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- And thanks for joiningus for CBN Newswatch.
I'm Heather Sells.
We begin with the deadly shooting
at a Southern Californiasynagogue over the weekend.
It happened on the last day of Passover
and left one woman dead andthree other people injured,
including the congregation's rabbi.
Mark Martin joins us now inthe CBN newsroom with more.
Mark.
- Heather, the shootinghappened inside a synagogue
in Poway, California,which is near San Diego.
Now investigators say19-year-old John Earnest
walked in and opened fire.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein wasone of the four people shot.
Goldstein lost a finger.
60-year-old Lori GilbertKaye lost her life
and reportedly shielded herrabbi from the alleged gunman.
Her friends are calling her a hero.
ABC News reports houses ofworship across the country
are increasing security.
- This is not supposed to happen.
This isn't Nazi Germany.
This isn't a pogrom.
This is right here, Poway.
- Very scary and.
- [Mark] Witnesses say the alleged gunman
fired as many as 15 roundsbefore his gun jammed
and a military veteran chased him away.
- Ran up to him and I yelled at him
and he dropped his weapon and he ran out
and I chased him out of the sanctuary.
- Hundreds mourned at a vigil on Sunday
and Goldstein received a call of support
from President Trump.
ABC News reports that investigators say
this is not the only hate crime
connected to the alleged gunman.
They say he wrote online
about attempting to burndown a mosque last month,
calling it a tribute to previous massacres
against Jews and Muslims.
Heather, back to you.
- Mark, what do we know about
where the suspect is at right now?
- He remains in policecustody without bail.
In addition to homicide charges,
he may face a hate crime charge
when he appears in court later this week.
Back to you.
- Thank you, Mark.
And joining us now is the Associate Dean
of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
a leading Jewish humanrights organization,
Rabbi Abraham Cooper.
Thanks for joining us.
- Thanks, Heather.
- Tell us what you know about the attack.
We know that it could'vebeen so much worse.
Who were some of theheroes that you know about?
- Well, first, obviously,the attack was a copycat,
both in word and deed,of the Pittsburgh attack,
it was six months to the day,
and the horrific attacks inNew Zealand and Sri Lanka.
And this young man wasdrinking from the same
anti-Semitic, anti-black,you might say anti-Christian
narrative that is now so popular online.
In a few hours, we'll beburying the heroic woman
who saved her rabbi.
Someone who was in synagogueto say memorial prayers
for her loved ones and forthe victims of the Holocaust
is now herself a victim.
And also take note that itwas at a Chabad synagogue.
Chabad is kind of thespiritual peace corps
of the Jewish people.
They're all over the world.
And in fact, they are now,unfortunately, been targets
both of a domesticterrorist here in the US
and in Mumbai in an ISIS type of attack
that left a young rabbi, his wife,
and four other Jews murdered in India.
So this isn't the first time.
What we are seeing now, unfortunately,
is a trend where extremists,domestic extremists,
lone wolves here in the United States,
are beginning to mimicthe approach of ISIS
in terms of using terrorism.
And, of course, a hugeproblem across the board
is social media.
And one of the things thatwe all have to insist upon
is that--- Right, well I want
to ask you about social media too
and just the whole motive of this shooter.
It seems so difficult tocombat this type of hatred
when people are just goingonline and easily accessing it.
What do you think is the correctresponse to this violence?
- Yes, well, we've beendealing with the companies now
for a quarter of acentury and, number one,
no more livestreaming aswhat happened in New Zealand,
the livestreaming of themassacre of 50 people of prayer.
The companies know how tomake sure it isn't live.
CBN doesn't go live.
CBS doesn't go live.
That has to change.
And beyond that, thecompanies also have to do more
to degrade the marketingcapabilities of hate and terrorism
on the internet andespecially social media.
And finally, we needour political leaders.
I was so glad to see that thepresident spoke to the rabbi
as an American president should.
But we need Nancy Pelosi,
the president of the United States,
Democrats and Republicanson these various committees,
to stop weaponizing hateto speak to their case
and start a new bipartisanship
to indicate to our ownkids and to the country
and to the enemies that hatecrimes are actually something,
they'll be a top priority to combat.
And we'll have to give some more money
and, if necessary, change someof the rules of engagement
to allow police, national law enforcement,
and intelligence agenciesto do a deep dive
into social media andfind out who's doing what
and, hopefully, be able to interdict
those who've made a decision to act
and to stop allowing forthe emergence of hate
as part of the subculture of social media.
- Rabbi, we just have about 30 seconds,
but how is the Jewishcommunity responding?
How do you see this affectingworship going forward?
- Well, the wonderfulwoman who gave her life,
her brother is a member of our synagogue
here in West Los Angeles.
We'll be at the shiva house.
We feel we're all one family.
And when this happens, it'smeant to hurt every Jew
and we are hurting, butwe have deep resolve
inspired by Rabbi Goldstein
that we're not going toallow this kind of behavior
to push us into the corner.
And finally, I really urge
my friends in the Christiancommunity and Muslim leaders,
you really do need, in Americain 2019, basic security
for every house of prayer.
It's gonna be a long timebefore we can take down
those security measures.
- Well very, very sobering.
Our condolences to you.
Thank you for your time, Rabbi Cooper.
- Thank you for yourinterest and commitment.
- Well a strong responsefrom Israel today.
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations
is demanding action by theinternational community
against anti-Semitismfollowing the attack.
- The time for talking andhaving a conversation is over.
What Israel and the Jewish community
around the world demandsis action and now.
It is simple.
Those who engage inanti-Semitism must be punished.
Whether it's here at the UN,political leaders, editors,
policy pundits, or collegeprofessors, it doesn't matter.
Anti-Semitism should haveno place in our society.
Until it becomes criminal,
this bigotry will persist, it will fester.
It is only a matter of time
until it erupts again inviolence and bloodshed.
It is unacceptable thatworshipers should look back
while they are praying.
- Danon also shared his support
for the anticipated peace planfrom the Trump administration
expected in the coming weeks.
It has been a little over a week
since the deadly EasterSunday attacks in Sri Lanka
and security forces there arecontinuing to go door to door
searching for suspects andexplosive making material.
Over the weekend, militantslinked to the suicide bombing
opened fire and set off explosives
during a raid by Sri Lankansecurity forces on a house.
15 people were killed,including a number of militants.
Meanwhile, a vigil inmemory of the victims
was held Sunday where theArchbishop of Colombo led prayers.
Residents say the bombingshave changed everything
and people are afraid togo about their daily lives.
Sri Lanka's president has placed a ban
on all kinds of face coverings
that conceal people's identities.
The emergency law took effect today
and it prevents Muslim womenfrom veiling their faces.
CBN's Senior InternationalCorrespondent George Thomas
joins me now, and George,ISIS claimed responsibility
for the attacks in Sri Lankaand now there is a new image
of the group's leader out today.
- That's right.- Tell us about that.
- Yeah, this is quite significant.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the lasttime we saw him was in 2014,
and you see the images there
published just a few hours ago
by the group Site Intelligence.
The bottom one shows Baghdadi in 2014.
This new one, he looks quite healthy,
a little overweight,he's got a white beard,
but on the top right hand picture,
he's talking to some lieutenants
in a very casual conversation.
And Heather, he makes, whichis very, very significant,
he makes reference tothe Sri Lanka attacks.
Now, it was done in an audio.
It wasn't part of the18-minute video interview.
It looks like this wasadded at the last minute,
right before the publication of it,
but it is very, very significant,
especially in the contextof all the efforts
that we have made against the group ISIS
in Syria and Iraq, for himto come out with this image.
This is obviously proof oflife that he is still alive.
- All right, and in Sri Lanka,
we've been talking about concernabout more suicide attacks.
- That's right.- There have been warnings.
What does it look like
at this point?- Yeah, well right now,
the head of the nationalpolice intelligence outfit
just release a letter topoliticians, senior police,
and security forces, andthis is what the letter says,
and I think we have video here.
It says that there couldbe another wave of attacks.
Specifically, they're very, very concerned
about individuals who arewearing military fatigues
and using vans, and sothat's the next threat
that they're very, very concerned about,
potentially attacks comingtoday and/or tomorrow.
- [Heather] It soundslike the whole country
is really just- Very much so.
On edge.- In shock, on edge.
We also know there's more information
about the attacks that have come out.
What's the latest that weknow about what went down?
- Yeah, well within the few hours
after the attacks happened,
the head of the intelligence apparatus
released this letter, sayinglisten, back on April 11th,
I sent out a very detailed information
to the various security agencies,
including the presidentand the prime minister,
saying in detail, laying out in detail
the names of the individualswho could be used,
who could be part of the operation,
the actual group that is involved,
and yet nothing was done.
And so there's an intenseamount of pressure
on the Sri Lankangovernment saying, listen,
you had all of this information,very, very detailed.
And now the president ofSri Lanka is pushing back,
saying hey, well hold up, hold up,
I didn't really see this intelligence.
But a high-ranking official
within the intelligence apparatuscame out disputing that,
saying this informationwas passed on to him,
landed on his table,
and is basically saying tothe president of Sri Lanka
that what you're saying is incorrect.
- It's incredibly tragic.
Talk too about these raids.
They're going house to house.
Are they finding anything
that's helpful?- Oh, yeah,
you better believe it.
I mean some of the video that you see
coming out of these raidsare quite remarkable.
In one scene, as we go to the video,
in one scene, we see theycaptured an ISIS flag.
They saw an ISIS flag inone of the safe houses.
But then there's all thisbomb-making material.
I mean in one scene,
there are over 100,000 ball bearings,
which are then compressedinto these suicide vests,
and the more ball bearings you have,
the greater the impactin terms of shrapnel.
They had drones and allkinds of other material,
but very, very shocking.
The time it took to putall of this together
just shows how sophisticatedan attack this was.
And they were planning to do even more.
- All right, and I justwant to ask you briefly
before we go too about these veils.
- Yeah.
- I would think thatthere would be pushback,
people wouldn't want togo along with this ban,
- Correct.- but it sounds like
people are agreeing to this.
- They are, in fact the president said
just in the last 24 hoursas he made this statement,
in the context of the national emergency
that he declared, he said that,
for the purposes ofidentifying individuals,
they need to be able to see the full face.
Typically, Muslim women wear their burqas,
either they're completely veiled
or just have a head covering.
But this is not gonnabe a permanent ruling.
They will, at some point, lift the ban
once they feel like theinvestigation has been completed.
- Wow, all right, well GeorgeThomas, thank you so much.
- You're most welcome.
- Coming up, how pro-lifeactivists are responding
to a landmark ruling onan abortion law in Kansas.
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A setback for the pro-life movement.
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday
that a ban on dismemberment abortion
violates the state's Bill of Rights.
The court took the position
that the Kansas State Bill of Rights
includes the right to abortion.
Pro-life groups are outraged.
The national Right to Lifereleasing this statement,
saying, quote, dismemberment abortion
kills a living unbornbaby by tearing her apart
limb from limb.
It is unconscionable thatthe Kansas Supreme Court
would allow living unborn babies
to be killed in such a gruesome manner.
Here now with more isconstitutional law expert
and attorney Jenna Ellis.
Jenna, thanks for joining us.
- Thanks so much for having me.
- Tell us, abortion rights activists
are calling this a landmark ruling.
Do you consider it to be?
Could it encourage other states
to roll back laws that limit abortions?
- It is landmark in the sense
that this is the first time
that the Kansas State Supreme Court
has attempted to shoehorn aso-called right to abortion
through the state constitution
rather than simply relyingon Roe versus Wade.
So we've seen historically since 1973
that the states and the activists there
who want abortion have simply relied on
the United States Supreme Court,
but now that we have aconservative majority
and Roe versus Wade islikely to be overturned
in the next year or two,
we're seeing that state courts
are now trying to have thesame holding that Roe held
and try to find aso-called right to abortion
in their state constitution
rather than only relyingon the federal system.
And so while this is really good
in the sense that we'reseeing that the supreme courts
in the states are notrelying on Roe versus Wade,
now the battle is goingto be in the states.
- Interesting.
In this case, it was adismemberment abortion law.
Do you see other pro-lifelaws, if you will,
that are particularly vulnerable right now
since the states arebecoming the new focus?
- Yeah, absolutely.
I mean now that thebattleground is going to be
in the states, then everyperson who is pro-life
is going to have to makesure to be very involved
with your state legislature.
And so any types of abortion laws,
whether it's restricting abortion
or whether it's trying tomake abortion more accessible,
those types of laws arenot only going to be
going through the legislatures,
we've seen heartbeat billsget passed in states like Ohio
that's very encouraging,but we're also seeing
these legal challenges.
And so what we have to doas Christians is make sure
that we're not onlyfighting these legislative
and legal battles, butwe're also trying to change
hearts and minds by lookingat the science behind this.
We're seeing that millennials
are the most pro-life generation
and it's really encouraging actually
that, in six states, there are currently
only one abortion clinicjust because women are now
not choosing abortion evenif its legally permissible.
- Really interesting.
Also want to ask you about, you know,
Kansas, in some ways, hasbeen on the front lines
for the fight over abortion.
Many remember the abortion doctor
Dr. George Tiller who was shot and killed
by an anti-abortion extremist in 2009.
So do you see a pro-abortionvictory in Kansas
as also being really asymbolic win, if you will,
given that state's history?
- I think it's symbolic in the sense
that this is now on the front lines
of the national conversation again
and so many pro-lifeadvocates really thought that
we may never get to this point
because the liberalactivists are telling us,
very untruthfully, that Roeverse Wade is settled law,
that abortion will alwaysbe a so-called right
in the United Statesand we will never have
this national conversation again.
So to have this start in Kansas
and really see that, I mean,this law and this holding
is going to be challengedup to the US Supreme Court.
And even pro-life activists that are there
are saying that we need to havea constitutional amendment,
a state constitutional amendment
to specifically protect unborn life.
Those are things that we can do
and I think the national conversation
is being propelled in that direction
in a way that, honestly,Christians didn't think possible,
and I think it's such a wonderful,amazing God that we serve
that our national conversation
is now directed toward pro-life
in a way that we haven't seen since 1973.
- A really amazing time.
Jenna Ellis, thank youfor your time today.
- Thank you.
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Historian and politicalanalyst Victor Davis Hanson
isn't a natural Donald Trump supporter,
but he puts feelings aside in his new book
called The Case for Trump.
It is about how the president's foes
gave Americans plentyof reasons to elect him.
As Paul Strand reports,
the author says it couldhappen all over again.
- Those who see Trump'selection as some sort of fluke
don't understand how disaffected
millions of voters outhere in middle America were
with how the ruling class was ruling them
and stifling the economy.
- It might be stagnantbecause we were overregulated,
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the ruling class' attitudes.
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It seemed like when he went overseas,
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That bothered people.
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gave them an opposite message.
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- China's not fated to run the world
and it's not gonna bully you anymore
and you can't have a sovereignnation with open borders
and there's no such thingas deindustrialization,
we're gonna startbuilding and manufacturing
in these old red-state Rust Belt cities.
- [Paul] It turned many non-voters
and Democrat voters into Trump voters
in states expected toprovide Hillary Clinton
the winning margin.
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to make five to eightto nine million people
turn out to vote.
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80,000, 100, thatflipped all those states.
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and political incorrectness as offensive,
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more than it did them, andthey just wanted to let go.
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and just go out and bite them.
- Historian Hanson seesin the feisty Trump
the reflection of Harry Truman,
another much maligned manduring his presidency,
who stubbornly defied those around him
in his efforts to makethe world a better place.
- Truman didn't listen to people.
I mean he said theRussians can't be trusted.
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Dean Acheson and George Marshall said
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You just don't do that.
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- [Paul] As the non-politician
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Hanson says the otherside plays legal hardball.
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We have the defendant.
He's guilty, just give us the crime now,
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So they're going after him
in a way they've never goneafter another president.
- [Paul] Hanson sees this movement
as a bigger threat to Trump
than the actual opposition party.
He believes the AlexandriaOcasio-Cortez types
are pushing Democratcandidates so far left
they'll scare people away with policies
like radical abortion, theGreen New Deal, and socialism.
- Those are not winning issues
and one of the questions in 2020 will be
how adroitly will they back off from them.
- [Paul] If they don't,
Hanson believes that they might re-enact
the left's utter defeat
at the hands of Richard Nixon in 1972.
- [Victor] And they went thefull McGovern crazy stuff,
Woodstock nation andall that, and people...
It's the second biggestlandslide in history.
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