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You want to know something great
about your country?

- Yep.
- Yeah.

All of the kings love Jesus.

And even your future king.

- Did you know that?
- No.

Some kings in some countries
are bad kings,

but in Norway, the kings are very good.

- Yeah!
- Right?

What's your name?

I'm, uh... I'm just a friend from America.

Okay, but what's your name?

You've traveled quite a bit with Doug.

You've seen what he's talking about.

Jesus is...

- the best diplomat ever.
- Right.

One of the first things I learned

on the first trip I went with Doug was,
when you raise the name of Jesus,

when you put the name of Jesus
into the conversation,

all you have to do is mention the name.

- Really?
- Yeah.

God, Jesus, The Messiah.

I cannot think of a king or leader
that we refused to meet with.

Bob, you were mentioning,
even with dictators.

Well, the scripture says,
"If I be lifted up,

I'll draw all men unto me."

And so, if we focus on the things
that divide us,

then it will.

If we focus on him,
he draws people together.

When the little group in Japan

and the little group in Nepal...

There's a group of the top people
of Bangladesh, all Muslims,

studying the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

From a Muslim follower of Jesus...

to an Evangelical from Alabama.

It didn't matter
if they were on the terrorist list,

it didn't matter what their life was.

If they had had a conversation with Doug
around the person of Jesus,

Doug wanted you.

They built this tremendous access

to nearly every government on Earth.

The question then becomes
what do you do with it, right?

Come. All worry will be left behind.

All disappointment, too,
will be gone forever.

We adopted a program
for a worldwide spiritual offensive.

I know, as never before,

that we are all God's children.

There is only one thing
we can take with us through that door:

those whom we have led to the savior.

"Fear him. Love him.
Submit yourself completely.

Then you will be his disciple."

What we have begun...
we will finish.

People say,
"What does the Family wanna do?"

I say the question is,
"What have they done?"

They moved overseas.

It's documented in the archives.

They moved from the state level

to the national level,

and very quickly moved
to the international level.

This was a group
with tentacles around the world.

And the travel records
were really important to show

who was spreading the word
internationally.

By using the records,

I was able to come up with a list
of a core group of members of Congress

who were tied
to the Fellowship Foundation.

They claimed their mission
was to help everyone

by changing the world
through spreading the name of Jesus.

But I wanted to know, was this just about

spreading their worldview,

making sure that the world believed
the way they believed?

Acts 2:42 says you get together
on a regular basis, we say weekly.

And we do four things: we eat together,
pray together, fellowship together,

and talk about
the precepts of Jesus together.

...open hearts to God...

The prayer breakfasts
are absolutely central

to the mission of being Christ-bearer
to the world.

...the president of Uganda.

But legislation is not their battlefield.

The prayer groups take no action as such.

But out of them, action grows.

We hold their hands, we pray with them,

then we send them out a world
that's more dangerous and evil by the day.

Our children are growing up in a world
where Christians are being persecuted

and radical Islam is on the attack.

I'm Robert Aderholt. The enemies
of freedom must be confronted.

Evil must be defeated.

Robert Aderholt,

a very fiercely
conservative representative,

travels to Romania,

paid for by the Family.

Robert Aderholt.

Aderholt, not a big name in US politics,

although he's been playing a part
in the Family for years.

But, in Romania, he is a big man.

Romania, Albania, Montenegro.

The Family focus on these little places
that no one else is paying attention to.

And they recognize that they can have
wildly outsized influence.

In Romania,
people are voting on the change

of the constitutional definition
of "marriage"

to a union between "a man and a woman,"
rather than "spouses."

It all began
when an umbrella civil society group

called Coalition for the Family
started a petition

that three million Romanians signed.

How are you feeling about the referendum?

Scared.

Scared. We are scared like hell.

- Mmm, I'm more angry than scared.
- I am scared.

I can feel the hate walking on the street.

I can see the look of the people.

They are watching me like never.

So...

once again,

what are we celebrating

on October 6 and 7?

The referendum to define family.

I have to take this call.

Yes, my dears.

Hello?

Yes. So, for the past three years

and especially during
this electoral campaign,

what we've seen is an increase
in hate speech against LGBT people

and also an increase in violence
against LGBT people.

We have had more cases of violence
in the past three years than before.

And also, like, we have politicians,
we have religious leaders

which are using hateful language
towards the LGBT people.

For the past three years, a group
of conservative religious organizations,

they've been trying to change
the constitution

from families based on marriage
between spouses

to the families based on marriage
between one man and one woman.

Right now, we are heading
into a national referendum

to decide if the constitution
should or not be changed.

If this referendum passes, it will ban
gay marriages for the future in Romania.

In issues concerning gay rights,
concerning abortion rights,

in Eastern Europe what we've seen
is a stronger and stronger involvement

of the American religious right
into internal politics.

In the US, we see that 60% of people
support gay marriages.

- Love!
- Wins!

So, in the US, the battle against
gay marriage is a lost one.

Therefore, they move forward
to other countries

where they can influence policies
and politics.

They find fertile ground
for their ideology

and create these networks
with indigenous conservative movements.

They have a purpose now in their life:
to hate you as LGBT.

And it's sad.

We are not against them.

We are not against the people.
We are against the sin.

- Because it is a sin.
- Yeah.

It's not something normal.
So, this is what we don't want...

that will happen in Romania.

There are certain
Romanian parliamentarians

which belong to Evangelical churches,

such as Ben-Oni Ardelean.

He was supported
by certain religious groups

in order to advance their agenda.

These groups,

a tiny minority of society,
wish to practice their chosen lifestyle.

But I don't think they should impose on us
their legislative agenda,

or their personal agendas,

to the detriment of 99% of Romanians.

The first person to be connected
with the Fellowship was

my former pastor where I grew up
from the small city in Haţeg.

He formed the first prayer group
on the model of the Fellowship from US.

The danger of losing
our Christian identity,

as followers of Jesus
or other Evangelical groups,

is an ever-present danger.

He started that group
and had these annual meetings.

And after a few years, I was introduced
to the Fellowship in the US.

I think it's a very good concept

that Jesus could be a model of leadership,
could be a model of faith.

And it's a network that, uh,
creates friendship.

A major project for us
is religious diplomacy.

This project is coordinated by some
individuals in Washington D.C.

Congressman Aderholt
is a very dear friend, and...

many of the people from the US Congress,
they are my very good friends,

or from other parliaments
around the world.

It's very important for everyone
in the network

to know that we have friends everywhere.

We consult each other on different issues,

and we try to help each other
to protect the Family.

To try to promote
a better way of living life,

uh, in the name of Jesus.

Imagine your wedding.

You're in love.

You want to be with the person you love.

Now, imagine a powerful international
organization says, "I wanna...

I wanna stop that guy
from getting married."

The fight they couldn't win here,
maybe they can win there.

And this has happened all over the world.

But at least Romania's not genocidal
in this score

compared to what's happened in Uganda.

I've read a comment from you

that you would like to kill
every last gay person.

Did you actually say that,
and would you like that?

People keep on... uh...

misquoting me about this issue.

We have proposed the death penalty
in this bill.

But actually,
we can rehabilitate these people

and then they come back to normality.

That's the path that
we'd be very much interested in.

There are a lot of people involved
in the Fellowship who have

views on gay rights and other things.

But I've never heard any debate
about family values internally.

There's certainly no kind of push
in any direction.

The only time we ever took a position
on a legislation

was when we were accused of...

of creating a bill in Uganda to...
that would,

quote, unquote, "kill the gays."

And that was only in reaction to us
being accused of...

of being involved in it, which we weren't.

My work with the Fellowship in Africa
started 40 years ago,

when I went and met with Doug Coe.

He said, "I find it very important

to have something you're praying for
bigger than yourself.

If something good happens,
you know you can't take the credit.

That kind of a prayer.

For example, you could pray
for Arlington, Virginia, where you live.

You could pray for DC,
there's lots of issues there.

You could pick a country, like Brazil,"
I remember he said.

"Or you could even pray bigger than that.

You could pray for a continent,
like Africa."

We had no idea about Africa.

We tried to figure out
which country should we pray for,

and we settled on Uganda
because of Idi Amin.

It was going on right then,
and it was on the news all the time.

General Amin announced himself
as the "Black Hitler."

He said he was happy with the title

because it meant
he was a strong, tough man.

I suggested that we really pray
that we meet somebody from Uganda.

And we got out the map, and I said,
"All right, the star is on Kampala,

that's the capital. Let's pray
we meet somebody from Kampala."

And about two weeks later,
three weeks later,

we met a missionary nurse from Kampala

that worked at Mengo Hospital.
And when we made our first trip,

that's where we went.
We went to Mengo Hospital.

After that, we created
Friends of Mengo Hospital USA,

which has raised millions and millions
of dollars of equipment and drugs,

has built a dental clinic,
a place for prayer.

All that has come out of that meeting.

That meeting.
And so that was the start.

At the time, in Uganda,

Museveni came in,
and I built a relationship with him.

And Museveni opened up
the whole continent for me.

I worked through him to get the first
National Prayer Breakfast in Uganda.

And, at the time,
he was a pretty good guy.

And I helped him a little bit, you know,
meet people in Washington.

I thought he could have been
a Mandela-type character

if he had stepped back and started
to focus on maybe peace.

But, rather than that,

I thought he diminished himself greatly.

Do you personally dislike homosexuals?

Of course, they are disgusting.

What sort of people are they?
How can you go, uh...

I don't...
I never knew what they were doing.

That's all...
I've been told recently that...

what they do is terrible. Disgusting.

In 2009,

I'd become involved in following
the anti-homosexuality bill,

which was introduced in Uganda.

It was a bill
that would have made homosexuality

a capital offense in some cases.

And the American members,
for the most part,

they found that appalling.

One of the things that I got to do

was interview Doug Coe
at the National Prayer Breakfast.

I think my access to Doug Coe
was specifically so he could tell me

that he opposed the Ugandan bill.

But when I visited the African suite,

I was struck by

how calmly they were discussing

getting rid of homosexuals.

This man was accused of being gay.

He was beaten to death by a mob.

Others have been rounded up by police
and arrested.

I wondered,
"Aren't these God's children?

Aren't they all in the image of God?"

And they seemed to discount that

and suggest that because these people
were causing trouble in their society,

what's good for the society
was that they not be there.

So I said, "American
Fellowship members are saying

that this bill does not square
with the teachings of Jesus."

And they felt that the Americans
were being soft,

that they were unable to say
what they really felt.

But Ugandans wanted to be God's country

and apply God's word

to every aspect of life.

The Fellowship couldn't make them
withdraw that bill...

but I thought could say, "Well, they're
no longer part of the Fellowship."

But there was reluctance to even say that.

There's a level of deniability to it.

The Kill the Gays bill,
the Family didn't write it.

So, when that becomes too hot,
they can back away from it really quickly

and say, "We had nothing to do with that."

Remember what the Family always says:

that the core idea, Jesus Plus Nothing,

is the insistence that it is so simple.

Just Jesus, that's all. Just Jesus.
Nothing...

nothing but Jesus.

You gotta see this.

Uh, this is the headline
on Senator Inhofe's trip to Africa.

"Inhofe's trips to Africa
called a 'Jesus thing.'"

Now, if you reacted to that the way I did,
you're saying,

"Praise God! That's wonderful!"

But that's not what the editors
of this newspaper thought,

and yet, you got an overwhelmingly
positive response from this.

You don't get anything worse than this.
That's front page, above the fold.

And it goes on to say they think
I'm using public funds for doing this.

Well, we're not.

Because there are other things
we do in Africa.

I'm on the Armed Services Committee.
We're helping them build their brigades

and all this type of thing.
But we do it through the love of Jesus.

When these guys would go out
as missionaries for the Family,

they're exporting Abraham's idea.

That who God cares about most
is not the everyday people,

not the people who need the wells
and the orphanages.

God cares most about the elites.

People like Senator Jim Inhofe,

who runs on a campaign promise
of what he calls the "Three G's."

God, Gays, and Guns.

And they would say that Inhofe

brought 200 African kings
into relationship with Christ.

A guy named Doug Coe,
he talked me into going to Africa.

Coe says, "Why am I sending you, Jim?

'Cause you're gonna get in to see kings."

You know, I've had the honor
of visiting, uh, Africa

I think more than anyone in the history
of the United States Senate.

I just got back
from my 161st African country visit.

I call it
the political philosophy of Jesus.

And it's all scripturally based,
Uh, Acts 9:15, you know,

"Take my name, Jesus, to the Kings."

And, of course, if you're a member
of the United State Senate in Africa,

they think you're important,
so you always get in to see the kings.

You're a great leader for that...
introducing that country,

to that continent, to us,
and I appreciate very much

the time you've spent with me
when I've gone.

- That's nice of you. Thank you.
- Thank you.

Inhofe is particularly proud
of that access,

oftentimes on the taxpayer dime,

traveling as ambassadors for Christ.

That is to say, using elected office
to gain access

and to shape the policy
and fates of millions.

But Inhofe says,

"I just do my Jesus thing."

By building relationships with dictators

who are some of the worst
authoritarian leaders in history.

It remains the worst
terrorist crime in British history.

...terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103,

killing 270 people.

There's never been much doubt

that it was an act
of state-sponsored terrorism,

and that men with blood on their hands
are still at large.

Time and again, a trial over
the Lockerbie tragedy does seem close,

but still the two Libyan suspects
have not appeared in a Western court.

I condemn America,

Imperialist America,
who tries to rule the world.

We engaged Gadhafi

in the late '90s and early 2000s.

Muammar Gadhafi's regime,

quite successfully
to a rapprochement with the West.

At that time,
Gadhafi was disdained by the West.

Gadhafi was blamed for housing two Libyans

who were accused of blowing up
a Pan Am jet

over Lockerbie, Scotland.
It killed 270 people.

And he refused to turn them over.

Gadhafi was also supporting
weapons of mass destruction.

He was a horrible character.

So, one would ask, "Why in the world

would you wanna go see him?"

The answer is,
"Why in the world wouldn't we?"

♪ Let's all join together ♪

♪ And stand for what is right ♪

♪ There's no place like America ♪

Congressman Siljander,
leadership that's working.

I was elected
to the US Congress in my 20s,

and as soon as I got to Washington,
Newt Gingrich and I,

we plotted and planned
to take over the House.

We'd talk of mobilizing Christians

and creating what we call "wedge issues."

Abortion, tax reform,
foreign policy, gun control.

And we wanted to wedge and divide people,

put those that are pro-Republican
and conservative on our side,

and get enough of them with enough wedges
and turn them out to vote.

However, we were so eager to take power,

it's like spirituality became

a side anecdote to the process.

After spending three terms in Congress,
I lost my fourth term.

And that's when I started engaging
radicals, combatants,

certain regimes

with a spiritual approach.

The Holy Spirit come now.

Encouragement in the minds...

...blessing in the heart.

I speak a blessing.

God, Jesus, the Messiah.

- Amen.
- Amen!

According to the Bible,

the Apostle Paul and his teachings,

Paul was called by Jesus
to carry his name to the kings.

So, the kings are leaders of today,
the presidents, prime ministers.

Some are kings.

Still the title.

So, we're simply engaging
in Paul's calling to the leaders.

In my job, I go and speak to groups
of people here and abroad

about how to make peace or seek justice

for those who are suffering
under dictators.

To try to stop the starvation,
displacement, and suffering to begin with.

We simply present ourselves
as struggling followers of Jesus,

trying to embrace
and fulfill his commission

to try to reconcile and make peace.

You say that something changed
when we had our meeting.

Now, we're just men.

We can't change anything.
What do you think happened?

I think it's God.

It's not politics.

It's not prestige.

It's not good looks.

It's the power of God.

Doug Coe said, "You should devote
your whole life to this.

What could be more exciting?"
I said, "You know, you're right."

Jesus said when he left, he'd send back
the Holy Spirit to teach us.

- Mmm.
- What he said...

All that's recorded of what he said,

what he did,
and how he thought is in this.

Jesus Christ is the center of history.

Fills the entire horizon of the past,
the present, and the future.

- So, that's him.
- Thank you.

- Okay?
- Thank you.

- Great. Okay.
- Thank you.

I met Doug Coe for the first time in 1994.

We will continue to be supportive of you
and the work that you're doing for Christ,

but we want our Family to stay together.

I think those two hours I had with him

was a revolution for me. It was...

the biggest change in my life.

He said, "I want to ask you
to do one thing:

forget everything that you have learned
about Christianity.

Jesus didn't come for the pure.

He came for healing the sick."

And therefore,
Doug found it always inspiring

to be with people with big problems.

I know some people were concerned
about people he met with.

So, sometimes he would get...

"But this person is being investigated
by the FBI for big crimes,

or there are these stories
or these stories."

And then his response would be,
"Well, the bigger crook, the better."

That doesn't mean that he will support
the wrongdoing,

but he will be there for every person
and see the potential in every person.

He would see a diamond in every person.

Many people would feel that is love.

The Family has always worked
with bad men, bad people.

And that idea goes back to the founder,
Abraham Vereide.

Abraham was not a fascist,

but he was fascinated by the Nazis

and by how they built power,
and he wanted to work with them.

He would say,
"What if we had that strength?

The strength of Himmler and Goebbels,
his brothers bound together?

A small group of men in Bavaria
got together and look what they did.

What if we could do that for Jesus?"

He was commissioned
by the State Department

to go among the post-war prisons in which

the United States was holding
the high Nazi war criminals

and seek out men who could be changed
and used for the good work,

who would switch out the Fuhrer
for the Father.

Heil Hitler!

Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!

Abraham went to bat for a man
named Von Neurath,

who was one
of the really senior war criminals.

Von Neurath in prison
wasn't getting proper dental care,

and Abraham moved the powers that be
to arrange this.

He helped a man named Gedat,
who became this key leader

and frequently traveled
to the United States,

became a spiritual adviser to congressmen.

We go back in his record and he says,

"God has ordered us
to hunt down the Jews."

And to great ends, then he went

to wash clean the records
of these Nazi war criminals.

And Vereide constantly emphasized this.

The bigger the monster,

the greater the work of God we're doing.

If you're a Nazi and I forgive you,

ah, God's grace is flowing through me.

Forgiving and forgetting,
not holding accountable.

And this becomes the model
for what would become

theirsort of official slogan,
"A Worldwide Spiritual Offensive."

Recruiting key men
into a veritable underground

of God's men all through government.

Diplomats scoff...

to think that you're gonna waltz in there,

have a little "Kumbaya" prayer time

with these horri... some of these
despot leaders like Gadhafi, Sadam,

uh, Bashir, and other regimes.

I cannot tell you how many
State Department officials over the years

would sit down or call me
and tell me that... "You're a naive fool.

They're gonna use you
and embarrass the United States."

The trip to see Gadhafi was inspired
by the president of Benin.

The president calls Gadhafi.
Gadhafi sends his plane.

My friend and I were on the plane.
I'd rather not say who, but...

Well, you say it in the book.

Well, I only call him by his first name.

All right, Doug. Doug Coe.

All right, so, as Doug Coe and I
get on the airplane,

and we travel hours to Tripoli.

And then Gadhafi was furious,
so he wouldn't see us.

So, we were called
to go see the foreign minister.

The foreign minister was so angry

and he started yelling, "Why are you here?
What do you want from us?

Why didn't the president of Benin come?
Why isn't he here?"

Because here's a former congressman
and Doug, whom they didn't know at all.

And so, I knew we were in trouble, really.

And, by the way,
we had to go without a passport,

we couldn't buy a ticket,
we couldn't spend any money,

and couldn't receive a visa,
'cause it was illegal under US law.

So, no one knew we were there.
There's no evidence anywhere.

And I was just sort of praying
while he was yelling at us,

and it just occurred to me,

humility...

will work.

So, I said, "Excuse me, Your Excellency.

I was a congressman during the time

President Gadhafi's daughter
was killed by a US bomb."

We were attempting to kill him.

"Therefore, I have the spiritual authority
to ask for your forgiveness

as a nation for killing his daughter."

And immediately, he changed.

He spoke Arabic, snapped his fingers
and they rushed in, tea and sandwiches.

Filled the whole table.

This is amazing.
It was like a transformation.

So, he gets up while we're eating.
He had to call the president, Gadhafi.

He comes back,
and we get up to walk out,

we hug each other and we hold hands
and pray. Three of us.

And I could feel his hand trembling.

And he looked at me and said,
"I have authority to tell you

that you're gonna have good news
in ten days."

He hugged a second time, and we left.

Coe at that point

had amassed a significant amount
of power and influence, right?

And Gadhafi might say, "Look,
this is a good channel to work through."

But whether Gadhafi does a damn thing,

they get to go back and say,
"Yeah, we met Gadhafi."

You walked into a room
with somebody that half the planet

considers one of the most dangerous
men alive, and what did you do?

We just got down on our knees
and we prayed to Jesus.

The miracle stops right there

without people really thinking too deeply.

"No, but wait a minute.
What was the point of that meeting again?"

Ten days later, the two Libyans

were released to be tried
at the Netherlands.

And then the reconciliation began,
building US hotels and buying his oil.

He denounced weapons of mass destruction.

We didn't have, like, an agenda.

It was simply letting the Holy Spirit do
whatever the Holy Spirit will want to do.

"When you talk about setting up
meetings between political leaders

on senatorial junkets to Afghanistan,

where they can discuss
the political issues 'as brothers, '

if I were an Afghan, I would ask,
'Down what road am I being taken?

Are they using a religious gimmick
to get my government to adopt some laws?

Where does politics end
and religion begin?'"

The Family's foreign policy

is the insistence that it is so simple.

The insistence that it is so simple,

backed up by the power of American Empire.

When Senator Inhofe
and Congressman Siljander

meet with these world leaders,

they go...

as representatives

of the most powerful government
in the world,

maybe in human history.

And they like to pretend,
"I'm just a guy.

I don't know why the president
of this nation agreed to meet me.

I'm just a guy
talking about my Jesus thing.

I don't know why they had
a military parade to greet me.

Who knows?"

General Sani Abacha.
For five years he ruled Nigeria

in the most ruthless regime
in the country's history.

Notoriously, he had jailed
and executed his opponents,

including human rights activist
Ken Saro-Wiwa.

But most of all, he looted the country.

The first one we went to

was a guy that our State Department

thought was the worst terrorist
in the world.

His name is Sani Abacha from Nigeria.

We went in there and... and just...
not really knowing what we were doing.

Inhofe travels to Africa

and he sees General Sani Abacha,
the dictator of Nigeria.

The intermissional government
is hereby dissolved.

This guy who looted his country.

The national and state assemblies
are also dissolved.

The state executive councils
are dissolved.

Abacha's a dangerous man
who had killed some of his own citizens.

He started talking about
political things, so after a while,

I said, "Mr. President, really, yeah,
I'm a member of the United States Senate,

but I didn't come over here as a senator.
In fact, we came all the way across

the Atlantic
and down to sub-Saharan Africa

to tell you that in the spirit of Jesus
we love you."

That... Probably the first time

this man has ever cried,
at least in front of people,

when we prayed together.

Bacha sends all of his aides
out of the room.

So, now, here we have this access.

This is what we have built this veritable
underground of men in government for.

What did they say? They say,
"Brother, I love you." That's all.

Not, "Brother, I love you,

and let us talk about what love means
and let us talk about murder,

about killing your own citizens."

That's not what happens. Instead,
what's he saying it's all about?

Jesus.

And what do you know, the dictator says,
"Yeah, yeah, sure. Jesus."

"Jesus?" Jesus.

Jesus, Jesus. And the money flows.
And the guns flow.

And the oil flows.

There are all these ways
that these figures,

in return for their deference,
their subservience,

their recognition of the natural order
of God, are rewarded.

From my perspective,

the difficulties
with the Fellowship foundation

go to the involvement in, um,

in Africa,

paying travel expenses
of members of Congress.

There was always a veil
behind the sources of money.

There's a budget, a fairly large budget,
many millions of dollars.

There's a staff, too.

But you might look at the records,
and one year their salary is this,

and the next year their salary is zero.

And yet, all the time,
they're flying around on private jets.

This is what they call the "Man Method."

You need to go visit
a head of state somewhere,

so you ask a wealthy man,
"Can I use your jet?"

And he sees something in it for himself
where he is led by God.

"God's method of all the ages
has been the 'Man Method.'

Give me the man who will commit himself
utterly to Jesus Christ

and our problems are largely solved."

That's the "Man Method."

Otherwise known as "off the books."

The group of individuals
involved with this organization

were truly unusual.

In one case, even involvement
with an organization

on the specially designated
nationals list,

the so-called
list of terrorist organizations.

A former United States Congressman
from West Michigan is going to prison

for his connection to a terrorist group.

Mark Siljander was sentenced today
in federal court,

and 24 Hour News 8's Tom Hillen
is here now with what he did

and how long he'll be behind bars. Tom.

Well, good evening, Brian and Sue.

Today, a judge sentenced
former Congressman Mark Siljander

to one year and one day in prison.

Siljander pleaded guilty last year
to obstructing justice

and for acting
as an unregistered foreign agent.

He lied to the government,
but wasn't directly involved in terrorism.

I was indicted for absurd charges.

We needed to finance the trips,
so we created a nonprofit

and we were seeking donations.

And a Muslim charity said,
"We'd like to donate to you."

I said "Wow!
It's all been Christians so far.

Wow, this is kind of affirmation."

Later, they're raided,
and evidently, they were accused

and indicted
for stealing government funds,

and they used that account
to pay the donations.

The Fellowship was drawn in
because one of the checks went to them,

and I felt terrible because my friends

were being drawn into this quagmire.

I was very angry at God.

You know, doing all of this good work,

and yet, you're allowing our whole family

to be swept into this horrific web of...

of accusations and innuendos.

The Justice Department said
what Mark Siljander was doing

was channeling money through the Family

from a designated terrorist organization

that wanted to be removed from the list
of supporters of terrorism.

He was illegally lobbying for them

and funneling the money
through the Family.

The whole operation is not through
the Family, it is in the Family.

It is of the Family. It...

He was doing their work.
And he gets convicted.

This referendum was a very simple question

about the most basic institution
of society:

marriage between a man and a woman,

marriage between a mother and a father.

Everyone is affected
by the result of this.

Leaving aside the fact that
there's one member of the Family

who gets indicted for conspiracy...

a lot of the most problematic work
of the Family

doesn't involve money changing hands.
That stuff's important.

But more important are the ways
in which you shift the conversation

not just right-ward,

but towards an authoritarian idea
of religion.

This abnormality
first polluted Western countries

and now we find it here.

There are people in Romania,
as there are people in every country,

who are working toward democracy
and human rights.

The question is,

if you're gonna go over there,
who do you come alongside of?

I commend, uh, Romania
in their preserving traditional values.

That is something I think
is very important for a nation.

The traditional family is so important.

And I think what makes a strong country
is having a strong family.

And if the families of a country
are not strong,

then the country cannot be strong.

And that's why you have all...

The information that I'm getting,

and I also relayed this
to your prime minister,

that having a strong family unit

between a man and a woman
is very important.

- Thank you very much.
- All right. Thank you very much.

I mentioned to the Fellowship
that we were going to have a referendum

in my last visit in, uh, US,
which was last year.

Ever since then, I, uh,
was talking with them,

uh, several time, uh,
about what's going on with the process.

The Fellowship,

they are people that I can call them,
day or night,

and my problem,
it will be their problem right away.

I see it as a support group
for those countries

that want to promote good values
in society.

The Fellowship say that
legislation is not their battlefield.

They've been explicit about that
from the beginning.

Yet, you have this congressman,
probably the most powerful figure

that has come across
the border of Romania for a while.

What does he say he's doing?

Building relationships.
And he's speaking about family values.

So, this is May 29.

So, he meets with Ben-Oni Ardelean...

former Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu,
who...

Marian Munteanu, he's pretty much
a right wing person,

an extremist right wing.

And yes, Mihai Gidea of Antenna3,

who is one of the leading
news TV stations in Romania.

This sort of lobbying,
this sort of talking,

this sort of keeping in touch,
trading favors,

uh, everything can influence
a certain process to move forward.

It is not US foreign policy to stop
same-sex marriage in Romania...

yet you have this congressman coming

to give support to this idea.

And he can say, "That's just my opinion,
I'm just representing Jesus."

And the Family can say,
"It's not our policy either.

We just paid for Bob to go.
And he did what God led him to do.

We didn't tell him to do that."

When you're elected
as a member of Congress,

you're representing the United States
in an official capacity.

If you go off
and meet with a head of state,

you can't suddenly become unofficial.

And that's what they were doing.

It was a result gay rights
supporters in Romania were hoping for.

On Sunday, they celebrated, after a vote
to change Romania's Constitution failed.

They said if the poll was successful,

it would embolden further attempts to
chip away at the rights of minority groups

and push the country
onto a populist authoritarian track.

The Family dispatch
representatives around the world

to build these relationships
with foreign leaders

to teach them to be God-led through them.

They make negotiations
without our consent.

This is nonconsensual diplomacy.

They are not transparent
about their role in affairs

of global power
that affect the lives of millions.

- Who do you think that was?
- Douglas Coe.

Oh, okay.