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- It is Monday, December7th, I'm Efrem Graham.
Thank you so much for joining us.
We begin with this, twoGeorgia Senate candidates
facing runoff elections squaringoff in a debate last night.
All eyes are on this racebecause it determines
who controls the United States Senate.
The debate showed stark differences
between Republicans andDemocrats in this field.
- You can see what's at stake.
There are two visions for our country,
mine, the American dream,my opponent, socialism.
Chuck Schumer said it best.
Now we take Georgia,then we change America.
- There are those who are engaged
in the politics of division.
They have no vision, andso they engage in division.
Healthcare is on the ballot.
Workers are on the ballot.
Voting rights is on the ballot.
- Over the weekend in Georgia,
President Donald Trump rallied
for Georgia Republican Senate candidates
and called on Georgia'sRepublican Governor, Brian Kemp,
to order a special session over
what many Republicansbelieve was election fraud.
Trump's legal challengeswill now have to continue
temporarily without Rudy Giuliani
after he tested positive for COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump's legal team
is celebrating a judge'sorder in Michigan,
which is allowing them to probe
nearly two dominion votingmachines in Antrim County
for signs of election fraud.
The pandemic hasuncovered a hidden threat,
America's heavy reliance onChina for prescription drugs.
CBN National Securitycorrespondent, Eric Philips,
explains that dangerand what it might pose.
- Over the last 20 years,the US has outsourced
much of its drug manufacturing to China.
Now, the lower cost made it seem
like a good idea at the time,
but now, in the middle of a pandemic,
the US could find itself at China's mercy.
- This is very hiddenfrom the American public.
It took me three years to figure this out.
- [Eric] Author Rosemary Gibson wrote
"China Rx" two years ago.
In it, she chronicled America'sover-reliance on China
for generic prescription drugs
and pointed out a potentialresult of that dependence.
- And that prediction was,
in the event of a naturaldisaster or a global pandemic,
if China shuts the door on exports,
on sending us these important products,
the United States couldend up standing in line
with other countries to get
these core components for our medicines.
- [Eric] Two years later,COVID-19 is rocking the world,
setting the stage for Gibson's warning
to possibly come true.
- We have production shutdowns in China
because people were not going to work.
Transportation routes and logistics
have been disrupted.
- [Eric] Right now, we buygeneric drugs from China
for numerous conditions,including Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's, diabetes,high blood pressure,
HIV/AIDS, depression.
- We can't make the generic antibiotics
that mothers give to theirchildren for ear infections
or that you take forbronchitis or pneumonia.
- [Eric] Gibson says, that'sbecause China controls
the core chemicals to make them.
She says China makes10% of our generic drugs
and, with that amount growing,
they could soon name their price.
- Our dependence will be total.
- [Eric] It's a problem so serious,
Gibson recently testified along with
other experts on Capitol Hill.
- There's no question the Coronavirus
is causing a concern onour supply chain on drugs.
That's a fact, and we need to be able
to have domesticproduction, that's a need.
- A need that could lead to a solution.
- We have to bring our ability
to make our medicines back home.
We have some tremendouslytalented, innovative people
in this country, and they want to start
making medicines in aquicker, faster, cheaper way.
- [Eric] Gibson pointed out, however,
that companies will needgovernment backing to get it done.
Otherwise, China will undercut them.
- What the medicine dependencyof the United States
on unreliable and probably dangerous
Chinese suppliersrepresents is a microcosm
of what the Chinese havebeen doing to us for decades.
- [Eric] Gibson says COVID-19 has provided
a costly wake-up call that was necessary.
- This has become real.
It's not theoretical, this is real,
and so, this is amotivation for us to fix it.
- The other issue is quality control.
Gibson says, some ofthe medicines from China
have either beencontaminated or not contained
any medicine at all, all results that
do not bode well forthe American consumer.
Eric Philips, CBN News.
- Wanna turn now to Hawaii
where agents arrested a couple
after boarding a flight withtheir four year old son,
knowing they had testedpositive for COVID-19.
A Hawaiian television reporter tweeted
a police spokesperson saying that
Wesley Moribe and Courtney Peterson
knowingly boarded a flight
from San Francisco to Hawaii,
aware of their COVID-19 test results.
They were charged withreckless endangerment
in the second degree.
Their child was traveling with them
and was released into thecare of a family member.
Some public pre-school students
are heading back toclass in New York City.
Schools are reopening after being closed
due to rising COVID-19and the surge in concerns.
Pre-school through 5th graders
are back in their classrooms today.
Thursday, special needs students
are expected to return as well.
Middle and high schoolers will not return
until after the winter break.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
celebrated the third anniversary
of President Trump'srecognition of Jerusalem
as Israel's capital, with a special honor.
CBN Middle Eastcorrespondent, Julie Stahl,
is on this story.
- President Trump, Donald,exactly three years ago,
you became the first world leader
to recognize Jerusalemas the capital of Israel.
- [Julie] In the ceremony,Netanyahu announced
the proclamation would be displayed
alongside President Harry S.Truman's 1948 proclamation
recognizing the newly-establishedstate of Israel.
- These two historic proclamations
will never be forgotten.
They'll never be forgottenby the Jewish people
and by the Jewish state.
They will be cherished for generations.
- [Julie] Netanyahu thennoted other positive moves
made by Trump on behalf of Israel.
- [Netanyahu] You recognizeIsrael's sovereignty
over the Golan Heights.
You recognize Israel's legitimate rights
in Judea and Samaria.
You proposed a realistic peace plan
that acknowledges those rights,
and maintains Israel'sability to defend itself.
You forged the historic Abraham Accord,
which ushered in a new period of peace
that is dramatically changing
the face of the MiddleEast before our very eyes,
and rather than appease thosewho chant "Death to America"
and "Death to Israel" in Tehran,
you withdrew from thedangerous nuclear Iran deal,
placed crippling sanctions on Iran
and took out the world's most
dangerous terrorist, Qasem Soleimani.
- [Julie] US Ambassadorto Israel, David Friedman
joined Netanyahu in praising the move.
- In recognizingJerusalem, President Trump
also did something else.
He sent a clear message to the world
that the United Statesstands unflinchingly
with its allies and that the United States
bases its foreign policy on the truth,
not on wishful thinking or upon fantasy.
That message has since reverberated
throughout this region and other regions,
and it has made the world a safer place.
- [Julie] Netanyahu notedthat Jews around the world
will celebrate Hanukkahstarting this week.
The holiday marks theJewish Maccabean victory
over their Greek-Syrianoppressors 2000 years ago.
- Thanks to you, Mr. President,
we, the descendants of the Maccabees
can celebrate that that alliance
between the reborn Jewish state
and the most powerful country on earth
is stronger than ever,and we celebrate the fact
that the American flag flies high atop
the new American Embassythat you, President Trump,
moved to our gloriouseternal capital, Jerusalem.
- [Julie] Julie Stahl,CBN News, Jerusalem.
- Today marks the 79thanniversary of Pearl Harbor.
On December 7th, 1941, the Empire of Japan
launched an air raid on the US Navy base
at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii,
sinking most of the Pacific fleet
and killing 2,400 men and women.
It happened on a Sundaymorning just before 8:00 a.m.,
a surprise attack, with hundreds of
Japanese fighter planescovering the base at once
in a relentless attack,
eight battleships and morethan 300 airplanes destroyed.
The United States declared waragainst Japan the next day.
President Franklin Roosevelt famously said
it was a day that would live in infamy.
Coming up, an emotional plea on video
for somebody to do somethingabout the LA lockdowns
by one business owner who points out
what she believes is clear bias.
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- A wary restaurant owner in Los Angeles
is pleading for help afterthe latest lockdown there
that could put her out of business.
She was forced to shut downher outdoor dining area
due to the latestrestrictions by the mayor,
even though a movie company was allowed
to set up an outside eating area nearby.
Angela Marsden voiced her frustrations
in a video that has now gone viral
with millions of views.
She explained how sheand other business owners
are struggling to survive.
- This is dangerous.
Mayor Garcetti and GavinNewsom is responsible
for every single person thatdoesn't have unemployment,
that does not have a job,
and all the businessesthat are going under,
and we need their help.
We need somebody to dosomething about this.
- And faithwire.com's DanAndros is joining us now
with more on this story.
So Dan, as we said, millions have watched
this woman's appeal and can feel
her raw emotions and frustrations.
What is she and others now facing
with the lockdowns in Los Angeles
and other parts of California?
- Yeah well, we're seeingincreased lockdowns
across the country, but it's probably
none more pronounced than in California,
where she was already,this restaurant owner
you just watched was already
facing restrictions fromcounty-wide measures
that banned things such asindoor and outdoor dining,
and then the mayor of Los Angeles,
who she mentioned inthat clip, Eric Garcetti,
said it's, quote, "timeto cancel everything."
And in his ban, he mentioned that
he would ban all forms of travel.
That included walking onfoot, bicycles, scooter,
motorcycle, taking all formsof public transportation.
So, these are extreme measures.
People are extremely frustrated about that
because, as you see, a woman like this
who's just trying to keepher small business going,
and then she comes out and sees
that there is an exception being made,
and so, people are lookingat this and wondering,
well, is this virus, like,knowing which businesses
that it should attack and not attack?
I mean, how are theseexceptions being made?
And clearly, thisfrustration is resonating
across the country.
A GoFundMe has been launched to help her
and her restaurant, ThePineapple Hill Saloon,
and she has received over$100,000 in donations so far.
They were only askingfor 10,000 in the post,
and it's been $100,000 or more,
and that's from thousands ofpeople across the country.
So clearly, people are fed up with seeing
and living with thesesorts of strict measures.
- Churches are also being advised to close
while other businesses arebeing allowed to remain open.
Take us inside this divide here.
- Yeah, I mean it's really something else
because, among the restrictions are...
indoor worship servicesare being restricted
in California, and youknow, people are watching
the governor, Governor Gavin Newsom,
and he was asked by reporters,
including reporters fromthe Associated Press,
what is the science to backup some of these measures,
and he really duckedand dodged the question,
and didn't provide actual science
because that's usually the bludgeon
that a lot of these politicians use.
They just say, well, it's the science.
Well, somebody asked himto provide the science,
and he kind of dodged the question
and didn't really give any answers
as to show why are big box stores
not spreading the virus, and yet,
these small mom and pop stores are.
You had, Neil Gorsuchcalled out this hypocrisy.
He said that it's time, it's past time
to make plain thatwhile the pandemic poses
many great challenges, there's no world
in which the Constitution tolerates
color-coded executive or edictsthat reopen liquor stores
and bike shops, but shutterschurches and synagogues.
So, he's pointing out this seemingly
arbitrary standard thatthese politicians are using,
and then Governor Gavin Newsom himself,
after he told people not to go anywhere
and not to dine outdoors,was caught famously
going to a fancy lunchwhere he was indoors
with lots of people,sitting close with no mask.
So, people are startingto really get frustrated,
and we may see this boil over soon.
- Dan, looking at faithwire.com,
there's also a story of an 11 year old
committing suicide duringa Zoom class in California.
What does this say about the stress
brought on, about reporting and management
of the pandemic now?
- Yeah, and there's no details on it.
I mean, obviously it's a suicide
and we don't know exactlywhat the reasons are,
but he was on a Zoom class.
He was, you know, remotelearning in California,
and so, a horribly tragic event here,
regardless of the circumstances,
but these are some of the, you know,
worries that people have, you know,
when it comes to theeffects of what we're doing
with these restrictions andreducing human interaction.
We just don't know the severity of
what we're doing mentally to people,
and what is the humantoll that this is taking
on all these lockdowns?
So, you know, people are really concerned
that we're just scratching the surface
on what we're about to see on that front.
- Hm, before we let you go real quick,
what's ahead this eveningon "Faith vs Culture?"
- Yeah, we're gonna be talking about
a major stumbling block,
a foundational stumbling block
that a lotta people have to the faith,
talking about, how can a good God
send loving people to hell,
and we tackle that question by answering
the faulty premise that,well, we're good people.
So, we talk about, what isour true standing with God
and try to help shedsome light on that topic.
- All right, Dan Andros with "Faithwire."
Wanna remind you at home that
you can watch "Faith vsCulture" this evening.
It begins at 8:30 Eastern and, of course,
you can find that on the CBN News Channel.
Still ahead, a look at "America Lost,"
a new documentary exploring real lives
and real struggles across cultural lines,
even before the pandemic,
and how faith and familycan help turn things around.
We've got that story foryou when we come back.
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- The pandemic is not justa public health issue.
It is expected to expand poverty
abroad and here at home, withmillions still out of work
and businesses shuttering.
A documentary called "America Lost"
documented the decline of threeAmerican cities, pre-Covid,
produced by the Discovery Institute
and the Heritage Foundation.
It shows people committedto changing the cities
where they live and workthrough faith and family
as well as community rather than riots,
with the true stories ofpeople battling crime,
economic decline and the breakdown
of traditional institutions.
Chris Rufo with The Discovery Institute
worked on the documentary for years
and spoke with CBN's "Faith Nation"
about how it grew intosomething much more powerful
than even he first imagined.
- You spent time in Youngstown, Ohio,
Memphis, Tennessee andStockton, California,
where you describe as forgotten cities.
What did you discover?
- Yeah, I discovered that the crisis,
no matter who's in office,
whether you have a Democrat or Republican
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of cities and townsacross the United States
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with the breakdown of families,
with the tearing o the social fabric,
and it's time that we spend some time
thinking about these places,
learning how they're coping,
and trying to understand how they could
revive themselves in the future.
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how you came up with the project idea?
- Yeah, I wanted to do a story
that transcended geographicand racial lines.
So we feature one workingclass white community
in Youngstown, Ohio in theold kind of rust belt North.
We feature an AfricanAmerican urban community
in Memphis in the deep South,
and then we find characters that are
Latino and multi-racialin Stockton, California,
and it really just goes to show
that the great shreddingof the social fabric
affects people of all backgrounds.
It's something that wecan come together on,
both to diagnose the problem
and come up with solutionsthat work for everyone.
- Chris, real quicklyhere, you put five years
into this project,spending time with a felon
getting back on his feet,
a woman whose childhood neighborhood
descended into squalor, and others working
to change the world bystarting with themselves first.
Briefly, what did you learn and
what can we learn from their stories?
- You know, I didn't goout seeking this story,
but one thing I foundover and over and over,
in America's poorest neighborhoods,
the faith community, those local churches
are really the bedrockof the social order,
the bedrock of people's lives,
and also have the most successful programs
teaching people how toget back off their feet,
bringing people in off the streets,
helping people recover from drug abuse,
uniting families and thesekind of often unsung heroes
in the faith community,are really on the ground
fighting the good fight andshould have all of our support.
- How are faith and familydoing in society today?
Is America lost?
- Yeah, I mean, it is, but you know,
one thing about being lost,
you can always find your way again,
and I think what you'veseen since the 1950s
is that the family, especiallyin the poorest communities
and neighborhoods has really fallen apart,
and I think that it's,
according to all thethousands of people I met
in these cities is reallythe thing that people feel
is most acutely lost andwe need to really restore.
So, I think, you know,I saw a lotta heartbreak
in these places, but Ialso saw a lotta hope.
I wouldn't count Americadown for the count at all.
I think our best days are still ahead.
- Chris, real quickly before we go,
where can people find the film?
- Sure, all of our viewerscan actually watch the film
in its entirety for free atAmericalostfilm.com/premiere.
That's Americalostfilm.com/premiere.
You can watch the trailer.
Watch the whole film for free.
I think it's really,it's something important,
and something that sheds a lotta light
on a story that is often never told.
- All right, Chris Rufo,thank you for being with us
and thank you for your time.
- Thank you.
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Christmas decorationsare on display everywhere
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The Second Family recently unveiled
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With that word, I encourage you
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