- [Announcer] Borderwall battle, the latest
on the lawsuits against the President's
national emergency declaration.
Campaign 2020 is in full swing.
A look at people jumping into the race
and some of the biggest issues
they're expected to face.
And a shocking report on sexual abuse
inside the church.
All this and more tonight on Faith Nation.
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- The battle over the border wall
is heading to court.
Welcome to Faith Nation, I'm John Jessup.
- And I'm Jenna Browder.
Well 16 states are suing President Trump
over his national emergency declaration.
The declaration helps the President
fund his wall with Mexico.
- And some lawmakersare hoping the lawsuits
will put the brakes onthe commander-in-chief's
plan to free up fundingfor his border wall.
With more on this story, let's go to
White House correspondent, Ben Kennedy,
who's at the North Lawn.
Ben.
- Well John and Jenna,that lawsuit was filed
in US District Courtfor Northern California.
Joining the Golden State was Colorado,
Illinois, New York, New Jersey,
and a handful of other states.
Now they argue the President lacks power
under Constitution to allocate funds
for constructing a wall along the border
because Congress retainsthe spending power.
In the complaint, the states call
President Trump's nationalemergency made up.
Lawmakers agree to 1.4billion in border barriers
to avoid another partialgovernment shutdown.
But President Trumpsaid that's not enough.
The emergency declaration allowed Trump
to tap into funding from other government
agencies to the tune of $8 billion.
He said the barrier will stop the influx
of illegal drugs, gangs,and human traffickers
from crossing into the country.
Today, he doubled down on his remarks
from the Rose Garden last week,
that he predicted thiscase would, in fact,
go to court.
- Well I think I called it exactly, right?
Including the fact thatthey would put them
into the 9th Circuit,
that's where they put them in,
and I think we'll do very well.
We have absolute right to do that.
I have an absolute right
to call national security.
We need strong borders.
We have to stop drugs,and crime, and criminals,
and human trafficking, and we have to stop
all of those things thata strong wall will stop.
- And it is at the beginningof that legal battle
and for a bit of insightinto what's ahead,
I spoke to John Malcolm
with the Heritage Foundation.
Well John, more than adozen states have filed
a lawsuit challenging President Trump's
emergency declaration.
Kind of walk me through how will
this play out in court?
- Sure.
Well actually, therehave been three lawsuits
filed too, here to theDistrict of Columbia
and then California isleading, I think, a group
of 16 states, have filedin Northern California.
So they are challenging the President's
declaration of a national emergency.
We'll have to read these lawsuits,
but they're saying, essentially,
that he didn't have the authority
under the National Emergencies Act.
- Aside from theselawsuits, Congress is also
likely to vote to stopthe emergency declaration.
Is there enough supportto override a veto?
- No, I don't think so.
So I think that hewill, there clearly will
be a majority in theHouse that will support
a joint resolution.
There might be a majority in the Senate,
I think that's probably doubtful, too.
But there might be amajority in the Senate
to pass a joint resolution to nullify
the President's declaration.
The President would vetothis, in all likelihood,
and I don't see the votes there,
two-thirds in the House and Senate
to override that veto.
- So John, bottom line, there are a lot
of factors at play, no doubt.
But how long could this get dragged out?
Is it possible the wall,or what he's calling
a barrier now, won't even begin building
before the 2020 election?
- Well it's possible.
I mean, if one of thesejudges were to enter
a nationwide injunction,preventing the President
from acting, it may be awhile before
that injunction got lifted,
if it ever got lifted.
Again, most of this money did not require
a declaration of a national emergency,
so I'm not quite sure how
a court would deal with that.
But while courts arereluctant to second guess
presidents, with respectto national emergency
or national securityissues, a lot of lower
courts did not show any such reluctance
during the travel ban litigation.
And I suspect there may be some judges
that will be similarly not reluctant
to try and enjoin the President now.
- John, in your professional opinion,
how do you see this playing out?
Do you see the President coming
out on top of this?
- Yes, at the end of the day, I predict
that he likely will, in a court of law.
But I'm not a bettingman and I wouldn't place
any bets on this.
- Said he thinks they will do very well
in the 9th Circuit, calling it an open
and closed case.
John.
- Ben Kennedy at the White House.
Well Bernie Sanders is heading back
to the campaign trail.
The Independent senator from Vermont
making it official today,
he's running for president again.
Sanders lost the Democratic nomination
to Hillary Clinton in 2016,
but says his progressive policy ideas
have gained momentum and gone mainstream.
The senator facedcriticism last time around
for pivoting away fromquestions about racial
issues to hit on the economy instead.
Today's announcement madeclear he is not shying
away from race in his second run.
- Our campaign is aboutredoubling our efforts
to end racism, sexism, homophobia,
religious bigotry,
and all forms of discrimination.
We are running against a president who is
a pathological liar, a fraud, a racist,
a sexist, a xenophobe, and someone who
is undermining Americandemocracy as he leads us
in an authoritarian direction.
Women and men, black, white, Latino,
Native American, Asian American,
gay and straight, young and old,
native-born, and immigrant.
Now is the time for us to stand together.
- Well the race for theDemocratic nomination
is set to be the most diverse in history.
Democratic candidatesare already making bold
declarations about inequality
along racial and ethnic lines.
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker became
the second black senatorto enter the race.
His announcement comingafter California Senator
Kamala Harris launched her campaign
on Martin Luther King Day.
One poll found black voters were 29%
more likely to support black candidates
who made positive racial appeals
as opposed to those who made
no racial appeals at all.
- Well joining us now for more
is Justin Giboney, Founder and President
of The And Campaignand the 2016 Democratic
National Convention delegate.
Justin, thanks for being with us.
- Thanks for having me.
- Well first question, given that the 2020
field of candidates isalready the most diverse
in history, how much ofa factor do you think
race will play in this campaign?
- Oh, it'll play a factor.
I think it'll be played up quite a bit
and just through thehistory of the country,
race has always somewhat been a factor,
so it's gonna be spread out a little bit
because there's not just one candidate
that's an African American
or that's another minority,
but it'll definitely be an issue.
- So when you say it'll definitely
be an issue, how do youthink it'll play out?
- Well I think peopleare asking questions.
They want to know is there something
in the agenda that will speak
to the race problem, that will speak
to disparities and education,
and things of that nature.
So people are gonna beasking those questions.
I think the candidates will be forced
to kind of put out therewhat their thoughts are
and what they plan to do about it.
- Justin, do you think candidates are wise
to kind of play up the race factor
or should they sort of push it to the side
and make other issues more important?
- Yeah, I don't know ifit's wise, necessarily,
to play it up but it should be addressed.
And so I think the policy should say,
"Look, I understand withinthe historical context
"what race has meant in America,
"that there are stilldisparities that need
"to be dealt with."
And so a wise candidate will have policy
that addresses that in one way or another.
- What about the difference, you know,
between Kamala Harris and Cory Booker?
Both African Americans but they're talking
about race prettydifferently, at least, so far.
- Yeah, it seems like Booker's been
a little more strong in how he's addressed
it some ways, a littlemore policy-oriented.
But I think it's so early.
We're gonna get a chance to see exactly
what the differencesbetween those two are.
They're two very smart candidates.
We're gonna see howthey're gonna distinguish
themselves in the coming months,
and so I don't want tojump out there too early.
But yeah, they're certainly started off
a little differently in how they've
spoken about it.
- Justin, final question for you.
What if the nominee ends up being a male
or a non-minority?
Would it be seen as a loss
or a missed opportunityfor the Democratic ticket
given that this WhiteHouse field of hopefuls
is so different from whatwe've seen in the past?
- Yeah, well race matters.
I think at the end of the day,
we have to have the best candidate.
And there are, thankGod, there are qualified
candidates from a lot of different races,
from both sexes, but we have to get
the best candidatebecause there are people
out there suffering.
We need answers and we need the person
who's most qualifiedto be in that position.
So I don't see it as a loss as long as
the best candidate gets in there.
- All right, I knowwe're jumping way ahead
and I know I just said final question,
but given this diversefield of candidates,
is there anyone who you're kind of keeping
an eye out on right now?
- My eyes are on everyone.
I'm looking at everyone's policies,
I'm looking how theyrespond to the questions.
Do they seem to be sincere?
How do they feel about faith issues,
things of that nature?
So my eyes are on everyone.
We haven't cut it down.
It's too soon for all of that, I mean,
everyone's not even in the picture yet.
We don't even know whoall the candidates are,
so we're keeping an eye out on everybody.
- All right.- Fair answer.
- Yeah, fair answer.
Justin Giboney with The And Campaign,
thank you so much, good to see you.
- Thanks for having me.
- Well in other news, President Trump
is calling out Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro.
At a Florida rally Monday night,
the President said the US stands
with interim President, Juan Guaido,
who was appointed by thecountry's legislature.
It contends Maduro stole
the most recent election.
Trump called on Venezuela's military
to back Guaido, and issued a warning
to those who continue to support Maduro.
- If you choose this path, you will find
no safe harbor, no easyexit, and no way out.
You will lose everything.
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- And the weeks-longstandoff has only worsened
an already terrible humanitarian
crisis in Venezuela.
Maduro has used the military to block
international aid fromentering the country.
- Well Maduro not only refuses to budge,
he's also blockinginternational relief aid
from entering the country.
Florida senator, Marco Rubio,
flew to neighboring Columbia this week
to put pressure on theVenezuelan strongman.
- CBN Correspondent,Chuck Holton, was there
and has this next story.
- [Chuck] As the tragedythat is Venezuela,
reaches new levels of misery,
nobody's quite sure who's in charge
of the country.
50 nations now recognize Juan Guaido
as the interim president.
But one person,
in particular, strongly disagrees.
That's Nicolas Maduro, the man who's been
running the country since 2013.
But with more than threemillion Venezuelans
having fled theirhomeland, and many of those
left inside literally starving,
here in the border townof Cucuta, Colombia,
tensions along the border are coming
to a head.
American military aircrafthave been arriving
here over the past week, delivering tons
of humanitarian aid intended to ease
the suffering of these Venezuelans.
But troops loyal to Nicolas Maduro,
have so far, blocked the shipments
from entering their country.
Maduro has called theshipments unnecessary
and a political stunt.
But these Venezuelans beg to differ.
(crowd yelling)
- We need help right now.
You know, our people, they're starving,
you know, dying, just waiting for water.
They can't waste any more time.
We need help right away.
Please help, American people.
We need you, we need you!
You know, we begged your help!
- [Chuck] Over the weekend,
a congressional delegationfrom the US arrived
at the border to see the situation,
accompanied by the Colombian ambassador
to the United States,Francisco Santos Calderon.
- Even though the dictator is saying
that this is provocation, the only answer
that we have for him is that this is
an act of love, this isan act of Christianity,
this is an act to show the moral compass
of those who cannot stand by seeing
the suffering of millions
and millions of Venezuelans.
They come across thisbridge dying of hunger,
dying because of lack of medicine.
- [Chuck] Senator Marco Rubio from Florida
was also in attendance.
- Thank you, Marco Rubio!
- What is happening here today,
what is happening in Venezuela,
is a man-made crisis of epic proportions.
Not caused by a natural disaster
but by a man-made one.
A criminal regime thatis willing to starve
and kill its own peoplebefore it gives up power.
- [Chuck] But many of those attending
Sunday worship services across this city,
are clinging to hopefor change in Venezuela,
and praying for peace in the process.
In Cucuta, Colombia, I'm Chuck Holton,
for CBN news.
- Coming up, from pastor to prison.
A shocking story ofabuse within the church
and how to protect against it.
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Catholic leaders from around the world
will meet in Rome this week as the fallout
continues over decadesof sex abuse scandals.
- But as Amber Strong reports,
they could run into a new storm brewing
inside the church.
- The cloud hangingover the Catholic church
is getting darker.
As a new report reveals,the church produced
secret documents to deal with children
born to priests.
In a statement, a Vatican spokesperson
told the New York Times, "I can confirm
"these guidelines exist.
"It is an internal document."
The sons and daughtersreferred to as children
of the ordained, have been usually kept
out of the public eye.
- When you are hidden,
you are characterized by secrecy.
- What does secrecy do to a child?
- It eats away at their sense of worth.
- [Amber] As one of those hidden children,
Vincent Doyle is now shedding light
and helping those like himself.
His website, Coping International,
provides resources to some 50,000 users.
This latest element is just a part
of the sexual abusescandal the church hopes
to address with this upcoming meeting.
The Protection of Minorsin the Church Conference
will bring together the Pope, bishops from
around the world, and survivors.
- I'm hopeful that thechurch will come out
with direct actions that are going
to keep children safer today
and help survivors to heal.
- Both abuse and this coverup
can no longer be tolerated.
- [Amber] The meeting comes on the heels
of the pontiff's decision to defrock
former Washington DC Archbishop,
Theodore McCarrick.
McCarrick is accused of abusing minors
and seminary students for years.
- The fact that thistakes place on the eve
of the historic summit,is a depressing sign
that it takes bad publicity and a tsunami
of criticism before this pope finally
does the right thing.
- In an attempt to pull back the curtain
of secrecy, the churchplans to stream parts
of that conference onthe web so the public
can judge for itself.
Amber Strong, CBN News, in Washington.
- Well the nation's largest evangelical
denomination is taking steps to address
widespread sexual abuse in its churches
throughout the United States.
During an urgent meetingof the Southern Baptist
Convention leaders Monday, SBC President,
JD Greear announced the possibility
of creating a sexual abuse database
of accused pastors.
This comes after twoTexas newspapers jointly
published a bombshell investigation
that found over the course of two decades,
more than 700 victims suffered
from sexual misconduct or crimes
at the hands of some 400 SBC leaders.
- Well Pastor Jimmy Hinton never suspected
that something evil wasgoing on in his church.
Then he met with a youngwoman who delivered
explosive news that would rock not only
his church, but his own family.
- Heather Sells brings us that story
from Somerset, Pennsylvania.
- [Heather] Clara and John Hinton married
in 1970 at the small Christian college
where they met, and two years later,
they moved east to starttheir dream ministry.
- We were kids when we moved to Somerset,
Pennsylvania, we were 22 years old.
I had prayed from a young child up,
for a Christian husband.
That's all I ever wantedwas a Christian husband
and I wanted to be aChristian wife and mother.
- [Heather] John became pastor
of the Church of Christ, and they went on
to have a large family, 11 children.
- He was very relaxed, and very calm,
very kind, he was great with the kids,
he was their go-to person.
He was my spiritual leader.
We would spend manyhours talking about God,
and our faith.
- [Heather] She and manyothers considered John
to be a super dad.
Their fifth son, Jimmy,
adored his dad and as he grew older,
began to appreciate his ministry.
- I remember sitting in the pews here
and hearing him preach, and hearing
the passion behind it, and he just knew
his Bible really well.
And I just remember thinking,
"I want to be standing up there one day.
"I want to be making a difference
"in the world one day."
- [Heather] Both dreams would come true
but not in the way Jimmy had hoped.
Even as Clara and Jimmy perceived
an ideal family, John Hinton kept
a double life hidden thatneither ever suspected.
Although Clara didstruggle to understand some
of his behavior.
- He would just do off-the-wall things.
For instance, he would be preaching
and do really weird, weird things.
He threw a lit firecrackerin the auditorium
one morning, and like,
"Why do you do this stuff?"
- [Heather] Another time,one of their daughters
found him locked in his office
looking at pornography.
He later said he was doing sermon prep.
But one of his victims was growing up
and at age 20, realizednot only had Hinton
abused her, he was likely abusing others.
That victim was Hinton'syoungest daughter.
- I saw this picture of my dad touching me
in an inappropriate way, but it was one
of those things that I would like try
to play it off like,"Oh, he wouldn't actually
"do that to me.
"Maybe it was an accident.
"Maybe I'm not rememberingsomething correctly,"
or yeah, I just kepttrying to brush it off.
- [Heather] But when heasked her to help him
babysit, she could no longer brush it off.
- One of the kids had said that she loved
spending the night at his house.
And she had asked him that day,
"Are we spending the nightat your house tonight
"Mr. John, and can we sleep in your bed?"
- [Heather] Alex began to research
and discovered her dad matched the profile
of an abuser and she matched the profile
of a victim.
But should she tell?
After weeks of indecision,she went to her mom.
- At that moment, it was like a million
light bulbs went offbecause so many little
fragments of things that happened,
all along the years.
- [Heather] It became clear that they must
tell Jimmy, son, brother,and current pastor
of the church.
Alex made an appointment to meet him.
- It just takes the breath away from you.
And I looked up, and she was crying,
and I started to cry.
I said, "I believe you."
And I think she needed to hear that.
And the way I describeit is I really think
that was the Holy Spiritputting those words
on my lips in thatmoment, because I really
think she had to hear that.
- [Heather] That very weekend, Jimmy had
to officiate a church wedding
with his father present.
He found it excruciating to keep
this news secret, but the next decision,
whether to report his dad to authorities,
came much easier.
- You had so much to lose by reporting it,
I mean--
- Yes, I had everything to lose.
- So why was that a snap decision for you?
- Because I had to know,I had to know the truth.
And reporting it andhaving it investigated
by professionals, wasthe only way that we were
gonna find out the truth.
- [Heather] Police charged Hinton
with 200 counts, including rape of a child
and indecent assault of a child.
His sentence, a minimumof 30 years behind bars.
His family never expects to see him again,
but seven years later, is still working
through what happened.
Jimmy remembers thecommunity's early misplaced
sympathy for his dad.
- When he got arrested, they would ask me,
"How's your dad doing?
"How's your dad doing?"
And at first, I would answer it
and I would be polite.
But then after awhile, I just thought,
"Not one person has asked
"how my dad's victims are doing."
And so I started to answer people.
I'd say, "Well he's doing fine.
"It's his victims who aren't doing well."
- [Heather] Alex has traveled a road
that is not uncommon for abuse victims
of spiritual leaders.
She stopped attendingchurch and has no desire
to go back to her faith.
- I don't like the idea of God
as a fatherly being, clearly.
If that's who He is,He wasn't there for me.
If my dad was supposedto be someone who was
spreading His word, that'snot the case at all.
- As Jimmy Hinton has said,
"The devil got inside our family
"and none of us saw it."
But today, Hinton, hismother, and his sister
are seeing much more clearly,
and they want other families in churches
to know that sometimes,someone close to you
is an abuser.
Today, the Church ofChrist has new measures
to protect kids.
Each classroom has a lock
to keep empty rooms empty.
And church policy protects children
from potentially unwanted contact.
- None of us can walk upto a kid, pull a kid in,
and initiate that physical contact.
And I think that's really important
because abusers verysubtly initiate physical
contact and that's how they begin,
what people call the grooming process.
- [Heather] Boz Tchividjian founded
the non-profit, Grace, to help churches
think through abuse.
"Many," he says, "arequick to believe abusers."
- What you'll often seeis an abuser responding
to an allegation in a way that spins
a narrative that they'rethe actual victim.
And then, what ends up happening over
the time period, isthe people around them,
the people that are naturally,
would gravitate towardswanting to support them
anyway, buy in to that narrative.
And now, the abuser is the victim,
the victim, now, is seen as sort
of the perpetrator, theone causing the problems.
- [Heather] Tchividjian says churches will
be best prepared toprevent abuse and respond
to it, if they've taken the time
to create a policy.
Such plans help church members know what
to report and to whom,
and they help leaders respond.
Clara and Jimmy nowcohost a podcast designed
to share what they've learned.
They want others to know how easy it is
to be fooled.
- What's interesting, in a sad, sad way,
is he preached about such things,
about being harmful to children,
and he was this great dad.
It was like he's two people.
He was this wonderful, loving, kind man
and he was one of the most evil, vile men
that ever was.
- And that was Heather Sells reporting.
Well if you or someone you know has been
a victim of sexual assault, we invite you
to go to our website, cbnnews.com.
There you will find alist of organizations
you can contact for help, including the
National Sexual Assault Hotline,
which will connect youwith trained counselors
in your area.
We'll be right back.
A powerful winter storm is making its way
across the country.
- That's right.
39 states, including every state east
of the Mississippi, will be hit
with snow, sleet, ice, rain,
and possible floodingin the next few days.
From the Midwest to Mid-Atlantic,
more than 100 million people are expected
to be affected by the winter weather.
Folks from Omaha, Nebraskaup toward Minneapolis,
are bracing for the brunt of the storm,
with winter weather alerts stretching all
the way from Arizona to New Jersey.
- That's when you say,
"Thanks a lot, Punxsutawney Phil."
- That's right.
He clearly got it wrong.
Well that's gonna do it
for tonight's Faith Nation.
- Have a great evening.
