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- [Jenna] Tonight.
- I have not read the Mueller Report.
- [Jenna] Waiting on the Mueller Report,
the White House prepares a counter-report.
- We must be up to this challenge.
- [Eric] And Beto O'Rourke makes his case
storming through a purple district
in the heart of Trump country.
- You know, these thingsshould be called out.
- [Jenna] Plus, our exclusive interview
with Congressman Dan Crenshaw,
defending the president for highlighting
a Muslim congresswoman's remarks on 9/11.
- What I want is for Christiansto be thinking biblically.
- [Eric] And the evangelical response
to artificial intelligence.
- [Jenna] All this ane moretonight on Faith Nation.
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- The countdown to thehighly anticipated release
of the Mueller Report is on.
Welcome to Faith Nation,I'm Jenna Browder.
- And I'm Eric Philips.
John Jessup is on assignment tonight.
Nearly two years afterSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller
began his investigationinto the Trump campaign
and Russian collusionwe're finally going to see
what that report says.
- A redacted version of hisreport expected out tomorrow.
CBN White House CorrespondentBen Kennedy joins us.
And Ben, we're now hearingthat the White House
is also consideringputting out its own report.
- Yeah, Jenna, Eric you're right.
The Trump legal team isnow working to refine
a counter-report to Mueller's finding.
It'll likely focus onobstruction of justice claims.
Trump's lawyer, RudyGiuliani says he hopes
to shave down theircounter-report to 50 pages
but there is no guarantee a counter-report
will even be released.
A source close to theWhite House tells CBN News
it all depends what theMueller Report says.
Giuliani tweeted, aswe wait for the report
which will conclude no chargesof collusion or obstruction
it's important this never happens again.
A serious investigationwill reveal a conspiracy
to obstruct justice, an electionand the will of our people.
We cannot rest until there is justice.
The 22 month investigationrevealed the Trump campaign
did not collude with Russia.
But Attorney General WilliamBarr's four page summary
also revealed Mueller did not reach
a determination on obstruction.
Today President Trump tweeted,
calling the investigation a "witch hunt"
and "a total fraud."
Trump recently said he's in the dark
on what the nearly 400page report contains.
- I have not read the Mueller Report.
I haven't seen the Mueller Report.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't care
about the Mueller Report.
- Now, the White Househas said a broad briefing
on the report, non-specific material,
more the mechanics of the report,
that they've had access to.
President Trump isscheduled to be right here
behind me at the White House on Thursday
and we are told his team is ready
to comb through this massive report.
Jenna, Eric.
- Alright, Ben Kennedyfor us at the White House.
Thank you, Ben.
Meantime, the presidentcalled the pope today
to offer condolences onbehalf of the American people
after the Notre Dame Cathedral fire.
The flames engulfing theCatholic symbol of France
left the structure partially destroyed.
Calling it a horrible fire,President Trump offered
Pope Francis quote, "thehelp of our great experts
"on renovation and construction..."
President Trump also wished Pope Francis
and French President EmmanuelMacron a very happy Easter.
- Asylum seekers in the United States
could be held indefinitely.
Attorney General Bill Barr'sfirst immigration ruling
will keep those who have a credible fear
of being returned to their homeland
from being released on bond.
The Department of Justicedecision to detain immigrants
during deportationproceedings comes amid a push
from the Trump Administrationto stem the tide
of illegal immigration.
- Well, the crisis at the borderwas front and center today
as a Democratic presidential candidate
from Texas stormed through Trump country.
- CBN News Correspondent Amber Strong
is following the O'Rourke campaign
and taking a look at Barr'slatest directive head-on.
- So Beto O'Rourke is doing the whole
meet and greet or eatand greet, if you will.
There wasn't a whole lot of eating,
but a whole lot of energy herein Fredericksburg, Virginia
at this local establishment, Pimento.
An interesting location for O'Rourke
because it is owned by immigrants.
The owner came herewhen he was 13 years old
and of course, O'Rourke laidheavily into immigration
during course of hisabout 40 minute speech.
Afterwards, I had a chanceto catch up with him
and ask him a question about immigration,
the Trump administration and particularly,
this new directive that just came out
from Attorney General Barr.
Take a look.
- It's disturbing.
It's continuing anti-immigrantand anti-asylum seeker
policies of this administration.
It's making it harderon those who are already
in the worst straits that we can imagine,
leaving, in some cases,the most violent countries
on the planet, having justfinished a 2,000 mile journey,
people who is has beendemonstrated pose no threat
to our communities, to ourfamilies, to ourselves,
and we do this at greatexpense because we will pay
to keep them jailed
and detained indefinitely going forward.
- So the city of Fredericksburgis an interesting stop
because it's kind of in the middle of what
we would consider Trump country.
Stafford County, if youtake a look at the map,
is pretty red, went withPresident Trump in 2016.
Spotsylvania County,which is right below us,
also went with President Trump in 2016.
But Fredericksburg, whichis right there in the middle
went with Hillary Clinton.
Now, I talked with voters here to ask them
what was on their hearts and minds
and what they wanted tohear from the congressman.
- Things like voterrights, voter suppression.
Congressional gerrymandering,things like that.
It doesn't matter what your policies are
if the people can't vote andcan't make their voices heard
it doesn't matter.
- Healthcare, yes.
- [Amber] Why is that?
- Because I'm retireeand I'm very concerned
about my healthcare.
- My colleague AbigailRobertson is on the road
in Texas, Beto's home state
and she talked to voters there
about what they think about O'Rourke.
- He has a dubious background, his family
so I certainly wouldn't support him.
- I think everybody has a shot.
And if the people get outand do what they need to do
and vote like they need tobe, he might have a shot.
- Now, O'Rourke isending his Virginia swing
with a stop in Alexandria.
And of course, just overthe river is Washington, DC
and the White House which would be
the prized possession for O'Rourke.
Amber Strong, CBN News inFredericksburg, Virginia.
- Alright, thank you Amber.
And here now to talk all things political,
our Chief Political Analyst David Brody
and Julia Manchester, acongressional reporter
with The Hill.
Both of you, thanks for joining us.
- Absolutely, and Davidwe want to begin with you.
So, what do you think we're gonna learn
from this much anticipated report?
And I emphasize, much.
(laughing)
- Yeah, all caps for sure.
Look, I think ultimatelywhat we're gonna see here
is a lot of cringe-worthy moments
for this administration tomorrow.
What did Hope Hicks say?
What did Don McGahn say?
Dozens of hours that he spentwith the Special Counsel.
So I'm gonna do a lotof control F tomorrow,
control F as in find Hope,
control F McGahn, control F collusion.
That's what I'm gonna be doingthrough 400 pages tomorrow.
But ultimately, look, I think this thing
is gonna be like a Spanishnovella on Univision.
I gotta tell ya, this thing's gonna have
a lot of drama to it.
The question then becomes,is it gonna be over-redacted
rather than just redacted.
I think Democrats are gonna use that word,
hey, it's way over-redacted.
- Yeah, Julia, speaking of redactions,
Jerry Nadler, Chair ofthe House Judiciary,
he wants the full thing redacted.
He's said to be consideringissuing this full subpoena
for the report.
What are your thoughts on that?
This is essentially taking Bill Barr,
the attorney general, to court.
- That's going to be very difficult
because I think Bill Barr,what he's thinking about
in terms of this is thenational security implications
of all of this.
Bill Barr has been very clear to say
that I will only redact information
in terms of nationalsecurity or if it's sensitive
to private citizens.
But the private citizenquestion's actually something
I've been thinking about.
Who is a private citizen?
I think a lot of Democrats and critics
of the administration arelooking to Donald Trump Jr.
And what informationabout Donald Trump Jr.
Will be in that report in regards to
that infamous Trump Towermeeting in the summer of 2016.
But ultimately I was struck by a comment
by former Congressman Trey Gowdy today
and he essentially said, this report's
only gonna further entrench both sides.
I think both sides are going to look
and cherry pick what worksbest for them and run with it.
I don't think this is gonnaultimately gonna change
the political environment in Washington.
And I think it's gonna go the same way
as it always has, really been.
- WBut, with that in mind,who has more to lose here?
The president or the Democrats?
- It's really hard to say.
I think from a publicrelations standpoint,
both could have a lot to lose.
Like as David said, there could be a lot
of damaging information for the president
in terms of, I guess,superficial information,
how his image looks, etc.
In terms of Democrats, they're obsessing
over this report ahead ofa presidential election
where polls show that most voters
do not care about the report.
Obviously, they want it to be released
but that's the final wordthey really want on it.
And they want to move on.
It's gonna make them seemobsessive and out of touch
outside of Washington.
- Yeah, on the topic of 2020,
we saw Beto O'Rourke in Virginia today.
Donald Trump out tweeting who he thinks
would be the toughest or who he thinks
would be the finalists inthis Democratic primary.
He thinks Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
David, your thoughts on that.
- Well, first I likehow Donald Trump morphs
from president of the United States
to Fox News contributor.
(laughing)
You know, he's like a TVanalyst and he also giving
advice for fires at Notre Dame.
He's at like, everything.
Look, I think he's rightin terms of the numbers.
Biden and Sanders, but maybe it'd be nice
if Joe Biden actually got in the race
before we actually talkabout him as a front runner.
So sure, I think those arethe safe bets for sure.
The other part of it is,
is that Buttigieg and O'Rourkeand a lot of these folks,
we don't know if they have staying power.
They haven't been tested.
Trump knows that Bidenand Sanders have been
through the wars before.
And so that's kind of thesmart money pick at this point.
- Yeah, one thing is for sure,
we all have a lot of lightreading to do tomorrow.
(laughing)
- No kidding.
- Alright, thanks very much.
- Thank you both.
Well, the firestorm over comments
from a first termcongresswoman's description
of 9/11 refuses to die down.
In an exclusive interview with CBN News,
a Republican Congressmanand retired Navy Seal
is defending the presidentand his own criticism
of Representative Ilhan Omar's remarks.
- These things should be called out.
They have to be called out.
- [Jenna] Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw
says it's wrong for fellow first term
Representative Ilhan Omar to downplay
the Twin Tower attacks.
- Some people did something.
- [Jenna] Crenshaw is defendingPresident Trump's post
of an edited video,
splicing the Muslimcongresswoman's remarks
with images of 9/11.
That tweet is shining a spotlight
on this nearly month old speech
before a Muslim advocacy group.
- CAIR was founded after 9/11
because they recognized thatsome people did something
and that all of us werestarting to lose access
to our civil liberties.
- [Jenna] Critics maintain her words
have been taken out of contextby the president and others.
- They do this all the time to us,
especially women of color.
They do that, they takeour words out of context
because they're afraidbecause we speak truth.
We speak truth to power.
Takin' it out of context, this is just
pure racist act by many of those,
hateful acts by thosebecause she does speak truth.
- [Jenna] Crenshaw is pushing back.
- Nothing was taken out of context.
That is a narrative being perpetuated
which is truly dishonest.
And notice how nobody can ever explain
how it was taken out of context, right?
They'll say, well, she's explaining
how CAIR was founded.
Well, first of all, she got that wrong.
She said CAIR was founded after 9/11.
That's just not true.
It was founded in 1994.
Okay, so you're not even,so that's not even true
from the beginning.
- [Jenna] The focus on this first term
representative's remarksis a lightning rod
for Democratic candidates.
- This is an incitement to violence.
- [Jenna] Omar says she'sexperiencing an increase
in death threats.
- From what she said in her speech,
she does not deserve the kind
of vicious hate filled attacksthat's she's experiencing,
threats on her life right now.
- [Jenna] Speaker NancyPelosi seemed to take
a veiled jab at the presidentand Omar's flippancy.
Stating quote, "The memoryof 9/11 is sacred ground
"and any discussion of itmust be done with reverence."
Crenshaw says it's Omar whoshould be held accountable.
- I don't think she supportsany kind of terrorism
or anything like that.
But she did speak about it in a dismissive
and disrespectful way, okay?
And I clearly pointed that out.
I said, hey, that's unbelievable.
Why would you talk about it this way?
And if you are gonnatalk about it that way,
and you feel that you misspoke,then say that you misspoke.
But she doesn't, right?
She doubles down, right?
Maybe, because she'sperfectly find with the way
that came off.
- Crenshaw says that thepresident is in no way
inciting violence and says that narrative
is an attempt to silence critics.
As Abigail Robertson, with that exclusive,
we will have more in the days to follow.
Alright, well here now formore once again, David Brody.
And joining theconversation, Clarence Page,
a Pulitzer Prize winning commentator
and senior member of theChicago Tribune Editorial Board.
Clarence, thanks for being here.
- Thank you, glad to be here.
- First question to you,in your latest column
you write, you say that both Donald Trump
and Congresswoman Omarshould to to the corner
and take a timeout.
They cannot seem to stopprovoking each other.
- Well, sometimes in this business
you gotta put your presshat aside and be a parent
(laughing) and say, you two stop all this
or I'm gonna come back to that back seat.
And my son said, always says,
how you gonna drive thecar from the back seat?
But, nevertheless, it's no less rational
than what's going on right now.
I think President Trumpand Congresswoman Ilhan
are both trying to provoke each other.
And provoke public discussiontoward their direction.
- Well, now you say that President Trump
is trying to make America hate again.
- Unfortunately.
- But in all fairness, wasn'tit Omar who started this?
- Who started it?
Now, that's the first thing kids say.
He started it, blah blah blah.
(laughing)- Fair question?
- Let's face it, the atmospherein Washington right now
is very, shall we say, pugilistic.
People want, are just kindof itching for a fight.
I didn't directly say that President Trump
is trying to make America hate again.
But he acts like it.
He sends that kind of a message
that says, hey, hey, it's okayto hate somebody like this
who doesn't agree with youabout Middle East policy,
who doesn't agree with you about the 9/11,
the way things are going.
I think Congresswoman Ilhanspoke too flippantly about 9/11.
She knows the gravity of that occasion.
She knows that it shookAmericans up in many ways,
regardless of your political leaning.
And I think a certain amount of reverence
is due to that.
Call me politically correct.
But, I think it's good manners.
I think it's goodreverence to the situation.
Unfortunately, we've gotten
into a presidentialelection campaign year.
It's coming up fast and soeverybody wants to posture
one position or another.
So this has to play out.
- Yeah, David, critics andsupporters of President Trump
will say this kind of behavior is beneath
the office of the president.
What do you say to that?
They don't think he shouldbe rolling around in the mud.
- Right and it reallyisn't so much what I say,
it's what he says and he says
he couldn't give a riff,
really couldn't, he couldn't care less.
And really a lot of folks would say
that's a problem, clearly.
But he's a fighter,we've heard this before.
He's from New York andthis is the way he does it.
Right, and you're gonna punch him,
he's gonna punch you two times as hard.
And I gotta tell you, whatwas interesting to me,
this is the line thathe said the other day
about Ilhan Omar, he said this.
She's got a way about herthat's very, very bad,
I think for our country.
And that was a bit disconcerting to me
when I hear that.
I wanted to unpack that.
What did that mean exactly?
And what I thought,there's a lot to unpack
in that statement.
But I think overall, it'sabout a values argument.
Donald Trump sees a traditional 1950's,
if you wanna call it, back in the day type
value system in America.
She represents something far different.
I think it's threatening to him.
I think it's threatening to alot of folks in this country.
And I think that is the value argument
between the two sides.
- Well, we don't wantto end the conversation
without talking about Nancy Pelosi.
How do you think she ishandling this situation?
- As well as anybody can who's got a whole
house full of kids who are going crazy.
(laughing)
It's not just Congresswoman Ilhan.
It's the radical left, whatever you want
to call them right now.
Just like John Boehner wasliterally run out of the House
by the conservative wing of his caucus.
Same thing is happening with Nancy Pelosi
but she's not running.
She's handling them likea good house mother would
or she would say a mother of five does.
Because she's got to keepthe energy that the left
is bringing to the party right now.
While at the same time,not frightening away
the swing voters that they have to have
in order to beat Trump and inorder to win the House back
and the Senate.
So, she's handling it as well as she can.
Unfortunately, for hershe knows it's early
in the campaign year.
A lot of this'll all beforgotten by the end of summer
for that matter.
And things really start to heat up.
But, for right now, she'sbeen able to keep the peace
with AOC and Ilhan andthe others on the left
while at the same time,taking care of the folks
in the middle.
- Not a very easy thing to do.
- A delicate dance, no joke.
Alright, Clarence Page.
- She asked for it, didn't she?
- Yes she did.
(laughing)
Clarence Page, David Brody thank you.
- Thanks so much.
- Thank you.
- Still ahead, artificial intelligence
is starting to become a permanentpart of our daily lives.
How evangelicals are responding.
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Artificial intelligence is no longer
just the future.
AI is a growing reality and can be found
almost, really, anywhere.
Through the use ofalgorithms machines learn
to perform tasks that previouslyonly humans could complete.
- And as this tech speedsup, one big question is
how should Christians respond?
And that is a question thatone group is tackling head-on.
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- Never fear while Rosey's here.
- [Eric] It wasn't that longago that Rosey the Robot maid
seemed entertaining andcompletely unrealistic.
- Hi, Sophia.
(laughing)
- Hello, Jimmy.
- [Eric] Now, Sophia the human-like robot
is making the rounds on television
including the Tonight Show.
Robot vacuums are cleaning up our houses
while personal assistants likeAlexa, answer our questions
and even do our shopping.
- [Alexa] You have fouritems on your shopping list.
- [Eric] And the military uses this tech
for research and tomaneuver on the battlefield.
All of this, thanks toartificial intelligence or AI.
- The frog in the boilingwater metaphor suggests
that it's all happening soslowly you don't notice.
Whereas, in fact, thisis happening quickly
and people are noticing.
But they don't know how to deal with it.
Conversely, our failure to develop a set
of ethical and legal controls
could increase the oddsthat the pot boils over.
- [Eric] That's why these church leaders
met recently in Washington totalk about how evangelicals
should respond to the fast paced advances
in artificial intelligence.
- We have to be the people who are able
to, as scripture tells us,discern the times around us.
If we are not wrestling withwhat are the moral implications
of what we're facing, then the world
will provide those answersin ways that are not
conducive to the Christian gospel.
- [Eric] So the Southern Baptist Ethics
and Religious Liberty Commission
took on the job ofdeveloping this statement
of principles concerning AI.
Twelve articles offering everything
from sexuality to medicine to war.
Jason Thacker spearheaded the effort.
- What I want is for Christiansto be thinking biblically.
What is privacy?
What is data?
What should we be sharing,what's wisdom look like there?
- [Eric] A cornerstonepremise of the statement
is that humans, not machines, were created
in the image of God.
One passage reads, we deny that any part
of creation, includingany form of technology
should ever be used to usurp the dominion
entrusted solely to humanity by God.
The document emphasizesthat while the ability
to create is a God-givengift, humans are accountable
to God for technology theycreate and what it does.
- Oftentimes, peopletalk about this in terms
of the impact on the political process
or military decisions.
And those are real concerns,but this could actually
have much broader impacts.
- Especially for Christianstrying to balance
chapter and verse withscience and technology.
Definitely a balancing act there.
Now, church leaders say the next step
is infusing information on how to respond
to artificial intelligenceinto forums like
Sunday school, small groupsand discipleship classes.
- Making a fashion statement.
Coming up, meet the college students
behind these dresses andhow they're promoting life
and that movement.
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Students at an Ohio Christian college
hope to send a pro-life messagewith a new fashion trend,
combining baby clothes with their own.
- Very interesting andas Paul Strand reports,
it produces a startling visual statement
of the human cost of abortion.
- If you really know what you stand for
you could say or writea statement of beliefs.
And if you like to dress up well,
you like to make a fashion statement.
What if you could doboth statements at once
and communicate yourfeelings about abortion
when you get all dressed up?
That's what's happeningwith some young ladies here
at Ohio's Cedarville University
and they hope what they're doing spreads.
- We hope that high schoolgirls, even college women
such as ourselves will,at their formal this year
or any other opportunitythey have to be seen
with a onesie or otherbaby clothes pinned to them
to connect the humanity of the child
that belongs inside of that clothing
to their humanity.
- [Paul] They call this pro-lifeinnovation a message dress.
- When you see baby clothes,you think of sweet things
and lovely things and the children
who should be wearing them.
- This is a first anybody's ever thought
of doing something like this.
- [Paul] It simply takesadding baby clothes to a dress.
- The pro-life movement didn't have
such a creative idea in place before,
that people can comearound and take part in
and join in with themselves.
- And I want all pro-lifeadvocates who are young women
to feel comfortablethat they can take part
in this initiative.
- [Paul] Stephanie Schlaubachwas a Psychology Major
and Anna Edwards is now.
Both have studied the mental wounds
many women carry from an abortion.
- They have nightmares.
They get very depressed.
- And for women who evenare okay with abortions,
they still have to acceptthat they had something
that they then lost, nomatter what they believe
that something is.
Of course, we believethat it's their children
and thus you shouldn't kill them.
But, so it's extremely harmful for women.
- We have suicidal thoughtsand behaviors in some cases,
especially if it's a late term abortion
because that is, they'vestarted developing that bond
even without knowing it, with their child.
And when they just forcethat child out of them
and it's no longer living,
that does cause a lotof psychological damage.
- The horror of abortionis so often unseen.
Well, these folks withtheir message dresses
are hoping to make ita little more visible.
Those that are being killed,
and what's really beinglost through abortion.
Paul Strand, CBN News, reportingfrom Cedarville University.
- And that's gonna do itfor Faith Nation tonight.
- Have a great evening.
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