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- That was the end of our marriage.

- [Reporter] A secret is exposed.

- Barrett's having an affair.

- [Reporter] What else was he hiding?

- Over 20 years of using pornography--

- [Reporter] Find out what happened

when his wife discovered the darkness.

- I think I was moreangry than I'd ever been.

- [Reporter] And whydid she stay with him?

- And I'm living a lifethat I don't deserve.

- [Reporter] On today's 700 Club.

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- Welcome to The 700 Club.

Is it a time for love,

or is it a time for war?

You know, there's a purposeof everything under Heaven,

we read in the Bible, and there's a time,

and it seems like now is the time to say

I understand your pain,I want to comfort you.

I think it's time we love each other.

But the President took a different course.

He said I am the Presidentof law and order,

and he issued a heads up.

He said I'm ready tosend in military troops

if the nation's governors don't act

to quell the violence thathas rocked American cities.

As a matter of fact, hespoke of them as being jerks.

You just don't do that, Mr. President.

It isn't cool.

The question is does thePresident have the authority

to call out the troops?

What do we have, the Posse Comitatus Act?

I mean, how do you do it?

You gotta go all the wayback to pre-Civil War days

to find an ordinance togive him that authority.

Dale Hurd has more.

- Another night of looting andanarchy on American streets,

but Donald Trump has pledged to stop it.

Demonstrations against thekilling of George Floyd

in Minneapolis while in police custody

have turned violent across the country,

with people breaking intobusinesses and stealing,

smashing car windows andsetting buildings on fire.

Police officers were targeted.

In St. Louis, four policeofficers were shot,

and another in Las Vegas.

In Buffalo, New York, an SUVdrove into a crowd of police.

In Philadelphia, counter-protestorsarmed with golf clubs,

baseball bats, and even hatchets,

faced off againstrioters, and in California

business owners had to defendtheir property themselves.

President Trump says he's mobilizing

all civilian and military forces

to end nationwide lootingand property destruction,

which he says are causedby outside agitators.

- The biggest victims of the rioting

are peace-loving citizensin our poorest communities,

and as their President, Iwill fight to keep them safe.

I will fight to protect you.

I am your President of law and order.

- [Dale] And in an iconic moment,

the President walked across Lafayette Park

and held up a Bible outsidehistoric St. John's Church,

which was set on fire Sunday night.

The move drew condemnation from some

because police clearedLafayette Park of protestors

before the trip.

The episcopal bishopwho oversees the church

also criticized the President's action.

Some Democratic governors are resisting

the President's threat todeploy the U.S. military

unless they dispatch NationalGuard to stop the violence,

but President Trump could use something

called the Insurrection Act to do it.

- If a city or staterefuses to take the actions

that are necessary todefend the life and property

of their residents, then I will deploy

the United States military

and quickly solve the problem for them.

- [Dale] In Minneapolis, atthe site where George Floyd

took his last breath, his brother Terrence

demanded for the violence to stop.

- 'Cause that's not gonnabring my brother back at all.

- [Dale] The resultsfrom two autopsies find

Floyd's death was a homicide,but they differ on the cause.

The County Medical Examinersays he died from a heart attack

complicated by being under restraint,

but experts hired by Floyd's family

said he died of asphyxiationfrom sustained pressure.

In an effort to end racial violence,

the One Race Movement, agroup of Christian pastors,

held an outdoor pressconference in Atlanta

to bring a message of hope.

Bishop Garland Hunt of The Father's House

told CBN News the nation'spastors have to step in.

- We just believe the church,particularly the pastors,

have to come in as a group.

Well, we literally are reconciled

black and white, Asian and Hispanic.

We are one, and we want tospeak peace to our city,

we want to speak love to our city.

- [Dale] Dale Hurd, CBN News.

- Love one another, the Bible says.

God is love, and he thatlives in love, lives in God

and God in him.

We've gotta love each other.

We just have to do that,

and people say well, what about race?

Well, God made us all, let's face it.

We all came from one family,if you read the Bible,

Adam and Eve, and allthe races came from them,

and so we were one race,

and we may have different skin color

and different shape of our eyes,

but we're one, and it's time we recognized

that when you go intothese other cultures,

you see such wonderful people.

You see such loving people.

You see people who carefor their families,

and it's not just somethingthat's unique to the white race.

It's to all of us.

We're all one race, andwe need to love each other

and we cannot let outside agitators

feed on the dark side of our humanity.

We just can't do it.

Well, there's somethingmore at risk, you know,

going on with thisnationwide demonstration.

They're losing the sightof social distancing

and the idea that you have to be apart.

This coronavirus is very deadly,

and it can damage the lungsand the internal organs

way beyond just its first appearance,

and will this demonstrationbring about a resurgence

of that dread pandemic?

Efrem Graham brings us that story.

- Pat, public health officials do fear

the massive protestscould bring a resurgence

of the coronavirus, with tensof thousands of protestors

in dozens of cities, many without masks,

standing side by side and shouting.

They say it alldramatically raises the risk

of new outbreaks.

Even worse, the newcases would probably hurt

African-American andLatino populations most,

which have already beenhit hard by the virus.

Officials say anyone whoattended the demonstrations

should self-quarantine for 14 days.

A population hit hardest by the pandemic

is people ages 65 and older.

However, the virus ishaving a disturbing effect

on some younger adults.

As Lorie Johnson explains,doctors are looking closely

at the connection between COVID-19

and a potentially deadly complication.

- [Lorie] In New York and New Jersey,

young adults in their30s and 40s with COVID-19

are experiencing the mostserious type of stroke.

Although the numbers aresmall, it's a sharp increase.

- What we think is happeningwith the COVID virus

is that it is thickening people's bloods.

In other words, it's thrombogenic,

so there is some evidencethat younger people

may be affected by the COVID

just because of that fact of the virus.

- [Lorie] That thickeningcan lead to blood clots

in vessels leading to thebrain, causing a stroke.

Doctors must act fast to remove the clot

and get the patient out of danger.

- Every minute countsbecause once the blood supply

is missing to the brain, cellsbegin to die pretty quickly.

- COVID-19 is also affectingtreatment of this condition

in other ways.

New figures show somepeople who would normally

seek medical care for a stroke

may now hesitate because they're afraid

of catching COVID at the hospital.

Sharon Robinson had a stroke at the peak

of the COVID crisis.

Despite the potential danger,her daughter called 911.

- Primarily my mother was having a stroke,

so that was bigger thana fear of COVID-19,

and I also have faith in God,

Jesus, to be specific, so I had to--

It was more of a faith thing.

- [Lorie] Sharon recovered fully.

- I just praise God, you know.

Everything was just marvelous.

Everything was quick,I was in the hospital

only two days, and the doctors was like,

you know, this is so unbelievable.

- [Lorie] She's now featured in a video

encouraging the publicto follow her example.

- Don't fear to call 911,'cause people like us,

the people who do thrombectomies,

we're here, we're at the hospitals.

We gear up and we'reready to handle patients

who have potential COVIDand may be having a stroke.

- [Lorie] Stroke symptomsinclude face drooping,

arm weakness, and difficulty speaking.

While Sharon lives with her daughter,

people who live alone are at greater risk,

especially during this pandemic.

- And then when you're told to stay away,

stay away from, you know,people stay at home,

there's not that good network

of people to check on each other.

- [Lorie] So make frequent phone calls

to older family members and friends.

Ask questions about how they feel.

Also, be aware of the signsand symptoms of a stroke,

knowing it could help save a life.

Lorie Johnson, CBN News.

- Valuable information, Pat.

- I am totally familiarwith the effects of strokes,

because what happens is a blood clot

gets through your veins,

and hits your brain, and when it does,

it shuts off a portionof the blood flowing

to the cells in your brain.

For every minute, getthis, for every minute

that that blockage takes place,

you lose one million cells in your brain.

One million for every minute,so if it takes an hour,

just figure, that's 60million brain cells,

and they don't come back.

You can play around with them,but they don't come back.

And so the idea of taking a blood thinner,

I take right now, everyday, I take something

called Xarelto, and I had a pacemaker,

and I figured okay, I'mcool, I've got a pacemaker.

I don't have that shortening of breath

that you have with that,

and that took care of everything.

My heart's beating just fine,

and then I had a little stroke.

Fortunately, Gordon was on the scene,

my caregiver was on thescene, my head of security.

He ran down the highway,he's a police officer,

but he ran 95 miles an hourto get me to the hospital,

and they hit me with something called TPA,

that broke up the clot.

- Most people, I thought ofthis after your incident,

don't know that there arecertain hospitals in your area

that specialize in things like this.

- You know, we have one local.

The rule is if you call an ambulance,

they're supposed to takeyou to the nearest center,

but the Lee Memorial, whichis the one closest to us,

does not have a stroke center.

The one downtown does, sowhen we drove this time,

we didn't ask for any ambulance

we went directly down, butwhen my wife had her stroke,

we didn't realize what to do

and so they carried herto this one hospital,

and they did some tests, andthey finally got her downtown

to the main one, but it was hours, hours.

- And you can only get that TPA shot

within a certain realm of time, right?

- Yeah, exactly, and when it does,

it begins to work, but I tell you,

this is serious stuff, folks,

and every day at night

I take my little blood thinner.

My doctor, ChaunceyCrandall says why don't you

take Xeralto, it's terrific stuff,

and I take one pill.- Good for you.

- One pill.- Good for you.

But you've learned so much through this.

We all have.

- Listen, it is serious stuff,

and if this COVID--

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Doctors use all these fancywords, it's thrombogenic.

I mean, come off it.

That sounds like okay,it'll build up blood clots.

That's what it'll do, andyou need a blood thinner.

So I don't know why they don'tgive these blood thinners

to people who've had this COVID.

- Or why they wouldn't havethem at every hospital.

- Well, you know, it takes a cardiologist,

but I really think it should be done.

Okay, well so much on medicine today,

but I want everybody, ifsomebody gets this COVID,

make sure they do somethingto get a blood thinner.

It's not all that hard,and one little pill,

it's the easiest little pill in the world.

I'm not talking about sticking your finger

or any of that stuff.

Just one little pill once a day.

It thins out your blood andkeeps those clots from forming.

You don't want a stroke.

COVID's bad enough.

And listen, something elsethat's bad, the economy.

What is this thinggonna do to our economy?

- Oh goodness.- It will take 10 years.

Efrem, give us the story.

- Pat, as you said it could take 10 years

for the U.S. economy torecover from the pandemic

and its shutdowns.

The Congressional BudgetOffice is revising its forecast

of economic output from 2020 to 2030,

projecting the U.S. economy will produce

nearly eight trillion dollars less

than it predicted in January.

That's about 3% of thegross domestic product.

The CBO believes the economywon't get fully back on track

until late 2029.

When the pandemic shutdown their Dallas business,

one couple worried about thewelfare of their employees,

and it led them to a creative idea

to put their furloughed staff back to work

and to help other companies safely reopen.

Charlene Aaron is on this story.

- [Charlene] Business was goodfor Alex and Kelsey Carroll

of Toss Up Events, aChristian owned company

providing interactive gaming experiences.

They've worked with some of thebiggest names in pro sports,

Nascar's Atlanta Motor Speedway,

Houston Rodeo, and Big East Basketball.

Then the global pandemicbrought the sports world

to a screeching halt.

So did business for the Carrolls,

quickly going from $3million a year to nothing.

- We had all of our employeesall over the country

and then it all stopped on the same day.

- [Charlene] A dozen employees laid off.

- Knowing that we were gonnahave to let our employees go,

it was really hard.

- [Charlene] As nervesand social distancing

became the norm, the couple saw the need

for safety equipment like hand sanitizer.

In just six weeks, theytransitioned to providing

customized hand sanitizer stations,

complete with dispensersand liquid sanitizer.

- We knew that when events did come back,

safety would be a huge deal,

and we started just offeringthe hand sanitizer stations

to businesses and churches.

- [Charlene] As the countryhas slowly reopened,

response to their stand-upstations has been overwhelming.

- [Alex] We're gettingall kinds of businesses,

orders from California, Washington,

Texas, Florida, like all over the country.

- We didn't foresee thishappening a couple weeks ago,

this success, and so Ithink as more and more

businesses and churches reopen,

they're gonna be lookingfor a solution like this.

- [Charlene] With more thana million dollars in sales

and a growing team, these business owners

are beyond grateful.- God had a plan

for our employees, for us, for our family,

and being able to see the employees

come back to the office,

and we've had more people join the team,

and so we're up to 20 people in our office

just working round the clockto get these shipped out,

so it's been such a blessing,

and we've been really fortunate.

- [Charlene] Charlene Aaron, CBN News.

- Creativity saves the business, Pat.

- Isn't that marvelous?

You know, God has solutions,keep that in mind.

When one avenue isclosed, that doesn't mean

there are not a million other avenues

that he'll open to you.

All you have to do is look and wait,

and say God, show me the way,

and you know, there'sno temptation taking you

but such as common to man, but God will,

with the temptation, make a way to escape,

and they escaped it,so you can escape too.

Terry, we've got a story coming up.

- We sure do, still to come,

a husband who hid hissecret porn addiction.

Then he crossed the lineinto a full-blown affair.

He refused to come clean,

so how did his wife find out?

Well, that's coming up.

But first, college life and COVID.

How have students been coping?

And what will this pandemic do

to higher education in the Fall?

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- You know, as yousurvey college campuses,

they are in a crisis,because this COVID thing

has just dealt a body blow to them.

Many campuses literallyare going bankrupt.

They're shutting the whole school down

because they can't handle it.

They've had to teach online,and many people just,

they were not prepared to do it.

They have lost students,they've lost money,

and thousands, or I actuallyshouldn't say thousands,

but many, hundreds of colleges

literally are going out of business.

I am pleased to reportthat Regent University

has grown in numbers.

The enrollment this summerwas up substantially

over what it had been the previous year.

Regent was the first university in America

to offer an online doctorate,

and the whole school has been prepared

for online teaching for years,

and this transition has beenjust seamless, no problem,

and the revenues are up.

The Lord is blessing the school,

and it is just extraordinary,

and we've found, and Ireally believe this is true,

that God knows how to look after his own.

He really knows how to look after his own,

and I'm seeing that at Regent University

as not one professor has been laid off,

not one course has been canceled.

It is just amazing what's happening,

but college students areafraid to return to campus.

That's not true with Regent,but it's true at home,

and parents have beenunable to pay for tuition.

It's a potential crisis for universities,

and it's been created bythis coronavirus pandemic,

so what could this mean forthe future of higher education?

Heather Sells has this insightful report.

- [Heather] Before the COVID lockdown,

Christian college student, Briana Rios,

enjoyed her classes, student leadership,

and time with friends.

When the pandemic hit, life changed,

as her university wentonline and she struggled.

- It made it extremelyhard to grasp the material,

to stay motivated, butluckily, my professors

were extremely understandingand they made the course work

extremely interactive.

- For many collegestudents, this sudden pivot

to online education became a disaster.

An April survey by a keycollege marketing firm

found that seven in 10 students

said their online experience was worse

than in-person classes.

- They hate it, they absolutely hate it.

- [Heather] Simpson ScarboroughChairman, Elizabeth Johnson,

says students felt like theywere teaching themselves,

and missed access to their professors.

The big problem now,the number of students

saying they're unlikely to return.

- Over half of thesekids' parents have been

either furloughed or laid off.

They say that theirfamily's financial situation

has changed dramatically,and higher education

is not inexpensive, and sothat's the biggest factor.

- [Heather] High schoolseniors are also uncertain,

with a growing number changing their plans

to attend a four-year residential college.

Many are opting for community college

or online programs next year.

Factoring in fewer freshmenand returning students

means colleges could seea 20% dip in enrollment.

For administrators, it'stough planning for the Fall.

Will COVID be short-lived,

continue into 2021, or work itself out

in multiple waves?

- There's all kinds ofscenario planning happening

on college campuses.

They're talking aboutthings like having an option

where only the freshmencome back to campus.

- [Heather] William JessupUniversity President,

John Jackson, is urgingstudents to continue

with their college plans.

- We are making every attempt

to have Fall classes resume.

We might have to have half class capacity.

We might have to havealternating between Zoom

and face to face, but I think

we're gonna have that experience,

and I would encourage students

to search for a schoolthat can give them that.

- [Heather] Regent University has offered

online classes for years,

and easily made the switch this Spring.

Still, it's chief academic officer says

technology is not the solution.

- We can't rely on technology.

What I've seen many schools do, again,

K-12 and colleges, they somehow think

technology is the answer, it's not.

It's really faculty and teachers

with a heart for the student.

- [Heather] ShineikaFareus, an upperclassman

at Gordon College in Massachusetts,

says she'll be back in the Fall,

but doesn't want online classes.

- Just doing school athome is just not ideal.

I have two younger sistersand a little brother,

who's two years old,

so waking up in the morning and really

trying to get ready for classes,

and really keeping up with school

is just not the same.

- [Heather] She's trusting and praying

that she and her classmatescan go back to campus.

- This is an opportunity for us

to really take this situation,

okay, how can I turn thisinto something positive?

- [Heather] That may be thesilver lining for higher ed,

students seeing justhow much they appreciate

the college classroom experience,

face to face time with friends,

and on campus activities.

Johnson is advising schoolsto help students remember

what brought them tocampus in the first place,

and she's making the casethat supporting universities

should be a national priority,even during a pandemic.

- We believe higher educationis an essential service.

You know, the people whoare going to discover a cure

and build all the tests,they were educated

at our American colleges and universities.

I mean, this is anindustry that must survive

and must thrive to educate people

who are gonna contribute to our economy.

- [Heather] Heather Sells, CBN News.

- Thanks, Heather, Iam just pleased to see

one university, the onlinecourses are very intense.

The interaction with theprofessor is very intense,

and it's very personalized.

You can make it verypersonalized and very enriched.

You don't have to have sterile courses

that are not well done.

But if a college is not used to doing it,

then of course, the transitionhas been devastating.

So anyhow, I'm pleased to report,

I can make a plea for Regent.

There's still time tosign up for the Fall.

- Yeah, you do hope that there are

answers found for this, because it is

almost an assault on the academic system.

I mean, we need to have--

You know, your university is thriving.

- Exactly.- But that's not the case

for many.- Ours is Christian leadership

to change the world,and in terms of science,

the STEM disciplines,

the other nations

are getting way ahead ofAmerica and we don't want that.

- No.- We've had the finest

education in the world, and we need to

continue to do that, Terry.

- Well, coming up later, avictim of the Me Too movement,

former investigative journalist

and Northwestern professor, Alec Klein,

joins us live with his shocking story.

But first, he had an affairwith his wife's friend

and hid the secret, sohow did she find out?

And what did she do when she did?

That's up next.

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Pat.- Interesting show.

Barrett Wilson brought a shameful secret

into his marriage to Whitney.

He had a hardcore porn addiction.

Before long, he crossed the line

into a full-blown affair.

What could make matters worse?

His secret lover

was actually his wife's good friend.

- I learned to compartmentalize things.

I learned to hide, over 20years of using pornography,

I learned how to hide from my wife.

- [Reporter] When Whitney andBarrett Wilson got married,

his secret life with porn

brought an unknowndarkness to their marriage.

- As the years went by, like I was--

You know, continued to be furtherin darkness and isolation,

and she was growing in her faith,

and that divide between us just

continued to grow and grow, and--

- I think I thought it was all me,

and I was wrong, andput a lot of weight on

just performing andgetting better on my own,

and that darkness justkept growing at that time.

- [Reporter] As he continuedto hide his porn addiction,

Barrett eventually had anaffair with a co-worker.

- They were friends ofours outside of work,

and so it all seemed safe,

you know, like our world seemed safe.

It seemed like it was okay,

and obviously thoseboundaries were crossed,

and it led to the affair.

- [Reporter] Barrettcouldn't stand the guilt

and ended the affairafter a couple of months,

but the shame still consumed him.

- I just remember telling God like,

if it's true that I'm supposedto tell this to my wife,

and not just live with it until I die,

then you're gonna haveto somehow tell her,

make it come out, because I can't.

- I was sitting there and I remember

the phrase going across my mind,

Barrett's having anaffair with that person.

- [Reporter] One night,Whitney looked through

old messages on Barrett's computer,

and found evidence of the affair.

- I mean, there was a floodof emotions in that moment.

I think I was more angrythan I'd ever been.

I've learned since that that's because

something I love so much was--

Had been hurt and damaged,

probably at that pointI thought beyond repair.

- Whitney immediately left,

and I mean, I just believed

that that was the end of our marriage.

- [Reporter] Hurt and broken, they both

turned to their pastorand his wife for help.

- I just told him look, I had an affair.

Whitney knows about it, andI don't know what to do,

and he just hugged me, you know,

and again, it's not what I expected,

but he hugged me and told me he loved me,

and I just shared everything with him,

every corner of darkness in my heart

that I could think of.

- These women carried me to Jesus,

and they were comforting.

They also challenged me to look to Christ

and say what did Christ do for us?

- [Reporter] In the midstof the pain and betrayal,

they decided to pursue reconciliation.

- Whitney told me that, you know,

she had always loved me, and even then,

knowing what I had done,she still loved me.

I just remember thinking Ihave to do whatever I can

to stay married to this woman.

Like, I have to.

- [Reporter] One night, asthey spent time together,

God changed Barrett's heart.

- Whitney was kind of ata place where she just

couldn't be consoled, just in her hurt

and in her pain, and I justdidn't know what to do.

I couldn't fix anything,and I just felt this

tug in my heart to go and get my Bible

and just start reading the Book of Romans.

I was reading to her that night.

It was like I had neverheard any of this before.

Whenever I got to RomansFive, and you know,

read that while we were stillrebels and enemies of God,

that God wanted to prove his love for us

and that he sent Christto die for our sins,

and I just was losing it.

- He started reading and it was seriously

this weird flip, where all of a sudden

he starts crying, and I think I honestly,

in a kind of funny way,was like what's happening,

and kinda shocked by his tears almost.

I had never seen him moved byanything he read in the Bible,

and so somehow the spiritkind of calmed me down

in that moment, and hearing him read

and seeing him being so broken

over the words he was reading,

and identifying so much

with his own sin

and seeing his own story on those pages.

- You know, I had a father in Heaven

that truly loved me unconditionally,

despite everything that I had done,

every destructive thing I had done,

all the darkness that I had lived in,

even knowing that, whileI still lived in that,

that God wanted to prove his love for me,

and that he sent Jesus to die for me,

to pay the price that should have to pay

and to die the deaththat I really deserve.

That was truly the turning point where God

really started to putour lives back together,

or not put 'em backtogether, give me a new life,

and give us a new marriage.

- God was slowly showing me

that I could be forgiving

and loving towards Barrett,

while still hating thething that had happened,

and being very angry at that piece of it

while still offering graceand forgiveness to Barrett.

- The Holy Spirit wasjust, amidst so many things

the Holy Spirit wasdoing, was even showing me

my behavioral patterns of okay,

this is going to lead to pornography.

Don't do this, don't do that,

and just being obedient to that,

and so I haven't looked at pornography in

almost nearly three years now.

- [Reporter] Barrett is freefrom his pornography addiction.

The couple now shares amutual love for Jesus,

and is looking forwardto starting a family

through adoption.

- Hopes for my marriage now is to continue

walking in light with Whitney,

and to serve her and to love her,

and to bathe her in Scripture

so that God gets the glory and that

she feels his love through me.

- I think my hope for our marriage

is that we continue to walk in that path,

and even as we adopt andbring kids into our marriage,

that that belief I hadwhere the husband and wife

do become one is still true today,

and even more true todaythan it's ever been.

- I'm grateful that I'm living a life

that I don't deserve because of the work

that Christ did on my behalf.

- While we were yet sinners,

God commended his love toward us,

that while we were yet sinners, he died.

He sent his son to die for us.

What a wonderful testimony

the Whitneys have got together,

and seeing the wonderful,Barrett and Whitney,

together, have come togetherin the beautiful thing

that God intended.

It isn't right that man should be alone.

I'll make a helpmate for him,

and the two together shall be one flesh.

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- Well, still ahead, your questions

and some honest answers.

Teresa says, "God gave mea word watching your show,

"and I was healed.

"How did you receivethis gift from the Lord?"

Pat's going to answerthat and more coming up.

But first, he lost hisjob, his reputation,

and his family almost overnight.

Alec Klein was accused of misconduct

at a top university, and not even allowed

to defend himself.

How could this happen in America?

Stay tuned to find out.

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- An open letter to the mediawith a list of accusations.

That's all it took todestroy Alec Klein's life.

What's worse, he wasn't evenallowed to defend himself.

- [Reporter] For years, Alec Klein,

an investigative reporter and professor

at a top U.S. university,

investigated cases where peoplewere wrongfully convicted.

Then he found himself on the other side,

falsely accused of sexual harassment

and the center of acoordinated media attack.

His life was destroyed.

In his book, Aftermath, Alecshares his painful story

and how he's helpingprisoners accessibly sentenced

to gain their freedom.

- Please welcome to The700 Club, Alec Klein.

Alec, it's nice to have you with us.

- Good to be here.

- Can you capsulize for uswhat happened to you in 2018

that really destroyed life as you knew it?

- Yeah, absolutely.

For much of my career,I had been investigating

wrongful convictionsand false accusations,

and then suddenly I found myself

being falsely accusedmyself, was in utter shock,

and what was put outthere was wildly false.

I was accused of mistreatingsome of my students

and staffers, but this attack

was engineered by a formeremployee whom I had let go,

and the attacks, by the way,

that were filed with the university,

none of them had anything to do

with any kind of sexual interaction.

They were a hodgepodge of complaints.

Students actually complainedabout their grades.

They wanted an A-minusinstead of a B-plus.

They complained about thechair that they sat in

in my office, saying thatit was lower to the ground

than my chair.

They called it a power differential.

There was even a student who said

that I had mocked her foreign accent

while on a reporting trip to Florida.

Well, I checked my recordsand I wasn't in Florida

when this happened,and if I could just add

one last thing, as a professor,

you are subjected to anonymousevaluations by students,

so students can say whatever they want

and there's no repercussions.

Well, over the course of about a decade,

students wrote these evaluations about me,

and they never accused meof any kind of mistreatment.

It was actually the opposite.

They said they had awonderful experience with me,

how much they learned andhow much I cared about them,

and I can tell you,that would be impossible

if you had mistreated students.

But there was the situation.

It was put out in the media,

and my life was instantly destroyed.

- Why were you in themiddle of all of this,

not allowed to defend yourself publicly?

- Well, I gotta tell you,this was at the height

of the Me Too Movement,

and if I can add, Ithink the Me Too Movement

started with a worthy intent,

which is that women over the centuries

have been mistreated, but to some degree

I think it's gone too far,

and what happened for some people,

it was essentially guilt by accusation,

trial by media, and whenyou're kind of attacked

by the media mob, there'snot much you can do,

and I found myself in a situation

where students I didn't even know

were posting on Facebook a template

and they were saying thisis how you can complain

about this guy.

They were actuallywriting out the complaint

for students to fill in.

There were other students I didn't know

who started a petitiondrive to have me ousted.

It was instantaneous, andthere was this hurricane,

and I found myself in a situation

where there was really nothing I could do.

I just saw my life utterlydestroyed overnight.

- In the middle of all of this,

you had a meltdown, a friend wound up

giving you a book that was really

an investigative book about faith,

about whether Christ was real,

and the word of God was true.

How did that impact you?

- It's one of the mostimportant things in my life.

I was investigating a wrongful conviction,

and I turned to a friend and I said

why do bad things happen to good people?

And he handed me this book, which was

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel.

I looked at the cover and I said

I'm not gonna read this book,

because I didn't believe in anything.

I was a non-believer,but I'm also an author,

and so I have a tendencyto read the first few pages

of a book to see how anauthor begins their book,

and I kid you not, Lee Strobel's book

begins with the factthat he is a journalist,

which is what I am, thathe was investigating

a wrongful conviction, which is what I do,

and he was doing it in the Chicago area,

which is where I was,

so I thought well, maybeI should read this book.

So I'm reading Lee Strobel's book,

and he makes a persuasive argument

that there is historical proof about Jesus

which I didn't know about.

I thought this was a myth.

But the other thing was thebook actually referred to

another book, which was the Bible,

and I thought well, gosh,maybe I should read the Bible,

so I picked up the Bible andI started with the Gospels,

and the Gospels just blew my mind

because everything that Jesus said

applied perfectly to then,today, and into the future,

and I began to actuallyshare these stories

with my children as for bedtime stories,

and that got me on my journey to faith,

so when my life was destroyed

a couple of years later, I found myself

sort of hearing from a lot of friends

from around the country,including my friend

who gave me the book,and it occurred to me

that almost everyonewho was coming to my aid

was a follower of Jesus.

It was hard to not notice that.

So I found myself readingbooks about Jesus.

I would order them onAmazon one after another,

almost every other day,reading books about Jesus,

and somehow, and I can'texplain this to you,

but it brought me comfort and peace

during all of this destruction.

- You know, one of the things you say

is that you never wouldhave come to Christ

if this had not happened to you,

that you were too self-sufficient,

you were too anti-the myth of faith,

that nothing would havepenetrated that hard shell.

Are you able to look at this now

and see that God had aplan from the beginning,

and it was to bring youto a whole new place

for a whole new purpose?

- It's such a great question.

I have to tell you, to some degree

I'm thankful for the destruction.

I wouldn't want it to happen again,

but it really did a lot of good things.

You know, I was able to help

a number of inmates in Oklahoma

regain their freedom throughcommutation and parole

during the time that my life was destroyed

'cause I was invited out toOklahoma to help them with that,

but it also brought mecloser to my children,

who I got to spend a lot more time with,

but the most important thing for me

was that it brought me to myfaith, and I have to tell you,

I don't think that would have happened

had it not been for mydestruction, so I am thankful.

It's a part of my daily life.

You know, now I go to church,

online, by the way,because of the coronavirus.

I read the Bible every day.

I read devotionals.

I am not really the sameperson I was before,

and for that, I amgenuinely thankful for that,

because I was the ultimate skeptic,

and I am no longer.

- I think of Romans 8:28 with your story,

all things work together for good

to those who love God and are called

according to his purposes.

Alec, your story, we are just touching

the tip of the iceberg.

There's so much more toAlec's remarkable story.

It's all here in his newbook, called Aftermath,

and it is available nationwide.

Great to have you with us.

Thank you so much.

- It's wonderful to be here.

Thanks so much.

- Well coming up, we've got your email.

Belica wants to know, "Pat,what can we do to stop racism?"

Pat's gonna tackle thatquestion and much more

after this.

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Time for your questionsand some honest answers.

Pat, this first one comesfrom Teresa, who says,

"God gave me a word watchingyour show and I was healed.

"How did you receivethis gift from the Lord?"

- Well, if you read theBible, you understand

that there are so-called charismata,

the enablement of the Holy Spirit.

When you're baptized in the Holy Spirit,

there are a number of things.

There is the word of wisdom,which is looking at the future,

word of knowledge is the supernatural

understanding of something that you can't

taste or hear, or so forth.

There are miracles, there are healings,

and these various things,so this is the Holy Spirit,

and it's the power of God.

It's nothing spooky, it'sjust the Holy Spirit of God.

Read in the Book of 1st Corinthians,

read in Romans aboutwhat it has to say about

the enablements of the Holy Spirit.

They're not gifts, they'remanifestations, all right?

- Okay, this is Belica, who says,

"Hello, I want to ask Pat whatcan we do to stop racism?"

- What we can do to stop racism

is to understand each other.

I really think we've gottaunderstand each other,

and as long as there's hostility,

but you know, at Regent University

about 23% of our students

are African-American, black.

- Mm-hmm.

- I mean, these are wonderful kids

and they're part of our family,

and you know, I've got peoplewho are working with me

who are like brothers and sisters.

They're our brothersand sisters in the Lord.

That's how you can stop racism

is to realize these peopleare your brothers and sisters.

The same thing with the Latinos.

I just love people in Latin America.

I've worked there so much.

But I go over to Russia, I go to China,

I go to these otherpeople, and I find people

who are just wonderful people,

and there's no suspicion.

You know, governmentslike to set up suspicion

and you have people fighting each other,

but how do you get rid of it?

That's how you get rid of it,

to understand these areour brothers and sisters,

especially in the Lord, all right?

- This is, and I thinkyou say Igga, I-G-G-A,

"I would like to win moresouls to Christ Jesus.

What can I do to be a part ofpreaching the Gospel, Pat?"

- Let your light so shine before men

that they'll see your good works

and glorify your Father.

Live a life, that'sthe greatest testimony,

but at the same time,

learn a few simple things about how you

lead somebody to the Lord,

and you start out, and thenthere's a simple prayer

that you can pray with somebody.

Know the Bible, but more than anything,

your personal testimonyis what's important.

If you say, "Look, let metell you what happened to me,

"and I want to tell you, I was doing this

"and now I'm doing that, andhere's what God's done for me,"

all right?- This is Linnie,

who says, "When you livethrough nightmarish events,

"how do you stop lettingthem affect your present

"and future so that you can have

"an emotionally healthy future?"

- You ask me these questions about

how do you do stuff like this.

You know if I were apsychiatrist, I'd have you for

a few sessions and maybe Icould find out more about you

and learn a bit more about that.

But the truth is

the nightmarish thingthat you've been through,

the Bible talks about havingyour conscience cleared

from dead works that youmight serve the living God.

You know, he has what's called

the sea of his forgetfulness,

and God Almighty cancause you to forget stuff,

and so say, "Lord, take thisout of my consciousness,"

but fill your mind with the things of God,

and do not dwell on the injustices,

on the pain, on the suffering.

Fill yourself with love, perfect love,

cast out fear, fill your heart with love

and that's the best wayto do it, all right?

- This is Ryan, who says,

"Pat, is there anythingto fear about death?

"How can I feel at ease?

"I am a Christian, I've been baptized,

"and I pray and watch church online."

- Well, all that stuff is nice,

but the big thing isto be one with Christ.

Paul says I'm in a strait betwixt two,

whether to depart and be withthe Lord, which is far better,

or remain in the flesh which is needful."

But you know, I stay aroundbecause I know the stuff

that the Lord wants me todo, so I say okay, God,

I'll do what you want me to do.

But death is

the express train to New Jerusalem.

An eye hasn't seen, an ear hasn't heard

what God has plannedfor them that love him.

It is so wonderful,

and Heaven is so absolutely wonderful,

and Heaven is our goal,

not to stay in the flesh.

Well, we leave you withwords of Jesus from John 10.

"I have come that they might have life

"and that they may haveit more abundantly."

Thanks so much for being with us.

God bless you.

Tomorrow, who's pushing socialismon America's millennials?

We've got Dinesh D'Souza.

Oh, it's a powerful book.

It's pretty raw, youwon't want to miss him.

We'll see you then.

For Terry and all of us, God bless you.

See you tomorrow, bye-bye.

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