The CBN News Daily Rundown - Audio Podcast

The Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting is heading into day two, ready to tackle more tough issues. Front and center on this years agenda is the issue of sexual abuse. Reporter Heather Sells has been covering sexual abuse within the church for nearly a decade, she says all faiths must begin holding abusers accountable and make the church a place where victims feel safe. She's on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

New Yorkers had a scare Monday after a helicopter crashed into a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. Investigators say there's no evidence of terrorism but they are trying to figure out why the pilot was flying in restricted airspace. The crash site is only one block from where CBN videographer Richey Boyd is staying while in the city for a news shoot. Richey is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

The press is called the Fourth Estate. That term refers to the power of the press to frame political issues. Radio and TV host Mark Levin believes the American press has squandered the faith and trust of the American public by abandoning objective, truthful journalism. Chief political analyst David Brody recently spoke with Levin about his new book, "Unfreedom of the Press." David is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

"If you do anything to make it easier for these people you are encouraging more people to make that trek and you're actually putting more people at risk," CBN contributor Chuck Holton said of the moral dilemma faced by border patrol and aid groups as they figure out what to do with migrants headed towards the US/Mexico border. On today's CBN News Daily Rundown, Holton talks about the route migrants are taking to get to Mexico and the challenge it's been for the countries along the way.

It may be one of the most heard prayers in all of history, FDR's D-Day prayer. Listen to it on today's CBN News Daily Rundown and hear from reporter Paul Strand who's been covering efforts to have a plaque with that prayer placed on the WWII memorial in Washington, D.C.

Virginia Beach City employees returned to work Tuesday, less than 72 hours after the shooting that took the lives of 12 of their co-workers. Prayer gatherings remain a constant sight at the Municipal Center as people visit the makeshift memorial set up to remember the victims. Videographer Jason Gill was at the memorial Tuesday afternoon getting footage for CBN. For him, this assignment was personal.

How did a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience end up as president of the United States? In his new book, A Case For Trump, author, and historian Victor Davis Hanson offers a unique perspective into President Trump and why America needs him now more than ever. Senior Washington correspondent Paul Strand sat down with Hanson to talk about how he came to these conclusions, Strand is on today's CBN News Daily Rundown.

Over the weekend the CBN News team covered a mass shooting that happened in our own backyard. A gunman opened fire in one of the Virginia Beach municipal buildings Friday afternoon, killing 12 people. Reporter Heather Sells spent the weekend covering the community response and she says that it's not the evil she'll remember, but the overwhelming kindness she's seen as people care for the survivors of the shooting and for the friends and families of the victims.

“No matter the political climate, no matter what restrictions are put on free speech, they wanted to have a payment system that would be free of any type of discrimination for conservatives,” said Jennifer Wishon on today’s CBN News Daily Rundown. She’s talking about a new third-party platform called One Four All, created to help people easily donate to Republican candidates on the federal level. It launches on Saturday and you can hear about it first on today's episode.

We finally hear from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. What does his final statement mean for the president, Congress, and the 2020 presidential race? Plus presidential hopefuls prep for the first debate of the primary season. What can we expect when more than a dozen candidates go head to head? Chief Political Analyst David Brody breaks it all down today on the CBN News Daily Rundown.