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Three legislators and a legal expert discuss commonsense measures President Trump begins delivering from day one, while also examining a far-left Bishop's anti-biblical criticism of Trump.
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In this video 0:06 A Call for Mercy and Unity2:32 Trump's Immigration and Executive Orders4:36 Reconciliation and Republican Unity8:25 Religious Freedom and the Rule of Law18:44 Executive Orders and Military Reform
A Call for Mercy and Unity 0:06 Good afternoon. I'm Victoria Marshall, and welcome to the Washington Watch news desk. President Donald Trump is calling on the Washington National Cathedral and Bishop Marian Edgar Budd to apologize0:17 for reprimanding him and his administration during yesterday's prayer service. Trump and vice president JD Vance, along with their families, were in attendance.0:27 I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country. We're scared now. There are gay, lesbian,0:39 and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. And the0:51 people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants1:03 and work the night shifts in hospitals, they they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not1:15 criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, wadara,1:28 and temples. I ask you to have mercy, mister president, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away.1:38 The bishop ended her admonition by calling on Trump to also welcome refugees into the country because God teaches us to be merciful to the stranger. Now when asked about the service by reporters,
1:50 here's what the president said.
1:52 Of the service. What did you think of the service?
1:54 What did you think? What Did you like it? Did you find it exciting? Not too exciting was Islam. I didn't think it was a good service to them. Thank you very much.
2:05 Thank you, press. Thank you, press.
2:07 Much they could do much better.
2:11 Trump also criticized the bishop in a post on social media, writing, the so called bishop who spoke at the national prayer service on Tuesday morning was a radical left hard line Trump hater. She
2:22 brought her church into the world of politics in a very ungracious way. She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our country and killed people. And speaking of illegal immigration, on day
Trump's Immigration and Executive Orders
2:34 1 of his tenure, President Trump signed several executive orders to help solve the border crisis. They include reinstating the remain in Mexico policy, ending catch and release, ending birthright
2:46 citizenship, ending the CPB 1 app, which allowed most migrants to enter the country through asylum claims, designating cartels as terrorist organizations, suspending refugee resettlement, and sending
2:58 additional troops to the southern border. Now here's what Trump's borders are. Former acting ICE director Tom Homan had to say about it.
3:06 The greatest president in my lifetime, he's back. Because in 2 days, last 24 hours, total apprehensions on the southwest border, 766. Compare that to the 10 to 12000
3:18 Biden had at 1 time. CBP, CBP 1 releases, 0. CHNV, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Nicaragua, Venezuela releases, 0. Total of 766
3:30 across the entire southwest border. That is a game changer.
3:33 Homan also revealed that ICE has arrested 309 illegal migrants on Trump's first full day back in office. And in other executive order news, president Trump has directed all
3:45 executive agencies to end all affirmative action programs. The order also directs agencies to enforce civil rights laws by combating private sector affirmative action policies. As a result of
3:57 the order, the Office of Personnel Management is placing all federal employees in diversity, equity, and inclusion roles on paid leave by 5 PM on Wednesday as those offices and programs
4:09 will be shutting down. And finally, in another blow to DEI, the state department has implemented a 1 flag policy barring US out outposts at home and abroad from flying any other
4:21 flag but the American flag. This order effectively bans American facilities from displaying flags affiliated with left wing movements, including the pride and black lives matter flags that flew over US
4:32 government buildings under president Joe Biden. And those are today's headlines. I'm Victoria Marshall. Up next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. We'll see you tomorrow with more
Reconciliation and Republican Unity
4:44 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. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
5:10 There's a lot of issues with reconciliation and government funding that we're working through. These are healthy family discussions, not just inside the House Republican Conference, but between the House and, Senate
5:20 Republicans. And, that dialogue is going very well. The discussions are going very well.
5:26 That was House Speaker Mike Johnson earlier today discussing the way forward on Republicans using the budgetary tool known as reconciliation to advance conservative priorities. Reconciliation circumvents
5:38 the 60 vote threshold required in the senate. Welcome to Washington Watch, and thanks for tuning in on this Wednesday. We'll be joined in just a moment by Missouri senator Josh Hawley for an update on those
5:49 Republican discussions in the senate, as well as his call for president Trump to pardon the peaceful pro life protesters sentenced to prison under the Joe Biden Department of Justice.
6:01 And if you missed this yesterday, brace yourself. It's causing quite a stir. The inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral has angered many and rightfully so.
6:13 And as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving god. In the name of our god,
6:25 I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country We're scared now.
6:35 I'm scared after that. That was Bishop Mary Ann Edgar Buddy lecturing president Trump on his immigration policies and biological gender issues. We're gonna talk about it with North
6:47 Carolina congressman and pastor doctor Mark Harris a little bit later. Also, president Trump is, moving quickly to secure the border.
6:55 And just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ICE arrested over 308 308 serious criminals. Some of them were murderers. Some of them were rapists. Some of them raped a child. Some were were were a sexual assault of a
7:07 child. So ICE is doing their job. They're prioritizing just as the president said they would. So the ICE is performing excellent right now out in the field, and they're gonna continue every day.
7:17 That was border czar Tom Homan on Fox this morning. To weigh in on the topic, Texas senator John Cornett joins us later. Plus, the Trump team is rolling out executive
7:29 orders in rapid succession addressing everything from transgender military policy, male female definitions in federal programs, DEI, to the State Department's 1 Flag policy. We'll unpack the
7:41 most significant of these with Mike Berry, executive director of the Center for Litigation at the American First Policy Institute. And finally, as we move into these first 100 days, we've
7:53 created a brand new resource for you. It's the first 100 days toolkit. It helps you track campaign promises as they become policy. It provides contact
8:04 information so that you can take the necessary action when required, and trust me, it will be required. It also includes prayer points for how you can pray for government policy and our
8:16 government leaders that make that policy. You can find it all on the Stand Firm app. Go to the App Store, download the Stand Firm app, or simply text toolkit to 6 7 7 4 2. That's toolkit
Religious Freedom and the Rule of Law
8:28 to 6 7 7 4 2, and get started on these first 100 days. Yesterday, the Republican leaders of the House and Senate met with president Trump to discuss how to best proceed
8:40 with the budget reconciliation process, which will advance the president's America First agenda. While it's not clear exactly what conclusions were drawn at the meeting, house speaker Mike Johnson, Johnson, as you
8:52 heard earlier, said there is a strategy they're working on together and, quote, a great spirit of unity, end quote. So how close might we be to seeing an agreed upon approach,
9:04 whether it's 1 or 2 bill strategy? Joining me now to discuss this and much more is US Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri who serves on 4 Senate committees, including the Judiciary Committee and the
9:16 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. He joins us us by phone. Senator Hawley, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for tuning in.
9:24 Thank you so much for having me.
9:27 So let's, first talk about reconciliation. What are you hearing? Are we on a path to unity between the house and senate?
9:38 Well, we've gotta be because in order to to get anything done here, Tony, the houses have to agree. And my view is we need to move on this as quickly as And I would just say that whatever president Trump wants to do,
9:48 there's a lot of talk in Washington about is it 1 bill, is it 2 bills. Look. Let let's just look to the president here for direction, and let's get this thing going. What you don't want is a bunch of congressmen and
9:58 senators sitting around staring at each other for months on end. And then we get to the end of the spring, and it's like, gee, we we haven't done anything. Like, we just can't afford that. There is too much to clean up.
10:08 There is too much need to address. We've got to turn around this country and do that. We gotta move fast. And so my plea is to leadership, hey. Get your ducks in a row here and let's get going. Let's reopen
10:19 energy production. Let's secure the border. Let's let's get the criminals off of our streets. Let's get back to the president's agenda that he campaigned on and started enacting it into law.
10:30 You know, people look at the president having a 4 year term, but in reality, his most impactful time is really in the first year because you have midterm
10:42 elections 2 years into his 4 years. And in about a year, you're gonna have members starting to look at reelection, and so they become very distracted. So now is the time to act as you pointed
10:54 out.
10:56 Absolutely. The time is is vital. Every second counts. What we've lived through for the last 4 years, there is so much to undo. You think about what they have done to law abiding Americans. You think about the the cases
11:07 that have been brought against pro lifers, the cases that have been brought against parents at school board meetings, you look at the regulations that they have tried to impose on believers as well as on our economy. I
11:18 mean, there is so much to turn around, Tony. We just don't have any time to spare. And that's why I say that it's time for the senate of the house to have their esoteric debates about how should we structure this
11:28 package, you know, whatever. They just need to come to a bottom line and get going on it because the country is waiting for them to deliver.
11:36 Do you have a preference? 1 bill, 2 bills?
11:39 Nope. I don't. My view is is that whatever the president is comfortable with, we know what priorities need to go in these bills. We know it's gotta be reopen American energy production, get people back to work, bring
11:50 those jobs back to this country, shut down the border, and start deporting the criminal illegals. You know, I think this isn't hard. The president's been crystal clear on what he wants. These are certainly the things
12:01 that those of us who ran this last last election ran on. So let's get them done. Let's enact them into law ASAP.
12:08 Senator, let's talk about, you you talked about pro lifers being prosecuted, even persecuted under the Biden administration. There were 30, convictions under
12:20 the FACE Act, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, that was enacted by Bill Clinton back in the nineties, I think 94. You're you're calling on the president to pardon. I think
12:32 there's 21 still being held in prison, and most of these are grandmothers who were convicted of praying out in front of abortion clinics. You're you're calling on the president to pardon them, release them, get them out
12:44 of prison. Have you heard anything on that request?
12:47 I haven't, but I'm I'm hopeful that the president will act on this immediately. I mean, these are people who are unjustly in prison, Tony. It's not even that there there are folks who made a mistake, but at least it was
12:59 nonviolent. That's not it. It's these are people who I believe committed no crime at all. The first amendment protects your right to pray in a public space. It protects your right to demonstrate in a public space. And
13:11 these are people who were singled out by the last administration, the most anti Christian administration in our country's history. They were singled out to frankly be terrorized using law
13:22 fair to make a point to try to silence all the rest of us to try to put everybody who's a person of faith in fear of speaking out and exercising your faith and your your freedom, freedoms in public. And so,
13:34 Tony, these convictions are unjust. The application of the law to them in this way was unjust. And I hope the president will very soon pardon these folks and get them out of prison. As you said, 20
13:46 plus are still in prison right now. It's just it's wrong.
13:50 Right. And, I mean, most several of these pro life activists are in their mid to late seventies, and they've received the multiyear sentences for their their protest. And, of course, the president,
14:02 pardoning pard pardoning those who were a part of the January sixth, protest. I mean, again, these were all peaceful. These are not people that engaged in any type of,
14:14 violent behavior. And as you said, they were simply exercising their First Amendment rights, which the FACE Act, has made criminal. And and so that's actually the next step, senator, is to
14:25 eliminate this federal law known as the the FACE Act.
14:29 Yeah. And what is particularly grotesque about all of this, Tony, is that in the same time period, while the Biden administration was going after and singling out these good Americans, these believing
14:41 Christians to try to make examples of them, churches were being literally firebombed. Pregnancy care centers were being attacked. Their workers were being harassed. Their places of work were
14:53 vandalized, burned. And what did the Biden administration do about that? Nothing. Not a thing. So you can see the abuse of the law. And you're right about the FACE Act. It has
15:05 been used for decades now and never more so than in the last 4 years. It has been used as a weapon of intimidation against believing Americans, particularly pro life Christians. It has
15:17 been used against them. It has been applied unequally, unfairly from day 1, and this has just gotta stop.
15:26 Senator, I wanna step back from just, you know, this immediate application of the pardons. And and I I would agree that, you know, those who who who were peacefully protesting outside
15:38 the capitol, or at an abortion clinic, those who did not engage in violence. Now I I have some concerns about those who actually broke the law by engaging in violence. But what
15:49 we're seeing here is it's, it's a radical change from administration to administration. It's like we've lost, a common ground of truth
16:01 and decency in our country and fair application of the law. And so you've got, you know, Biden pardoning people. You've got, you know, Trump pardoning people. It's like you have to wait for a president to get
16:13 justice. That says there's something wrong with our system.
16:17 Oh, it's it's really worrisome. It it speaks to the loss of the rule of law, Tony. Because as you know, I mean, the whole point of the rule of law is it's blind as to the individual characteristics of a person. The law
16:29 is not supposed to look on you and say, oh, you're a Christian? Well, in that case, that means you don't have any first amendment rights. You're a Christian. You wanna pray in public? No. You can't do that. Oh, but
16:39 you're you're a secular liberal? Sure. Go ahead. You wanna you wanna assault a cop out? It's fine. We'll we we won't charge you at all. That is not what the law is supposed to do. It's supposed to say, here is the rule.
16:49 It's neutral. We apply it fairly to everybody. And, Tony, you're right. That has not happened. And particularly in the last 4 years, we have seen the unequal, unfair application of the law. Like, I
17:01 have I never thought possible in this country. And to me, this is 1 of the most important things president Trump and his justice department now can do is to reverse those injustices and going
17:13 forward to say, we're gonna get back to just following the law. We're gonna put criminals behind bars. We're gonna protect law abiding folks, and we're gonna stop this persecution of Christians and others who have the
17:25 who have the temerity to stand up and and to challenge, people in power and the secularists.
17:30 And, maybe, senator, it's gonna require more. It's the first step, obviously, to correct the injustices in the justice department. But this is a whole of society problem and that we've got to
17:42 raise our expectations of the rule of law, and we've got to live under the rule of law, and it begins with self government or our system doesn't work.
17:52 Yeah. That's exactly right. That's that's exactly correct. And we we've got to get back to the place where we can expect that whoever is in power, whatever party it is, whoever's in the majority is gonna apply the laws
18:03 evenly and fairly. Yeah. And as you say, we don't have to look to a president to say, well, gosh. If if my guy doesn't win, then I might really be in trouble. I mean, that's not America. That's not the
18:12 right No.
18:13 And, of course, as Christians, we we, you know, we really understand that because you look at the script the idea of the rule of law, scriptural, of course, going back founded in in the in the Old Testament where the
18:24 principle of proportionality is set out. That's what eye for eye is, is that the the the punishment must be proportional to crime, is that you don't single out people because you dislike them, that you treat them fairly
18:35 because our god is just. And as Christians, we really ought to be the ones carrying the banner and say, we need reform here. We need the we need the fair rule of law.Show more
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