This week: Trump at UN. Why he needs to act now, or risk losing a deal with Kim Jong Un; Populism & mid-term election. Without Trump on ballot will the revolution fizzle out? Kavanaugh & #Metoo. Guilty until proven innocent? How to heal if abused.
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- Today from the Global Lane.
At the UN, a different tonefrom Trump on North Korea.
We'll tell yo why he needs to act now
or risk losing a deal with Kim Jong-un.
Populism and the mid-term election.
Without Trump on the ballot,
will the revolution fizzle out?
Cosby sentenced.
Kavanaugh accused.
The growing influence of hashtag Me Too.
Are men now guilty until proven innocent.
And some thoughts on how toheal if you've been abused.
And it's all right here, rightnow from the Global Lane.
As expected, President DonaldTrump mentioned North Korea
during his speech before the
United Nations General Assembly.
His tone this year wasquite a bit different
than one year ago.
Last year, the Presidentcalled Kim Jong-un
rocket man and NorthKorea a depraved nation,
one the United Statescould totally destroy.
Well, this time just three months after
his historic meeting withKim Jong-un in Singapore,
he said this aboutprogress with North Korea.
- The missiles and rocketsare no longer flying
in every direction.
Nuclear testing has stopped.
Some military facilities arealready being dismantled.
Our hostages have been released
and as promised, theremains of our fallen heroes
are being returned home
to lay at rest in American soil.
I would like to thankjourneyman Kim for his courage
and for the steps he has taken.
Though much work remains to be done.
The sanctions will stay in place
until denuclearization occurs.
- Joining us with reactionto the President's speech
and some insights on USpolicy on North Korean
is Harry Kazianis.
He's Director of Defense Studies
for the National Interest.
So Harry, tell us what did you think
of the President'sremarks about North Korea.
Any surprises?
- I think it's a bigcontrast from last year.
If you recall that thePresident was talking
about, you know, potentiallydestroying North Korea
if North Korea attacked US allies
or United States homeland.
You know, he talked about a lot of issues
the really got to the core of
the North Korean nuclear crisis.
And I think that the President now,
he's come a long way.
He's had a summit with Kim Jong-un.
He's convinced the NorthKoreans not to test
anymore nuclear weapons and anymore ICBMs
and that is progress.
- Why isn't Kim Jon-un more forthcoming
about giving specificsof his nuclear program?
Is it simply a lack of trust?
What is it Harry?
- Yeah, both sides don't trust each other
and I'm not surprised by that.
We have to remember, the United States
and North Korea have no relationship.
Even if you go back to thedarkest days of the Cold War,
say the 1980s, at least the Soviets
and the United States, eventhough the relationship
wasn't great, there was a relationship.
So I know a lot of people of looking
for their to be instantprogress when it comes
to North Korea, you knowfor maybe Kim Jong-un
to just give up all his nuclear weapons.
I think history shows that countries
that have nuclear weaponsor very powerful arsenals
just don't trade themin at a whim's notice.
- Is President Trump overly optimistic
about Kim's sincerity,maybe even a bit naive
about the possibility thatKim may be playing him?
- Well, the President likes to take a
very personal approach whenit comes to world leaders.
I mean despite the tradewar we have with China,
even President Trump isstill very complimentary
to Xi Jinping, which is sort of weird
but that is the Trump sort of doctorate.
I think we're closer toa deal with North Korea
than we probably ever hadbeen, but this is where
it's going to get tough.
This is where both sidesare going to have to make
some hard compromises.
I don't see Kim Jong-un just giving up
all his nuclear weaponsand then, you know,
the end of that process then getting
economic concessions or sanctions lifted.
I think what the NorthKoreans are looking for
is essentially they give upsomething, they get something.
And if you look at history,
I think that's a formula that can work.
So I think where this ends up happening
is there is going tobe a Trump Kim summit.
I do see President Trump trying
to offer a peace declaration in exchange
for Kim Jong-un making a big down payment
on denuclearization and there's also one
other big factor herethat we have to consider
that's extremely important.
The maximum pressurecampaign on North Korea
is going to start to fadein the next few months.
With the United States and China locked
into a trade war, wehave to remember China
is the one that actuallyenforces maximum pressure.
90% of North Korea'sexperts go through China
and China is not going toback maximum pressure anymore.
In fact, they're gonna useit as a bargaining chip
in this whole process.
So if President Trump isgoing to strike a deal
on North Korea, this is when he's going
to get the best terms.
Anytime after that, it'sgoing to get a lot harder.
- So more on China,specifically how is Trump's
trade dispute with China affecting
the Korean negotiations?
- Oh, it's a huge impact on this
because like I said themaximum pressure campaign,
China's not gonna enforce it.
If you speak to any Chinese scholar,
anybody who's close to the government,
they will tell you that Beijing is looking
for ways to strike backat the United States
and the easiest way todo that is to basically
let North Korea have a free hand to weaken
all the restrictions on the border,
to just forget about the whole
maximum pressure campaign and one thing
I point to you that's extremely important
is that there's a lot of talk about
the United States Navy or other countries
going out and stoppingyou know all these ship
to ship oil transfers.
Well guess what, almost all of the oil
that goes into North Koreacomes from one pipeline.
It comes from China and that's 90%
of North Korea's oil.
All that China has todo is open up the taps
and maximum pressure is toast.
- The President's already preparing
for a second meeting with Kim Jong-un,
so what does he need to accomplish
in the second meeting?
- I think there will besome sort of partial lifting
if the North Koreans make a big step.
I think the President isprobably on a little bit
different page than some of his advisors
like Mike Pompeo or NickyHailey or John Bolten.
I think the President has alittle bit softer approach
and I always go back to when North Korean
officials this spring came to New York
and then came to the White House.
As soon as that meeting was over,
Donald Trump actually droppedthe whole idea of CVID,
or the complete verifiableirreversible denuclearization
of North Korea.
He softened his approach a little bit
to get that summit with Kim.
I think he's gonna dothat again, but what he's
going to be looking isconcessions from Kim.
This President is willing to go a long way
to make peace with NorthKorea, but he does not
want to get played.
So if there's going to bea summit, he needs to be
reassured by Kim thatKim is willing to come
to the table.
One way to do that ismaybe to have this summit
on Seoul with MoonJae-in, the president of
South Korea there essentially acting
as a good will arbitratorbetween both sides
and who knows, with allthree countries present,
maybe you could make some history,
end the Korean war and do itright before the mid-terms.
This way President Trump cansay to the American people,
not only do I keep mypromises, but I'm the president
that ended the Korean war.
That's legacy and that's history.
- Okay, Harry Kazianis of the
Center for the National Interest.
Thank you for joining us.
- Cool, thanks so much,thanks for having me.
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- Populist revolution,is that what Americans
voted for when they electedDonal Trump two years ago
or something else?
He's definitely rejectedglobalism in favor
of American nationalism.
Many people say hispolicies have helped provide
for more jobs for American workers.
So, is this President apopulist or a pragmatist?
Will the populous wave of the2016 presidential election
carry into the upcoming midterm election.
- Well joining us is Steve Hilton.
He's host of the Fox Newsprogram the Next Revolution
and author of the newlyreleased book Positive Populism.
Steve, thanks for joining us.
First, in your book youtalked about the elite
of both political parties,
how they were shocked when Trump won,
so what didn't they getabout the populous wave
that swept Donald Trumpinto the White House?
- I think the main thing that was missed
was the fact that for many decades now
irrespective of who haswon actual elections,
you've had the same policyagenda driven forward
which was basicallyenthusiastic about globalization
automation in the economy,centralization of government
and uncontrolled immigrationand all those things
benefited the people at the top.
They did really well out of it,
so their lives were greatand that's why I think
they missed it.
What they didn't see wasthat working Americans
were losing out and thepeople who actually do
the hard work and hope tobenefit, they were missing out
and that had been goingon for a long time.
And they missed that and therefore
they didn't understand just how angry
people had gotten about the fact
that whether they votedRepublican or Democrat,
nothing ever seemed to change.
The rich got richer, and theirlives seemed to get worse.
- Well, I think some people would say
Trump is an elitist himself.
After all, he is a billionaire.
So how is he different Stevefrom other powerful people.
- I think there's reallyimportant difference.
I'm so glad you askedthat question because
it goes to the heart of this.
There's a difference betweenthe elite and elitism.
Elitism is in my viewan ideology of the kind
of policies I was explaining,the globalism and so on.
It's a policy agenda, elitism,that benefits the elite.
You can be in the elite, a member of it
and reject elitism.
I frankly would put myselfin that same position, too.
I have a show on FoxNews, I think that puts
me firmly in the elite.
But I care about thispositive populist agenda,
which I think President Trump just was
at the beginning of this movement
and what I'm trying to do with my book
is say okay, how do wenow take that revolution,
that populist revolutionthat was expressed
in the 2016 election and turn it into
real lasting change, areal movement for change
with positive ideas for howto rebuild economic security
and family and community in America.
Those are the things that I think
are at the heart of this ispeople's economic security,
family and community andI think that that's what
positive populism for me is all about.
- And it isn't just here,it's in Great Britain.
Donald Trump supported and I'm sure he
would even say predicted the positive vote
for Britain to leave theEuropean union Brexit.
Now there's a push by some Brits to
vote on Brexit again.
Is the populous movementthere fizzling out?
- Well, it's reallyinteresting what's going on
and it really mirrorswhat's happening here, too
in the sense that thepeople who have had power
for so long, the people,the elitists if you like
who are in positions of power,not just the politicians,
but the permanent bureaucracy,
what we've now startedto call the deep state,
big corporations who arevery closely connected,
they hated the fact thatthey lost power in 2016,
both in the presidential election here,
but also in terms of theBrexit, where you had
all of the alliance ofthe elitists against
Brexit, but it went through anyway.
Now they're trying to get the power back.
In the UK, they're tryingto undermine Brexit
and overturn that resultand we see here in America,
they're going exactly the same thing.
You see it with all thereporting of the way
that the people around Donald Trump
and throughout thebureaucracy try to undermine
and sabotage his agenda.
That anonymous opt-edin the New York Times
and just now with Rod Rosenstein recently.
One after another, almostdaily, you're seeing evidence
of the elitists tryingto undermine that result.
Now the difference is that here you've got
someone at the top, DonaldTrump who really believes
in it and is trying to push it through
whereas in the UK, PrimeMinister Theresa May
remember was against Brexit.
She's now leading agovernment that's trying
to make it happen, but sheactually campaigned against it,
so the reason it may besomewhat fizzling out
is you don't have thatstrong populous movement
pushing it forward.
- Well, so then what doyou think is gonna happen
in the UK, then here,back across the pond,
this populous wave thatswept Trump into office?
Are we going to see the push continue
in the upcoming mid-termor is it fizzling out
both in the UK and here.
- No, I don't think it's fizzling out here
because the people whovoted for Donald Trump
also remember the populismis not just a phenomenon
on the right.
You see it also on theleft with Bernie Sanders,
support for him in the 2016 campaign.
And so I think working Americans generally
want really big change.
Now the reason I've written this book,
Positive Populism is tocontribute to the growth
of a movement that lastsbeyond one election cycle,
even beyond one presidential campaign
and one presidency and soyou get people who understand
what it means to have a policyagenda that is pro-worker,
pro-family and pro-communityand people are elected
all throughout our systemto push those ideas forward.
That's exactly what I'm hoping to happen,
that this populist revolution,that this spot that happened,
happened, then actuallyturns into a lasting movement
for the long term.
- Steve Hilton, we love your show.
And on Fox News you're a host and author
of the book Positive Populism.
We thank you for joining us.
- It's a pleasure, thank you.
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- The hashtag Me Too movement has sent
its first celebrity to jail.
Police took actor comedianBill Cosby into custody
after he was sentenced to3 to 10 years in prison
for sexually assaulting awoman at his home in 2004.
Judge Steven O'Neil classified Cosby
as a sexual violent predator.
That means he's be ona sex offender registry
after he's released from prison someday,
but what about other menaccused of sexual misconduct
by women who have joinedthe hashtag Me Too movement.
Yes, many men probably are guilty,
but others may be innocent.
Are we entering an era where someone
is considered guilty without due process?
Well, joining us to providesome perspective on that
and what may be happeningto American culture
is Katie Yoder.
Ms. Yoder is associateculture editor for the
Media Research Center's Newsbusters.
So Katie, is this now a trend,
guilty until proven innocent?
What is happening?
- Well it sure seems likea trend with the media.
You look at for example,the View, Joy Behar
said that Kavanaugh isprobably guilty already
and CNN and MSNBC haveeven made comparisons
between Cosby and Kavanaugh.
He was found guiltybeyond reasonable doubt.
He had 60 accusers.
That's very differentfrom Kavanaugh right now
where the details arestill being figured out.
These are accusations.
So it's certainly a trend in the media,
we actually published a study today
how the three broadcastnetworks ABC, NBC and CBS
during their morningand evening news shows,
they spent nearly sixhours on the allegations
against Kavanaugh and only 8% of that
was spent on his denial.
So, you know it's a huge discrepancy there
and we need to remember weneed to hear both sides.
Of course women shouldbe considered and heard
and taken seriously,but so should the people
who are accused and MeToo, the movement was
jump started by the media.
At the beginning it verymuch brought together
people on both sides ofthe political spectrum.
It was something that had the potential
to ignite women, but Ithink what we're seeing here
is that it's become political and women
are divided over Me Too now.
It's hard to know exactlywhy this is happening.
I think Me Too is definitely being used
as a part of this, it's being used as
a political weapon in a way.
We see the media using it as that.
So I think it's importantto recognize that
and I think, you know, MeToo has emboldened women
rightfully to come forward,but the way the media
are using it now to assumethat someone's guilty,
they need to be careful about that
and cautious about that.
It should be innocent until proven guilty,
not guilty until proven guilty.
Even if, and they mightnot be proven guilty,
you don't know.
So, the media need tobe cautious about this.
This is a problem.
- [Gary] What about some othersother than Brett Kavanaugh?
- Well, you know, Iwould say Kavanaugh seems
to be the main one right now.
We won't want to discreditpeople who haven't
been accused yet.
I will say, though,that I've noticed a huge
trend here with Me Too andother women's movements,
for example the Women's March.
That has the potentialto bring women together
on both sides.
Women with variousbackgrounds, different beliefs
wanted to come together and march together
and then pro-life women were uninvited
as groups to the Women's March.
So I would say in that example,
that's another exampleof how this movement
could have been usedto bring women together
and instead it's become more political
and it's dividing women.
- Well, I know evenwith Catholic church now
and some of the revelations of priest
that abused boys, so it isn't just women,
but I want to point out, you're not saying
that women who come forward should not
be taken seriously, right?
- Oh, no.
Women who come forward with accusations,
they should absolutelybe heard and considered.
We want to make that case, absolutely.
We just shouldn't come tothe conclusion automatically
because of an accusationthat someone is guilty.
And that's what the media are doing here
in the case of Kavanaugh.
Both sides should beheard and in this case
the media are very heavilyonly telling one side.
- And unfortunately, I think Katie,
we're in a society where sex sells,
at least on televisionand throughout the media,
so what needs to be done?
How do we protect abused women but
also innocent men.
- Well, I think in regards to the media,
the media need to be consciousof telling both sides
and if Americans see only one sided media,
then they need to go toother sources for their news
and maybe that's social media,
seeing what people areseeing on social media.
Try to get the full story.
We need to demandaccountability from the media
in this case as well toget the full story out.
So don't just look at one news source,
look at multiple news sources for this.
- Well, we appreciate thatyou're there monitoring it
and I guess maybe a little more fairness,
a little moverevenhandedness by the media.
As you said with Kavanaugh,it's been way out
of whack there, has it not?
- Yes.
- Okay, Katie Yoder of Newsbusters,
thanks for being with us.
- Thank you for having me.
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But it was three littlegirls that taught me
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My husband and I spent nearly a month
immersed in the daily activities
of the Ukrainian orphanage as we waited
to adopt three sisters.
I saw first hand the utter loneliness,
the pain of rejection and the overwhelming
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That experience changed me forever.
And out of it grew aministry from my heart
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Today we're helping orphansand vulnerable children
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- With all the uproarbetween the left and right
over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination,
I felt I had to share some thoughts about
the hashtag Me Too movement.
Yes, it's gotten to thepoint where accusers now
are automatically believethose accused are guilty.
And that's not the American way.
In this county we believe in due process.
That a person is innocentuntil proven guilty.
Despite that trendhashtag Me Too has created
some positives for society.
It has emboldened women to overcome their
trauma and pain by speaking out.
For far too long, manyhave suffered in silence,
many still to.
Hashtag Me Too claimed it'sfirst success in Hollywood
with the conviction and jailing
of actor comedian Bill Cosby.
Of course many other prominent celebrities
and politicians accused of misconduct
have not stood trial, but some have
resigned from officelike Senator Al Franken
and Congressman John Conyers.
Judge Roy Moore lost an election because
of sexual misconductallegations against him.
And Hollywood mogulHarvey Weinstein is facing
criminal charges and civil lawsuits
from numerous women oncharges of sexual assault,
rape and even sex trafficking.
And now because of 36-year-old allegations
against Judge Brett Kavanaugh,
a new movement is here, it's called
hashtag Why I Didn't Report.
It's women explainingwhy they kept their abuse
private or secret for years.
Christian evangelist Beth Moore
recently explained in a tweet
he lived in my house.
Another person tweeted.
Because I was a child andthreatened into silence.
Like hashtag Me Too,hashtag Why I Didn't Report
is a movement thatencourages women to break
the chains if silence and fear,
a first step in overcoming the past
and embracing a new hope for the future.
But folks we have tobe careful not to rush
to judgment against the accused.
We know for whatever reason some people
make false accusationsand without witnesses
coming forward with credibleevidence or testimony,
a lot of past abuse isdifficult to prove or disprove.
And the truth may never come to light.
So if you're a woman ora man who's experienced
any type of abuse, Iencourage you to tell someone.
Disclosure is the first step in healing.
Then pray for God's justice to prevail.
And learn to forgive others.
Those are big steps inovercoming the wrong
that has been done against you.
The Bible also reminds us inZechariah chapter 7, verse 9
to administer true justice, show mercy
and compassion to one another
Later in verse 10, do not plot evil
against each other.
So if you've been abused, don't respond
to evil with evil, havecourage to share your story
with someone, speak thetruth, but don't forget
to show mercy and compassionas you pursue Godly justice.
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