- [Narrator] This is CBN News Watch.
- And thank you so muchfor joining us for this
first half hour of CBN News Watch.
I'm Efrem Graham.
Voters head to the pollstoday in one of the most
intensely fought midterm elections.
Our Mark Martin joins usnow with more on this story
he'll be following forus throughout the day.
Mark?- Yeah, Efrem,
today of course, is the midterm elections.
And the voters will head to the polls
and determine if Republican's or Democrats
retain or take control ofCongress in our nation's
capital, and state Housesaround the country.
More than 105 millionAmerican's are expected
to cast their ballots.
Around 36 million have already done that,
taking part in early voting.
So what's on the ballot?
On the national level,all 435 seats in the House
are being voted on, as wellas 35 seats in the Senate.
Democrats need to win 23 seatsto take control of the House
and they need two seatsto do that in the Senate.
Major issues in thiselection cycle include
immigration and healthcare.
President Donald Trumpwill spend election day
at the White House, heheld 44 rallies leading
up to the midterm electionsin support of the GOP.
Former President BarackObama also held rallies
stumping for Democrats.
- Democrats are invitingcaravan after caravan,
isn't that nice, of illegal aliens.
- Unlike some people, Idon't just make stuff up
when I'm talking, I'vegot facts to back me up.
- ABC News reported that the midterms are
being called an election about everything.
The author of the popularbook the Trump Prophecies
says they're the mostimportant midterm elections
in American history.
And also at stake,voters in 36 states will
choose a governor, and to give you an idea
of how important American's are viewing
this election, we mentionedat least 36 million American's
have already voted, casting their ballots
in early voting, in thelast midterms at this point,
that number was 20 million, Efrem.
- Well how does themidterm turnouts compare
to the turn out forPresidential elections?
- Well turnouts in themidterms are traditionally
quite a bit lower than thepresidential elections.
For example, in themidterms, its around 40%
of eligible voters,whereas in presidential
it can hit as high as 60%.
But one estimate had thisyears midterm elections
at 45% of eligible voterscasting their ballots.
And that's a figure thathasn't been seen in nearly
half a century.
- Well, a big thing indeed.- Yes it is.
- More than ever important.
On this election day,vice President Mike Pence
tells CBN News he believes Republican's
will expand their majority in the Senate
and keep the House, CBN'sDavid Brody traveled
with him on Air Forcetwo for the final push
to get out the vote,here's David's report.
- As long as you can see,you can see the enthusiasm.
- You can feel it, you can feel it.
With his wife Karen by hisside, we spent the final
hours of these midtermson Air Force two with
an optimistic vice President from Montana.
(crowd cheering)
To South Dakota.
- Hello South Dakota.
(crowd cheers)
- The crowds were enthusiastic.
As was the VP, the bluewave, we were just on
Air Force one the otherday, the President says
the blue wave is dead, what's the answer
on the blue wave we're hearing about?
- Well we think the bluewaves gonna hit a red wall.
All across this country.
I think we're gonna expand ourmajority in the United States
Senate, I really believewe're gonna hold the House
of Representatives.
- [David] First stop,Montana where the goal
is to defeat a Senate Democrat living in
big sky Trump country.
- How much is John Testerin trouble here in Montana?
- We think Matt Rosendaleis in a great position
to win this race, JohnTester has been voting
with the liberal agenda inthe United States Senate
every step of the way.
Voted more than 90% of thetime with President Obama's
agenda, that's not Montana.
- [David] Pence's finalpitch to voters is pretty
simple and to the point.
- Think about 4.5million new jobs created,
unemployment at a 50 yearlow, we're rebuilding
our military, Constitutionalconservatives being
appointed to our courts,and that's exactly
what the President and Itold the American people
that we would do and theDemocrat's by contrast
it's been an agenda of obstruction.
- But Democrat's are fired up and turned
off by this administration's policies.
Immigration is closeto the top of the list.
What do you make of someof the rhetoric coming
what they say is from thisadministration on immigration?
- We have crisis of illegal immigration
at our southern border.
Like this caravan that'smoving north is deeply
concerning to peopleall across this country.
I hear about it everyday,it's the reason why
the President's made itclear that the caravan
will not be allowed toenter our country illegally.
And we're taking decisivesteps to administratively
close the loopholes thathuman traffickers use
to exploit vulnerablefamilies and entice them
to take the long anddangerous journey north.
- [David] Motivating the faithful base,
is Pence's main chore.
- So if you're takingnotes, I need you to vote.
- [David] If Republican'sdo well Tuesday night,
Pence is pretty clear that the nonstop
effort from President Trumpwill be a main reason.
- Even though he's not on the ballot,
he's campaigned as though we were.
And I think that's thereason why we've seen
such energy around the country.
To be honest with youDavid, I've traveled around
the country, I haven't seenthis level of enthusiasm
since the days justbefore the 2016 campaign.
- Whatever happens Tuesday night,
Mike Pence sees a largerhand at work in the country.
There seems to be havebeen a cultural slide
obviously for decades in this country.
Along comes Donald Trump,God using imperfect
people to accomplish his perfect will.
What do you make of what'shappened in this country
since he's becomePresident and how you see
this divinely providentially playing out?
- Well I believe as everyPresident from George
Washington and forward, I believed
in the world of providence.
And the life of this nation.
I really do believe thatthe prayers of the American
people have made adifference and even in these
divided times, I reallydo believe those prayers
are a pathway to heal our country,
and continue to move our nation forward.
- [David] The nation willsoon find out what direction
that means for the next two years.
David Brody CBN News, on Air Force two
with the vice President.
- Most pundants considerthis year's midterm elections
one of the most important in decades,
and that will have aprofound impact on the US.
And Chris Mitchell isreporting from Jerusalem now,
Israeli's are alsoconsidering how the midterms
will effect the Jewish state.
- For the past two years,many Israeli's agree
with President Trump's policies,
he moved the US embassybehind me to Jerusalem.
He pulled out of the Irani Nuclear deal,
and he drew closer to Israel's neighbors
like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan.
Head out to Jerusalem's open air market,
Mahane Yehuda, and youcan find that reflected
among Israeli's talkingabout the midterms.
- I'm sure Israeli's as a whole probably
if a poll were to bedone, Israeli's as a whole
would probably be more in favor of the GOP
doing well in these elections.
- I think the Democratsare terrible for Israel.
- [Reporter] Why?- Why?
They've taken a very hardleft turn and their policies
are not pro-Israel.
- You can safely say,and I've been polling
since this the elections,the Presidential elections,
Israeli's love Trump.
And that's only gainedin, he's only gained
in popularity here.
And there are a number ofreasons, both his personality,
he's very blunt and theway that he has defended
Israel in the UnitedNations, and really shaken up
the United Nations with ambassador Haley
and with the policies.
That's music to Israeli ears.
- [Chris] Pollster MitchellBarak says Israeli's
favor certain candidates.
- They seem to want candidatesthat are more pro-Israel.
That tends to beRepublicans, that tends to be
the candidates from theEvangelical community,
from the South.
- The question is, willCongress, beginning January
2019 will Congress providetail wind or headwind
for the President'snational security policy.
- [Chris] AmbassadorYoram Ettinger served as
Israel's liaison under the US Congress.
And knows the importanceof these elections for
the House, Senate and Israel.
- We should never underestimate
the power of the legislature.
The legislature canprovide very very intense
headwind to American President's,
which would transform anAmerican President into
a very weak personalityin global politics.
I trust that reflectingthe majority of the
American population thatcoming Congress beginning
January 2019, will be assupportive of enhanced
US Israel relations.
- [Chris] Whatever theoutcome of the elections,
the results will have aneffect the borders of the US
to Israel, the Middle East, and beyond.
Chris Mitchell, CBN News, Jerusalem.
- And you can watchelection coverage on our CBN
News Channel this evening.
To find the channel in your area,
simply go to CBN News website.
Our election coverage will also air live
on the Freeform channelat 11:00 PM eastern time.
Here now, is a look atsome of the other major
stories we're followingfor you today inside
the CBN News room.
Severe weather acrossthe country could keep
people from the pollstoday, rain, wind and strong
thunderstorms are expected tosweep across the east coast.
The Weather Channel reportsthe north central US
will see heavy snowfalland wet rain as well
as a snow mix.
Recent studies found thatRepublican candidates
tend to have a slightadvantage when it rains.
The US Supreme Court announced Monday
it will make a decision onthe potential destruction
of a world war one veteran's memorial
shaped in the form of a cross.
In 2015, a lower courtruled the memorial was
not constitutional, declaringthe shape of the memorial
violating the first amendment.
The American HumanistAssociation wants the cross
to be destroyed or changed,the Supreme Court will
hear the repeal on whetherto reverse that decision.
Armed Separatists havekidnapped at least 79
students and theirprincipal at a presbyterian
school in Cameroon.
The kidnapping tookplace late Sunday by men
who call themselves Omba boys.
That's a reference tothe state of Ambizonia
that armed separatistsare trying to establish.
The men say they willonly release the children
when they achieve what they want.
And after the children struggle.
You can find these andother stories on our
website at CBN News throughout the day.
Coming up the leaders of Iran make plans
to ignore newly issued USsanctions, we're gonna break
down what it means forthe country, stay with us.
(light music)
And welcome back to CBNNews Watch, this week
the Trump administrationraised economic sanctions
against Iran, the new sanctions are aimed
at isolating the countries banking sector
and slashing it's oil exports.
Our George Thomas reports.
- [George] More than 24hours after the United States
slapped Iran with someof the toughest sanctions
ever to hit the Islamic regime,residents of the capital
city already facing economic dire straits
are bracing for even more pain.
- The sanctions have greatlyaffected our lives 100%.
- [George] Everything fromfood, transportation, housing,
and medical costs have risen dramatically.
- High prices negativelyimpact every individual
and every family.
- [George] Mina Sholehwho is visiting Tehran
fears this second round of sanctions will
lead to more unemploymentand hyper inflation.
- Prices for shoes and clotheshave gone up very high,
and a lot of people are not able
to buy these things anymore.
- [George] Some hope theeconomic pain will bring
Iranian's to the streets toprotest the Islamic regime.
And call for it's endas they did last year
and in 2009.
The White House says the aimof the economic penalties
is simple.- Our objective
is to starve the Iranianregime of the revenue it uses
to fund violent and tostabilize the activities
throughout the Middle Eastand indeed around the world.
- [George] In all, the USgovernment has sanctioned
more than 900 Iran relatedtargets in the last two years.
Secretary Pompeo says the Islamicregime has a clear choice.
- They can either doa 180 degree turn from
it's out log course of actionand act like a normal country,
or it can see its economy crumble.
- [George] Thousandsof Iranian's responded
to the new sanctions bychanting death to America,
death to Israel, and burningUS and Israeli flags.
They even squeezed in militarydrills in the northern
part of the country indefiance as a government vowed
to circumvent US sanctionsand keep selling it's oil.
Iran's supreme leaderspeaking on the eve of
the anniversary of theNovember 4, 1979 takeover
of the US embassy inTehran, used the occasion
to accuse Washington of waging military,
economic and propaganda wars.
Aayatollah Ali Khamenei told the crowd
that America's influence was in decline.
- America's power and imagery in the world
is declining and movingtoward destruction.
It's straining year by year.
- [George] But it isAmerica that is putting the
squeeze on the regime at the moment,
and the White House says that pressure
will be relentless, until Iran changes
it's revolutionary course.
George Thomas CBN News.
- Still ahead, Eric Metaxas introduces us
to the cast of charactersin his new children's book.
Donald Drains the Swamp.
(light music)
The work of best sellingauthor Eric Metaxas
include both funny andserious angles for children
as well as adults.
Now his latest book about President Trump
embodies all of those qualities actually,
our Jennifer Wishon met upwith him in New York City.
- [Jennifer] We caughtup with Eric Metaxas
while he was hosting his radio show.
- [Eric] It's kinda scary tome the power that Facebook has.
- With his new bookDonald Drains the Swamp.
Proudly displayed beside his microphone.
It's a tail about a charactercalled Donald the Caveman,
based on a true story.
So Eric.- Yes?
- Dedric Bodhoffer, MartinLuther, Donald the Caveman.
- [Eric] Yes.- It's quite a progression.
- Thank you, it's not a progression,
it's either a regressionor nothing at all.
I, people, it's kind of a funny thing.
I'm very eclectic, I havealways been that way.
- [Jennifer] He's notkidding, the conservative
Christian has writtencritically acclaimed biographies
more than 30 childrenbooks, even scripts for the
popular cartoon Veggie Tales.
And his latest book is amashup of political humor,
serious lessons aboutliberty, and the good things
Metaxas sees happening inAmerica under this President.
- This Presidency, there'ssomething about it,
he has a folk hero quality.
It's like an American folkhero, who is this guy?
- Do you see this as a children's book?
Or do you see it as a, it'sgood for everybody to read?
- When I wrote this bookoriginally, I was really thinking
of a humor book for adults.
A humor book about Donald the Caveman,
he drains the swamp, andthere's a lot of political
humor in here that'sspecifically for adults.
Kids aren't gonna get it.
But if you do it justright, you do it in a way
that doesn't excludekids, you do it in a way
that's sweet and innocent.
This book is not nasty, it's not mean,
it's meant to be lighthearted and fun.
- Well speaking of some theadult humor in the book,
there's a George Osauraus.
- The George Osauras, that's just a joke.
We had no idea that there's a Hungarian
billionaire, Satan worshipernamed George Sorros.
So make of it what you will.
There's also a bluebird that flits through
the book and as you know,birds like to Tweet,
so make of it what you will.
Why is it following Donald around?
Well, you know, you can figure that out.
- And I mean, to be fair,there's also a turtle in here
who looks a lot like theSenate majority leader.
- Well you know, to be really fair,
and this is not a knock on turtles,
but all turtles somehow, end up looking
like the Senate majority leader.
It's not their fault, it's not his fault.
It's just a quirk of nature.
- [Jennifer] So why did he portray the
President as a caveman?
- Sometimes we think he'sa little bit of caveman,
this President, but he's our caveman,
he's working for us, that's the key.
He's working for us.
- Well I think the powerof the Trump Presidency
is in its simplicity.
The fact that he's drivenso much by his gut,
his boldness, thatthing is portrayed here.
- But that's exactly right,that's part of the issue
of the caveman.
The caveman is not selfconscious, he just does
what he has to do, he clubsthe animal, he eats it.
There's something funny about that,
that this President isso motivated by his gut,
his instincts that it is almost funny.
You don't think of him being,
he's the antithesis of Obama.
Obama was paralyzed byoverthinking things,
it was kind of a Hamlet like paralysis.
He was unable to doanything and he thought
is he even in the White House?
Is daddy home?
What is going on?
Do we have a President?
This President, you sortof feel just the opposite.
- Metaxas is on a missionto make American's think.
Along with his best selling books,
here in New York City,he hosts a lecture series
called Socrates in the City,where he and his guests
tackle big issues likeGod, science, and culture.
He understands why some voters,particularly Christian's
may have to hold theirnoses when it comes to
some of Trump's tactics.
- Oh listen, you have tounderstand, voting for Trump
is not necessarily a vote for Trump.
It's a vote for the peoplehe's going to effect.
God holds us accountable,he doesn't say well
if you don't like this,or you don't like the way
he combs his hair, don't vote for him.
If you don't vote for the person you think
is gonna do the best job,they may not be perfect but
the other person's gonnaget in, and I think that
Christian's sometimes wefeel like well I'm gonna
be really holy and I'm notgonna get my hands dirty.
I think God calls usto get our hands dirty,
we're living in such dividedteams, we need to laugh
we need to be able tocelebrate the good things
that are happening sothat's why I wrote the book.
- And this isn't Donald the Caveman's only
adventure, look forDonald Builds the Wall,
even Donald Goes to Space coming soon.
He hopes this latest bookwinds up under lots of
Christmas trees thisyear, so more American's
better understand the importanceof draining the swamp.
Jennifer Wishon CBN News, New York City.
- And Donald Drains the Swamp is available
right now, wherever books are sold.
Stay with us, we'll beright back with much more
CBN News Watch straight ahead.
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Guess what?
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There's a psalm that says itall, better days are coming,
and they indeed are.
Remember that God causesall things to work together
for your good so long that you love him.
And you are calledaccording to his purpose.
With that word, Istrongly encourage you to
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- [Narrator] This is CBN News Watch.
- And thank you so much for joining us for
this second half hour of CBNNews Watch, I'm Efrem Graham.
More than 105 millionAmerican's are expected
to cast ballots today and some 36 million
have already done so in early voting.
All 435 seats in theHouse are on the ballot,
and 35 seats in the Senate.
Democrat's need to win23 seats to take control
of the House, they justneed two seats in the Senate
to do that.
Major issues in thiselection include immigration
and healthcare.
And President Trump willspend this election day
at the White House, following44 rallies in support
of the GOP during this election cycle.
Former President BarackObama also held rallies
stumping for Democrat's.
- Democrat's are invitingcaravan after caravan,
isn't that nice, of illegal aliens.
- Unlike some people, Idon't just make stuff up when
I'm talking, I've got facts to back me up.
- ABC News reports themidterms are an election
about everything, CBN New's'Chief Political Correspondent
David Brody hit thefinal leg of the campaign
trail with Vice PresidentMike Pence Monday.
We're gonna have anexclusive report on today's
700 Club from him.
Evangelical's were a keyvoting block in the 2016
Presidential race andcandidates are seeking
their vote in this election as well.
Ed Stetzer is the Executive Director of
the Billy Graham Centerat Wheaton College.
He spoke with our Heather Sells with more
insight on where Evangelical's stand
heading into this election.
- Ed, we have seen thePresident stoke fears
over immigration thisweekend, in an effort,
to apparently get out the vote.
He's even tweeted a videothat blames Democrat's
for the crimes of immigrants,how do you think those
who adhere to Evangelical beliefs are
responding to all thisinflammatory rhetoric
around immigration?
- Well I think for a lotof people, it's actually
probably work, we actuallysee that immigration
among those of Evangelical'swho voted for President
Trump in the recent research we did,
is actually that they're atnumber two most important issue.
Economy being number one, andof Evangelical's in general,
we look at several pollsthat have recently come out.
They would be the mosthard line on immigration,
and again people get ina debate about numbers
and how this all worksbut certainly immigration
as a concern resignateswith the Evangelical voters.
- That's really interesting,it almost seems that fear
is more motivating thansay a positive message?
- Well I think if that were not the case
our airways would not befilled with negative ads
every single day.
Of course I live in the Chicago land area
and it's quite remarkablethe level of fear
and negativity that the ads communicate.
And I do think, the realityis, people have to decide
how they're going to respond to that fear.
And I think there's avery good case to be made
that you could have a debateabout numbers of immigration
and you know how manypeople should come through
and how to best secure theborder, that's not the debate
we're having right now.
We're using words like invasionwhich really don't make
sense and the currentsituation we're using
words that are certainlyintended to incite fear,
I think what we'll find,what we're already finding is
that's turning off a particularlyRepublican white women
in the suburbs, particularlysuburbs of major cities.
Typically whiteRepublican's, so my guess is
we'll see a whole lot ofcongressman lose their seats
in those kinds of districtswhere it is probably
securing the vote inplaces like Senator races
in Tennessee and Montanaand other places like that.
So certainly its not anuncalculated reality,
I mean, this hoard, assome might call, a caravan
of poor on our people, others might call,
is not gonna arrive hereuntil long after the election.
And I'm not the first personto predict that you probably
won't hear much more aboutthis after next week,
after the elections over.
- The survey that youdid of the 2016 voters
also paints a picture ofmany Evangelical's voting
for Trump two years agobecause they cared about
more long term conservativegoals as opposed
to being enthusiastic for himpersonally as a candidate.
And this week the President told CBN News
that nobody's done more for Christian's
or Evangelical's than I have.
Do you think Evangelical'ssee him as really
advancing their cause?
- I think so, yeah, I think that phrase,
they see him as advancing their cause yes.
For many they're uneasythat he's the person
who's advancing their cause.
This is a thrice marriedadulterer who uses
language that Evangelical'sare shocked and stunned by
who, I could list 50 other things,
no reason to go through all that,
we've already had those discussions.
But I do think that it makes many uneasy.
What we found is thoughEvangelical's did overwhelmingly
support, white evangelical's,overwhelmingly supported
President Trump than candidate Trump.
Part of it was is theyfelt that this was the best
choice they had, people oftenforget now we're two years in,
there was another candidate and
her name was Hillary Clinton.
And even Slate Magazinewrote an article talking
about how badly she soughtto, or didn't seek to
engage Evangelical's, how poorlyshe engaged Evangelical's.
So what we found in theresearch is there are some
people who are all in forPresident Trump of Evangelical's
are in, there's a wholelot that are like this is
was the choice that Ihad to make, and I wish
he wouldn't Tweet, and I wishhe wouldn't say these things.
So you know, peoplevote for complex reasons
and there's not an Evangelical voter.
There's a whole lot ofpeople down to a whole
lot of different choices,and so we saw that in
the data and we'll probablysee that in the exit
polls that come out during themidterm elections next week
as well because if you live in Chicagoland
President Trump's not on theballot, but every commercial
I've seen he's on the ballot, I'm guessing
that's true around the whole country.
- Right it really is interesting
how he is the face right now.
Well Ed Stetzer, thanksso much for your time,
and we look forward todelving into this more
after the election.
- And the battle forcontrol of the Senate,
one of the hottest racesis now in West Virginia,
where Democratic JoeManchin faces a serious
challenge from the State'sRepublican attorney general.
As Jennifer Wishon reports,if the incumbent was
any other Democrat thanManchin, the Republican
would likely win.
- Over the past 20 years,the Mountainere state
has done a politicalsummer salt flipping from
deep blue to reliably red.
It's entire congregationaldelegation is Republican
except for it's seniorsenator, Democrat Joe Manchin
who's facing a challengefrom state attorney general
Patrick Morrisey.
He's West Virginia'sfirst Republican AG in
nearly 80 years, as a Senate candidate,
he's taking full advantage ofenthusiasm for President Trump
who won the state withnearly 70% of the vote.
- [Narrator] Pro life, progun, pro coal, pro Trump.
- I'm Patrick Morrisey, andI'm your conservative fighter.
- [Jennifer] And in this new red state,
he's painting hisopponent as out of touch.
- Liberal Joe's gotta go.
Amen brothers.
- [Jennifer] Manchin isplaying a Trump card too,
reminding voters thathe chooses West Virginia
over party, like his welltimed vote to confirm
Justice Kavanaugh.
- I'm Joe Manchin andI approve this message.
Because for me, all roadslead to West Virginia.
- [Jennifer] And he's not letting the loss
of the NRA's endorsementto Morrisey stop him
from showing off his gun rights bonifides.
- Now the threat isPatrick Morrisey's lawsuit
to take away healthcare from people
with preexisting conditions.
(gun shot)
He is just dead wrong.
- [Jennifer] Pro-lifegroups are taking aim
at Manchin for hislukewarm support for life.
The Senate race coincideswith the constitutional
amendment that clarifies West Virginia
neither secures nor protectsthe right to abortion.
Here at the Romney Diner,voters are quick to share
who they're supporting.
- I'm ready for Morrisey.
- [Jennifer] For GarySaville, it's simple.
He's happy with PresidentTrump and wants to send him
a solid soldier.
- That's what I want to see,somebody else support him.
- Quite frankly, Joe's the guy that
needs to be in Washington.
- [Jennifer] Nicholsonappreciates Manchin's
willingness to cross the aisleand vote with Republican's.
- Go with your heart,not with your opponent.
You've gotta go on yourown, you've go to believe
and do research to make a decision.
And yes, more people needto go across the aisle,
there's no doubt about it.
- [Jennifer] BillMcDonald supported Manchin
in the past, but he's voting for Morrisey.
Look no farther than PresidentObama's energy policies
he says to understand whyso many West Virginian's
have switched parties.
- We're proud and we will not allow people
to close our coal mines.
And to instigate us with opioids, okay.
And take away our livelihoodand then they want to continue
doing that, and theydon't ever want to stop.
They won't give up cause of clean energy.
- [Jennifer] Morrisey tookObama's clean energy plan
to the Supreme Court and won.
Donna Hoqq voted early andfor her, the answer was easy.
- Manchin.- [Jennifer] But she says
the real solution to theproblem's here and the nation
don't require an election.
- We need to get back to God.
They took God out ofschools, kids went haywire.
And it's we need that spiritual base,
spiritual base is only thingthat can fight the evilness.
- If Manchin wins, he'll remaina sought after swing vote.
If Morrisey pulls off avictory, it will be huge
for West Virginia Republican'sand President Trump.
Reporting from the windymountains of West Virginia,
Jennifer Wishon, CBN News.
- We're following closeraces in the Senate,
the House as well asgovernors mansions across
the country and voterturnout will be the key
to which party takes control.
So CBN News hit thestreets to hear directly
from voters about what'sdriving them to polls,
take a look.
- [Reporter] Did you votethe last midterm cycle?
- Yes I did.- Yes, I vote every election.
- I don't really knowwhere to go to vote, so.
- [Reporter] Is there one particular issue
driving you to the polls this year?
- I think it's lookingat jobs in particular,
but how we are finding alternative ways
to find to drive employment,not just manufacturing
or industrial, but allthe service industries,
the technology sector, I think
that's a really important focus.
- No particular issue.
I am big on my educationand prison reform.
Things like that.
- No.- I honestly
haven't been paying tothe current administration
so I have no idea.
- [Reporter] Do youpray for the elections?
- Do I pray for the elections?
I might have to at this point.
- I don't pray myself, but Isupport all of those who do.
I think it's really importantbelief system that you have
or if you don't have a belief system.
- No.
- I pray for our country every night, yes.
- Severe weather acrossthe country could keep some
people away from the polls today.
High wind and strongthunderstorms are sweeping
across the east coastand the Weather Channel
reports the north centralwill see heavy snowfall
and a wet rain snow mix,recent studies have found
Republican candidates tendto have a slight advantage
when it does rain.
CBN News will have continuingcoverage of the election
from 8:00 PM until 12:00 AM eastern time.
Be sure to tune in and join us for that.
Still to come here on CBN News,
we're gonna sit down with Tucker Carlson
to talk about the meltdown in America.
That is straight aheadafter this short break,
stay with us.
And welcome back to CBN News Watch,
one of President Trump's latest tag lines
is jobs not mobs, thepoint he's trying to make,
some on the left are turning Democrat's
into the party of mob rule.
Fox News' Tucker Carlsonagrees with the President.
He sat down with CBN's Jenna Browder.
- Many of you know TuckerCarlson from Fox News.
And now he's out with anew book, Ship of Fools,
How A Selfish Ruling Classis Bringing America to
the Brink of Revolution,I sat down with him
to talk about it, then also another topic
that's on a lot ofpeople's minds right now.
Left wing violence and protests.
Meltdown in America, fromPortland and San Francisco
to the Supreme Court, manyon the left are making
their voices heard,sometimes in extreme ways.
- [Woman] Are you gonnalet our democracy die?
- So the Democratic partyobviously isn't in control
of it's crazy people on the street.
Those people are committingacts of violence.
They don't want to admit that
because they know it scares normal people.
I mean, normal peoplewho might vote Democrat
are watching televisionand there's an angry group
of rich kids screaming atsomebody or smashing car windows.
They're not into that,normal people are not into
that at all, evenDemocrats aren't into that.
So the Democratic party hasto pretend its not happening
and so immediately themedia start telling you
there are no mobs.
- When you see people likeTed Cruz getting chased
out of restaurants by a mob.
- Oh, you're not gonnause the mob word here.
- It's totally a mob.
- [Jenna] Carlson says themedia's problem is more
than just a liberal leaning bias.
- They're not liberal,they're water carriers
for the Democratic party.
If you want to know theway the media will present
the news, look at whatthe Democratic parties
political agenda objective is for the day.
What are the parties talking points?
And then go watch CNN, they're identical.
- [Jenna] But what about thosewho say there's also violence
on the right?- Well, that's not true.
I mean, are there crazypeople on the right,
yeah, of course, obviouslythere are extremists
on all sides for sure, butwhat there isn't on the right
right now, and maybe it willchange, but I'm trying to
be as honest as I can be,there aren't groups of
conservatives screamingat Democratic lawmakers
in restaurants or onairplanes or in airports.
And they're not actuallysmashing Starbucks
windows and blocking traffic.
I mean that's intifa, as a matter of fact,
being as honest as wecan, right now in 2018,
violent demonstrations onthe street are overwhelmingly
of the left, this is the youthwing of the Democratic party.
So maybe that again,maybe that will change.
But right now, why arewe lying about this?
These are progressives doingthis, not conservatives.
- The political temperaturein America right now
is no doubt hot, and comeNovember, the controversy
over the mob could be afactor to motivate voters.
In Washington, Jenna Browder CBN News.
- Still ahead somepainful news for retirees,
give up 50% of your pension,or risk losing it all.
We're taking a look at aplan to save your pension.
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Cities across Americaface an economic time bomb
for decades, they've beenpromised hefty retirement
packages, but in manycases, lawmakers haven't
put enough money in those funds.
Now with baby boomers beginning to retire
in big numbers, it is timefor the governments to
pay up, here's Caitlyn Burke.
- [Caitlyn] Central Falls isRhode Island's smallest city.
But it's made some big headlines.
In 2011, it became one of the first cities
in the US to file formunicipal bankruptcy.
After years of economicmismanagement, the city of 19000
was broke, when somethinglike this happens,
cities face major cuts,and sacrifices to get
back on track.
In the case of Central Falls, the state
brogue in retired stateSupreme Court Justice
Bob Flanders to helpright the cities finances.
And the sacrifice came from those
expecting retirement payouts.
- Bankruptcy is typicallycalled a community of pain.
Where all the creditorsshare in the hardship
and the pain caused bythe bankrupt entities
inability to pay it's bills.
So here because the stateprotected the bond holders,
the entire restructuring had to be born
by both the retirees andthe active employees.
- It was in this auditorium back in 2011
that judge Bob Flanderstold a room full of pension
earners that they had two options.
Risk loosing the entirepension promised to them
in retirement, or sacrifice 50% of it.
- I had to deliver that very difficult and
painful message to people who had retired
relying on this and so it was a
horrible thing to have to do.
- [Caitlyn] A pension isa promise, city employees
like police, and firefighterswork for a set number
of years at relatively low pay in exchange
for higher guaranteedbenefits once they retire.
- In the case of policeand fire in Central Falls
they were being allowedto retire after 20 years
and so the average age ofthe retirees was in their
late 40's, 48 I believe.
And so they're typicallystill have many working
years left so they'reable to obtain a pension
and then go out and getanother job someplace else
and supplement their incomefor the rest of their
working lives.- [Caitlyn] Decades went
by in Central Fallswith each administration
talking about betterpensions and benefits.
Meanwhile, no money wascoming in to pay for those
promises, the pension debtremains almost invisible.
That is until it's time for
the city to pay retiring workers.
- This is the poorestcity in Rhode Island.
And it hadn't seen anysignificant tax increases
for years despite everricher pension benefits.
So that ended up in avery bad situation where
they couldn't pay their bills any longer.
- [Caitlyn] Both active dutyand retired Central Falls
workers took an immediate hit.
- Didn't if you were gonna get a paycheck
every two weeks, so that first started.
And on the same time, you're responding to
dangerous calls, and soyou're trying to separate
your personal andprofessional opinion about
what's going on, but youstill have to do your job.
- [Caitlyn] While thoseon active duty had time
to work out a plan B, retiredpolice and fire fighters
found themselves in a lurch.
- It dramatically affectedthem, two of the members
that I know they hadto go into foreclosure
with their houses.
And that's at 70 years old,or 80's where you're counting
on this and you workfor this, these officers
who did about 25 to 30 years on the job,
it was hard to see, andwe couldn't do anything
for them ourselves evenfrom the perspective
of the union because we were
all trying to fight for something.
- [Caitlyn] CBN Newsreached out to several
affected retirees, thereresponse, after years
of fighting to get whatthey'd been promised,
they feel worn down, defeated,and sick of talking about it.
Plus, they're tired of seeing their loss
used as a cautionary tale for other cities
that probably won't pay any heed.
- Putting your head inthe sand about this like
an ostrich isn't going tolet the problem go away
or get any less severe.
It's one that continues to grow with
each passing year so, whilethe overwhelming temptation
is to kick this can downthe road for as long
and as hard as you can, so youdon't have to deal with it,
and you leave it for somebodyelse in the hope that
you won't be there wheneverything explodes.
That's obviously not a verygood way of solving problems.
- [Caitlyn] In CentralFalls, Flanders recognized
pension benefits as thebiggest part of the problem.
As painful as it was,he faced them, diffusing
the time bomb.
- My judgements, it'sa very effective remedy
to deal with issues thatfor whatever reason,
politically have been unpalatable.
And unacceptable to the elected officials,
sort of bringing somebodylike me from the outside
that can have the power to restructure,
not worrying about gettingreelected or pleasing
groups that helped himget elected or funded
his or her campaign, thatis enormously helpful
in order to get the job done.
- [Caitlyn] Other cities couldtake note of Central Falls
because their retiringworkers will also expect
to collect a pension.
According to one reporthowever, more than half of the
states aren't preparedto pay for the promises
made to public employees.
Still, someone must pay theprice for this extremely
broken system when the bill comes due.
The question is who.
Caitlyn Burke, CBN News,Central Falls, Rhode Island.
- Heartbreaking, yet anotherreason why election day
is so important to electleaders who are prepared
to handle the problem.
Stay with us, we'll be right back.
CBN International heldit's very first SuperBook
pray day in Thailand last weekend.
More than 350 childrenand Sunday school teachers
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Time now for your Tuesday tweetable,
it's a message I hope willinspire you and move you
to post, tag, tweet, andshare it with others.
Live with a heart expecting great things
from God, he's yourfather, and he's promised
to do just that.
His word says that he will do exceedingly
abundantly and above allyou could ever ask or think
so imagine great andwatch God do even greater.
With that word, Iencourage you to make this
a terrific Tuesday.
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