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- [Jenna] Tonight, blame China.
- No country poses a broader,
more severe intelligencecollection threat than China.
- [Jenna] The US and itsallies point the finger
at the emerging superpower for its role
in cyber attacks against the US.
- [John] Plus, the lateston the economy and COVID-19.
- What's your message toplatforms like Facebook?
- They're killing people.
I mean they're really-
Look, the only pandemic wehave is among the unvaccinated
and they're killing people.
- The White House frustratedover misinformation
on the pandemic and the vaccine.
All this and more tonighton "Faith Nation."
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And welcome to "FaithNation," I'm John Jessup.
- And I'm Jenna Browder.
The US and other major worldpowers are joining forces
in confronting China for malicious
state-sponsored cyber attacks.
- It is the largest condemnation
of China's cyber activity to date
with NATO and the EuropeanUnion also involved.
CBN News National Security Correspondent
Caitlin Burke has the latest on the move
to expose China's tactics.
- The accusation here isthat China has been working
with criminal hackers to profit
from stolen sensitive government material.
That includes intellectualproperty as well
as military, political,and economic information.
- No country poses a broader, more severe
intelligence collection threat than China.
- Back in March, initial blame for a hack
on Microsoft Exchange email servers went
to a relatively unknownChinese espionage network.
Now, the US and NATOallies point to evidence
that those hackers worked directly
with China's Ministry of State Security.
Those countries alsopledging to join forces
to expose China'smalicious cyber activities.
Secretary of State AntonyBlinken blasting the Chinese
in a statement writing quote,
"Responsible states donot indiscriminately
compromise global network security
nor knowingly harbor cyber criminals,
let alone sponsor orcollaborate with them."
Meanwhile, the JusticeDepartment is charging
four Chinese nationalsin a hacking offensive
targeting dozens of companies,
universities, and government agencies.
The indictment, made public Friday,
revealing some disturbing details.
Targeted industries included among others,
aviation, defense, education, government,
healthcare, biopharmaceutical,and maritime.
At research institutes and universities,
the conspiracy targeted infectiousdisease research related
to Ebola, MERS, HIV/AIDS,Marburg, and tularemia.
US intelligence agencieshave released a cybersecurity
advisory detailing tacticsand techniques used
by China to exploit networks.
The hope is that exposingthis information will help
potential victims protect their systems.
Caitlin Burke, CBN News.
- All right, thank you, Caitlin.
And joining us now from the North Lawn
of the White House is our CBN News
White House Correspondent Eric Philips.
Eric.
- Well, Jenna, you heardwhat Caitlin just said.
The White House issaying that speaking out
against the cyber attackis step number one.
And not just the US speaking out,
but NATO has released a statement strongly
condemning the attack as well,
the first time the organization has ever
released a statement like that according
to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
Now during remarks this morning,
the president was asked how he compared
this latest attack from China to attacks
that the United States receivedfrom criminals in Russia.
And here's what the president had to say.
- My understanding is thatthe Chinese government,
not unlike the Russian government,
is not doing this themselves,
but are protecting those who are doing it.
And maybe even accommodatingthem being able to do it.
That may be the difference.
- I would note that weare actually elevating
and taking steps to, notonly speak out publicly,
but certainly take action as it relates
to problematic cyber activities from China
in a different way, but aswe have from Russia as well.
We are not differentiating.
One is, you know, out ofthe realm of condemnation
or out of the realm ofconsequence of the United States.
- During this afternoon's press conference
here at the White House,Jen Psaki was asked
if the United States would be slower
to impose sanctions on China than Russia,
because of the fact thatthe People's Republic
of China contributes a great deal
of money to the United States' economy.
In short, Psaki said no.
The latest from the White House.
John and Jenna, back to you.
- All right, thank you, Eric.
The first January 6th Capitolrioter to be convicted
of a felony is sentencedto eight months in prison.
Police arrested Paul Allard Hodgkins
of Tampa, Florida more than a month
after video footage showedhim carrying a Trump flag
on the Senate floor.
He pleaded guilty to one count
of obstructing an official proceeding,
which carried a maximumof 20 years in prison.
Hodgkins, who says he did not engage
in any violence or property destruction,
told the judge he regrettedentering the Capitol
and the hurt caused tothe country he loves.
- The Biden administration has transferred
its first detainee out of Guantanamo Bay.
Abdul Latif Nasir, who's from Morocco,
had been recommended fordischarge back in 2016,
but was kept at the wartimeprison under President Trump.
The Pentagon citing thatNasir's detention was no longer
necessary to protect US national security.
Nasir arrived in Moroccotoday where police took him
into custody and saidthey would investigate him
on suspicion of committing terrorist acts.
Nasir was charged at Guantanamo Bay.
- Concerns over the Deltavariant prompted falls
in global stocks today.
The Dow Jones slipped more than 800 points
by midday putting it on track
for the worst daily drop since October.
In Washington, President Bidenwas touting the US economy
at a press conference.
He highlighted new jobs andsaid forecasters predict
GDP will grow by 7% this year
while also acknowledging the inflation
many Americans are experiencing.
He called it temporary pointing
out falling car and lumber prices.
Biden added his infrastructureplan will keep the economic
momentum going and help to ease shortages
in national and global supply chains.
- If we make prudentmulti-year investments
in better roads, bridges, transit systems,
and high speed internet,
and a modern resilient electric grid,
here's what will happen.
It breaks up thebottlenecks in our economy.
- [John] Biden labels isplan a blue collar blueprint
for rebuilding the economy, creating jobs,
raising wages, andkeeping prices in check.
- Congressional Republicanshave until Wednesday
to hash out a bipartisandeal on infrastructure.
That's the day it goes upfor a vote in the Senate.
Republicans are cryingfoul on the deadline put
in place by Senate MajorityLeader Chuck Schumer insisting
it's more important to get it right
than to meet an arbitrary deadline.
Senator Rob Portman saysnegotiations are ongoing.
- It's actually 11 Republicans
and 11 Democrats putting this together.
Chuck Schumer, with all due respect,
is not writing the bill, noris Mitch McConnell, by the way.
So that's why we shouldn'thave an arbitrary
deadline of Wednesday.
We should bring the legislationforward when it's ready.
- [Jenna] After negotiators dropped a plan
to ramp up tax enforcementbecause of Republican pushback,
the group continues to workout how to pay for the bill
now totaling $1.2trillion over eight years.
- President Biden vowingthat the Justice Department
will appeal the federal judges ruling
that deems the DACA program illegal.
Immigrants whose parents broughtthem into the United States
illegally as children were afforded
legal protections under the program,
but Texas and eight other states sued
to halt it arguing formerPresident Obama lacked the power
to create the programwhen he bypassed Congress.
The ruling leaves the program in place
for existing dreamers,
but stops the government fromapproving new applications.
Biden called the judge'sdecision deeply disappointing
and is renewing calls for Congress
to create a permanent solution.
- And joining us now is Nathan Gonzales,
editor and publisher of Inside Elections.
Nathan, good to haveyou with us this Monday.
So in his ruling, the judge acknowledged
widespread sympathy fordreamers and wrote quote,
"the court might agreewith the sentiments."
Meanwhile, the DACA programhas brought public support
even among Republicans.
Why doesn't thatcorrespond to Capitol Hill
when it comes to actuallypassing legislation
to protect dreamers?
- Well, because everythingis difficult on Capitol Hill.
We have a dividedCongress, a 50-50 Senate,
and a very narrowly dividedHouse of Representatives
and we have a divided country.
So nothing is easy.
You talked about a budget
and just getting a budgetpassed is difficult.
So now we're talking about DACA
and immigration in general,
which is one of the most polarizing issues
or one of the issues that Ithink defines the two parties
in terms of how manypeople should be coming in,
what should we do with people
who are already in the country?
And so it's just one ofthe hottest topics we have.
- Nathan, where wetypically see consensus is
on infrastructure.
This week, two infrastructurevotes are scheduled
in the Senate.
Politico's out describingChuck Schumer's move
as playing hardball trying to put pressure
on Republicans who saythey want a bipartisan deal
and to signal he expects all50 Democrats to fall in line.
Nathan, is this the week that Biden's hope
on infrastructure potentially blows up?
- Well, I think we've been talking about
infrastructure for years now.
What we have to rememberis that in Washington,
if you have the votes you vote,if you don't have the votes,
then you talk and debate and try
to get debate until you have enough votes.
So I think, while LeaderSchumer might be trying
to play hardball, ifhe had the votes today,
there would be a vote.
But the bill's not doneand we're still waiting.
Ultimately, I'm skepticalthat a big bill is going
to get passed because one of the dynamics
we have to remember is thatyou have so few senators
who represent statesthat the opposing party's
presidential candidate won.
You only have sixsenators who the opposite
presidential nominee won their state.
So there's just verylittle political pressure
to compromise or work with the other side.
And that leaves us in a stalemate.
- We'll see with some of the moderates.
I know Kyrsten Sinema was surprised
by this Wednesday deadline.
Axios is reporting Democratsin the South, the Midwest,
and in the Rockies are runningagainst the party's image
and messaging on these midterm campaigns.
Nathan, how warranted are their concerns?
And does it acknowledgea potential red wave
we could see sweep Washington in 2022?
- Well, there's certainlyDemocrats that are concerned
about the big D, democraticlosses in rural America in 2020.
A couple of long time democraticmembers of the House lost
such as Collin Peterson in Minnesota
who represented a very rural district.
So it's the conservative Democrats
and then there's optimism for Republicans.
But on the flip side,
about 80% of the US populationlives in urban areas.
So Republicans, it lookslike they are making gains
in rural America, butthey're also making gains
with a smaller segment of the population.
And so looking forwardto the next elections,
Republicans shouldcontinue to be concerned
about those losses in the suburban areas
and trying to regain some ground there.
- Nathan, you're talkingabout looking forward
to the next elections.
If I can get you to talkabout last elections,
a new study out today lookedat last year's public polling
and found that nationalrose results were off
by the greatest margin in 40 years,
overstating democraticsupport across the board.
Nathan, why the dramaticdisconnected numbers?
And what does that mean going forward?
- Well, I think achallenge for pollsters is
are the people that aregetting on the phone
and answering these long questionnaires,
are they representative ofthe population at large?
And it's clear that thereare some challenges.
I continue to believe thatpolling is an imperfect
but useful way to look at elections.
And I think when we take a step back
and look at what thepolling was telling us
prior to the 2020 elections,
it was telling us thatBiden had a better chance
of being elected president.
And he won.
It told us that SenateDemocrats had a better chance
of winning control than Republicans.
And they did that.
It showed us that therewas a better chance
that Democrats weregoing to maintain control
of the House and they did.
Now there were some misses along the way,
particularly in individual House races,
but I don't think it'sa completely flawed,
polling's not completely flawed
that we just throw it allaway and ignore it all.
- Imperfect, but useful.
Nathan Gonzales, with Inside Elections,
thank you so much for yourtime and expertise today.
- Thank you, see you next time.
- [Jenna] And coming up, a new page
in the sex abuse scandalsplaguing the Catholic Church
after powerful Vaticanofficials dismissed warnings.
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Exclusive reporting tonightfrom the Washington Post reveals
how powerful officialsin the Catholic Church
helped a teen accused ofabuse become a priest.
Top Vatican officialsdismissed accusations
that an Italian priestsexually molested a fellow
altar boy when both were teenagers.
A cardinal and a bishop bothcalled those claims calumny
and helped Father GabrieleMartinelli become a priest.
The Vatican is now revisiting the case
putting Martinelli on trial.
The Washington Post, basedon interviews and a review
of thousands of previouslyunreported documents,
portrays a Catholic church coverup
and a failure to conductcredible investigations.
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the Rome Bureau Chieffor the Washington Post.
Chico, thank you for being with us tonight
and a big story that you've broke here.
First off, how did you uncover this story?
- There had been previousreporting on this
four years ago fromseveral Italian outlets.
Prior to that reporting,Martinelli had already turned
from an altar boy into a priest
with no public awarenessof the accusations
that had been made againsthim when he was a teenager.
And so that reporting brokethis story into the open
and they did imply thatthere was a coverup
among officials in the Vatican.
What we did was take thatto a much deeper level,
like a crash report afteran airplane goes down
and looked at every littlething behind the scenes.
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but you're looking at every step
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as you mentioned, thousandsof papers, court records,
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that this case has madeits way through the Vatican
and also through courtproceedings in Rome.
You have kind of a situationthat might strike Americans
as double jeopardy whereboth the legal entities
of the city, state of the Vatican
and of Italy are lookingat this at the moment.
So we have access torecords of both of those.
- Chico, it seems a littlebit counterintuitive,
but with the sex abuse scandal
that has been plaguingthe Catholic Church,
why did these top Vaticanofficials dismiss the allegations?
- Well, this case spanned several years
and I guess you're startingin right around the time
that Pope Francis became pontiff.
At the time, we were wellinto the abuse scandal,
the Boston cases had beenwell-documented at that point
and most of America knew very well
about the scale of the problem.
But there was kind of a secondary issue
that has emerged as acrisis for the church,
I think during Francis's tenure,
which is the difficulty notjust of handling allegations
against particular priests,
but the difficulty of makingsure that the powerful people
in the church, bishops andcardinals, respond appropriately.
And at least until a few years ago,
there'd been very littleeffort made by the church
in any country, including in America,
but surely in the Vaticancity-state itself,
to provide checks and balances
on these princes of the church to ensure
that they handle things well.
In the case that we document,
there was very little oversight
of these individuals,bishops and cardinals.
They're answerable only to the Pope
and they were able to run an investigation
that was pretty laughable.
- Chico, just about 30 seconds left here.
But how is this all playingin the Italian media?
- I don't think that many have picked up
on it based on our reporting.
And I anticipate that morepeople will revisit it soon
because this case isgoing to bubble up again.
The Vatican recentlyannounced that the verdict
in this case featuring nowpriest Gabriele Martinelli
will come out on October 6th.
And at that point, themost definitive account
of what's happened is ours.
- All right, Chico,unfortunately, we are out of time,
Chico Harlan with the Washington Post,
thank you so much for being with us
and thank you so muchfor breaking the story.
- Sure, thank you very much.
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Why it's sparking the blame game
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- The Tokyo Olympics are just days away
and an alternate on the US women's
gymnastics team has testedpositive for the corona virus.
The vaccinated 18-year-oldis now isolating
in a hotel and another alternate athlete
in close contact is in quarantine too.
The Olympic cases comeamid a coronavirus surge
and as health officials acknowledge
nearly every state is seeing increases.
The Biden administrationblames social media
for falling short of its vaccination goal.
However, the fingerpointing has some asking
how far should the government go
to get more Americans vaccinated?
CBN's Dale Hurd has the story.
- The White House is frustrated that what
it calls misinformation onsocial media is preventing
people from getting vaccinated
and it wants the misinformation stopped.
- What's your message toplatforms like Facebook?
- They're killing people.
I mean they're really-
Look, the only pandemic wehave is among the unvaccinated.
And they're killing people.
- [Dale] Facebook refuted the claim saying
vaccinations are up.
But health officialssay it's an urgent issue
with a new rise in COVIDcases in most states fueled
by the Delta variant.
- This Delta virus is reallya cause of greater concern
and this is not last year's virus.
- [Dale] More than 65% of Americans
12 and over have received atleast one dose of the vaccine.
But the white House believessocial media platforms
that allow posts attacking thevaccine are keeping millions
of other Americans from being vaccinated.
- I've been deeplyconcerned about the flow
of misinformation acrosstechnology platforms
and throughout societyover the last many months.
- [Dale] And a firestormerupted in Washington last week
when White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
said the White House is in regular contact
with Facebook about flaggingposts seen as problematic,
which led a White House reporter to ask-
- For how long has theadministration been spying
on people's Facebook profiles looking
for vaccine misinformation?
- That was quite a loadedand inaccurate question.
- [Dale] But Texas Senator Ted Cruz
accused the Biden administrationof colluding with big tech.
- It makes clear thateverything we thought
about the Biden administration,
about their willingnessto trample on free speech,
to trample on the Constitution,
to use government power to silence you,
everything we feared they might do,
they are doing and worse.
- COVID cases are up in allbut two states in the US.
Officials in Los Angeles County are even
reinstituting an indoor mask mandate.
But the sheriff says he won't enforce it.
Among the latest cases arefive of the Texas Democrats
who fled to DC to block avote on election reform.
They met with Vice PresidentKamala Harris last week.
Dale Hurd, CBN News.
- [Jenna] Still ahead, redhot chili peppers in space.
The secret garden on board theInternational Space Station.
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- Finally tonight, astronauts on board
the International SpaceStation are spicing things up
with a new addition totheir orbital garden.
- Now you're making me hungry.
Astronaut Shane Kimbrough planted 48
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in the advanced plant habitaton board the spacecraft.
Growing peppers will be one of the longest
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