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- And thank you so much forjoining us, I'm Efrem Graham.

The Senate Judiciary Committee

is reviewing a third allegation against

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Attorney Michael Avenattiis representing the woman,

and tweeted his client witnessed Kavanaugh

"consistently engagein excessive drinking,

"and inappropriate conductof contact of a sexual nature

"with women in the early 1980s."

Meanwhile the committee is moving ahead

with its plans to hear from Kavanaugh

and his first accuser,Christine Blasey Ford, Thursday,

and plans for a vote as early as Friday.

- To me, these are clearly attempts,

and frankly, attempts by the Democrats,

that I think they oughta inmany cases be ashamed of,

to try, at the eleventh hour,

to destroy the reputation of an individual

based upon some, I wouldargue, pretty flimsy evidence.

- I'm hopeful that after this experience

people can see the benefit of returning

to more civil, dignified wayof consider the nominations.

If we wanna continueto recruit good people

to hold these very important positions,

it's important we notexpose their families

to death threats.

- [Reporter] DemocraticMinority Leader Chuck Schumer

blasted Republicans for labeling

the accusations as a "smear campaign,"

and again called for an FBI intervention.

- If you want the truth,

you ask for an FBIbackground investigation.

If you're afraid of the truth,

you avoid an FBI background investigation.

- President Donald Trumpis standing by his nominee,

saying the attorney representing the woman

is making quote "false accusations."

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina

also issued a statement saying

"I would remind everyonethat dozens of women

"who knew Judge Kavanaughduring that time period

"in question completely vouchfor his good character."

Brad Jacobs with RegentUniversity School of Law

joins us now to talk more about

where things stand with the hearing

and the upcoming vote.

So, your thoughts first onthese latest developments.

- Well, there's more accusations.

We have to always take seriously women

who say they've been harmed.

The problem is, each oneof these as they follow

seems to be less crediblethan the ones before.

There's no corroboration.

If anyone had proof that anyof these things happened,

or even that they were likely to happen,

it would be different.

But right now, there seemsto be a lot of smoke,

and not much fire.

- Republican senator Jeff Flake

spoke on the Senate floor earlier,

saying that the tone of theevents around the hearing

and the toxic political culture

has been encouraged by both parties.

Do you think this will changeour political cultures?

- Our political cultureis so toxic right now,

it would need huge changefor it to become less so.

What's going to happen isthis stuff will continue,

if Mr. Kavanaugh is actuallydenied the Supreme Court seat

on the basis ofunsubstantiated allegations,

this is going to get worse.

And anyone who's broughtforward by a Democrat

or Republican president is gonna have

a tough time getting confirmed.

- We've heard the talk ofdeath threats on both sides,

Senator Flake says thateven he has been threatened.

What can be done about this?

- I don't know, I wish I had an answer.

I wish somebody did.

We need a lot of God's grace.

We need a change in howpeople think about politics,

and government, and the goodof the people in this country.

Partisanship has just gone insane.

And I don't see a solution looming.

- Any thoughts on what should

happen now going forward?

- Well it seems to me the committee

is doing the right thing,

they've taken the first andapparently most credible accuser

and they're giving her a hearing,

they're not going to havea bunch of old white men

questioning her, they're bringing in

a woman to conduct the hearing,

and get evidence from herand from Judge Kavanaugh,

and they're going to try to see

if there's any substantiation,

if her story holds up,if there's any evidence.

I don't know what they can do other than

give these things an airingand then take a vote.

- As these things unfold,

have you seen anything like this before?

- Well sure, I meanthis is very reminiscent

of Clarence Thomas,

who was nominated for the Court

and was a great concern becausehe had talked about things

like natural law and believing in truth,

and they almost stoppedhim on those grounds,

and then we had AnitaHill at the last minute

come forth with allegationsnot too different from these,

and of course Clarence Thomas

was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

There have been other ugly hearings,

Robert Bork, people whohave, who've been trashed

in the confirmation hearings.

But this seems to betaking it to a new level.

- Yeah, Senator Flake expressed doubt

that there will actuallybe a vote on Friday.

What do you think?

- I'm not a prophet or a son of a prophet,

so we'll have to(Efrem Graham laughing)

wait and see what the committee does.

- [Efrem] As we approachthis, the hours ticking away,

what can we expect to happen

and unfold tomorrow, any ideas?

- Well, I think they're going to

challenge Dr. Ford,

carefully, to see if her story holds up,

I think they're going to question

Judge Kavanaugh intently,

I think at the bottom line there's going

to be no real evidence tosupport that anything happened,

and of course no real way for him

to prove that nothing happened.

So I think the committee at the end

is going to be left withunsubstantiated allegations

unless there's something out there

that we don't know about,

and I have a hunch that willlead to his confirmation.

- So you do think he will be confirmed?

- That's my best guess at this point,

unless something comes upthat hasn't hit the news yet.

- Alright Brad Jacobs RegentUniversity's Law School,

thank you so much for your time.

President Donald Trumpand Israeli Prime Minister

met for the first timesince the US Embassy

moved to Jerusalem.

They are both in New York

for the United Nations General Assembly.

Netanyahu thanked President Trump

for his support of Israel'sright to defend itself

in a dangerous part of the world.

- I think, and I say this objectively,

that the American-Israeli alliance

has never been stronger.

It's stronger than everbefore under your leadership.

And I look forward to working with you,

and your team to advanceour common interests.

Security, prosperity, and peace,

with Israel's neighbors,and for the region.

- [Reporter] Netanyahualso says he appreciated

President Trump's strong words and actions

when it comes to Iran,something President Trump

elaborated on while chairing and speaking

before the UN Security Council.

- After that the United States

will pursue additional sanctions,

tougher than ever before,

to counter the entire rangeIran's malign conduct.

Any individual or entitywho fails to comply

with these sanctions willface severe consequences.

I ask all members of the Security Council

to work with the United States

to ensure the Iranianregime changes its behavior

and never acquires a nuclear bomb.

- President Trump says allthe Iran nuclear deal did

was give Iran much-needed cash

for the nation to continuepromoting terrorism.

Russia reports successfultest of another new weapon,

as Vladimir Putin continuesto build up his military.

It released video of itsnew long-range missile,

which can travel up to 155 miles.

The video shows the missiles hitting

eight strikes on target ships.

The missile can be fired from land or air,

and it's build to destroyships up to 5,000 tons.

The missile can be fired from the surface,

or from Russia's planes.

More than 300 passengers inChina are taking a bold stand

for their faith in Jesus Christ.

They're all signed a statement called

A Declaration of the Christian Faith.

The statement comes afterthe government's regulation

on religious affairs wentinto effect earlier this year.

Now that has encouragedgovernment departments

in charge of religion toclamp down on Christianity,

and on other faiths.

The statement of faithmakes several points,

and it says, "We also willnot accept any 'ban' or 'fine'

"imposed on our churches due to our faith.

"For the sake of the Gospel,

"we are prepared to bear all losses,

"even the loss of ourfreedom and our lives."

Personal stories of the aftermath

of Hurricane Florence continue to unfold.

Like the story of Keith Smith.

Keith is disabled, he lives on his own,

and was completely overwhelmed

when flood waters ravaged his home.

So he did the only thing he knew to do:

he called Operation Blessing for help.

- This whole room wasfilled with memories,

and things that just piled up in life

that you don't know howyou wound up with 'em but,

there's so many things that it's,

you don't really know what you got.

- [Reporter] Just last Friday,

Keith Smith could only describe

his situation as "overwhelming,"

after Hurricane Florence lefthis New Bern, North Carolina

home under three feet of water.

His clean-up dilemma wasespecially complicated

because Keith is disabled,

after a car accident lefthim with limited mobility.

- Not being able to take astep in the right direction,

or fearing that it just won't be enough,

to make a dent in the problem.

That I knew I wouldjust, be wasting my time,

just one person that I'm tryin' to,

tryin' to fulfill the need.

I didn't know how I wasgonna get this accomplished.

(hammer thuds)

- [Reporter] But Keith's solution

was just a phone call away.

- I called OperationBlessing and asked for help

and the good Lord provided.

People that showed up herehave become lifelong friends.

They have given unselfishly,and that's so important to me.

- [Reporter] James Bockem wasone of the Operation Blessing

volunteers that spranginto action for Keith.

- It was a lot of stuff inhere, so I mean you know,

don't underestimate what you see now,

you just see the results of some

good hard cleaning right now.

- [Reporter] James and the OB volunteers

from Without LimitsChurch spent the weekend

gutting Keith's home, gettingit ready for refurbishing.

- Volunteering in a situationlike this is a good thing

for the spirit, the soul, and it's just

giving back to thecommunity that you live in.

- [Reporter] The teammade sure to take time out

to pray for Keith.

- We prayed, and we've had fellowship

all day long here together,

and laughed together, and just,

they've uplifted, they'velifted my spirits up.

- [Reporter] Keith is forever grateful

to the Operation Blessing team

that brought in a lot ofcalm in the midst of a storm.

- These right here are tears of joy,

because I'm so relieved.

My soul is in a better placetoday than it was yesterday.

And I am so grateful to the help

that you guys have given me.

I could never express enough gratitude.

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- [Reporter] Coming up,the unbelievable plight

of widows in China, and one organization

on a biblical mission to help them.

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- China's one-child policy

is making its 38thanniversary with it this week,

among other moral issues surrounding it

is the plight of widowsand baby girls in China.

Here with more on efforts to help them

is Reggie Littlejohn, withWomen's Rights Without Frontiers.

Reggie, thank you so much for joining us.

First of all, tell us howChina's one-child policy

results in tremendousvictimization of widows.

- Oh, well what happened, basically,

is that there was a populationexplosion under the Mao era,

and then after that theywent down to one child.

It was six children per woman,then went down to one child,

so they've got thisenormous elderly population

that is heading towards retirement,

without the youngpopulation to support it.

And widows are particularly vulnerable,

because they have spendtheir lives raising children,

whereas widowers have,

many of them have the ability to work.

They have no ability to work.

So, approximately 71% ofwidows in the countryside

are dependent on familymembers to support them,

but a lot of them don't havefamily members to support them

because of the one-child policy.

So they are destitute,and committing suicide.

China has the highest female suicide rate

of any country in the world,

and there is a tremendousspike in senior suicide,

because of the desperateeconomic circumstances,

and also abandonment by family members

that seniors in China are suffering

because of the one-child policy.

- Heartbreaking.

What is Women's Rights Without Frontiers

doing to help them?

- Well, we are absolutely unique,

we are the only organization in the world

that has a network on theground, inside of China,

that is saving baby girlsfrom sex-selective abortion,

and we have saved hundreds of baby girls,

and that same network hasfound these desperate widows.

What we do is we go to their door,

and we say "we're here to help you."

And so we give them a monthly stipend.

And, for some of them,it makes the difference

between eating and not eating.

So, for example, there'sone widow, Mrs. Lee,

who's husband died decades ago,

her family is not caring for her,

and some days she only had money,

she had no money, so she couldn'teat anything except salt.

She had bought herself arope to hang herself with

when life got too tough,

and we came to her doorand we're giving her

the Chinese equivalentof about $20 a month,

which makes the difference between

her eating and her not eating.

And these widows are incredibly grateful,

that even though their ownfamily has abandoned them,

that there are people fromthe other side of the world

that are willing to come to them

with desperately needed help.

- Tell us about the efforts of your group

to help save baby girls in China.

- Well, one of the things that is,

one of the unintended consequencesof the one-child policy,

is that because of son preference,

people were, and continue to,selectively abort baby girls.

Even under the two-child policy,

second daughters arestill very vulnerable,

because even if they have the first baby

that's a girl they'll let her live,

but then they're saving thatsecond child slot for a boy.

And girls continue to beselectively aborted and abandoned,

and our network will go to the door

of a woman that we findout is being pressured

by her husband and her in-laws to abort

or abandon her baby because she's a girl,

and we will say congratulationson your daughter,

girls are as good as boys,

and we will give you a monthly stipend

for a year to empower youto keep those daughters.

And that enables her togo to her mother-in-law

and her husband and say, "I can't abort,

"I can't abandon these babies,

"these baby girls, they're lucky girls!

"Look, they're already bringinginto the family money."

And so we are able to usethe culture around luck

to counteract the culturearound son preference,

and we've saved hundredsof baby girls in this way.

- China is facing a lot ofproblems due to this policy.

Do you see the government changing it?

- Oh it is changing it!

Okay, China's movedfrom a one-child policy

to a two-child policy,

although forced abortion still exists

under the two-child policy'cause it remains illegal

to have the baby if you're not pregnant,

or if you're not married, excuse me,

and it remains illegalto have a third child.

But they are desperate forpeople to start having babies,

and because they know they are facing

this demographic disaster,

because right now, 241 million people

are elderly in China.

That's 17.5% of the population.

By the year 2050, thatnumber is going to double,

to 500 million, almosthalf a billion people,

which is 35% percent oftheir entire population.

So they don't know whatthey're gonna do about this.

They don't have social security,

and I really fear for these seniors.

And that's why we have beenreaching out so strongly

to these elderly widows,to keep them from falling

through the cracks and killing themselves.

- Hm.

We applaud your work andwe are praying as well.

Thank you so much ReggieLittlejohn, we appreciate you.

- Thank you very much.

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- [Reporter] And still ahead,

navigating everything outthere about gender identity

and a biblical approachwhere Christians can help.

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- Transgender, genderidentity, gender dysphoria,

those are words we arehearing more these days

as the LGBTQ community pushesto promote its lifestyles.

Pastor Richard Ellis ofReunion Church in Dallas

is here with us now todiscuss several issues

in the headlines surroundinggender identities these days.

So Pastor, you say you haveseen many of your church members

struggling with gender identity,

is it a larger problemthan most Christians

may understand today?

- Yeah, thanks for having me today.

I think that it's waymore detailed and specific

than most people are willing to get into,

and I think you canthrow the Romans I verse

at anybody and say, youknow, Romans Chapter I,

that they're just kindagoing down the drain,

and homosexuality, but thisis way bigger than just that,

you have intersex people who,

and I have dealt with this personally,

you know a child is born with,

you know are they male, female,

you can't really tell by the body parts,

and parents literally havethis horrendous decision

of saying "okay, which way do we go?"

And they pick male or female,

and I've gone through this entire process

with a person who wasdesignated female at birth

but turned out that thatwas not the right choice,

pretty quick,

and had to have, you know,to not get too specific here,

but had to have maleorgan literally built.

And these are, these are Christian people,

ended up marrying, having,adopting children, so,

I would say, you know,

we rush to judgment sometimes,

clearly the bible speaksclearly about homosexuality

but even the people that cometo me from that lifestyle,

I try to speak the truth and love to them,

and find out where theyare and go from there.

- New York City has a bill out there now

that would allow people who don't identify

as male or female to check anX on their birth certificate.

Is this legitimizing whatreally is a mental disorder?

- Well, I, you know the scripture says

that God is not the author of confusion.

And there's a lot ofconfusion in the world.

And when you, when you takeall the boundaries off,

what kids are seeing on the internet,

and they go try to, youknow, do these things,

or think that's normaland no one's telling them

there's any absolutes,there's no right or wrong,

you know "I kissed a Girl and I liked it"

so some girl does that,

well she's certainly gonna feel something,

but does that mean that's who you are,

then you end up well, "I'mnot a male, I'm not a female,

"what am I, I'm gonna put an X,"

I think it's a fraction of the population,

if someone genuinely is in a situation

where if you looked at them biologically,

and their sex and gender being

two separate things for some people,

they really don't know what to check off,

and so you say well "that's crazy,"

it's only crazy until it's not your issue.

And I think as we engagethe world with the Gospel,

that Jesus Christ died on the cross

bearing grace from the dead,

we have to see where theyare, and move to that,

and then let the HolySpirit once he's inside them

change their heart, changetheir mind, change their life.

- In the United Kingdom,the government there

is investigating why there's been

more than 4000% increasein children seeking

to transition to the opposite sex.

What's the issue here for children

to make this type of decision?

Are they even mature enough to understand

all the consequences of the action?

- Yeah, I would say no.

This, children are developing,

their minds are still developing,

they're feeling things,they're angry, they're happy,

they're experimenting, andto make such a life-changing,

I mean physically changing your body

literally to say "I was born female,

"I'm gonna be a male now," or"male, I'm gonna be a female,"

and I have personally, youknow engaged with these people

who have made these decisions.

It's very intense andit is not for a child

to be making these decisions.

- Pastor, bottom line for us,

what does God say about gender identity

and what can we as hispeople promote that message?

- Well, I mean, you go back to Genesis

and it says he created a male and female,

but even Jesus referenced eunuchs,

someone you know can be born that way,

make a choice to be that way, you know,

it's in the scripture that people

can be born a certain way,'cause it's a fallen world,

but my ideal is if someonecomes to me and says,

for instance, "I'm gay, I'm a homosexual,"

I say, you know they say"I was born that way,"

I say "okay, I'll yield onthat, you were born that way.

"What I'd like to talk toyou about is a second birth."

Where Jesus takes residencein that human being

from the inside out,begins to transform them,

and give them the power,

if it's a dysfunction ofsome kind, to deal with that,

if it's a sin to overcome that,

but I think we're way tooquick to throw people,

they are people, under the bus

instead of speaking truth and love

and trying to help them getfrom point A to point B,

or point A to point J,which would be Jesus,

and see their life changefrom the inside out.

- Pastor Richard Ellis, thankyou so much for your time.

- You bet.

- Stay with us, we'll be right back.

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- President Trump wasn't the only one

taking center stage atthe United Nations today.

First Lady Melania Trump spokeat the US Mission to the UN.

She said USAID's motto is"'From the American people.'

"I am so proud of thework this administration

"is doing through USAID and others."

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