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Earthly good. may the tirades of majorities or minorities be equally impotent to sway our lawmakers from doing what is best for america. >> that was senate chaplain barry black, not mincing words while giving the opening prayer on the senate floor over the past few days. hes been admonishing members every day since the shutdown. he said when the military cant pay death benefits to troops killed in action, enough is enough. barry black joins me now. sir, it is nice to have you on today. as we wer...

Members of congress. does it seem that the stubbornness is not going away? >> well, im very optimistic. i believe that my responsibility is to plant seeds and to water them. when you plant seeds and you water them, you depend upon the super natural movement of nature to bring the harvest. you dont go out checking to see if anything is pushed through the soil day after day after day. you trust the law of sowing and reaping seed time and harvest. so i am convinced that my labors, my prayers, my in...

Just keep your elbows in a little more. you think this will catch on? maybe a little. [ male announcer ] want to win your own football fantasy? just tell us, then use your visa card for a chance to win it. have mercy upon us, o god, and save us from the madness. >> thats the chaplain of the senate admonishing members of congress even as he says that prayer opens the chamber for business. on a regular basis. im going to talk with him about whether he thinks prayer can help at this point. and ...

Down the difference drawn over the year between spending, which it says you cant limit and contributions which it says you can limit. its doubtful the court will go that far but may allow a little more money in politics for people who want to give a lot of it. the prayer case involves opening a town board meeting in new york with prayer. what if the prayer is almost exclusively christian? is that a government endorsement of religion. the supreme court said in 1983 there was nothing wrong with ne...

Ultrasounds and other prenatal services from the staff obstetrician at the prison infirmary. >> i go to the doctor every friday. he does the test. i get to hear the babys heartbeat. ive already had one ultrasound since ive been here and ive only been here for six weeks. >> so ill see you back in about a week. >> okay. >> okay, good. everythings going fine. >> mincy will soon face a tough decision, deciding who will raise her baby. she says the babys father is currently a fugitive. so like many o...

>> thats where were going to go next. what sort of broader implications will this have for the rest of the country? >> if the supreme court were to say no public prayer whatsoever? why do we have in god we trust on our money, on our dollar bill? why do we have a chaplain for congress? why is it that in a public high school in a small town in kansas they can say a prayer before a football game? this gets right down to the core belief that weve had for all these years in the united states of ameri...

Winning. the democrats arent winning, either. none of you, not one of you is winning and we are all losing. i cant help but wonder, are all the politicians too angry to listen to the senate chaplain who offered some wise advice in a prayer this week. here it is. >> deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting to sound reasonable while being unreasonable. remove the burdens of those who are the collateral damage of this government shutdown. >> and i will add to that, heaven help us, amen. thats to...

>> let us pray. have mercy upon us, o god, and save us from the madness. >> good save us from the madness. one of the most resonant poetic ways to track the madness of our federal government shuttledown -- shutdown is to follow where we are, by following prayers of the senate chapman. barry black, a retired rear admiral in the navy, head chaplain for the navy when heap heap -- he retired in 2003. he was named chaplain. he was chaplain for ten years. on this past week on the occasion of the gover...

But its time now to clear the air. and as weve been reporting, this shutdown is no trifling matter. its not a pinprick. its not even as senator ted cruz has suggested, just like a weekend, when some government facilities are closed. for millions of americans, this is going to prove catastrophic. and if mr. cruz and his kamikaze caucus wont listen to fellow lawmakers, then maybe hell pay attention to the senate chaplain. because heres how he led prayers on monday, just hours before the shutdown. ...

Catastrophic consequences is for good people to do nothing. >> sadly, that prayer was not answered. instead, the unintended catastrophic circumstances are now piling up. for children who are awaiting cancer treatment, to those elderly folk whose meals on wheels have already been slashed because of the sequester, this shutdown isnt just another political fight. it may actually be the difference between life and death. and so after the chaplains first prayer wasnt answered, he got up again on tues...