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A deep dive on reckless federal spending, Hamas' war on innocents, President Trump's EO on the authorities of federal agencies, and the Biblical response to the expansion of IVF.
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0:06 Good afternoon. I'm Victoria Marshall, and welcome to the Washington Watch News Desk. Yesterday, Vice President JD Vance made several wide ranging remarks at the conservative political action0:18 conference just outside of Washington DC. Vance touched on a lot of issues during his talk, including his criticism of European countries betraying Western values to the Trump administration's immigration0:29 policy. Take a look.0:31 We cannot rebuild western civilization. We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into0:43 our country. It has to stop. Thank god it stopped here, but it's gotta stop there.0:48 Vance also took a moment specifically to address America's young people.0:53 My message to young people generally is we're trying to make your life better. And that that is the that is the simple thrust of president Trump's policy is we want you to be able to buy a home. We want1:05 you to be able to work a good job. We want you to be able to raise your kids, like I said, according to the values that you believe in, and we want you to be able to build a nice life in this country that all of us love.1:16 That is what we're trying to do. And, you know, you guys more than more than anybody, more than me, I'm talking about people under the age of 30 in particular, you guys are gonna have to deal with the1:28 consequences of good policy or of bad policy for much longer than the rest of us. And I I I I just I want you guys to think about the future and ask yourself, do you want safe
1:40 communities? Do you want a prosperous life? Do you wanna be able to work a good job? Or do you want that job shipped off to China or somewhere else? We're fighting for you every single day. We want you to help fight for
1:51 us because we've gotta win.
1:53 And also yesterday, the senate confirmed Kash Patel as director of the FBI. The vote was 51 to 49 with 2 Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins
2:05 of Maine, voting against Patel. Patel was 1 of President Trump's more controversial cabinet picks as both Republicans and Democrats were worried he would go after Trump's political enemies as leader of the
2:17 FBI. Patel, however, has vowed to focus on streamlining FBI operations and rebuilding public confidence in the agency. GOP majority leader, John Thune, shortly before Patel's
2:28 confirmation, gave a speech on the senate floor arguing that Patel would restore the integrity of the FBI.
2:36 The next director of the FBI needs to focus on rooting out politics so the FBI can enforce the law, uphold the constitution, and keep Americans safe. We need all law enforcement working together and
2:47 focused on the real threats facing our country. I look forward to working with mister Patel to restore the integrity of the FBI and get it focused on its critical mission.
2:59 Patel's confirmation comes as former senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell announced he would not be seeking reelection in 20 26. McConnell is the longest serving senate party leader in US
3:11 history. He chose his 80 third birthday to announce that he'd not be running for another term in Kentucky.
3:18 Representing our commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime. I will not seek this honor
3:30 an eighth time. My current term in the senate will be my last.
3:37 And in other domestic news, Trump's Department of Energy has cut more than a hundred and 24000000 in wasteful spending. According to a new report by Fox News, Department of Energy employees have
3:49 identified and canceled more than a hundred and 24000000 of non essential line items, including millions of dollars in DEI contracts to expensive multimillion dollar political news
4:00 subscriptions. And they're just getting started. A DOE spokesman said they're also expecting to cut 65000000 more dollars in the coming months as they focus on making government more
4:12 efficient and transparent for the American people. Here's what energy secretary Chris Wright said this week on Fox Business.
4:20 So we've cut out some needless expenditures, and we're doing everything we can to become better stewards of American taxpayer monies without sacrificing the DOE mission. In fact, we wanna expand the DOE mission,
4:32 but do it all at lower cost and more efficiently.
4:35 And those are today's headlines. I'm Victoria Marshall. Up next is Washington Watch with Tony Perkins. We'll see you next
4:44 week with
4:55 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 newsmakers, all from a biblical
5:06 worldview. Sitting in for Tony is today's host, Jody Heise.
5:13 Well, good afternoon. Welcome to this Friday edition of Washington Watch. I am your Friday host, Jody Heise, the senior vice president here at the Family Research Council and president of FRC Action.
5:24 Thank you so much for joining us today. We've got a lot coming your way. Here's some of the highlights. After a 12 hour vote a rama, as it's known, it went well
5:36 past midnight. Senate Republicans finally passed their budget resolution on a party line vote.
5:43 In this vote, the yeas are 52. The nays are 48. The concurrent resolution as amended is considered agreed to.
5:55 I'm sure all of you stayed up last night, this morning, around 1 45 to hear that announcement from the senate president pro tem Kevin Cramer. He was announcing the results of the
6:06 vote. Well, now senate Republicans say that their budget resolution, resolution is plan b. What is plan a? Well, that would be the house version, the version that president
6:18 Trump is preferring. So looking forward, how is all this going to unfold? Is it gonna be plan a or plan b? I'll be discussing that here in just a moment with congressman Ron Estes
6:30 of Kansas. An outrage over the discovery yesterday after Hamas returned the bodies of 4 Israeli hostages, the Beavis children,
6:42 Ariel and Kefir, they died at the hands of Hamas. And then the body of the woman that was returned was not that of their mother.
6:51 Who kidnaps a little boy and a baby and murders them? Monsters. That's who. These Hamas monsters also cynically refused to bring back the boy's mother, Shiri, and
7:03 send the body of a Gaza woman instead, embracing violation of the agreement.
7:10 That, of course, was Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier today. And I'll be discussing this and other developments when I'm joined later in the program by Israel Gantz. He's
7:22 the governor of the Benjamin region and chairman of the Yesha Council. And then this past Wednesday, president Trump signed an executive order that
7:34 will require federal agencies to evaluate all their regulations that could violate the constitution. And amazingly, or maybe not so amazingly, the left is
7:46 upset. Well, why? We'll be discussing this a little bit later with law professor Donald Cochin. He's the executive director of the law and economics center at George
7:57 Mason University. And then here's something that is refreshing to hear.
8:02 Our cultural message is I I think that it wants to turn everybody in whether male or female into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same, and act the
8:14 same. We actually think god made male and female for a purpose.
8:20 Wow. Of course, that was vice president JD Vance. He was speaking yesterday at the conservative political action conference, also known as CPAC. I'll discuss this and other trending news items when I'm
8:31 joined later in the program by David Claussen for our weekly Biblical World View segment. So as always, we've got a lot to unpack for you today. If you miss any part of it, please keep handy.
8:43 Our website, tony perkins dot com. Alright. Now for our first news item for the day. It was early, early, early this morning, but the senate passed
8:55 the Republicans budget plan on largely a party line vote as teeing up some key elements of president Trump's domestic agenda. All this is happening despite president Trump's
9:07 stated preference for the house budget plan over the senate. So will the house or the senate plan end up winning the day? Well, joining me now with all the latest
9:19 is congressman Ron Estes. He's a member of the house ways and means committee as well as the Budget Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. He represents the fourth congressional district of the great state of
9:30 can Kansas. Congressman Estes, welcome back to Washington Watts. Great to see you, my friend.
9:36 It's great to see you, Jody. Thanks for having me on.
9:40 You bet. Alright. So now the senate has passed their version. So what's the latest on all the budget reconciliation process, especially on your side of the capital?
9:52 Yeah. It it was good that
9:53 the senate passed their version last night, but it's really not what we need to proceed forward with. I mean, they they did a pared down version that that only addressed, border security and and some defense of the
10:05 nation. And it doesn't do anything to address some of the other important things that we included in our house resolution that we passed last week. I mean, we we looked at and included in our resolution, not just
10:17 supporting, border security and improving our our national defense, increase for Americans, next year, making sure that
10:29 we have pro growth energy policies and and economic policies, in our bill. The deficit. I mean, that's a piece that we we put charges out there for our committees to
10:40 go look at dollar amounts to actually reduce the deficit. And that's becoming a bigger and bigger issue now as you know, we have 36000000000000 dollars in debt, which is which is over
10:52 106000 dollars per individual American across the country. And and it's increasing every year by about 2000000000000 dollars thanks to all the spending that's been
11:03 included over the last several years since COVID. So we think that having the the bill that addresses all of these issues, there's something that we can focus on now provides good value for the
11:15 country taxes or, address the the deficit in the future, which is what the Senate's version does.
11:28 Yeah. You know, it's a kick in the can down the road seems to be a standard, has become, unfortunately, a standard operating procedure, seems like, for the last many years. So really glad
11:40 to see the potential of this changing. In the house version, as the president refers to it, 1 big beautiful bill. It kinda covers all of it like you were just suggesting, and that that really is what we
11:51 need. So let me just throw this out to you. Yesterday actually marked 1 month since president Trump returned to the White House. Breakneck speed, he's been operating. Give me,
12:04 how how you how would you grade him so far on his, second administration? How's it going so far?
12:11 Oh, it it really has been breakneck speed. You look at all the things that the president's doing, the things that he talked about during the campaign that he wanted to focus on, the things that we talked about, during
12:22 during our reelection for the house as well as the senate is do we limit the government? How do we downsize some of the success we're spending that's out there? How do we make sure that we have good policies in place
12:34 that actually support the American people, that protect our borders, defense is supported, our men and women, and servicemen and women. And and and President Trump's hit
12:46 the ground running, you know, and it's hard to think that it's only 30 days ago that the president came in board and focused on what was going on. We've had the the the Doge group that's out
12:58 there working now, under the auspices of of what was created. Back during the Obama administration, the, the agency was created. President Trump renamed it and and actually is using that
13:10 technology to go out and and sort out waste and fraud and abuse and improper payments. We've seen a whole lot of, reporting out of USAID and some of the issues there. Some
13:21 of the the stupid things that money was being spent on, in in those areas and, supporting the Sesame Street program for Iran or or supporting d I DEI
13:33 initiatives in Burma and and other countries and and paying for electric vehicles in Vietnam. I mean, these are things that, you know, American are now being on the hook to the money that's been
13:45 borrowed to actually pay for these things. So it's uncovered a lot. I'm chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee on ways and means this term. And 1 of the things I'm keeping a very close eye on is
13:57 some of the information that they've brought out of Social Security. Obviously, we don't wanna be making improper payments. We wanna make sure that the money's there so that people that are entitled to Social Security
14:07 can receive their benefits. And and we make sure that, we wanna fix the system, make sure that it it endures into the future for not just current retirees, but also current workers, so
14:19 that it's there when they retire as well. So we're we're working hand in glove to help make sure that we can address all of these issues and and at the same time, move our country forward, make sure that we keep our
14:30 economy going strong.
14:33 Congressman Estes, that's, I I it's just stunning to me, so much of what you just shared so much. And, you know, when you when you look at just 30 days, as you said, since this president has been here, I've had
14:45 people tell me on more than 1 occasion, several occasions, people have said this president has done more in a month than most presidents do in an entire term. And I I don't know if that's fully accurate or not, but it
14:57 sure seems that way. He and congress, everybody is just moving, with at an incredible pace, and rightfully so, there's so much to be done. And
15:08 1 of the things, as you just mentioned, is DOGE, this government office for for efficiency. Why in the world has it become controversial
15:21 to demand that the federal government be good stewards of taxpayers' money, of our money? How can that possibly be controversial?
15:30 Yeah. It it really does, reflect on the the thought process in Washington for so many years is that just create a government program and then expect that it lasts forever and that it's going to continue
15:42 to grow, that more money is going to be put into it. And and once you start unpeeling, you know, what really is happening, do we really need to be doing that? People complain because, they're
15:54 living off of the the money that's being borrowed to pay them, to line their pockets. And so there's there's so much out there that's being uncovered, through this process. We need to make sure that we continue that
16:05 effort. Even presidents in the past have talked about, you know, making sure that we eliminate, fraud and abuse and and yet, nothing's been done about it in the past. The, when the general accounting
16:17 office or or the inspector generals had identified areas, fact, during the Biden administration, the general accounting office, identified somewhere between 2 30
16:29 and 5 25000000000 dollars in fraudulent payments that they estimated were happening, and nothing was done to fix that. And and it's great that president Trump's come in,
16:41 and and we've got the Doge group working to identify that and and to, to to stop that.
16:48 You actually have a new op ed that's, talking about this whole thing of reining in reckless spending. Real quickly, tell us about that.
16:55 Yeah. We we want to make sure that, we we help to support the Doge group and the effort that they're looking at, in terms of making sure that we root out this, improper payments, fraud, waste. We want to
17:07 make sure that, you know, there's no reason that a government program should exist forever. We need to be smart. We need to look and analyze whether things are
17:19 successful, whether programs are currently working the way they were designed to work. Obviously, there's a role for government. We wanna make sure that as Republicans, we wanna make sure it's a limited role, but we
17:31 also wanna make sure that it's effective and efficient in terms of what it does. And so that's why it's so important that that we analyze and and we don't shy away from sometimes it's making tough decisions about,
17:43 whether something is making sense now in the 20 first century that may have been created 50 years ago. It may have made sense then, but doesn't make as much now now that we have the Internet, now that we have new
17:53 technology out there to help us get things done.
17:57 Thank you so much, congressman Ron Estes from Kansas. Wow. You guys have a lot of plates spinning right now. And by the way, we're going to put your column up.
18:09 For those watching and listening, you can find congressman Estes' column, his op ed. We're gonna put it up on tony perkins dot com under today's resources. So be sure to
18:20 go check that out. Congressman Estes, godspeed to you. Thank you, my friend. Appreciate you joining us.
18:26 Great. Thank you, Jody.
18:29 Alrighty. Alright. Stay tuned. We got much, much more coming your way. On the other side of the break, I'm gonna be joined by governor Yisrael Gantz. He's the chairman of the Yesha council. So
18:41 much is happening in Israel right now among some heartbreaking news as well, so stay tuned. Much more coming your way right after the break.
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21:55 Welcome back to Washington Watch. Glad to have you joining us today. Alright. Earlier today, the Israeli military announced that it had positively identified the remains of
22:07 Kaffir and Ariel Bebas. But sadly, their mother, Shuri, who also perished while in the Hamas hands of the captivity, Well, she was not actually
22:19 among the bodies that were returned to Israel, and that, of course, was contrary to what the terror group claimed. And compounding all of the grief that the nation of Israel right
22:31 now is experiencing, we now have also a series of intentional bus explosions that took place in the Tel Aviv area. So there's just so much pain, so much
22:42 heartbreak in that nation right now and so much for us to be praying for. We're here to unpack these horrific stories is Israel Gans. He's the governor of the Benjamin
22:54 region and chairman of the Yesha Council. Governor Gans, welcome to Washington Watch. I'm so sorry that it's under these particular circumstances.
23:04 Thank you for having me, and thank you for your hug and and your partnership with what we are facing, the challenges in, in the state of Israel. And we really feel your prayers and your
23:16 hug.
23:17 Well, you absolutely have them, and they will continue. And and I do just begin by expressing deepest and most heartfelt sympathy and condolences
23:29 for you and your nation during this incredible time. So if you can bring us up to speed, what we know regarding the body that Hamas claimed was Sheree Beavis?
23:42 So what we know right now that, Sheree is is missing, I just got some, got a message that, of, Hamas sources. We don't I can't say
23:54 that it's true. Hamas said that now they they found her body, and they will bring it to, to us, but I can't say that it's a real truth. But, for
24:06 me, it's a reminder for, whom we are dealing with. We are dealing with, I I can't say animal, so cruel people that murder children by their hand by their hand.
24:18 That's what we found in the investigation about months after had been kidnapped. You know, it's not for human being. And those people, when we saw when they brought the body's back, we
24:29 saw the crowd celebrating and and happy. We can't we can live with that, hate, with that cruel. We have to fight and defeat the terror
24:41 because it's in it's in ideological ideas that we're not sure the same ideas, and we have to fight with them.
24:51 Absolutely. And and there's all sorts of false accusations that they're, putting forth as well, such as the accusation from Hamas that the Bebas children actually died as
25:03 a result of the IDF's heroic efforts to save them. So what do you have to say in response to that?
25:12 So, in fact, we checked that, and the facts are that the Hamas murdered the children, but more of that. You know, when Hamas talk about civilian people, civilians that had
25:24 been kidnapped and had been murdering Gaza. How how can you take children, civilians, as in hostages on your, on your way and trying to release your
25:35 terrorists? You cannot compare between terrorists and children. And for me, the fact that we give out for terror, we give them terrorists for bodies of children. It's it's
25:47 unbelievable. We're we are not allowed to do that. We have to fight with terror. Otherwise, they're gonna take, you know, civilians all over the world and take some hostages, and they can, they can ask
25:59 to release terrorists, if we want the civilians back. We are not allowed to agree with that. And I want to add something. I am the governor of, Judah and Samaria. You
26:11 know, 86 percent, of the, Arab population, that leaving Judah and Samaria on October eighth, voted to their support Hamas
26:23 massacre. We just say yesterday is a miracle. God's God stayed with us. Miracle, 3 buses had been exploded with bombs inside, and we found more free bombs. And god help
26:35 us. And it's it's bomb it's ex it had been exploded while the buses were empty. And god help us, but we have he want us to fight. And he asked
26:47 us, why are they the terrorists in Judea and Samaria? As you see the view behind me, it's a picture of Shiloh Valley from the place of, Joshua
26:59 came and built his tabernacle. Now in SIPACA 2 days ago, they made a resolution that called president Trump to apply a sovereignty over
27:11 Judea and Samaria, Israel's sovereignty, to declare for everyone in the world that the whole state of Israel, including Judea and Samaria, it's a part of the state of Israel and it
27:23 belong to the people of Israel. I think that when we will say it clear, Iran and its proxies will understand that they have no, they have have no any
27:34 chance to make us give up and to remove us from the Holy Land.
27:41 Absolutely. So, yeah, I'm glad you you brought that up. And as you mentioned with the attacks, fortunately, the buses were empty and totally agree, God is working in behalf of you. But do we
27:53 know who the perpetrators were in the in the recent bombings? And how is that gonna impact the ceasefire and the hostage deal to this point? We've only got about a minute or so
28:04 left.
28:05 So we we found some, footsteps that it's belong, it's belong to, tourists from Turkiye and from Judah and Samaria. In fact, we called a
28:17 war battalion, to to come to Judah and Samaria and and to help in security Judea and Samaria to prevent second October seventh that can come
28:29 every single, day or or hour from Judea and Samaria for the whole entire state of Israel. We have to prevent that. So, yesterday, they they called 1 more battalion to be
28:41 in Judea and Samaria, and we're trying to find the terrorists. But it's not only the terrorists. It's their bases. It's their, where they're manufactured. They produce their bombs, and we have to fight them.
28:55 They absolutely have to fight them. I wanna thank you, governor Yasserole Gans. I I wanna just rest assured you, that our audience
29:07 and our nation is behind you. And I know this audience, 100 percent behind you as you seek to eradicate this evil. I wanna thank you for your
29:18 leadership. Thank you for taking time to join us today on Washington Watch. Godspeed to you, my friend.
29:26 Thank you so much, and I want to ask you to pray. My sons are right now fighting in in the army with all the soldier. We all pray for them, and thank you for your prayer. And I want to promise
29:37 you, we will be on behalf of all the people strong in Judea and Samaria, the state of Israel Good deal.
29:43 Defeat our enemy to go. I gotta go. I gotta go. Much more coming your way on the other side of the break. Stay tuned.
29:55 Oh, beautiful.
30:08 At the 2025 National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance, hundreds gathered with Christian and government leaders at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC to pray for the nation and ask God to forgive us of
30:20 our sins.
30:26 We gather here not to appeal to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are appealing to heaven. Today, we make our appeal not in the authority of a political party or in the name of a denomination.
30:39 We come in the name and the authority of Jesus Christ, who has been given all authority in heaven and on earth, and we have been commissioned to operate in that authority.
30:51 Father, we pray in Jesus' name for our complacency, our greed, our pride, our gluttony, our sloth, and tolerance of sin. Lord, your word is the food that can
31:03 make America healthy again. May your word be exalted and believed
31:09 in our nation again.
31:10 Lord, we ask that you allow us to become that shining city on the hill once more for your love, your grace, and your mercy.
31:18 Thank you for your love and your grace and your mercy for the opportunity that you have provided us to heal our land. We ask you to do it, Lord. We ask you for the wisdom, discernment, and stamina to do the
31:30 thing that you have called each 1 of us, all of us here to do. May we be found faithful. We trust it, pray it, believe it all in Jesus' name. Amen.
31:55 Welcome back to Washington Watch. So glad to have you joining us today. Happy Friday to you. Alright. It's only been 1 month and a day since president Trump moved back into the White House, but,
32:07 boy, has he ever hit the ground running or what? Most especially, I think it we would all look at the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as
32:18 DOGE. This past Wednesday, the president signed a new executive order. Now catch this 1. Ensuring lawful governance and implementing the president's Department of Government Efficiency
32:31 deregulatory initiative. That is a mouthful. But what does this executive order cover? Is it a good 1? Well, joining me now to discuss this is
32:42 doctor Donald Kochan. He is a professor of law and the executive director of the Law and Economics Center at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School.
32:54 Professor Kochan, welcome to Washington Watch. It's an honor to have you.
32:58 Thank you for having me, congressman. It's a pleasure to be here.
33:02 Well, listen. You've read this executive order. It's a mouthful, just the title of it all, but what's your assessment of it? And what is this thing gonna do specifically?
33:11 This is an executive order which really is at the heart of what executive orders are intended to be. That is that it focuses on instructing agencies to get their house in order. And what it really means is that they
33:23 every agency is required to do a review of the constitutionality and the consistency with statutory authority, of all of their regulations. And, basically,
33:35 check and see you know, check under the hood and make figure out whether or not you've been driving a lawful agency or not or whether or not there's, a lot of junk in there that needs to be removed.
33:45 I love this. I I just think this is a an outstanding executive order. And as you brought up, so, Atlee, this is what executive orders are are supposed to do.
33:57 So what are you anticipating? I mean, we're gonna look under the hood, as you say. We're gonna see how these regulations and so forth within various agencies, how they measure up to the constitution. What are you
34:09 expecting to find under the hood?
34:11 I I think we're gonna find a lot of, regulations that simply do not comply with both their statutory and constitutional limits. And the reason why is because we've been operating under a regime in the administrative
34:23 state for a long time, presidential regime, which allowed for high deference to agency interpretations of their own authority. This kind of deference, which had been known as Chevron deference, was eliminated by the
34:35 Supreme Court's decision in Loperbreit last year. And that decision in and of itself says that now judges have a duty, a judicial duty to interpret what the statutes mean that authorize
34:46 agencies to act rather than asking, hey, agency. Are you authorized to act? Because the the incentives for the agents are to, of course, justify their own authority. So for decades, we've been operating under
34:58 this, self perpetuating set of precedents that allow agencies to justify their own interpretation of of their underlying statutes. So what we're gonna see now is that agent agencies, in light of these new precedents, are
35:10 gonna have to take the precedent seriously. There's a few that come into play. 1 is that Loper Breitnik decision, which eliminated the deference to agency interpretations of their own authority. Another is a case calledShow more
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