,
2:47 that will govern it properly without threatening us and giving Gazans a good life. That's not possible with Hamas. The only way that you're gonna have a different future is to get rid of,
2:58 this neo Nazi army. The Hamas are monsters.
3:03 Well, since that's far from settled, let's turn stateside. And parents, you'll wanna listen to this. Centerville High School in Fairfax County, Virginia is in the middle of a media
3:14 firestorm after egregious allegations. They've been accused of arranging abortions for students without parental consent, without parents even knowing about it. This
3:26 news blew up after a report claimed school officials had paid for students' abortions in 20 21. Allegedly, district employees are dodging the claims, but Fairfax County Public Schools
3:38 has launched a full scale investigation to tackle these serious concerns. And accountability is being dished out elsewhere as well at the University of California Los Angeles to be
3:49 exact. UCLA's chancellor revealed that 584000000 dollars in federal grants have been withheld from the school. Why? Because the Trump administration
4:01 suspended them. But the real story lies in UCLA's descent into chaos after the October seventh attack on Israel when the school became a hotbed of anti Semitic encampments and
4:13 protests. The university is also under fire for forcing women to share private spaces and sports with men. Honestly, no matter what angle you're coming from,
4:25 things aren't looking too good for UCLA. And those are today's headlines. I'm Sarah Holliday. Dive deeper with the Washington stand at washington stand dot com. Up next is Washington Watch
4:36 with Jody Heiss. We're back Monday with more stories that matter.
4:51 Matter. 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
5:03 nation's leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heiss.
5:12 Well, good afternoon. Welcome to this August eighth edition of Washington Watch. Can't believe it's already Friday, But it is, and we're glad to have you on board. I'm Jody Hice, senior fellow
5:24 here at the Family Research Council and your Friday host. Thank you for joining us. Coming up on today's program, president Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin are planning to hold a summit
5:36 at the end of next week to discuss a ceasefire in Ukraine. And the Kremlin so far is opposed to the idea of Ukraine's president being there.
5:46 To meet with him. He doesn't have to agree to meet with Zelensky. Is that what you're saying?
5:49 No. He doesn't. No. No.
5:51 So when do you think that would be
5:52 They would like to meet with me, and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killings.
5:58 That was, of course, president Trump speaking yesterday with some q and a with reporters, and I'll be discussing this topic in just a moment when I'm joined by Ohio congressman Warren Davidson, who's a
6:09 member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And Israel's security cabinet has approved a major expansion of his campaign in Gaza with the goal of demilitarizing that region.
6:22 And, of course, the United Nations is not happy about it, while the US is leaving the decision entirely in the hands of Israel.
6:30 Our 3 focuses, as the secretary outlined yesterday, remain getting humanitarian aid into Gaza without it being looted by Hamas, remains seeing the hostages released, and remains making sure that Hamas cannot continue to
6:40 exist because there can be no long term prosperity with Hamas as a as a governing force or otherwise within Gaza. So that's what our policy is. That's where our focus is.
6:50 That was state department principal spokesperson Tommy Pigott yesterday when he was asked about Israel's plans. And I'll discuss this later in the program when I'm joined by Chris Mitchell, who's the Middle East
7:02 bureau chief at CBN News. And then here domestically, we have 22 state attorneys generals who are urging the FDA to reinstate some critical
7:14 safety protocols for the abortion drug mifepristone. And I'll discuss this with 1 of those attorneys generals, Marty Jackley of South Dakota, a
7:25 little bit later in today's program. And then to close out the day, we will have our regular weekly biblical worldview segment. Doctor Owen Strand will be joining me for that as
7:37 we deal with the top headlines of the week from a biblical perspective. So as always, we've got a lot coming your way today. Wanna encourage you to stay tuned for every part of it. But if you do miss miss a portion, you
7:49 can always catch it by going to our website, tony perkins dot com, where you'll find a host of other archive programs as well as tons of resources available there for you. And I'll hit on this
8:01 a little bit later as well. But don't forget, we have our pray vote stand summit coming up October seventeenth and eighteenth in Chino Hills, California. We urge you strongly to make plans now to be there. You
8:12 can get more information by going to pray vote stand dot org. Alright. Let's jump into our first topic for the day. Yes for, today. Yesterday, the the Kremlin
8:24 announced that they do plan to meet with president Trump and, Vladimir Putin. And, obviously, the overall principle is, to
8:36 deal with the ceasefire, and they plan to meet just coming up in the next few days. Is this a genuine step forward? In as it relates to peace with the Russians in Ukraine? Well,
8:48 joining me now to discuss this and much more is congressman Warren Davidson. He's a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Financial Services Committee. He represents the eighth congressional district of the
8:58 great state of Ohio. Congressman Davidson, welcome back to Washington Watch. Great to see you, my friend.
9:05 Definitely an honor to join you and, great that you're hosting today. Nice to spend time with you.
9:11 Well, thank you, Warren. Let let's Let's start with your thoughts on this potential, at least face to face meeting between presidents Trump and Putin. Do you think this is a genuine good
9:23 faith effort towards peace?
9:25 Well, it's really encouraging. I mean, president Trump came in and look. Peace through strength. He was a very strong president in his first term. He's been even stronger in his second term. But he laid out a very clear
9:36 objective in Ukraine. He just wants peace. He wants to restore a state of peace. He wants people to stop dying. Under the Biden administration, you had everything from that on the 1
9:48 hand to regime change in Russia on the other. No Russians in Ukraine. No Russians in Ukraine or Crimea. And we kept doing this hollow slogan, as much as it takes, as long as it takes, which is a great
10:00 way to fund an endless war. If we're not gonna fight it, we seemed committed to at least cutting the checks for it. So, thankfully, president Trump's brought real leadership here. I know he's been frustrated,
10:10 particularly with president Putin lately, but he had a lot of wrestling to get Zelensky to the negotiating table and in a negotiating state of mind as well. I hope that they can restore peace, and I think it's a good
10:21 thing when president Trump sits down with people. I mean, I know you've been in the room with him. No 1 negotiates a deal and makes people wanna say yes more effectively than I've met. I mean, I think, he's
10:33 gonna give every chance for it to work.
10:36 Yeah. I agree with you on that. And, you know, I agree with you too about the frustration. There's got to be frustration. It seems like, to be honest, Russia just seems to be all over the map, and
10:48 Putin seems to be all over the place. How do you, think the Trump administration has so far approached Russia? Do you think they it's been effective, would you say?
10:59 Yeah. I think look. He's made it very clear that he's got expectations for Zelensky too, And I think, Russia didn't wanna come to a negotiation where they felt like it was all, give by Russia.
11:11 And, they had already tried to have some state of peace, and they and and Western governments basically scuttled an effort for peace in the early stages of the war. Russia's mostly been clear in saying that they don't
11:22 want, Ukraine to be part of NATO. They would prefer that Russia that that, Ukraine's not part of the European Union, but they're very committed that they don't become part of of NATO.
11:34 And, a lot of NATO countries want Ukraine to be part of NATO. NATO said Ukraine says they wanna be part of NATO. But I think president Trump's very clear that's not gonna happen on his watch and certainly not when
11:46 there's a state of war there. So that at least has Putin receptive. But the other thing when you look at economic interest there, Russia's, export is energy. President Trump wants to export energy. So you're like,
11:58 well, we're kind of wanting to do the same things here. Russia, would has plenty of rare earth minerals, but to the extent there are some, it's in areas where Russia was invading, Ukraine.
12:10 The United States basically negotiated a reach and off the table without drawing United States into conflict with Russia. On the other side, both of those kinds of things serve as as
12:22 opportunities for Russia to do something different. And then lastly, note that this comes at a time when president Trump started squeezing India. And India is 1 of the key export markets, for
12:34 for Russian energy. So they've been cut off from a lot of energy. They've lost a lot of business, and they've lost every kinda connection to, the western world in the wake of this war. So president Trump
12:46 has said, look. I think we should find a way to include Russia into the, world trade framework, and we should have a way to have some forgiveness and restoration of these relationships. And I think that's the,
12:58 the olive branch, and president Trump's also made clear with the strike in Iran, well, he's got sticks too.
13:05 Very interesting connecting some of those dots. We'll we'll see how all this all all these pieces come together. While I have you, congressman Davidson, more domestic
13:17 news. You're part of financial services, and I'm sure you're keenly aware that president Trump signed a new executive order guaranteeing, fair banking for all Americans. I know this
13:29 is something that you've been involved with for quite some time. Give me your thoughts on this, debanking executive order.
13:37 Well, it's necessary. The reality is people were losing access to banking and particularly conservatives. Basically, it was the Biden enemies list, and this wasn't new. It was termed choke 0.2 0 because under
13:49 president Obama, they had choke point, operation choke point. This is a code word for basically directing the bank regulators, who have coercive power over banks to say, well,
14:01 we don't wanna bank those people. And, you know, sadly, if you think about it from a civil rights perspective, people from across the political spectrum and racial religious lines, things like that, have been the those
14:13 people, and they were denied access to banking. But in the case here, it wasn't just you weren't getting loans. They wouldn't even take deposits from conservatives. They were literally closing off access. And it wasn't
14:24 just, like, conservatives, but it was crypto in particular. Barney Frank, who was the democrat from Massachusetts, you know, pretty far left to center democrat, but he was chairman of
14:36 the House Financial Services Committee when democrats were in the majority for the Dodd Frank Act. And he was on the board of of Signature Bank, and they were they were basically shut down by the
14:47 Biden administration. And he said it wasn't because we weren't solvent. It was because we were banking crypto. So this kind of war on the Biden enemies list needs to end, and we need to follow-up in the house financial
14:59 services committee and pass laws that make it impossible for bank regulators to do this without somebody going to jail.
15:07 Yeah. I'm really glad to see this taking place. I personally have known folks impacted by this as I'm sure you have as well. And and frankly, it ought to be bipartisan support. Everyone ought to
15:19 your colleagues on the other side of the aisle, as you mentioned, Barney Frank. So it there ought to be agreement now on this, you would think. We'll see how that comes up. If I can, let me hit another big issue
15:30 president Trump has been making waves about also with this, mid decade census that he's putting together. This time, of course, it will be excluding illegal immigrants.
15:43 You agree with this? Why is this a necessary move?
15:47 Oh, Jody, I'm so excited about this. I've had a bill since I've been in congress trying to get the census so that they when they count it, they at least well, count everybody. I want you to count the illegals because I
15:57 wanna know where they are. We can ship them on out. But, when you draw maps for congress, it needs to be based on US citizens only. I represent US citizens. I don't care
16:09 even if you're here legally. Personally, you've got an embassy or a consulate that represents you. I represent US citizens, and so does everyone else in the in the United States Congress. So but right now, the
16:21 map's based on everyone who happens to be here, and California is picking up, I don't know, 6 or 7 extra seats. That's more than a lot of states have for representatives. And to be fair, Arizona and Texas and other
16:33 states are picking up because they have large noncitizen populations as well. And, you need an honest map. The honest map, has US citizens drawn in it. And to get an honest map, you've
16:45 gotta be able to do an honest census. And president Trump tried to set the conditions for this in his first term. He was blocked by the courts, and we need to really highlight the urgency that congress really should
16:57 be looking at president Trump's leadership and his executive orders, and we ought to be voting on 2 or 3 of those executive orders every week we're in session. But this is 1 of the most urgent things. And I will say,
17:08 I'll commend my colleague, Chuck Edwards, who's been a great ally on this since he got to congress.
17:14 Well, I wish we had more time to hit on all of this, congressman Davidson. But real quickly, and we've only got about a minute or so left. But the Texas state house is making all sorts of big news with Democrats. They
17:25 are fleeing to Illinois to prevent a quorum so that that state can, move forward on redistricting as you brought up. Real quickly, what's your thoughts on that? Where is this all going to go? What impact could
17:37 it have nationally?
17:39 Well, look, district maps can be partisan. In Ohio, our constitution recognizes they can be partisan. If there's a bipartisan agreement on the maps when the first census is done, then the maps
17:51 hold for 10 years. But if there's not bipartisan consensus, then the maps are only good for 4 years. So Ohio's in the process of redrawing, and that's our constitution. But if it weren't for double standards,
18:03 democrat the democrats wouldn't have any. Illinois' maps are very gerrymandered, very skewed for Democrats. And Texas is basically saying, well, we can do that too.
18:14 Wow. Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio. Always great to see you. Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy district time right now and traveling schedule
18:26 with Codells and so forth. Thank you for joining us on Washington Watch. Great to have you.
18:30 Yeah. Definitely an honor. God bless you and all your listeners and viewers.
18:34 Thank you. Alright, friends. On the other side of the break, CBN's Middle East Bureau chief, Chris Mitchell, is here with all the latest regarding the war between Israel and Hamas. So stay
18:46 tuned. We'll be back right after this.
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21:55 Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heiser, Friday host, and we're thrilled to have you joining us this evening. Alright. There's a major development in the war between
22:06 Israel and and the Hamas terror group. Earlier today, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu's cabinet voted in favor of expanding its operations in Gaza and with the
22:18 ultimate goal of demilitarizing the entire region. So what could this new development mean for the whole war? Well, joining me now to discuss this is Chris Mitchell. He's the
22:30 Middle East Bureau chief at CBN News. Chris, great to have you. Welcome back to Washington Watch.
22:36 Jody, great to be with you once again.
22:40 So, tell us about this vote in favor of temporarily, taking over Gaza City. What what was it a a close vote, or what what are your thoughts on this?
22:51 Well, I think most of the cabinet the security cabinet voted to go ahead and do this. It's, Israel has been at the crossroads of, what to do, whether not to have a negotiated, a settlement with Hamas,
23:03 whether to free more of the hostages, maybe have a ceasefire. Hamas wanted certainly, the end of the war and the withdrawal of all, Israeli troops out of Gaza Strip. That was something
23:15 Israel's unwilling to do. So this is a major step, Jody, in the war against Hamas. They plan to take over Gaza City. They also are asking, most of the
23:26 residents there to go south to humanitarian areas where even now they're setting up, hospitals and camps for people to get out of harm's way and to be safe. This is a policy that the
23:38 IDF has done throughout the war, giving evacuation notices to people to get them out of harm's way. In the meantime, this is, like, 1 of the last, phases of the war
23:50 to be able to surround Gaza City to eliminate this 1 of the last strongholds of Hamas so they can achieve the goals of the war, which is to defeat Hamas militarily and to make
24:02 sure that Hamas is never able to rule the Gaza Strip, ever again.
24:08 Wow. So what kind of timeline do we know? When is this all going to get underway? I'm assuming, there there as you just mentioned, they're giving time for people to evacuate,
24:20 but I'm assuming the timeline's gonna be pretty rapid.
24:23 Yeah. Well, I've heard a couple of weeks or a month to prepare these humanitarian centers, for the people of Gaza, and then the, major operation military operation, will begin while they're
24:35 amassing, troops and, equipment to go into Gaza City. It'll be a very difficult, military operation, because, there is many, Hamas fighters in Gaza
24:47 City, many tunnels, many booby traps. Urban warfare is the most difficult warfare there is. But compounding that, Jody, is the fact that there is a labyrinth of
24:59 tunnels under Gaza City as in most of Gaza that the IDF has, discovered. The good news is that IDF has been fighting this kind of warfare for nearly 2 years.
25:11 They know how to do it. Sometime last year, I had the opportunity to go in with a number of number of other journalists into 1 of those tunnels, and just that kind of warfare fighting above ground and below
25:23 ground is extremely dangerous and extremely difficult. 1 reason why they want all the people of Gaza to leave that are not related to Hamas and, and why they also want to,
25:35 finally eliminate Hamas as a military threat. 1 other thing they're doing, Tony, is, I mean, sorry, Jody, is they are preparing humanitarian areas. They're trying to
25:46 quadruple the number of human humanitarian sites where they're distributing food and medical supplies to the people of Gaza from 4 to 16. What that is gonna do, Jody, is
25:58 eliminate, this this aid that Hamas has been using as a weapon against their own people, as a weapon against Israel by selling the food and by using it to control the population.
26:10 This is very key to the operation is the humanitarian aid that can, usurp the, the control away from, Hamas by using this humanitarian aid.
26:22 So when you consider the humanitarian aid and all that Israel has and continues to do in that regard, were you at all surprised by, Germany's, decision to stop
26:34 military exports, in protest to this whole attempt to go into Gaza? What did that it all come as a surprise to you?
26:44 To some people, it had because, Germany had been supportive of, of Israel, in its fight against Hamas. So the decision to stop arms sales, to, to Israel was a surprise
26:56 to some people. There was another German, issue in the last cup few days, Jody, and that has to do with the German publication Bild, which exposed some of the,
27:09 PR campaign by Hamas talking about a starvation campaign in Gaza. And what Bild had done was to show sort of behind the scenes, they pulled back
27:21 the curtain on Hamas has been using some of these staged photos of, of these children that are clamoring for food. And that's part of the campaign that, Israel,
27:33 has been facing by Hamas, a really orchestrated and coordinated campaign that, that Israel is deliberately trying to starve the people of Gaza. On the contrary, they are trying to
27:45 pour massive amounts of humanitarian aid. They have almost 2000000 tons of food have gone into Gaza, since the beginning of the war. And even now, there's
27:57 literally hundreds of trucks waiting to go into Gaza. So this, which undermines the whole notion of this deliberate starvation campaign by Israel.
28:08 Yeah. So, I mean, just yourself as a long time reporter, what do you make of all the the legacy media's seeming willful misinformation, about, all this starvation and all that sort of thing?
28:21 Where is the truth finally coming out?
28:25 I think it is, and I'm glad for it. I would say as been reporting here, 25 years next week, here in Israel is that we've seen this movie before.
28:37 We've seen the ways that Hamas, or the Palestinian Authority or Islamic Jihad has tried to manipulate the images that people get in the news media. And I will also cite
28:48 Jonathan Conricas. He's the former IDF, spokesman for the IDF. Now he's with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He was telling us earlier this week that,
29:00 the the international media, much of it, he calls them useful idiots by because many times, they have been used by Hamas in in, to,
29:12 accelerate the campaign and these images, that really provide a skewed version, of what is really happening here. We also talked to Gil Hoffman. He's with the honest reporting
29:24 dot com, and he said this is something that the the news media has done. Everybody probably has seen that picture in the New York Times on the front cover of an emaciated child.
29:35 Wrap it up, Chris.
29:37 Okay. But that wasn't a starving child. That was a child that was also had a preexisting medical campaign condition.
29:44 Chris Mitchell, thank you for joining us. We appreciate it so much. Friends, don't go away. Much more Washington Watch straight ahead.
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31:55 Good afternoon. Welcome back to Washington Watch. I'm Jody Heise. Glad to have you joining us today. Alright. As we've been highlighting quite often here on Washington Watch, the majority
32:07 of abortions today, as you well know, are done through the abortion drug mifepristone. And the dangers of this drug, obviously, that it posed to the unborn, but also to the
32:19 mother. These dangers are well documented. But in spite of those flashing warning lights, the Food and Drug Administration slowly dismantled these safeguards over the years to the
32:31 point where these drugs can now be mailed to your door with no in person doctor's visits involved whatsoever. With the second Trump administration now firmly in charge, a group
32:43 of 22 state attorneys general have signed a letter calling on the secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert f Kennedy junior, to reexamine
32:55 the FDA's approval of the abortion drug. And 1 of those state attorney generals joins me now to share more. South Dakota attorney general Marty Jackley, welcome to Washington
33:07 Watch. It's great to have you.
33:08 Thank you for having me.
33:11 So why why did you feel it was so important to sign onto this letter?
33:17 I think I and some of the other attorney generals felt it was about the safety of a pregnant woman. It was concerns how both under president Obama back in 20 16 and then
33:28 now Biden on his way out, put in place reduced restrictions and protections when it came to this, drug. We felt, we needed to be a strong voice. We're
33:40 responsible for enforcing our laws across our states. Here in South Dakota, it can be a felony if it's not appropriately administered. And so we just felt now was the appropriate time that somebody would be listening,
33:51 and we could make a difference.
33:54 Yes. So, I mean, we all know these abortion drugs, killed the unborn baby tragically, horribly so. But as you just brought up, it also is very harmful to women. Shouldn't
34:06 that concern everyone? I mean, what is the holdup? Why is this so easily made available to people?Show more
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