ambassador at large for international religious freedom, sam brownback. stir ambassador, great to have you. >> was a pleasure to join you. >> mike: vice president pence took aim at beijing today, let's listen. >> the communist party in china has arrested christian pastors, banned the sale of bibles, demolished churches and imprisoned more than a million in the muslim population. >> mike: what's been done to confront china's crackdown on both christians and muslims? >> we are raising this issue, where pushing it forward tomorrow here at the u.n., the deputy secretary of state will be hosting an event just about what is taking place to the weaker muslim population, primarily muslim population there. and we are continuing to raise this issue and build alliances of other individual countries that are concerned about what's taking place to their religious adherence that are active in china. china is at war with faith, but it is a war they will not win. we are confronting them if you got a growing alliance of other countries that are joining us. >> mike: from e

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sam brownback detailed one as of yet unconfirmed case he just heard of, of a man who has legal status in the u.s. he's 75 years old. he has a son in california. he recently went over to china in this province where they have these camps and he has not been heard from since. it's hard to confirm these cases. brownback said the raised these questions to the chinese and they said there are camps but said they are vocational training facilities. >> sounds pretty awful to me. thank you. >>> also, the claim of responsibility for a brazen raid on an important diplomatic outpost for kim jong un. a shadowy group says it's behind the embassy break-in. this raid has been shrouded in secrecy, what are you learning? >> reporter: wolf, we have new information on tactic this group used to get in the embassy and what they may have stolen in the raid. they acknowledged they carried out the operation but dispute the reports of spanish authorities that they got violent. a mysterious group of kim jong un's enemies is claiming responsibilities for a daring raid at one of his most important embassies. call

when asked when the united states elevated religious freedom sufficiently, brownback said not yet, answer the a person isn't going to be locking people up, it is going to be marginalizing them in society. that is why for me this is something we have got to go and aggressively. before it spreads more. sources say the administration is considering government identified by the us commission on international religious freedom as countries of particular concern, those that engage in severe religious freedom violations, that list includes china, iran, north korea and saudi arabia in the second-tier identifying countries where the government tolerates persecution like afghanistan, egypt and india, michigan and pakistan to its watchlist. >> this is a unique moment where you've got this alignment with parties and all branches of the government concerned about this. >> there are concerns especially in several countries listed as violators of religious freedom are american allies and security partners like saudi arabia, egypt, iraq and india. >> a foreign government does not speak for all its people

. >>> is antonio brownback on track to play on the nfl? he got a call for a work out >> brown has been out of the league since september in limbo over a sexual assault lawsuit. now that team's coach is pumping the brakes on the possibility of an immediate return. we'll explain coming up. >>> antonio brown. >> got a workout with the new orleans saints. that was yesterday. still in tact? >> yes. >> him, not you. >> we were talking about stuff before the break. >> saints coach sean payton explained it as a win at all cost approach. brown did work out for the team yesterday. this as the nfl confirmed it is still investigating brown following allegations of sexual assault. brown was not the only person participating. >> we are looking closely all the time at who are the players available and how they can help us as we get ready for the post season. >> brown hasn't plaped since week two and was released by the patriots. the nfl has not announced any discipline if they were to sign with the team the playoff is finally here. three juggernauts in l

. >> ambassador for international religious freedom sam brownback refused to comment on the discussions about aid, when asked about they had elevated religious freedom sufficiently, he said, not yet. "the oppression isn't going to be locking people up, it's going to be marginalizing them in society. that's why for me, this is something that we really have got to go out aggressively now. before this thing spreads more." sources say the administration is considering governments identified by the u.s. commission on international religious freedom as countries of particular concern. those that engage in severe religious freedom violations, that list includes china, iran, north korea, saudi arabia. a second tier identifying countries where the government tolerates persecution, like afghanistan, egypt, and india. they condition added pakistan to each watch list. >> this is a unique time enrollment where you've got this alignment with parties in all branches of government concerned about this. >> there are concerns, especially at several countries listed as violators of religious freedom or am

let's bring pamela brownback in. pam, that is an incredibly significant development that the intelligence community's inspector general took a criminal referral to the justice department on this with questions about whether this was a violation of campaign finance laws. >> a huge development coming from our evan perez to look into this. i mean this is very significant and now we're gaining some insight into why that referral happened, even though we don't have the whistle-blower complaint in full we do have what we know is a part of the complaint. that is this transcript between president trump and the ukrainian president zelensky where he mentioned on several occasions that he would have his own attorney general and his personal attorney, rudy guilliani, work with the ukrainians on two u.s.-related matters, one involving his political rival, the democratic presidential candidate joe biden, and his son hunter and also looking into election interference. it is also significant that even before the president brought th

we've got a special envoy who handles any anti-semitism issues, former governor brownback who handles religious freedom issues. working to message about how tragic and unacceptable it is for any nation to persecute any individual as a result of their religious beliefs and their duty to protect these, these practitioners of their faith in a way that preserves their security and allows them to practice their own beliefs. rachel: secretary, we've seen over christmas, you know, some horrific attack it is on christians. by the way, the most persecuted religion on the planet right now. beheadings, a village attacked and seven killed there as well as the kidnapping of the young teenager christian girl. but why are we seeing this rise in attacks? specifically for christians? >> it's difficult to know precisely what the cause of these increases are. we can begin to identify them. they're different in different places, but, rachel, as you've seen too around the world a respect for religious faith is something that governments have a responsibility to do. i've talked at some length about china a