- [Announcer] This is CBN Newswatch.
- And thank you so much for joining us
for this first edition of CBN Newswatch
for Monday, April 15.
I'm Efrem Graham.
Ahead today, on this tax day,
President Donald Trump is on the road
talking about his tax cut plan.
He's visiting Minnesotawhere he will talk about,
that's one of the stateshe narrowly lost in 2016,
that he hopes to win next year.
The number of Democraticpresidential candidates
keeps growing with South Bend,Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg
officially throwing his hat into the ring.
And he's climbing in the polls as well.
Powerful storms, including tornadoes pound
parts of the country over the weekend
with still more expected in the south
by the middle of the weekand Canada is quietly
undergoing deep changes as the result
of a left wing experimentin multiculturalism
and political correctness.
All those stories and more are ahead
in this edition of CBN Newswatch.
We want to begin, though,with President Donald Trump
using tax day to visit Minnesota.
The President plans to visit
a truck and equipmentcompany for a round table
discussion in his taxcuts and the economy.
Polls have shown a majority of Americans
do not think they even got a tax cut,
although income taxes went down
for millions of peopleunder the 2017 tax bill.
The President's re-election campaign
is off to a great start some would say.
It brought in more than 30 million dollars
in the first quarter,
more than the top two Democrats combined.
The Trump team is targeting the states
he narrowly lost in 2016, like Minnesota,
along with New Mexico,Nevada and New Hampshire.
He's hoping to winthem, though, next year.
Another Democrat is enteringthe presidential race
hoping to take on President Donald Trump.
As Pete Buttigieg announced his race
for the White House Sunday.
- It is time to walkaway from the politics
of the past and towardssomething totally different.
(audience applauding and cheering)
So that's why I'm here today.
I'm here to join youto make a little news.
My name is Pete Buttigieg.
(audience cheering)
They call me Mayor Pete.
I'm a proud son of South Bend, Indiana
and I am running for Presidentof the United States.
(audience cheering)
- The latest Monmouth University Polls
shows the South Bend Mayorhas risen to third place
at 9% among Iowa caucusgoers behind former
Vice-President Joe Biden, whostill has yet to announce.
He stands, though at27% and Vermont Senator
Bernie Sanders at 16%.
Jenna Browder has a look at how Buttigieg
has been promoting his candidacy
in recent days.
- I'm here to make the case that
a millennial Midwestern mayor
might be exactly what we need.
- [Jenna] If elected, the 37-year-old
South Bend mayor would beat out
Teddy Roosevelt and JFK
as the nations' youngest president.
- I have more military experience
than anyone to arrive at that desk
since George H.W. Bush.
- [Jenna] A former intelligence officer
and veteran of the war Afghanistan,
Pete Buttigeig is a road scholar who
speaks eight languages
and is a concert pianist.
- When I was younger, Iwould have done anything
to not be gay.
- [Jenna] Mayor Pete would be
the first openly gay president.
Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.
- [Jenna] Pitting the freedom of religion
against the freedom from discrimination.
- And that's the thingI wish the Mike Pence's
of the world would understand.
That if you got a problem with who I am,
your problem is not with me.
- [Jenna] Buttigeig hasmade the Vice-President
his number one target.
- I think Pete's quarrel'swith First Amendment.
- [Jenna] As former Indiana governor,
Pence worked closely withthe mayor of South Bend.
- My family and I have a view of marriage
that's informed by our faith
and we stand by that.
But that doesn't that we're critical
of anyone else who has adifferent point of view.
- [Jenna] Buttigeig's point of view
places himself at the intersection
of sexuality and religion.
- I'm not critical of his faith.
I'm critical of bad policies.
- [Jenna] And it's the mayor's policies
that will come under the spotlight
in a presidential run.
- Some people I think votedto burn the house down
because they'd seen how for years
Democratic and Republican presidencies
produced economic andsocial and political results
that let them down.
- [Jenna] Jenna Browder, CBN News.
- Mayor Buttigeig has defended liberal
visions like the green new deal
and he supports a public healthcare option
as well as expanding the Supreme Court
to up to 15 members.
Abortion has been aserious issue for lawmakers
in Pete Buttigeig's home state of Indiana
and across the country
as pro-life legislators are pushing laws
they believe courts might throw out.
As Paul Strand now reports from Indiana,
legislators there see this as an effort
to get the abortion question back in front
of the Supreme Court.
- Lawmakers like those here in Indiana
keep churning out measure after measure
to limit abortion and they keep getting
challenged in court.
The pro-life forces saythe battles are worth it.
That's because a case appealedto the U.S. Supreme Court
could affect the whole country.
One such case dealing with civil rights
was struck down last year by the
7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Indiana's actually the only state
that's passed a law that protects
unborn children basedupon their civil rights
that prohibits abortionbased upon a child's
color of the skin, sex, national origin,
disability or Down Syndrome.
So the court has never addressed
the civil rights ofunborn children before.
This is historic.
- [Paul] Indiana's lead attorney at
the ALCU says that could potentially
open the door for statesto limit abortions.
- The State of Indiana is saying
pride of prior to viability we have
the right to tell you whether or not
you can get an abortion and once
you admit that, then there is no limit
to how the state caninterfere with that right.
- [Paul] And that's the goal
of these Indiana legislators,
a fundamental change to Roe v. Wade,
the ruling that legalizedabortion nationwide.
- We believe that ifthey accept this appeal,
it's a clear sign that the Supreme Court
is willing to reconsider Roe and we hope
that the end of Roe versus Wade
comes from Indiana.
- [Paul] The high court may also take up
another state measure.
- Indiana's ultrasound law requires
that any woman consideringan abortion in Indiana
must have the opportunityto see an ultrasound
of her unborn baby at least 18 hours
before she can have an abortion.
- [Paul] Constitutionallaw attorney Jenna Ellis
says that often changes a woman's mind
as she sees the babyand hears its heartbeat.
- There is still a fundamental conscience
that God gives us and most women can't
negate that and suppress to the point
that they are willing to kill their child.
- [Paul] Faulk says that's questionable.
- Statistics show that most women
when they review the ultrasounddon't change their mind.
- [Paul] While he sees this law as
an unnecessary roadblock,
Ellis counters thatultrasounds are crucial.
- What the founderssaid in the Declaration
was that truth is self-evident and that's
what we see in ultrasounds,
that's what we see the self-evident
fact that this is a human being.
- [Paul] If the courttakes up either measure,
it could mean a change inthe country's abortion law.
- Lawmakers continue to try to save
as many lives of the unborn as they can
here in Indiana, but they also have
their eyes on the big picture,
hoping to affect abortion nationwide.
Paul Strand, CBN News, Indianapolis.
- Hail, straight line winds and tornadoes
pounded much of the country this weekend.
Our Amber Strong takesa look at the aftermath
of the storms and what is still to come.
- [Amber] The line of wicked weather swept
across several stateskilling at least eight people
in injuring dozens more.
Powerful storms also leavingdevastated communities
in their wake.
From Ohio.
- They had three giant pine trees
that's blown over in the field.
- [Amber] Down to Mississippi.
- It started howlingand the roof came off.
So, I'm very fortunate.
- [Amber] Tornadoes and high winds
swept across the country.
In Franklin, Texas, residents were caught
by surprise when an EF3 tornado ripped
through the town of about 2,000.
- My house was just lifted.
Just scattered over the back yard.
- We've lost about half ofthe south side of Franklin.
It's totally destroyed.
- [Amber] The destructionincludes 55 homes,
a church and severalbusinesses, but no fatalities.
That isn't the case for other parts
of the country.
The storm's smallest victims ages 3 and 8
were killed when a tree crashed
into their car in Angelina County, Texas.
- I noted that the tree hadfallen on their vehicle.
I knew that it wasn't a good outcome.
- [Amber] In Louisiana, power outages
and flash flooding as as result of
the torrential downpour
and heavy winds.
The aftermath of severeweather also affecting travel.
At our nation's airports,
thousands of flight cancellations
and long lines of stranded passengers.
- This is very, very, very difficult
and the help is negligible.
It's negligible, so.
Please wish us luck.
- [Amber] Now that first line of weather
of pushed off to the east,
but another line of strong storms
including high winds and tornadoes
is expected to hit the south by midweek.
Amber Strong, CBN News in Washington.
- [Efrem] Coming up.
While illegal immigration is a top issue
with the flood of illegalsat the southern border,
the government is issuing more visas
for temporary foreign workers,
but some businesses still don't have
enough of them to meet their needs.
We're gonna explain why when we come back.
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- We're going to talk aboutsome of the incredible
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- [Announcer] In PatRobertson's newest teaching,
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- God spared my life twice in three days.
- The good Lord hadgive me a second chance.
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- [Terry] Remember for amoment what it was like
to be a child.
You believed every story you were told.
You saw a world full ofendless possibilities.
What stories will the world's orphaned
and at risk children believe?
We believe the Bible tells the only story
truly worth believing.
We believe that every child should have
the opportunity to dream,
the chance to take challenges and turn
them into possibilities.
The chance to stand onthe promises of God,
to recognize their place in the greatest
story ever told.
They have their whole lives ahead of them.
Theirs is a world ofendless possibilities.
They are looking for a story to believe.
We will tell them that story.
Will you join us?
(gentle music)
- As President Trump recently threatened
to close the southern border,
the Department of Homeland Security issued
more visas for temporary foreign workers,
nearly doubling the33,000 already available,
but that is still notenough for businesses
struggling to find the labor they need.
Ben Kennedy shows usone landscaping company
in Maryland that's reallyfeeling the impact.
- [Ben] In 1991, Jesse Bane started
a landscaping company withthe help of his family.
- My boys have been helping me
since they were little tiny.
- [Ben] It's grown intoa successful business.
- It was really small.
We started at our homewith a little shop out back
and now we come to work.
I'm very proud of him.
- [Ben] Jesse didn'tlet a diagnosis of FSH
muscular dystrophy at age 14 stop him.
- When I first met him, he had a truck
full of firewood and he was just a guy
with a lot of sheer determination.
- [Ben] A determinationlanding Quality One
six figure projects.
That means more jobs and more workers.
- We do go through a recruitment period
where we had, I thinkwe had nine applicants.
We had one show up for an interview.
- [Ben] So you're tryingto hire Americans?
- We are, we are.
- [Ben] So the Baneshad to look elsewhere.
- And I was uneducated.
I didn't know a whole aboutthe foreign worker program
and I thought like manyAmericans think today.
Those guys are taking jobs,
they're taking American jobs.
No way.
- [Ben] It turns out the H-2Bprogram is not like that.
It's designed to letemployers hire temporary
foreign workers for non-agriculture jobs.
Companies much also show attempts to hire
American workers before applying.
Created back in the 50s,H-2B is not an easy process.
Employers must first submit applications,
pay fees, then wait to be chosen
through a lottery.
- It's extensive.
But anyway, but we did that.
And once we got our firstworkers it was like heaven.
It was heaven.
They were at work every day.
You can rely on them.
They were eager to work.
- [Ben] Lately getting help through it
has proven difficult.
- It's my understanding that
this fiscal year therewere 33,000 available visas
and upwards of 100,000 applicants
just on that first day.
- [Ben] The Banes applied in December
and again this year for 15 workers,
but did not get a single one.
- We have no H-2B workers this year.
- [Ben] What does thatmean for your business?
- Realistically, youknow we try to hire U.S.,
try to hire locally.
Most of them will beunskilled or unreliable
if we're able to hire them.
- [Ben] This forced themto turn down business
and leave new equipment sitting
in the parking lot withno one to operate them.
- We banked on them coming here because
we were gonna bring inmore work and break off
and expand into more trucks.
- [Ben] The H-2B visa capof 66,000 workers a year
was set more than 20 years ago.
Congress just passeda bill allowing nearly
70,000 more visas to open up,
but DHS secretary Christian Nielsen
limited that to only an additional 15,000.
- I felt like God said stop praying small.
You know, look up and I realized that he
began to expand my borders
and then my heart was for not just
for our workers, it was for every business
that was in this crisisto get their workers.
And then I saw that therewas that opportunity
that legislators, that secretary Nielsen,
she has the ability torelease additional visas
and kind of alleviate this.
- [Ben] Nielsen says Congress, not DHS,
should be responsible fordetermining whether the
annual numerical limitations
for H-2B workers set by Congress
needs to be modified
and by how much and forsetting parameters to
ensure that enough workers are available
to meet employers' temporary needs
throughout the year.
So while lawmakers debate what to do,
companies like Quality One
have this message for their customers.
- I would tell my customerson matter what happens,
we're gonna try our bestand one way or another
we will service our contracts.
It might get messy for a little while,
but it will get betterand we won't abandon them.
We will get it done.
- At this point, nodecision has been made on
Capitol Hill to change the visa count.
In the meantime, the Banescontinue to turn down work.
Just last month they said no to
a $100,000 job because theydon't have the workers.
Ben Kennedy, CBN News, the White House.
- [Efrem] Coming up, an entire nation
facing an identity crisis,
one that could threaten its future
and that nation is ourneighbor to the north, Canada.
We'll have the story when we come back.
(dramatic music)
- [Announcer] CBN presentsthe I Wills of God,
your path to overcoming fear and anxiety.
- We're going to talk about some of the
incredible promises Godhas made to his children.
- [Announcer] In PatRobertson's newest teaching,
you'll discover the I Wills of God.
I will rescue him,protect him, answer him,
be with him in trouble,deliver him, honor him,
satisfy him with long life,
show him my salvation.
And see amazing stories ofGod's promises in action.
- What I felt was loved and treasured.
- God spared my life twice in three days.
- The good Lord hadgive me a second chance.
- [Announcer] Break freefrom stress and despair.
- [Pat] The Lord doesn'twant you to live in fear,
but to know the rewards given to those
who love God.
- [Announcer] Call1-800-700-7000 or visit cbn.com.
The I Wills to God,your path to overcoming
fear and anxiety.
- [Terry] Remember for amoment what it was like
to be a child.
You believed every story you were told.
You saw a world full ofendless possibilities.
What stories will the world's orphaned
and at risk children believe?
We believe the Bible tells the only story
truly worth believing.
We believe that every child should have
the opportunity to dream,
the chance to take challenges
and turn them into possibilities,
the chance to stand onthe promises of God,
to recognize their place
in the greatest story ever told.
They have their whole lives ahead of them.
Theirs is a world ofendless possibilities.
They are looking for a story to believe.
We will tell them that story.
Will you join us?
(gentle music)
- You may not have noticed,
but our neighbor to the north, Canada,
is having an identity crisis.
It's embarked on a radical experiment
with profound changes that could lead down
a dangerous road.
Dale Hurd brings us the story.
- [Dale] When Canadian PrimeMinister Justin Trudeau
says his country is a post national state
and has no core identity, no one should
be surprised when some start asking
if Canada is even a country.
But the identity crisis facing Canada
is not only multifaceted, it's serious
and could one day have a direct impact
on the United States.
- Canada is in the midst of,
as one writer put it, acivilizational experiment
that's transforming a western nation
into a post-western nation.
And this revolution is centered around
the cult of diversity.
- [Narrator] Your Canada.
- [Dale] Here's oneversion of Justin Trudeau's
post-national post-western Canada,
transformed by diversity.
- [Narrator] O Canada,you stand for everybody.
- [Dale] The questionis not whether Canada
should welcome immigrants,
the question accordingto Toronto Sun columnist
and Sirius XM Canada host Anthony Furey is
whose value should win the day.
- In Canada right now it's labeled
it's labeled bizarrelyxenophobic and anti-immigrant
and they throw around terms like racism
to no end if you simply say
I'd like us all to integrate here
and live together in a compatible way.
- [Dale] Throughout their histories
both Canada and Americahave welcomed immigrants
of all backgrounds, but Canada rather
than being a melting pot like the U.S.
Has said that it is amosaic of many cultures.
The problem begins withthe Canadian mosaic
includes more and more radical Islamists
who favor undemocraticvalues under Sharia law.
Prime Minister Trudeau welcomed almost
50,000 refugees from theMiddle East in 2016 alone
and has even welcomedreturning ISIS fighters,
saying in an interview that they could be
a powerful voice.
- And a lot of people,probably the silent majority
are saying I'm unhappy with this,
including new immigrantswho came to Canada
whether it's a year ago or a decade
or three decades ago who say no,
I came to Canada for a reason
because I wanted Canadian values
and I was escaping valuesin other countries.
- [Dale] One immigrant who would like
more Canadian values is pro-western Muslim
Tahir Gora, founder of TAG TV in Toronto,
a network with a largeinternational audience.
He's also a co-author of Submission,
the Danger of Political Islam to Canada
with a warning to America.
- I moved to this beautiful country
because if its Canadian culture.
People like me escaped Pakistan,
the Middle East, other Muslim worried
came to Canada and somewent to United States
with the hope that they will be left alone
by those radical Islamists.
But now we see thoseIslamists roaming around
in this part of the world.
- [Dale] Tarek Fatahis a journalist, writer
and founder of theMuslim Canadian Congress.
An immigrant from Pakistan,
and a proud Canadian, Fatasays the Canadian left,
which in his words issinking in white guilt
now accepts and even celebrates
undemocratic radical Islamicbelieves and practices.
He likens it to a circus.
- It considers radicalIslam as a phenomena
that needs to be embracedbecause it is so curious.
So we as Muslims areconsidered as circus animals.
We need to perform andthe white left liberal
feminists class wouldsit in ringside seats
and say how lovely,just look at that monkey
jump up and down.
Or that elephant stood up on his two feet.
Honey, did you see that?
Oh, it's breathtaking.
- [Dale] Another facet ofCanada's identity crisis
can be seen in the growing trend of what
are called land acknowledgements.
- We want to begin by acknowledging
the traditional territory of the
neutral Nunatsiavut and Natassinan peoples
on which Wilfrid LaurierUniversity campuses sit.
- [Dale] Land acknowledgementsare recited daily
on campuses and in schools across Canada
and they essentially declarethat Canada is an occupier.
- We respectfullyacknowledge the territory.
- In which was gather asthe ancestral homelands
of the Beothuk.
- And the island of Newfoundland.
As the ancestral homelands
of the Mi'kmaq and Beothuk.
- [Dale] These continue even though a poll
this year found that most Canadians
do not believe native people should have
a special status and that the government
should stop apologizing for past wrongs.
The culture that is under fire here is
traditional Canadian Christian culture.
Ottawa resident Alexander Belaire grew
up behind the Iron Curtain
in communist Czechoslovakia and she sees
some disturbing parallels between life
under communism and life inpolitically correct Canada.
- [Dale] What do yousay to someone who says
that's preposterous, I cansay whatever I want in Canada?
How can you compare itto the Soviet world?
- But you can't say anything you want.
Because I was a daughterof a political dissident,
teachers would take the time to berate me
and say bag things about me in front
of the whole classroom because that they
were proving they weren'tshowing favoritism
to the dissident's daughter, right.
Now my friend's daughter was in school
and she was being shamedfor being too Christian.
How's that different?
How is that different.
She was being shamed for feeling
very patriotic Canadian.
How is that different from being shamed
for being a dissident's daughter.
- [Dale] There's a saying here that
the world need more Canada,
but if current trends continue,
the world is going to get less of Canada
as Canadian identity is swallowed up
in a left wing multicultural experiment.
Dale Hurd, CBN News in Toronto and Ottawa.
- We'll be right back, stay with us.
- [Announcer] CBN presentsthe I Will of God,
your path to overcoming fear and anxiety.
- We're going to talk aboutsome of the incredible
promises God has made to his children.
- [Announcer] In PatRobertson's newest teaching,
you'll discover the I Wills of God.
I will rescue him,protect him, answer him,
be with him in trouble, deliver him,
honor him, satisfy him with long life,
show him my salvation.
And see amazing stories ofGod's promises in action.
- What I felt was loved and treasured.
- God spared my life twice in three days.
- The good Lord had give a second chance.
- [Announcer] Break free from
from stress and despair.
- [Pat] The Lord doesn'twant you to live in fear,
but to know the rewardsof those given to those
who love God.
- [Announcer] Call1-800-700-7000 or visit cbn.com.
The I Wills of God,your patch to overcoming
fear and anxiety.
- [Terry] Remember for amoment what it was like
to be a child.
You believed every story you were told.
You saw a world full ofendless possibilities.
What stories will the world's orphans
and at risk children believe?
We believe the Bible tells the only story
truly worth believing.
We believe that every child should have
the opportunity to dream,
the chance to take challenges and turn
them into possibilities.
The chance to stand onthe promises of God.
To recognize their place in the greatest
story every told.
They have their whole lives ahead of them.
Theirs is a world ofendless possibilities.
They are looking for a story to believe.
We will tell them that story.
Will you join us?
(gentle music)
- Time now for your Monday Motivation
and today I leave you with this thought.
It is a great day to look in the mirror
and see yourself as God sees you.
You are God's masterpiece.
Your imperfection isperfection in his eyes.
With that word, Iencourage you to make today
a marvelous Monday and make this week
a wonderful week indeed.
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