On today’s program: Casey Harper, Managing Editor for Broadcast at The Washington Stand and Host of the “Outstanding” podcast, reports the latest on the negotiations between Israel and Hamas, the UN General Assembly, and shares insight into the
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From the heart of our nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., bringing compelling interviews, insightful analysis, taking you beyond the headlines and soundbites into conversations with our nation’s leaders and newsmakers, all from a biblical worldview. Washington Watch with Tony Perkins starts now.
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Now we are also watching incursions into neighboring airspace by both drones and airplanes. The president is a very patient man. He’s very committed to peace, but his patience is not infinite.
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That was Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning today at the United Nations that America’s patience regarding the war in Ukraine is not infinite and cautioning that Russia could soon face consequences for its continued aggression. Welcome to this September 24th edition of Washington Watch. I’m your host, Tony Perkins. Thanks so much for tuning in. Well, coming up, a reported ceasefire offer from Hamas is on its way to President Donald Trump. What’s in the letter? And what’s at stake? Victoria Coates, former Deputy National Security Advisor to President Trump, joins us in just a moment to break it all down. And the Schumer shutdown. With a government deadline looming at the end of the month, President Trump canceled a key meeting yesterday, and Democrats are now scrambling to respond. Congressman Michael Cloud of Texas will join me to explore what this means and what might happen next. Well, at least 20 people were injured after a drone launch from Yemen hit the Israeli resort town of Eilat near the borders with Jordan and Egypt. This attack happened as the Middle East is in the spotlight at the United Nations General Assembly, where countries seem to be tripping over themselves to recognize a Palestinian state. Joining me now is Washington Stand reporter Casey Harper, who has been following these events. Casey, what’s the latest on the war between Israel and Hamas and a possible deal?
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well, Tony, tripping over themselves is the right way to put it, but Hamas has reportedly sent a letter to President Trump in a new development. In that letter, they offered a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of half of the remaining Israeli hostages. Now, according to Fox News, the letter is currently being held by Qatari officials and is expected to be delivered to Trump later this week. Amid these developments, President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron met for bilateral talks. In those talks, Palestinian statehood emerged as a key point of contention. When asked about France and other U.S. allies or recognizing a Palestinian state, President Trump said this.
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I was always saying the last hostages are going to be the toughest ones, but you can’t honor them by doing anything like you suggest. All you can do is say we want our hostages back and we want the war to end. We’re going to want it to end.
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President Trump and others have made an important point. They say recognizing Palestinian statehood now is rewarding Hamas for the October 7th attack, Tony.
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Yeah, I mean, I don’t see how you see it any other way. Now, I have to say it’s unbelievable to see what these European countries are doing to state they are calling for a Palestinian state. Now, I don’t see how it can be described any other way than rewarding Hamas, a terrorist group that has vowed to wipe Israel off the map. Now, Casey, President Trump reportedly, as I saw, also sat down with leaders from several Muslim nations. What came out of those meetings?
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Yeah, that’s right, Tony. President Trump said Tuesday he held what he called very successful meetings on Gaza with key Muslim leaders. He told reporters he expects Israel to join the talks soon, saying, I think we can work something out on Gaza. According to Politico, President Trump told Arab leaders he won’t let Israel annex the West Bank, though, which is, of course, Judea and Samaria, Tony.
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Well, thanks, Casey. I actually think that could be somewhat problematic on many fronts when you’re talking about Judea and Samaria, which is the biblical heartland and key to Israel’s security. Well, on another topic, in his speech yesterday, President Trump took aim at the mayor of London, accusing him of letting the city be overrun by migrants. That’s pretty sharp rhetoric.
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Yeah, in true Trump style, he was pulling no punches, Tony. And speaking from the U.N. stage, no less. But President Trump slammed Mayor Sadiq Khan, the London mayor. And in fact, he warned that they’re headed towards Sharia law. He even went further, saying, quote, both immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe if something isn’t done immediately. Strong words, Tony.
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It is. Thank you, Casey. President Trump now says Ukraine can potentially win the war with Russia. Now, Casey, that seems to be a pretty significant shift in perspective.
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It certainly is. It was a dramatic shift. And President Trump now says Ukraine can win the war and actually should act quickly to to reclaim all of its territory from Russia. Now, those comments came after President Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in New York. And meanwhile, President Zelenskyy actually urged world powers to help stop Russia’s war in Ukraine. He warned in his U.N. speech that the conflict is fueling a dangerous global arms race.
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We are now living through the most destructive arms race in human history because this time includes It includes artificial intelligence.
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Now, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he warned today at the U.N. that President Trump’s patience on ending the war in Ukraine is not infinite. He said the time is coming when Russia will face consequences for its continued aggression.
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All right, Casey, thanks so much for the update on what’s happening, not only at the U.N., but around the world. All right, joining me now to go further into what’s been coming out Out of the United Nations General Assembly with regards to Israel and the Middle East is Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security advisor to President Trump. She is now president of the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. Victoria, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us.
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Very good to see you, Tony. Just a minor connection. I’m vice president.
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Well, I would make that correction. I’m trying. I’m doing my best. All right. Let’s talk about this proposed agreement that’s being sent by Hamas to the president. I mean, the president’s made pretty clear the hostages need to be released. Is this just a delay tactic?
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It’s absolutely a delay tactic. And I mean, the only reason Hamas is getting into the business of post office is that they know their days are numbered. And I know that the Israeli strike on Doha was controversial 10 days ago. But what that showed the remaining leadership of Hamas that is in Qatar is Israel can reach out and touch you. And maybe they failed on that particular strike, but they can reach out again. And so I think you’re seeing them get a little bit desperate. The president has been very clear. I don’t want two hostages today, three tomorrow, five on Tuesday, a couple of bodies next week. and you all get thousands of prisoners in return. No, let them all go now. That was this very clear message from the podium of the United Nations. That was such a powerful, important message. And that’s what Hamas has to do. This isn’t a negotiation. This is a declaration from the president.
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And that’s not new. I mean, he’s been saying that. He said time’s running out. You need to release the hostages. And so it’s not a new message. So for them to offer releasing half tells me they’re not serious.
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No, no. This is just more of they’re trying to delay, trying to get pressure on Israel. And that’s why what is happening at the United Nations General Assembly this week is such a gift to them because it encourages them. It gives them a propaganda point.
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I think you’re absolutely right. I think they wouldn’t be offering this message. I don’t even think it’s an offer, a legitimate offer. But I don’t think they would be doing it if they didn’t have all of these European countries tripping over themselves to recognize the Palestinian state.
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And it’s not just the Europeans. It’s the Canadians. It’s the Australians. It’s the West writ large. But I would like to point out the countries that said no. Singapore, Indonesia, Italy, one of my favorite countries as a recovering art historian, it’s There are countries that the United States can bring.
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I think we may have lost our contact there. We’re going to get her back on here because I want to let me know as soon as we reconnect. All right. We lost you there for just a moment, Victoria. We lost you at Italy and a recovering art historian artist.
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Yes. One of my favorite countries as a recovering art historian. But it was great to hear the prime minister of Italy say, no, until all the hostages come home, until there’s some negotiated settlement with Israel, we’re not going to have a Palestinian state.
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That was the position of the U.K. in July, but they changed it. They changed their position. They wanted Hamas to let all the hostages go. They wanted to they had to lay down their arms and not be a part of any future government. But Starmer obviously changed his mind as he went ahead. forward with it. Victoria, I want to ask you about one thing the president reportedly said yesterday in his meeting with Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines was that he promised he wouldn’t let Israel annex the area known as the West Bank, which is actually Judea and Samaria, which is the heartland of Israel. What do we know about that? What’s your take on that?
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My take is I would take that with a grain of salt. I think that the president has been very sensitive to the issues around Judea and Samaria. He’s also been very sensitive to issues around Israel’s sovereignty. So my expectation is he’s going to see this more as an internal Israeli security decision. And so that’s how I would see it. And the Palestinians have been given, Tony, for 90 years the option of some kind of mutual sort of state within the territory that makes up modern Israel. Before the foundation of modern Israel, this was on the table. They’ve said no every single time. So offering them territory now in 2025 isn’t going to get us any further than it did 90 years ago. So I would be a little suspicious about what the president said he’s going to tell the leader of a sovereign country like Prime Minister Netanyahu he can or cannot do within his borders.
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It’s kind of interesting the developments that are rapidly happening in Israel where you have even Arabs within the Palestinian area wanting to create emirates and come under relationship with Israel because they don’t want the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. They saw what happened in Gaza with Hamas and they don’t want to repeat.
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Now, and we’re seeing this in Gaza, too, where there are things like the Popular Front that are saying, look, we might not love Israel, but boy, do we hate Hamas. So maybe we can provide some services. Maybe we can start to build something that could in the future be a state. And this is what’s so ridiculous. about what you’d call advanced Western countries are trying to recognize at the United Nations this week. I mean, there are no boundaries. There are no institutions. There’s nothing that could create a state. You think about the creation of Israel in 1948 and how quickly that stood up as an institutional state and has become over these 75 years one of the most powerful countries in the world. Who thinks that’s going to happen with any Palestinian entity right now? What is that going to be other than some kind of factory for terrorism? Nobody wants it in the region. That’s the reality.
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I mean, I think the folks realize that Hamas, you know, they didn’t deliver basic resources. I mean, water, sewage. They can build tunnels. They can build a terrorist infrastructure, but they can’t provide basic services. The same thing. Actually, in the Palestinian Authority in Hebron, they have the same issue. They can’t get water. They’re having to get it from Israel. So they know who can take care of business. Final question for you. We’ve got just about a minute left, Victoria. Prime Minister, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly on Friday. What do you expect him to say?
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Well, quite frankly, if I were the prime minister, I would say you’re welcome. that we have spent the last two years taking out the trash for the region and getting rid of some of the most destructive terrorist scum in Lebanon, in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Yemen, in Iran, and have made actually the Middle East more stable. These are the disruptive elements. Israel’s taken them out without igniting a regional war, which everybody keeps telling us what’s going to happen. Guess what? It hasn’t. So thank you, Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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Good point. Very good point. Victoria Coates, always great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us today.
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Thank you, Tony.
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All right. We’re going to be I’m going to encourage you to pray for the prime minister as he goes to the U.N. on Friday following all these attacks on verbal attacks on Israel. And back tomorrow, we’re going to be praying on this program for Israel. I’ll tell you more about that later. Don’t go away. We’re back right after this.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for tuning in. In less than four weeks, like-minded Christ followers from across the country will gather at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills for our PrayVote Stand Summit. If ever there was a moment we needed God to move in our nation, it is now. So I encourage you to join us October the 17th and 18th in Chino Hills, California for a powerful gathering as we seek cultural renewal and spiritual revival. To find out more and to register, go to PrayVoteStand.org. That’s PrayVoteStand.org. I hope you’ll come and join us for this powerful event. Yesterday, the parent company of Google and YouTube responded to subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary Committee and admitted that the Biden administration during the COVID pandemic pressured them to silence Americans and remove user-generated content that did not to violate their policies, but the government didn’t like it. Now the company wants to correct course and says it will reinstate the accounts of YouTube content creators who were booted off their platform over their views on COVID and elections. Now we actually, I was tagged, this program was tagged because of our discussion of COVID-19 and the policies that they put in place that didn’t work. Join me now to discuss this and more. Congressman Michael Cloud, a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He represents the 27th Congressional District of Texas. Congressman Cloud, welcome back to Washington Watch. Thanks for joining us. Well, thank you. Good to be with you, Tony. So before we get into Google’s confession, let me get your read on the federal funding fight as the September 30th deadline approaches. What’s going to happen?
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Well, you know, far be it for me to predict what’s going to happen in this day and age. But right now it looks like Schumer doesn’t really want to move in spite of the fact that this is funding that he’s voted for and been in favor of in the past. And so we’ve extended funding to give us an on-ramp to continue the appropriations process and get the bills across the finish line. But it seems that they’re intent on a shutdown, which is unfortunate.
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So just before we move on, the House passed a clean continuing resolution before they left town last week. Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, the Republicans have passed something. It’s the Democrats in the Senate that are blocking it, right?
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Yeah, exactly. We’ve done our due diligence for this part. We’ve still got to work through the appropriations process, but this gives us the time to do that and to have continuity of government. Right now it looks like the Dems in the Senate don’t want to play ball, and what they’re demanding of the Trump administration is just not even on the radar. And so they’ve got to come to the table with some sort of real proposal. Really the thing to do, this is just continuing the current funding process, Right. That they voted for extending the funding that they voted for in the past several times. Right. Yeah. This isn’t even a new piece of legislation for them.
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If anything, it’s a concession that the Republicans allow this to continue. Now, I know there’s been…
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Yeah, for some of us conservatives, it was kind of getting there. But we believe in the Trump administration and see what we’re trying to do. We’re working to avoid an omnibus and to break that cycle. We just need some time to get the appropriations bills across the line. And this is funding that they voted for before. But the fact is, is they don’t have a message. They don’t have anything to run on. And so they’ve got to try to find some pivot point to kind of create some sort of legitimacy for themselves at this point. America has rejected their ideas and their values. And, you know, this is sadly political gamesmanship.
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Well, we’ll see soon enough, about six days. All right, let’s go back to Google and YouTube. What were some of the major admissions that stood out to you from the big tech company?
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Well, you know, it’s kind of like… You know, you catch your kid with their hand in the cookie jar, and then finally later on they admit that, you know, they were trying to take cookies. This was no surprise to anyone. We knew that the Biden administration had been forcing them and encouraging them, I should say, to ban people, to deplatform people, and for them to come out and say, oh, yes, we were doing what the Biden administration was pressuring us to do. You know, it’s great that they’re being honest about that now, but it’s a little – too little too late in a sense. There were people who lost income. Are they going to make that up for them?
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Well, it had a chilling effect on speech.
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Right. And if you look at the history of Google, they give millions and millions of dollars to Biden and Kamala and tens of thousands to Republican candidates. And so we know about their shadow banning. We know how they’ve played with search results in a way to favor candidates. So for them to try to push this off like they were doing this at the behest of high-pressure games from the Biden administration is a little disingenuous, maybe.
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Don’t throw me in that briar patch. So let me ask you this question. So do you think that maybe they’re coming forth with this admission in the hopes of trying to keep Congress from amending Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which would remove their immunity?
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I’m sure that’s part of it. No doubt they’re trying to find good favor maybe with the administration, with Congress during this time. They’ve been bad actors for so long and have manipulated results, and it’s – You know, and then there’s antitrust issues involved, too, because they seem they’re almost a monopoly, if not. And and so, you know, there’s definitely some discussion needs to happen on reigning in this kind of authority. They’ve certainly been bad actors.
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You know, the scripture says you’ve got to do the works of repentance. You know, I got to see that evidence. I got to see the evidence. How do you ensure that? They don’t fall back into these bad habits after the next election that this is just convenient during the present environment. Is there anything Congress can do?
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Well, we can investigate. It would be great for DOJ to take up some of the stuff that we’re uncovering and turn it into prosecutions. But we can only take the ball so far from the oversight standpoint. We can look at the Section 230 issue. And if they’re manipulating results, they cease to be a non-biased platform. They are then a publisher and would fall under a different sort of paradigm. So, you know, these are all fair game when it comes to dealing with what they’ve done. And to your point, you know, we can talk about Zaccheaus. He didn’t just say, I’m sorry. He went back and repaid those who he robbed from. And so this is a situation where Google needs to do more than just take the little, oh, I’m so sorry. They need to do something to show they’re changing course.
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Well, and I hope we’re able to look at some guardrails we can put in to prohibit this in the future. I know a lot is based upon trust and people governing themselves, but free speech is so fundamental to making our country work. Congressman Cloud, always great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us today.
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Thank you. God bless you all.
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All right. Keep up the good fight. Congressman Michael Cloud of Texas. One of the good guys fighting on Capitol Hill. All right. There’s still a lot more Washington Watch to come. We’re going to be talking about this dramatic shift between the president’s view on Russia and Ukraine. That’s next. Don’t go away.
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Welcome back to Washington Watch. Be sure and check out the website, TonyPerkins.com. Better yet, get the Stand Firm app, because we have lots of resources on the Stand Firm app. Not only can you watch Washington Watch, but you’ll have access to our news and commentary from a biblical perspective, the Washington Stand, and my daily devotional, Stand on the Word. All of that is on the Stand Firm app, as well as other tools to help you be an engaged citizen. So go to the App Store and download the StandFirm app. Russia, its war against Ukraine and its continued violations of NATO airspace have been a focus of proceedings at the United Nations General Assembly that is presently underway. But one of the most notable remarks came not from the podium, as we were talking about earlier, but on social media, where President Trump wrote this. quote, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form, end quote. I mean, even the president’s 2016 election opponent, Hillary Clinton, welcomed his statement. So now that the president appears to have shifted his stance, his view of the outcome of the war between Russia and Ukraine, what might we see? Joining me now to talk about this, retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Admiral Montgomery, welcome to Washington Watch. Thanks so much for joining us.
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Thank you for having me.
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Were you surprised at all by the president’s statement?
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I was, only that I thought he’d eventually get to here. I think the president has landed in the exact right spot, which is to say that he gave Vladimir Putin a significant amount of time, numerous opportunities, to join in a ceasefire with President Zelensky in Ukraine. And President Trump was disrespected by President Putin. After every meeting, Putin would go back to Russia and would immediately engage in significant cruise missile, hypersonic missile strikes on civilian personnel in Ukraine, and as well as engaging in military kinetic actions along the front lines. ignoring the president’s request for Vladimir to stop, ignoring the president’s request to come to the negotiating table. I think President Trump gave President Putin all the wiggle room he could and that he had enough.
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Well, I also don’t think time is on the side of the Russians because, I mean, they should have if they could do this, they should have done a long time ago. But there’s another aspect to this, Admiral, that the more information that comes out of what’s happening in Ukraine, as you were just talking about, how they’ve been targeting civilian populations. but also what they’ve been doing in the occupied regions. I’ve been talking to pastors who have been exiled, pushed out, their churches turned into police stations or military stations by the Russians, and their people scattered. There’s a type of cultural genocide going on when it comes to Christians in those occupied regions.
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No, you’re exactly right. I spent a lot of time in Ukraine working with their troops and trying to do reform there. And I I see exactly what you’re saying. I’ll go further. The abduction of 19,000 plus, maybe 20,000 plus Ukrainian children, their illegal adoption or their, you know, placing them in homes and then eventually in the military. to fight against Ukrainians. I mean, this is completely unacceptable behavior. And as you mentioned, the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by the Russians, this is completely unacceptable behavior. It’s in fact why President Putin has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for these crimes against children and against humanity in Ukraine.
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So, Admiral, let me ask you this question. With the president, President Trump now making these statements that suggest he’s turned, as you said, you thought he would get here. He’s here now. How might that affect how Europe responds in this conflict?
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The president did not take his finger out of Europe’s face. He continued to say what he should be saying, which is you are the predominant provider of weapons systems. I’ll allow my American defense industrial base. to be the provider, but you need to buy these weapons. But what he said basically was, I’m going to let you buy what you need. And that’s a change. There’ll be even more weapon systems available. I think there’s stuff coming through the system that the U.S. provided, you know, bought years ago that will be allowed to go. And there’ll be both offensive and defensive weapons. But in the end, Europe’s responsible. And then the second big part is Europe has got to get off of Russian oil and natural gas, their fossil fuel. That’s what’s paying for this war. He brought that up yesterday in his speech. That’s right. And he told the Europeans, you know, particularly Hungary, Slovakia and Turkey are still taking quite a bit of oil and natural gas. Other countries are as well, but those are the big ones. And we all know China and India are the other two. I think the president’s going to handle China and India. Europe needs to handle Europe.
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Well, and it’s right there in their own backyard. I mean, it’s to their benefit to shut down this Russian war machine. But yet they’re continuing it by buying the oil and funding it.
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And I’d split the Europe up. There’s a part of Europe, Poland and the Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, that have done their job. They don’t take anything from Russia. They spend four to five percent of their GDP on defense, more than the president had asked for initially and what he would like to eventually see. They are good actors. Unfortunately, they’re small in terms of economic productivity. We really need the Western Europeans involved. you know, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, UK, to do their fair share.
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Admiral, you just have about 45 seconds left. What do you think the timeline is? Do we see this war wrapping up anytime soon?
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This is going to put a lot of pressure on Vladimir Putin. And he’s got other pressures. He’s losing, he’s lost 900,000 to a million people, including 250 to 300,000 dead. This is the lifeblood of a future Russia. And, you know, in a failed campaign. So he’s got that pressure. He’s got the pressure of mothers and grandmothers in Russia asking, why are we doing this? He’s going to have severe economic pressure soon that won’t be able to pay for the war machine. Yes, I think we’re in a we’ve gone from years to high numbers of months, six, eight, 10 months for Putin’s got to do something serious.
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All right, Admiral Montgomery, thank you so much for joining us. Greatly appreciate your insights. All right, folks, we’re going to talk more about the connection with Tylenol, vaccines, and autism next. Don’t go away.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, welcome back to this Wednesday edition of Washington Watch. Good to have you along. All right. I mentioned this early in the program, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address the United Nations General Assembly on Friday. This, as we’ve talked about, comes at a time when many European nations are calling for a Palestinian state and voicing sharp criticism of Israel. So after all of that, he’s going to stand up and speak. So I want to invite you to join me on tomorrow’s program as we set time aside in the program to actually pray on the air for Israel. I’m going to be joined by leaders from around the world as we lift up Israel. Again, people joining us from Israel, from Israel. Geneva, from New York, from Washington, D.C., we’re going to be praying. So be sure and tune in and invite others to join us. If they don’t have a local station where they live, tell them to get the Stand Firm app and they can watch and participate on the Stand Firm app in the App Store. Speaking of taking action, today, one of the greatest threats we face is the rapid rise of the abortion drug Mifeprestone, now responsible for the majority of abortions in I’m going to tell you, FRC is committed to expose the truth about this abortion drug, protect mothers and the babies, and defend the sanctity of life. I mean, my home state of Louisiana, one of the strongest pro-life states, and I was a part of passing many of those laws back when I was in office. It doesn’t matter as long as the abortion pill is being mailed into these states, undermining these state laws. We’re working on that. And thanks to generous friends of FRC, you can help. If you give to this effort this week, your contribution will have triple the impact. All right. We’ve got some donors that have put up a match. And so I want to encourage you to stand with FRC to defend the sanctity of human life. Text the word unborn to 67742. That’s unborn to 67742. Our word for today comes from Galatians chapter 5. For you, brethren, have been called to liberty. Only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Now, notice Paul says we are called to liberty, not simply freedom. Why? Freedom is the absence of restraint. Liberty is freedom ordered within the framework of God’s truth. Our founding father spoke often of liberty far more than freedom. This idea of ordered liberty is what set the American experiment apart. especially from the French Revolution, which quickly descended into chaos. Liberty is the ability to do what we ought, not merely what our fallen nature desires. That distinction is at the heart of many public policy debates today. For example, the modern slogan, the freedom to marry the one you love, appeals to freedom without restraint. But freedom without moral boundaries inevitably collapses into bondage. Paul warns that if we demand freedom without the responsibility of liberty, we’ll lose both. True liberty comes when by love we serve one another, and only then can freedom endure. To find out more about our journey through the Bible, text Bible to 67742. That’s Bible to 67742. All right, yesterday on the program, we started to dive into the Trump administration’s newly announced initiatives to tackle autism. including new health guidance regarding the use of Tylenol during pregnancy. Now, unfortunately, we were only able to scratch the surface because of the time. And this is an important issue. Autism rates have increased like 400% since the year 2000. And so I asked Dr. Robert Malone, who co-chairs the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, He is the founder and president of the Malone Institute, which aims to bring back integrity to government, the biological sciences, and medicine, to join us again today. So, Dr. Malone, thanks so much for coming back. I appreciate you coming and helping us unpack this a bit more.
SPEAKER 08 :
Tony, thank you, and thank you for that preceding essay on liberty. I really appreciate it. I was riveted by your words.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thank you. It’s not my words. It’s the Lord’s words comes out of his book. Let’s and you can never go wrong with those words. Let’s pick up where we left off. We were talking about the suppression of any information and even discussion on the potential link between autism, Tylenol vaccines. This is a debate that’s been going on for a long, long time. You talked about the president having a vested interest in this. Is it not time that we look at all the data and let science lead us forward?
SPEAKER 08 :
The truth is it’s way past time, Tony. And I’m fascinated that the company marketing Tylenol itself made statements, I believe it was in 2015, that they don’t recommend the use of their product in pregnancy anymore. This is another case, if you’re familiar with the term or your audience is, the Overton window, the range of allowable discourse. And we have been somehow disallowed from asking fundamental questions about why we see this rise in autism. And it’s not just autism. As you point out, it’s autism spectrum disorders. It’s a variety of other conditions that are diagnosed and often over-treated, like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. And what’s at the root of all these things? Well, there is a fairly clear link, if you look at the preponderance of evidence, that treatment with Tylenol can affect the development of key parts of the system, brain the central nervous system of children whether in utero or as young children and that this leads to a number of these neurologic conditions that have become so rampant and of course there is the severe autism that one when I was young you rarely if ever saw and now is reasonably common and then there’s this group of behaviors that are bundled as autism spectrum disorder that have a frequency in the state of California that’s down near 1 in 10 or less. It’s stunning what’s going on.
SPEAKER 06 :
Why the hesitancy to talk about this? Why the… It’s like people who bring these things up, like the vaccines, any connection, the timing of vaccines, all this stuff. It’s like they’re marginalized and made out to be. Even as the media was criticizing the president yesterday and his administration. Why the reluctancy to talk about this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Tony, I don’t know. And I can only speculate that. It’s really easy to blame everything on pharma and the corruption and management of media by pharma, but that doesn’t explain the kind of willful blindness on the part of the public. It’s as if we really don’t want to know. There’s some sort of a cultural prohibition about talking about the possibility that we’re damaging our children’s And even more, there’s a prohibition on talking about the possibility that our children are being damaged because of the advice they’re receiving from medical professionals. And this all wraps up into something we were just discussing in the Maha Action Group a few moments ago, the arrogance of physicians and other medical practitioners that have become so rampant in American medical culture, this idea that they can’t be challenged, that they are all-knowing, that’s just false. And I think that’s part of it. You know, Tony, if you unpack the Tylenol story, which it’s amazing what the pushback is being in the media right now about this, given how well documented it is, underneath it is the issue that Pediatricians have been recommending that we treat any kind of fever in the child or the pregnant woman with this agent, with Tylenol. And it could well be that their advice has led to a significant burden of disease in children. And they’ve got to come to grips with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
When you look at the Tylenol, I want to talk a little bit about the vaccines because the childhood immunization, the vaccines have long been at the center of this discussion or the discussion that didn’t happen, that should have happened. There’s no denying the evidence that autism has increased, as you call it, the wide spectrum. I mean, there’s no denying that. There has to be something behind it. And if you’re not willing to look at these things, you’ll never find out what it is. What’s your view on the childhood immunization programs that are currently being utilized in America?
SPEAKER 08 :
So I find the argument that vaccines historically, for children in particular, have been licensed without adequate negative controls. So we really don’t know what the spectrum of adverse events are because we’ve built a pyramid of logic that it’s somehow unethical to not administer a vaccine to a child as a control group so that we can assess whether or not those products are causing certain types of adverse events. We also have never done the investigations on the interactions of these products, essentially drug-drug interactions, in any other part of… pharmacology, and regulatory affairs, drug-drug interactions are central to decisions about licensure and recommendations. But for some reason in the vaccines, there’s a prohibition on asking those questions. For some reason, vaccines are treated as if they are something different, not really a drug, something that’s sacrosanct. that is almost a religion in and of itself. And that has to stop. Vaccines are drugs. And I’m a vaccinologist. I spent most of my career developing vaccine technology and participating in vaccine clinical trials. But the truth is that these are just drugs and they have adverse events. They have made huge impacts on certain infectious diseases. I wouldn’t want to go into the jungles of Brazil without having taken a yellow fever vaccine, which, by the way, is a nasty piece of work. Likewise, I wouldn’t want to work on the front lines of an Ebola outbreak without having taken the similarly reacted genetic Ebola vaccine. But that doesn’t mean that these don’t have side effects. And this prohibition on examining Drug-drug interactions, vaccine-vaccine interactions, timing of vaccine schedule, whether or not we are truly accounting for all the adverse events, and the denialism of those parents and children that have truly been vaccine-injured, I think is stunning. It needs to stop. It’s damaging. All these claims that Bobby’s the one damaging public health.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. No.
SPEAKER 08 :
Health is damaging public health.
SPEAKER 06 :
So let me ask you this, Dr. Malone. Do you see that changing post-COVID, where we’ve seen now a lot of focus on the effects of that vaccine, some of those vaccines? Do you see that changing?
SPEAKER 08 :
The willingness to begin to question these narratives that all these products are safe and effective is changing. Yep. There does seem to be a fundamental earthquake happening in public health right now. And you can sense that by the enormous amount of backlash that’s occurring from the various self-appointed spokespersons for public health and vaccine industry. But it’s happening. People have been lied to. We were lied to at the last ACIP meeting by both Pfizer and Pfizer. as Dr. Marianne DeMasi documented in her Substack essay yesterday. What did they lie about? The biodistribution studies and what they did in those biodistribution studies. In the case of Moderna, for instance, they asserted that they had used the actual active drug product when they hadn’t. and that’s documented in the FDA literature in the dossier. It’s also documented that Pfizer edited the biodistribution data. This all relates, this term biodistribution, this relates to the lie that we were told that if we accept the product, it stays in our shoulder or the draining lymph nodes, it doesn’t go up your body. That was intentionally hidden from us.
SPEAKER 06 :
We just have a couple minutes left, Dr. Malone. So the news yesterday, the president making the statements about Tylenol, children, pregnant women. Your recommendation to parents that have young children that are watching this program?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, boy, you’re going to put me right on the spot on that one. My recommendation is to be very cautious. And unfortunately, you’re going to have to do your own research for a little bit of while. We’re trying to catch up at the ACIP with the literature. But I think that at this point, it’s the pragmatic thing is to have an active discussion with your pediatrician and you take responsibility for your child’s health and making an informed decision And don’t allow anybody to bully you or shame you into accepting something that you don’t feel comfortable with. That’s the fundamentals of informed consent.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. And I think that we’re rediscovering that post-COVID. Dr. Malone, I always appreciate you coming on the program and your insights. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thank you, Tony. And let me once again repeat, folks, on the issue of children, we’re working hard. here at Family Research Council to protect the unborn. And there is another drug out there, mifeprestone, the abortion drug, that is being mailed into pro-life states, being mailed across the country, taking the lives of unborn children and harming women. I need you to stand with us. Text the word unborn to 67742. That’s unborn to 67742. All right, I want to thank you for joining us. Also remember, tomorrow we’re going to have a special time of prayer for Israel as the Prime Minister of Israel goes to the United Nations on Friday. Until next time, I leave you with the encouraging words of the Apostle Paul, found in Ephesians 6, where he says, you’ve done everything you can do when you’ve prayed, when you’ve prepared, and when you’ve taken your stand.
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