welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face right now with chinese president xi jinping in beijing. the high stakes one-on-one is part of blinken s efforts to meet with china s top diplomat. an effort to lower the temperature amid rising tensions between the u.s. and china. cnn s kylie atwood in beijing this morning. just the fact that their meeting is a huge meeting, kylie, we learned 90 minutes ago their meeting was a go. what do we know about it? reporter: that s right, it s here in beijing, the secretary of state who is the first cabinet member to visit china from biden administration in 2 1/2 years. sitting down with president xi, we don t know much about the meeting because it s so ongoing. here s what we do know, there have been a number of hours that the secretary has engaged with chinese officials over the course of the last days in beijing. spending more than five ho
they starved the children. reporter: the members of the cult, including your own family, they were starving the children? yes. reporter: and when the children didn t die quickly enough they suffocated them. reporter: they suffocated them? they suffocated them, yes. reporter: and this is your own blood. and i wonder where my children, my daughter, could change to be such a mark. on children. reporter: pastor paul mckenzie began his cult. this is the church where the pastor had a huge following in the sermons. he amplified his message online. he preached a doomsday prophesy for at least a decade, calling on the faithful to reject modern society, pull children from school, avoid hospitals. he demanded total devotion. you must deny yourself.
children or my child, my daughter, could change to be such an animal, a wild animal, to kill her own children. reporter: pastor paul mckenzie began his cult in malindy. this is the church where pastor mckenzie had a huge following in his sermons. he amplified his message online. he preached a doomsday prophesy for at least a decade calling on the faithful to reject modern society, pull children from school, avoid hospitals. he demanded total devotion. you must deny yourself. you must reject yourself. you must reach a point of ending your life he says for the sake of jesus. his anti-government stance got him arrested and detained but never prosecuted in. 2019 the church was closed
this is the church where pastor mackenzie had a huge following in his sermons. he amplified his message online. he preached a doomsday prophesy for at least a decade, calling on the faithful to reject modern society, pull children from school, avoid hospitals. he demanded total devotion. you must deny yourself. you must reject yourself. you much reach a point of ending your life, he says, for the sake of jesus. his anti-government stance got him arrested and detained but never prosecuted. in 2019, the church was closed down. they said the pastor started his forest community. we found a former cult member. in melendi. we agreed to hide her identity for her own safety. she escaped the forest last year. why did you move your whole home and all of your children and move into the forest? reporter: the pastor used to
it would be very disturbing but if you prepare for it, its not that bad. reporter: under the circumstances a drill, of course its a drill, of course. ketchup replaces real blood but make no mistake, roush is deadly serious about his founders doomsday prophesy. there is a pervasive sense amongst certain sectors of historically white societies that those societies are being diluted on other peoples terms. reporter: when you use a term like diluted, i think nazism, i think eugenics, i think all of these horrible terms from the past, why is being diluted a problem? societies are in demographic terms being diluted. we are preparing for take storm like the canary in the coal mine of the same anxieties and distresses that are being