but anyway, in this little town where billy graham lives up on the top of the mountain, everything wasstuff, nobody had liquor in the town that they admitted to, nobody was gay, that they admitted to... so when you first realised you were gay... that was really bad. were you battling with yourself? 0h! listen, i'd never even heard of that when i was growing up. there were spinsters and roommates. i'd never heard of gay people. that you were drunk or a sinner or a paedophile, a child molester... but the gay stuff was not something that was common in the fabric of my little sheltered world. and never would i have thought that that would be what i would grow up to be. i mean, i didn't make the choice. why would i want to do that and get criticised and picked on? and you know something people don't know? and i'll tell you and i've never said this in public before... the truth of the matter is, when i got outed, which was when vanity fair did this really horrible story and there were things everywhere because some people just decided to do that because they were, it was just really to be cr

. >> it will include reverend frank lin graham, son of billy graham. bishop jackson who hosted trump in december and the reverend samuel rodriguez head of the hispanic leadership conference. >> humbled, honored, blown away, it's the first time a latino evangelical participates in the swearing-in ceremony. >> reporter: rodriguez is on trump's evangelical advisory panel that helped placate many a faithful who opposed his gop nomination. >> we were not electing a theologian, we were not electing billy graham to be president of the united states. we're electing a commander in chief who will protect religious liberty, limit the size of government and work for equality and justice for all. so donald trump is not the most christian president in american history. really, what wake-up call. harris: that lauren green reporting. the inaugural clergy represented america's judeo-christian foundations. >>> this time, of national political divide, it is always a pleasure to take part in something that includes everybody. among the inaugural events was the women's ina

. >> evangelicals on the podium will include the reverend franklin graham, evangelist billy graham's son, pastor paula white, bishop wayne t jackson who is from a detroit megachurch that hosted donald trump back in september, and samuel rodriguez head of the hispanic russian leadership conference, and he has had many faithful who opposed his g.o.p. nomination. >> we were not electing a theologian or a pastor in chief, we were not electing billy graham to be president of the united states. we are electing a commander-in-chief, someone who will advance the cause of life, protect religious liberty, limit the size of government and work for equality and justice for all. so donald trump is not the most christian president in american history, really, what a wake-up call. >> leaders say the clergy rep commence america's judeo-christian's foundations, saturday morning, prayers will welcome a more diverse array of prayer traditions. >> eric: two bibles use tomorrow, the same lincoln bible used by abraham ligon and the one mr. trump's mother gave him back in 1950. >> exactly, a long history w

but anyway, in this little town where billy graham lives up on the top of the mountain, everything wasealised you were gay... that was really bad. were you battling with yourself? 0h! listen, i'd never even heard of that when i was growing up. there were spinsters and roommates. i'd never heard of gay people. that you were drunk or a sinner or a paedophile, a child molester... but the gay stuff was not something that was common in the fabric of my little sheltered world. and never would i have thought that that would be what i would grow up to be. i mean, i didn't make the choice. why would i want to do that and get criticised and pigs on? why would i want to do that and get criticised and picked on? and you know something people don't know? and i'll tell you and i've never said this in public before... the truth of the matter is, when i got outed, which was when vanity fair did this really horrible story and there were things everywhere because some people just decided to do that because they were, it was just really to be cruel... when i knew this was all coming out and this was, lik

i will play this for you with billy graham. nixon has a little secret for that. he says that the best jews are the israeli jews. what we see in nixon's mind is that american jews and israel he jews -- israeli jews. -- i'm not supporting anti-semitism, i'm not justifying it. but this guy who saves the state of israel also ended up saying these ugly things. as historians, it is not our job to sit and judge. we need to explain and contextualize and see complexity. if we understood the complexity of the relationship more, the debts would be less -- the depth would be less nervous all the time. we can see germans moving forward as the supporter as of the state of israel. he wants to put pressure on israel because this is the end game. we continue but under gerald ford we had that moment where daniel patrick carnahan stands up and says "i must stand." he said i never had a close tie to israel. as a professor i was never invited to one of those fun trips. he sees this as a tap on decency. if i could share one moment, very powerful. in the weeks before, this of the resol

in another tape which i won't play this for you with billy graham.ixon has a little secret for that. he says that the best jews are the israeli jews. what we see in nixon's mind is that american jews and israeli jews. i'm not supporting anti-semitism, i'm not justifying it. but as a historian, i want to in context.t you say, how does this guy who saves the state of israel also ended up saying these ugly things. as historians, it is not our job to sit and judge. we need to explain and contextualize and see complexity. if we understood the complexity of the relationship more, the depth would be less nervous all the time. we see gerald ford emerging as supporter of the state of israel. but complicated. pushes ae hand he reassessment, freezing u.s. relations. because? to put pressure on israel because now it's the end game. we continue but under gerald ford we had that moment where daniel patrick moynihan stands up and says "i must stand." zionism is being accused of racism, in the form of the united nations. said, you know, i never israel.ose tie to as

franklin graham, billy graham's son, a close supporter of president-elect trump.karl, one of the surprising things as we see everybody bundled up this those rain poncho, one thing that surprised so many is the kind of support that president-elect trump garnered from the evangelical community. >> reporter: he was about as improbable an evangelical candidate as you can imagine, george. somebody with three marriages, somebody who had been all over the new york tabloids with his affair, somebody not known as a particularly religious person, but let me tell you, he talked about the evangelical vote from the start of his campaign and he won evangelical support. jerry falwell's son at liberty university was another one of his big supporters. he nearly won the iowa caucuses and then went on to win in states like south carolina with huge majorities of evangelicals despite the fact that there were far more traditional social conservative candidates like ted cruz that had been, you know, campaigning for months basically as the candidate of evangelicals but turned out that pe

billy graham evangelist association, good morning, sir. >> good to be with you, abby. >> you said thatn electing mr. trump to the white house. there were members of the left that were up in arms about this, what were they upset about? >> first of all, i think they are upset at losing, that is what they are mad about. i am not a republican, i am not a democrat. i am a follower of the lord, i believe, jesus is god's son, he died for our sins and god raised him to life. i went across this country this year holding prayer rallies. we went to every state capital, people came from every district and county by the thousands, they stood on their capital steps and prayed. they came to pray for this nation. they knew that the country was going in the wrong direction. i could tell, as i went across this country that god was getting ready to do something. they were praying that god would change of the direction that our nation was going. ththe secularist that has gotten control of washington, that have a humanistic atheistic agenda, they were praying that god would change this. put member in the w

he was like billy graham in his day.touch william hawley and he ended up in a little bit of scandal. but then, andrew jackson came to town. he was a presbyterian like donald trump. people thought the world we don't have an episcopalian president. but he also walked across the street and attended st. john's. >> what a beautiful tradition we have here they start to say that going to church. i think it's beautiful. >> let me ask you a question. there's always a comparison between andrew jackson and trump. do you find this limiter is? >> very much so. they comparison. >> economic populism. fighting with congress. >> first six presidents were political aristocrats. they all came from virginia or massachusetts only. hot temper bullets in his bodies from tools. people said the world was going to land. >> the president out of office critical -- crucial to the inauguration ceremony. president-elect trump is using to bibles today. he's got his childhood bible and a very stylish but, by the way and also abraham lincoln's bible. >>

. ♪ ♪ ainsley: reverend billy graham, the pastor to the president, has guided us in prayer through aing in his footsteps. brian: he is to my immediate left. reverend franklin graham one of six faith leaders invited to pray at trump's swearing in. steve: that's got to be a daunting task, reverend. >> it's a great privilege to be able to to stand with the president and to be able to stand before the nation and focus on god for a few minutes. and so the six of you was, three at the invocation and three for the benediction. i'm just honored to be asked and to be a part of it. ainsley: a lot of people were praying for this election. churches all across the country. >> yes. ainsley: you said god had a hand in this election. you took some heat for that. >> that's okay. i went to all 50 states this year. i went to state capitols and held prayer meetings on the capitol steps of all 50 states. i saw god begin to do something as i went across the country. people came and confessed the sins of our nation out loud before god and the country. they confessed their sins. they didn't come to hear me.

i was thinking about billy graham.e been texting friends who voted for trump, those who voted against him. one who voted for hillary clinton said horrifying. one who voted for donald trump said excellent, even inspiring. we'll see if he can deliver. i think this was one speech that two americas heard. early on he said the forgotten people of our country will be forgotten no more. there are many people in america wondering who's he talking about. there are people who now feel like they will be forgotten. and certainly those who feel like they've now been embraced. >> debra roberts, you're there with many supporters of the new president, as we see him walk out of the capitol with president obama. >> absolutely. i have to tell you, it almost feels like the end of the super bowl. everybody was excited and now they're beginning to trickle out of here. i heard tom say that it was vintage president trump that you heard up there. this is sort of a vintage crowd that you heard out here tooday. a lot of themes when he talked abo

we heard from franklin graham, billy graham's son who said that rain is a blessing when it falls on a sort of always said that he would deliver things ahead of time and under budget. can you kind of look at this parade as a bit under budget, smaller than some of the ones we've seen in the past. dwight eisenhower who you know very intimately, from the research on your book. but he had, i think, the biggest inaugural parade of all. >> it was. >> martha: this is going to be smaller than that. >> where a guy on a horse lassos president icen hower, that wouldn't happen with the glass and the protection. but it did m 1953. we have coverage all along the parade route. jenna lee is outside trump international hotel a new landmark in d.c. bill hemmer is down at lafayette park in front of the presidential box. we start with joo than roberts, following president trump along the parade route. we have to get used to "president trump" and away from the "president-elect trump." >> it's always been harder to say president-elect than president. it'll probably roll off our tongues. just inside the capi

brandon graham stopped by today and he believes the d line will be better next year after adjusting from billy davis' defense to jim schwartz's. >> i really think coach schwartz had a stronghold on this defense as far as what, i mean, just getting a response out of us each and every week of us playing hard. i think that was never the each and every week. i think coach schwartz is only going to get better in year two because a lot of guys was getting familiar with the scheme and now we're familiar with it now it's more stuff they can teach us that can help us along the way for next year. >>> the flyers have three more games before on a bye week. they're off next week. and the bye week is, quo -- fly are win less in the last seven. giroux believes the team is headed in the right direction. >> i strongly believe that we're not far away from the team that we want to be in. we have to keep working at it. >> reality is we haven't gotten enough points. but, you know, we've, you know, we've had some games where we've been pretty complete and played well and gotten one point. so, you know, my biggest c