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Fully embrace our values of personal and religious liberty and reject oppression or discrimination. the president also committed to getting rid of the johnson amendment. in a particular poignant moment the president recalled yesterday his visit to dover air force base to join the family of chief ryan owens as americas fallen hero was returned home. as an honor for giving his life, he president john 15:13. greater love have a man than this than a man who laid down his life to protect. after that,...

Values of religious liberty. the president also committed to get rid of the johnson amendment and allow representatives of faith to speak freely and without retribution. in a particular poignant moment in his remarks the president recalled yesterday his visit to doercher air force base to join the family of chief owens. after giving his life in defense of the american people. the president quoted john 15:13. a greater man had no love than this than to lay down his life for this. he returned to h...

Liberty and reject any form of oppression or to scream and nation. the president also committed to get rid of the johnson amendment and allowing our representatives of faith to speak freely and without retribution. in particular, in a multipoint moment during his remarks, the president recalled yesterdays visit to dover air force base to join a family of chief ryan owens as americas fallen hero was returned. after honoring chief owens for giving his life in defense of the american people, the pr...

Ways. and ive never seen it so much and so openly as since i took the position of president. >> shannon: the president focusing on one threat in particular in his speech at the national prayer breakfast. terrorists are attacking religious freedoms around the globe. his message is a hopeful one focusing on changing the world for the better. lets bring in tony perkins. i believe you were at the breakfast this morning. your reaction to the presidents remarks. >> i thought it was outstanding. the pr...

Take campaign promises. one of them has to do with the so-called johnson amendment which prevents church from being involved in political activity. do you anticipate he going to try to wipe away the johnson law? >> it sounds like thats where he wants to go. there are a lot of unanswered questions about what this means. the johnson is named after lyndon b. johnson. its not year clear whether president trump want to eliminate the application of the johnson amendment to religious institution or chu...

The white evangelical vote than mitt romney did four years ago or mccain before him or even george w. bush in 2004. how do you explain that? >> well, he made it very clear who his supreme court picks would be if he was elected. i think that was a big factor. some of the social conservatives on the platform committee, the republican national committee convention told me that not since 2004 has any republican candidate allowed them to set the platform without interference. but donald trump was the...

The white evangelical vote than mitt romney did four years ago or mccain before him or even george w. bush in 2004. how do you explain that? >> well, he made it very clear who his supreme court picks would be if he was elected. i think that was a big factor. some of the social conservatives on the platform committee, the republican national committee convention told me that not since 2004 has any republican candidate allowed them to set the platform without interference. but donald trump was the...

The white evangelical vote than mitt romney did four years ago or mccain before him or even george w. bush in 2004. how do you explain that? >> well, he made it very clear who his supreme court picks would be if he was elected. i think that was a big factor. some of the social conservatives on the platform committee, the republican national committee convention told me that not since 2004 has any republican candidate allowed them to set the platform without interference. but donald trump was the...

If im elected president, we are going to drain the swamp in washington, d.c. in the contract i put forward a tough new ethics reform that will put the people back in charge of our government. were going to renegotiate our terrible, and i mean terrible, trade deals, end illegal immigration, stop the massive inflow of refugees, reduce surging crime, cut taxes big league, cut regulations even bigger league, unleash job-producing american energy, cherish and defend faith and religious liberty -- and...

Because they know all about that because the last time i checked, jesus came down to this world and gave grace to all of us if we accept it. >> david, its nick confessore. yesterday, we saw jerry falwell jr. said that you dont have to share someones values to vote for them. i wonder if thats an argument that will have a lot of water with evangelical voters. >> yeah, i mean, i think so. and i think once again, if you look at the kind of totality of all this, you know, donald trump talks about rep...