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Jerry Boykin, Pat Fallon, Meg Kilgannon, Ted Cruz, Mary Szoch, Vicky Hartzler
April 05, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, provides his analysis of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. 
  • Pat Fallon, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Texas, shares about his recent visit to Ukraine and his assessment of what kind of weapons systems and other help Ukraine needs from the United States. 
  • Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, comments on the White House refusing to say at what age children should be taught about sexuality and transgenderism.
  • Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas, voices his concerns over Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. 
  • Mary Szoch, FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity, discusses recent evidence that suggests a D.C. abortion clinic is committing infanticide.
  • Vicky Hartzler, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Missouri, talks about the effort in Congress to pass the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act. 
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ID: 70443
Greg Steube, Mark Brnovich, Michael Brown, Owen Strachan
April 04, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Greg Steube, U.S. Representative for the 17th District of Florida, discusses the mass graves discovered in Ukraine, and Disney’s pledge to fight Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law.
  • Mark Brnovich, Arizona Attorney General, details several states’ lawsuit to stop the Biden administration from lifting the Title 42 border policy.
  • Michael Brown, author and host of “Line of Fire,” comments on the failure of corporate and political leaders to appease LGBT activists and the evolution of Fox News.
  • Dr. Owen Strachan, provost and research professor at Grace Bible Theological Seminary and Senior Fellow at FRC’s Center for Biblical Worldview, analyzes the growing trend of ‘deconstruction’ in Evangelicalism and Christianity.
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ID: 70442
Marjorie Jackson, Matt Rosendale, Andrew Beckwith, Connor Semelsberger, David Closson
April 01, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Marjorie Jackson, Washington Watch Correspondent, discusses the Biden administration releasing a wave of transgender policies and flying the transgender flag outside a federal agency for the first time.
  • Matt Rosendale, U.S. Representative for Montana, shares about the Biden administration’s wave of transgender policies, his introduction of legislation requiring the Biden administration to immediately resume onshore oil leases, and the ramifications of President Biden plans to revoke the Title 42 border policy.
  • Andrew Beckwith, President of the Massachusetts Family Institute, talks about a Boston-area school board that blocked a church's application to open a private school due to its Christian beliefs.
  • Connor SemelsbergerFRC’s Director of Federal Affairs for Life and Human Dignity, responds to congressional Democrats’ push for a bill legalizing marijuana and the abortion funding in President Biden’s proposed budget.
  • David ClossonFRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, unpacks the Left’s intense fight against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law and what the push reveals about Disney’s agenda.
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ID: 70355
Chris Smith, Mitch McConnell, Franklin Graham, Chip Roy, Mary Miller
March 31, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Chris Smith, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of New Jersey, weighs in on the U.S. Senate debate over reauthorizing the Global Magnitsky Act and offers a preview of the upcoming SCOTUS ruling in the Dobbs case.
  • Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader and U.S. Senator from Kentucky, discusses the slanted sentencing record of SCOTUS nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the latest on Ukraine and Russia, and President Biden’s plan to release a million barrels of oil a day from the oil reserves.
  • Franklin Graham, President of Samaritan's Purse, talks about his organization’s relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees and his call for a cease fire in Ukraine and Russia during holy week.
  • Chip Roy, U.S. Representative for the 21st District of Texas, explains how he plans to force a vote on Title 42 to secure the southern border, and the positive outcome of Päivi Räsänen’s case.
  • Mary MillerU.S. Representative for the 15th District ofIllinois, speaks on her letter to the NCAA regarding biological males competing against female athletes.
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ID: 70323
Jerry Boykin, Lorcan Price, Andy Biggs, Jody Hice, Meg Killgannon
March 30, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, discusses a U.S. general admitting to the House Armed Services Committee that the Biden administration’s deterrence strategy failed in Ukraine and the wave of terror attacks on Israel.
  • Lorcan Price, Legal Counsel for ADF International, celebrates the ruling in Päivi Räsänen’s case.
  • Andy Biggs, U.S. Representative for the 5th District of Arizona, voices his concerns over the Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson and the border crisis.
  • Jody Hice, U.S. Representative for the 10th district of Georgia, calls out the Biden administration and teachers' unions for colluding over CDC school reopening guidance.
  • Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, shares what’s happening in schools around the country regarding COVID related policies and the push for transgender ideology and critical race theory to be taught in classrooms.
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ID: 70314
Jerry Boykin, Bob Good, Joe Harding, James Lankford, Ken Blackwell, Michael Geer
March 29, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, gives an update on Ukraine and Russia.
  • Bob Good, U.S. Representative for the 5th District of Virginia, outlines President Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget proposal.
  • Joe Harding, Florida State Representative, discusses the details of the parental rights in education legislation that was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis.
  • James Lankford, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, addresses the importance of maintaining Title 42’s authority to expel migrants at our southern border and his thoughts on President Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget proposal.
  • Ken Blackwell, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Human Rights and Constitutional Governance, speaks on the Left’s efforts to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
  • Michael Geer, President of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, talks about YouTube’s censorship of the GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Forum.
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ID: 70313
Marsha Blackburn, Jerry Boykin, Chris Mitchell, Michele Bachmann, Mary Szoch
March 28, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator from Tennessee and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, discusses the Senate Judiciary Committee deliberating over Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and President Biden’s $5.8 trillion budget.
  • Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin, FRC's Executive Vice President and former commander of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, analyzes Vladimir Putin’s goal at this point in the war.
  • Chris Mitchell, Middle East Bureau Chief for CBN News and host of “Jerusalem Dateline,” comments on Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Israel and the U.S./Iran nuclear deal negotiations.
  • Michele Bachmann, Dean of Regent University’s School of Government, previews Regent University’s upcoming virtual conference: “Globalism Rising: Authoritarianism and the Demise of Civil Liberties”.
  • Mary Szoch, FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity, responds to the World Health Organization’s new guidelines that demand countries allow abortion at any point during a pregnancy.
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ID: 70280
Marjorie Jackson, Travis Weber, Arielle Del Turco, Lela Gilbert, David Closson
March 25, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Marjorie Jackson, Washington Watch Correspondent, reports the latest developments on the Ukraine and Russia cease fire negotiations and President Biden’s visit to Poland today.
  • Travis Weber, FRC’s Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, talks about President Biden’s trip to Europe and growing opposition among Republican senators to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
  • Arielle Del Turco, FRC’s Assistant Director of the Center for Religious Liberty, explains how Global Magnitsky remains an ongoing issue in the Russia oil ban, and what’s happening with Päivi Räsänen’s trial over expressing her biblical beliefs about human sexuality.
  • Lela Gilbert, FRC's Senior Fellow for International Religious Freedom, shares what’s happening to Christians in Nigeria.
  • David ClossonFRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, discusses Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson not being able to define “woman” and how progressives are willing to erase women.
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ID: 70279
Vicky Hartzler, Mike Waltz, Ken Paxton, Justin Danhof
March 24, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Vicky Hartzler, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of Missouri, discusses the first firing in four years of an intercontinental ballistic missile by North Korea, her letter to the Biden administration calling for an end to public transportation mask mandates, and the Left’s continued attack and disregard for women’s sports.
  • Mike Waltz, U.S. Representative for the 6th District of Florida, talks about President Biden’s trip to Europe and the latest on Ukraine and Russia.
  • Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, responds to Disney’s announcement that they will “take action” against Texas over the recent order criminalizing sex change surgeries on minors and discusses his appeal to the Texas Supreme Court regarding his investigation into the gender transitions of minors.
  • Justin Danhof, General Counsel and Director of the Free Enterprise Project for the National Center for Public Policy Research, comments on the increasing wokeness of Disney.
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ID: 70224
Katherine Beck Johnson, Arielle Del Turco, Michelle Davis, Carl R. Trueman
March 22, 2022
00:54:05

On today's show: 

  • Katherine Beck Johnson, FRC's Research Fellow for Legal and Policy Studies, reviews day two of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. 
  • Arielle Del Turco, FRC’s Assistant Director of the Center for Religious Liberty, discusses Secretary of State Antony Blinken making a genocide declaration over Myanmar’s regression of the Muslim Rohingya population. 
  • Michelle Davis, Indiana State Representative, talks about efforts to override the governor’s veto of a bill protecting girls sports. 
  • Carl R. Trueman, Professor of Biblical & Religious Studies at Grove City College, explains the principles of conservatism and previews his new book “Strange New World.”
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ID: 70187
George Thomas, Dan Bishop, Stanley Kurtz, Jason Johnson
March 22, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show: 

  • George Thomas, CBN’s senior international correspondent, shares the latest on Ukraine and Russia and the U.S. formally declaring that the Russian military has committed war crimes in Ukraine. 
  • Dan Bishop, U.S. Representative for the 9th District of North Carolina, reviews Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing and comments on her refusal to define the term “woman” or offer an opinion on when human life begins. 
  • Stanley Kurtz, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, pushes back on attempts to federalize critical race theory in education. 
  • Jason Johnson, former Deputy Police Commissioner for Baltimore and President of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, discusses rising crime and a societal breakdown across the country.
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ID: 70202
Gordon Chang, Gary Palmer, Katherine Beck Johnson, Kurt Kondrich, Joel Berry, Beth Stelzer
March 21, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China," discusses how China is playing both sides of the Ukrainian crisis and stepping up its aggression by militarizing the islands in the South China seas and sending a carrier into the Taiwan Strait.
  • Gary Palmer, U.S. Representative for the 6th District of Alabama, explains China’s intent to make Russia a vassal state and the Biden administration’s handling of the Ukraine/Russia crisis.
  • Katherine Beck Johnson, FRC's Research Fellow for Legal and Policy Studies, reviews day one of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing.
  • Kurt Kondrich, pro-life advocate, talks about World Down Syndrome Day and the West Virginia Governor signing the Unborn Child with Down Syndrome Protection and Education Act.
  • Joel Berry, Managing Editor at the Babylon Bee, comments on Twitter locking The Babylon Bee out of their account for naming Rachel Levine ‘Man of the Year.’
  • Beth Stelzer, Founder of Save Womens Sports, shares the concerns of college athletes and their parents over having to compete against a biological male.
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ID: 70179
Charlie Spiering, Dean Cheng, Mario Diaz, Rachel Emmanuel, David Closson
March 18, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show: 

  • Charlie Spiering, White House Correspondent for Breitbart News, details President Biden’s call with Chinese President Xi Jinping. 
  • Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow for Chinese Political and Military Affairs at the Heritage Foundation, discusses where China’s allegiance falls in the Ukraine and Russia war. 
  • Mario Diaz, General Counsel for Concerned Women for America (CWA), addresses the federal civil rights complaint CWA filed against the University of Pennsylvania under Title IX regarding their decision to allow Lia Thomas to compete on the school’s women’s swim team. 
  • Rachel Emmanuel, reporter for Western Standard, speaks on how the mainstream media is only giving a platform to one kind of voice and pressuring journalists to stop sharing stories of those who oppose the Left’s narrative.
  • David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, weighs in on the Left’s obsession with culture wars amid all the crises we’re seeing and how the situation in Ukraine has revealed the Leftist worldview. 
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ID: 70144
Chuck Holton, Greg Steube, Chris Smith, Bryan Steil, Kristen Waggoner
March 17, 2022
00:54:06

On today's show:

  • Chuck Holton, freelance war correspondent, gives an update on Ukraine and Russia.
  • Greg Steube, U.S. Representative for the 17th District of Florida and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, discusses the latest on Ukraine and Russia and the Iran nuclear deal.
  • Chris Smith, U.S. Representative for the 4th District of New Jersey, comments on President Biden calling Vladimir Putin a war criminal and what action President Biden needs to take to back up those words.
  • Bryan Steil, U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Wisconsin, weighs in on the phased reopening of the U.S. Capitol.
  • Kristen Waggoner, general counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, and Travis Weber, FRC’s Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, talk about Yale law students disrupting a bipartisan free speech panel and what can be drawn from that.
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ID: 70141
Steve Daines, Josh Ney, Brian Brase, Kevin Brady
March 16, 2022
00:54:07

On today's show:

  • Steve Daines, U.S. Senator from Montana, discusses Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s virtual address to the U.S. Congress, America’s response to Russia’s invasion, and the importance of boosting American energy.
  • Josh Ney, partner at Kriegshauser Ney Law Group, talks about a Kansas teacher’s lawsuit over being suspended and reprimanded after she refused to use a student’s preferred first name and gender pronouns.
  • Brian Brase, trucker and co-organizer of Convoy to DC 2022, gives an update on the convoy.
  • Kevin Brady, U.S. Representative for the 8th District of Texas, shares what can be done to pressure Russia’s revenue and how the Left is blaming Putin for inflation.
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ID: 70125
George Thomas, Mary Szoch, Aaron Baer, Andrew Bostom, Blaine Conzatti
March 15, 2022
00:54:06

On today's show: 

  • George Thomas, CBN’s senior international correspondent, talks about the latest on Ukraine and Russia. 
  • Mary Szoch, FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity, unpacks the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)’s latest “Guide to Language and Abortion.” 
  • Aaron Baer, President of the Center for Christian Virtue, talks about the opening of a Christian school in Ohio that is expected to be a model for similar schools across the state. 
  • Dr. Andrew Bostom, academic clinical trialist and epidemiologist, comments on the insistence of COVID mandates despite what data is telling us. 
  • Blaine Conzatti, President of Idaho Family Policy Center, unpacks Idaho’s Texas-inspired abortion bill. 
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ID: 70111
Glenn Grothman, Gordon Chang, Mary Szoch, Brenton Netz, Dr. Jennifer Bauwens
March 14, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show, guest hosted by Joseph Backholm

  • Glenn Grothman, U.S. Representative for the 6th District of Wisconsin, discusses the latest on Ukraine/Russia and the Suspending Energy Imports from Russia Act
  • Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China," expresses concerns over a strengthening alliance between Russia and China. 
  • Mary Szoch, FRC’s Director of the Center for Human Dignity, talks about her testimony before the Maryland House committee on two abortion bills and the Texas Supreme Court rejecting a challenge to the state’s heartbeat law. 
  • Brenton Netz, a concerned father of a child with gender dysphoria, details his legal battle to prevent his son from being given gender transition hormones and treatments. 
  • Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, FRC’s Director of the Center for Family Studies, shares about the real experiences of detransitioners.
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ID: 70097
Michael Guest, John Stemberger, Alison Centofante, David Closson
March 11, 2022
00:54:01

On today's show:

  • Michael Guest, U.S. Representative for the 3rd district of Mississippi, discusses President Biden announcing an end to Russia’s most favored nation trading status, Israeli leaders’ concerns about a U.S./Iran nuclear deal, and the latest on the pork and hard left social policies in the omnibus spending bill.
  • John Stemberger, president and general counsel for Florida Family Policy Council, talks about Disney’s CEO condemning the parental rights in education bill.
  • Alison Centofante, founder of Centofante Strategies, commends Ukrainian mothers for their bravery and talks about how it shows the ways men and women are uniquely different.
  • David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, shares about Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei declaring his country as the “Ibero-American Pro-Life Capital."
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ID: 70069
Michael Burgess, Dennis Prager, Meg Kilgannon, Ben Carson
March 10, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show:

  • Michael Burgess, U.S. Representative for the 26th district of Texas and Member of the House Budget Committee, shares how congressional Democrats filled the omnibus spending bill with radical social policies, and the latest Ukraine and Russia news.
  • Dennis Prager, founder of Prager University, talks about the deplatforming threats facing conservative broadcasters. 
  • Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, discusses how parents taking an active role in their children’s education is reshaping school board races around the country.
  • Dr. Ben Carson, Founder and Chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute, unpacks Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill and how sexual orientation and gender identity provisions like the one in the omnibus bill will impact women’s homeless shelters.
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ID: 70049
Chuck Holton, Eric Patterson, Mike Berry, Travis Weber, David Closson
March 09, 2022
00:54:10

On today's show: 

  • Chuck Holton, freelance reporter for CBN News, shares the latest on Ukraine and Russia. 
  • Eric Patterson, Executive Vice President of the Religious Freedom Institute, calls for the U.S. and European Union members to hold Russia accountable for its religious freedom violations in Ukraine.
  • Mike Berry, Vice President of External Affairs for First Liberty Institute, discusses the Biden administration asking the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to continue punishing Navy SEALs who have religious objections to the DOD’s vaccine mandate. 
  • Travis Weber, FRC’s Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs, sounds the alarm on Democratic leadership in Congress hijacking Ukraine aid to push their progressive agenda.  
  • David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, describes today’s events as Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei declares his country the “Ibero-American Pro-Life Capital.” 
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ID: 70044

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