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- [John] Tonight, debt ceiling deadline,
with a government shutdown at stake,
and the President's multi-trillion dollar
domestic agenda now in jeopardy.
- We're obviously at aprecarious and important time.
- [John] Democrats debate whether to pass
a trillion dollar compromise or gamble
for trillions more in spending.
- We are not proceeding with anything
that doesn't have agreement
between the House and the Senate.
- [John] Plus, House Democrats push
to expand access to abortions,and stopping progress.
- This is where a sectionof the wall was gonna be.
- [John] What happenedafter President Biden
pulled the plug on Trump's border wall?
All this and more tonighton "Faith Nation."
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- Crisis averted at least for now.
Good evening, I'm Jenna Browder.
- Welcome to "FaithNation." I'm John Jessup.
Tonight, the Senate has voted
to keep the federalgovernment up and running,
the House expected to do the same.
- Another pressing issuedrawing battle lines
among Democrats on Capitol Hill,
infrastructure and two separate bills.
The first, the $1.2 trillionbipartisan infrastructure bill
and the second, the $3.5trillion human infrastructure
or reconciliation bill.
- On the first, HouseDemocratic leadership
projecting optimismthey'll be able to pass
the $1.2 trillion bipartisan bill,
a measure that already madeits way through the Senate.
Progressive Democratsthough say, not to fast.
They're warning they won't support it
without first passing that larger
three and a half trillion dollarhuman infrastructure bill.
If Speaker Pelosi can unite her caucus
to rally around the smaller package,
the bill then goes to
the President's desk for his signature.
But, concerning the largerinfrastructure bill,
3.5 trillion, it's still very unclear
how it will fare overin the Senate's side.
Today, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin,
who's more of a moderate,
set a limit on the price tag.
- My total line has been 1.5 because
I believe in my heart that what we can do
and what the needs we have right now
and what we can afford to do,
without basicallychanging our whole society
to an entitlement mentality.
- What do you say to people
- Hold on...- who say that
you and Senate Sinema areholding this whole thing up?
- I'm not holding, youknow, we only have 50 votes.
Basically, take whatever we don't,
are unable to come toagreement with today,
and take that on thecampaign trail next year,
and I'm sure that they'll get many more
liberal, progressive Democrats
with what they say they want.
- [Jenna] And tonight, it's less clear
what Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema,
the other moderate Democrat opposed to
the human infectionbill wants to see in it.
Today, her office released a statement,
refuting claims she's beenelusive in this process,
saying both the President and
the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer,
both are, quote, "fullyaware of Sinema's priorities
and that she continues to engage
directly with them inprivate discussions."
- Still something thatwe have not mentioned,
there's also the debt ceiling.
Lawmakers have until October 18th
to raise the nation's allowable debt limit
before the country runs out of funding
to pay for its bills.
- Yeah, a lot going on on Capitol Hill,
and joining us now is Mark Hamrick,
senior economic analyst and
Washington Bureau Chief at Bankrate.
Mark, welcome a lot to get to tonight.
There's a lot up on the Hill.
It looks like we're going to
stave off a government shutdown,
short term spending nowextended to December,
but Mark, is this just a case
of kicking the can down the road?
- You literally took thewords out of my mouth.
It feels like, you know, thesport in the nation's capital
for oh so many years now,and it's so unnecessary
because, you know, Ithink Americans deserve
better government, and that'snot a political statement.
That's a broad statement, meaning that
these are decisions which should have
been made a long time ago, andshould have been clarified,
and so, I would say thatvoters, constituents,
business leaders, investors, consumers,
they all deserve morecertainty in our government,
and so yes, the government is gonna,
looks like will stay open atleast through early December.
Why we needed to have anothershort term spending bill
and just couldn't take it on
to the end of the next fiscalyear is another question,
and as you say, there are a lot of other
looming issues, whichhave yet to be resolved.
- Mark, the short term spending bill
is no longer tethered tothe nation's debt limit,
the debt limit set to hit ahard ceiling in mid-October.
Mark, what happens if lawmakers fail
to raise that cap by October 18th?
Could the United States be in real danger
of defaulting on its debt?
- Well, that is the outcome that happens
if we neither suspend orraise that debt ceiling,
and we remind people that this isn't
a commitment to spend money.
That commitment has already been made.
This is essentially justallowing the government
to pay for what it's already committed to.
It's essentially making good on a promise,
and so, we're talkingabout payments to veterans,
members of the military,social security payments,
and all the entities, all the businesses
that are reliant on the federalgovernment as a customer.
So, there would be trulydevastating consequences
if we defaulted and basically took away
the mantle of the full faith in credit,
being respectable ofthe federal government,
and we can't afford that.
We still are dealing with a debt downgrade
that happened a decade ago that has
raised the cost of borrowing because
we played this game once.
We should not play it again.
- Yeah, stunning to think about for sure.
Mark, what about thebipartisan infrastructure plan?
Are we seeing the same song and dance
that we had with governmentspending and the debt ceiling?
- Well, I think here,what you're trying to do
is find middle ground, and so,
when we looked at theSenate stopgap measure
that was approved bya measure of 65 to 35,
that's about as close to bipartisan
as you get in Washington, DC these days,
and so, I think thatif we do have something
that is quote-unquote moderateemerge from all of this,
it's not what, you know, themost ardent progressives want
and it's more than whatthose who want nothing want.
I think that probably would be
obviously better than nothing.
- All right, Bankrate's Mark Hamrick,
thank you so much for being with us
and always appreciate your insights.
- Thank you.
- Thank you, Mark.
Well elsewhere on Capitol Hill,
Democratic lawmakers are pushing
to protect and expand abortionaccess across America.
In a House hearing today,
three congresswomenadvocated for the procedure
by sharing their personal stories,
and warning about court cases
that could limit abortion.
- Because of the cruel Texas abortion ban
and the other state abortion bans
currently being litigated by those
unaffected by the outcome,
many people may not have
the same choice as I did.
That is unacceptable.
- And joining us now with more,
Lila Rose with the prolife advocacy
and human rights group, Live Action.
Lila, welcome back to "Faith Nation."
You know, in the wake ofthe Texas heartbeat law,
we're hearing more and more women
share their own personalstories about abortion.
Barbara Lee, Cori Bush, Jackie Speier,
along with Pramila Jayapal today,
members of Congress now all on record.
Also this week, an Olympic medalist
told her own story insupport of abortion rights.
Lila, this newfound opennessis a striking change.
How does it affect the toneand the tenor of the debate?
- Well, first of all, anytime prolife legislation
has been passed or stridesforward for the prolife movement
and pre-born children have been made,
you hear a lot of thesepro-abortion stories come out,
where they're trying to persuade people
to think, oh, abortionis fine in some cases.
Abortion always kills an innocent child
and always is wounding for a mother
and for everyone aroundthat mother and child
because this is a person who was killed
and lost, their wholefuture ahead of them.
The hearing that happenedthis morning in Congress,
also we heard fromCongresswoman Kat Cammack
who shared about how hermother was told to abort her,
and her mother choselife, chose to give birth
to Congresswoman Kat, and now
she's a sitting Congresswoman and
she wouldn't be here if hermother had chose abortion.
So, there's two sides,of course, to the story,
but most importantly, it'sa question of human rights.
Do these childrendeserve legal protection?
Do they deserve to live?
They absolutely do and that's why
we applaud what Texas has done
and what other statesare doing to defend life.
- Cammack, you know,who you mentioned says,
the committee was normalizingand glorifying abortion.
Those were her own words.
Lila, do you feel the same way?
- Absolutely, I mean,what, the agenda right now
of the Democratic partyis to push abortion
through all nine months for any reason,
to force taxpayers to fund it,
and to try to desensitize people
to a violent act that destroysan innocent human life.
The reality is though, when anybody learns
the facts about abortion,
the dismemberment of achild with a beating heart,
often their brainwaves already firing,
their arms and legs already developing,
most people are really disturbed
and many become in opposition or
in opposition to abortion.
So, despite the propaganda push,
which is really what this hearing was,
held by pro-abortion congress members,
despite that, more and more Americans
are pro-life and even in Texas,
where Texas has a six-week abortion ban,
46% of Americans supported that ban
as opposed to 43% who opposed it.
So more Americans supportthese pro-life laws
than oppose them.
- Lila, we have a littleless than a minute left,
if you can, Supreme CourtJustice, Sonia Sotomayor,
yesterday told a groupof law school students
that she can't change the Texasheartbeat law, but they can.
She's wading into an issue that will
appear before the courtthis term in particular,
Mississippi's fetal heartbeat law.
Lila again, in the fewseconds we have left,
how much hurt or how much does this
hurt the court's perception
as fair arbiters of justice?
- Yeah, I mean, I think Sotomayor
is a total ideologue.
Justice Sotomayor is very pro-abortion,
and she's kinda lettingher cards show right now,
and that should disturbeveryone, you know.
Thankfully, we have, it seems,
enough constitutional judges who are
supporting the right to life,
that they will upholdMississippi's abortion ban,
but we should be concerned anytime
ideology trumps facts,
and trumps the Constitution.
We need to defend that right to life,
which should be secured for all people,
no matter whether they're born or unborn.
- All right, Lila rose with Live Action,
thank you for being with us, Lila.
Great to see you.
- Thanks for having me.
- And we'll be back right after the break.
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A new warning tonight over another
significant surge at the Southern border,
Homeland Security officials say,
if COVID-related immigrationrestrictions are lifted
based on a districtcourt ruling this month,
October could see a worst case scenario
situation at the border,
with as many as 400,000migrants trying to cross.
Former acting Secretaryof Homeland Security,
Chad Wolf told CBN News,many will be emboldened
by the recent flow of Haitian migrants
into the United States.
- And the traffickers and the smugglers
as well as the migrants themselves,
they're incentivizedbecause of the success
of those Haitians inDel Rio getting across
and now, into American communities.
So, they see that it can be successful.
I think it's the Bidenadministration's job right now
to break up those caravans,
and they need to do that by working
with Mexican officials and others.
- And when Joe Biden became President,
there was a shift in immigration policy.
Work on President Trump'sSouthern border wall
was brought to a halt, even though
it was already in progress.
- So what did President Biden'sdecision cost taxpayers,
contractors and thousands of workers?
CBN's Tara Mergener traveled to the
Rio Grande Valley to find out.
- As promised President Bidenhas stopped construction
of the US border wall with Mexico,
Donald Trump's signature project.
(voices chattering)
All along the Texas-Mexico border...
- We're going to build the wall.
- [Tara] A scene frozen in time.
- The Biden administrationchose to do nothing.
- [Tara] Once busy work sites...
- Government-contracted crews are set
to break ground in the Spring.
- [Man] Build that wall. Build that wall.
Build that wall.
- It was good for the economy.
It was good for the valley.
It was good for the people.
- [Tara] Sit silent, gaping holes,
the hallmark of a border wall...
- People are going tocome into our country,
but they're going to comeinto our country legally.
- [Tara] Gone bust.
- There will not be another foot of wall
constructed on my administration.
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- [Tara] With the stroke of a pen,
President Biden bringing an abrupt end
to Donald Trump's four-year fight
to finish this wall.
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While the wall is mostly outof the national spotlight,
the issue remains hot inthe Rio Grande Valley,
the busiest spot for illegalimmigration in the country.
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(wind blowing)
(cars vrooming)
- [Broadcaster] It's 7:29.
You're still on 710 KURV.
- [Tara] Wall or no wall?
- In my audience, the KURV audience,
which is generally business-minded.
They're businessmanagers, business owners,
and just hard workin' people,
overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly,
this audience, absolutely,they'd say yes to a wall.
- [Tara] During the Trump administration,
the US government paved the way
for hundreds of additionalsections of wall
to be built along the 2,000 mile border.
Biden ditched the projecthis first day in office...
- They're not worried about
how it's hurting us here.
- [Tara] A delight to Democrats...
- The wall is an immorality.
- and environmentalists.
- [Woman] For every mile of border wall
that they are building, they are clearing
20 acres of habitat.
- [Tara] But, a blow to outnumbered
agents and officers tasked with
slowing the flow of drugs.
- Without that infrastructure,
without that barrier there,
the cartels are freeto cross their products
anywhere that they want.
- And criminals increasingly
able to bypass them and getdeeper into the country.
Human smuggling arrestsare now skyrocketing
here in the Rio Grande Valley.
In Hidalgo County alone, they are now
making several a day.
- The numbers is just going up.
They'll go down for a week,
but they'll come rightback up the next week.
I don't see an end in sight.
- [Tara] Behind the scenes,
a struggle of a different kind.
- We have one of thehighest poverty rates.
It's really just very disappointing.
- Sections of the wall like this one
can be spotted all overthe Rio Grande Valley now.
When the Biden administration stopped
construction of the wall,
an estimated 5,000 people lost their jobs.
What was your reaction?
- Well, I took it a bit hard
because I was counting on that.
I was counting on that job.
- [Tara] So was GranchelliConstruction, hired...
- The people came downfrom all over the country,
hired local people.
- [Tara] then firedwhen the wall was nixed.
How many people did you have to
lay off after this happened?
- 40.
- This is where a sectionof the wall was gonna be.
- Yes, right along the river here
with about a 4.7 mile segment.
- [Tara] But, the companyis still on the hook
for the millions it poured into
a cement plant built justfor the wall, leasing land...
- It's about 35 or 40,000a month we're carryin'.
- [Tara] And buying equipment he says
the federal governmentwon't let him use or sell.
- We're waiting.
They say they're gonna reimburse everyone,
but it hasn't happened yet.
- At this site, there areexactly 1,087 steel panels
that would have been enoughfor two miles of border wall,
this dried up paint can and some cobwebs
reminders of what might have been.
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- It's just a bad deal.
I laid off 32 employees.
- AJ Steele, LLC, who made these panels
also remains in limbo.
How much money did youlose when this stopped?
- I'm at right now, alittle bit over $300,000.
- [Tara] As bills pile up.
- I sent a certified letterlast week, demanding payment.
- [Tara] From the contractor.
- From the contractor,
and he basically told me, he said,
I ain't got the money to pay you.
- [Tara] And you're stuck?
- Yes, and now, theowners of this property
are asking me for $20,000 a month
until all this material'smoved outta here.
At the end of the day, ifI don't get my money soon,
I'll just take all this and scrap it.
- [Tara] Like Garza and Granchelli,
many South Texas contractors are hoping
Governor Greg Abbot will make good
on his promise to resume building the wall
where Donald Trump left off.
- Had the border so closed, the best ever,
and now it's coming through at levels
that they've never seen before.
- [Tara] Using 250 million in state money,
and taking donations to fill holes
along the 1,200 milestretch of border here.
- Texas is stepping up and doing a job
that is truly thefederal government's job.
- [Tara] A plan, that doesn'tsit well with everyone.
- Definitely not allow states to enact
or govern themselves when it comes
to this federal issuebecause it's not their issue.
- Polls show Texans are split over
whether or not to build the border wall.
Meanwhile, the country is on track
for 2 million in legalcrossings like this one in 2021.
In South Texas, I'mTara Mergener, CBN News.
- [Jenna] Thank you, Tara.Great reporting, and up next,
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Well, after the chaoticUS troop withdrawal
from Afghanistan, thousandsof Afghan refugees
are beginning the processof resettling in America.
- These individualswere screened and vetted
by intelligence, law enforcement,
and counterterrorism professionals
from across the US government.
- Today, the Department of Defense offered
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of the 65,000 refugees evacuated
from Afghanistan in the last month.
Each day, the base serves 40,000 meals
and so far, 45,000 COVIDvaccines have been administered,
and soon the Justice Departmentwill begin the process
of resettling the refugees.
- Well, promoting religious liberty abroad
is an American priority, but in countries
where governments are less tolerant,
some commonly used tools and approaches
just aren't as effective.
- As Jennifer Wishon reports,
experts say, in those cases,
the best approach is teaching people
how to love thy neighbor.
- When it comes topromoting religious freedom
in fragile states likeAfghanistan, Somalia and Yemen,
US officials have to get creative.
Punitive policies likesanctions can weaken
already dysfunctional governments
and further devastateconditions on the ground
for people of faith.
Take Syria, for example.
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- Armed actors have laidsiege to towns and villages
with sizable religiousminority populations,
defacing and destroyingYazidi and Christian shrines,
and detained, prosecuted and even tortured
Yazidis, Christians, and other
religious minority communitiesfor their religious beliefs.
- [Jennifer] In some places, finding ways
to facilitate peace cansave entire communities.
- State attempts to eliminate the presence
of at least one religiousgroup from the country
have been recorded inAfghanistan, Algeria,
Azerbaijan, Bahrain,China, Comoros, Egypt,
Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia,
Myanmar, Pakistan and on and on.
You get the picture.
- [Jennifer] Experts saya deeper understanding
of the culture and engaging with those
under duress in-country would make
a tremendous difference.
- You know, we need to stop looking at,
for English speakers because oftentimes,
they're not the best representations
of the communities that we're seeking
to help in these countries.
We need to look outside the elite.
- You know, the rural people, you know,
women who have a different understanding
of who they think of themselves
and how they think the world works.
- [James] Knowledge of theliving faith traditions,
knowledge of the lived conflicts,
knowledge of what is in the way
and what will helpthings get out of the way
is all held within the communities.
- [Jennifer] Including how local cultures
and customs mesh with religion.
- We always say thatthe Christian in Lebanon
is completely different,to a large extent,
very different than a Christianfrom the United States
or otherwise, even in the way he reads
and he lives his faith.
- The US Commission onInternational Religious Freedom
makes recommendationsto America's diplomats.
Commissioners believe these
can make a real difference in the lives
of people who face challenges
in their everyday lives justbecause of how they worship.
Jennifer Wishon, CBN News.
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Congressman Greg Steube of Florida
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