Washington Watch

On today’s program, hosted by Joseph Backholm:

• Erick Stakelbeck, host of The Watchman on TBN, shares the latest developments in the war between Israel and Hamas.
• Gordon Chang, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, unravels the Chinese Communist Party’s infiltration of U.S. state governments, including in New York.
• Susan Crabtree,  RealClearPolitics National Political Correspondent, reports what Sen. Chuck Grassley uncovered regarding the Iranian plot to assassinate former President Trump. She also reports on Secret Service's Office of Equity Diversity and Inclusion’s request for agency employees’ nominees to attend a DEI conference at Disney World.
• David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, unpacks why big city problems, like fare evasion, reveals a deeper lack in a societal-wide biblical worldview.

On today’s program, hosted by Joseph Backholm:

• Chris Mitchell, Middle East Bureau Chief for CBN News, reports the latest on the hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas.
• Dr. Paul Mueller, American Institute for Economic Research Senior Research Fellow, analyzes the recent economic indicators and assesses Vice President Kamala Harris’s economic proposals.
• Britt Hancock, Founder & Director of Mountain Gateway, shares good news coming out of Nicaragua.
• Dr. Jennifer Bauwens, FRC’s Director of the Center for Family Studies, comments on the Apalachee High School shooting as well as the recently revealed writings of the Covenant School shooter. 

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Scott Perry, U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 10^th District, reacts to the latest developments in the negotiations for the remaining Oct. 7^th hostages and offers an update on negotiations ahead of the upcoming fiscal cliff.
• Ken Blackwell, FRC Action’s Special Advisor for Election Integrity, explains why each state should pass a proof of citizenship law to secure the elections. 
• Steve Aden, Americans United for Life Chief Legal Officer & General Counsel, discusses what the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding Title X funding for Oklahoma means for the state.
• John Amanchukwu, First Assistant and Youth & Young Adult Pastor at the Upper Room Church of God in Christ, comments on Vice President Kamala Harris’s bus tour promoting abortion. He also uncovers how the Planned Parenthood targets minorities and shares about his op-ed on how the Democratic Party seeks to keep power by growing the welfare state.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Ralph Norman, U.S. Representative for the 5^th District of South Carolina, shares an update on the effort to include the SAVE Act in any government funding measure.
• Caroline Glick, Senior Contributing Editor of Jewish News Syndicate, comments on the fallout from the killings of six hostages from the Oct. 7 terror attack.
• Katy Faust, Founder of Them Before Us, unpacks the ethical problems with in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
• Dr. Jeff Myers, President of Summit Ministries, answers the questions: "Should Christians support Israel?" and "Should Christians avoid politics?"

On this Labor Day program: 

• Virginia Foxx, Chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, shares how Congress will address rampant anti-Semitism on college campuses as they start the new school year.
• Tiffany Justice, Moms for Liberty Co-Founder, shares why her group sued the Biden administration over their radical Title IX rewrite.
• Tim Walberg, U.S. Representative for the 5^th District of Michigan, calls out the Biden administration for not doing enough to protect the religious freedoms of Christian colleges and their student groups.
• Joel Penton, LifeWise Academy Founder and CEO, shares why parents should consider religious release time for their children in public schools.
• Meg Kilgannon, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Education Studies, highlights the resources FRC and FRC Action have available for parents in this back-to-school season.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Burgess Owens, U.S. Representative for the 4^th District of Utah, reacts to Vice President Kamala Harris’s CNN interview.
• John Stemberger, President of Liberty Counsel Action, exposes what Florida’s Amendment 4 actually allows.
• Quena Gonzalez, FRC’s Senior Director of Government Affairs, debunks Democrats’ claim that Republicans are the ones injecting culture war battles into the appropriations process.
• David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, offers a biblical perspective on CNN’s interview with Kamala Harris, Harris’ "Fighting for Reproductive Freedom" bus tour, as well as former President Donald Trump’s recent comments regarding abortion.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Alex Mooney, U.S. Representative for the 2^nd District of West Virginia, refutes Vice President Kamala Harris’s claim of being tough on border security and reacts to reports of an armed Venezuelan gang violently taking over an Aurora, Colorado apartment complex.  
• Mike Farris, General Counsel for National Religious Broadcasters, shares why his organization filed a challenge to the Johnson Amendment.
• Jerry Angelo, Founder, President, and CEO of Vanguard Marriage and Family Advocates, highlights his community marriage initiatives and his efforts to persuade governors to proclaim National Marriage Week.
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University and one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, reacts to Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s admission of censoring content at the behest of the Biden/Harris administration. He also educates on why science should never try to triumph over nature.

 On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Lisa McClain, U.S. Representative for the 9^thDistrict of Michigan, shares how House Oversight and Accountability Committee Republicans are holding the Biden Department Health and Human Services accountable for its dangerous advocacy of gender mutilation surgeries for children.   
• Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, corrects the record on Kamala Harris’ actual record on the southern border.
• Daniel J. Schmid, Liberty Counsel Associate Vice President of Legal Affairs, discusses the case of an Idaho National Guardsman who faced pressure to resign, and was later stripped of his commanding position, after expressing his Christian beliefs during his time not in uniform.
• J. Christian Adams, President of Public Interest Legal Foundation, comments on why his organization filed a lawsuit forcing local election officials to investigate and fix errors in their voter rolls. He also reacts to reports that Texas removed more than one million voters from its rolls in an effort to promote election integrity.

 On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Andy Biggs, U.S. Representative for the 5th District of Arizona, comments on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s letter admitting he caved to the Biden administration’s pressure campaign to censor alleged COVID-19 misinformation. He also provides an update on House Republicans’ investigation into the near assassination of former President Trump.
• Pat McGeehan, State Delegate for West Virginia’s 1^st District, highlights a West Virginia referendum to insert an assisted suicide ban in state constitution.
• Pete Ricketts, U.S. Senator for Nebraska, reports the latest news regarding turmoil in the Middle East.
• Jeremy Tedesco, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Vice President of Corporate Engagement, responds to SPLC’s “debunking” of ADF’s debanking “conspiracy theory.”
• Josh Hammer, Senior Counsel at the Article III Project, shows how Republican attorneys general can bring the fight to Democrats’ proxy organizations.

 On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Keith Self, U.S. Representative for the 3^rd District of Texas, reflects on the third anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan and comments on the latest in the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
• Tony Perkins, Chairman of Family Research Council Action, reacts to the recent Trump-Vance promise to reject federal pro-life laws.  
• Jerry Cox, President of Family Council, shares good news about the Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision blocking the Arkansas Abortion Amendment of 2024 from the November ballot.
• Debbie Wuthnow, iVoterGuide President, answers the question: is early voting an option for engaged Christian voters? She also shares about iVoterGuide’s resources.
• Matt Carpenter, FRC Action Director, unpacks how to engage in the November election and highlights FRC Action’s election resources.

On today’s program:

• Randy Weber, U.S. Representative for the 14th District of Texas, responds to the speeches from the final evening of the Democratic National Convention and highlights former President Donald Trump’s recent trip to the U.S. southern border.
• Ken Klukowski, a former lawyer in the White House and Department of Justice, unpacks the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding proof of citizenship to vote in Arizona.
• Kevin Sorbo, Actor and Producer, discusses the upcoming film Reagan, in which he plays the role of the long-time pastor to the 40^th President.   
• David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, shares a biblical worldview on the news of the week by providing analysis on the Democratic National Convention, and reacting to President Trump’s statement that he would not use the Comstock Act to ban mail delivery of chemical abortion drugs.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Tim Burchett, U.S. Representative for the 2^nd District of Tennessee, contrasts the Democrats’ claims about border security with a shocking report from the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General revealing the Biden-Harris administration has lost track of more than 300,000 children who crossed the border without their parents.
• Robby Starbuck, Host of the Robby Starbuck Show, shares how his recent exposé of Harley Davidson’s corporate practices has the motorcycle manufacturer pumping the brakes on woke ideology.
• Kyle Campbell, Creator and Host of Politically Basic, reacts to the radical abortion messaging from the Democratic National Convention and discusses how Millennials and Gen Z are responding to the Democrats’ agenda.  
• Dr. George Barna, FRC’s Senior Research Fellow for the Center for Biblical Worldview, unpacks his latest research detailing that many perceived notions about Evangelicals and their cultural and political influence are not matched by the latest data.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Curtis Houck, Managing Editor of Newsbusters, responds to events from the second day of the Democratic National Convention and shares data from recent polling showing that Democratic and Independent voters are not aware of Vice President Harris’s radical and controversial positions.
• Ron Estes, U.S. Representative for the 4^th District of Kansas, reacts to the Bureau of Labor Statistics revising the past year’s job growth down by more than 800,000 jobs.
• Michael Angiletta, Co-Founder of Secure Idaho Elections, shares his organization’s election integrity efforts in the state of Idaho.
• Meg Kilgannon, FRC's Senior Fellow for Education Studies, reacts to the guilty verdicts for several pro-life activists for FACE Act violations. 
• Marcella Burke, Founder & Managing Partner of Burke Law Group, discusses her clients—Dr. Eithan Haim and Vanessa Sivadge—who have been targeted as whistleblowers after exposing the gender procedures taking place at Texas Children’s Hospital.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Bob Good, U.S. Representative for the 5th District of Virginia, reacts to the first day of the Democratic National Convention taking place this week in Chicago.
• Chad Wolf, former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, sets the record straight regarding Vice President Harris’s immigration and border policies.
• Ken Blackwell, FRC’s Senior Fellow for Human Rights & Constitutional Governance, discusses the 2024 Democratic National Convention and unpacks what the Democrats’ 2024 Platform reveals about the party’s priorities.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Dr. Greg Murphy, U.S. Representative for the 3rd District of North Carolina, discusses the Democratic National Convention taking place this week in Chicago, where pro-Hamas protestors have gathered and Planned Parenthood peddles free abortions and sterilization to attendees.  
• Matt Sharp, Director of the Center for Public Policy at Alliance Defending Freedom, reacts to the U.S. Supreme Court upholding two lower courts’ injunctions blocking the Biden administration’s radical Title IX rewrite.  
• Pete Sessions, U.S. Representative for the 17^th District of Texas, unpacks the report from three House Committees’ impeachment inquiries into President Biden.
• Dr. Andrew Walker, Associate Dean in the School of Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Mrs. Christian Walker, Author, share about their new book “What Do I Say When . . .?: A Parent's Guide to Navigating Cultural Chaos for Children and Teens.”

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Joel Griffith, The Heritage Foundation’s Research Fellow, reacts to Vice President Kamala Harris’s effort to distance her economic policy from the “Bidenomics” policies of the administration in which she served.
• Craig Huey, Election Forum Founder, uncovers how Google manipulated search results regarding the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
• Michael Scott, Founding Partner & CEO of Pinnacle Peak Pictures, shares the details of his upcoming film God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust.
• David Closson, FRC’s Director of the Center for Biblical Worldview, shares a biblical worldview on news of the week by providing analysis on the American Society of Plastic Surgeons breaking ranks from the medical establishment regarding gender mutilation procedures for minors and discusses the group “Evangelicals for Harris.”

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Tim Walberg, U.S. Representative for the 5^th District of Michigan, reacts to the latest on the tensions between Israel and Iran. He also comments on the third anniversary of the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.
• Sam Faddis, retired CIA operations officer, uncovers the deep and long history Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has with the Chinese Communist Party.
• Jerry Bowyer, Bowyer Research President, offers analysis on the growing backlash that banks are receiving for de-banking conservatives.
• David Cox, Arkansas Family Council Assistant Director, shares his organization’s experience with being de-banked.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Andrew Bunnell, a ministry leader based in Georgia, shares his experience rescuing underground Christians stranded in Afghanistan as the Taliban re-seized control of Afghanistan.
• John Pierce, Founder of the National Constitutional Law Union, discusses the sentencing of his client—Rebecca Lavrenz, known as the “J6 Praying Grandma”—who was fined $103,000 and sentenced to six months of home confinement for a misdemeanor offense.
• Peter McIlvenna, Co-Founder of Hearts of Oak, unpacks how the British government has arrested and imprisoned citizens for social media posts.
• Caroline Woods, Spokesperson for the Life Defense Fund, sets the record straight regarding South Dakota’s Amendment G, which would allow abortion until birth for any reason.
• Dr. Donna Harrison, Director of Research of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, explains why an abortion is never medically necessary.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Gordon Chang, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, analyzes the threat Iran poses to Israel and discusses how the Communist Party of China has sought to influence the region.
• Brent Keilen, FRC Action’s Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, unpacks the leaked draft of the Democratic Party Platform and shares how it provides insight into the Democrats’ priorities.
• Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer of the Radiance Foundation, highlights the racism in the abortion industry.
• Dr. Quentin Van Meter, former American College of Pediatricians President, responds to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons breaking ranks from the medical establishment regarding gender-denying procedures for minors.

On today’s program, hosted by Jody Hice:

• Chris Mitchell, Middle East Bureau Chief for CBN News, reports from Jerusalem as Israel remains on high alert for a direct strike from Iran. 
• Scott Perry, U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 10^th District, analyzes the threat Iran poses to Israel and offers his thoughts as a former Brigadier General on the controversy surrounding Minnesota Governor and Democratic VP candidate Tim Walz’s military service.
• Seamus Bruner, Government Accountability Institute Director of Research, raises questions regarding Gov. Walz’s troublesome 35-year relationship with the Communist Party of China.