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- [Jenna] Tonight.
Pray Vote Stand.
- We need to pray likewe've never prayed before.
- [Jenna] Christian'sunite to fight for life,
religious freedom, and families.
This amid a devastating jobs report.
Anemic numbers supplantinghigh expectations.
- We're making consistent,steady progress.
- [Jenna] And an attackon religious minorities.
Scores killed by a blastat an Afghanistan mosque.
Plus, bring your Bible to School Day,
the movement around the Good Book.
All this and more tonighton "Faith Nation."
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- From the church pews to the ballot box,
one group's aim to tear down the wall
between church and state.
Good evening, I'm John Jessup.
- Welcome to "FaithNation." I'm Jenna Browder.
Thousands from around the country
are in Northern Virginiamobilizing to preserve
what they see as America's bedrock values.
- They're taking part
in what's called the PrayVote Stand inaugural summit,
hosted by the Family Research Council.
The stated goal is equipping
and encouraging concerned Christians
how to respond to an ever-changing world.
- CBN's Tara Mergener is inLoudoun County at the event.
Tara.
- Well, John and Jenna,
the summit is about getting Christians
to come together in prayer
to tackle issues facingthe church and the nation.
The goal is to get anoverwhelming response
and a biblical worldview,including at the voting booths.
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- I am proud of my country.
I love this nation.
- [Tara] The Family Research Council's
Pray Vote Stand Summit is about defending
what makes America unique.
- We stand for the anthem.
We don't take a knee around here.
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- [Tara] Concerned Christians insisting
assaults on faith, family, and freedom
have never been more pronounced or severe.
- We need to pray likewe've never prayed before,
we need to vote every timewe have the opportunity,
we need to vote our biblical values,
and we need to stand for truth,
regardless of what theculture may be saying.
- [Tara] Among the concerns,
what's happening to kids in the classroom,
including a national pushfor critical race theory
and transgender policies.
Teacher Monica Gill is part of a lawsuit
challenging the Loudoun Countyschool district's new policy
that includes forcingteachers to call students
by their preferred pronouns.
- It's been a process overthe last couple of years,
watching the school boardcontinue to pursue policies
that are ideological and not educational.
- [Tara] Florida mom Quisha King says
it's time to send a majormessage to public schools.
- You do not have the rightto indoctrinate our children.
They are our children.
They were given to us by God,
and you do not have theright to teach this nonsense.
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- [Tara] Conservatives alsocalling out woke policies
and cancel culture they sayjeopardizes the US military.
- It's true throughoutall of our government.
We have secularized in a way
that presents real risk to our republic.
- [Tara] And former militaryleaders criticizing policies
threatening the religiousliberty of our service members.
- We're losing thatJudeo-Christian set of values.
- Where they're nowforcing service members
to choose between serving their faith
or serving their country.
- This is the Abortion Worldwide Report
for the past century.
100 nations, one billion babies.
- [Tara] Pro-life advocates
are calling for widespread participation
in what they believe is growingmomentum to save the unborn,
including Texas' new law banningabortion after six weeks.
- I encourage peoplethat their voice matters,
their vote matters, andtheir prayers matter.
- [Tara] This as crucial elections,
including the Virginia's governor race
and the midterm elections draw near.
- Christians have been on the sidelines.
They haven't been engaged.
- [Tara] That includesprotecting the ballot box.
- Get involved
at the community, at the most basic level
in the election process.
- [Tara] One they hope
will continue to reflect Christian values.
- Nothing is impossible.
Jesus can fix it.
- And American pride.
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And other issues coveredover these last three days:
vaccine mandates, immigration policy,
and Christian persecution, John and Jenna.
- All right, Tara Mergener,thank you very much
and great reporting.
Well, in other news tonight,
new dismal jobs numbersfor the month of September.
- That's right, today's jobs report
fell far behind expectations.
The economy still reelingfrom the coronavirus pandemic.
Job creation in September cameup short by at least 300,000,
held back by a sharp dropin government employment.
The economy created only194,000 jobs last month,
an anemic gain compared toestimates from economists
of up to half a million.
Still, the unemploymentrate did fall to 4.8%,
better than the expected 5.1%.
That's the lowest job ratesince before the pandemic
in February of 2020.
- Today at the White House,
President Biden addressedthe bad jobs numbers,
pushing the White Houseeconomic agenda as a solution.
- We're making consistentsteady progress though.
And thanks to bipartisan agreements,
we're making progress onfunding the government
and raising the debt limit.
We're making real progresson COVID-19 as well.
That's still much too much.
There's more work to do,
including getting more people vaccinated.
- And here with us now, Stephen Moore,
chairman of Freedom Works' Task Force
on Economic Revival.
Stephen, always great to have you.
As we just said, today'semployment picture
fell far short of expectations.
Stephen, what do you attribute that to?
- Well, it was a verydisappointing report.
It wasn't horrible though.
I mean, we did get...
By the way, it's a good thing
that government employment fell.
We don't want more peoplerunning the government.
We want more people workingfor the private sector.
The big problem right now, I believe,
is we have so manyworkers on the sideline,
and that was reflected in today's report,
where another, almost 200,000 people
dropped out of the workforce.
That is they either weren't working
or they weren't even looking for a job,
and that doesn't make any sense.
Usually, in a recovery like we're in now,
you'd see more and morepeople entering the workforce.
And that's the question,is why, why is that?
And my answer is,
part of it is, as you just said, COVID,
but the other part of it is we're paying
all of these governmentbenefits, these welfare benefits,
whether it's food stamps,unemployment benefits,
$300 a week per child payments,
the free health care, thefree this, the free that,
and it's really hard for small businesses
to compete with UncleSam right now, frankly.
That's putting a real hardshipon American small businesses.
It's causing the supplieschain disruptions,
and that's got to be fixed.
- Steve, you heard the president there
try to paint a positive picture,
saying that we're making progress.
Looking at the report though,and then, as you mentioned,
you consider the slowing supply chain,
you consider fears of inflation,
a lot of people mightnot feel that right now.
- You know, I thinkAmericans are kind of mixed.
I mean, the economy is doing pretty well.
I mean, businesses,notwithstanding the fact
they can't get workers, are doing better,
and that's in large partbecause of the vaccine
and we've gotten pastthe worst part of COVID.
But you know, I'm very concerned about
this 3 to 4 to $5 trillionspending bill Biden wants.
And I can't even understand his message.
Is he saying the economyis good or it's not good?
I mean, if it's good,
then why do we need another$4 trillion in debt?
I mean, that doesn't make any sense.
We should actually be cuttingback on government spending
now that the crisis is over.
And that bill has so many expansions
of these social welfare programs
that the social safetynet is no longer a net;
it becomes a hammock.
We estimate that ifthat bill were to pass,
you'd have seven millionfewer Americans working
because they'd sign upfor all the benefits
and they wouldn't get into the workforce,
which is bad for America,it's bad for our businesses,
and frankly, it's notgood for the families.
You need people working.
There's dignity. There's hope.
There is a path up theeconomic ladder by working.
- Stephen, today also,developed nations agreed
to a global minimumcorporate tax rate at 15%.
Notably, small businessespresumably won't be affected.
The agreement made by 136countries and jurisdictions
that make up about 90% of global GDP.
In the few seconds we have left,
would love to get yourthoughts here, Stephen.
- Well, it's a tax cartel.
The governments all around the world
don't want the governmentscompeting with each other.
But competition is a good thing.
You know, the country
with the lowest corporate tax is Ireland.
They're at, I think, about 12 1/2%
and they're sucking in capital.
Ireland's doing really well.
I don't understand this logic.
Why don't we just make theUnited States of America,
Joe Biden, the lowest taxcountry like we used to be
instead of one of thehighest tax countries.
He wants to raise up all of these taxes
and then he wants to strong-armall these other countries
to raise taxes.
That's not America.
We're in the land of the free.
We should be urging othercountries to cut their taxes
and cut their governmentand expand freedom.
And we've got a president nowwho's running around the world
telling countries to be less free.
- All right, Steve Moore, wehave to leave it there tonight.
It's good to see you. Thank you.
- You too.
Take care.
- Well, scores are dead
after a major mosque attackin northern Afghanistan
a month after America'schaotic withdrawal.
The Islamic State terrorgroup claimed responsibility
for the suicide bombing ofthis Shiite Muslim mosque
in Kunduz that killed at least 46 people.
The ISIS-K bombing targetingreligious minorities
follows another mosqueattack in Kabul a day ago
along with a series of terror attacks
since the Taliban seized controlof the country in August.
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Tonight, a rare done deal in Washington,
the Senate passing a bill toraise the nation's debt limit
after weeks of political wrangling.
The debt ceilingincreasing by $480 billion
is only enough to paythe government's bills
through December 3rd andis already setting up
the next showdown on Capitol Hill.
- We'll be doing this again inDecember, so here's my point.
I think you should do that.
I think the reconciliationprocess is available to you.
They have every right to pursue this,
and we as Republicans havea right to make it hard.
- And after passing the Senatewith no Republican votes,
the bill now heads for aTuesday vote in the House.
With that, we want to bring in our Friday
"Faith Nation" political panel,
Julia Manchester, politicalreporter with The Hill,
and David Brody, CBN Newschief political analyst.
To both of you, happy Friday.
Thanks for being with us.
So finally, a deal on the debt limit.
Julia, did Leader McConnell flinch
or did the Republicans come out of this
looking like they saved the day?
- You know, I think LeaderMcConnell in a way flinched.
He was getting a lot of pressure from,
he could have been getting alot of pressure, I should say,
from the business community,
you know, just basically saying,
"Look, we could end upeconomic catastrophe
if we don't move on this quickly enough."
However, I think McConnellwas relying on Democrats
to do this through thereconciliation process.
So it seems like theremight've been pressure
from somewhere else.
But at the same time, I thinkhe's getting pressure now
from members of his own caucus,
that they're kicking thisdown the road until December.
This is something that happensquite a bit in Washington.
You come to a short-term deal
only to have to face thesame sort of obstacle force
to reach a deal again acouple of months later.
- David, the president'sgetting criticized
for his comments about the economy
after the disappointing jobs report
for saying the latest numbersare evidence of progress.
David, when you factorin the weak jobs picture
and fears of inflationand stalled supply chains,
how much do you think the president's tone
will resonate with Americans?
- He's in a whole heap of trouble.
Don't take my word for it, justlook at the latest polling.
I mean, it just shows youthat people are not buying
what this president isselling at this point,
and I think it's pretty clear.
Look, to put a positive spinon a dismal jobs report?
Look, I get it.
I know that's whatDemocrats and Republicans,
both parties do it.
They'll figure out a way tokind of spin the numbers.
But this is classic Washington DC spin.
I mean, there's spin andthere's like a ultra spin,
and we're in the spin cyclefor sure here with Biden.
There's no way you can cut these numbers.
This is two months in a row it's been bad.
And you know, onceagain, blame it on COVID,
blame it on COVID,everything's COVID's fault.
Look, the truth of the matter is, is that
what this gives the Biden opportunity,
excuse me, Biden administrationopportunity to do
is to say that they'vegot to build back better.
How many times have we heard that?
And they'll say that if theycan just put some more money,
oh, I don't know, maybea few trillion dollars,
into the economy, then everything will be,
quote, hunky-dory.
And, you know, I tell you what,
only in Washington can youput a few trillion dollars in
and that's the way it goes.
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- Yeah.
Julia, you know, the president did spend
a big part of his speech today
talking about build back better
and saying that this was a solution
to these bad jobs numbers.
He says it would create thousands of jobs.
Critics say it would tank the economy.
What did you make of thepresident's speech today?
- Well, I think that'sthe Democratic spin on it.
They say, "Look, we build back.
This is why we need build back better.
It's going to create more jobs
to, you know, up these employment numbers
and decrease unemployment.
However, it's unclear
whether that's going to work with voters
at this moment in time.
Republicans are very muchrelying on this message
of inflation, rising prices.
And now with slowing jobs numbers,
I mean, that's just anothermessage they can jump on.
And, you know, I say this moment in time.
Look, the midterms are over a year away
or just over a year away,but we have a big election
in Virginia, the gubernatorial race,
which is really seen as a litmustest ahead of the midterms.
And you are already seeingVirginia Republicans
very much trying to tie Terry McAuliffe,
the Democratic formergovernor running in that race
to Joe Biden, so it'llbe interesting to see
how this all plays in this race
and how Democratic messagingpersists after this race,
and really, until the nexttime we get new jobs numbers.
- Former President Trumpis in the headlines again.
First the House SelectCommittee is threatening charges
against some in Trump'sorbit for failing to comply
with a subpoena about January 6th.
Also, today, we learnedthat President Biden
will not assert executiveprivilege, setting the stage
for the release of documentsrelated to Trump's activities
concerning the attack onthe Capitol back in January.
Maybe for the both of you,
real quickly in theminute that we have left.
How do you see this all playing out?
- It's going to court.- Let's go to you, David.
- That's the bottom line.
I'll do it in 10 seconds.
Trump's gonna sue him.
Shockingly, DonaldTrump in a court of law.
He spent half of his time inhis life in a court of law.
But he's gonna do this.
He told me that abouttwo or three weeks ago
when I interviewed him.
He says he'll do what he needs to do.
He'll go to court to sue him.
- Julia, do you think his court,
his court case will have much of a chance?
- I mean, we'll see.
But I think, you know, it's no surprise
that the Biden administrationis allowing this to go through
to investigate those documents.
- Yeah.
All right, David and Julia,
it's great to see you both this Friday.
Have a great weekend.
Thank you.- You too, guys.
- [Jenna] And when we come back,
how kids across the country celebrated
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The nationwide initiativesponsored by Focus on the Family
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by heading to schoolwith their Bibles in tow
and sharing the gospel.
Last year, more than half amillion students participated,
representing over 50,000schools across the country,
with Christian students of all ages
stepping up to the challenge.
Well, joining us now is Daniel Huerta,
vice president of parenting and youth
at Focus on the Family.
Daniel, thank you for joiningus today on "Faith Nation."
So this initiative has becomea nationally recognized day
for many Christian studentsacross the country.
Can you tell us about this year's turnout?
How did it go yesterday?
- Yeah, we had several joinus for the live celebration
at the end of the day, butwe heard many, many stories
rolling in, pouring inon our social media page
and saw several pictures.
And this actually, ourregistration surpassed last year.
The final numbers, ittakes a while to tally
and get those accurate numbers,
but we know that hundreds of thousands
did participate yesterday andwe had many leaders come out.
We asked students to register on our page
and to commit to bringingmultiple students with them
and they put that number on there
and we had several thousandthat committed to be leaders.
More than that.
I think it was more than 14,000
just committed to be leaders themselves.
We're excited at what happened yesterday
and we hope it's just astarting point, right?
It's a momentum.
You guys talked aboutmomentum earlier in the show.
Momentum in our culture, God's momentum,
that's a counter momentum to the chaos
and the division that's in culture.
We're trying to bring a momentum of unity,
of love, of hope, andjust really life-giving
type of momentum withinschools, within communities,
within kids' lives andtheir relationships.
- So the initiative isdescribed as a nationwide event.
It's a movement, not just a one day event.
What are you encouraging students to do
the rest of the year?
- Yeah, we have monthlyLive It challenges.
I'm excited about these.
We had a large number of families,
more than 17,000 families this past year
signed up for those monthly challenges,
and we heard some great stories
about them doing that as a family,
and there were some studentsthat did it together as well.
I have two teens, an18- and a 16-year-old,
and they took some of those challenges on
and also participated in BringYour Bible to School Day.
So I enjoyed it as a dadand also a leader here
at Focus on the Family.
I talk to my kids about the highlighter.
What do we choose to highlight?
And once a month, you get tohighlight your faith, right?
And that is about creating thatinvitation into God's Word,
and also momentum within our families,
within our communities, by participating
in those once a month.
And we do the hard work bycoming up with some ideas.
We text it to you or email it to you.
You just go to BringYourBible.org,sign up for those.
We send it to, you justfollow through on that
and enjoy the transformationthat that can have
within your home and just do those monthly
leading up to the next BringYour Bible to School Day,
which can be, again, a startingpoint to Bible studies,
prayer time together, becausewe enjoy those freedoms
here in the United States.
- Danny, I can't help butrecognize that verse behind you,
"Be strong and courageous,"from Joshua 1:9.
I think so apropos for this event
for students who werejust in public schools.
But was there a homeschool
or a private school student component
for them to participate as well?
- Yes, we encouragedhomeschoolers, private school kids
to just be creative.
You know, private schoolers,
kids that go to private school,have to bring their Bible
as part of the academic experience.
This is more of a relational,
I'm choosing to engage in God's Word
and I want to invite youinto that conversation.
And what we're hoping for isan opening of conversations
between homeschoolers,between their co-ops,
letting others know thatthey believe in God's Word
and are engaged in that.
And also just an opportunityto encourage one another
as homeschoolers across the nation.
I think it's even moreconnecting with homeschoolers
because sometimes they feel like,
"Ah, am I the only one," right?
- All right, Daniel Huertawith Focus on the Family.
It's great work you're all doing.
Thank you.
- Hey, thank you so much.
Appreciate it.
- [John] Still ahead,the Nobel Peace Prize
pays tribute to journalism.
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