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- Impeaching the president.
The latest on why someCongressional Democrats
are backing away from the push to impeach.
With terror threats aroundthe world, a guide on how
to make sure you stay safewhile traveling abroad.
And how functionalmedicine treats the root
of health problems, not just the symptoms.
All this and more tonight on Faith Nation.
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The Democratic push toimpeach the president
may be losing steam.
Welcome to Faith Nation, I'm John Jessup.
- And I'm Jenna Browder.
"He is just not worth it,"that's how Speaker Nancy Pelosi's
take on impeaching President Trump,
telling The Washington Post
impeachment is divisive to the country
and that she just doesn't think
they should go down that path.
- CBN News Capitol HillCorrespondent Abigail Robertson
has the latest reaction toPelosi's public opposition
to impeachment fromfellow Democrats, Abigail.
- Thanks John and Jenna.
The Democratic messaging onimpeachment has been clear
for quite some time,but for the first time
Nancy Pelosi is making herstance against impeachment public
and it's a strategythat left some Democrats
grasping at straws.
- I don't know, it's really not,
you know, she's a very smart speaker.
- [Abigail] Calling thepresident ethnically
and intellectually unfit for office,
Speaker Nancy Pelosi told TheWashington Post she is quote,
"not for impeachment."- I'm sure she
had reasons for what she said.
- The speaker has been veryconsistent on this point.
- [Abigail] The now public approach
could help insulate Democratsfrom future criticism
if the party does moveforward with impeachment.
- We should never proceed with impeachment
for political reasonsand we should never avoid
moving forward with impeachmentfor political reasons.
- [Abigail] But not all Democrats
are gelling with Speaker Pelosi's message.
- There will be anothervote on impeachment.
- [Abigail] Congressman Al Green intends
to bring articles ofimpeachment to the House floor
for a third time, the firstwith Democrats in the majority.
- But the other thing, it'snot gonna pass the Senate.
- [Abigail] IllinoisDemocrat Jan Schakowsky
says a House vote is futile.
- If we do impeachment it'sgoing to suck all the air
out of the entire message that we have.
- [Abigail] For now Democrats are taking
a wait-and-see approach toousting President Trump.
- We're expecting theMueller report pretty soon.
- That will be largelydriven by the results
of the Mueller investigation.
- [Abigail] RepublicanSenator Lindsey Graham
says he agrees.
- I think when the Muellerreport comes out we'll,
to me hopefully that'dbe the definitive word
on any impropriety by the campaign.
- [Abigail] But that could leave Democrats
waiting until the next election.
- We need to get rid of Donald Trump
and I don't think impeachingin the House is gonna do it,
and so we need to do itby the 2020 election.
- And if Mueller's reportdoesn't change the way
the wind blows, Democrats mayhave to adjust their sails.
- And one could imagine a president who
committed a felony andthe House simply decided
for the good of the country
that it wasn't an importantfelony, it was just a mistake,
something we can deal withafter a presidential term.
- And in response toSpeaker Pelosi's comments
some Republicans are nowquestioning why Democrats
issued 81 document requestsfrom people associated
with President Trump if theyare not already planning
on proceeding with impeachment.
Reporting from CapitolHill, I'm Abigail Robertson.
- Thanks Abby, well Jenna Ellis
is a constitutional law attorney
and a member of the Trump2020 advisory board.
She joins us now.
Jenna, what's your thinkingabout the reasoning
behind Nancy Pelosi'scomments about impeachment?
And also, why go public with this?
- Yeah, so two things.
From a Constitutionalperspective clearly the Democrats
have no sufficient legalbasis to genuinely use
the impeachment processagainst the president.
We've seen that there's been nothing
over the last two and1/2 years that's come out
to actually give them a sufficient reason
in order to file impeachment papers.
This shouldn't be a political tactic.
It's vested in the Constitution
if there is a legitimate reason.
We haven't seen any of that.
But second, I think that sheknows that this is something
that if it's a political tactic
is definitely not gonnago through the Senate.
It's not going to be anysort of victory for them.
So it will look like theDemocrats are simply just stalling
and they're trying to bethe party of opposition
rather than trying to be the party
that will bring everyonetogether for 2020.
So I think she's comingout trying to say this
in order to look forward to 2020.
- To get out ahead of it.- And to get out ahead of it.
Absolutely.- Jenna, do you think
this is a calculatedstrategy that, you know,
if Bob Mueller doesn't come up
with what they're hoping he comes up with
this gives them somesort of breathing room?
- A little bit, and Ithink we're seeing that
with the Nadler subpoenasand how the House committees
are now trying to take overthe investigation from Mueller
because they're seeing that really nothing
is forthcoming with that, andI think that once his report
is actually issued we're gonna see
that there's really nothing sufficient
that will be against President Trump
because nothing has come outin the last couple of years.
And so with the Democratswanting to move forward,
I think this is a way for themto pivot into their messaging
and to try to bring more legitimacy
to the House OversightCommittees and those subpoenas
even though that's reallyjust a political tactic.
- Jenna, what happens if Mueller's report
doesn't point directly toany kind of impropriety
on the part of the campaign?
- Then I think theAmerican people should want
and require the Democrats to move on
because they're really looking
at an outcome-based agenda here
in wanting something that ispolitically motivated for them
rather than being truthfuland wanting a fact-finding
and sincerely saying, OK ifMueller didn't uncover anything
then he's done his job and wecan close the investigation
and for the good of the country move on.
That's not what they're wanting.
They are wanting an outcome based
to simply hate President Trumpand to get voters in 2020
to vote against him, and Ithink the American people
really need to see throughthat political tactic
and require that the Democrats
actually do the job they were elected for,
which is not simply to hate the president.
- Between impeachment,
the anti-Semitic resolution last week,
The Green New Deal, all of these issues,
there's a lot of divisionright now, Jenna,
in the Democratic Party.
How do you see this playing out in 2020?
What do you think'll be the effect?
- Yeah, I think that the Democratic Party
is moving so far left thatwe especially as Christians
have to look at the legitimaterole of government in society
and if we look at Micah 6:8 we see that
the Bible tells us thatthe good for society
is to promote good and restrain evil.
And we see that a legitimate government
is to preserve and protectthe rights that God gives us,
not our government, so as the Democrats
are moving further left andthey're looking at socialism,
they're looking at this structure of value
that's not based simplyon being human beings
made in the image of God, butother man-made value factors
we as Christians need to recognize
that that's not a legitimaterole of government
and we need to put our vote,which is a primary obligation,
I think, of Christians in thiscountry to vote our values
and to make sure that we are voting
for the party and the people
who will uphold the truthwhile they're in office.
And that's why I'm veryproud to be a member
of the Trump 2020 advisory board.
- Jenna Ellis, thank you for time.
- Thank you.
- Well, bipartisan support
for grounding Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes
is growing here in Washington tonight
after this weekend'sdeadly crash in Ethiopia.
- There is no reason forAmerican flyers to be less safe.
Other countries areahead of us in air safety
if they ground these planesand we fail to do so.
The 737 MAX 8 shouldbe immediately grounded
until the FAA can assureus that they are safe.
- Well, I think out ofan abundance of caution
and frankly, common sense it makes sense
to ground an aircraft that's been involved
in two very tragic accidentsin only six months.
The Senate has a responsibility
to help oversee our aircraft industry,
and this is somethingI think oughta be done.
- And U.S. carriers Southwest and American
are still using the 737 MAX 8,
but the list of countriesbanning the Boeing plane
continues to grow.
Today the UK, France joinedChina, Australia, Germany,
and a handful of otherplaces no longer allowing
the 737 MAX 8 to fly in their airspace.
A couple dozen airlines have also
temporarily suspendedflights on the specific plane
as the investigation into theweekend's crash continues.
- Well, United States is bringing home
all embassy and diplomaticstaff from Venezuala.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo noting
the deteriorating situationin the country in a tweet
announcing their removal.
She says, having personnel onthe ground has become a quote,
constraint on U.S. policy.
The U.S. supports oppositionleader Juan Guaido
and the country's legislaturein an ongoing battle
to oust President Nicolas Maduro
claiming Maduro stole themost recent elections.
- Well, the socialist countryis facing an economic mess.
Its currency is now in freefall with prices skyrocketing.
A month's wages in Venezuelanow equals about $4.
- So how are Venezuelans making it?
Chuck Holton went to the border town
of Cucuta, Colombia to find out.
- Imagine if your paycheck got cut by 90%
every three to six months.
That's the world Venezuelanshave been living in
since hyperinflation tookhold in their country in 2016.
The Venezuelan bolivar is now
the least valued currency in the world
with black market exchangerates off the charts.
Over four million bolivars tothe dollar and sinking fast.
That means starving Venezuelans
have to do whatever they can to survive.
I was just here talking
to my Venezuelan friend Roberto Sanchez
and I asked him if hehad any Venezuelan money
that he could show me, andso he ran off for a second
and he came back and broughtme this stack of bills.
This stack of money, lookat that, and handed it to me
and said, "Take it."
The real scary questionis, how do people survive
when you can have allthe money in the world
and it literally won't buy you a thing.
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- [Interpreter] Unfortunately the people
who cross this bridgearen't just looking for food
and medicine, what they'researching for is hope.
- [Chuck] Jaime Ayala workshelping sick Venezuelans
get care in Colombiabecause the medical care
in his country is almost nonexistent.
His wife Esperanza works with him.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Interpreter] We see childrensleeping in the streets.
There is just so much need.
People are in distress becausethere is no medicine at all,
so we try to help get their needs met.
- So this is the illegal way to get across
from Venezuela into Colombia,it's called la trocha.
These guys are bringingproducts either into Colombia
to sell or back into Venezuela,
things that aren't available there.
Things like tires, things like medicines.
Coming across fromVenezuela we're seeing a lot
of scrap metal that they sellover in the Colombian side.
We see things like copper wire
because people are rippingthe wires out of the walls
and wrapping them up andbringing 'em over here to sell
just to get enough money to eat.
Leonel Castillo and his wifeSara work with their church
to help the poorestmigrants coming to Colombia.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Interpreter] The wealthiest Venezuelans
have already escaped to Spain or Miami.
The middle class is goingto Ecuador or Chile,
but the poorest and mostvulnerable are coming to Cucuta.
- [Chuck] I took a walk indowntown Cucuta late one night
and there were hundreds of women
selling the only thing theyhad to sell, their bodies.
These three teen girls I methad been working on the street
for the past year, startingbefore two of them were even 18.
They say it's terrible work,but better than starving.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Interpreter] It's bad becausewe're always getting guys
who are drunk and sometimes they abuse us.
We come out here every night
but sometimes don't get any business
because there are so many women out here.
- [Interpreter] This is no kind of life.
It's tiring, it's ugly,but what can you do
when you have no future?
- It's amazing how manysimilarities I've noticed
between what's going on in Venezuela
and what I was seeing in Syria.
Now, the stuff in Syriawas definitely worse,
but it's similar in some ways in that
just the level of desperation you have.
People literally just,they've run out of options.
And one of the best waysyou could illustrate that
is by meeting prostituteswho are actually mothers
with families and husbandsback in Venezuela,
but they're coming over here to Cucuta
and selling their bodies forjust a little bit of money
in order to make enough money to survive.
And so, you know, before you go judging
you might ask yourself,just how far would you go
to make sure that yourchildren could eat at night?
To make sure that your children
could get the medicalcare that they needed?
Castillo and his familyare doing what they can
to help some of thesegirls get out of this life
and give them a hope and a future.
(speaking in foreign language)
- [Interpreter] It's sad,yes, but it's an opportunity
for God to manifest Himselfin the works of His people.
And we know that their mostbasic needs are spiritual.
What they need is Jesus.
- [Chuck] Chuck Holton,CBN News, Cucuta, Colombia.
- Thanks Chuck.
The State Department is warningAmericans visiting India
to use more caution traveling
in the region, especially women.
The department cites anincrease in terrorism
and a rise in sexualcrimes for the new warning.
The growth of terror around the world
means increased risk while traveling.
Caitlin Burke brings us alook at some useful tips
on how to stay safewhile out of the country.
- [Man In Balaclava]Who's an American here?
Who's an American? (pounds table)
Are you an American?
- [Caitlin] No, this isn't a movie,
but it's not quite reality either.
- Who's a Christian here?- Who's an American?
Raise your hand!- Who's an American?
- Here at the Center forPersonal Protection and Safety
in Reston, Virginia instructorshelp frequent travelers
learn how to spot troubleand respond to anything
from a terrorism attack to pickpocketing.
- We're living in a pretty extreme
world environment right now.
There have always beenrisks, but we're seeing areas
that traditionally have beenpretty safe to travel to,
that as you look atextremism and terrorism,
areas like Paris, Nice,France, Belgium, even London
we're seeing other types of risk
that historically just haven't been there.
- [Caitlin] Sandy participatedin today's high-risk travel
training course in preparationfor a trip to Europe.
- We're already kind of planninghow will we carry ourselves
what will we carry with us,how will respond to crowds
and all those kinds of things.
So it's very useful for us right now.
- [Caitlin] Randy Spiveyis the CEO and founder
of the Center for PersonalProtection and Safety.
He points out that situational awareness
is needed by more thanjust frequent travelers.
- [Randy] If you think aboutit, the skills we taught today
apply when you travel, or they apply
when you walk aroundNorfolk, Virginia as well
because we're teaching,how do you recognize
potential warning signs before they occur.
- [Caitlin] Knowing how toreact in a crisis can pay off
in the rare event thatyou find yourself in one.
- There's a huge differencein how people that are trained
versus untrained respond in a crisis.
An untrained individual,if they find themselves
in that crisis, they'regonna be startled, afraid,
and then more than likelythey're gonna freeze and lock up.
A trained individual is going to be able,
they'll be startled and afraid,
but then they're going torecognize, oh I have some options.
And they're able to movewith purposeful action.
- [Caitlin] The Center forPersonal Protection and Safety
uses a training methodcalled stress inoculation.
The realistic role play,participants must respond
the way they might if theywere actually in a crisis.
Reactions includeincreased blood pressure,
feeling shaky, and troubleputting together thoughts.
- With the intensity of his voice
it became more and more real.
So it really did get more stressful
with his continued fidgeting and the gun
and the high pitch and yeah,I forgot in a lot of ways
that it was just a training, it felt real.
- [Caitlin] One scenarioinvolved terrorists
demanding the Christiansraise their hands.
According to Spivey, this is where people
often make a mistake.
- They feel like thatthey have to answer that,
to answer it no wouldbe denying their faith,
to answer it yes theywind up getting shot.
And so what we try and teach people is,
it's not denying your faithto not answer that question,
or to answer it with somethingother than yes or no.
You might be able to respondwith, I am a person of faith.
Or, I'm so scared rightnow I'm having a hard time
even thinking about what you're asking me.
- [Caitlin] Spivey believesthat refusing to confirm
that your a Christiandoesn't deny your faith.
It takes away the legitimacy
of the person asking the question.
That initial capture phaseof a hostage situation
is the most dangerous.
- You have individualsthat are trying to come in
and take control of the situation,
and they're not in control.
- [Man] One of you is gonna die today.
Who's it gonna be?
- [Caitlin] Spivey says toremember these three C's
to help you get out of trouble.
Calm, connect, and capitalize.
Be a calming influence,especially at first.
Connect with your captoron a personal level
to become more than an object.
And then capitalize byencouraging a negotiated release.
- [Man] Well what's your reason?
Why shouldn't I kill you?
- I'm a mother.- You're a mother.
- I have a family.- You have a family.
Well, that's a good start.
- [Caitlin] In today's worldit's about reaching a balance
between two extremes,paranoia and oblivion.
Being somewhere in the middlemight just save your life.
Caitlin Burke, CBN News, Reston, Virginia.
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- [Reporter] Celebritiescharged with cheating.
More on a stunning collegeadmission case when we come back.
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- This film needs to be seen by everyone.
- I was in tears.
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- I'm so grateful that this film was made.
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- Welcome.- Wow.
- I am Regent's firstROTC graduate student.
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- The Justice Department callsa major bribery investigation
the largest college admissionprosecution in its history.
- Dozens including coaches and parents
and even some Hollywoodstars are under indictment.
Amber Strong has the latest on the case.
- It's known as Operation Varsity Blues.
U.S. prosecutors onWednesday indicted 50 people
in an expansive briberycampaign involving admission
to some of the nation'smost elite schools.
According to the DOJ,testing administrators,
nine coaches, and 33 parentsexchanged $25 million
over eight years in orderto manipulate test scores
and athletic abilities.
The alleged mastermind58-year-old William Singer
would bribe administratorsto change test scores
or allow an accomplice to take the test
instead of the student.
Singer would also pay coaches
to guarantee a client's spot on a team.
Caught up in the scandal, FullHouse actress Lori Loughlin
and Felicity Huffman ofTV's Desperate Housewives.
- This case is aboutthe widening corruption
of elite college admissionsthrough the steady application
of wealth combined with fraud.
There can be no separatecollege admissions system
for the wealthy, and I'lladd that there will not be
a separate criminal justice system either.
- Universities on that list
include Yale, Georgetown, and UCLA.
Prosecutors say they have no indication
that the universities knewanything that was going on,
and in most cases, not all, the students
were left in the dark aswell, but they reiterate
that this is an open investigation
and more charges could come.
Amber Strong, CBN News, Washington.
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- [Reporter] Why some say something
called functional medicine is the future
when it comes to treating disease.
That story when we come back.
- [Announcer] Tikkun olam.
- [Woman] This is our nature as a country.
- [Announcer] To makethe world a better place.
- Literally we felt the earth shaking.
- [Announcer] The ChristianBroadcasting Network presents
To Life: How Israeli VolunteersAre Changing the World.
- This film needs to be seen by everyone.
- I was in tears.
- [Announcer] Now you canown the inspiring documentary
To Life on DVD.
(child crying)- There is blood on our hands
if we know and we walk away.
- I'm so grateful that this film was made.
- [Announcer] To Life can be yours
for a gift of $10 or more.
Call 1-800-700-7000 or log on to CBN.COM.
- We know that every minutecounts to save a life.
- It'll bless Israel.
It'll also bless allthe friends of Israel.
- [Announcer] Discover the untold story
of how Israeli volunteers
are making the world a better place.
Call 1-800-700-7000 or log on to CBN.COM
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- Welcome back, functionalmedicine is a new approach
to treating disease.
It takes away the emphasison your symptoms and focuses
on the root cause of what'sactually bothering you.
- Yeah, the big picture.
CBN News Medical Reporter Lorie Johnson
introduces us to a womanwho suffered for years
until she found a doctor who treated her
with this new method.
- Ready, catch.
- These days Cindy Tedrow enjoys life
like playing with her dogs.
That wasn't the case
when she faced horrific health problems.
- I would pray, you know,Lord, if You want me take me.
Just take me.
- [Lorie] For most of her adult life
she suffered from infections,fatigue, and pain.
- My legs felt like they were cement,
and it took that much effortto pick them up and move.
- [Lorie] She also struggled
with hormone issues and obesity.
- I could not lose weight,I could not lose weight
no matter what I tried,I could not lose weight.
- [Lorie] Her seizuresmade life unpredictable.
- I would make a commitment andthen I would have to cancel.
And I know people didn'tunderstand that and it was so hard.
- [Lorie] Seizures eventuallyforced her to stop driving
and teaching.
- And I loved my job, I loved my job.
I just couldn't do it anymore.
The hardest thing was, isI couldn't go to church
a lot of times, and thatreally, really was hard.
- [Lorie] On Cindy and her husband.
- I could see the fear on his face.
And I could hear the fearin my mom's voice, too.
- [Lorie] In searching foranswers she visited 20 doctors
and took numerousmedications, nothing helped.
- They would send me from one specialist
to another specialist and theywould me give me medication
for that particular symptom.
And so at one time Iwas on 22 prescriptions
and getting worse, Iwas just getting worse.
- [Lorie] With nothing to lose
she decided to try a different approach.
She went to the Cleveland Clinic's
Functional Medicine Centerled by Dr. Mark Hyman.
- Functional medicine is a newway of thinking about disease
that gets to the root cause.
It doesn't focus so much on symptoms
as the question of whyyou have those symptoms.
- [Lorie] Cindy got better, and fast.
- In a very short time she notonly lost an enormous amount
of weight but was ableto end her seizures,
to recover her energy,to end her brain fog,
and to be engaged in her life again.
- An estimated 80% of all health problems
are caused by an unhealthy diet.
Too much sugar and processed foods
and not enough vegetablesand healthy fats.
Once Cindy started eating
the prescribed anti-inflammatorydiet she lost 80 pounds.
- The weight just meltedaway, it just melted away.
It's not hard, it is not hard.
I basically just stick toreal meat, real vegetables.
I have to stay away from the carbs.
- [Lorie] Functional medicine doctors
often recommendsupplementing a healthy diet
with things like vitamin D,fish oil, and a probiotic.
- Look at microbiome, hasbeen linked to depression
and cancer and heart diseaseand diabetes and obesity
and autoimmune diseasesand allergies and asthma.
So that doesn't make sensegiven our current model
of describing disease.
When you go to thecardiologist they don't ask you
about your gut microbiome, right?
They wanna know if theyshould put you on a statin
or a beta blocker or an aspirin
and not think about, whyis there inflammation?
Why is there high blood pressure?
Why is your cholesterolabnormal and fix that.
- Functional medicinedoctors advise their patients
to take steps to feel more peaceful
because stress is at the rootof so many health issues.
- Thoughts, stress, exercise, sleep,
and also community and connection
because many of us are isolated
and many of us are lonely,and that promotes disease.
And in a faith-based worldit's really about connection,
community, belonging, meaning, purpose.
Those are also ingredients for health.
- They told us about meditation.
And I didn't do meditation,but I was already praying
and that has made a tremendous,tremendous difference.
- [Lorie] The medical world pays attention
to results like Cindy's.
- Which is something we see routinely
in functional medicine, it's something
that often traditionalphysicians are surprised at
because these are patientsthat they've tried for decades
to try to help and mitigate symptoms.
We don't go for symptoms,we go for causes.
- [Lorie] Compared tothe conventional approach
of simply relying on big pharma,
functional medicine often focuses
on significant lifestyle changes.
While that's moreresponsibility and discipline,
people like Cindy Tedrow,who've tried both,
say the extra effortpays off in the long run.
Lorie Johnson, CBN News.
- And for more health news from Lorie
you can watch her show Healthy Living.
It comes on every Tuesdaynight at 9:30 p.m.
on the CBN News Channel.
And you can find out where to watch that
at cbnnewschannel.com.
Well that's gonna do itfor tonight's Faith Nation.
- Have a great evening.
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