- Well, welcome to The 700 Club.

Trump set a trap and the Democrats,

they walked right into it.

No evidence, no problem.

In their rush to impeach the President,

Democrats are not evenbothering to get the facts.

As Charlene Aaron reports,they might regret it.

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- After mounting pressurefrom fellow Democrats,

House Speaker, Nancy Pelosiannounced an impeachment inquiry

against President Trumpover his phone call

with Ukraine's president.

- Actions taken to date by the President

has seriously violated the Constitution,

therefore, today,

I'm announcing theHouse of Representatives

is moving forward with anofficial impeachment inquiry.

- [Charlene] Speaker Pelosi accused Trump

of seeking to pressurethe President of Ukraine

to investigate Joe Bidenand his son, Hunter

just days after freezingmillions in foreign aid

to the country.

The President says therewas no quid pro quo

and the administration will

release a complete unredacted transcript

of the call today.

It's also working to declassify

and make public the whistle blower report.

Tuesday, the Senateunanimously passed a resolution

calling for it's release.

- I hope this will helprefocus the conversation away

from reckless speculationand back toward the facts.

- [Charlene] In a tweet,Trump called the controversy,

"Presidential harassment," also tweeting,

"They never even saw thetranscript of the call,

a total witch hunt."

Pelosi had resistedimpeachment up until now

but says the Ukrainecall makes it imperative.

- That has changed everything, so now

because the Inspector General has said

that this of urgent concern,it has accelerated the pace

of how we go forward.

- [Charlene] However,the majority of the House

does not support impeachmentand Speaker Pelosi

broke precedent by not holding a vote,

instead bringing six Housecommittee investigations

into the President underthe impeachment umbrella.

House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy

criticized her move.- Thank you all.

She cannot change thelaws of this Congress.

She cannot unilaterally decide

we're in an impeachment inquiry.

- On the CBN News program, Faith Nation,

CBN News Chief PoliticalCorrespondent, David Brody said,

the transcript of the call is key

to the case for impeachment.

- If there was an actualask, Trump says there wasn't,

we'll see but if therewas an ask of some sort,

that's a thing of value, that is a crime

and then Democrats willhave a much stronger hand.

- [Charlene] And are takinga risk on the whistle blower

who reportedly wasmotivated by political bias.

- We also know that the whistle blower

has provided this complaint second hand,

so there are a lot of sketchy details.

I mean, Democrats aregoing out on a limb here.

- An inquiry does not mean impeachment.

The House would have tointroduce and pass articles

of impeachment and right nowmost members don't support it.

Charlene Aaron, CBN News.

- Just think of what's goingto happen in the election 2020,

what are the Democrats gonna say,

well we came after Trump and we failed.

That's gonna be the way theygo to the American people?

They're gonna try to win the presidency

and many seats in Congress.

I think that you'll findmany, many House seats

gonna get switched back to the Republicans

'cause it's gonna be alandslide for the president.

They have walked right into it

because what are the American people want,

they want Congress to dosomething to make life better

for them, they want goodjobs, they want their security

taken care of, they want healthcare,

they want all these things andthey don't want a whole bunch

of immigrants coming inand taking all their jobs

away from them.

That's what the peoplewant, they don't wanna hear

about impeachment andthey don't wanna hear

all this committees going back and forth

and Adam Schiff doing his thing

and all this other, they don't want that.

Well, that's what they're going to get

and the Democrats aregoing to be terribly sorry

they ever opened this can of worms

because today the President'sgonna release the transcript

of the call and then they'llfind that this whistle blower

was not somebody who hadany firsthand knowledge

of anything and he's tryingto hurt the President

and it's not going to work.

Well, we've got somethingmuch better for you on today.

Groundbreaking researchthat can save your life,

keep you from havingcancer, Alzheimer's, obesity

and all even skin rashesand things like colitis

and all this stuff thatyou see on television

where they've got various drugs

that you can take to solve these problems.

But you can beat thesedevastating diseases

with one powerful punch,you hit it in the gut.

As Lorie Johnson explains,you won't believe

how easy it is.

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- [Lorie] Medical researchersspend countless hours

and dollars discoveringall kinds of secrets

to longer, better life.

Dr. Raphael Kellman is amonga growing number of physicians

who say the microbiome standsat the top of the list.

- The most important messagehas come from science,

in the last decade, evenless, maybe seven years,

the most important messagefrom all of scientific research

is this, the microbiome isessential and key to our health.

- [Lorie] How essential?

A healthy gut can helpprevent or treat cancer,

heart disease, Alzheimer'sand the rest of this list.

One big reason is theright bacteria contribute

to a strong immune system,heart and brain health.

In his book, The Microbiome Breakthrough,

Dr. Kellman explainswhy everyone should do

what they can to increasethe amount and type

of living bacteria in our gut.

- My opinion it's the most important way

to prevent disease, including cancer.

- [Lorie] The Mayo Clinic'sDr. Heidi Nelson agrees,

pointing out why this tinyecosystem demands balance.

- If you have a build up ofcertain of bad nutrients,

thus take for example, hydrogen sulfide,

we know that some bacteriaproduce hydrogen sulfide

and others remove it and use it

but if you have too much hydrogen sulfide,

that could, in some people, bethe cause of the break in DNA

that starts the chain reactionof colon cancer developing.

- [Lorie] Getting theright mix also reduces

one of the greatest causes

of cardiovascular problems, inflammation.

- And that could causehigh blood pressure,

that could affect the vessels of the body

and that's all related to heart disease.

- [Lorie] Since we're focused on the gut,

it's pretty clear that a healthy one

can prevent bloating, gas and diarrhea.

But Dr. Kellman says the benefits

can also help autoimmune disorders,

like rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto's,

the most common cause of a low thyroid.

Here's how, the walls of a healthy gut

are made up of tiny holesallowing vital nutrients

to flow to other parts of the body.

An unhealthy gut causes large openings

to form allowing big proteins to escape.

The immune system sees these as foreign

and attacks them and other tissues

that might resemblethem, like our thyroid.

The good news, a leakygut can be repaired.

- The microbiome is a key playerin healing Crohn's Disease

and colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

- [Lorie] Weight lossexpert, Dr. Vincent Pedre

says maintaining theproper mix of bacteria

helps prevent obesity.

- When your gut ishealthy it's much easier

for your body to maintaina healthy weight.

- [Lorie] In a landmark study, researchers

took identical twins with the same DNA,

although one was obese and the other thin.

They put gut bacteria fromeach twin into germ-free mice.

The animals with theobese twin's microbiome

became obese, while those that

received the thin twin'sbacteria remained thin.

This result, although themice ate the same food.

In his book, Happy Gut, Dr. Pedre explains

since 80% of the immune system is located

along the boundary of the gut,

a healthy one can prevent everything

from infections to rashes.

- Which can appear likeeczema on your skin, hives,

could be allergies, asthma, even migraines

are connected to poor gut health.

- Even though our gutand brain are far apart,

one of the gut's key functionsis preventing problems

with the way we think and feel,

everything from depression to Alzheimer's.

In his book, Brain Maker,Dr. David Perlmutter

explains how an internal super highway

called the gut brain axishelps make neurotransmitters

and vitamins that can wardoff neurological issues

like ADHD, Parkinson's, even autism.

- A recent study that appeared

in a well respected peerreview medical journal,

actually looked at giving children

with autism a fecaltransplant, transplanting

into them healthy gut bacteria.

It was a small study, only 20 participants

but the results werereally quite dramatic.

- [Lorie] So while Hippocrates,the father of medicine

said all disease begins in the gut,

today's health experts agree,adding the opposite is true,

all disease can be prevented in the gut.

- Lorie Johnson's with us.

Lorie, this is a breakthrough,

this is cutting edge medicine.

- That's right, Dr. Kellman said,

out of all the medicalresearch done anywhere

in the last seven years, thisranks as the most important.

- Lorie, I watchtelevision, most people do,

the airways are filled with advertising

for people that have allthese irritative bowel

and colitis and all this stuff

and all those medicinesare not gonna do the job.

- Well, they could do the job,

there is scientificevidence but all medicines

have side effects and thisis another way to do the job.

This requires in some cases,a little bit more work,

a little bit of self controlbut we have that, right

and it's worth it.

- All right, well now, the whole idea

of let's build a healthy gut,

we've got this book, thisbook, ladies and gentlemen,

we've offered many thingson the years we've been here

over 50 years, we hadmore response for this

than anything we have ever offered,

it jammed our telephones,Build a Better Gut.

It's a book that Lorie andher team have put together,

it's fabulous and we'll makethat available to you free

if you want it, so just call in.

Now, listen, we've gotsomething called prebiotics,

we've got something called probiotics,

so we wanna startbuilding this healthy gut,

tell us about the twoof them, what are they?

- Well, they're equally important.

The probiotics are theactual live bacteria

that we put into our gut, probiotics,

prebiotics are the foods that they eat,

the fertilizer if you will.

So, it's good to thinkof it like a garden.

The probiotics are theseeds and the prebiotics

are the fertilizer.

- The little fellows haveto feed on something,

he put them in your gutand what do they eat?

- They eat fiber, mostly,now their favorite foods

are these right here.- What?

- These are raw, everybodyknows what this is,

raw asparagus, but thesemight not be so recognizable.

This is called Jicama, you canget it at the grocery store

in the produce department,it's delicious, eat it raw.

This is, bacteria's oneof their favorite foods

and then these, I don't knowif you'll recognize these

are dandelion greens.

- Come on, dandelion!- I know, I eat these

every single day in my salad,

I buy them at the grocery store

but if you're on a budget youcan go to your neighbor's yard

and pick them right up.

These are actual dandelion greens.

- [Pat] My goodness, okay.

- So the neighbor whoused to have dandelions,

you would get upset aboutnow that person can feed you.

- What's that?- And now

this is a supplement of prebiotic fiber

and we saw Dr. Perlmutterjust a moment ago,

this is his brand and these are

if you don't wanna go to the trouble

of buying the prebiotic food you can

just take a scoop of thisand put it in some water

or your smoothie or whatever.

- Start off, this iswhat the little fellows

that we wanna have in ourgut, this is what they eat

and don't they like thingslike fiber and stuff like that?

- Absolutely and this is all fiber.

These are their favorite food but all,

it's just like fertilizer,all fertilizer is good

but some is better than other.

Same thing with the prebiotic fiber,

so any vegetable is good, fresh fruits,

anything that has fiber,that's what our microbiome,

that's what our good bacteria love to eat.

And they need that foodbecause you know if you're just

taking a probiotic and youdon't feed them any food,

those little guys die.

- Oh, we gotta look after them.

All right, now theprobiotics are what everybody

talks about and there aresome that are in refrigerators

but I've read that oneof your experts indicates

that the ones that they are so fragile

that they might die, talk about that.

- Right, news update, they don't have

to be refrigerated anymore.

- Oh really?

- Yeah, that used to be the way it was

because see, this isthe hot new field now,

it's changing by the dayand so now manufacturers

have made probiotics thatare more shelf stable.

So I still buy the refrigerated kind.

This is the kind I, andI'm not pushing this

and believe me I don'tget any money for this.

Again, this is my buddy Dr. Perlmutter,

this is his brand but there aremany, many other good brands

out there.- Raw biotics,

it's garden of life.

And you get that in a grocerystore, that's in the--

- [Lorie] That's in the refrigerator.

- Refrigerator or health food store.

- Right that's true and but youdon't have to get that brand

and you don't have to getthe refrigerated ones.

- This is 100 billionof these little fellows

with every three pills.

- That's right and that'sa hundred billion of them

but what you really wanna look for

are as many strains aspossible, as many species

if you will, different types of bacteria.

- What else you got here, you got yogurt

and some other stuff.

- Right, these are foods thatalso have the live bacteria

in them so they're probiotic foods.

Everybody recognizes yogurt,it has lots of good probiotics

in there, now remember try to get yogurts

that's unsweetened becausewe don't want sugar,

that kind of is bad for your gut.

Now here are some things thatpeople might not recognize.

This is called Kombucha,it's really great.

It has healthy bacteriaand have you ever had it?

- No.- Have you ever

drunk it, it's delicious.

- Yeah.

- It's kind of an acquiredtaste, when I first--

- What do they make it out of?

- Well, it's fermented, soat first, it kind of tastes

like fruity beer, notthat I've ever had beer,

I've been told that ittastes like fruity beer.

- I'm sure, it's okay, you're allowed.

- So anyway here are more, these are

more fermented vegetables,Kimchee these happen

to be fermented beets, they're delicious

but again, it's kind of an acquired taste.

The first one I hadKambucha and also Kimchee,

I was wondering if it wassupposed to taste that way

and it is but now I loveit, I crave it in fact.

So these are some probiotic foods.

- So, you need both, you need

and we're talking about billions of,

I mean, just not a few ofthem, it's billions of these

little fellows.- That's right

and there are about 200 different strains

and we wanna think about it like a garden.

We want to have as manydifferent varieties as possible

and so a lot of different strains,

those are what we wantand we want a lot of them.

- How many diseases that youthink that this will alleviate.

We're talking about cancer, we're talking

about heart disease, we'retalking about colitis,

we're talking about Alzheimer's,

we're talking aboutParkinson's, all that stuff.

- All of that stuff,especially brain diseases.

Now, you and I have talked at length

about what messes up your gut

and we know the number oneculprit are those antibiotics.

- Absolutely.- Yeah.

See, now antibiotics by verydefinition kill our bacteria

and that includes the good ones.

Now sometimes we have totake antibiotics, of course,

if it's a life or death situation,

a lot of times we take antibioticswhen we don't need them,

for example, if we have a viral infection.

- Well, doctors use to givethem to kids, like candy

and dentists are fabulousfor giving those things

because they've got an infected tooth

and here's a course and you say, okay,

well the dentist just gave it to me

but that'll kill everygood bacteria in your gut.

- It really will, so we needto use them judiciously.

As a matter of fact, a new research shows

that two courses of antibioticsincrease your chance

for depression by 50% andwe talked in the piece

about the link between ourgut health and our brain,

our mood, Alzheimer's,this has been proven.

- You think some of theseshootings that took place,

these people are mentally defective

and that's part of this?

- You wonder, you wonder,because the evidence

is so clear that our gut microbiome,

just so closely resemblesour mental health.

So, I would encourageeverybody to give it a try

improve your gut bacteriaand see how it works.

- I would recommend antibiotics,I think don't do it,

but if you're gonna have to do it,

if they insist on it, Iwould take a whole bunch

of these pills, theseprobiotic pills to counter it,

if you can.- That's one

of the main questions thatthese gut experts are asked,

what if I have to take an antibiotic

and they will say as soon asyour antibiotic is finished,

as soon as you're finishedtaking it, really load up

on those probiotics andof course, the prebiotics.

- Okay, well, Lorie, youlook, what are you doing?

You look wonderful.- I take lots of probiotics.

I eat my probiotic food and my prebiotics,

don't forget the prebiotics. (laughs)

- You're a walking billboard, all right.

This is called Build a Better Gut folks,

we have, as I say, of allthe things we've ever offered

we had more responsefor this than anything

we ever over years have ever offered.

We'll give this to youfree if you want it,

Build a Better Gut butthink of all diseases

that you can take care of ifyou got the right gut bacteria

including leaky gut, it's just awful.

But Lorie you are terrific, bring us

some more things like this.

- I'm happy to come back anytime.

- Well, what's your nextproject to be opened?

- Osteoporosis, I'm soexcited, I've learned

so much about it.- Ooh.

- Yeah, porous bones,this is what causes people

when they fall for theirbones to break, it's terrible.

Half of all women over theage of 50 have osteoporosis

but guess what it can bereversed and a lot of it,

the same stuff, this wonderful diet stuff

and then some supplements,vitamin D, calcium,

I'm getting ahead of myself.

We'll talk about it next week.

- We're looking forward to it.

All right, our healthreporter, ladies and gentlemen,

you heard it here.