Washington Watch

On today's show:

• Chuck Holton, freelance reporter for CBN News, reports on the Ukraine/Russia crisis.
• Rep. Steve Scalise, House Minority Whip and U.S. Representative for the 1^st district of Louisiana, analyzes President Biden’s handling of the Ukraine/Russia crisis.
• Kevin Hern, U.S. Representative for the 1^st District of Oklahoma, shares his thoughts about President Biden’s culpability for the rising energy prices.
• Rob McCoy, Pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel, talks about the launch event for the “People’s Convoy.”
• Joe Harding, Florida State Representative, details his Parental Rights in Education bill.
• Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, discusses a Missouri parental education rights bill and FRC Action’s next boot camp training event in Virginia.

On today's show:

• George Thomas, CBN’s senior international correspondent, shares the lates on the Ukraine and Russia crisis.
• Michael Waltz, U.S. Representative for the 6^th District of Florida, discusses the Ukraine and Russia crisis and the reinstallation of a fence around the U.S. Capitol.
• Mike Landis, co-organizer of The People’s Convoy, talks about the convoys of U.S. truckers heading to Washington D.C.
• Katherine Johnson, FRC’s research fellow for legal and policy studies, details a case before the 11^th Circuit Court of Appeals on whether a biological male can use the women’s bathroom in a Florida high school.
• Peter Schweizer, author of “RED-HANDED: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” reveals how China is using U.S. politicians and Wall Street to advance their agenda.

On today's show:

• Rep. Vicky Hartzler, U.S. Representative for the 4^th District of Missouri and member of the House Armed Services Committee, comments on the tension between Russia and Ukraine, University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas’ performance at the Ivy league Championships, and efforts in Congress to protect women’s sports.
• Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China," discusses the close of the 2022 Beijing Olympics and how corporate America is complicit in China’s human rights abuses.
• Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, shares the latest on COVID news and his Right to Treat legislation.
• Rachel Emmanuel, reporter for iPolitics, describes what she witnessed on Canada’s Parliament Hill.
• Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, gives an update on election reform bills in the states.

On today's show, guest hosted by Joseph Backholm:

• Mark Green, U.S. Representative for the 7^th District of Tennessee and member of the House Armed Services Committee, gives an update on the tensions between Russia and Ukraine and COVID-related news, including demonstrations in Canada, states relaxing mandates, and the military discharging servicemembers who chose not to receive the COVID vaccine.
• Quena Gonzalez, FRC’s Senior Director of Government Affairs, shares an update on recent pro-life and pro-family state legislation.
• Jin Hye Jo, a North Korean defector who was forcibly repatriated by China back to North Korea twice, describes how China treats North Korean defectors within its borders.
• David Closson, FRC's Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, discusses whether Christian parents should send their children to a public school.

On today's show:

• Haris Alic, reporter for the Washington Times, shares the latest on the debate in Congress over a short-term government funding bill.
• Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, discusses his lawsuit against the CDC seeking to overturn the airline mask mandate.
• Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, evaluates the Pentagon’s latest Strategy to promote socialism to combat China, the tensions between Ukraine and Russia, and the letter from GOP House members opposing a U.S./Iran nuclear deal.
• Robert Destro, Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, comments on the Winter Olympics in Beijing and calls out China for their human rights abuses.
• Dr. Owen Strachan, author and provost and research professor at Grace Bible Theological Seminary, encourages Canadian pastors to continue speaking out in support of the truckers' Freedom Convoy and responds to faith leaders who are wary of granting religious exemptions for the COVID vaccine.

On today's show:

• Connor Semelsberger, FRC’s Director of Federal Affairs – Life and Human Dignity, celebrates that Democrats in Congress have all but conceded that the Hyde Amendment will not be repealed this year—continuing the decades long ban on using taxpayer money to fund abortions.
• Louie Gohmert, U.S. Representative for the 1st district of Texas and member of the House Judiciary Committee, discusses the Durham court filing, President Biden ordering the release of Trump’s White House visitor logs, and the call for open hearings on surveillance of representatives and staffers.
• James Lankford, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, talks about his letter on the Equal Rights Amendment and the Senate’s Continuing Resolution and its pro-life riders including the Hyde Amendment.
• Nina Shea, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute, details China’s record of persecuting the Falun Gong and the high-tech nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution.
• Steve Daines, U.S. Senator from Montana, addresses whether a GOP controlled Congress could ease the financial strain on American families, the status of soaring energy prices.
• Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, unpacks news reports on school boards getting death threats amid rage over race, gender, mask policies.

On today's show:

• Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, discusses the Clinton campaign paying a technology company to infiltrate Trump Tower and to establish interference and a narrative linking Trump to Russia.
• James Comer, U.S. Representative for the 1^st District of Kentucky, details his plans to address Washington D.C.’s mounting problems once Republicans regain control of Congress.
• Mary Szoch, FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity, unpacks China’s former One Child Policy, which is now a Three Child Policy, and the destruction that has caused on Chinese families.
• Katharine Stevens, Founder & CEO of the Center on Child and Family Policy, unpacks a study showing that universal state-run preschool would cause long-term harm to children.

On today's show:

• Dave Brat, Dean of Liberty University’s School of Business, addresses what rising inflation and lagging wage growth means for the economy and the political landscape.
• Ken Blackwell, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance and former Ohio Secretary of State, discusses the U.S. Chamber of Commerce demanding an end to Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” of truckers.
• Sam Brownback, former Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, speaks on China’s human rights record.
• Andrew Brunson, FRC’s Special Advisor for Religious Freedom, shares about the delivery of FRC prayer pledges to Päivi Räsänen, a member of Finland’s parliament who is facing trial for expressing biblical beliefs about human sexuality.
• Chip Roy, U.S. Representative for Texas's 21st District, reiterates his support of Päivi Räsänen and discusses the letter he wrote offering her prayer and encouragement as she stands trial.

On today's show:

• Mary Miller, Representative for Illinois’ 15^th congressional district, shares about the parental rights bills she is authoring.
• Dr. Andrew Bostom, a clinical trialist, analyses why the FDA postponed an advisory panel meeting on Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children under 5 years old.
• Ethan Gutmann, investigative reporter and author of “The Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China's Secret Solution to Its Dissident Problem,” highlights disturbing revelations of organ harvesting committed by the Chinese Communist Party.
• David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, shares a theological view of the SAFE Act.

On today's show:

• Nihal Krishan, Technology Reporter for the Washington Examiner, addresses Biden’s FCC nominee, Gigi Sohn, and the impact she could have on swaying the majority in the agency.
• Craig L. Parshall, attorney and special counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice and senior advisor of legal policy & civil liberty for the American Principles Project, shares whether Gigi Sohn’s confirmation to FCC could lead to reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.
• Dave LaRock, Virginia Delegate, discusses the voting happening in the Virginia House on a bill that gives families the ability to opt-out of mask mandates issued by school systems.
• Nury Turkel, commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and chairman of the Board for the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP), talks about China’s treatment of the Uyghurs and the CCP’s propaganda during the Olympics.
• Tim Norton, a trucker from Brooks, Alberta, discusses his personal experience with Canada’s “Freedom Convoy”.
• Dr. Mark Harris, FRC's vice president for the Association of Churches & Ministries, speaks about FRC Action’s recent candidate training event in North Carolina.

On today's show:

• Roger Marshall, U.S. Senator from Kansas, discusses the White House’s COVID response briefing, Democratic governors rescinding COVID restrictions as waves of polling show Americans are ready to move on with life, and his op-ed on how health officials and the media have cultivated an unhealthy fear of COVID.
• Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, discusses United States and Iran resuming nuclear talks.
• Bob Fu, Founder and President of China Aid Association and FRC’s Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom, talks about the growing repression of China on Christians and others.
• John Stemberger, President and general Counsel for Florida Family Policy Council, responds to President Biden's comments on Florida's bill that protects children from innapropriate sex and gender conversations in the classroom.
• Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, details FRC Action’s candidate school training event in North Carolina and comments on a Florida bill that protects children from sex and gender discussions in the classroom and parents’ responses to sexually explicit sex ed instruction in Connecticut.

On today's show, hosted by Eben Fowler, Director of Broadcast Operations for Bott Radio Network:

• Pat Fallon, U.S. Representative for the 4^th District of Texas, discusses what leaked documents reveal about the Afghanistan withdrawal, President Biden‘s threat to cancel the Nord Stream pipeline, and the United States and Iran resuming nuclear talks.
• Mary Beth Waddell, FRC’s Director of Federal Affairs for Family and Religious Liberty, shares why Congress should reject the Global Respect Act.
• Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China," comments on Olympic athletes’ testimonies that China is forcing quarantined athletes to stay in inhumane conditions.
• Suzie Pollock, Missouri State Representative, talks about the introduction of the SAFE Act in the Missouri House of Representatives.
• Dr. Steve Viars, Senior Pastor of Faith Church in Lafayette, Indiana, gives an update on the West Lafayette City Council’s ban that threatened church’s counseling ministry.

On today's show:

• Chris Smith, U.S. Representative for the 4^th District of New Jersey, discusses the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and why many are referring to it as the “Genocide Games.”
• John Boozman, U.S. Senator from Arkansas, talks about security issues at the southern border and the Senate Republicans’ letter to the DHS Secretary asking why taxpayer dollars are being used to fly illegal immigrants around the country.
• Michael Waltz, U.S. Representative for the 6^th district of Florida, calls out NBC for refusing to air his ad that criticizes China.
• Dr. Marty Makary, Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine & School of Public Health, shares the findings of his newly released study on natural immunity.

On today's show:

• Adrian Zenz, Senior Fellow in China Studies at Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, talks about the Chinese propaganda littering the opening ceremonies of the Olympics and the genocide of the Uyghurs happening only a few hours from the winter world stage.
• Dr. Andrew Bostom, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Brown University, weighs in on Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds’ decision to end the COVID-19 emergency health declaration this month.
• Walker Wildmon, Vice president of Operations at American Family Association (AFA), shares about AFA’s petition to SCOTUS on behalf of healthcare workers facing Biden's vaccine mandate.
• Megan Basham, entertainment reporter for the Daily Wire, addresses how the pandemic has exposed corruption at the National Institutes of Health and how federal funding has been used to coerce health care establishments to follow the Dr. Fauci and Francis Collins agenda.

On today's show:

• Callie Patteson, politics reporter at New York Post, discusses her report, “NATO estimates Russia will have 30,000 troops in Belarus as tensions over Ukraine grow."
• Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, discusses the U.S. raid in northwest Syria that led to the death of the leader of the Islamic State.
• Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, discusses how the vaccine mandate has driven nearly 34,000 New York healthcare workers out of work and is now driving hospitals to turn to foreign healthcare workers.
• Brian Brase, trucker and co-organizer of Convoy to DC 2022, shares how truckers are protesting vaccine mandates in Canada & the U.S.
• Steven Haugaard, South Dakota State Representative, details the debate over pro-life legislation in the South Dakota legislature.
• Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, talks about new legislation banning critical race theory in classrooms, a VA State Senate committee voting to keep explicit materials in school libraries, and America First Legal’s toolkit for parents.

On today's show:

• Chuck Grassley, U.S. Senator from Iowa, discusses his meeting with President Biden regarding the Supreme Court vacancy.
• Justin Butterfield, Deputy General Counsel at First Liberty Institute, details how the U.S. Navy is violating a court order on COVID vaccine exemptions.
• Matt Heffron, Senior Counsel for Thomas More Society, shares that Louisville, KY has paid $75,000 to settle a police officer’s lawsuit after he was suspended for off-duty prayer.
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, comments on a study showing lockdowns had little impact on COVID deaths and Pfizer asking the F.D.A. to authorize its COVID vaccine for children under five.

Episode Resources:

On today's show:

• Mike Waltz, U.S. Representative for the 6^th District of Florida, responds to Vladimir Putin’s claims that the United States and NATO have ignored Russia’s demands.
• Todd Young, U.S. Senator from Indiana, discusses the Supreme Court vacancy and the need for the world community to take a stand against China’s authoritarian regime ahead of the Olympics.
• Josiah O’Neil, deputy sheriff in southern California, addresses the need to place an initiative to reduce smash and grabs on the California ballot.
• Chris Mitchell, Middle East Bureau Chief for CBN News and host of “Jerusalem Dateline,” discusses the Abraham accords' influence on the relationship between Israel and Arab nations, the possible impact Russia and Ukraine could have on the relationship between Israel and the U.S., and his newest book, “Dearest A.J.: The Letters that Kept Love Alive Through the Midst of War.”

On today's show:

• Mary Szoch, FRC's Director of the Center for Human Dignity, responds to the University of Pittsburgh’s claim that its fetal tissue program is “fully compliant with federal and state regulatory requirements.”
• Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of State, discusses whether sanctions against Russia will effectively deter an invasion of Ukraine and details the long-term threat of China to the United States.
• Kevin McCarthy, U.S. Representative for the 23^rd District of California and House Minority Leader, addresses Speaker Pelosi’s decision to extend proxy voting in the House of Representatives, the worsening crisis on the southern border, and the House Republicans “Commitment to America” agenda.
• Will Wade, State Representative for the 9^th District of Georgia, talks about his Protect Students First Act and his efforts to get rid of critical race theory indoctrination in Georgia public schools.
• Dr. Emir Caner, President of Truett McConnell University, shares how TMU is equipping students to thrive in a culture that is increasingly hostile to biblical values.

On today's show:

• Scott Perry, U.S. Representative for the 10^th District of Pennsylvania, discusses the latest activity in Russia and Ukraine, as well as the crisis at the southern border resulting from President Biden’s open borders policy.
• John Malcolm, Vice President for Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government and Director of the Meese Center for Legal & Judicial Studies, looks back at Supreme Court Justice Breyer’s career and what the next appointment means for the future.
• Connor Semelsberger, FRC's Director of Federal Affairs for Life and Human Dignity, talks about the one-year anniversary of Biden revoking the Mexico City Policy.
• David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, discusses FRC's new blog, "When Liberal "Truths" Come Home to Roost, We Get Lia Thomas."

On today's show:

• Jeff Mordock, Justice Department Reporter for The Washington Times, discusses Supreme Court Justice Breyer’s retirement announcement.
• Roger Wicker, U.S. Senator from Mississippi, talks about the tensions between Russia and Ukraine and his recent trip to Ukraine.
• Robert Destro, Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law, shares about the increased vocal opposition to vaccine mandates.
• Peter Schweizer, author of “RED-HANDED: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win,” reveals how Big Tech elites are helping China achieve global supremacy.
• Stephanie Taub, Senior Counsel at First Liberty Institute, details an Oregon Court of Appeals ruling that reversed in part a decision that penalized Christian bakers for declining to create a cake that violated their religious beliefs.
• Susan Michael, Director of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem in the United States, shares about Holocaust Remembrance Day and the state of anti-Semitism.