john the divine cathedral now being converted into a makeshift hospital. the navy ship comfort taking hundreds of covid-19 patients. a crew member onboard testing positive. >>> the new numbers, the breakdown of men and women. and the alarming numbers on african-americans in this country. the terrible toll. we hear from doctors on the front lines. and president trump and dr. anthony fauci weighing in, too. >>> tonight, michigan sounding the alarm. running out of personal protective equipment. parts of louisiana with the highest death rate in the u.s. >>> tonight, the father of four on a ventilator in indianapolis, among the many in this country fighting for their lives. >>> the american workers who are still working at great risk. the 27-year-old grocery store employee who went to work, who has now died. the toll on doctors, nurses, health care workers now getting sick. in michigan, more than 1,500 showing symptoms. >>> and the acting secretary of the navy who called the captain stupid, out of a job. martha raddatz with news on the captain, who reportedly ha

john the divine and it looks completely different. first of all, you notice the rows of chairs are gone and that white hospital tent underneath the easter decorations. remember, they were getting ready for holy week. the plan is to have 10 to 20 hospital tents stretching all through here, right up to the high altar. and in another corner of the church, we see this. the chapel, hospital beds spread out everywhere. >> the cathedral has always been a place for spiritual healing. and now it's being used as a place for physical healing. >> reporter: the virus takiing devastating toll on workers on the front lines. in new york, 41 transit workers killed, 1,500 infected with the virus. melody aravena's husband rolando was a communications field technician sent to a new york hospital to help prepare for the surge. a week later, he was sick. >> if he had to die to save other people's lives, you know, i'm going to try to make amends with that. >> reporter: rolando passing away on his twin daughters' 10th birthday. melody remembering their last w

john the divine. but i'm seeing it all over the place. steve: i realize there is no definitive answer, but do you have a sense how long the city, the churches will remain closed? cardinal dolan: i don't, steve. everybody is asking, especially my priests. to be outvery nature there, embracing people, anointing people, giving them holy communion, hearing their confession, visiting their homes. and they can't do it. and then to welcome people to sunday mass, so they are more eager than anybody. i don't think it is going to happen for another three weeks or so if that. back,may 1 we could be the church doors could be open -- people are always telling me this. clear thatou are even though the church, the church building, even though the doors might be closed there, although most of our churches are open for prayer during the -- with proper precautions even though the church building might be under lockdown, the c is as alive as ever. you see that in the charity of our people, in the dynamism of catholic charities, and what our teachers are doi

john the divine. the best possible news you could get alongside those images is they think they may not have to use those beds. the plans were set up to put dozens of hospital beds, if not hundreds of hospital beds inside that cathedral. those plans to set up the cathedral as a hospital site were set in motion, but then today they were set in un-motion as mt. sinai kept up its ongoing assessment of its needs and the trajectory of how many beds they need and where. and as the new york city hospitalization numbers look like they are starting to flatten out, the cathedral of st. john the divine may no longer need to be a hospital. and may that cathedral no longer be needed as a pop-up field hospital be a little ray of light for us all today. and let it stay true, you know. let the hospitalization rates in new york continue to flatten out and start to decline and then steeply decline, right? that said, of course if it doesn't hold, if that situation does change for the worse up at 112th and amsterdam insid

john the divine was begun in 1897. s chartered by the state of new york and chartered as a house of prayer for all people. through the years, we have come to understand that to mean all means all. so anybody is welcome in this place to worship here. we have diverse groups worshiping and meeting here. we have always been at the forefront of inclusion. we've always been at the front in the aids crisis. st. john's stepped up. we have the national aids memorial here now. lgbtqe a very active ministry. -- the door at this place is open to everyone. our heart is open to everybody. began, icovid crisis sinai the president mount , st. luke's, and spoke with him about it and said, i don't know what we'rere gng to need my but let me asse e you e doors thcathedraare opop to you for whaterer you need. so he called me back a few weeks teter an said, we think we cathedralo use the as overflow hospitalpapace. i said, of course, i'm gl t to do t tha that is the traditionarorole o cathedralsnn past pandemics and plagues. ainen was conta

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declaration the languages or that it tells a cop but the roman historian solace that quotes from said john the divinethat all people are created equal the main support for that should be the case these are interesting concepts but even more interesting is 2 things about the document 1st leg seems to go beyond the the usual feudal medieval cast list of the barnes and noble's good king robert the cleric who wrote the document it talks about something called the community of the realm of the community of the realm can't be the feudal caste less so as to be something else sort of embracing that was something beyond that the something which we covered with the people and then most revolutionary of all as suggest what the people the community of the realm might do if good lord robert doesn't come up to snuff and doesn't fulfil what he's made to do doesn't protect scotland against the english then they'll get rid of him and get someone else and that seems to be some sort of look at a contractual relationship between the government and the government of what we might term in modern days popular sovereignty a

john the divine. but i'm seeing it all over the place. steve: i realize there is no definitive answer, but do you have a sense how long the city, the churches will remain closed? cardinal dolan: i don't, steve. everybody is asking, especially my priests. to be outvery nature there, embracing people, anointing people, giving them holy communion, hearing their confession, visiting their homes. and they can't do it. and then to welcome people to sunday mass, so they are more eager than anybody. i don't think it is going to happen for another three weeks or so if that. back,may 1 we could be the church doors could be open -- people are always telling me this. clear thatou are even though the church, the church building, even though the doors might be closed there, although most of our churches are open for prayer during the -- with proper precautions even though the church building might be under lockdown, the c is as alive as ever. you see that in the charity of our people, in the dynamism of catholic charities, and what our teachers are doi

john the divine, the largest gothic cathedral of the world, is being transformed into an emergency field hospital. the washington nationals announced their dc ballpark will be used as a food distribution site. 1000 daily meals will help low income families. >> there are now 9000 cases in maryland, dc, and virginia. >> in a grim sign of the times just to as spain has done, there are reports that some u.s. states are looking into renting ice rinks to use as temporary morgues. laura podesta , cbs news. >>> as new york's death rate continues to rise, governor andrew cuomo is looking a plan to temporarily bury victims on public land. >> several bay area members of congress are calling for further investigations into the firing of a captain who sounded the alarm over coronavirus on a navy ship. that drama surrounding captain brett crozier came to a head yesterday. his boss, acting navy secretary thomas modly, resigned following the leak for a profanity filled tirade against crozier and his desperate plea for help. >> he either was too stupid or nacve to be a commander of a ship like this. >> m

john the divine cathedral now being converted into a makeshift hospital. e navy ship comfort taking hundreds of covid-19 patients. a crew member onboard testing positive. >>> the new numbers, the breakdown of men and women. and the alarming numbers on african-americans in this country.

john the divine. during holy week, it's now a makeshift hospital. and the american workers risking their lives. tonight in new york city, at least 41 transit workers dying. a communications specialist setting up lines at a hospital dying days later on his twin daughters' 10th birthday

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john the divine in manhattan will turn into another field hospital to relieve the pressure on doctors like nicholas hernandez >> we're pretty much puing out fires wherever we can. >> reporter: weeks ago he himself got sick. >> i worry about my family i have an 8-month old. i have to, you know, be careful with and try my best to do everything i could to maintain my distance, but it's still that worry am i going to make it through this, are my symptoms going to better, why am i not getting better >> reporter: he's now back at work for grueling 90-hour shifts but over the weekend his grandfather came into his icu he's now on a ventilator >> this virus doesn't discriminate >> reporter: for so many on the front lines it's the battle of their lives >> i felt just defeated, unappreciated. >> reporter: we first spoke with a new york er doctor last week. days later she started showing symptoms she's now staying home frustrated that it was so hard to get a test. >> i'm seeing asymptomatic white house officials and celebrities and animals at the zoo getting tested was very frustrated, anger indu

john the divine, the largest gothic cathedral in the united states. that truck behind me loading in supplies, tents and beds and to think that medical patients are going to be treated inside of a church during holy week is far from normal but now it's necessary. this morning, growing evidence the outbreak may be slowing. but go inside hospitals, and you'll see painful reminders the coronavirus still has a grip on america. >> around 4:00 three people died, one after another. >> reporter: that reality playing out at maimonides hospital in brooklyn. doctors taking us inside one of their icus. >> they need you over here. >> come, let's go. >> reporter: dr. william pascal alerted a patient is having extreme breathing problems. her oxygen and blood pressure dropping. the doctors and nurses work together to flip the patient over. it's a maneuver called proning. they tell us it helps the oxygen flow and that move ultimately saved the patient's life. >> what happened just now is an absolute emergency. it's a life-or-death situation. unfortunately, that's what

john the divine, to be converted during this holy week into a field hospital. tents to be set up beneath the nave and in the crypt below. a drastic step, but doctors telling us so much of this virus is shocking. >> i just took a bird's eye view of the el e d all the monito christine haines are both emergency room doctors, sending their young son and daughter away so they could tend to the ill. >> just knowing that every day we are hopefully making a difference, saving lives, showing up, and being where we need to be, i think that's enough motivation to get through this hard part and just look forward to the good times of being with your family again. >> reporter: and tonight, new numbers in new york reveal 61% of those killed were men, 63% i heart disease, and dementia. all of this as funeral homes in new york are struggling to keep up, to lay victims to rest with dignity. >> we're trying to make it easier for the families but it's hard. it's a very hard situation right now. >> reporter: experts warning the peak in many places is still days away.emergency into j

easter weekend we are setting up a hospital 400 beds have been delivered to the cathedral of st john the divine to take in coronavirus patients in case existing medical facilities cannot cope but volunteers are trying to stay upbeat hopefully we can cross our fingers that this was off or not and that no patients come in here despite wednesday's record death toll new covert 19 hospital admissions in new york state have been dropping in recent days a possible side of the outbreak finally leveling off we are flattening the curve thank god thank god thank god thank. and think a lot of good people who have been working very hard that is a moment in time don't get complacent it's what we're doing that's working keep doing it that's the good news and the good news has a big cabin. we're still in the midst of it but president trump says there's light at the end of the tunnel would have many easterners together in churches in the future. we're getting closer you see the numbers we're getting much closer to getting our country back to the way it was. getting there will certainly take longer than the upco

john the divine on the west side. nevertheless right now, there are more coronavirus people testing positive in new york state alone than in any other country in the world. >> dana: sorry. david lee, thank you so much. let's bring in acting homeland security secretary chad wolf in just a quick note, i can hear the control room, if you could mute my mic there. secretary welcome i think you so much for joining us today. there's a lot that's had to happen in order to get all of this protective gear call across the country to all of these hospitals and they're saying they don't have enough. could you tell me where you think you are in terms of trying to meet that demand? >> absolutely, and thanks for having me on this afternoon. so fema along with dod personnel are really energizing the supply chain and we talked about an air bridge, those are flights from asia working with those medical manufacturers making sure that that information -- though supplies get to the u.s. in a matter of hours versus 30 to 37 days when they w

john the divine will be moved elsewhere. samaritans purse was sitting at the 200 bed facility in partnership with mount sinai hospital but they are now looking for other locations they say are strategically of the disagree more effective. we saw another tribute to the front-line workers, healthcare professionals and first responders, light it. campaign with iconic buildings signing. to support police, firefighters, doctors and nurses, some of the buildings lit in manhattan include the condit building and madison square garden, all of this especially important in new york where the total number of cases now exceeds every other country in the world. shannon: thank you for continuing to bring us the latest from the epicenter of this in the us, appreciate it. heartbreaking news from the defendant of health and human services, pharmacists given the green light to administer covid-19 tests and all of this could be a game changer in the fight to get the us back up and running, pharmacists on the frontline live to explain next. alice

john the divine, in manhattan, one of the world's largest churches, will be retrofitted to be a field hospital here in new york. this city still preparing. governor cuomo urging new yorkers not to let their guard down, even if the hospitalization rate seems to be plateauing. the sobering statistics, 731 people dyeing within a 24-hour span. the singlest deadliest day since that outbreak began here in new york state. andrea? >> gabe, briefly before i let you go, what about the javits center, is that still accepting patients or is it still being retrofitted? >> it's still accepting patients now. and governor cuomo addressed that once again, 125 beds in the javits center and that is the largest hospital now in the country. just a massive convention center that is acting as a relief valve for many of these hospitals that are so overwhelmed in and around the city. 2,500 beds for covid patients at javits center and another 500 now as "usns comfort." authorities had been saying in new york they needed tens of thousands of extra beds but now for at least the time being, they say they have the

john the divine, over the next coming days, is expected to also provide an additional 200 beds within that church. so state authorities, city authorities here in new york are, you know, there is some of that encouraging news, brian, but again, it's hard to overlook 731 deaths in one day, the single deadliest day during this outbreak, brian. >> i'll take it from here. i have one other question for you. the bed capacity. javits center is now open, the "usns" is now open, even though there is a crew member who has tested positive with covid. there are a number of other field hospitals. what is being done to alleviate the overcrowding in the ers right now? how is that being considered and how quickly can they get patients from the hospitals to the javits center or two any of those other field hospitals? >> reporter: yeah, katy, that's a growing frustration among many of the doctors and nurses that we have spoken with. there were growing calls for several days. you'll remember, the initial plan for the "usns comfort" was for it to treat non-covid patients. the governor yesterday asked pres

john the divine has canceled plans to become a temporary field hospital for covid-19 patients. leaders of the church's progressive congregation had a partnership with the field hospital's operator, the christian fundamentalist group samaritan's purse. in a statement, church leaders wrote -- "the beliefs and ideologies of samaritan's purse and the cathedral are not the same, and while we were willing to welcome them into our home and our community, the cathedral would not waver on our outspoken support for the rights of all, including our lgbtq family." the cathedral statement read. according to a cathedral source, samaritan's purse objected to a a pride flight on the front of the cathedral, which was unacccceptable t to samamaritan's purse. earlrlier this w week, new y yoy activistst reverand d billy wass tackckled and arrested by y pole after he p planted a r rainbow g near the samaritan purse field hospital tents in central park outside mount sinai hospital. at the vatican, pope francis is set to deliver good friday easter services by video stream from a nearly-empty st. peter

john the divine will host a new field hospital, adding to the extra hospital beds in central park. nbc's craig melvin. >> reporter: what's striking about what's happening here in central park, is you have people still enjoying the park, still riding their bikes, living their lives. and then a few feet away, you have people fighting for their lives. >> in brooklyn, and in hard-hit areas nationwide, funeral homes are at the breaking point. nbc's raheemi ellis says funeral directors are the last responders who see firsthand that the victims are not just numbers, but human beings. >> they're family members and they're people who loved someone, who had someone love them. we can never forget that. >> and the toll on jobs and the economy is unprecedented and frightening. at least 10 million jobs have already been lost in just the last few weeks. >> the latest on the pandemic numbers. >> cnbc andrew sorkin. >> this could very well be a great depression style disaster. i hope it isn't. i think a lot of it is really dependant on how quickly we're ability to contain this virus, how quickly we

latest makeshift hospital to be announced in new york city is the nave of the cathedral of saint john the divine, which now house 400 hospital beds, as overflow from mount sinai hospital. today, doctors and nurses and other health workers at harlem hospital protested the fact that they really are having to work without the protective equipment they need to prevent themselves from becoming infected. you see their signs at their protest outside harlem hospital today, respect public hospital patients and our nurses, how many of us must die, ppe over product, protect the front line, who will care for you when we are dead? we will not be your bodybags. and then there is this one. please don't call me a hero. i'm being martyred against my will. defense production act now. the administration is warning that this week will be among the darkest times the country has gone through. and you are seeing national signs of support apt and gratitude to health care workers. the health care workers still don't know what they need in the places that are hardest hit. the national response remains patchwork. and in p

john the divine in new york, which is about to become a coronavirus hospital. nine climate-controlled tents are being erected inside the largest gothic cathedral in the world. the crypt will be used as a staging agent. its dean says cathedrals were often used this way during the plagues in the middle ages. >>> for the third sunday in a row so many america's churches have been closed and it's particularly hard this week, holy week leading up to easter. not for one church in baton rouge, louisiana, where more than 1,200 people turned out for palm sunday services. the church's pastor, tony spell, spoke business abc's linsey davis, telling her why he believes his congregants are safe. >> we screen everyone who comes through the door. we check their temperatures. we ask them a series of questions that has been given to us from the center of disease and control, i believe. so we disinfect our building on a day-to-day basis because we operate seven days a week. so we would have to prove that people who have only left their homes and come to our church got the sickness

john the divine, the largest cathedral in america, that is working out logistics of opening its doors to the sick. all potential relieve valves, for doctors who work at a covid-19 unit in north shore university hospital, and says all of her patients are seriously ill. >> you can actually smell fear. you smell death. >> reporter: in harlem, frustrated medical workers are demanding more protective equipment. >> to have an n95 mask every day is nothing. that's like begging for crumbs when we need dinner. >> reporter: new york city accounts for nearly one-quarter of the nation's surging death toll. a funeral home in brooklyn says it's running out of body bags. >> we're overwhelmed. overwhelmed. my staff is -- they're on wit's end. >> reporter: as city officials urge new yorkers to wear face coverings when going outside, the governor is furious that some are not properly social distancing. and he has doubled the fine from not doing so from $500 to $1,000. savannah? >> all right. gabe, thank you. >>> now, to the dire shortage of vital medical equipment nationwide, including testing kits and

john the divine on the city's upper west side will work in partnership with mt.ai hospital, says it will provide sanctuary space for hospital beds. mayor bill deblasio says for the moment the city has enough ventilators, as well as gloves, masks and other personal protection equipment. the mayor also points out that the impact of the virus isn't just physical or emotional. he said it also is economic and underscoring that, he said that new yorkers, either half a million of them are either out of work or he says they soon will be out of work. he vowed that even though the situation might resemble in some ways the great depression, his comparison, he said no matter what happens, we will not let any new yorkers go hungry. neil? neil: david lee, i'm just curious, i don't want to hit you broadside with a question like this, but the cases on the "comfort" and javits center and even in the tents in central park and elsewhere in the city, are they reserved for covid-19 patients only? i know in the case of the "comfort" it was starting out as alternatives to covid-19 case

meanwhile, the cathedral of st. john divineeights neighborhood will open its doors as a temporary field hospital by end of the week. the episcopal charge, the largest gothic in the world expects to take in 200 patients. mika, we heard governor cuomo yesterday offering a moment of optimism but said wait until tomorrow to see what the numbers are like, but we'll take good news in the context of this horror for one day, exactly. >>> important news, british prime minister boris johnson says he was moved to the intensive care unit yesterday after his condition worsened. it was just 11 days ago when the 55-year-old tweeted a video message saying he was experiencing mild symptoms and was self-isolating after testing positive for coronavirus. on sunday the prime minister's office said he was still battling symptoms and was taken to the hospital insisting it was just a precaution. now comes the news that he's in the icu. his aides insist this, too, is just a precaution in case he needs a ventilator. sky news reports the prime minister h

mount sinai hospital scrapped plans to stage the sick inside the cathedral of saint john the divine, but mayor bill de blasio expects social distancing through mid-may. >> you cannot for a moment get ahead of things, sort of counting your chickens before they hatch, or this disease will have a resurgence and we could actually be worse off. >> reporter: still at mount sinai, this doctor sees hope returning. >> we hear good things every day. >> reporter: she got a text from a colleague before she started her night shift. >> texted, the number, and said, this is the number of patients whose lives we have been saving over just the past day together we're going to overcome this >> reporter: a new study by mount sinai found that the virus began circulating here in new york in mid-february and it came largely from europe, not china this facility is now meant to provide relief to nearby elmhurst hospital which has seen some of the worst of the crisis. savannah >> gabe gutierrez leading us off. thank you. >>> meantime, the toll on the u.s. economy continues to mount. more and more laid off wo

john the divine. o you in the studio. >> sandra: david lee miller, thank you for your reporting on the ground there in new york. now to albany where the governor is now speaking. >> three day averaging of these numbers, the three day averages down, which is good news. this is the three-day hospitalization rate. we tend not to look at any one day, day-to-day is up somewhat but if you look at the three-day average, it is moving down, which is good news. we talk about the apex and is the apex of plateau, and right now, we are projecting that we are reaching a plateau from the total number of hospitalizations and you can see the growth and see it starting to flatten. again, this is a projection. still depends on what we do. and what we do will affect those numbers. this is not an act of god that we are looking at. is an act of what society actually does. changing daily icu admissions is way down and that's good news, the daily intubation's number is down and that's good news. the discharge rate is right ab

the number of hospitalizations continues to flatten. there are also fewer admissions to icus. mount sinai hospital today canceled plans to build a field hospital at st. john cathedral of the divinen's west side. in new jersey which has more cases of the virus than any other state in new york there were 198 new deaths in just the last day. governor fill murphy says he expects a increase in number of fatalities and hospitalizations over the next few days. the state requires all store employees and customers to use some kind of a face covering when shopping. some new yorkers who suspected they had the virus months ago might be right. multiple studies including one from icon school of medicine at mount sinai hospital, the virus was in new york city earlier than previously thought. initial cases came from travelers arriving from europe, although origins of the virus can still be traced back to china. in the words of one of the researchers, the virus was likely circulating as early as january 2020 in the new york city area. what is noteworthy, connell, u.s. restrictions from most of travel on europe did not go into effect until mid-march. back to you. connell: wow, as early as january

. >> also today, we learned a temporary hospital being built inside the cathedral, st. john divine is now going to be moved elsewhere. samaritans setting up the 200 bed facility with mount sinai hospital but they were looking for other locations they say are strategically and logistically more effective. tonight, shannon, we saw a tribute to the front line workers, the health care professionals and the first responders. the writer blew campaign with iconic buildings shining blue to salute police, firefighters, doctors and nurses. in manhattan, the con ed building at madison square garden, all especially important in new york where the total number of cases now exceeds every other country in the world, shannon. >> shannon: thank you for bringing the latest from the epicenter in the u.s. come appreciate it. breaking news from the department of health and human services pharmacist giving the green light to administer covid-19 tests and more. how all of this can be a game changer despite the u.s. to get it back up and running at the premises on the front line live to explain next. ♪ i

the john at another. pipe to get just as. turkish president. divine is viewed as a hero here. he's condemned athens over the mistreatment of ethnic turks in a region where religious leaders have been jailed journalists silenced and land seized by the state. so the conviction the visit gives them a supplement you know the one that was bullshit if i did it then i'm a blue look of innocence. within the safe confines of the many cultural associations across thrice turkish traditions are celebrated and passed on to youngsters. hysteric years ago i was going to follow local lot of gaelic up you'll love. them so you are like is give it up like it's you challenged but also there are many others who have a lot of. good as ignis you let it make it your. traditions are strong. especially in the villages where many ancient practices continue to thrive. however community leaders say that their distinctive ethnicity is under siege from the state. show on the show here q just on i'm not very little of work can you talk to your sharia. law if you do it because of the mirrors in the poll in the

the women's suffrage. or workers rights you say they are no longer listening to divine laws. let me just give you a couple examples. john brown. they lead the raid. he writes a provisional constitution to replace constitution to replace the american constitution. he declared a path with the devil. they said that it is based on the laws of god. the confederate states of america. and created their own country. and write their own constitution. do you want to guess what the first line said these lines are based on divine providence. you see this argument spread. they take that sentiment and exercise it on steroids. i want to emphasize that that document capture a lot of these broader sentiments that tell a much larger story. i don't have much time to dig into one other issue that is significant here. in the political and legal issues is what is driving the external opposition. it is a new domestic arrangement. and the theological proposals that caused internal division. cause internal division. among those perhaps most noticeable is the proposal of polygamy. the chance for men to be sealed to multiple women. while it is im

suffrage or workers rights, who said the point where america falls apart is they are no longer listening to divine law or god dictates of human equality and so forth. john brown, you're familiar with john brown, radical abolitionists who leads the raid on harpers ferry. before he does that he writes a provisional constitution to replace the american constitution. the american constitution which he declared a pact with the devil and that was to replace it, specifically said it is based on the laws of god, human equality. the confederate states of america when they secede and come up with their country and constitution, want to guess what the first line of the constitution says? the laws are based on divine providence. you see this argument, the american nation is falling apart. the mormons exercise it on steroids and take it to the ninth degree but i want to emphasize that documented nauvoo in general capture a lot of these sentiments that tell a larger story about the messiness of democratic rule. i'm running out of time so i don't have much time to dig into one other issue that is significant, political and legal issues driving the external opposition,

falls apart is because they are no longer listening to the divine law of god dictates human equality and so forth. but they give you a couple examples. john brown. if any of you are familiar before he has the raid on harper's ferry he writes the constitution to replace the american constitution. he declared it a path to the compact with the devil and the regional constitution that was to replace it. it's the first line of the constitution that says these are based on the divine providence. you see this argument especially in the groups that believe that the american nation is falling apart. of course they take the sentiment and exercise it and take it to the ninth degree. but i want to emphasize that document they capture a lot of the broad sentiment but tell a larger story in the democratic who. i'm running out of time i don't have much time to dig into one issue that is significant here. if this is what is driving the external opposition it is the new domestic arrangement and the theological proposals that cause internal division. it is the proposal while it is impossible to identify the origins i try to argue that it is located in the

the fine and human. there are four types of divine law, eternal, celestial, natural, physical morelos. human laws must be based on moral laws. and so forth. every supreme court justice prior to john marshall with the exception of james irbil is on record saying the supreme court could strike down an act of a legislator for inviting -- violating natural law. thirdly, the christian ideas in from the founders understanding of liberty. for them liberty was a freedom could do what is right. they distinguish between liberty and licentiousness. one founders were liberty must be used within the bounds of right and duty, or in another common formulation, all without liberty is tyranny. liberty without law is licentiousness. fourth and critically the founders were convinced that humans were created in the image of god. james wilson if i may, this is the u.s. supreme court decision, writes that man wonderfully made is a workmanship of his all perfect cricket. some of your wickedness as coming from psalm 139. he doesn't put in reference. he's clearly referencing the psalmist. he goes on to say this, that life with a consistency beautiful in a in a dvd human e from its commencement to its clo