another thing is, oftentimes people will say, "oh, america is a christian nation." and 88 percent of the people who are some form of religion in this country are christians, so you can say anything you want, i suppose, and get away with it. but not really so, a christian nation, because the first amendment to the u.s. constitution separates church and state. however, i always like to say, "well, in some senses, it's a christian nation, but it most certainly is a jewish nation, because that whole creation, liberation, exodus, making of a holy land - we've got towns around here called zion or new canaan or whatever - what the whole drama - and again, i'm not making this up, folks, as dave barry would say - the ministers on the boats, like the arabella , coming into the plymouth colonies, actually gave sermons that replicate or bring out the whole old testament drama, so we get a feel of these kinds of things there. let me move - before we take a couple of questions here - i want to get to our rabbi bronstein, because what makes this class work is you don't have to list

he said we are not a christian nation.nt on the apology tour, his first major tour was onal abira tv. the the money, $900 million to hamas controls gaza strip, his treatment of benjamin netanyahu. we can go on and on. why do you think one in four think that he is a muslim? >> because of his actions because his actions since he became president has been pandering to the islamic world apologizing on behalf of america to the islamic world praising it is islamic world. >> now the news said he was raced a muslim, barack obama raised as a muslim. this is huge. >> this is huge! >> but a fox host never said it. he says it and later retracts it. my favorite is the 9/11 trick right? when bush used to say well i never said that sadaam hussein did 9/11. i just said them in the same sentence. >> i didn't say president obama is a muslim, i just made you say it. >> that right there is the distinction. i didn't say it. i just put it into your head. >> every word makes the difference. ford, this is just on record, we're going to say this f

. >>> this nation was founded as a christian nation.he god of abraham, the god of isaac, and the god of jacob, there's only one god there's only one god, and his name is jesus! [ cheers and applause ] >> that was pastor dennis terry who is the post ter child for a christian-only nation. he fervently prayed to god to have favor on rick santorum. i think he better pray harder. joining me here in "the war room" to discuss this sometimes surreal race are chris lehane and susan kennedy. chris served as a special assistant to president clinton. and susan was the chief of staff to california governor arnold schwarzenegger, and his predecessor, governor gary davis. you just heard that clip there, and the candidates you have worked for i'm sure you have been in churches where they have been prayed over? >> absolutely. >> i have had candidates who have dropped to their knees and -- >> it's part of the deal. but the question is on someone like pastor terry, who we just heard, he really was unambiguously stating that this is a christian nation and

. >>> philippines is sa a mostly christian nation. >> lucille talusan brings us one pastor that made the ultimate sacrifice for spreading the gospel. >> reporter: the island of mindanao is predominantly muslim. because of the constant threats to security and the muslim's goal to establish an independence state, they face intense persecution. >> persecution is strong. this year four house churches closed down after their pastors were killed by muslim extremists. >> this pastor was one that was killed. his wife recalls awakening to the sound of the gunshots that killed pastor mario right inside her home. >> my husband staggered into our bedroom. i was shocked because he was full of blood. i brought him to the hospital right away. he was operated on for eight bullet wounds but did not survi survive. >> a former muslim that converted to christianity. he shared his faith with neighbors. he was not afraid to hold bible studies in his home which he converted into a house church. >> witnesses say a few hours before he was kill d, pastor mario agitated some -- this pastor is a coordinator of

you have said that the united states is a christian nation in the past.ow do you answer those critics? >> well, the united states supreme court said we are a christian nation in 1892. in church of the holy trinity. acknowledging god is simply not a violation of separation of church and state. acknowledging god is the basis of separating the church from the state so that the state can't interfere with the worship. >> roy, you keep a copy of that order that was given to you that forced you to be removed from the bench. why do you keep that? as you look forward into what looks like you will be winning, again, being chief justice, why do you keep that copy? do you hope to make some changes? do you hope to return to some of the objectives you had before? would you bring back the ten commandments, that statue. >> i wouldn't bring back the ten commandments. the issue is and always has been about the acknowledgment of god. i do have a copy of the order. i do have a copy, because there are people that don't understand what the issue was, need to see what the judge

maybe it's a tribute to americans that we're confident enough, christian nation it's okay to make funup muslims and arely johns he brought up. there are for few republican issues. if you make it an issue, use more than this show to bring out your point. >> dana: i'll leave it there. when we come back is the national organization of women putting politics over principle? when it comes to the sexist comments on bill maher. we show you what the president of the group says about his million dollar donation next. ♪ ♪ what makes the sleep number store different? the sleep number bed. the magic of this bed is that you're sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. wow! that feels really good. in less than a minute i can get more support. if you change your mind once you get home you can adjust it. so whatever you feel like, the sleep number bed's going to provide it for you. at our semi-annual sleep sale, save $400 to $700 on our most popular bed sets. plus, free standard shipping - but only through march 18th! only at the sleep number store, where queen mattresses start at

care what the liberals say, i don't care what the nay-sayers say, this nation was founded as a christian nation, the god of abraham, the god of isaac and the god of jacob. there's only one god, there's only one god and his name is jesus. i'm tired of people telling me that i can't say those words. i'm tired of people telling us as christians that we can't voice our beliefs or we can't no longer pray in public. listen to me, if you don't love america and you don't like the way we do things, i have one thing to say. get out! [ applause ] we don't worship buddha. i said, we don't worship buddha, we don't worship mohammed. we don't worship allah. we worship god, we worship god's son, jesus christ! if we'll put god back in america, put god back in our pulpits and put god back in our homes and our statehouse and then in washington d.c., then we can have revival in america. >> at the end of reverend dennis terry's introduction, republican presidential candidate rick santorum gave the pastor a standing ovation. he later said that he did not agree with the muslims and buddhists that they need to get out

maybe it's a tribute to americans that we're confident enough, christian nation it's okay to make funuslims and arely johns he brought up. there are for few republican issues. if you make it an issue, use more than this show to bring out your point. >> dana: i'll leave it there. when we come back is the national organization of women putting politics over principle? when it comes to the sexist comments on bill maher. we show you what the president of the group says about his million dollar donation next. ♪ ♪ [ rosa ] i'm rosa and i quit smoking with chantix. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first wee.. i'm like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasn't smoking. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop taking chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any histor

we want to be a christian nation and we want to act in a christian manner, we don't believe in that.his is unbelievable to me. but i think as donna said, i think it touched something in society. i hope what doesn't happen, i hope that the rhetoric drops a little bit. everybody was saying there was a war on women and everybody's saying, certain leaders are starting to say there's a war on african-american. we got to go back to what this is saying about society, this is an individual who did this. >> young, black men, black men of any age, are considered suspects. and whether it's a crab driver who won't pick them up or whether or not it's a white person crossing the street because she's nervous by having a black man on the same side of the street as her. that's real. >> no one spoke out about it for a month. >> it was on the internet and then the black radio stations played a large role in getting the national media to focus. once again, like the sue soon komen, there was a social media thing. there will be petitions aimed at governor and others to repeal this law. since 2008, 2009, 2

1950s and 60s as jim crow is being pulled apart is when you see the first explicit ideas about christian nationalism and christian -- the american exceptionalism coming to the fore. and there's a beautiful quote in the book in toqueville where he's talking about the aristocrats and how even though the political and legal situation changed, psychologically they had to hold onto their feeling of superiority. in the d.c. the sense that if there were no longer going to be racially superior they had the feel they need elsewhere. and what that gives rise to is israel hyper page or two of them in the sense of american exceptionalism that you don't really find in this house previously. this indignation than that, that he was a death given the specific inflection and if you close your eyes and i'm sure we also have again change this weekend. when you close your eyes and was sent to governor palin talk about american exceptionalism, it is straight from the falwell book and i do believe that nonsense that is treated in this need to feel superior. so if you cannot feel superior to the black folk as jim crow's g

we want to be a christian nation and we want to act in a christian manner, but we don't believe in turnhe other cheek, we believe in loading citizens and basically give them an opportunity to shoot people. this is unbelievable to me. this is tranelic, tragic case. but i think as donna said, i think it touched something in society. i hope what doesn't happen, i hope that the rhetoric drops a little bit. two weeks ago, everybody was saying there was a war on women and everybody's saying, certain leaders are starting to say there's a war on african-americans. this is about somebody -- this about a man who's mentally off, george zimmerman. we got to go back to what this is saying about society, this is an individual who did this. >> but young, black men, black men of any age, are considered suspects. and whether it's a cab driver who won't pick them up or whether it's a white person crossing the street because she's nervous to have a black man on the same side of the street as her. that's real. >> this bubbled up from the african-american community. no one spoke out about it for about a mon

. >>> even though it was damaged in last year's earthquake, the pipe organ at the national city christian church still sounds good. [ organ music ] >> church held an organ recital last night in order to raise money for repairs. the earth quake in august damaged the church sanctuary and the pipe organ. repairs are expected to cost about $150,000. >> above the pulpit part of the ceiling collapsed and then each of the four capitals on the pillars in the front of the sanctuary were also crushed and the fallen plaster damaged portions of the pipe organ. we lost about 500 organ pipes. >> last night's recital was a tribute to bach to commemorate his birthday. >>> a lot of people have been affected by the early onset, the warm weather of the spring season, the flowers coming up and a lot of allergens in the area. yesterday we had some showers around. that has cleansed the air a little bit. so the numbers may be a little deceivingly low but this is what they are. they just came in. in washington today, the tree pollen is low. the grass pollen is low and the mold spores are low, but they're bound t

i want to say that in russia, it has become a christian nation. it is wonderful to see how they have move from communism. they passed a wonderful law to protect the children. the christian faith is very strong in russia now. i hope it grows even stronger. there are bad things happening. this is a huge issue that you cover-up in the united states media. host: christianity in russia. guest: there is a chasm between the protectors of dignity and the society as a whole. so we see a society that is going through a transition. a new attitude toward personal life style and personal choice. there are parts that see it as threatening. at election time, this not a coincidence. use of people tried to impose a new law that would make it a crime to propagandize a homosexual lifestyle. these are tensions that russia is undergoing. the people who work at magazines and in the media and in the financial industry, those are the people that have been the vanguard of the demonstrations. people look at those people as negatively and with great hostility. there's a ten

katrina van den hovel is the editor of "the nation." christian freeman is -- writes about politics for "the daily and the national review" on-line. joe, looks like romney has sort of wrapped it up one more time. sort of wrush still say he is not doing what he needs to do. >> there was something of a turning point for romney. we finally found out that there was something that mitt romney wouldn't do to win the nomination. he said he wouldn't set his hair on fire by making outrageous comments about barack obama. that's nice, but it really point out a major deficit in his campaign so far. if he is running as the electable one. electability is a concept that you should never tout, but should also always prove by winning elections. you know, if you're running as the electable one, you have to show your appeal to moderates and independents. bill clinton did this by pushing for welfare reform, which the base of his party didn't want. george w. bush did this with compassionate conservatism in 2000. up until this point mitt romney has given nothing to mod

and in 2008 national christian foundation donated $414,000. >> if they have right-wing groups to gettastic. is it going to help the ugandan government, which is horribly anti-gay. >> they say they do not give any money to the ugandan government whatsoever. they are just working with them to help catch joseph ko ny. as long as the funding doesn't go to the government, i think they're okay. >> you have a government proposed thatting aggravateed homosex homosexuality should receive a death sentence. when we come back, hillary clinton speaks from the heart so fox news is next. >> why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. visit fiatusa.com [ man ] do you think a bottle cap would float on the top of that head? uhhhh... -i don't. -no. ♪ ♪ oh, that's cool, like i said. sweet mamasita. [ koch ] a good head on a beer tells you that beer was made with a lot of malted barley. and that's going to deliver a lot of flavor. [ cannon ] a good thick rocky head -- that's really releasing a lot of the hop aroma. you taste the barley you taste the hops, feels bold. good head on a beer

and in 2008 national christian foundation donated $414,000. >> if they have right-wing groups to get. is it going to help the ugandan government, which is horribly anti-gay. >> they say they do not give any money to the ugandan government whatsoever. they are just working with them to help catch joseph ko ny. as long as the funding doesn't go to the government, i think they're okay. >> you have a government proposed thatting aggravateed homosex homosexuality should receive a death sentence. when we come back, hillary clinton speaks from the heart so fox news is next. >> why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. visit fiatusa.com mornin'. i guess i'm helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably also doesn't hurt that i'm a world-famous advertising icon. cheers! i mean, who wouldn't want a piece of that? geico. ah... fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent oh dear... or more on car insurance. hershey's chocolate syrup. stir up a smile. this is countdown south carolina. forgot the name of the show p.m. ♪ >> hillary clinton was speaking at the woman

. >>> some high level high school hoops this afternoon in bethesda, nationally ranked montrose christianrockville hosting monty verde from florida. montrose going for the tie. at the end, no. florida out of town with the win 50-47. that's high level hoops. most of those players you'll be seeing on the national level in a couple years, so some good stuff in bethesda, the tournament continuing all weekend long. >> yeah. >> that's all for 9 news now at 6:00. stay with wusa9 for the cbs evening news next and derek is back here with us at 7:00 for our area's only local newscast and next monday don't forget to join andrea, mike, howard and mon car, our stellar morning team. they get -- monica, our stellar morning team. they get up crazy early, 4:25 a.m. we'll see you later.

voters believe that president obama is a muslim so while the president has repeatedly told the nation he's a christian he publicly attends church services still being able to use their misinformation campaigns to influence the american voting public. and for newt gingrich to talk a lot about shari'a law and all he's campaigning down south they had some states primaries and a very very ugly can griffin griffin a hedge for hedge fund billionaire and one of the four hundred wealthiest americans told the chicago tribune this weekend that america's ultra wealthy citizens don't have enough influence in government and in the political process that's right even though billionaires are bankrolling presidential campaigns and corporate c.e.o.'s are influencing legislation all across the country griffin thinks these people should have more sway in our democracy the fact is americans alter wealthy and their constant shelling out of politics money into politics ruined our political process spending more than three hundred million bucks and twenty five alone to elect the most corporate friendly house of representati

. >>> even though it was damaged in last year's earthquake, the pipe organ at national city christian church still sounds good. >> the church held an organ recital last night to help raise money for repairs. the earthquake in august damaged the church's sanity wear and the pipe organ -- sanctuary and the pipe organ. it's expected to cost around $150,000. >>> i am watching your money. more and more of us are paying $4 a gallon for gas these days. according to aaa fuel gauge report, gas prices in the d.c. metro area now average $3.96 per regular grade. that's up 30 cents in just the last month. that's creating a real pinch on family budgets. the average round trip commute nationwide is now 48 miles a day. over a month that means the average commuter puts 960 miles on the car with the average home having two workers, that means 1900 miles a month. every time gas prices go up 50 cents, that means another 80 bucks a month in the tank for the average family. >>> from fueling your car to fueling yourself, starbucks is launching a new line of natural energy drinks. they're called refreshers.

the national city christian church sustained most of its damage in the sanctuary. last night church organize begannist charles miller performed a 90-minute concert to raise funds for repairs. some of the fallen chunks from the ceiling hit the church's organ. >> we lost about 500 organ pipes. for us to repair this damage to the ceiling and to the organ is going to cost us about $150,000. >> if you recognize the music, miller performed 90 minutes of music of back. it would have been the 307th birthday of bach. >>> an author who lived through a violent relationship offers advice on escaping the abuse. >>> the supermarket chain with stores throughout the d.c. area announces it's no longer buying the -- [indiscernible] >>> let's see who is celebrating a birthday today. if it's your day like my niece allison who is 27 today, happy birthday to you as well. we'll be back. >>> good morning. welcome back to 9 news now. it's 5:45 and it's another foggy morning for us. >> fog has been getting thicker quickly over the last 30, 45 minutes here in town. southern maryland, down so

. >>> al qaeda claims it killed an american teacher because he was trying to spread christianity in the muslim nation. a pennsylvania native was shot sunday in yemen. he lived there with his wife and two sons. he was teaching english and studying arabic. he did not go to yemen for religious reasons. >>> monitoring metro after a flood of complaints. the transit agency is launching a new awareness campaign to put a stop is to tosexual harassment. >>> and a plan to build a new training facility in the district. >>> and centennial celebrations. find out how many people are expected in washington for the 100th anniversary of the cherry blossom festival. gary. >>> and some sunshine out there and temperatures have gone up and up. looks like they will get warmer around here for tomorrow. a nice evening, nice tomorrow and some changes for the weekend. stay with us.  . >> mop monitoring metro tonight. agency taking action after public complaints from riders about other people crossing the line. metro is launching's new awareness campaign that shows sexual harassment is not okay. sherri ly has

christian beasley, the executive director of the national association will share with us her personal story with chronic pain, she was appointed to serve on the pain research coordinating committee at nih, the committee was formed to coordinator research. and next we have dr. john serno a professor at new york university medical center and practitioner at rusk rehabilitation medicine. the author of four books a pain will share his work with respect to treating chronic pain. i'll thank all of you for coming here, your statements will be made a part of the record in their entirety and i ask if you can sum up in five or seven minutes, it's probably a little light down there, i do not get nervous if it goes over, unless it's a long time, if you are summing up five, six, seven, eight minutes that is fine with me. like i said, your statements will be all made a part of the record in their entirety. please proceed. >> thank you, very much. >> punch the button. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. it's an honor to be here with you today and i appreciate very much your interest in the importa

mean, come on folks, i mean, about 88 percent of the people who are religious in this nation are some form of christian. think of the myth statements within christianity of the extraordinary events. of those 88 percent, there's probably 1,000 different denominations of christianity in a free country that, for the most part, disagree over the interpretation of the level of factuality, historical, factual event versus symbolic, mythical ritual drama. and we could just like take it easy on each other if we could just separate those. so you've brought up an excellent point, it's one of the key points - a beliefs and believers point - that we want to bring up is, well, let's sort that out; let's sort out some of the differences between history and myth and where they in fact interact. so good question. sure. >> i would answer that i think that people, in many ways, are like children, and they need some example, because if you gave them the basic principle, they'd say, "too deep." so if you give them something that they can picture, or fit in with their own life as being something reasonable, it doesn't matt

christian time from the british house of commons. they weekly debate something called the nhs, the national health service. i would challenge any promoter, proponent of, quote, obama care end of quote to watch those programs and see if you would like to have our country debating on a weekly basis how many doctors are available, how many beds are available, how many nurses are on staff. the cost, the waiting list. this is not something i believe that we need here in our country. >> we're going to jump in. thanks so much. calling from houston, texas. mark sherm season an associated press reporter who was monitoring the oral argument. he has filed a story that says some of the justices reacted skeptically to the idea that the penalties encapsulated in the act were actually a tax. that's the heart of the debate for the first challenge. what is the parade of horribles asks justice sonia sotomayor. if they are not attacks and the health care case goes forward. long suggested, that's the attorney that was one of the three attorneys arguing, suggested it could encourage more challenges to the long standing system

the victim was spreading christianity in yemen. >>> the united nations says an american believed by some to have been held captive for nine months has been turned over to the u.s. embassy in baghdad. they said they were freeing a soldier identified as randy michaels. he's on the right there in that uniform. but a u.s. official who had knowledge of the man says that he is rand michael and later returned as an entrepreneur. u.s. officials say all missing soldiers have been accounted for. we'll keep an eye on that one. >>> it is primaries day in puerto rico. up for stake, 20 delegates. even though puerto ricans won't be able to vote, a primary victory today could strengthen the winner's latino's support. >>> newt gingrich's daughter will join me live right here in the studio. i'll ask her if there's any chance of her father of dropping out of the race. that's five minutes from now. let's get a look at your early sunday forecast. reynolds wolf is keeping an eye on that. good morning, reynolds. >> good morning. we have a lot to talk about weatherwise. the bullseye will take place in the centr

groups together christian and other minority groups to offer syrian national council that they don't think is going to represent their government future which is going to be very interesting to see what the major downside is the international community rather legitimate or not they're using that is going to he was riding a lot of back the opposition at least the u.s. and i talked with kurdish human rights activists who think the u.s. is using that as an excuse and a lot of opposition you know the opposition is always right in these situations that what the international community is you know they're still waiting for a unified voice in order to push a military intervention speaking of the international community to understand the serious part to host new monitors shortly with a team of international experts that are already in damascus to get this mission underway i mean what would a note of monitoring mission achieve the arab league mission absent a change i think happened. no the question is this i'm going to let you actually. you know do some honest observing or you know is going

christian for the latest. >> and here is good news. the national weather service lifted the high wind advisory that was in affect. the winds have diminished to the point they do not meet advisory criteria. mainly in the 40s and it has dropped to the upper 30s. it is chilly in the north bay right now. and here is a look at our current winds. winds gusting to 22 miles per hour and winds at half moon bay gusting to 24 miles per hour. winds have calmed down to much more normal levels and virtually all other areas. winds will continue diminishing in the absence of the wind advisory. turning colder and absolutely freezing in some spots. mainly in the north bay valleys. mild afternoons lie ahead wednesday through friday. here is the satellite and radar -- oh, before we get to that. the projected lows, lows dropping to 29 in napa to 30 in santa rosa. two locations will drop below freezing. 35 fairfield and 34 livermore. it will be chilly around the bay area, but especially cold in the north bay valleys. now a look at the satellite-radar and composite. ther

christians or human beings. >> what are some of the problems, national security problems, that we may face in looking at the two largest countries in the world, china and india. islamic that's an excellent question. both of these countries have tremendous problems which religious liberty -- let me begin first with india which as most people know is a hindu majority nation. but also has a huge muslim minority. so what happens. is it of great importance for not only india which is huge and growing and of enormous economic importance to the united states and its neighbors. it's also a nuclear weapons country next to a muslim majority country, pakistan, which has also moved its weapons. if that happens in india a importance to the united states on an economic basis, an internal basis and a national security basis how. that is by and large the indians have been successful at this with exceptions. if you look at the growth in '88 and '89 the confessional. here we are over a half century later a fairly stable democracy, it's got huge problems of poverty, but it's got enormous economic growth and some of this i think i

national council. he appealed directly to the christians, appeared directly to the ala whites as well. it won't get the quote exactly right. he said something like many of you have left over the years, many of you have felt the need to leave over the years. when you leave, part of syria dies, and we want a syria where you can all come home. again, not an exact quote. i'm trying to convey the sentiment of that. i think there is something to work with with the opposition leadership which is an understanding that what's special about syrup yeah is that rich, mosaic of communities, religions, ethnicity and people want to preserve that. the ala whites are scared. you're absolutely right. ambassador ford would know more about that than i do. on the economic side of things, the syrian business community as i understand it, it's -- there are 11 teen traders, worked for decades if not sentries on commerce across the middle east, connections to europe and beyond. this is one of those communities that needs to understand in our view that its feature is better assured under a different type of sys