. >> reporter: it's sunday morning in the west bank town of bethlehem. christians have gathered for worship at the ancient church of the nativity, which marks the traditional birthplace of jesus. local christians like john tawil say they feel a special tie to their faith. >> being a christian in bethlehem is something wonderful because it's the place where jesus was born. >> reporter: but the 2,000-year-old christian community here has been diminishing at an alarming rate. and some question whether christianity can ultimately survive in the land where it began. >> the places are important, but you need these places to come alive and you cannot do that without indigenous palestinian christians in the holy land. >> reporter: the overwhelming majority of christians here are arabs. they were among the hundreds of thousands displaced in 1948, when the state of israel was established, and in the wars that followed. for decades now, palestinian christians have continued to emigrate at disproportionately high rates, and their birth rates are much lower than thos

i am one of the people who are considered a responsible man in bethlehem. have never heard anything about walid being an mujahid or a terrorist. he claims this for his own personal reasons. >> you're saying he claimed this for his own personal reasons. what personal reasons? >> reporter: there's a big person reason here, it's called money. anderson, classic investigative reporting you follow the money. his background, how walid shoebat is now making that money is about as mysterious as his past. >> the walid shoebat foundation, is that a charity? >> it's part of the ffmu. >> what does ffmu do? >> basically we're in information and we do speaking and we do also helping christians that are being persecuted in countries like pakistan. and we -- >> on of your business? that's interesting. investigation continues tomorrow night. what are we going to see tomorrow? >> reporter: tomorrow how he makes a business out of his expertise. how these donation toss his cause end up with a so-called foundation owned by his business partner. and also the bigger question, ande

bombings in bethlehem square, you specifically said you threw. >> the bank was in bethlehem square. >plosives on top of that bank. >> yes, i did. >> no record. >> reporter: cnn's jerusalem bureau went to great lengths trying to verify shabat's story, finding the general location with a branch of bank lmi once stood, but could not find anyone who could remember a bombing. we contacted the bank headquarters in tel aviv, asking officials to search records. no records found. and israeli police found no record anyone ever threw a bomb at the branch of the bank. why would the bank not have a record? why would the israeli police not have a record? >> why would the israeli police not have a record? i don't know. i don't know where you checked, dates, all these things. >> reporter: there's another part of his story that doesn't check out. shabat says he was arrested and spent two weeks in an israeli prison. there's no record of you being in prison. i think there would be at least an arrest record. they held you for two weeks. did the united states know you were in prison as a u.s. citizen? >>

england made it through the arrivals hall we caught up with her just before she made her way to bethlehem in the west bank netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a threat to the legitimize a show of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips up the israelis he gets directly pouring all over the airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never planned to demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this day and enjoy the the cultural activities of the palestinians. on the west bank and true with the israelis as well now israel is dealing a heavy hand launched me because of what happened roughly this time last year which is when we first got to try to sell to gaza it had humanitarian aid on going with him you know it ended with nine activists did we have seen a second freedom flotilla attempt at this stage the eight ships that are part of efforts are stranded off the coast of greece athens has imposed a blanket ban preventing them from sailing to gaza so soon lot of attention in the international community trying to help the peo

and they had already announced what they were doing that they were going to bethlehem to stay in the aida camp and taken to a separate holding they as i spoke on the phone they said the heavies were coming in and they were about to be interrogated you flew in from england what kind of examinations what kind of checks did you have to undergo there some of the number also interrogations by our own security but they were asked to know their names and addresses they were asked where they were going and they were told that they were going to be left on the tarmac in bangor ian in forty degrees of heat this course would not be possible this would be a human rights violation so there was intimidation from england to the travelers coming to bangor in today but the how do you think you managed to get through i mean to to yourself go through any kind of intimidation no i didn't i actually think i literally slipped through the net just me as far as i can tell there is only one of us there are forty or fifty people waiting hoping not to be deported likely to be deported and there's me so it's up

came here or they were planning to come to bethlehem to participate peaceful activists to visit him like cultural activities to visit. some places in the west bank and there when the israeli security them on the airport about the reason of the visit they explained that and they also question them if they are going to participate on demonstrations or. things and all of the people that i met today answered very clearly that they don't have any. go to participate or they are not planning to participate in any demonstrations or they are not planning to broke the israeli law so their goal was to i arrive to the west bank and to meet the palestinian people to get more close to the palestinian culture and to learn more about it and also to support them to support them peacefully ways and i will talk about greece why it may or may not be involved here and there's a lot of pressure high level pressure the moment on greece to allow the gaza still leave paul why do you think greece is preventing them from setting sail and getting and getting involved like this in the first place. i i'm not sure abo

this guy i white christian fundamentalist by the name of unders bethlehem brevik term butchering that name and it was our fifteen hundred page manifesto that brinkley a little bit more like a tea party document under his name is progressive policies immigration priests clad in jeans and of course islam as the biggest threats to his country so in light of norway's tragedy as it were three examining the threat posed by right wing christian extremists right here in the states i mean that's just says yes frank schieffer is the author of numerous books including crazy for god how i grew up as one of the elect helped found of the religious right and lived to take all or almost all of it back to frank welcome to the program here you have a thank you here we have a guy that's fixated on the threat of immigration is basically a bigot who just didn't want brown people coming into his world believe the feminism is somehow destroying western societies women who pursue career marxist liberal policies are all to blame on everything that's wrong with this country now i don't know about you but that

england made it through the arrivals hall we caught up with her just before she made her way to bethlehem in the west bank netanyahu sees us as a threat he says us as a threat to the legitimize a show of israel how can we be a threat and yet he whips up the israelis he gets directly pouring all over the airport he gets the british police the french police to stop activists coming out we never planned to demonstrate we always planned to be here and be here for this day and enjoy the the cultural activities of the palestinians. on the west bank and true with the israelis that's where these radio florida keys have been criticized for the near hysterical response to this whole operation in fact israeli media has been heavily criticizing the government saying that it's almost as if they're preparing for a military operation and not for a protest by sending some six to seven hundred police and security officers to israel's been able to deal with these demonstrators israel is also only helping these activists bring attention to their plight which is essentially to draw the world's attention to t

just as we see in a stable in bethlehem. may god bless your mother, as she experiences the nearer presence of our lord. and may god bless each one of you as you walk forward into the days ahead. god is calling you to find the extraordinary in the midst of the ordinary. may your days be graced by the memory of your mother's smile. and may they be transformed by the light of the resurrection. in the name of the father, and the son, and the holy spirit. amen. please stand. i believe in god. the father all mighty. maker of heaven and earth. and in jesus christ, his only son, our lord. who has conceived by the holy ghost, born of the virgin mary, suffered under pilot, was crucified, died and buried. he descended into hell. the third day he rose again from the dead. he ascended into heaven and sit on the right hand of god, the father all mighty. from then he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. i believe in the holy ghost, the holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins. the resurrection of the bo

. >> the drill and tunnel through berkeley hills then hire bethlehem steel to float sections into skplaisave differs connect them in a trench beneath san francisco bay. >> i consider it one of the engineering marvels of the world. >> a marvel become a back drop we now take for granted. so think about that on monday. and wish the system a happy 6 owth birthday. >> happy birthday. there is more in those films than we've been able to show you tonight. if you've like to take a look there is a link for threw. >> wonderful. >> yes. >> and let's look forward now to weekend. it's upon us. >> spencer is here with the forecast oo. and this is a weekend to look forward to. there is our composite image. there is yet another pacific northwest system. temperatures coming down more, tomorrow 5:00 in the morning, low clouds fog will have pushed inland overnight z they'll push back to the coastline there by mid day or so. high temperatures near the coast around 60 degrees and 80s into warmest inland locations. tomorrow's highs 90 up in clear lake. mainly mid to -- low to mid-80s. and there are 60s and 70s

out of experience, i am one of the people who are considered a responsible man in the area of bethlehemeing a terrorist. he claims this for his own personal reasons. >> what personal reasons? in part two, we look into the money that walid shoebot is making on this speaking tour, he's making quite a bit of it but even that is shady as to how he's dealing with that money and where it is going. >> you think about the connection between the norway shore brevick and walid shoebottleshoebot. >> 14 times he cuts and pastes the teachings of walid shoebot into this manifesto. we have no idea that these two men ever met, ever talked to each other, but we do know that this suspect in norway was an avid reader of everything that walid shoebot put out and continues to put out on his website. >> and we never knew he was a fraud? >> and the churches that ask him to come and speak, nobody has gone back to see if any of it is real and we have found out none of it is. >>> every move you make online is being watched and recorded. is this information safe from malicious hackers? find out more, next. [ fema

. >> we know he lived for a time in bethlehem.his father was apparently a muslim and his mother was a christian and we know he moved here when he was about 18 years old. everything else he told us, and we went pain stakingly through with him, each detail, we really couldn't find much fact about him. begging the question, why south dakota's homeland security didn't do the check we did. why is he getting department of homeland security funds to speak to cops about terrorism and islam? and why he is allowed to stay what he' saying. >> i think i watched your bigger piece today. i just want everyone to know you will be on "ac 360" tonight asking a lot of question, as you seem to be doing well. thanks very much. let's take a live look at the white house. remind you the president and congressional leaders are negotiating on whether or not to extend america's credit line. remember that deadline august 2 according to treasury secretary tim geithner? the clock is ticking, folks are warning of nasty consequences of f a deal does not get done

host: bethlehem, p.a. del, you're on the line.ocrats only for this first segment of "washington journal." how do you think the president is doing? think the president is doing as good as he can considering the kind of country we live in where money dictates what the policy will be. i prefer to have someone like i prefer to have someone like bernie sanders running for president, like a roosevelt type who would stand up and say the republicans hate me and i want them to hate me. because all they're doing is robbing the poor since the day they took control. they're just unbelievable. here they were handed the budget from president clinton. if they had stuck to that type of budget, with that tax level, we would have no debt at all, at this moment. they have ruined the country with the intention of taking away the social programs because they don't believe in that sort of thing. they believe the independent man with all the money should control everything, and that that's basically what they believe in. all of these republican people f