Huckabee. Should the city demand pastors hand over their sermon notes. Should churches in america sit back and shut up when religious liberty and freedom of religion is threatened. Just when you thought someone in government couldnt display greater disregard for the constitution and like irs and forcing taxpayers to fund the slaughter of unborn children. We see another stunning example of reckless abuse of power. Houston, we have a problem. Yes, we have a problem in houston. A nise parker pushed through a City Ordinance that gives preference to trances gender people who claim to be identifying with the opposite gender. Some families protested and they collected enough signatures to put the measure up for a vote before the people. The heavy handed mayor declared that there were not enough valid signatures. And citizens sued. And that inflamed the mayor and her city council cronies and subpened the notes from houston pastors and churches. Fox brokes the story and the storm came down. The houston mayor pretended to be surprised that the sermon was subpeona. And tweeted this. If theyous sermons for politics their sermons are fair game. Were instructions given on filling out anti hero petition. She anyhow. And we invited her on the show tonight and she declined. I cant say i blame her. She might not have enjoyed my questions. Have you ever read the United States constitution . Familiar with the First Amendment and American Fund of government was designed to trample the rights of citizens and allow government to abuse and ignore the law so it silences the voices. The houston case reminds us how our country is taken over by despots who hurt the those who have their bibles. The houston mayor who tried to prevent businesses opening in their citizens because they were bible believing christians. She ought to apologize or resign. They shouldnt expect taxpayers to fund hate filled actions to shut down the exercise of religion and attempt to establish a religion of godless secularism. Why is that happening . Mainly because good churchgoing christians dont vote and dont care. Of the 80 million evangellicals only half vote. And only half of those vote in an off year election. It ought to make you mad that the mayor thinks she can turn in her pastors. And so i got an idea. If she wants a sermon, here is my suggestion. I would like to ask every pastor in america, not only the ones in houston. Send her your sermons and go ahead. Obviously she could use a few. And if you are a pastor send them to her. And everybody watching the show ought to send her a bible. Her address is on the screen. I hope she gets thousands and thousands of sermons and bibles. applause tom is the pastor of the Vietnamese Baptist Church and came to america to escape the communist government who controlled how he worshipped. He was subponed. And pastor, you escaped the tyranny of communism in vietnam. One of the original boat people who got out when you were escaping for your life. When you came to america. Did you ever think that the government of the United States, acting through one of its mayors would ask you to cough up your sermon so they could approve them . Never, in my entire thought would it happen to us in america. You must be a little disconcerted that this is required of you and requested of you. Do you plan to give your sermons to the mayor of houston . Yes, she can have my sermon, but not my subpeona. Our sermon is stream lined and millions of people are watching in the other parts of the world. And it is it made public. But to demand i turn in my sermon and communication and correspondence it violates the nation what it stands for. When you got your subpeona. How did it affect you when you first saw it . It shocked me at first. I know it is just a tactic to silent the voice. I feel like they want to send a message that you speak up and you pay. And now eric, your Organization Deals with issues like this. Eric, i never seen anything this blatant. Is this a shock for what you do . This is an unprecedented attack on the religious liberty of pastors and when i got the subpeona, i was shocked to see the amount of and breadth. Their speeches and sermons and including private communications with congregation members and that is covered by the clergy confidentiality statutes. I was floored when i saw these subpeonas. And the mayor tried to say that was inadvertant attempt by pro bonos. And that didnt hold water. Later she a mended and said not their sermons but their speeches. But what is the difference . There is no difference the only thing the city of houston did was remove the sermon from the subpeona. It contains 17 categories of communication including any and all communication on the petition and mayor and homosexuality and gender identity and till includes the private confidential communication between pastors and Church Members. The city of houston doesnt get it and never read the First Amendment and dont seem to understand when you go after pastors like this, you are running roughshod over the First Amendment. I cant imagine any court of the land lower or appellate or Supreme Court that would side with the city of houston whether in the guise of discovery phase or not. What do you expect to happen in the next few weeks and months . You are right. The pastors who were subpeonaed. All they did was oppose the ordinance and encouraged people to sign the petition exercising their Constitutional Rights to free speech. A liiance defending freedom, we are representing all pastors and we filed a motion to quash the subpoenaed. It may be this one mayor of houston, texas that hundreds of this happeneds of pastors have been unable to do. Wake up the Church Members and help them realize their faith and freedom is under assault in this country. And i hope it will cause people to get out of their slumber. If we dont protect our freedoms, we will lose it. I hope everybody will send a bible to america and pastors send sermons because if she wants sermons. Well give her a pile to wade through and see if she enjoys it. Thank you both for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. What do you think about what is happening to the pastors in houston. Well get to them later. And does the president need to impose a travel ban to protect americans from ebola. And i will ask mike burgess who chaired the meetings last week on friday president obama appointed ron klain. He appointed him as the ebola czar and republicans critized the move saying klain has no medical or health background. Burgess is over the submito and they held hearings on ebola on thursday. Congressman, great to have you back on the show. This is a surprise. The choice for ebola czar ron klain a political operative and not someone affiliated with health care, what is the reaction you have to the particular individual being the czar . I can a the czar is bizarre. For two weeks, the president needs a point person and a general in the war against the virus because we are not winning right now. I wanted to so a military person be able to do that because you need someone who can cut through the layers of federal bureaucracy and we have seen that in the hearings on Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security and you ask who is in charge and no one in the witness table is able to tell you. We need someone in charge. I dont know mr. Klain. I will have to defer to other people who know him better and able to make the judgment, but i would like to seen former marine commandant peter pace or secretary levit as someone who is put in the position and understands what it is like to lead in a federal bureaucracy and be able to break through the walls of the sils on that keep things separated. I would think a general or former governor, and you mentioned secretary levit who was governor of utah for a number of years and people who had experience in dealing with the issues of government in focus. And ron klain a pr guy said to the the white house this is not a health issue. It is a political and pr issue . It is politically damaging to the president and he wants to get it fixed. My leadoff statement in the hearing, we have to get it right and we have not been getting it right and thats why we are having so much trouble. I live in the backyard of Presbyterian Hospital and we have a lot of problems down here right now and they are largely because people have lost confidence in the cvc and the president. Lets fix it and get it right and get it back on track. Appoint the person who knows what they are doing and put patients in centers where they are taken care of and all of the contingencies are managed which is i am grateful to say now helping and stop issuing travel documents in the western africa where the disease is unchecked. We dont have to issue those visas right now. Give us time to even catch up here at home. Ni dont understand, the president said it would be worse if we put a travel ban and i tried to work through that mentally. I cant think of a reason why it is better to let people travel in and out of the liberia than contain it in a area and go against it right there. Does that make sense to you as a congressman and as a doctor . No, it makes no logical sense and people tried to justify it in the committee hearing, it made no sense. We could do a lot to help the countries where the disease is unchecked. We are doing a the lot. We sent servicemen over there and sent aid but suspend the travel from there to here and putting our countrys interest ahead of someone elses and that is the only logical thing to do. An american citizen in those countries. Okay, i get that. Three week quarentine and let the federal government pick up the tab for that. And as far as business or pleasure, suspend those visas right now. Make sense to me. I hope they listen to you. We are grateful you are here. Thank you so much for joining us. The Media Coverage of ebola creating unnecessary panic. More on ebola later in the show. And first lack of accountability and leadership in the country. It is for the gop to lose. Can the republicans still blow it. Well have more when we come back. applause elections are just over two weeks away and republicans are feeling optimistic they can take control of the senate. Can they screw things up . If so how . My next guest is a syndicated radio host of rules and patriots. Steve, great to have you here. Talk about what the gop needs to do and must do if they will move harry reid to the back of the room and end the roach motel where bills go in and never come out . It is a moment where if your opponent is making a fool of himself let him. If you listen to the show, you are seeing why the president s media and approval growned is 40 percent and that is doctoredful. And look at the fact six year itch election since world war ii, incumbept president s lost five senate. And throw in ebola and border and obama care and cancellation notices going out. And mike, i have low regard for the gop takenment and two shortest book french war heros and republican strat edgic. I want to believe it. But i want your take. One near to your heart iowa and full disclosure, i endorsed some of the candidates and campaign or have done so. Joany erntz. Versus bruce braley. Joni ernst going to win. It is hers to ruse. Mr. Bailey fired every bullet at joany. And iowans are waiting to see the sassy gal and the squeal castitration ads and came across too programmed but she went back to the off the cuff joni people loved in the primary and she blew mr. Bailey away. They have outspent her and outraised. I think it is all over but the shouting. And georgia david perdow against michelle dunn. This is a state bright red but why is this race in play . This would be political malpractice. Romney won it eight years ago and what david perdue is running a campaign and gives you what you like about mitt romney. It is it a listless campaign and that being said. A run offseason. I will be surprised if the republicans lose the race, but it is going down in a wire. My home state of arkansas. Tom cotton a person i will be campaigned for this week anything against mark pryer. Everybody thinks cotton will pull it off. But could mark pryer score the upset. No, mike. Only two incumbent septemberors poling 40 percent or lower held on to their seats. And tom cotton is doing everything that david perdow is not. He has drawn stark contrast. If i wanted to vote for democrat policy. Cotton has done a good job capitalizing on the environment and running as a conservative. That is all over but the shouting. Steve, your take on kentucky. Mitch mcconnell is close to alisyn grimes and shes imploding but not to the point of being out of the race. The kentucky race is similar to kansas. Both candidates are struggling to turn out the conservative base. But the democrats waved the white flag and a matter of mcconnells margin of victory. I endorsed mcconnell. But gosh, i hope he wins because it is it all about getting harry reid out of the way. Steve thank you. And coming up. Isis took over a town that is 25 miles from baghdad. And the fall of the iraqi capitol inevitable . Control. For all of your headlines go to fox news. Com. More u. S. Air strikes over the syrian town of kaboni. Isis forces are trying to take control of the town. The head of command said the air strikes are doing their job. We are noting changes in the enemys behavior and tactics of diminishedability and restricted freedom of movement. We are no longer seeing them move around the country if large convoys. In iraq isis forces are dangerously close to baghdad. My next guest was assigned there in 2003. General, welcome to the show. There are couple of spots. Kaboni and baghdad. If isis is able to take kaboni and baghdad, how big does that become for all of the area of iraq . Well, start with cabane. It is it a city that borders two countries as you pointed out. It would be huge in propaganda. Tactically i am not sure it is significant. It would be the first time that isis has taken over a large town that didnt have a friendly sunni arab population. And ron ganda and lesser tactical stand point can kobani is. Motorcycle, i dont think they can take baghdad. It is it a city of 7 or 8 Million People and nearly all shiite. And i dont so them able to overthrough. They can surround and keep the government from functioning properly and it would be huge propaganda. Sometimes i wonder if the government has ever functioned properly in baghdad. That is the problem with iraq. Human rights said they have three war planes they captured from the syrians. They are old war planes, but the pr disaster of them being able to sit in the cockpit and pretend they have an air force might help them in recruiting. Is that more dangerous, the recruiting factor or learning how to fly the things. The airplane is a complex machine and takes a huge maintenance package to keep it going and takes a lot of training to train them to fly one. And it is inconceivable we wouldnt know that and not see that and isr capabilities wouldnt pick it up. However, if they got it done and taught people it fly and had those, it would be a Propaganda Machine for them. And plus, it would be a threat of them making those suicide planes to do an attack against the ambassador and parlimit. General, what is hard to understand is turkeys role. They have sat it out and iowa sis forces are all over the boarder and they have a the lot to lose. And they are a member of nato and they have done absolutely nothing. What is the story . I think you can put right now the turks and the arab sunni countries in the same box. They both have the same goals. Number one, they want to eliminate the shia, iranian influence in arab iraq and syria and lebanon. And they want to throw the government out and baghdad out of shiite control. And the turks also want to diminish or get rid of the syrian kurds and the turkish kurds. If i was the president. I would say our policy is to guarantee the survival of the iraqi kurd and they are pro u. S. And they are a location and well grpt their survival. We lost 5000 soldiers and if you arabs, you turks and you rieshgs rans feel threatened by isis you get in and clean it up. Well take care of the iraqi kurds. That is a win and anything else is a lose. I love having you on. You are a straight talking guy. Great to have you back, thanks for joining us. Thank you, governor, god bless you. Thank you. I would like for you to be my facebook friend and follow me on twitter. You can get the news on happening now and the daily commentary the huckabee report. And links to all of that at mikehuckabee. Com. Sign the petition standing with the houston pastors in i stand for free speech. Com. The the Media Coverage of ebola overblown and the uplifting story of a blind teenager who would not let his disability stop him from playing football. Go to the left. No, red. Shes a couple of westbounds ago, i opened the door by saying we cant trust the government to protect us with ebola. I said if they want to come to the u. S. They can go to mexico and walk right in. Heres an example from meet the press. Oh, my god ebola can across the border. It is irresponsible. I would say it is wrong. Nfast forward a couple of weeks with what we know now. Were my comments all that far off. Joining me is betsy. Glad to be back. On such an important issue. They beat people like me up for saying our borders are not secower and we dont know what is coming in, if not ebola maybe something else. People with the elite hold us all in contempt for thinking of common sense ways. Is it wrong for us to be concerned . Of course, we should be concerned and preventing a large outbreak of disease is much more important than just predicting it. And that is why, i am calling for a travel ban as so many others are. But to the fundmental question could americans die from ebola and if so how many . That will depend on what hospitals do when infected travellers from africa go to hospitals seeking care and i can tell you, i have spent a decade in hospitals advocating for patient safety. Our hospitals cant stop ebola. If they cant stop ebola and c devand killing 75000 people a year cant stop ebola, am i right . They know about the hospital infection. And treating an ebola patient is so dangerous that one misstep can kill you. 277 doctors and nurses died treating ebola patients. We are told more people die from the flu every year. And statistically that is true. Is it unnecessary panic or is the news media fanning the flames of the unjustified fear . It is not unjustified. The point is, we can prevent it with a travel ban. I wish we could prevent our children from getting deadly diseases including the current enter ovirus by closing our borders, we cant. But in this case we can contain a disease that is in africa and doing so is a responsible not only to our own country but the third world count rows make sure it doesnt have go to india or china. But we in our own Health Care Worker ares. I dont believe that doctors and nurses should face the risk of removing the protective gear perfectly knowing one misstep could kill them. We all make mistakes. I offer prayers for the nurses. And they put their jobs on the line. They have no idea what is coming to the emergency room and they go out there. And we need to be grateful for are the doctors and nurses on the front line and my heart breaks for the two young women and we need to pray for them. And protect them with a travel ban. And coming up. The man whose true life story about a blind teenager who was a star player on the High School Football team. A single ember that escapes from a wildfire can travel more than a mile. That single ember can ignite and destroy your home or even your community you cant control where that ember will land only what happens when it does get fire adapted now at fireadapted. Org im just looking over the company bills. Up . Is that what we pay for internet . Yup. Dsl is about 90 bucks a month. Thats funny, for that price with comcast business, i think you get like 50 megabits. Wow thats fast. Personally, i prefer a slow internet. There is something about the sweet meditative glow of a loading website. Dont listen to the naysayer. Switch to comcast Business Today and get 50 megabits per second for 89. 95. Comcast business. Built for business. Wanting to play High School Football. Thats what Travis Freeman wanted. His dream was nearly crushed when he suddenly lost his sight. Mom, travis. I cant so you. Honey, listen, the doctor explained to us. Dad . I am here. Travis. Explain what . Dad . Youre blind, son. With support of his family and his friends, travis fulfilled his dream to play High School Football. His story has inspired the new movie. Travis free man and the films director who also plays travis father is with me now. Great to be on. I want to tell you right off the bat, this film inspired me. I loved it. Its so optimistic and hopeful and a story that if you had written this as fiction, nobody would have believed this. I think thats true. Thats exactly right. Most people dont believe it and it really did happen. I wasnt good enough to play High School Football with eyesight. So the fact that you were able to do this after the infection took your sight. First of all, i want to talk about your coach, your hero in life. Your mom thought you could be a manager on the team after you lost your sight, help out. What did he say to you . Well, he looked at my mom and said no and just let it hang there for a second. She was kind of like, okay, and then he said, travis free man does anything for this team, hes going to play. Ill figure out how hes going to do it. Hell be the center and line him up over the ball and tell him where his man is and once he makes contact with his opponent, it will be like anyone else. When he said youre going to be on the team, youre going to line up there with the ball, were you skeptical that you could pull this off . Never. I was at home on the football field. It wasnt that i was doing anything special or great or worthy of a movie. I was just trying to do whatever other boy wanted to do and that was play football. And i was there and i didnt want to be treated any differently. The coach yelled at me like he did everyone else. And it was just right. You know, when i think about the challenges you must have faced, did the other teammates, were they afraid that you might get hurt or something might happen because of the blindness . I had great teammates and they were all supportive. They were all for it and they all saw that the coach wasnt going to treat me any differently so they didnt treat me any differently. The people of corbin supported me playing. It was a great experience. Dylan, youre a great face and youre the director of the film. What drew you to this particular story . You said this ought to be on the big screen . Well, as soon as i read the script that my son tony hoover had written, i was automatically thats a great story. Its going to be a wonderful film, its going to be a great thing. And then i met travis, i met his parents and we got to go to the town of corbin. In kentucky . Yes. And met the coach and patty wheatly, travis mobility coach, talked to the parents about how things had happened and i just saw this as an amazing story, so inspirational. When you actually got to meet travis, did the story take on a bigger meaning to you . Now you know this incredible saga of a young man who played High School Football blind. Well, you know, and its interesting. Its like what travis says. Theres a part of me that wants to say its an amazing thing that happened but i knew that travis and Larry Freeman, they were going to be in corbin and this film was going to influence what people thought about them. So let me tell you, thats a big responsibility. You want to get it right. You have to deal with people after they leave. Thats right. By the way, mary and Larry Freeman are in the audience, the parents of Travis Freeman. Were delighted to have them here with us. And travis book, a wonderful inspirational book, is also going to be available. All of our audience member also go home with a copy of Travis Freemans book. If you could only see one film between now and the end of the year, go see this magnificent story. You need the encouragement and the uplifting and 23 blasts will give you a wonderful, good feeling as you leave the theater. Dylan, it was great having you here. Travis, what a blessing your story is. Great having you here. Great to be with you. [ applause ] well, coming up, the local subpoena of pastor whoa, dude you thinkin what im thinkin . Yeah we love to work at nothin all day and weve been taking care of business its all right whew taking care of business, saved the day one of the reasons the houston mayor feels she can roll over on the Faith Community is because many dont know americas true history. I have watched learn our history a dvd series to teach children history. You can get a free copy of the story at freegoddvd. Com. Well, the Huckabee Facebook page has exploded with the speeches of Church Pastors. Judy moss says this. Omg this is ludicrous. No, Church Pastors should not give their sermons to the government. And this is from barbara. I agree. I live in houston. Signed the petition. This is atrocious. And pastor ronald drij says she could listen to about any of my sermons in the past six years and come after me. And gee, mayor, you really want to hear a sermon . I am sure many charges will tell you what time the services start. And where are we meeting . Im going to be joining in a special rally in houston on sunday night, november 2nd. It will be to stand with the houston five. Those pastors targeted by the mayor. If youd like more information, be sure and go to istandsunday. Com. Phil robertson will be with us that night. We hope youll join us. Dont forget to set your dvr every saturday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Thats it for now. Good night and god bless and stay tuned for justice with judge jeanine. On buzz beater this sunday the ebola news gets worse, the coverage turns more alarming and the media plunge into that pathetic beltway ritual the blame game. The president should be cautious, safety first. But were doing Political Correctness first. I think this is mass incompetence and arrogance. Its a pattern with this administration. Dont worry, its not as bad as it looks. Do not listen to the hysterical voices on radio or television. The people who say and write hysterical thing are being very irresponsible. Is shep right