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- Well, welcome to the 700 Club.
A white Christmas cameearly for Americans,
millions of people, overnight it happened.
An epic storm blasted theEast Coast with heavy snow,
gusty wind, and showers of sleet,
wreaking havoc on highways.
And it's not over yet.
More than three feet of snowis expected in some places.
George Thomas begins our coverage.
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- A winter storm galestretching some 1000 miles
barreled into the mid-Atlanticand Northwest, Wednesday,
bringing snow, sleet, and high winds.
Cleanup crews now hitting the roads,
while some car ownerslikely spending the day
getting in touch withtheir insurance companies
about accidents on those icy roads.
Two members of an EMS crew on the scene
of this accident near Pittsburgh,
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lucky to be all right, afternarrowly escaping this crash.
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From Virginia...
- Here in the NorthernShenandoah Valley of Virginia,
just a few hours westof the Capitol Beltway,
a steady snow fell throughout the day,
as temperatures hovered in the 20s.
Residents here braced for snowfall totals
of up to a foot or more.
- [George] To New Haven, Connecticut...
- Connecticut was forecastto get at least a foot
or more of snow, andthat's about what we've got
on the ground right now,but it's still coming.
So we're expecting atleast a few more inches.
- [George] To New York City,Philadelphia and Boston.
- It sucks when all thesnows is hittin' your face,
you know, it kinda stings a little.
- [George] The Nor'easterpacking heavy snow, sleet,
and stiff winds.
- Parts of Northern Pennsylvaniaand the southern tier
of New York picking upover three feet of snow.
Johnson City, New York atthe National Weather Service
office, close to 40 inches of snow.
- [George] The powerful storm creating
treacherous drivingconditions in affected areas.
On Interstate 80 nearClinton County, Pennsylvania,
a 60-car pileup, resulting in two deaths.
More than 1300 flightswere canceled and residents
along the storm's path urgedto stay off the roads today.
- If you must travel, be sure you have
an emergency supply kit for your vehicle
and that it is up-to-date.
- [George] In Pennsylvania,the governor there saying
his state was preparedto continue distribution
of the Coronavirus vaccine,despite the snow storm.
While crews work around theclock to keep folks safe
on the roads today, manytaking time in these parts
to enjoy winter's first snow storm.
- It's been a while.
It's been a while sincewe've seen some snow,
as heavy as it's coming down.
- [George] George Thomas, CBN News.
- Well here in thegarden spot of the world,
we don't have any snow, wehave a few flurries (laughs).
It's a little chilly, but other than that,
I mean, I like a little snow.
It's kind of fun at Christmas time.
Well, in the other news, anotherworld leader has COVID-19,
as the surge continues.
So who's stepping upto encourage Americans
to take the vaccine?
Efrem Graham has more.
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- Pat, French President, Emmanuel Macron,
has tested positive for COVID-19.
He'll self-isolate this week.
Here in the U.S.,President-elect, Joe Biden,
and Vice President, MikePence, will take the vaccine
to build public confidence.
This comes as FDA advisorsmeet today to consider
emergency approval of a second vaccine.
The Moderna vaccinecould begin rolling out
5.9 million doses within days.
And more good news on the Pfizer vaccine.
Healthcare workers say the vials contain
more than the expected five doses,
up to an additional oneto two doses per vial.
Meanwhile, Congress iscloser to a relief package
and it's adding a sweetener,$600 checks for most Americans.
The $900 billion bill alsoincludes unemployment enhancement
loans for small businessesand a moratorium on evictions.
Pat?
- Well, ladies and gentlemen,
what we wanna ask ourselves though,
while this is goingon, where was Congress?
While this virus was spreading,where was the Congress?
You ask yourself, what happened?
They're finally coming throughat the very last minute
with a relief packagewhen people are suffering
all over this nation
and when a virus wasspreading, where was Congress?
Where was it?
Well, I began to thinkover it a little bit
and perhaps you won't mindif I refresh your memory
just a little bit.
But I recall back thatCongress was having hearings
because there was a telephonecall between President Trump
and the newly-electedPresident of the Ukraine.
And it was a friendly telephone call,
and the President said, "Andby the way, do me a favor."
"Check out for me, please,to see if there's any truth
"to a rumor that Joe Biden or his son
"are involved with a Ukraine company."
I think it's called Burisma.
And that was it.
Well, Trump thought it wasa perfectly innocent call,
but suddenly it began to be a scandal.
And a Lieutenant Colonel,named Vindman, said,
"Well, I'm detailed to listenin on those conversations."
"And I was so shocked,because it looked as if the
"President of the UnitedStates was withholding aid
"to an ally,
"illegally, in order to have that ally
"hinder or hurt one of his opponents."
And so, what does Vindmando with the information?
Does he give it to his superiors?
No, he's a Lieutenant Colonel.
He gives it to a HouseInvestigating Committee,
headed by Adam Schiff.
And then there's a guy named Jerry Nadler,
who also headed up theJudiciary Committee.
Do you remember all that?
Sometimes we forget real quickly,
but I think we need to understand.
And then those two guysbegan to hold hearings,
and the hearings went on and on
and there were whistleblowers.
Well, you have to lookafter these whistleblowers.
Then somebody else comes out and says,
"I'm a lifetime member of theCIA and so forth and so on."
"And I've got this thing tosay against the President.
So you have endless hearingsand they're on television.
And then these committees voteand they vote and they say,
"Well, it looks as if thePresident of the United States
"has used his office towithhold aid to an ally,
"in order to force thatally to do something
"to hurt one of his opponents,and this is impeachable."
So the House Judiciary Committee
and the IntelligenceCommittee, Nadler and Schiff,
Schiff particularly, thinksof himself as a playwright,
and he began to write up thescenario of what was said.
It never was said.
He had the transcript,but he was lying about it.
He lied blatantly, but put it out as fact.
So now the House takesit up, and instead of
worrying about Corona andhelping the American people
in this time of stress,
they hold hearings.
And then they vote toimpeach the sitting President
on the basis of that telephone call.
Remember?
Well now this is, theyuse the term quixotic,
because it takes atwo-thirds vote of the Senate
and the Senate is controlledby the Republicans,
and there's no way underheaven that the Republicans
are gonna vote to impeachtheir own President.
But nevertheless, there wereArticles of Impeachment.
Do you remember all that?
We had to listen to it.
And those Articles ofImpeachment were sent formally
to the Senate, after quitesome delay had taken place,
and the Senate was forced to hold a trial.
And I might add, there wasevidence that Jay Sekulow,
who is the General Counsel ofan organization that I happen
to be president of, The AmericanCenter for Law and Justice.
He was chosen to lead the defense.
So they actually had a trial in the Senate
before the Chief Judge andRoberts presided over that trial.
Now, all this whileAmericans are suffering.
They're suffering, there'sa virus coming down.
There's a possibility of a major pandemic.
You know, Fauci had actually been in touch
with the Institute ofVirology in Wuhan, China.
And so we began to understand about it,
but the Congress did nothing.
They were too intent onimpeaching the President.
And we had to sit throughthat nonsense that went on.
And Jay Sekulow did a wonderful job.
Well, the House ImpeachmentManagers brought their case,
which is just ridiculous.
And then Jay and his people,
and he has some excellent people,
began to give the defense.
Then the Senate voted.
And the results were already concluded.
There wasn't any possibilitythe Republican Senate
was going to impeach their President!
That wasn't gonna happen.
But nevertheless, we had tosit through all those trials.
You remember?
Maybe some of you have forgotten.
I haven't forgotten.
We sat there and listenedday after day after day
to all of that argument,and finally the Senate voted
and they said, "We do notfind the President guilty
"of any impeachable offense."
And so the matter was closed.
But in the meantime, people are suffering.
There's no virus.
I mean, there's no vaccine,there's no medicine.
People are going to die from a pandemic.
But did the Democrats inthe House think about that?
Or do they really care?
The answer is no!
They were so intent ondestroying a President
and putting the Americanpeople through all those months
of torment, and then it was for nothing.
But that kept them busy.
And so, well, (laughs)now we've got a vaccine.
Now we have a pandemic.
Now we have chaos in our society.
And well, just you know,remember Santayana said,
"Those that forget the lessons of history
"are doomed to live them again."
And something else was happening,
as we've got another chaotic situation
and an election that may be fraudulent.
Efrem.
- Pat, Wednesday theRepublican-led Senate Homeland
Security Committee heard testimonyof alleged irregularities
in the 2020 election, thoughthe courts have rejected
dozens of President Trump's lawsuits.
Senior Washington Correspondent,Tara Mergener, has more.
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- Committee Chairman, SenatorRon Johnson, told the panel
he hoped for a bi-partisan hearing
that would examine the election.
Instead it resulted in a pitched battle
between the two sides.
- This is not disinformation,this hearing today.
This is getting informationwe have to take a look at,
to restore confidence inour election integrity.
- [Senator Peters] Mr. Chairman,I gotta respond to that.
I mean, you're saying I'mputting out information--
- Try.
- Well, one, I had nothingto do with this report--
- You lied repeatedly--
- [Senator Peters] I did not author this--
- You lied repeatedly in thepress that I was spreading
Russian disinformation andthat was an outright lie.
- [Tara] Among thosetestifying, Ken Starr,
a member of PresidentTrump's impeachment team.
- The Presidential Election of 2020,
with its unprecedented featureof the use of mail-in ballots
has given rise to a number of questions.
- [Tara] Chris Krebs, the lonewitness called by Democrats
and former DHS head of Cybersecurity,
who was fired after sayingthere was no evidence
of election fraud.
- We should also be taking a victory lap,
celebrating a job well done.
On November 12th, 2020,government and industry
representatives from theelection security community
issued a joint statementreflecting a consensus perspective
that the 2020 election was themost secure in U.S. history.
- [Tara] Among thosechallenging that claim,
Trump campaign attorney, JamesTroupis, who went to court
in Wisconsin, asking that morethan 221,000 absentee ballots
be tossed, in a state where Trump lost
by a little more than 20,000 votes.
- Three million people properly voted
in the state of Wisconsin.
More than 200,000 identifiedduring this recount did not,
but those votes got counted.
And our statute says theyshould not have been.
That, in our view,
is a taint on our election in Wisconsin.
- [Tara] Jesse Binnall,Trump's attorney in Nevada,
credited data scientistsand whistleblowers
for finding, what hecalled, evidence of fraud.
- Here's what we found.
Over 42,000, 42,000 people,
voted more than once.
At least 1500 dead peopleare recorded as voting,
as shown by comparingthe list of male voters
with the Social Security death records.
More than 19,000 people voted,
even though they didn't live in Nevada.
- [Tara] The attorneys alsocomplained their efforts
to investigate anyirregularities were blocked
or turned away by the courtson procedural grounds.
- Our evidence has neverbeen refuted, only ignored.
- Democrats fought back,arguing the hearing was damaging
to democracy and promotingdebunked conspiracy theories
about the election.
And Republican Senator, Mitt Romney,
also weighing in this week, saying,
"I don't see the purpose of a hearing,
"other than to stir up controversy."
Meanwhile, Senate MajorityLeader, Mitch McConnell,
is reportedly urgingRepublican Senators privately
not to join any challengewhen Congress certifies
the Electoral Collegevotes on January 6th.
In Washington, I'm TaraMergener, CBN News.
- Pat, back to you.
- Ladies and gentleman, I'vesaid it before, I say it again.
This election was filled with fraud
and we can't just sitidly by and hope somehow
that they're gonna get away with it.
Now, there's talk of a special counsel.
There certainly should be oneto investigate the Bidens,
because when Joe Biden, if he is sworn in
as the next President,he's certainly not going to
put somebody in to investigatehis own son, who he said,
"I stand by him, he'sabsolutely innocent."
Which is nonsense.
So we need a special counsel,but there should be one
to investigate all thefraud in this election.
Something needs to be doneto get to the root of it.
And it looks like thegame is sort of over,
but not really, becausethere's still one last shot.
If the Congress doesn'tcertify the electors,
but the only way they'renot gonna certify it is
that there's clear convincingevidence that Joe Biden
and his family were somehowguilty of the type of crime
that would indeed result in impeachment
after he was elected.
And that is, again, a "Hail Mary Pass",
because most of the avenueshave been closed so far.
But it's not over yet.
Efrem?
- Pat, turning to New York,where a Kenyan man is facing
multiple criminal chargesin an alleged plot
to carry out a 911-style attack.
Agents say Cholo AbdiAbdullah belongs to the
African terror group,al-Shabab, and planned to hijack
a passenger plane and crashit into a U.S. skyscraper.
Abdullah attended flightschool in the Philippines
and was seeking a visato the United States,
when he was arrested in 2019.
The indictment also allegeshis internet searches included
how to breach cockpitdoors and information
on tall buildings in New York.
This week, a massive computerhack forced the government
to shut down critical networksin our nation's capital.
Now investigators areworking to assess the damage
to our national security.
Dale Hurd is on this story.
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- The hacking operationdisclosed publicly Sunday
began as far back as March,
when much of the federalgovernment and many of America's
largest companiesinstalled a software update
on their IT networks thatincluded malware called Sunburst,
which could lie dormant forweeks to avoid detection.
One security expert told CBN News that
on a scale of one to10, this hack was a 10.
Government officialsadmit they were stunned
by the sophistication of the hack,
and that many of America'smost deeply held secrets
may have been stolen.
- This is what's referredto as a supply chain attack.
- [Dale] Cybersecurityexpert, Frank Cilluffo,
is a former Homeland Security Advisor
to President George W.Bush and a member of the
Homeland Security Advisory Council.
- They were able to accessdifferent levels of credentials.
In other words, they gotin through the back door.
Then they were able toget into the front door
of all of our homes andall of our buildings
and all of our government agencies.
- [Dale] The infected softwarecame from a company called
SolarWinds in Austin, Texas,which provides computer network
monitoring services tothe White House, Pentagon,
Secret Service, and most ofAmerica's Fortune 500 companies.
After the hack, this pageshowing SolarWind's customers
was deleted from the company website.
The hack was so bad thatthe Pentagon, Tuesday,
ordered an emergencyshutdown of an internal
communications network thathandles classified material;
something that reportedlyhas never happened before.
- So the potential fora catastrophic incident,
at least from an espionageperspective, is very high.
- [Dale] The mainstreammedia is calling this
a Russian hack, butofficials have only said
it looks like it was aforeign nation state.
And that could include China.
- China is incredibly active in terms of
nefarious cyber activity.
- [Dale] Whoever thehackers were and whatever
they were after, it couldtake months or even years
before experts have the answers.
Dale Hurd, CBN News.
- Quite disturbing.
Pat?
- You know, as this yearbegan, I felt that the Lord
was saying to me that PresidentTrump was going to be tested
up to the point of war, by anumber of foreign countries.
One was Russia.
One was China.
One, of course, was Iran.
One was Turkey, and possibly North Korea.
We already have seen theRussians have launched
a submarine-delivered missile
that is capable ofhitting the United States.
North Korea has a numberof nuclear weapons,
and we're not sure exactly what they have,
but they're still working on stuff.
The Iranians definitely wantto close the Strait of Hormuz
and they want to bringabout some kind of a war.
The Chinese are making threats
in the South China Sea,which could lead to war.
All these are coming aboutwhile Trump is still President.
It didn't take four more years.
He's President until January the 20th
and these tests are comingagainst him right now.
And these foreign actorsthink, well you've got a
so-called interregnum, youmaybe have two Presidents.
You're not quite surewho's in charge right now.
The Pentagon doesn't havethe leadership it should.
Now's the time to act.
Folks, if there was ever atime to pray, this is it,
because, you know, whateveryou think of Trump,
whether you're for him or against him,
he's still our President.
And he's got to makethe decisions of whether
to go to war or whether to stand by
and let these people get away with it.
We don't know what'll happen,but he's being tested sorely
in these next few weeks thathe still remains in office.
And it's serious.
I mean, we're talkingabout the brink of war.
This hack, if it was donedeliberately by a nation,
this is an act of war.
