Tuesday, January 13, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses President Trump’s recent comments on being “flexible” about the Hyde Amendment and the possibility of taxpayer-funded abortions, what to watch as SCOTUS hears oral arguments on so-called “transgender women” competing in women’s sports, and the liberals who are pushing back against the transgender revolution.
Part I (00:14 – 10:34)
Mr. President, This One is a Deal Breaker: Conservatives Cannot Be Flexible on Becoming Complicity in Taxpayer Funded Abortions
Part II (10:34 – 23:16)
SCOTUS Set to Hear Oral Arguments on So-Called Transgender Athletes: Will SCOTUS See a Rational Purpose That is Not in Direction Contradiction to the Constitution?
- The transgender athletes cases: an explainer by SCOTUSblog (Amy Howe)
- National debate on transgender athletes finally reaches Supreme Court by USA Today (Maureen Groppe)
‘SCOTUS Can Save Women’s Sports’: The Washington Post’s Editorial Board Makes an Astounding Liberal Argument Against Transgender Revolution
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 13, 2006. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.6 | President Donald J. Trump has set off a firestorm among pro-life conservatives, and it has the interest of his own party, |
| 0:21.9 | ensure particularly members of his party in Congress. |
| 0:25.5 | It all goes back to comments made by the president to members of his own party in Congress |
| 0:30.5 | about the proposed legislation that would put back in place subsidies for the Obamacare program. |
| 0:37.9 | This is a highly controversial issue. |
| 0:39.8 | Obamacare has been highly controversial from the start. |
| 0:42.6 | Republicans have opposed it nearly in unanimous voice from the start, |
| 0:47.2 | but the big problem right now is that millions of Americans have found the subsidies |
| 0:51.4 | that were put in place to lower the cost of Obamacare premiums during |
| 0:56.0 | the COVID-19 pandemic. The reality is that the loss of that has led to a huge political crisis. |
| 1:03.0 | The Democrats, who, after all, had misrepresented those subsidies as temporary. They are trying to |
| 1:08.8 | profit from the situation. But the reality is that the Republican |
| 1:12.1 | Party is going to have to be responsive to the issue in one way or another, and President Trump |
| 1:17.9 | made the headlines and caused the concern among pro-life conservatives by saying that Republicans |
| 1:23.7 | will need to be flexible about the Hyde Amendment and this legislation. Okay, so hold on. |
| 1:29.9 | What in the world is the Hyde Amendment? And why is this such a crisis? Well, the Hyde Amendment was put in |
| 1:35.7 | place just several years after the 1973 Supreme Court decision known as Roe v. Wade that legalized |
| 1:43.2 | abortion in all 50 states. Now, the Roe v. Wade decision |
| 1:47.1 | came as a shock to many Americans, and in particular, to conservatives. The pro-life movement |
| 1:52.9 | was very young because the pro-life movement was really brought into a thunderous reality |
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