steve: the late reverend billy graham was affectionately known as america's pastor. he touched the lives of millions worldwide. >> it may not be what we call revival. but certainly this is the moment of spiritual awakening. when it is easier to talk to men about god, it is easier to talk to men about christ in various parts of the world. than it has been for many years. brian: now his legacy lives on through his son reverend franklin graham who just released the new book "through my father's eyes." he joins us now. reverend franklin cono graham, good to see you again.

one morning at 2:00 a.m., he woke up to the voice of the great billy graham. reverend graham's words came through the airwaves. jesus wants to be lord of your life. that night, john edicated his life to christ. he spent the rest of his time in prison praying, studying the bible and bringing the lord to his fellow inmates. the day after john's release, a visitor knocked on his door. it was the man who put him in jail. fbi, special agents, richard beasley who is here. richard? come on up. i want you to know that i have been praying for you , very strongly. he said that. god alled me to the fbi in part, because of you, john. the two because of you, john. the two are now lifelong friends. john, do you like him? >> i love him. >> you love him? that's nice. that is beautiful. john runs a ministry that has helped more than 2000 former inmates rejoin society and he is the talk of the country. the job john does, is incredible. john and richard , you are a living testament to the power f prayer. your story reminds us that prayer changes hearts. and it transforms lives. i

he woke up to the voice of the great billy graham. reverend graham's words came through the airways, jesus wants to be lord of your life. that night john dedicated his life to christ. [applause] he spent the rest of his time in prison praying, studying the bible and bringing the lord to his fellow inmates. the day after john's release, a visitor knocked on his door. it was the man who put him in jail, f.b.i. special agent richard beasley, who is here. richard? come on up, richard. [applause] i want you to know that i've been praying for you very strongly, he said that. god called me to the f.b.i. in part because of you, john. the two are now life long friends. john, do you like him? >> i love him. >> president trump: you love him? that's nice. [applause] that's beautiful. john runs a ministry that has helped more than 2,000 former inmates rejoin society and he is the talk of the country. the job john does is incredible. john and richard, you are a living testament to the power of prayer. [applause] your story reminds us that prayer cha

billy graham on a 10 stop tour. oters to push estate blue wall ahead of the crucial primary. are evangelicals the key to turning the state red? pastor robert jeffers, thank you for joining us, appreciate it. this 10 stop tour is going on since may 5th. he continues this until june 5th in anticipation of the primary coming up next week but you say it is not just about partisan politics. >> that's right. franklin has two goals. first he wants christians to get out and vote not necessarily along party lines but according to their biblical beliefs and that is what is really important. john j, the first chief justice of the supreme court said god has given us the privilege of choosing our leaders which we have the right and responsibility to vote but the second goal of this crusade is the most important and that is introduce people to jesus christ was i believe the only way we will change america is by changing the hearts of americans. no political party can do that. only the gospel of christ can transform a person of lif

targetrun and done. ♪ ♪ >>> the late reverend billy graham touched the lives of millions worldwide andh his eldest son franklin. he is known as america's pastor. >> god can be trusted even when life seems at its darkest. >> the late reverend billy graham. during the course of his more than 50 year ministry graham brought his faith to hundreds of millions of followers around the world. he gave spiritual council to presidents, royalty and the average man. to countless christians he's a larger than life figure but to his family he was a husband and a dad. in his latest book through my father's eyes, graham's eldest son franklin takes us on a journey that reveals the most important lessons he learned from his father and he shares what it was like to live in the shadow of this extraordinary man following in his footsteps both literally and figuratively. franklin graham joins us now. so great to have you here today. >> thank you. >> let's talk about that last image, walking in your father's footsteps. you literally would walk behind your dad as he would walk with his walking stick and you wr

one morning at 2:00 a.m., he woke up to the voice of the great billy graham. graham's words came through the air ways. jesus wants to be lord of your life. that night john dedicated his life to christ. he spent the rest of his time in prison praying, studying the bible, and bringing the lord to his fellow inmates. the day after john's release, a visitor knocked on his door. it was the man who put him in jail. fbi special agent richard beasley, who's here. richard? come on up, richard. i want you to know that i've been praying for you, very strongly, he said that, god called me to the fbi in part because of you, john. the two are now life long friends. john, do you like him? >> i love him. >> you love him. that's nice. that's beautiful. john runs a ministry that has helped more than 2,000 former inmates rejoin society and he's the talk of the country. the job john does is incredible. john and richard, you are a living testament to the power of prayer. your story reminds us that prayer changes hearts, and transforms lives. it uplifts the soul, inspires action an

he woke up to the voice of the great billy graham. graham's words came through the airways. jesus wants to be lord of your life. that night john dedicated his life to christ. he sfent rest of his -- spent the rest of his time in prison prayin praying, studying the bible and bringing the word to the inmates. the day after release, a knock on his door. it was the man who put him in jail, fbi special agent richard beasley who's here. richard? come on up, richard. i want you to know that i've been praying for you very strongly, he said that. god called me to the fbi in part because of you, john. the two are now life-long friends. john, do you like him? >> i love him. >> you love him? that's nice. that's beautiful. john runs a ministry that has helped more than 2000 former inmates rejoin society and he's the talk of the country. the job john does is incredible. john and richard, you are a living testament to the power of prayer. your story reminds us that prayer changes hearts and transforms lives. it uplifts the soul, inspires action, and

for the meter on now who are bored stuck on fifth floor board do you think it is that billy graham of either the mortgage and owns a good friend of them or believe that the my family. some beacon shit out because of. the trump policy means not only a charity is unable to council on abortion if they want us funds. on top of this america will cease funding other health what if charities like canada death are using their own money from other sources to provide legal abortion services. and the death says the risk of unsafe terminations means they're not prepared to censor the advice they give. what we hope is that people will be pregnant people will decide to have abortion and because they are not informed about what the law about abortion in the country what are the possibilities what good facilities we have in the country if there is no more to give them this information those people will go for and save a bush and those people will die. down a bumpy road on the outskirts of the capital a charity called i c r h is holding an outreach event at general school as part of mozambique's natio

legal -- billy graham.d legacy as america's pastor. >> religion without a personal encounter with jesus christ will not save the soul and it will not bring the peace that your soul longs for. millions of us are -- are searching for god to religion and not finding it. you have got to know crisis for yourself, and when you come to know crisis for yourself, there's a piece and a fulfillment and life takes on a purpose and there is a sense of forgiveness of your sins, and there is a joy unspeakable and full of glory. >> daddy's official office here at the training center at the code. he never actually used this as an office. but he would need important people here when they would come to the cove, delegations from foreign countries or things like that. he would bring them up here to meet them. we have some favorite things here. this is probably many of the family's favorite picture that someone did. seed, they sowing the seed of the gospel. behind there there is a man planning, -- plowing, and my daddy had a br

light of god in the hearts of millions of people, and that is the great, legendary, wonderful billy grahamt man, great. sisi, i want to thank you for ng on your grandfather's powerful legacy. the words of reverend graham -- prayer is the key that opens us. the treasurer of god's mercies and blessings. always beautiful. when he said it, it meant so much. when i say it, it means something but i like how he said it better. i think he did that a little better than i do. reverend graham's words remind us that prayer has always been at the center of american life, because america is a nation of believers. right? [applause] president trump: the prayers of religious believers helped gain our independence and the prayers of religious leaders like the reverend martin luther king -- great man -- helped win the long struggle for civil rights. faith has shaped our families and it has shaped our communities. it has inspired our commitment to charity and our defense of liberty. and faith has forged the of this and the destiny great nation that we all love. [applause] president trump: americans of faith h

billy graham, the famous preacher, along with norman vincent peale co-signed a letter saying don't voten kennedy because then we'll have the pope telling us what to do. >> it's a reminder that for all their wealth and power, the kennedys are still outsiders. >> my grandmother rose, being irish catholic, always felt that she was not accepted by the wasps, the white anglo saxon protestants. >> my andfather,oe kennedy, once read in the paper a scription himself as an irishman. anhe said, when are they going to top calling me irish? i'm an american. >> as the people of west virginia prepare to vote, what do you think the result will be? >> well, i hope we're going to do well, but i guess we'll know better by the time the votes are counted. >> the west virginia primary is a make or break moment for the kennedys. >> jack kennedy had to show that he could win in a state that was 98% protestant. >> if you could win in west virginia, you could prove that a catholic could win. >> jack and bobby made a brilliant strategic decision, which was rather than let the issue of his catholic faith fester i

it is billy graham. when he would do these, whatever the event was, there was always members of congress included, ,tate dinners, sunday services other events. congress was always there. >> in the last photograph, the person on the right, president was theesident nixon senator from utah. he was a mormon from salt lake. there were congressmen sprinkle around throughout all of those prayer breakfast. all the white house events, and as you will see, the numbers will show you, we had hundreds if not thousands of visitations. >> that is the former boss, close to the man. this is an odd picture. every christmas, the white house is decorated to the nines. you really want to go see what happened, how they did it. it is christmas week. one of the evening events is for the members of congress and their families. you get to take your kid to the white house during christmas. we tried to get a picture of the white house during christmas but the president and mrs. nixon were greeting people in the hallway. this is our

we can only imagine the number of lives touched by the preacher and the prayers of billy graham, parts he changed, the sorrows he eased, and the joy he brought to so many. the testimony is endless. today we give thanks for this , and it isry life very fitting that we do so right of the the rotunda united states capitol, where the memory of the american people is enshrined. >> it is a real blessing to our family and a wonderful support, but more than that, we realized -- getsd it's the the honor. , for beingdaddy available. nope, it is all have. he would not take any compliments. he would always be giving honor to god. mr. graham: he said i am the truth and life. he said no man comes to the father except through me. that is the way to god, is through jesus. and that is fourth chapter, he says, there is no other name under heaven given among men where we can be saved. buddha said at the end of his life i'm still searching for truth. jesus is the truth. he is the life. [applause] >> c-span is out more, the largest home in america. come with us and we will take you inside and then tour thi

billy graham, nice to see you, sir. this hand is bothering me. is this too fast? anyway, he sitting there looking at the program, going, where does it say he makes fun of me? i'm telling a joke, mr. reagan. they've got real guns. >> laura: cutting but really fun. oh, my gosh, do we miss him. don rickles is a comedian who knew how to push boundaries without crossing them. now compare that to miss wolf. >> this brings me to the me too movement, probably the reason i'm here. they were like, a woman's probably not going to leap in front of anyone, right? into that i say, don't count your chickens. >> laura: ap reporter meg kinnard captured a freshman she wrote on twitter, "if the w hcd and or did anything tonight, it made the chasm between journalism and those who don't trust us even wider, and those of us faced in the red states who work hard every day to prove our objectivity will have to deal with it. this revealing episode has shown the american people that hateful intolerance of the press corps and those we trust to cover the news. she's right. it will take a lon

and my host, a writer friend of mine named marshall frady who has written a biography because billy grahamdertook to administer a little correction and he took him outside, broke his hand hitting him in the police then came to a report about a attempted homicide and this is for an autograph party for a book about the amish. [laughter] i thought man, i feel out of place. [laughter] >> so, then you got back here and one of the things again, thinking about in your book and people you mentioned a while ago , one of my favorite parts of the book is about the legislature, and when thinking about my mother saying it's safe to come home now i'm starting to think maybe it's not so safe anymore. who are these people running our government and we had been here-- lived here long enough to remember when molly made fun of these people. can you talk about the difference in the people she was covering when she was starting out versus now? >> well, think about when i was young. texas was blue. you know, it was largely conservative. texas gave birth to lyndon johnston who produce the great society and calif

. >> shannon: finally tonight redemption and the rose garden, had it not been for billy graham's radioto today is national of prayer ceremony. that's because he was doing time in federal prison for bank robbery. today he runs hope for prisoners a program that helps ex-felons turn their life around. >> you are a living testament to the power of prayer. your story reminds us that prayer or change prayer changes hearts and transforms lives. it uplifts the soul, inspires action and unites us all. >> shannon: sitting next to john ponder's richard beasley, that is the fbi special agent who actually put him in prison. redemption and forgiveness, here on display in the rose garden. thank you for inviting us into your home, that is it for "special report," fair, balanced, unafraid. i will see you back here at 11:00 p.m. eastern for fox news at night, "the story" hosted by martha maccallum starts right now. >> martha: thank you, shannon, we will see you later tonight pretty retracted story from nbc about michael cohen and now a pitched battle by the president to fight back against the mueller pr

. >> he heard the late billy graham. today he stood next to the rose garden. leader of a rehabilitation nonprofit called hope for prisoners. >> we provide services. >> a man who has taught over 1500x of fenders that are necessary to successfully reenter the workforce, society, and their lives at home. john ponder from las vegas, nevada. >> shannon: great part of the ceremony. we all need redemption and forgiveness. great to see he is doing so much to help others. thank you very much. congressman eric swalwell, democrat from san francisco bay, has a solution for gun violence. he says "we should ban possession of military style semiautomatic assault weapons. we should buy back such weapons. and we should criminally prosecute any who choose to d fired by keeping their weapons." the band would not apply to law enforcement agencies or shooting clubs. we are joined by emily miller. she is in dallas at the nra convention where president trump is scheduled to address the event tomorrow. emily, great to have you with us. what do you make of that plan? sounds like confi

october 4, 2016, a presbyterian minister from black mountain, north carolina, same church that billy graham was a part of, found himself arrested for potential terrorist and plotting the coup attempt charges. he's in a turk hish prison. he's been in that prison now for 593 days. 593 days for almost 17 months without charges. held in a prison cell designed for eight people and had 21 people in it. not really allowed to speak with his family. in fact, the only family he's seen over the last 593 days have been his wife, because they have been afraid to let his children come in the country for fear that they would not be allowed to leave. and nor will noreen, his wife leave the country for fear she will not be able to come back. she's his only connection to his family. 593 days. now i want to go back and tell you what really underlines why they think this presbyterian minister is a part of the coup attempt or terrorist organizations, because they believe that religions in the united states are somehow joined together in this intelligence-gathering network so they can go and instead of doing mis

then son of late billy graham, touring california encouraging evangelicals to get out and vote, we areus now california republican party chairman jim, jim, i'm not sure of the status of christianity or evangelicals in california, but do you think the reverend graham is a plus for republicans? >> well, i think the answer is yes, i've never met reverend graham, there is a direct correlation between church attendance and participation in the process as republicans, the more likely you are to attend church more than once a week, the more likely you are to vote republican, that said, church attendance in california as a percentage of the electorate is significantly lower than national average. i suspect the reason dr. graham was in fresno is because it's higher there hand in certain areas than the bay area. stuart: jim, you're putting it mooldly, i think christianity has been run out of town in parts of northern and southern california, that's another story and i won't get into it but i ought to. another, one, jim, latest poll democrat, he's in the lead, 25%, republican cox second, 19%, ano

billy graham spoke at bill clinton's inauguration.re people of faith gotten behind president trump because they have seen the democratic party and war on people of faith and war on god. they have seen their religious freedoms be assaulted. melissa: senator, senator dan hall, the republican who authored this legislation that you know very well, he is saying that this is just voluntary. if a school decides they want to put in ford -- god we trust they can display that on the campus. they can. >> what what it leads to opposie thing, war on religion. i came home from church yesterday, found a vial, obscene phone call on my answering machine i was anti-religion. coming home from church to a message i'm anti-religion. i got lots of emails and text messages other things saying this. that is not who i am. my father's theologian. go ahead. melissa: how do you explain it? i think when people hear the story, we're taking god out of so much of our country. our country was founded on this. what is wrong with goodness, forgiveness, treat your neigh

if i turn on the tv, the voices of jerry falwell junior, even billy graham junior even , governor pence in indiana at the time got into a huge public dispute with the archbishop on the issue of refugees. where is this gap between the public evangelical voice that i am familiar with and what is actually going on in the pews? is there a pastor that is moderating the aspect? is there another voice moderating this? one more and we will ask the panel to comment. >> my question is for reverend moore. you referred to the language of not, andals, fairly or exit sensual threat to their existence. obviously, there has been many communities in the u.s. that have felt that feeling well in the history of our country. we have condemned parts of that community and they supported either violence or -- and now political demagogues like louis farrakhan. to push against what you are saying earlier given the fact , that evangelical christians are not been remotely in the situations those communities have faced, that they are not -- they have not resorted to the mass resistance to violence to what those com

if i turn on tv the voices of jerry falwell, junior, billy graham's junior, even governor pence at indiana time got into a huge public dispute with the archbishop towbin on the issue of refugees. where is this gap between sort of the public evangelical voice that i'm familiar with, i'll be most folks are fully an what's i should going on? the pastors, is another voice that is moderate aspect? i'm interested to hear thoughts. >> one more and in the past the panel to comment. >> david. my question is for reverend moore. figure referred to this language of evangelicals feeling fairly or not an accident that to the existence but there's been many committees and the united states was nobody african-americans who have felt that he is felt in his upper country. and yet we've condemned parts of the committee when it supported either violence or in the case of no political demagogues like louis farrakhan. is it fair to basically say that i guess to push against what you were saying earlier, given the fact evangelical christians have not been remotely in the situation that those committees of faith,

she loved billy graham.im, because he's fantastic. >> it was a proper wedding. this was not with a couple of really beautiful people in the middle, it was two young people profoundly in love with each other, committing themselves. it was just -- it was a tear jerker. it was really beautiful. and i'm so thrilled to have been part of it. i just thought everything went right. >> you said the bishop was a brilliant pastor and stunning preacher. we saw the example of that today. will you agree with that? >> forgive me for not sparing your blushes, michael, but i think what we saw in that is preaching is not a -- that the use of language to communicate the good news of jesus christ just blew the place open. it was fantastic. and you could see people just caught up in it. and excited by it. >> bishop michael, let's talk about that. i think it's probably safe to say we haven't seen a sermon quite like that in the grounds of windsor castle, certainly not a royal wedding. can you tell us a little bit about what was be

not only that but franklin's father, billy graham, began his ministry in california in 1949 and fittingin is coming there to preach. >> sandra: you know, how do you respond, pastor jeffress, to those who say is this right for evangelical leaders to be pushing a political agenda and mixing religion with politics? >> well, first of all, our ultimate message is the message of jesus christ. the only way you are going to change america is by changing the hearts of americans and only christ can do that. but look, there is a long history of pastors and evangelists being involved in american history. it was pastors who led the way in the revolution and pastors led the way in the abolition of slavery. it was pastors like martin luther king who led the civil rights movement? does anybody want to argue that pastors shouldn't be involved in politics? >> sandra: we hear your passion, pastor jeffress, thank you. >> rick: we will be right back after this. we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermud

host: here's is a little bit from the president last week making remarks on billy graham.his was with the national day of prayer in the rose garden. graham's words remind us that prayer has always been at the center of american life. because america is a nation of believers. right? [applause] the prayers of religious believers helped gain our ofependence and the prayers martin luther king helped to win the long struggle for civil rights. faith has shaped our families and it has shaped our communities. inspired our commitment to charity and our defense of liberty. and it has forged the identity nationtiny of this great that we all love. host: that was last week at the white house. willy is on the line now from georgia. should congress have a chaplain? caller: of course. good morning, first of all. let me just commend c-span, again. this is my favorite show and i commend c-span for having this conversation. ryan and speaker, paul the committee -- they dismissed the chaplain because he said that the tax bill should protect the poor and the needy. i think we need a chaplain. w

in that transitional radio i heard a billy graham sermon.as sharing the story of the prodigal son. at the end of that message he made the call to surrender your life to the lord and i invited jesus to come into my life. and my life went in 180-degree turn. ainsley: you are founder and ceo of hope for prisoners, what's that about. >> we provide reentry services men, women and adults the judicial system. we provide the supportive services not only help them get acclimated back into the workplace but make sure there are mechanisms in place to make sure they can thrive and agree and afforded opportunities to succeed and address needs to get acclimated back in their family mismark of reentry forever. no one has ever given the particular close attention to the men and women that need to go back home to wives and husbands and particularly to their children. so we make sure that the mechanism is in place to help with that family reunification piece. then on the back end of the process because it's a long-term 18-month journey where we walk with folk

so as only the bushes can do, they decided to call billy graham.here's one parachute but this actually happened. so they call dr. graham and he said to them, we want to know who goes to heaven and dr. graham said, why don't you leave that to god. that's the position we should be in. the other thing on this obviously is so much of this as richard was eluding to is about domestic politics. the president needs the evangelical vote but president who thinks the book is called two corinthians. he is basically giving them something here to buy some support down the road. evangelical community at some point will have a reckoning about this. >> i just don't know when they are. i think most -- at least three of us grew up around evangelicals. i group up in the baptist church. this is unrecognizable anything i saw for my first 45, 50 years. and i'm not exactly sure what these evangelicals think they're going to get on the other side of this, but none of it is good. and you're saying that you don't know this guy's heart. but said you don't want to cast the fir

steve: the late reverend billy graham was affectionately known as america's pastor.e call revival. but certainly this is the moment of spiritual awakening. when it is easier to talk to men about god, it is easier to talk to men about christ in various parts of the world. than it has been for many years. brian: now his legacy lives on through his son reverend franklin graham who just released the new book "through my father's eyes." he joins us now. reverend franklin cono graham, good to see you again. >> good morning. brian: how are you doing. >> very good. my father has been preparing for all of his life and that's where he is. we spend a lot of time preparing for retirement. preparing for our education. preparing for our career. and people spend so little time preparing for eternity. and my father spent a lifetime preparing for eternity. and now he is in heaven in the presence of god looking at life through his father in heaven's eyes. this book is just lessons i learned from my father. spiritual lessons. lessons that not only will -- that have affected my life but