donald trump saying russell moore is a terrible representative evangelicals saying a nasty guy with no heart. but there is a coalition of 0 christian leaders asking people to reject donald trump because of racial and religious demagoguery. >> the he are gel cals i know make an astounding case on why evangelicals should support trump. when looking across the world. we are not look for a sunday school teacher. we are look for a commander. someone who is not hostile to christians in this country, and there is a clear option for that. charles: donald trump won the overwhelming majority of evangelicals in the southern state and other state as well. he was able to capture a large lion's share of that vote. and there are prominent leaders til resisting him. what do you think it's all about? i saw a tweet that said russell moore is an advocate for racial unity adoption and by inference saying donald trump is again those things. >> that's part of it, too. there is miscommunication about who mr. trump is and what he stand for. we have seen hip being painted as a racist and bigot. mr. trump was o

russell moore, a preacher with the southern baptist convention, saying, quote, this year the republican party has not just surrendered on the culture wars, they've joined the other side. trump responded today by blasting, quote, russell moore is truly a terrible representative of evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. a nasty guy with no heart. dr. russell moore joins us now, the president of the ethics and religious liberty commission at the southern bapt ift convention. you used the term surrender, but i looked at the exit polls, donald trump won the evangelical vote. so if there's a surrender, evangelicals are part of it, aren't they? >> one of the things you'll notice, church-going evangelicals were among the most reluctant to support donald trump. so it's a more complicated picture. we see an entire country swept up in trump and clinton mania this year. the question is, what happens after that? >> when you say it's a surrender, what issues are the republican party surrendering on? >> we with have a republican party with leaders who have said for a generation that characte

and russell moore has been a vocal critic of trump and most recently in the new york times on friday.ssell moore is a truly terrible representative of evangelicals and all they believe -- joining me chief correspondent and president of the southern baptist convention ethics commission. i want you to give a chance to respond about donald trump's tweet about you this morning. >> it's one of the view things i can agree with donald trump on. i am a nasty guy with no heart. we say worst things about ourselves in our hymns on sunday morning. we're a retch in need of god's grace. but that's the reason i need forgiveness from god through jesus christ. but beyond that i think we have real issues with evangelical christians in the direction both parties are going. >> so, the position that evangelicals find themselves in and it's silly to use that term as a painting with a broad brush but having to choose between donald trump and most likely hillary clinton, you say many are horrified in your words. >> yes, horrified and many are thinking through i hear all day long, every day from evangelicals

russell moore has been a vocal critic and was in an op-ed column in "the new york times" friday.e hit back on twitter writing russell moore is truly a terrible representative of evangelicals and all of the good they stand for, a nasty guy with no heart. polls show he has support with more evangelicals that don't go to church regularly than those that do. how it will play out for november. chief broadcaster from christian broadcast network and president of southern baptist convention ethics commission. dr. moore, welcome. want to give awe chance to respond to the tweet about you. >> i thought it was great. one of the few things i agree with donald trump on. i am a nasty guy with no heart. we sing worse things on hymns, a wrech in need of god's grace. i agree with that. but i think that's the reason i need forgiveness from god through jesus christ. beyond that, we have real issues with evangelical christians, with both parties right now, and the direction both parties are going. >> so the position, dr. moore, that evangelicals find themselves in, and again, it is si silly to use th

quote russell moore is a truly terrible representative of evangelicals and all of the good they stand for. a nasty guy with no heart. not exactly turning the other cheek and joining me is national spokesman for ted cruz. and radio host charley siekz. >> well, as i said before, donald trump has a chance now to show the different side of him, right, that he's going to be gracious, presidential and he lashes out at a minister and this is the pattern when anyone criticizes him or challenges him. you would think there would be a little bit of hesitancy, do you want to go with that kind of language against somebody like reverend moore? and the juvenile level of the shots. but this is going to be a real problem for him and maybe rick tyler can explain this to him and i will admit that i don't get, why so many evangelicals supported donald trump knowing what we knew about his character, and this has been something that i have asked and tried to figure out and i think we can look back on this as one of the great mysteries of this campaign. >> i think the response is rude, childish, unbecoming

russell moore is the president of the southern baptist ethics. joining us now, dr. . >> when donald trump calls you a nasty guy with no heart, how does that make you feel? >> it didn't bother me at all. i've been called much worse over my life and time in ministry, and it didn't bother me at all. what does kind of bother me is we have a presidential campaign operating at this level. this is frankly very mild, compared to what donald trump has done. i mean, didn't accuse my dad of participating in the jfk assassination, so i guess that's a win. when we look at this, i told my wife, if my dentist were acting this crazy, i would slip out of the chair and go to the car, and she just has a drill. now the nuclear arsenal. so i think there are many people in the country just look around and see someone who is going to be sitting in the seat potentially of abraham lincoln, acting in these bizarre and erratic ways. it is disturbing. >> well, you've made your opinion of donald trump well-known. you published this op ed on friday in the new york times. let me read a passage. it

recently got into it with russell moore, one of the top leaders in the southern baptist convention. moore calling trump's reality and tv background moral sewage. trump responds with this tweet. and i think we have this tweet for our viewers. says that moore is, quote, a nasty guy with no heart and that he's a terrible representative of evangelicals. so he's got this back and forth going on. he's been married, as you know, twice. 2 corinthians, we all know that famous exchange there at liberty university. has something changed with evangelical voters in this country, rick? >> you know, i don't know, craig. i think about this issue a lot. evangelicals and the church at large, right, the church is full of sinners, that's why they're there. they're not there because they are somehow pious or holier than thou. they often get painted that way. sometimes there are evangelical leaders and other leaders that go out that make the evangelical movement or the church look like they're a bunch of holy rollers holier than thou, tea totalers and they're not. if you go in these churches, the reason