so the death of the kentucky pastor who handles snakes this week and does so on a reality show called snake salvation has a lot of people talking. how is this legal? how could you go into church with a whole bunch of parishioners and have deadly snakes? and there s children in those churches too. my colleague, gary tuckman, investigated this in 2012. he went to a church in appalachia and spoke directly to the pastors who do this. have a listen. reporter: this church, in the heart of appalachia, is completely quiet just before the service begins. except for the creature inside this locked box. it s a rattle snake, and it s rattling. it s one of seven deadly snakes about to be used in a wild ceremony in god s name.
substantiate. the video and confession. the problem is, they may not have the constitutional authority to be doing it. that may be a power left exclusively to the state. so while i agree with joey, it just may not and maybe that s why the doj sent this to the press right away instead of sending it quietly. he did say that they had worked long and hard with this prosecutor s office to come to some kind of a remedy and they were getting nowhere and ultimately just said, all right, press, have at her. dragging feet is not something that gives you the basis to get relief. you know what they re saying? very special place that makes this show run, you have to wrap all right, stay with me. i have another case, as well. a kentucky pastor who start in a reality show about snake-handling in church dies from the snakebite after refusing to be treated. we re going to take you inside a similar church, because a lot of people are asking, how does this go on? wait, isn t it illegal? a
any given time, they can can turn around and bite me. but like i said, the lord either he will let it bite or won t let it bite, let it hurt or won t let it hurt. it s all up to god. reporter: roy lee christian jr. is the assistant pastor at another church in west virginia. the church of the lord jesus. he was at the service where his friend, pastor wolford, was fatally bitten. he is shocked and saddened, but his faith remains the same. it says, they shall take up serpen serpents. that doesn t mean you have to, does it? is that your interpretation, that you must take up serpents? well, if you believe the word of god strong enough and really believe it and the lord lives in you, you ll do it. reporter: back in tennessee, the 21-year-old pastor says he has been bitten four times in two years. he says he almost died after the first bite and says he is prepared to lose his life if god determines that s how he should go. i realize that, and i ve thought about it. i have. i ve
this is pastor andrew hamblin, a 21-year-old serpent-handling pastor at the tabernacle church of god in tennessee. he and his wife and the rest of the congregation practice christianity much differently than almost all christians, using venomous snakes as part of their service. why? they point to the new testament, chapter 16, verse 18. it s stated in part, they shall take up serpents. believers like pastor hamblin, say when god anoints them, they have an obligation to do this and god will protect them. and even if they are bitten, their belief is god will heal them, no doctors necessary. if it looks dangerous, that s because it is. it s also illegal in the state of tennessee. but that only strengthens the pastor s conviction. snake-handling in churches is a tradition in decline. but hamblin wants that to change. it s against the law to have snakes in a church in tennessee.
ors in letters to it is inspectors general for five different government security agencies. we ve been digging into one of their most serious claims. they point finger, at this woman, huma abedin, secretary of state hillary clinton s deputy chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. and questioning how she got a security clearance. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that they would have some actual evidence, right? you would think that. but the truth is they don t have any direct evidence. what they have are allegations of past connections of relatives of hers that are tenuous best. keith has called for bachmann to produce credible evidence. so bachmann produced a 16 page letter she sent to the stay with me now, because we re going to walk you through the logic she lays out in this particular case. she says the mother, brother and late father are connected to