YEAR SENTENCE IN TUCSON, ARIZONA
A FACILITY SPECIALIZING IN
TREATING SEX OFFENDERS.
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PETE: DONALD TRUMP STRESSING OUR
COUNTRY’S DEPENDENCE ON GOD, IN
A POWERFUL SPEECH AT THE
NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST LAST
WEEK.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: WHEN AMERICANS
ARE ABLE TO LIVE BY THEIR
CONVICTIONS TO SPEAK OPENLY OF
THEIR FAITH AND TO TEACH THEIR
CHILDREN WHAT IS RIGHT, OUR
FAMILIES THRIVE, OUR COMMUNITIES
FLOURISH, AND OUR NATION CAN
ACHIEVE ANYTHING AT ALL.
RACHEL: FRANKLIN GRAHAM JOINS US
NOW TO REACT BUT FIRST, YOU’VE
BEEN TO NORTH KOREA FOUR TIMES.
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON THE HUMAN
RIGHTS RECORDS THERE?
>> WELL NO QUESTION NORTH KOREA
HAS A GREAT PROBLEM IN THIS AREA
REGARDLESS OF WHO RUNS NORTH
KOREA, WE NEED TO BE TALKING TO
THEM.
A COUNTRY THAT HAS NUCLEAR
WEAPONS A COUNTRY THAT COULD
CREATE HAVOC ON THE CORE EN AN
PENINSULA, BUT THAT WHOLE REGION
WE NEED TO FIND WAYS TO TALK AND
I BELIEVE WHEN YOU TALK, WE CAN
MAYBE NEGOTIATE SOME OF THE
PROBLEMS AWAY.
NOT ALL OF THEM BUT SOME OF THEM
AND AS I’M A FIRM BELIEVER IN
TALKING TO THEM AND TRYING TO
FIND A WAY AROUND THESE
ROADBLOCKS THAT WE’VE HAD SINCE
THE EARLY 1950S.
WE’VE BEEN THERE ON THE KOREAN
BORDER FOR NORTH KOREA BORDER
SINCE THE 1950S WITH OUR ARMY
AND THERE HASN’T BEEN ANY CHANGE
, THERE HASN’T BEEN ANY
SETTLEMENT.
THERE’S GOT TO BE AWAY AROUND
THIS.
PETE: REVEREND WE TALK A LOT
ABOUT POLITICAL PRISONERS IN
NORTH KOREA.
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE CHURCH
AND RELIGIOUS PRISONERS AS WELL?
>> WELL THERE ARE SOME OFFICIAL
CHURCHES AND I’VE SPOKEN IN SOME
OF THEM SO HAS MY FATHER BUT WE
ALSO HEAR REPORTS THAT IN THE
INTERIOR CHRISTIANS ARE KILLED,
PROSECUTED, ANY SIGN OF
CHRISTIAN FAITH AND YOU COULD BE
EXECUTED AND WHAT I LOVE ABOUT
OUR PRESIDENT IS THAT OUR
PRESIDENT DEFENDS THE CHRISTIAN
FAITH.
OUR PAST PRESIDENT SCOLDED
CHRISTIANS.
THIS PRESIDENT IS DEFENDING
CHRISTIANS AND HE’S VERY OPEN
LOVE THAT ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP
AND OF COURSE AT THE PRAYER
BREAKFAST A FEW DAYS AGO HE WAS
TREMENDOUS THAT AMERICA IS A
NATION OF BELIEVERS AND WE’RE
STRENGTHENED BY THE POWER OF
PRAYER, HE REMINDED EVERYONE,
AND HE ALSO REMINDED US THAT
FAITH IS CENTRAL TO THE AMERICAN
LIFE AND IT IS.
IT’S CENTRAL TO OUR LIFE AS A
NATION AND SO I’M VERY VERY
THANKFUL THAT DONALD TRUMP TAKES
THE STAND.
MANY PEOPLE CAN CONDEMN HIM THAT
HE IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF THE
CHRISTIAN FAITH.
WELL HE MAY NOT BE THE GREATEST
EXAMPLE, WELL NEITHER AM I BUT
AT LEAST HE’S DEFENDING THE
FAITH AND STANDING STRONG ON
THAT.
GRIFF: REVEREND GRAHAM WHY IS IT
THAT SO MANY IN THE MEDIA MISS
WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TRYING TO
DO WHEN IT COMES TO PRAYER AND
POLITICS?
>> I DON’T KNOW WHY THEY MISS IT
LISTEN, I APPRECIATE I THINK HIS
TRANSPARENCY IN THIS ISSUE.
HE’S VERY OPEN, HE DOESN’T CARE
IF HE GETS CRITICIZED, HE’S JUST
AND I REALLY BELIEVE HE BELIEVES
IN GOD AND OF COURSE AS A
BELIEVER, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS
CHRIST IS GOD’S SON, I BELIEVE
THAT HE DIED FOR YOUR SINS AND
MY SINS, THAT GOD RAISED HIM TO
LIFE AND WE PUT OUR FAITH AND
TRUST IN HIM GOD WILL FORGIVE US
OUR SINS AND HEAL OUR HEARTS AND
I BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT BELIEVES
THIS, AND HE DOESN’T ALWAYS
ARTICULATE IT LIKE A PREACHER
WOULD AND I THINK PEOPLE CONDEMN
HIM BECAUSE THEY EXPECT HIM TO
TALK LIKE A PREACHER.
HE’S NOT.
BUT HE DOES HAVE A VERY STRONG
FAITH.
RACHEL: REVEREND, IT’S
INTERESTING YOU TALK ABOUT HIS
STRONG FAITH.
I’VE NEVER, I’M A POLITICAL
SPOUSE BY THE WAY.
I’VE NEVER SEEN A POLITICIAN OR
A POLITICAL FAMILY TAKE ON THE
ABUSE AND THE AMOUNT OF JUST NON
-STOP KIT SIX THAT DONALD
TRUMP AND HIS FAMILY HAVE TAKEN
ON.
HOW ARE THEY GETTING THROUGH
THAT?
I KNOW YOU KNOW HIM WELL AND IS
IT SUSTAINABLE OVER ANOTHER FOUR
, TWO, MAYBE SIX MORE YEARS?
>> WELL, I THINK SO, AND THAT IS
IF PEOPLE PRAY AND I THINK IT’S
IMPORTANT THAT WE PRAY FOR ALL
LEADERS AND THE BIBLE TELLS US
TO PRAY FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY,
WHETHER YOU VOTED FOR DONALD
TRUMP OR YOU DIDN’T, WE STILL
SHOULD VOTE.
I DIDN’T VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA
BECAUSE OF HIS POSITION ON SAME
SEX MARRIAGE ON ABORTION.
I COULD NOT VOTE FOR HIM, BUT
THAT DOESN’T STOP ME FROM
PRAYING FOR HIM WHEN HE BECAME
OUR PRESIDENT, AND IF WE PRAY
FOR DONALD TRUMP IF HE DOES WELL
, THAT OUR NATION WILL DO
WELL.
ALL OF US WILL DO WELL AND AT
THE PRAYER BREAKFAST THIS WAS
THE 66TH PRAYER BREAKFAST MY
FATHER HELPED TO START IT AND
REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS COME
TOGETHER, THEY CO-CHAIR
THIS BREAKFAST.
THEY SET ASIDE THEIR DIFFERENCES
AND THEY WORK TOGETHER AND
THEY’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR 66
YEARS.
IF CHRISTIANS AND CONGRESS FROM
BOTH SIDES CAN GET TOGETHER AND
WORK TOGETHER, IT TELLS US WE
NEED MORE CHRISTIANS IN POLITICS
WE NEED CHRISTIAN MEN AND WOMEN
AT EVERY LEVEL AND IF THERE WERE
MORE CHRISTIANS THEY WOULD COME
TOGETHER AND WORK EVEN
THOUGH THEY MAY HAVE DIFFERENCES
BUT THEY WOULD WORK TOGETHER FOR
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
PETE: A LOT OF IT IS PRETTY
SIMPLE THERE.
OF COURSE IT’S BEEN A BASELINE