>> Julie: CHRISTIANITY TODAY
DOUBLING DOWN ON THEIR CRITIQUE
OF PRESIDENT TRUMP WITH AN OP-ED
FROM IN THE PIECE WHERE TIMOTHY
QUESTIONS TO THE UNCONDITIONAL
LOYALTY OF EVANGELICAL
CHRISTIANS TO THE ADMINISTRATION
AND ASKED READERS TO RECONSIDER
THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT.
"WE NEVERTHELESS BELIEVE THE
AMBIEN GELA: ALLIANCE HAS DONE
DAMAGE TO THE WITNESS HERE AND
ABROAD.
THE COST HAS BEEN TOO HIGH.
AMERICAN EVANGELICALISM IS NOT A
REPUBLICAN IMPACT."
ALL OF THIS AS THE SON OF THE
MAGAZINE FOUNDER FRANKLIN GRAHAM
IS TAKING ISSUE WITH THE
PUBLICATION AND INVOKING HIS
FATHER BILLY GRAHAM IN ITS
ORIGINAL EDITORIAL, AND HE HAD
THIS TO SAY TO FOX NEWS.
>> MY FATHER WOULD BE VERY
DISAPPOINTED.
THIS IS WELL OFF THE TARGET.
THEY ARE A VERY LIBERAL LEFT
WING ORGANIZATION NOW.
>> Julie: JOINED BY THE SENIOR
EDITOR OF "THE FEDERALIST."
SO WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT
THIS.
SO I GUESS THAT IS GOOD FOR
CHRISTIANITY TODAY.
THEY WANTED OUR PROTECTION, THEY
WANTED TO SELL MAGAZINES, AND
THEY DID.
THIS IS ONE SIMPLE EDITORIAL.
IT IS NOT EVANGELICAL
CHRISTIANS.
BUT WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE
PUBLICATION NOW DOUBLING DOWN
AFTER GETTING A WIDE CRITICISM.
>> IT IS THE EDITOR'S LAST
STAND, RETIRING IN A FEW WEEKS.
YOU HAVE TO WONDER WHAT HAS
CHANGED, WE KNEW WHO
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP WAS WHEN
HE WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
WE KNEW ABOUT HIS BACKGROUND.
BUT WE ALSO KNEW HOW HE HAS
GOVERN HIS HEALTH AND THE
POLICIES HE HAS IMPLEMENTED
WHICH HAVE BEEN FRIENDLY TOWARDS
EVANGELICALS, SO THIS IS A LAST
DANCE SHOT FROM CHRISTIANITY IS
OUTGOING EDITOR SAYING THAT HE
IS TAKING A STAND.
EVANGELICALS I DO NOT THINK ARE
GOING TO BE PLAYING THE
PRESIDENT, BECAUSE THEY ARE
LOOKING AT SOMEONE WHO HAS STOOD
BY THEM MORE THAN ANY REPUBLICAN
PRESIDENT ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD
AND ABORTION, ON JUDGES AND
JUDICIAL NOMINEES, ON MOVING THE
EMBASSY IN ISRAEL.
THESE ARE THINGS THAT
REPUBLICANS HAVE PROMISED TO DO
FOR DECADES, AND THE EVANGELICAL
VOTE REALLY DOES APPRECIATE
SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY STANDS BY
THEIR WORD.
THAT IS A MEANINGFUL THING IN
THIS.
NOT ONLY THAT, BUT YOU HAVE TO
LOOK AT HIS FAMILY.
IT DONALD TRUMP HAS AN AMAZING
FAMILY THAT CLEARLY LOVES HIM
AND HE LOVES THEM BACK.
THAT IS NOT LOST ON EVANGELICAL
VOTERS EITHER.
SO THERE'S NOT REALLY AN
ALTERNATIVE FOR THEM.
THIS IS SOMEONE THEY CAN STAND
BY GENERALLY LOOKING EVEN IF HE
MAY HAVE SOME PERSONAL FLAWS IN
HIS PAST.
>> Julie: TIMOTHY DERN HALL,
ABOUT TO RETIRE AS YOU MENTION,
BUT I'M WONDERING BEFORE HE
GOES, WHO WOULD HE RECOMMEND
THAT EVANGELICAL SHOULD STAND
BEHIND, BECAUSE CLEARLY I DON'T
THINK HE IS SAYING WHY DON'T YOU
JUST STAND BEHIND ONE OF THE
NUMEROUS DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES, SO EXACTLY WHAT DOES
HE WANT EVANGELICALS TO DO?
TO VOTE SOMEBODY INTO THE OFFICE
THAT IS PRO-ABORTION?
WHAT IS HIS STANCE AND HIS
METHOD?
WHAT IS HIS GOAL, WHAT IS HIS
MODE METHOD?
THERE IS A SAD HISTORY OF THIS
WITH EVANGELICAL VOTERS, THE
LAST TIME THEY WERE ACTIVE WAS
NOT FOR A REPUBLICAN, IT WAS FOR
JIMMY CARTER BECAUSE HE FIT IN
THE MODE, AND THEY THOUGHT, THIS
IS A GOOD MAN.
JIMMY CARTER WAS ELECTED AND
TURNED AROUND AND DID NOT PUT A
SINGLE EVANGELICAL INTO HIS
CABINET.
THEY WERE CUT OFF.
THEY DID NOT HAVE HIS NUMBER.
THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO SPEAK TO
THE PRESIDENT THAT WEIGHED YOU
CAN SPEAK WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THERE IS NOT A SINGLE CANDIDATE
OUT THERE THAT I'VE SEEN ON THE
RIGHT OR THE LEFT WHO IS WILLING
TO STAND UP AND GREG ACOSTA IN
HIS FAMILY, AS MUCH AS
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS FOR THE
THINGS THAT MATTER TO
CHRISTIANS, CHRISTIANS ARE UNDER
ATTACK FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN
THE COUNTRY.
>> Julie: FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
BE WORRIED AT ALL?
>> I WOULD NOT EXPECT THAT THERE
WILL BE AN EXODUS OF THE
EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT.
IT IS CALLED A LIBERAL MAGAZINE.
TO KEEP IN MIND, IT IS LIBERAL
EVANGELICAL ON THE LEFT OF
EVANGELICAL, BUT IT IS STILL A
PRETTY REPUBLICAN MAGAZINE.
AND A LOT OF THE EVANGELICAL
VOTERS WILL STILL COME OUT, JUST
LIKE THEY DID IN 2016, I
SUSPECT.
>> Julie: GRAHAM HAS COME OUT
AND SAID THAT CHRISTIANITY TODAY
DOES NOT REPRESENT MOST
EVANGELICALS, THE FOX NEWS POLL
SAYS HE IS TIGHT, WHITE
EVANGELICALS IN THE COUNTRY DO
NOT ONLY NOT SUPPORT
IMPEACHMENT, THEY DO NOT SUPPORT