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- It is Monday, November 9th.
I'm Efrem Graham.
Ahead today, FormerVice President Joe Biden
is ready to take the oath of office,
but the President's team isgetting ready to go to court
over multiple caseschallenging election results.
A big victory for the pro-life movement,
as 14 new Republican women win seats
in the House of Representatives.
A major new study revealsa surprising finding
about the number ofChristian voters in America.
We'll tell you what it uncovered.
And remembering Alex Trebek,
the legendary Jeopardyhost who died this weekend.
And we're gonna hear what he had to say
about the show's fans.
All those stories and more are ahead
in this edition of CBN News Watch,
I wanna begin this half hourwith the Presidential election.
While Joe Biden is alreadygetting ready to take office,
the President and my Republicans
are saying not so fast
as the President's team is ready
to file lawsuits of voter fraud.
Dale Hurd is on the story.
- [Dale] The mainstream media may have
already coronated JoeBiden President-Elect,
but the legal challenges over
alleged voting irregularities begin today.
Joe Biden is moving forward as if
the election results are final.
He and Kamala Harris will have a briefing
with their transition COVIDadvisory board this morning.
- I'll work as hard forthose who didn't vote for me
as those who did.
This is the time to heal an American.
- [Dale] But Donald Trumpis ready to fight it out,
Tweeting, the big citymachines are corrupt.
This was a stolen election.
His lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
claims he has more than 50 witnesses
to voter fraud in Pennsylvania alone
and will have four or five cases filed
by the end of the week.
- For violating civil rights,
for conducting an unfair election,
for violating the order of the state,
for treating Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
different than the rest of the state
which is an equal protection violation
which goes under Bush v. Gore.
I mean this is something thatjust has to be addressed.
- [Dale] Missouri RepublicanSenator Roy Blunt,
for one, is not calling JoeBiden President-Elect yet.
- I said on Friday I thought it was time
for the President to turn this discussion
over to his lawyers,
time for the lawyers to makethe case that they have,
both in court and to the American people.
- President Trump stillhas a path to victory
and that path is to count every single
legal vote that was cast.
The media does not getto select our President,
the American people getto elect our President.
- [Dale] Meanwhile, Biden's slim advantage
and the loss of at least seven Democrat
seats in the House undercutany claims of a mandate.
Pennsylvania Senator, Pat Toomey,
called the Republicans down ballot success
a rejection of the radicalism that
has seeped into the Democratic party.
- The woke left had a major setback.
I mean nobody thought we were gonna
pick up seats in the House,
nobody thought we weregonna hold the Senate,
which I think is likely.
- [Dale] West VirginiaSenator, Joe Manchin,
says the results showDemocrats scared many voters.
- They were scared of this socialism
that was thrown outthere by a radical part
of the so called left.
- [Dale] RepublicanSenator, Lindsey Graham,
says if there was rampantvoter fraud in this election,
it must be rooted outto save the integrity
of our voting process.
- If Republicans don't challenge
and change the US election system,
there will never be another
Republican president elected again.
President Trump should not concede.
- Back in 2000, Al Gorewas given his day in court.
We should give PresidentTrump his day in court,
let the process unfold.
- [Dale] The President is planning
a series of rallies instates he's contesting.
Just like in 2000, itmay be that this election
will be settled in the courts.
Dale Hurd, CBN News.
- And with us now for moreon the legal challenges
in the Presidential election is Professor
and Associate Dean Brad Jacob
of Regent University School of Law.
So let's begin with one important case
that focuses on how thePennsylvania State Supreme Court
extended the state'sdeadline for mail in ballots.
Why is that case so significant?
- Well it's significant because
Pennsylvania is a very close state.
You know, obviously themedia doesn't decide
who is President-Elect.
That'll be decided bythe Electoral College.
The Electoral College depends on
who won the vote in each state.
So with Pennsylvania so close to the edge
between President Trumpand Vice President Biden,
understand that we reallyknow who won Pennsylvania.
- Do you see this casegoing to the Supreme Court?
- Well it's already been ina sense to the Supreme Court.
Justice Alito issued an order saying
that all of the mail invotes should be sequestered,
that they should keep those separate
and be able to look at thoseseparately if they need to.
I don't think there's gonna be any success
fighting with Pennsylvania over
the date that theballots actually arrived.
There's enough questionsabout the post office
and how things, how long things took,
that if a state makes a judgment
that a vote entered, put into the mail,
postmarked by Election Day
that comes in several days later,
if they're gonna count that,
I don't think that can besuccessfully challenged,
but if there's any evidence that
there are votes that were not made in time
of that were not legally put into the mail
by the right person,
if that can be proven in court,
then that could turn theoutcome in Pennsylvania.
- What does the President's team
have to do to prove voter fraud
in the other cases?
- Well there's a lot of different things
they could do to prove voter fraud.
They could prove that people were being
intimidated when they voted,
they could prove that the state allowed
ballots to be cast by dead people or,
you know, people who werenot competent to vote
for, you know, mentally for some reason.
(inaudible)
I won in a landslide in the legal votes
and the rest are illegal, well,
he can make that claim if he wants to,
but there's gonna haveto be concrete evidence
of some kind of fraudulent activity,
some reason to believe thatthe ballots were not valid
and that could take alot of different forms,
it's just we haven't really seen
a lot of evidence so far.
- All right, Regent Law Professor
and Associate Dean Brad Jacobs,
thank you so much for your time.
To you at home,
we apologize for thetechnical difficulties
that were unfolding duringsome of that interview.
Despite the ongoing battleover the Presidency,
the Republicans hadseveral other bright spots
in the election this year,
including a major victoryfor the pro-life movement.
Mark Martin brings us this look
at the new Republican women who were
elected to the House of Representatives
in what's being called a stunning blow
to a pro-abortion agenda.
- In January, at least 14new Republican pro-life women
will take the oath of theHouse of Representatives.
That number will includeseven congresswomen
who defeated Democratsin last week's election.
- We attribute their success to the fact
that life is winning in America
and regardless of the uncertainty
in the Presidential election,
it's clear to see that life isnot a losing issue this year,
especially because we seean unprecedented number
of pro-life women beingelected to Congress.
- [Mark] Those newlyelected representatives
join 11 incumbent GOP pro-life women
who won reelection.
In a statement, SBA List President,
Marjorie Dannenfelser said,
"These gains are a repudiationof abortion extremism
and further evidence that life is
a winning issue in politics."
- And this is a diverse group of women
who will no doubt stand up for the unborn.
They come from various backgrounds.
We have Maria Salazar who was
one of our endorsed candidates.
She is a Cuban American woman
who understands the right to life.
We have Yvette Herrell in New Mexico
who was newly elected.
She is the first womanfrom the Cherokee Nation
to be elected to Congressfor the Republican party.
- [Mark] And it's not justhappening in the House.
At least six will be partof the Senate in January
including reelectedincumbent Joni Ernst of Iowa.
- I'm going to share myfavorite Psalm with you
and let it be a reminder of how we can get
through this difficult time
and my favorite Psalm is Psalm 121
and it goes like this.
I lift up my eyes to the hills
and where does my help come from.
My help comes from the Lord,
the maker of heaven and earth.
- The founder andchairman of the non-profit
Christian Ministry Liberty Council
spoke out about the election,
saying these pro-life women will bring
new energy to Washington to preserve
precious pre-born children.
This is another important step to making
the womb a safe place again in America.
Mark Martin, CBN News.
- Potential good news onthe coronavirus cases today.
Pfizer says the early data signals
its vaccine is effective against COVID-19
and it's on track to seekUS review later this month.
We'll have more on thison tomorrow's edition
of CBN News Watch.
Coming up, are more Christians turning out
to the polls to vote or less?
We're gonna bring you a lookat that when we come back.
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Christians of all kinds have been
an important voting block in elections
throughout United States history,
but that appears to be changing now.
Here to tell us more aboutthis potential important shift
in American politics is DanAndros of faithwire.com.
So Dan, you have a story on Faithwire
about a study involving Christian voters.
Who's it from and what did it find out?
- Yeah, it's from Pew
and it found a verydisturbing trend here, Efrem,
and more than 360,000 registeredvoters were surveyed over,
this is a long term study, over 25 years,
including 12,000 registeredvoters questioned
just in the last couple years
and what they found is that we have
a growing trend of less Christiansbeing registered to vote.
64% of all registeredvoters surveyed last year
self identified as Christian.
That's down from 79% of registered voters
identifying as Christian back in 2008.
In the midterms of 2018,
it was the first timein more than ten years
that Protestants and Christians
represented less than halfof all participating voters.
Republicans who identified as Christians
fell from 87% in 2008down to 78% last year
and Democrats are plummeting.
73% identified as Christian in 2008
and that's only 52% said they identified
as Christian last year.
So we are seeing a stunning drop
in the amount of Christiansregistered to vote
and a bigger issue there, Efrem,
is it's not just thenumber of registered voters
that identify as Christian.
There's just less Christians out there.
So forget the voting for a second.
I mean, we got souls to worry about here.
- Overall declining faith in America?
- You know, the study doesn'tget into the exact reason
as to why behind it.
They just go over the pure data,
but you know, just from my view here
you look at culture
and how it's just overwhelmingly stacked
to a secular sort of agenda.
You've got education system,you've got Hollywood,
you've got media,
you've got even sportsnow getting into this
so you're just seeing a steady drum
of this viewpoint being pushed,
obviously social media as well.
So you combine all those things
and maybe it's starting to,
we're starting to see it take root.
- So of course the bigstory today is the election.
Do most Americans believe God's hand
is in the Presidential elections?
- Yeah, this is a prettystunning number as well from Pew.
Only one-third of Americans believe
that God's hand is in thePresidential election.
Only 27% said the same thing in 2016
when President Trump was elected.
So that's a particularly stunning number
because it must mean by necessity
because of how low it is
that some Christians believe that as well
that somehow this electionwas outside of God's hand
and that somehow it was out of his power
or he otherwise was unable to impact it
and, you know, andDaniel says, chapter two,
you know, no ruler rises orfalls apart from his hand,
so I think that's somethingwe can take solace in
and should take solace in as Christians
that God is in control no matterwhat situation is going on.
- Absolutely.
Dan Andros of faithwire.com,
thank you so much for your time.
I wanna remind you at homethat you can watch Faithwire
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Still ahead, there are 65,000 victims
of child sex trafficking here in the
United States alone
and now traffickers are targeting
Christian girls in particular.
We're gonna bring you their story
and a look at who isworking to protect them
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- Sex trafficking is a worldwide scourge
and at least 65,000 childrenin the US are victims.
Now a chilling new reality.
A growing number of thesegirls are Christians,
as predators are targetingthem in particular.
Chuck Holton has their story,
plus how three US Marshallsare working to protect them.
- [Chuck] The numberskeep coming week by week.
In Ohio, a joint operation between federal
and state officers recovered35 at risk missing children.
A similar operation rescued39 missing kids in Georgia.
Behind all the success,
a unit of the US Marshall Service,
the Sex Offender Investigations Branch,
is made up of only threemen working over time
to save as many kids as they can.
- When I assumed this position
as the branch chief of this
Sex Offender Investigations Branch,
my eyes were opened.
There's over 430,000 missingkids a year in our country.
- [Chuck] Of those, atleast 65,000 are victims
of the commercial sex industry.
- [Floriano] We'retrying to have an impact.
We're trying to do the best we can
with the resources we have in place.
- [Chuck] Ongoing riots and violence
against federal courthouses in Portland
and elsewhere, however,
are taking agents awayfrom this important work.
- [Floriano] But it's a zero sum game.
In order for us to deploy these resources,
it detracts from other mission sets
that are often equally as important.
Our leadership is very passionate
and supportive of this initiative
and we're trying to throwas many resources as we can
to make an impact,
but the reality is we'rejust scratching the service.
- [Chuck] These operationsare also complicated
because those rescued need special care.
- Historically we're cops
and we catch bad guys,
but we're catching good people now,
we're catching kids.
What resources do we need to have in place
because it's not as simple as just
turning this child over to somebody.
And so we spend a lot of time,
a lot of research, a lot oftalking with our partners,
with children's hospital, with DCFS,
with social services to getthese resources in place.
- It takes an incredibleamount of work to track
down these monsters who arepraying on America's children
and since the defund the police movement
and the COVID crisis,
a lot of police departmentsaround the country
just don't have the resources to do that.
And that's where thebody of Christ comes in.
There's several ministries out there
that are now packaging up the information
that cops need and passing it along.
One of them is All ThingsPossible Ministries,
Victor Marx's outfit.
His new chief operating officer
is a guy that I went to ranger school with
like 100 years ago.
- There are 150,000 newsex ads a day in America.
They need help on the front end
identifying the victim.
They need that level of probable cause,
reasonable suspicion.
That's what we offer law enforcement.
So we figure out who those girls are
that are being sold,
potentially who their trafficker is
and we push that information to
law enforcement to take action.
And then they will conductan operation, a sting,
and they will confront that girl
and offer her a new life,
a path to freedom.
- [Chuck] And what theyfind is often chilling.
- There are particular traffickers
that will target Christian girls.
To get the small potatoes,
to get the girl who comes from a broken,
abusive relationship, thatdidn't stroke his ego.
But for him to be able to pluck
a pretty young woman from aChristian family in the suburbs
and turn her out to be trafficked,
that was an ego boost for him.
- [Chuck] The Trump administration
is taking action to put astop to these heinous crimes.
- Today I'm happy to announce that
the department is awardingover a hundred million dollars
in grants across the countrytargeted at human trafficking
and these grants are gonna support state,
local and tribal jurisdictions,
victim service providers, task forces,
and key research initiatives.
- [Chuck] Being on the front lines
makes these men realize law enforcement
isn't the ultimate solution.
- We, as believers, wehave to do a better job
of protecting our young women.
Parents have to talk to their daughters
very candidly about what's out there.
Especially in this Christian bubble
that a lot of us live in,
we don't fully appreciatethe evil that's out there
and the evil that's trying to work
its way into our lives.
- We as a society need tolook at this large number
and start deploying resources
and asking questions as to why
there are so many missing kids,
what are the underlying issues
and it's only then thatwe can address those
and stop these high numbers.
We're very happy about our recoveries,
but there's a much larger problem
that needs to be addressed
and addressed holistically.
- [Chuck] From Washington D.C.,
I'm Chuck Holton for CBN News.
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In the face of all the politicalfighting and in fighting,
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