1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,400 Speaker 1: Today's edition of This Week on Capitol Hill is brought 2 00:00:02,400 --> 00:00:05,399 Speaker 1: to you in part by Americans for Prosperity. 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 2: Welcome to This Week on Capitol Hill, your insider's guide 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:11,840 Speaker 2: to the story shaping Washington and the world. I'm your host, 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 2: Tony Pergins. Thanks for joining us well. I hope you 6 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:17,800 Speaker 2: had a wonderful Christmas and are enjoying this holiday season. 7 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: As we approach the end of the year, it's often 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 2: a time to reflect on the previous year and looking back, 9 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,680 Speaker 2: a lot has happened. For today's edition, we're revisiting a 10 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,280 Speaker 2: program from back in May when I was in Israel 11 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 2: leading a delegation of US pastors and Christian leaders to 12 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 2: some of the key Biblical sites in Judea and Samaria. 13 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:39,239 Speaker 2: During my visit, I set down for an interview with 14 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 2: Ambassador Mike Huckabee. He had been freshly minted as US 15 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 2: Ambassador to Israel. He had expressed concern over the waning 16 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,440 Speaker 2: support for Israel among evangelical Christians. We're seeing. 17 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,160 Speaker 3: A lot of evangelicals in the States who sort of 18 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 3: act like, well, Israel doesn't even matter, It's not even 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 3: important to us, and I want them to better understand 20 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 3: that not only does it matter, but why does it matter? 21 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 3: And if evangelicals educate themselves first in the scripture, that's key, 22 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,400 Speaker 3: and then in understanding this land is people and what 23 00:01:14,440 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 3: they're up against. I think we will see a resurgence 24 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 3: of evangelical support for the state of Israel. 25 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:23,479 Speaker 2: I'll share the rest of that interview a little later. 26 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 2: And while he was not in Israel with me, I 27 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 2: was also joined virtually by House Speaker Mike Johnson, who 28 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,480 Speaker 2: shared his reflections on a big milestone that week, President 29 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: Trump's first one hundred days back in the Oval office, 30 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: and I also talked about how it was a big 31 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 2: week for religious liberty, with President Trump using the National 32 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 2: Day of Prayer to launch the Religious Liberty Commission. 33 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,839 Speaker 4: What President Trump recognizes and what he's been. 34 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 5: Articulating is that, as he said yesterday or Thursday in 35 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 5: the Rose Garden, we've got to bring religion back in America. 36 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 5: We have to emphasize these principles again because he and 37 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,640 Speaker 5: all of us recognize it is absolutely essential as we 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,680 Speaker 5: approach two hundred fiftieth anniversary as a nation that we 39 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:06,920 Speaker 5: maintain those critical foundations. As Washington said, the indispensable supports 40 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,960 Speaker 5: because Tony we can't keep a free republic without it. 41 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 2: We'll have more of that interview as well, So stay 42 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 2: with us. We've got a great program coming your way, 43 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 2: and we'll start with my conversation with Chris Mitchell, Middle 44 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: East Bureau Chief for CBN News. 45 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 6: Today's edition of This Week on Capitol Hill is brought 46 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 6: to you by Americans for Prosperity and Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition. 47 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 2: Oh I've been in Israel this week leading a delegation 48 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,160 Speaker 2: of pastors and Christian leaders, focusing primarily on meetings in 49 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,120 Speaker 2: Juday and Samaria centered on Israel's sovereignty in those areas. 50 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: We participated in Israel's Memorial Day, a deeply somber moment 51 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,200 Speaker 2: to honor fallen soldiers and the victims of terrorism, made 52 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 2: even more intense by the country's ongoing struggle for security. 53 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 2: The following day, Independence Day was meant to be celebratory, 54 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:03,160 Speaker 2: but with wildfires set by terrorists raging across parts of 55 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,240 Speaker 2: the country, the festivities were muted. 56 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 7: Well. 57 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 2: Joining me now to discuss all of this and a 58 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 2: bit more, as Chris Mitchell, the Middle East Bureau chief 59 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:16,240 Speaker 2: for Christian Broadcasting Network, Chris, Welcome to this Week on 60 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:18,680 Speaker 2: Capitol Hill and welcome to our studio. Well, thank you 61 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 2: for turning your studio over to us and letting us 62 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: be in here. So glad to do it. Glad you're here. 63 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 2: So let's start with a big week here in Jerusalem. 64 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 2: We started with playing clips. You heard that I have 65 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 2: the Prime Minister and Ambassador Huckabee at the JNS. You 66 00:03:35,720 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: were there, big gathering. What was the sense. 67 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 8: There, Well, I think it was sort of a's who 68 00:03:42,760 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 8: of people in here in Israel, in the States, you know, 69 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 8: Ambassador Huckabee, Prime minished Ina who. I think the sense 70 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,240 Speaker 8: right now A lot of the anticipation is what's going 71 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 8: to happen with the Iran nuclear deal. 72 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 2: I think that was the focus. 73 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 8: I think of Prime ministered in Natya, who's really been 74 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 8: advocating to eliminate Iran's nuclear facilities for decades. 75 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 2: Let me ask you a little bit about that, because 76 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 2: it seems that Trump administration wanting to pursue negotiations has 77 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,600 Speaker 2: caused a little consternation among Israelis. Has it not? Oh 78 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 2: very much? 79 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 4: So? 80 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 8: I think I think there seemed to be some momentum 81 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 8: to actually doing a military strike on Iran's nuclear programs. 82 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:28,679 Speaker 8: You had more and more heavy bombers B two bombers, 83 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 8: B fifty two bombers going to the Indian Ocean in Diego, Garcia. 84 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:35,200 Speaker 8: I think there was an anticipation, Okay, this is the 85 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 8: time we can actually do this with us help. Then 86 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 8: the negotiation has come in and the thinking is, well, 87 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 8: what's happening here. First of all the negotiations, we're like, oh, 88 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 8: let's well limit their enriched uranium, And a lot of 89 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 8: people here thinking, well, we did that in the twenty 90 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:55,279 Speaker 8: fifteen JCOPA, And why are we actually talking about enriching 91 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 8: uranium and reducing the amount they have? Why are we 92 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 8: talking about eliminating the entire program? 93 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 2: Now? I think the reaction would be would have been 94 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: much different if this were coming from a democratic administration. 95 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 2: Is there still a lot of trust that the Trump 96 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 2: administration is going to land in the right place? I 97 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 2: think there is. 98 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 8: And I think that maybe they're thinking, well, Trump needs 99 00:05:17,880 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 8: to make an effort anyway. He's not a war longer. 100 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:23,800 Speaker 8: He likes to end wars, not start wars. So could 101 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 8: this be an attempt Well, let's give Iron an opportunity 102 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 8: to pull back. But so I think there's a great 103 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 8: tremendous measure of trust compared to the Biden administration. 104 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: Is there still a sense of timing that there's a 105 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: window here in which action has to be taken very. 106 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 8: Much so, I mean, and the window is there's a 107 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 8: number of factors. First of all, Iran seems to be 108 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 8: getting closer and closer to a nuclear device, and a 109 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 8: lot of people here are saying, well, this is the 110 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,880 Speaker 8: Iran's method of operation, this is their mo They like 111 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 8: to stall, they like to keep talking, they want to 112 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 8: extend the talks, and so the fear here is that 113 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,159 Speaker 8: they're going to extend the talks while on the other hand, 114 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 8: trying to get as close as they can to a 115 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 8: nuclear weapon. 116 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,040 Speaker 2: Chris mitchell I want to switch gears to go to 117 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: two events that took place here in is Israel this week. 118 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 2: Memorial Day or Day of Remembrance, as it's called, a 119 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 2: very significant day here in Israel, much more so than 120 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,200 Speaker 2: in the United States. It's not a day for picnics. 121 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:26,360 Speaker 2: It's a day for literally mourning, and it comes right 122 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 2: before Independence Day, which is what they have let's explained, 123 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:33,720 Speaker 2: is that's how we have our independence. Yeah, sacrifice required. 124 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 2: I had the opportunity of actually reading the Scripture at 125 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 2: a gathering in some area of about eight hundred citizens. 126 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,520 Speaker 2: General Jerry Boykin on our team is able to speak. 127 00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: My sense is that this is more than usual when 128 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 2: it comes to what's happening right now and how the 129 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:55,359 Speaker 2: nation seems to be unified. Yeah. 130 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 8: Well, the difference is October seventh, and the difference is 131 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 8: for a year and a half now, israelis had been 132 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:04,760 Speaker 8: at war and almost every family may have a son 133 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 8: or a daughter, or a brother or a father in 134 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 8: harms way, either up on the northern border, of the 135 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:14,920 Speaker 8: southern border, even in Judea, Samaria, and now even in Syria. 136 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,320 Speaker 8: So it's much more immediate. It's always been such a 137 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 8: special day, and much more than the United States because 138 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,800 Speaker 8: Israel is such a small nation. But we just passed 139 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,240 Speaker 8: ten million people here in Israel, and so it means 140 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,119 Speaker 8: a whole lot more. 141 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: And then I'm sure you are there. 142 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,400 Speaker 8: When there's a siren that sounds throughout the entire country, 143 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:36,760 Speaker 8: people stop, Yep. 144 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 2: They get out of their cars. They dedicate that moment 145 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 2: of silence to those who have given them all for 146 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 2: the benefit of this nation. Yeah. 147 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 8: Yeah, And here in Jerusalem, we were out on the 148 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:50,440 Speaker 8: street and we saw the same thing, and that unifies 149 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,800 Speaker 8: the nation like no other. I mean, you couldn't probably 150 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 8: do that, and from coast to coast in the US, 151 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 8: but here, being the size of New Jersey, everybody gets 152 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 8: a chance to spend two minutes listening to that siren 153 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 8: and remembering I want to go. 154 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 2: To the following day in this day, seventy seventh anniversary. 155 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 2: But here in Jerusalem there were fires raging, I mean 156 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,120 Speaker 2: apparently historic fires. I wasn't keeping up with the news 157 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:20,200 Speaker 2: as much because I was traveling in Samaria, but a 158 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 2: reminder of the volatility of this area has been reported 159 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: that they were arrests made regarding those fires. 160 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 8: Yeah, there were arrests about arson and trying to So 161 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,920 Speaker 8: if you go from Memorial to Independen State, it's like 162 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:39,360 Speaker 8: going from morning into joy when they celebrate seventy seven years. Unfortunately, 163 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,199 Speaker 8: those wild fighters certainly upset a lot of plans here 164 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,920 Speaker 8: is in Jerusalem, in particular the national celebration. They aired 165 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 8: it on television, but it was actually the rehearsal that 166 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 8: they had instead of the actual event. 167 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 2: Because the winds were high as well, and you were 168 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 2: in Hebron and they were setting up. They were rehearsing, 169 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 2: and they canceled it because they called all the firefighters, yeah, 170 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:04,359 Speaker 2: to fight the wildfire. 171 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 8: So when you think of it, tony seventy seven years, 172 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 8: this is a fulfillment of prophecy Isaiah said, can a 173 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 8: nation be born in a day? 174 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,280 Speaker 2: And it's confirmed by. 175 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:17,560 Speaker 8: Archaeology if you look at the archaeology. We just set 176 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,040 Speaker 8: a story today about discovering a menore that's fifteen hundred 177 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,760 Speaker 8: years old. But you go back, it's just the rocks 178 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 8: are crying out that the Jewish people had been established 179 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 8: here for over three thousand years. 180 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,280 Speaker 2: Every day, yeah, every day it is happening. We just 181 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 2: have about a minute left, Chris Mitchell, I'm going to 182 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 2: ask you this question. We spent our time in Judaea 183 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 2: and Samaria, disputed territory called by the international community in 184 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: West Bank. How important is that to the future of Israel. 185 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 8: I think it's huge, and I think there's a momentum 186 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:51,200 Speaker 8: here in Israel and on Capitol Hill to make sure 187 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:54,280 Speaker 8: that the West Bank had been called that for years, 188 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 8: which is really the biblical heartland of Israel, will be 189 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,800 Speaker 8: called Judaea and Samaria, and that it will be declared 190 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 8: sovereign Israeli territory. I think it's going to happen because 191 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 8: of this momentum, and I think a lot of people 192 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 8: should be praying that this is going to really, I 193 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,680 Speaker 8: think not only be great for Israelis and the Jewish people, 194 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 8: but I think it will actually benefit the Palestinians. 195 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,679 Speaker 2: Look, all the world will be blessed through Israel, and 196 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 2: that blessing flows to those who will bless Israel. That's right, 197 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 2: and I think this is a time for us to 198 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 2: pray to see that reality. Yep, pray for the peace 199 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 2: of Israel, piece of Jerusalem, but to also proclaim not 200 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 2: use that term West Bank, but use Jaday and summary, 201 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 2: and to petition our government officials to do the same. 202 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 8: Yeah, the NRB has done that, Capitol Hill is in 203 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 8: the process of doing that. They even have a caucus 204 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:47,600 Speaker 8: about that. So it seems like it's going to happen. 205 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 8: Chris Mitchell, thanks for let me use your studio. Thanks Tony, 206 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 8: and folks, I want to encourage you to stick with us. 207 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 8: Still to come, We're going to be speaking with House. 208 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 2: Speaker Mike Johnson, and I'm going to sit down with 209 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:01,080 Speaker 2: Ambassador Mike Huckabee. All of that straight ahead, so don't 210 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 2: go away. 211 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 6: This is Amy working law feeling the pressure of rising costs. 212 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:15,080 Speaker 2: Feels like every day is getting more expensive. We get it. 213 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:18,840 Speaker 6: The cost of living today is way too high. That's 214 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 6: where we come at at Americans for Prosperity. We offer 215 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 6: solutions to the country's biggest problems. 216 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: Like making life more affordable. 217 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 7: YEP. 218 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,959 Speaker 6: That's why AFP launched Prosperity Is Possible, the nation's largest 219 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,240 Speaker 6: movement to tackle the cost of living crisis. 220 00:11:36,559 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 9: Millions of America's most vulnerable seniors could lose access to 221 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:44,320 Speaker 9: their prescription medications. Unintended consequences stemming from a recent drug 222 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 9: pricing law threatened the viability of long term care pharmacies 223 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,120 Speaker 9: and could force many pharmacies that serve nursing homes to close. 224 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 9: This crisis would put access to life saving medications and 225 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 9: essential pharmacy services for seniors at grave risk. Washington must 226 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 9: act to pret attacked America seniors and a pharmacy crisis 227 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 9: in our nursing homes. 228 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 6: Paid for by the Senior Care Pharmacy Coalition. 229 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,719 Speaker 10: Welcome back to this week on Capitol Hill. As we 230 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 10: talked about earlier, now at Capitolio, we're near another Yo. 231 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 10: We're in Jerusalem, in fact, right now at the US 232 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 10: Embassy in Jerusalem, and I'm with the Ambassador to Israel 233 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 10: from the United States, my good friend Mike Huckabee. 234 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 2: The long list of accomplishments. 235 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:39,680 Speaker 11: Ambassador, baptist, minister, lieutenant governor, governor, presidential candidate, TD host, musician, 236 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 11: But I think the one you would claim most is Grandpa. 237 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 3: That's the best of all seven grandchildren, ranging from four 238 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 3: to thirteen. And of all the jobs I've had, it's 239 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,960 Speaker 3: the most pleasurable, fulfilling, and sometimes harrowing. 240 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 11: Thanks for joining in fighting us to come into the 241 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:01,520 Speaker 11: embassy and sit. 242 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:03,679 Speaker 2: Down to have a conversation. Great to add here it. 243 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 3: Is your emptsy and it belongs to the people of America. 244 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 2: Is just an incredible privilege that the President has given 245 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 2: me to be here and to serve in its capacity. 246 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 12: Well, I can't think of anyone better suited at this 247 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,679 Speaker 12: time to fill this role. 248 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 2: We'll talk about that in a moment, but I'm going 249 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 2: to talk about this week. This is a big week 250 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 2: in Israel. 251 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 11: We met earlier the week we had a group of 252 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 11: pastors and conservative leaders here, but this is the day 253 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,079 Speaker 11: of Remembrance here in Israel, followed by the seventy seventh 254 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 11: anniversary of Israel's founding. 255 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 2: Big week. 256 00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 3: It's a really big week, and the people of Israel 257 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,280 Speaker 3: have kind of a unique history and a unique perspective 258 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 3: about their history. The day of Remembrance is a very solemn, 259 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:52,880 Speaker 3: sobering reminder of what they have been true to even exist, 260 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:56,920 Speaker 3: and so there's some very special moments, not the least 261 00:13:56,920 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 3: of which is that on the evening of the remembrance 262 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,200 Speaker 3: and in the following day, there are two periods of 263 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 3: the sirens going out all over the country and everyone stops, 264 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 3: if they're in traffic, they. 265 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 2: Get out of the car and sa. 266 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 3: We were on our way back from Tel Aviv when 267 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:15,319 Speaker 3: this happened on the evening, so we pulled over, got 268 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 3: out of the car, and it was just a real 269 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 3: reminder that this is what Israel has to live with 270 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 3: all the time. In the following morning, at eleven o'clock, 271 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 3: the same thing. 272 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 2: It was really. 273 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 3: I felt connected to that whole process of recognizing that 274 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 3: most people in the world don't get up every day 275 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,480 Speaker 3: and think any given moment somebody's going to attack us. 276 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 3: In Israel, every day they wake up, they're mindful, not 277 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 3: only of somebody could attack us, But where's the nearest shelter? 278 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 3: Where can I go in thirteen seconds and get out 279 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,880 Speaker 3: of harm's way. Then that's followed by the day of independence, 280 00:14:53,920 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 3: and this time seventy seven years since David Ben Gurion 281 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 3: declared Israel to be in a independent state, fulfilling years 282 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 3: of promise, years of hope, and finally it happening in 283 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 3: nineteen forty eight. 284 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 2: The big thing. 285 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:10,920 Speaker 3: For those of us in America is that one of 286 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:15,760 Speaker 3: the successes of Israel's reconstitution, if you will, because it's 287 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 3: been around for thirty five hundred years as we know. 288 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,600 Speaker 3: But Harry Truman, eleven minutes after Israel declared its independence, 289 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 3: declared that the United States would recognize Israel. It may 290 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 3: have been a saving moment for this struggling, tiny, fledgling 291 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 3: nation that just declared itself to be independent. 292 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 13: Amazing story and an amazing what is happened in seventy 293 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 13: cent in years. 294 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 2: You gave one of your either I think maybe. 295 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 12: A bit your first speech to a public setting as ambassador. 296 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,880 Speaker 2: This week. You spoke at JNS News they're gathering here in. 297 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 14: Jerusalem, and you made a couple of comments and one 298 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,800 Speaker 14: is that as you begin, you said to you know, 299 00:15:55,880 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 14: this is the most contested real estate on God's entire plane. 300 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 2: It is. 301 00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 11: Then we see that unfold and almost every day as 302 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 11: a hostelid neighborhood. 303 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:09,600 Speaker 3: There's nothing like it anywhere on the planet. I mean, 304 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 3: there's places where there's conflict and places where there's civil war, 305 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 3: there's all sorts of things, but there's never been one 306 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 3: little sliver of land. It's really not that big. Everyone says, 307 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 3: you know, the size of New Jersey, and New Jersey 308 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 3: is not that big in terms of geographical footprint. This 309 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,400 Speaker 3: little sliver of land is the most contested piece of 310 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 3: real estate on the planet. And because of that, it 311 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 3: makes it a place where there's always tension, there's always 312 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:43,200 Speaker 3: a sense of what will happen next. But it's also 313 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 3: a place where the Israeli people show an incredible resilience. 314 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 3: They know they had nowhere else to go. Goldenmeyer said 315 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 3: that back in the early seventies when someone asked her 316 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 3: what is the secret weapon of Israel to win the 317 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 3: wars that they won, because they shouldn't have won any 318 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:01,320 Speaker 3: of them, they should have defeated by all of them. 319 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 2: And she said, our secret is simple. 320 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,919 Speaker 3: We have nowhere else to go, and that sums it 321 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,479 Speaker 3: up about as powerfully as anyone court Well. 322 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,119 Speaker 14: I actually you mentioned that I was then on one 323 00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 14: of the kaboots after October, the seth and megaphone. 324 00:17:16,760 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 2: The residents, they ask, of course, of where do we hero? 325 00:17:21,840 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 11: You made again in your speech this week, you said, 326 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:27,640 Speaker 11: this is not a geopolitical struggle. 327 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 12: This is not the lad versus right lebel versus conservative. 328 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:36,719 Speaker 12: This is a vertical battle between heaven and earth, between 329 00:17:36,760 --> 00:17:38,680 Speaker 12: heaven and hell, between good. 330 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 2: And evil, between light and darts. 331 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,400 Speaker 3: Looking to you matter, there's no way to understand the 332 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 3: battles of this role, the success of is rule, and 333 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 3: somehow ignored the spiritual. The spiritual is the foundation, and 334 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,280 Speaker 3: it was the foundation thirty five hundred years ago when 335 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:59,359 Speaker 3: God said to Abraham, this is a land that I 336 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,920 Speaker 3: give to you. Those who bless Israel will be blessed. 337 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 3: Those who curse Israel will be cursed. The history here 338 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 3: is not just a human history. It is a divine history. 339 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:15,240 Speaker 3: God's revelation throughout history has always been that He shows himself, 340 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 3: and he chose the Jewish people through whom would the 341 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 3: message be given. The law came to Moses on Mount SINAI. 342 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:27,880 Speaker 3: If you look at the whole history of the conquest 343 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 3: of the land, Joshua bringing in the armies as they 344 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 3: fought the Battle of Jericho, and throughout the conquest, this 345 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:41,360 Speaker 3: is a unique part of the world where you cannot 346 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,720 Speaker 3: describe it, you cannot understand it without invoking the spiritual 347 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 3: now tony that makes some people very uncomfortable. It makes 348 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,720 Speaker 3: some Jewish people uncomfortable, might even make some Christian people uncomfortable. 349 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 3: But there's no other way to talk about this part 350 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 3: of the world, and particularly the long history, without invoking 351 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,679 Speaker 3: the fact that this is the land of Abraham, Isaac 352 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:05,159 Speaker 3: and Jacob. 353 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,439 Speaker 12: So basketball and he asked, is that what helps prepare 354 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 12: you for this role at this time? 355 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 2: That undersid well? I think it does. 356 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,479 Speaker 3: I'd like to believe that it's important to recognize that 357 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 3: there's more than just a geopolitical issue that governs what's 358 00:19:22,760 --> 00:19:28,199 Speaker 3: at stake here. I'm not a Jewish person. I'm a 359 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:32,600 Speaker 3: Christian believer, but my faith as a Christian is predicated 360 00:19:32,640 --> 00:19:39,640 Speaker 3: built upon and it is indispensable to having the connection 361 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:41,919 Speaker 3: to the Old Testament, to the Jewish faith, to God's 362 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 3: revelation that comes out through history. So I don't know 363 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 3: of any other way that I could approach this, except 364 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 3: in I would use the work term. It's a holistic approach. 365 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,919 Speaker 2: We're almost up against a break. 366 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 14: I want to get into some of the issues because 367 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 14: I think this is one of the most strategic positionhes 368 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,399 Speaker 14: for someone in the administration, you know, right outside the 369 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:08,879 Speaker 14: president's cab I mean, I think, in fact, probably more 370 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:10,960 Speaker 14: important than some cabin So you're about to take away 371 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 14: from anybody else, but this the Middle East is on fire. 372 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 12: Yeah, Now, a lot has happened in a year since 373 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,800 Speaker 12: israelize really turned things around. 374 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 2: But we have Iran, we. 375 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 12: Have Syria, we have Turkey moving into this reagion, talk 376 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 12: about some of your concerns. 377 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 3: Syria has had a fall of its leader, Aside is done. 378 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,120 Speaker 3: Lebanon is now in a very different place because Hasbala 379 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:45,359 Speaker 3: has pretty much been not completely neutralized, but downgraded. Iran 380 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 3: is still a threat, but you have other Gulf states 381 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 3: who are now partnering with Israel and working in cooperation, 382 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 3: the capacity to expand the Abraham Accords. 383 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 2: Everything is in play, Mike. I'm really right here. I've 384 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 2: got to come back and finish this conversation. Folks stay 385 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 2: with us. 386 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 9: Without urgent action from Washington, millions of America's most vulnerable 387 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 9: seniors could lose access to their prescription medications. Unintended consequences 388 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,359 Speaker 9: stemming from a recent drug pricing law threatened the viability 389 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 9: of long term care pharmacies and could force many pharmacies 390 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,439 Speaker 9: that serve nursing homes to close. This crisis would put 391 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 9: access to life saving medications and essential pharmacy services for 392 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:31,879 Speaker 9: seniors at grave risk. Washington must act to protect America's 393 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 9: seniors and avert a pharmacy crisis in our nursing homes. 394 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:38,400 Speaker 15: If we don't get our policies right, the next generation 395 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 15: of energy solutions won't be made in America. They'll be 396 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 15: built in China and Russia by countries that don't share 397 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 15: our values. 398 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 7: Clear Path develops and advances policies that accelerate break the 399 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,840 Speaker 7: renovations to lower emissions, and fix our broken permitting process 400 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:56,159 Speaker 7: so that we can bring industry back home to the 401 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 7: United States. 402 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 16: We have a clear path to keep America in the League. 403 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 16: Let's get it done together, paid for. 404 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 2: It by clear Path. Welcome back to this week on 405 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:12,200 Speaker 2: Gapriol Hill. 406 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 12: I'm your old stony Perkins, and I'm here in Jerusalem 407 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 12: actually at the US Embassy with Ambassador of Mike Couckery, 408 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 12: with twenty ninth ambassad to at Israel from the United States. 409 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 2: You have, abassador, thanks for us sitting now with us today. 410 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 12: So we were talking about Iran, We're talking about Syria. 411 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 2: Big change there, although that's we see Turkins. 412 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,240 Speaker 12: Hand in there, and I'm not so sure they're extremely 413 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 12: friendly toward Israel. 414 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:44,520 Speaker 11: Let's talk of Iran. The President is aminstruation involved in negotiations. 415 00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:48,720 Speaker 11: There is there going to be an agreement that we 416 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:51,159 Speaker 11: reach with Aron. You know, they rehabitable people. 417 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 2: No, they're not to be blind. They never have been. 418 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 3: Forty six years they've been under the rule of the Eyetolas, 419 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 3: and they've been very adamant that their goal is to 420 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,680 Speaker 3: destroy Israel in the destroy of the United States. When 421 00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:06,720 Speaker 3: they've said something like that for forty six years. They 422 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 3: put two different plots trying to assassinate President Trump. We're 423 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,199 Speaker 3: looking at a nation that has a long history of 424 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 3: doing everything that it says is going to do. 425 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 2: Now, are they at. 426 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 3: A point where they've been downgraded in their military capacity 427 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 3: because of the Israeli strikes that happened last year. 428 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:26,560 Speaker 2: We don't know. 429 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,119 Speaker 3: So the honest answer when people say do you have 430 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 3: any hope that this will result in some type of 431 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 3: negotiated peace settlement with the Ruanian government, all I can 432 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 3: do is say, I hope so, because I'd rather see 433 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 3: that than more. But if I'm looking at forty six 434 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 3: years of their rule, I'm not overly optimistic that they're 435 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 3: just eager to sit down and that they would make 436 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 3: a deal, and if they made it, would they keep it. 437 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 2: But let's hope and pray that they do. 438 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 3: There is allott at stake if something doesn't happen. The 439 00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:01,120 Speaker 3: President has been at that they're not going to get 440 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 3: nuclear weapons. They're adam that they are. That's the stalemate 441 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 3: at some point, and I think I know President Trump 442 00:24:10,040 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 3: will le have to know he's not kidding. 443 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 2: They're not going to get nuclear weapons. So the question is. 444 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,800 Speaker 3: Do they realize that. Do they risk the control of 445 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,720 Speaker 3: their regime just for the pride of saying they're going 446 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 3: to push forward with something that they've been told by 447 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 3: every one in the region they're never going to have, 448 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,680 Speaker 3: and quite frankly, even their Muslim neighbors don't want them 449 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 3: to have a nuclear weapon anymore than you would want 450 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,119 Speaker 3: a sixteen year old boy to have keys to a 451 00:24:37,200 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 3: Lamborghini and a bottle of whiskey. You just don't give 452 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,720 Speaker 3: irresponsible people things that they can be responsible. 453 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 17: Part of that was some of the genesis for the 454 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:50,680 Speaker 17: Abraham of Kors unified fronts against the threat to Iran. 455 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:53,920 Speaker 17: And there's one thing that's a little different about Iran 456 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:54,840 Speaker 17: than other. 457 00:24:55,600 --> 00:25:00,680 Speaker 12: It's along the Kushi's organizations that were getting my commas is. 458 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 2: That the regime does not fully represent to Pepe. No, 459 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 2: they don't. 460 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 3: In two thousand and nine, it was almost a change 461 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,159 Speaker 3: of government. People were rising up. It was the Green movement. 462 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,080 Speaker 3: The President Obama and his memoir admitted that one of 463 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:20,440 Speaker 3: the biggest mistakes of his presidency was not providing at 464 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 3: least not military support. Nobody suggested that that was appropriate. 465 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 3: But if he could have just said, we support the 466 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 3: people who are seeking to be free and to unshackle 467 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,359 Speaker 3: themselves from this stalitarian government, it might have been a 468 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 3: tipping point. And said he was totally silent even as 469 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,199 Speaker 3: the young lady was murdered in the street and the 470 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,199 Speaker 3: blood running out of her head. That picture kind of 471 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 3: showed the end of the Green. 472 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:46,000 Speaker 13: Movement is that the best way forward for a while 473 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,920 Speaker 13: to be free of a regime like that, Well, it's 474 00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 13: a decision there people have to make. 475 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 3: But if you look back, the Persian culture is a 476 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 3: magnificent one ran before the Aetolas, was one of the 477 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 3: most educated places on earth. Some of the aligned with 478 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,040 Speaker 3: the United States, incredibly aligned with the United States. But 479 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:18,880 Speaker 3: even if we weren't, what they represented was a very modern. 480 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 2: Delightful culture. 481 00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 3: They were focused on education and advancement and science and innovation. 482 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 2: It was one of. 483 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,240 Speaker 3: The really center pieces of the earth, and certainly in 484 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: the Middle East. To see it tragically taken by the 485 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 3: Ayatolas and virtually destroyed the antiquities the culture, it's one 486 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 3: of the great tragedies of the last two hundred years. 487 00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 12: And vassad is about out of time right against the brain. 488 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 12: I will circle back to our earlier conversation. The last 489 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,720 Speaker 12: segment of by Spiritual Understanding is Israel and what is 490 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:53,280 Speaker 12: happening in this region of the world. 491 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 11: Speaking to evangelicals who are of the primary audience of 492 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 11: this browary back in the United States, I'm sure they 493 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 11: do prayer well. 494 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 2: The Bible says pray for the peace of Jerusalem. 495 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 3: So especially now, especially now, But I think what they 496 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 3: need to do is become informed. 497 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,560 Speaker 2: I'm really concerned, Tony, that we're seeing. 498 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 3: A lot of evangelicals in the States who sort of 499 00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 3: act like, well, Israel doesn't even matter, It's not even 500 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:24,159 Speaker 3: important to us. And I want them to better understand 501 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,679 Speaker 3: that not only does it matter, but why does it matter? 502 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,480 Speaker 3: And if evangelicals educate themselves first in the scripture that's key, 503 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 3: and then in understanding this land, it's people and what 504 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 3: they're up against, I think we will see a resurgence 505 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,520 Speaker 3: of the evangelical support for the state of Israel. 506 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,640 Speaker 13: Oh prayer as you are right, and that's why we're 507 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 13: here this week. 508 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 2: I'm asking might want to be thank you for enjoying us. 509 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 2: Thank you, Tony, always great to see You'm a friend, 510 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,440 Speaker 2: all right, Folks staking with us. On the other side 511 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 2: of the break house, speaker. 512 00:27:55,280 --> 00:28:00,159 Speaker 3: Mike Johnson charged to cynical wife. 513 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 6: Across the country, men and women are working with Americans 514 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,199 Speaker 6: for Prosperity to reignite the American dream. We've shared some 515 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 6: of their stories with you, but they aren't the only 516 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 6: success stories we've seen. Americans for Prosperity partners with millions 517 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,360 Speaker 6: at the local, state, and national level to improve people's 518 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,560 Speaker 6: lives every day Americans supported by AFP to advocate for 519 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 6: common sense solutions or millions drawn and with local offices 520 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:27,919 Speaker 6: in every corner of the country, you can become a 521 00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 6: part of something bigger than politics as usual. 522 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,600 Speaker 15: If we don't get our policies right, the next generation 523 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 15: of energy solutions won't be made in America. They'll be 524 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 15: built in China and Russia by countries that don't share 525 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 15: our values. 526 00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 7: Clear Path develops and advances policies that accelerate, break the 527 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,080 Speaker 7: renovations to lower emissions, and fix our broken permitting process 528 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 7: so that we can bring industry back home to the 529 00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 7: United States. 530 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,880 Speaker 16: We have a clear path to keep America in the league. 531 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 16: Let's get it done together, paid. 532 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 2: For by clear Path. Welcome back once again this week 533 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill. Well, this week was a big one 534 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,000 Speaker 2: for President Trump. Tuesday marked his one hundredth day back 535 00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 2: in the Oval Office, a milestone met with a week 536 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:21,320 Speaker 2: long celebration from his entire administration. His presidency has been 537 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 2: incredibly effective so far, and he says that his work 538 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 2: is only beginning. Here To discuss the Trump presidency and 539 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 2: these first one hundred days is Speaker of the House, 540 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 2: Mike Johnson. Mister Speaker, welcome back to this week on 541 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 2: Capitol Hill. 542 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 5: Hey, Tony, I love the background there in Jerusalem. 543 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:40,680 Speaker 4: No less, that's really awesome. 544 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 2: Been a great week here in Jerusalem. And you know, 545 00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 2: I want to ask you, speaking of Jerusalem, speaking of religion. 546 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 2: Big case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, the day 547 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 2: before the National Day of Prayer, where Oklahoma their charter 548 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 2: school statue being challenged. We're hearing the same old thing, 549 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 2: separation of church and state. 550 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, it continues to be a big topic. In fact, 551 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,840 Speaker 5: one of the events you missed because you're in Israel, 552 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 5: and we're glad you're there. It's very important time to 553 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 5: be there. Was, of course, the Rose Gardens ceremony the 554 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,720 Speaker 5: end of this week on Thursday, where the President brought 555 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 5: in everyone to sign the executive Order to begin the 556 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,600 Speaker 5: Religious Liberty Commission and this sort of task force that 557 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 5: will be looking into all these issues to preserve our 558 00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,600 Speaker 5: most fundamental and what is truly our first freedom, and 559 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 5: that is religious liberty. The President gave a speech Tony 560 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 5: that has got a lot of attention, and he mentioned 561 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 5: that some will claim that he's violating the so called 562 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 5: separation of church and state. He put his Office of 563 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,240 Speaker 5: Faith in the West Wing. That's the first time any 564 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,560 Speaker 5: presidents done that. There's never been a national Day of 565 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,440 Speaker 5: Prayer service as there was on Thursday in the Rose 566 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 5: Garden itself, so far as we know. And so he's 567 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,520 Speaker 5: sort of, in his view, pushing the envelope. But what 568 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 5: I've told him privately, and what we'll say publicly, of course, 569 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,959 Speaker 5: is that he's doing exactly what the founders of this 570 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 5: country intended that we should do. Remember, the founders placed 571 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,400 Speaker 5: religious freedom first for a reason. They understood that it 572 00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 5: was essential to being who we are as Americans, but 573 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:14,560 Speaker 5: more fundamental than that, who we are as human beings. 574 00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 5: And we were the nation, of course, the first in 575 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 5: the world that was founded upon the Creed, recognized that 576 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 5: in that our rights come from God in our government. 577 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 5: So what he's doing is completely within the bounds of 578 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,560 Speaker 5: the law and our best traditions in the country. 579 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:27,600 Speaker 4: And we're applauding the. 580 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 5: Fact that among the things he's accomplished in the first 581 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 5: hundred days is standing strong for religious freedom for everyone. 582 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,160 Speaker 2: Well, I can vouch for his attorney that he's got 583 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,680 Speaker 2: encouraging him on this because that's your background as a 584 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 2: constitutional attorney arguing religious freedom cases. Is the pendulum swinging 585 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,000 Speaker 2: in our country where we're seeing this freedom come back 586 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 2: and recapturing territory that's been lost. 587 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 5: I think so, and I think this case at the 588 00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 5: Supreme Court is a good indication of that. I mean, 589 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:00,880 Speaker 5: the idea that you would discriminate against relige religious schools 590 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,480 Speaker 5: and a school choice program just because they're religious violates 591 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,640 Speaker 5: the central premise of America, and that is that while 592 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,640 Speaker 5: the government's not supposed to show favoritism for one particular 593 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:16,840 Speaker 5: denomination or to establish a particular national church, what the 594 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 5: government is supposed to do is be hands off and 595 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,719 Speaker 5: at least neutral to the concept of religion in general. 596 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,080 Speaker 4: But the founders believed it should be promoted. 597 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:28,840 Speaker 5: I mean, remember Washington, the father of our country, said, 598 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,480 Speaker 5: of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, 599 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,959 Speaker 5: religion and morality are indispensable supports. And John Adams, our 600 00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,760 Speaker 5: second president, came next, and he said, our constitution is 601 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 5: made only for a moral and religious people. That is 602 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,040 Speaker 5: wholly inadequate to the government of any other. What President 603 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 5: Trump recognizes and what he's been articulating is that, as 604 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 5: he said yesterday or Thursday in the Rose Garden, we've 605 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 5: got to bring religion back in America. We have to 606 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,680 Speaker 5: emphasize these principles again because he and all of us 607 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 5: recognize it is absolutely essential as we approach our two 608 00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 5: hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a nation that we maintain. 609 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:04,560 Speaker 4: Those critical foundations. 610 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 5: As Washington said, the indispensable supports, because Tony, we can't 611 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,000 Speaker 5: keep a free republic without it. 612 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:13,959 Speaker 2: As I understand this case, really what this is it 613 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,000 Speaker 2: is a collision between those who want to build the 614 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 2: First Amendment solely upon the establishment clause versus those who 615 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 2: believe that the exercise clause should be just as vibrant. 616 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 5: Exactly right, people that the left, as you know, and 617 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:30,760 Speaker 5: you and I have talked about so many times over 618 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 5: the years, we've lamented this in our lifetime. Over the 619 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,560 Speaker 5: last fifty sixty years, the left has twisted the. 620 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 4: Meaning of the establishment clause. 621 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 5: There are two clauses in the First Amendment, religious freedom 622 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 5: being the first liberty. The founders wanted a vibrant expression 623 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 5: of faith in the public square because they understood what 624 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,719 Speaker 5: Washington and Adams were saying that it was essential to 625 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 5: maintain a free republic. But they didn't want a Church 626 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:55,840 Speaker 5: of England in America. 627 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 4: You know, they didn't want that. They had seen the 628 00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:58,120 Speaker 4: abuses of that. 629 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 5: They didn't want to merge the church and state as 630 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:05,360 Speaker 5: one and have that be the official, enforced or enforceable religion. 631 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,040 Speaker 5: But they wanted the vibrant expression of free exercise. See, 632 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,160 Speaker 5: the left has twisted the meaning and what was intended 633 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,839 Speaker 5: to be a shield for people of faith the first 634 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,560 Speaker 5: Amendment that the left has twisted the meaning. They tried 635 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 5: to convince people it's a weapon to be used against us, 636 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,040 Speaker 5: and that is not what the founders intended. And I 637 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,719 Speaker 5: think the Supreme Court has an opportunity here to make 638 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 5: a landmark opinion that goes one more step further in 639 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 5: resetting what the framers intended. That is the original intent 640 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:36,320 Speaker 5: of our nation, and that is why, in so many ways, 641 00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,200 Speaker 5: why we became the exceptional, extraordinary nation that we are. 642 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 2: All right, mister speaker, we just have about two minutes 643 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,160 Speaker 2: to left. I want to transition to a milestone this week. 644 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,720 Speaker 2: As I mentioned President Trump reaching the first one hundred 645 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 2: days of it administration. I'll also mention another celebration this week. 646 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 2: It was also your twenty sixth wedding anniversary of you 647 00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,240 Speaker 2: and Kelly, so congratulations on your covenant marriage. 648 00:34:58,239 --> 00:34:58,479 Speaker 4: There. 649 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:03,960 Speaker 2: Let me ask you, have you met the goals that 650 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 2: you set for the Congress in this first one hundred. 651 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 4: Days we have It's been a dizzying pace. 652 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 5: The President, of course, has had the most consequential first 653 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,279 Speaker 5: hundred days of any president in memory, maybe arguably one 654 00:35:16,280 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 5: of the most in history, and in Congress has been 655 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:21,479 Speaker 5: trying to keep pace. You know, I have two hundred 656 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,279 Speaker 5: nineteen colleagues to move through a regular order process to 657 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,239 Speaker 5: accomplish what he does with a stroke of a pen. 658 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,399 Speaker 5: But we've been working in tandem, and that's a really 659 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,839 Speaker 5: important concept here and one we've tried to maintain a 660 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 5: close coordination between the White House, the Senate Republicans, and 661 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:36,719 Speaker 5: the House Republicans. It's an all team effort and it's 662 00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 5: so much to show. The Atlantic magazine, which is no 663 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,640 Speaker 5: fan of the President, as you know, referred to him 664 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,480 Speaker 5: this past week as the most consequential American leader of 665 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 5: the twenty first century. And that is because he's accomplishing 666 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,279 Speaker 5: so much. We're all accomplishing so much together. And the 667 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:52,880 Speaker 5: American people elected us to do that. 668 00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no grass growing under his feet. He's moving 669 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,120 Speaker 2: quickly and taking everybody with him. A final quot, thank 670 00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,480 Speaker 2: you for you, mister speaker, listened a minute, laughed. The 671 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:07,240 Speaker 2: One Big Beautiful Bill. How's that progressing? Very well? 672 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,000 Speaker 5: On Thursday, I was in the White House for a 673 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,880 Speaker 5: couple of hours and the President and I and Steve Scalize, 674 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 5: the leader, and the chairs of our two primary committees 675 00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 5: on this project, the Ways and Means Committee and Energy 676 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 5: and Commerce, Jason Smith and Brett Guthrie. We all met 677 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:23,840 Speaker 5: there in the White House with he and his top 678 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,440 Speaker 5: team and Secretary Best End and Rust vote at omb 679 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 5: A very productive progress in this and we are almost 680 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 5: there on the final details of the One Big Beautiful Bill. 681 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,560 Speaker 5: As the President calls it, It's going to be a 682 00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 5: hugely consequential thing for the whole country. 683 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,760 Speaker 2: All right, mister Speaker, thank you for joining us today 684 00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,440 Speaker 2: on this week on Capitol Hilt Again. Congratulations on your 685 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,040 Speaker 2: wedding anniversary, and we look forward too many many more. 686 00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,120 Speaker 4: Thanks brother, appreciate you so much. 687 00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:56,080 Speaker 2: Travels sake, all right, folks, stick with us. Some final 688 00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:57,640 Speaker 2: thoughts after the break. 689 00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,520 Speaker 9: Without urgent action from Washington. Millions of America's most vulnerable 690 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 9: seniors could lose access to their medications. Washington must act 691 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,120 Speaker 9: to protect America's seniors and avert a long term care 692 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 9: crisis by protecting nursing home pharmacies. 693 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:20,520 Speaker 6: Only fifty eight percent of Americans say they're proud to 694 00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:24,359 Speaker 6: be an American, the lowest ever recorded. That's more than disappointing, 695 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,080 Speaker 6: it's a warning. When we forget what makes America exceptional, 696 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,800 Speaker 6: we risk losing it. That's why Americans for Prosperity is 697 00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:35,840 Speaker 6: launching the One Small Step campaign, helping Americans reconnect with 698 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 6: our founding values. This isn't about politics, It's about who 699 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 6: we are and the future we choose. Are you ready 700 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 6: to take one small step? Join us at AFP volunteer 701 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:51,400 Speaker 6: dot com. 702 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,439 Speaker 2: Thanks for joining in this week on Capitol Hill. Well. 703 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:57,400 Speaker 2: Religious freedom is seldom handed to the passage. It is 704 00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 2: claimed by those who exercise it, even when a hostle 705 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,319 Speaker 2: the culture says they may not. That reality came home 706 00:38:03,360 --> 00:38:06,440 Speaker 2: to me this week as two very different arenas, Jerusalem's 707 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,919 Speaker 2: Temple Mount and the marbled halls of the US Supreme Court, 708 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,440 Speaker 2: posed the same enduring question. Will people of faith press 709 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 2: the liberties our creator and dealed us with, or will 710 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,840 Speaker 2: they surrender them to bureaucrats and bullies? Well, the Supreme 711 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 2: Court in Washington debated whether Oklahoma may authorize Saint Isidore 712 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,759 Speaker 2: or Seville Catholic Virtual School to be funded as a 713 00:38:27,880 --> 00:38:31,640 Speaker 2: charter school. I stood on Temple Mount with Rabbi Jujuda Glick. 714 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,160 Speaker 2: Rabbi Glick has been arrested scores of times for the 715 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,279 Speaker 2: crime of praying aloud on Judaism's holiest site. Why would 716 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:44,000 Speaker 2: a whispered somb be treated like a felony. The answer 717 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:48,120 Speaker 2: begins with geography and history. The Mount lies inside the territory. 718 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:52,279 Speaker 2: Diplomats still call the West Bank military cease fire line 719 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:56,200 Speaker 2: drawn in nineteen forty nine that every participant agreed was 720 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,600 Speaker 2: never meant to become a border. Yet that dotted line 721 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,520 Speaker 2: hardened into dogma for a half a century of two 722 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:08,000 Speaker 2: state proposals. Even after Israel reunited Jerusalem during the nineteen 723 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:12,200 Speaker 2: sixty seven Six Day War, international pressure compelled Israel to 724 00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,799 Speaker 2: place daily control of the Mount in the hands of 725 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:20,680 Speaker 2: a Jordainian Islamic trust. That arrangement grants Muslim's unrestricted worship, 726 00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 2: while permitting Jews only silent, time limited visits, no bibles, 727 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 2: no Torus scrolls, no audible prayer. Incremental change, however, happens 728 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:35,400 Speaker 2: when courageous souls test the limits. Because of Rabbi Glick's persistence, 729 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 2: Jews today may at least ascend the mount during restricted hours, 730 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,000 Speaker 2: and since last August actually kneel and whisper brief prayers 731 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 2: in a small area along the eastern wall. One inch 732 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:50,680 Speaker 2: of freedom, once claimed, becomes the platform for the next yard. 733 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,680 Speaker 2: His tenacity reminds us that history bends toward liberty only 734 00:39:55,719 --> 00:40:00,000 Speaker 2: when principal people lean hard against its hinges. Rabbi Glis 735 00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:04,840 Speaker 2: has paid dearly for that inch, repeated arrest, social ostracism, 736 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 2: even a failed assassination attempt. Yet instead of retreating, he 737 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:14,160 Speaker 2: enlarged the space for everyone's liberty by exercising the sliver 738 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 2: he possessed, proving that the defense of conscience always begins 739 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 2: with the courageous use of conscience. That vignette previews what 740 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,760 Speaker 2: is at stake in Saint Isidore of Seville's Catholic Virtual 741 00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 2: School versus Oklahoma. Opponents chant the tired mantra of separation 742 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 2: of church and state, insisting that any institution touching public 743 00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,320 Speaker 2: funds must muzzle its faith. Governor Kevin Stead and State 744 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,399 Speaker 2: Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters are rightly defending their charter 745 00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 2: statute as neutral toward religion. If secular innovators can design 746 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,920 Speaker 2: tuition free online schools, so can Catholic Jews, Evangelical Christians, 747 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,800 Speaker 2: and others. A favorable ruling would ripple through the forty 748 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:01,280 Speaker 2: five other states with charter school laws, broadening educational choice 749 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,720 Speaker 2: and rooting religious expression more firmly in the public square. 750 00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,880 Speaker 2: The lesson from Rabbi Glick's quiet prayers clear, use the 751 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,080 Speaker 2: liberty you still possess, however small, to expand the liberty 752 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,879 Speaker 2: you lack. If Oklahomas prevail, parents across America will gain 753 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:20,440 Speaker 2: the right to choose schools that reinforce, rather than undermine, 754 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:25,400 Speaker 2: their deepest convictions, fortifying civil society, renewing our covenantal heritage, 755 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 2: and handing a sturdier, freer republic to our children and grandchildren. 756 00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,919 Speaker 2: And that is This Week on Capitol Hill. 757 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,000 Speaker 1: Today's edition of This Week on Capitol Hill is brought 758 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: to you in part by Americans for Prosperity,