NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (March 28)

Our top story tonight, the Houthis terrorist group enters the Iran war, firing a missile at Israel. They're backing Iran, saying they won't allow the Red Sea to be used by the U.S. or Israel against the Iranian regime. Israel's response to the attack. The former Iranian crown prince speaking at CPAC makes clear his intentions to help his former country, while highlighting the massacre of thousands of protesters recently killed by the Iranian regime. The White House anti-fraud task force meets for the first time this week, aiming to end what they call a massive decades-long problem. Economist and public policy analyst Michael Bussler on what this means. March Madness is down to just eight teams left as they compete for a spot in the final four. NTD's Dave Martin joins us with the latest. And Shen Yun Performing Arts is in New York for 18 shows as part of their 20th anniversary tour. We take a look at what audience members at New York City's Lincoln Center said about the performance on its opening night. This is NTV Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Thank you for joining us tonight. I'm Arlene Richards. The Iran-aligned Houthi terrorist organization in Yemen launched a missile attack against Israel today. A spokesperson for the terrorist group confirmed they were entering the Middle East conflict. He says Houthi forces attacked quote sensitive Israeli military sites in southern occupied Palestine. Israel military described the attack as a single missile that was intercepted. The Houthi involvement comes after the U.S.-Israel coalition has reportedly hit over 15,000 targets in Iran. The IDF says it's destroyed or disabled over 330 of Iran's 470 ballistic missile launchers. Iran rejects Beijing's attempt to play the mediator role in the war. That's according to insiders suggesting that the conflict is undercutting the Chinese Communist Party's One of the insiders with access to China's diplomatic circles speaking on condition of anonymity to the Epoch Times said that the CCP planned to leverage its special relationship with Iran to secure its leadership over certain developing countries. Insiders say Iranian leaders also rejected China's request for a safe passage of Chinese cargo ships through the Strait of Hormuz. They say Iran could only guarantee the safety of some of the cargo bound for Iran. The block on ships passage is driving up prices in China and the ongoing war is taking a toll on China's economy hitting its export sectors especially hard. Many shipping containers are reportedly sitting at ports unable to be shipped out amid speculation that he could return to Iran as leader after nearly 50 years. The former crown prince of Iran Reza Pahlavi spoke at CPAC today. Pahlavi made clear his intentions to help his former country while highlighting the massacre of thousands of protesters recently killed by the Iranian regime. They did not stop their terror on the streets. Wounded protesters were hunted down in hospital beds and shot in cold blood. Men and women were raped in secret prisons. Even nurses, ambulance medics and doctors who dared to help protesters were tortured, raped and killed. Families were forced to search through thousands of unmarked body bags and the regime even charged grieving parents for the bullets used to kill their own children. President Trump is making America great again. I intend to make Iran great again. President Trump has previously stated that the next leader of Iran should be a person from within. More than 3,500 U.S. sailors and marines aboard the USS Tripoli have arrived in the Middle East as the Pentagon continues to build up forces in the region. U.S. Central Command confirmed the arrival on social media. It said the Tripoli brings transport aircraft, strike fighters and amphibious assault capabilities to the region in addition to marines on board. And funding for the Department of Homeland Security is in limbo. A late-night vote on Capitol Hill showed sharp divisions between the House and Senate. NTD's Melina Weiskopf has the latest from Washington, D.C. No end in sight to the 43-day-long partial government shutdown. Congress should be the one not getting paid and the TSA agents should get paid while all this is being ironed out. President Trump signing an emergency order to pay TSA agents who are feeling the shutdown's impact directly. And without a promise of anything beyond just our back pay by this executive order, I'm worried. On Friday night, House lawmakers rejected the Senate's late-night deal, instead passing a short-term measure. It would fund the entire DHS for the next eight weeks. The resolution is adopted. Senate Democrats immediately shooting down the plan, saying it's dead on arrival in their chamber. Morning and try to hoist this among upon the American people and then get on their jets and go home for their holiday and and pretend and think that we're going to go along with that. Senators had held a vote in the wee hours of Friday morning to pay most of the DHS without ice. GOP senators sought to overcome the stalemate by delaying ice funding until later this year. A plan Democrats welcomed. This could have been accomplished weeks ago, and we will continue to fight for those reforms. The president has sided with House Republicans, calling the Senate deal to delay ice funding inappropriate. Well, you know, the Democrats want to let illegals come into the country, criminals, murderers. I have spent the better part of this year trying to get these criminals out, and the Democrats want to have them come in. And we can't let that happen. Democrats this week rejected the White House's proposal, which met most of their demands, except the removal of agents, masks and judicial warrant requirements. And what we want to see is ice conducting themselves like every other cop, police officer and law enforcement agency in the country. Republicans have drawn the line on these two issues, insisting that masks protect agents from doxing and that judicial warrants would bog down immigration enforcement operations. We're not going to put ice officers at further risk. We're not going to take tools away from them that help them to arrest more criminals and national security threats than any time in history. Though the president has moved to pay TSA agents, other divisions of the DHS are falling behind. Lawmakers held a hearing this week to assess the impacts. Every day the shutdown drags on, moves us closer to a tipping point. And we know through experience, it will take us about two and a half days to recover from every day we are in a shutdown. If the shutdown ended today, we wouldn't catch up until July 3rd. FEMA's ability to support Americans before, during and after disasters is at risk. The department's cybersecurity arm warned that the shutdown will endanger preparations for the upcoming FIFA World Cup. The lapse in appropriations for DHS has impacted CISA's ability to proactively mitigate cyber risk and to support physical security resilience at a time when there are numerous large-scale events. In other news, lawmakers this week revealed that an ethics committee found a Democrat representative Sheila Scherfelis McCormick committed dozens of ethics violations. She used millions in improperly paid federal disaster funds to finance her campaign, according to an investigation by the bipartisan ethics subcommittee. Two Democrats quickly called for her resignation. Lawmakers will determine what sanctions to recommend once they return from their two-week recess. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Melina Weiskopf, NTD News. And as President Trump orders the Department of Homeland Security to pay TSA agents, how are travelers feeling about the move? NTD's Sam Wong has a Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C. to hear from the people. President Trump was talking about signing executive order, paying the TSA agents. What do you make of that? Well, that'd be great if he could do it. I'm not sure how he can do it, but if he could do it, that'd be fantastic. I think they should get paid. Everyone else gets paid when they go to work. Oh, I think it's past time to sign an order or whatever it takes to pay them. I mean, these folks work hard all the time and, you know, they deserve to be paid, and I admire them for showing up. I think if anyone shouldn't get paid, Congress shouldn't get paid. If they're going to have, you know, shutdowns of this magnitude, it's across the country. So, I mean, therefore, you know, they could step up and feel the same pain. Why they have to hold them sort of hostage over whatever it is they're fighting about, you know, it just doesn't seem right. How are you feeling about the presence of ICE agents at airports? Long overdue. If it helped, I wasn't there. You know, you only know what you see on television. It's unfortunate that they had to be there. You know, ICE is doing their job, which is another political thing. It's just more people in vests walking around. That didn't really bother me at all. Well, you know, I'd rather just pay the TSA people who are trained to do the job and get them back on the job. I think that would be a better solution. I don't know. I haven't had, I haven't seen anything bad happen. I know a lot of people aren't in favor of it. On the other hand, you know, some people say it'll help the efficiency of people getting through. There's not enough TSA agents, but I know it's controversial. You know, if they're trying to help out and make things run a little smoother and safer, then I guess that's a good thing. But, you know, should hopefully just have the people that are supposed to be there be there and not hold them hostage. That's what I think. I think it's a good thing. I mean, they're here to protect us. I mean, that's something that we can always never have enough of. The way things are in Iran and all that going on right now, we're under high alert. I think they should have somebody in the airports where this is, these are good places to cause problems. Coming up, the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force meets for the first time this week, aiming to end what they call a massive decades-long problem. Economist and public policy analyst Michael Bussler, when we return. 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They say the goal is to end a massive decades-long problem that's been plundering taxpayer dollars and eroding the trust Americans have in their government. Joining us now is Michael Bussler, economist, public policy analyst, and professor of finance at Stockton University. Thank you so much for coming on, Michael. Thank you. Always my pleasure to be here. All right, Michael, so we're going to start with the Minnesota fraud, which was carried out by people in the Somali community, and it was a catalyst for this task force's creation. Now, in December, a U.S. attorney said the fraud likely exceeded $9 billion in Minnesota-run Medicaid services since 2018. And I want to play some of Vice President Vance's remarks at the The first tragedy is that you have people who pay into the federal government, who pay into the IRS, who pay their taxes, expecting that those taxes will go to help their fellow citizens, and it's not going there. It's going to help fraudsters. That's tragedy number one. And the more important tragedy is that you have families who need these services, who are unable to get them because people are getting rich off of fraud schemes instead of making sure that autistic children and their families get access to these resources. Now, Michael, the loss of taxpayer dollars is damaging enough, but there's also the issue of social trust. So if funds aren't being managed properly, what does that do to the trust between the people and the government? Well, it certainly doesn't help. And right now, because of the problems we have in Congress, one party really doesn't like the other at all. There's very little confidence in government. So when we give our tax dollars to the IRS, that's money we work hard to get. You're taking a chunk of the money we earn. We're giving it to the government. The government takes roughly half of it and pays for services and things, you know, defense of the country, etc. The rest of it goes for social programs. And if you're taking my tax dollars, Americans are very compassionate people. If there are other Americans hurting, take some of our tax dollars and help them. What burns us up as taxpayers, you're taking our tax dollars and you're not helping the people you're supposed to help, and you're spending way more money than you should be spending. Real quick, how bad is the problem? Remember, we have a public debt that's $39 trillion. Every year, we deficit spend about $2 trillion a year. Now, we're trying to get that down. A lot of that spending turns out to be waste, fraud, and abuse. Remember when Elon Musk did his Doge thing in the beginning, he found hundreds of millions of dollars, and some of it has been realized. But when we take a look at when the government accounting office looked at some of these health care programs and hospice care and all these other things, they estimated roughly between $250 and $500 billion a year is being spent fraudulently. Now, that's a quarter of the deficit we can knock out just by straightening that out. And that's what President Trump wants to do. And that's what J.D. Vance will do. Now, you talk about waste, fraud, and abuse, and many are asking how something like this could even happen. It's such a large amount of money, allegedly lost in less than 10 years. So here's how Stephen Miller put it. I think that most citizens probably assume that there's some verification process that takes place for the receipt of most federal benefits. The reality is that there is not. This is particularly true in blue states, willfully true in blue states, in which all of these programs are operated entirely on the honor system. No verification takes place before individuals are enrolled in or receive these benefits. Now, Michael, he said this is particularly true in blue states. So why is there such a low bar for getting these benefits? So I don't know why the federal government doesn't have some kind of a system that can verify these hundreds of billions of dollars are going to people who are supposed to get them. So they can't do that right off the bat. And you take a look at in some of these blue states, what happens is the government, the governor or the governor's cabinet, they use giving out this money to buy influence. In Minnesota, they gave whatever number the billions are, and these are billions of dollars of our hard-earned money. They gave the Somalians to set up places that don't even exist. And in return, all the Somalians will vote for the Democrats. And why not? The Democrats keep feeding them money. In Los Angeles, they took a look at hospice care, other hospice facilities when people are at that end of life experience. And I don't mind my tax dollars being used to help people at that point. But they went into L.A. in a four block, four square blocks. They found 42 hospice facilities. That's probably more than they have in the rest of the state. They looked at them, and they were all fraudulent. So here are our hard-earned tax, our hard-earned income, which we give to the government to help people. They're giving it to who knows who. And these people, then they'll say, well, the Democrats in charge there are giving us all this money. We better keep voting for them to make sure we keep getting all this money. Stephen Miller's right. Now you talk about the focus being on Minnesota, but there's also big cases in other states. And you mentioned Los Angeles. So I want to talk about a couple. So in January this year, two people pled guilty to a $68 million adult daycare Medicaid fraud scheme. And last year in California, the FBI reported the largest known COVID tax credit fraud scheme yet. And that was $93 million targeted for fraud in that case. So Vice President Vance says they'll turn on anti-fraud protections that were shut down under the Biden administration, and that they'll also take a whole of government approach to target fraud. So what are your thoughts on this strategy? I have to tell you, when you just said what you said about how much here and how much there, my first tragedy is that you have people who pay into. Yes, my blood starts to boil. So there are a lot of these that are going on. I mentioned some, you mentioned some in Maine, they found the billions in the same kind of thing. Ohio, I think they caught some Somalian with a million dollars in a suitcase. It was getting on a plane, just taking the money away. This is huge sums of money. And we have to do something about it now. And part of the problem is that Democrats seem to be willing to hand out all this money in return to have these people vote for them. We need a system of accountability. And we have to make sure that the money you're taking from us that we worked hard to get, the money you're taking from us, which we compassionately want to help Americans, is truly going to help Americans. And that's some, in many cases, illegal immigrants who are taking advantage of the system and are costing us a lot of money. J.D. Vance is the right person to do this. You recall in the prior administration, they made Kamala Harris the border czar. She did absolutely nothing. Well, J.D. Vance is vice president. He's a very intelligent guy. He will get to the bottom of this and he will come out saving the Americans money and giving the taxpayers what they're supposed to get. Now, as you mentioned, a common link in these cases is that they involve social services, welfare or subsidies in different forms. And it's an issue that other nations with big safety nets deal with as well. So do you see a relationship between fraud or waste and the scale of these benefits? And I think you mentioned this earlier. Yeah. So part of the problem is when you have the government running an organization, the government is not motive. First tragedy is that you have people who pay into the federal government, who pay into the IRA. I'm sorry about that. Sorry. No problem. So the government is not motivated by profit. So you would say, well, that's a good thing. You know, they whatever the cost is, they don't have to make a profit. They'll apply. They should be able to supply the service cheaper. Exactly the opposite is true because they're not motivated by profit. There's no incentive to get the cost down with a private company who says, I'm going to give you a contract for something in health care. They try to get the cost down as low as possible simply because they're motivated by profit. So when the government does something, it always costs two or three times what it should cost. So it's inefficient to begin with. Now, some things you might argue the government really has to run. You can't privatize. And I understand that. But keep in mind, the government has no motivation to get the cost down. And as a result of that, we have to monitor them very closely to make sure that these fraud things don't occur again. We have a deficit. We have a huge public debt. We can't waste money. And if we're wasting money here and it's going to people we don't want it to go to, something that the government is going to have to crack down on. And J.D. Vance, again, I think has got to do it. Now, digging deeper into the taxes, because you mentioned earlier about the taxpayers feeling really burned about this, we know these funds are being exploited in these programs. So a 2025 Gallup poll shows that 59% of Americans say the federal income tax they pay is too high. So do you think this is tied in some way to the news of fraud, waste and abuse as well? Listen, every person I ever talk to tells me they pay too much in taxes. I live in New Jersey and it's terrible. The federal income tax is what it is. We have a state income tax. We pay the highest property taxes in the country. We have a state sales tax. So everybody thinks they're taxed. And in my view, everybody is. So if my tax dollars are going to good things, things that I believe in and things that should happen, you know, I still don't want to be over taxed, but I can live with it. But if you have a high tax rate and you're taking all my money and you're giving it away to who knows what and it's all gone to waste, fraud and abuse, then I'm going to feel, listen, I pay so much in taxes. A big chunk of it is being wasted. Well, save the waste and give me my tax dollars back so I can see how Americans say, I feel like I'm paying too much in taxes when I see all this waste, fraud and abuse. If you cut that out, you should be able to save me some taxes and I'll feel better. So yes, I agree with with that statement that because of this, people feel they're overtaxed. Michael, you know, we're celebrating our 250th anniversary as a nation this year. So how important do you think solving this problem will be to sustaining our future? Extremely important. This is this is like a cancer. Once you have a tumor, if you don't do something about it, it's just going to grow and get worse. Literally every president up until Trump just sort of kicked the can down the road. Yeah, I know it occurs, but, you know, it's politics and somebody has to pay somebody. Well, finally, we get a business person as president and says, you don't do it that way. You have an obligation to the taxpayers to produce at the lowest possible cost. So I think, look, it's the 250th anniversary of the country. We have a president who's taken a look at a lot of huge problems that other presidents didn't take a look at, and he's doing his best to solve them in a relatively short time. I think all of these problems for the future of the country, I think all of these problems have to be solved. I hope as many of them can be solved as possible by the summertime. So when we're celebrating the 250th anniversary, we feel good. You know, we're not going to feel so good if we're celebrating and I see 100 million going here and 200 million going there and you want to raise my tax on this. We're not going to feel so good. So if this commission can act relatively quickly, and I believe they can to get rid of a lot of this, people will start to feel better. I'd really like to see the 250th birthday really be something good that Americans are very proud of. You know, we came from nowhere to be the largest, most prosperous country in the world. It took us about 125 years to do that. And we're the first real power in the world that isn't looking for bad things. We're not looking to overrun countries. All we want to see is freedom and democracy, at least freedom. They'll choose whatever system they want, but at least everybody having the freedom to choose, that makes us more secure too. So I hope all of these things get resolved by July and we have a heck of a party. Well, the Trump administration sure has its work cut out for them. Michael Bossler, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much. And coming up, March Madness is down to just eight teams left as they compete for a spot in the final four. And Denise Dave Martin joins us with the latest. And what if fighting cancer isn't just about attacking the tumor? A certified nutritionist explains a whole person approach next. I trod on my glasses yesterday and I had to pay up front for a new pair that I can't even pick up for another 10 days. So I looked for another way and I found Select Specs. I ordered online. My new glasses just arrived this morning and I can pay over the next few weeks. This is the way to buy glasses. See now, play later with Select Specs. 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We've got some baseball and golf news, but we're going to start with college basketball. We've got these eight teams left in March Madness. Where do things stand now in today's games? Yeah, we've got two games today in the Elite H round, so the quarterfinals here. Now the first game started just a few minutes ago, Iowa versus Illinois. Now the Hawkeyes, almost a Cinderella story. I would say Cinderella, but you know, they're from the Big Tens, what's hard to say. They're the ninth seed, they're the lowest team left after being Nebraska, upsetting Florida and Clemson to get here. This is an all Big Ten matchup, and then the number three seed, Illinois, already beat them earlier this season. Winner today goes to the Final Four, so that game started already. Then around 8.45 Eastern Time tonight, we've got a one versus two seed matchup as Arizona plays Purdue to decide the West region. Wildcats come off that blowout win over Arkansas. Boilermakers had that really thrilling back and forth win over the Longhorns. Then tomorrow, we've got two more games. Michigan plays Tennessee. This is a one versus six seed matchup in the Midwest region. That starts at 2.15 Eastern Time, and at 5 p.m., probably the most anticipated matchup of them all, Duke versus UConn. This is a one seed versus two seed in the East region. I have no idea who's going to win that one. That one, I'm definitely looking forward to. I think we're all looking forward to that one. Anyway, the winners of all four of these games then meet in the Final Four, which starts next Saturday. Okay, so you don't know about that game, but what about the other three? Who do you think's going to make it? You know, I think Illinois is going to beat Iowa. I mean, Iowa, they've had a great run, but I don't think the slipper's going to fit. I think Illinois stops them today. I think then Arizona beats Purdue. Purdue's had three very close wins. Arizona's looked very dominant. I think they make it to the Final Four. Michigan, I think, is going to beat Tennessee. Michigan looks like world leaders. You know what? I'll just say it. I'd still favor Duke to win UConn. All right, so that's what I'm going. You said it. I know you're going to hold me to that. Is the slipper going to fit as you just said? Hopefully we'll forget by next Saturday if I got something. All right, I'm going to write that down now about that. All right, so let's look at Women's College Basketball News. UConn head coach Geno Ariyama. Did I say that right? You said it right. Okay. Criticized the NCAA's two-site regional format. So what's he referring to here? Yeah, the women's NCAA tournament. 68 teams large, just like the men. It used to have the same format as the men's as well, with the four different regional sites to play the third and fourth round game. You know, the four sites of the stadiums. But to help create a better atmosphere and to boost the tennis numbers, they consolidated that into just two sites, but still the same amount of teams. Now this year, those two sites, Sacramento and Fort Worth, Texas. So he's pointed out that the problems are with the eight teams now sharing the one stadium. They have to schedule their practice, their shoot-arounds, whatever you call them, for every team. It means for a very tight schedule time. In other words, they're complaining they're not getting enough time really in the gym for one thing. In any case though, Ariyama's Huskies have played very well. They are in the Elite Eight in this tournament. They play Notre Dame tomorrow and UConn. Overwhelming favorites. They're the number one team in the country. They are 37-0. They are favored to win by 27 and a half points. You know what? These two teams played earlier this year. UConn beat them by 38 points. So they are definitely favored to advance to the Final Four. If they beat them tomorrow, that's where they will be. All right. Well, that sounds exciting, but I want to get to Tiger Woods. Well, golf news, but Tiger Woods. Okay. So he was arrested yesterday and after his involvement in a car crash and flutter. So what's the latest on this? Yeah. All right. So he was released on suspicion of DUI near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida, according to the county sheriff. Now, he said this happened around 2 p.m. Eastern time yesterday. Now, Woods Roy Drover flipped on its side after clipping the back of a trailer that was on a truck. Woods was able to climb out of the car. He and the other driver were uninjured. The sheriff said the on-the-scenes investigators determined Woods showed signs of impairment. His breathalyzer test, though, didn't show signs of alcohol, but Woods refused to submit to a urine analysis for other drugs. Now, this happened just three days after Woods finally started golfing again Tuesday in the TGL Finals. That's that virtual golf league that Tiger Woods is a part owner of. But that was his first profession. That was his first competitive golf since July of 2024. It's been almost like 20 months since then. Now, if you remember last year, Woods had that ruptured Achilles injury that pretty much knocked him out. That started right before the Masters. That knocked him out for the four major tournaments. Then, he had yet another back surgery in October. That's believed that it's the seventh major back surgery in the last 15 years. So, he hasn't said whether he's going to compete in the upcoming Masters that's going to start next month. Just him, though, playing Tuesday, though, makes you think he would. Obviously, I would assume this situation with his suspicion is not going to affect that, but we'll have to see. But, the Masters, that has been Woods' prime event. He has won that five times. Only Jack Nicklaus has won it more. Yeah, well, I hope he gets better. Absolutely. All right. So, moving to baseball news. The season started just a few days ago. Where do things stand? Yeah. Baseball just started Wednesday with the Yankees being the Giants that day. Now, every team has at least played once. Every team is in action today, all 30 of them. Now, the story on opening day was Aaron Judge with the Golden Sombrero. Now, it's not as glorious as it sounds, though. That's a rare time when you strike out four times in a game. But, for anyone worrying about his performance, he did homer in the next game. That was last night as the Yankees again shot the Giants 3-0. Meanwhile, we've already had two games done today. The Cardinals beat the Rays 6-5 in 10 innings. Tampa Bay forced extra innings with a four-run ninth inning to tie the game. Took the lead 5-4 in the 10th, only for the Cardinals to score two more in the bottom of the inning. Working J.J. Weatherholt for the Cardinals, he walked off two runs single to win it. Elsewhere, the Cubs beat the Nationals 10-2. A.J. Happ hit a three-run home run with the win. And tonight, more games signed, including the Giants, before I mentioned Giants versus Yankees. So, baseball already starting up here. Again, already. All right, Dave, good to have you back and thank you so much for this update. Well, thank you, Arlene. And now, turning to health, what if fighting cancer isn't just about attacking the tumor? On this episode of Vital Signs with Brendan Falun, herbalist and certified nutritionist Donnie Yance shares a different approach, one that focuses on treating the whole person, not just the disease. Here's a preview. Donnie, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. Thank you for having me. First off, I'm interested to know what led you down this path, what led you to see using herbal medicine, among other things, as a particularly potent instrument against cancer? Well, my love for herbal medicine started at a very young age. So, I was actually in high school working at natural food stores, and I read an older book called Back to Eden. And that kind of touched my heart and my mind. And so, I learned that this beautiful pharmacy all around us has been left for us to use, and we've kind of hijacked it in the wrong way. We keep identifying plants to get isolated compounds and see how those things impact people, rather than practice truly a holistic way of using and integrating whole herbal medicine, like you alluded to earlier, traditional Chinese medicine. So, the way I practice has kind of built a little bit on that model of traditional Chinese medicine. But rather than practice it in its purer way, I implement it now into a whole systems model. And I got interested in oncology because working as an herbalist and nutritionist and seeing patients, I, maybe 35, 40 years ago, I had my first challenging cancer case, and it was a woman named Sinclair. And she was in her 30s, she had breast cancer, and everything she did didn't work. You know, double mastectomies, chest wall radiation, all kinds of chemotherapy, her cancer kept progressing. I did everything in my power to support her and help her, and she was... Was it metastatic at this stage? Yes, the cancer was spreading, and she was such a wonderful, beautiful person. And my clinic renamed her from Sinclair, we called her St. Clair. And I developed a very intimate relationship, which I kind of love. I love the intimacy of working with people with serious and chronic disease. I have a background as a Franciscan, I lived in a Franciscan monastery, so I've always wanted my calling to sort of reflect my, you know, my spiritual nature, first and foremost. And when you have cancer and you're advanced, nothing else really matters, you know, everything's left there. And so, when she finally passed, her mother and father came into my clinic, and they brought me this ring, which I've never taken off my hands since that day. And it really, it's very whimsical looking, and it reminds me of myself. And I said, wow, the last thing this woman did on the face of the planet was make this ring for me. I said, that day, I'm going to dedicate myself to learn everything I can about cancer, and I spent one to two hours compiling research, and in every which way you can ever, every lens you can use to understand cancer, I've kind of taken a look at. And I apply a concept called hermeneutics. So hermeneutics is always looking at the whole, and then looking at the parts, bringing the parts back into the whole, and seeing how it serves the whole. And I focus pretty much on three main targets, the health of the person. So the first thing I do is optimize health. Regardless of the cancer, focus on the health of the person. Second thing is analyze what I call the interplay or the microenvironment between the host and the cancer. Because cancer can't do anything until it hijacks that microenvironment. What is the microenvironment exactly? It's all kinds of things. It's nutrients, for example. Cancer hijacks nutrients like copper, for example. And so you'll frequently see cancer patients with very high levels of copper, very low levels of zinc. Those are things you want to flip around. Cancer hijacks the rheology of your blood, so it makes it hypercoagulative. So things like fibrinogen and D-dimer are high. They have a seven to ten times higher risk of thrombosis and blood clots. And so targeting those things, assessing those things and targeting those things, not only reduce the mortality from getting a thrombolytic episode, which cancer patients are susceptible, and many of the cancer treatments make that even worse, and then cancer patients are sedentary. That makes it worse. But the cancer itself, if you inhibit that, you're also inhibiting one of the things cancer's hijacking. Another thing is the immune system. Cancer hijacks the immune system. It flips it all the way around. It raises certain types of inflammatory cells like inflammatory or what's called tumor-associated neutrophils, tumor-associated macrophages, what's called Treg cells, these regulatory T cells, and then it suppresses the immune system that's trying to fight it. So all of these things can be impacted both through all the different toolboxes we use, herbal medicine, nutritional medicine, normalizing vitamin D, zinc, magnesium, changing the pH of the patient. And then the final piece is now we're going to target the cancer. So targeting the cancer is the third piece in a sensible way, not in a way that's just based on standard of care, because everything is just standard of care. You get cancer based on a location. Everyone gets the same treatment, pretty much. Even old treatments, certain chemotherapeutic regimes that don't work that well. So a lot of things, you know, people are always looking for evidence in herbal medicine. I said, a lot of things in conventional medicine are done with little to no evidence. Just on that point, Donnie, can what you're describing, your approach, can that work alongside these conventional medical approaches like chemotherapy? It can, but again, like I said, the model has to be served as a whole. So when you think about chemotherapy, people just throw that word out there. Chemotherapy is all different kinds of drugs. That's not one thing. They all have different mechanisms of action. So sometimes chemo might be very appropriate for a cancer patient, but the one that they're given is the wrong one. To see that full interview and others on how to optimize health, go to ept.ms forward slash vital signs. Vital signs offers general health information, not intended as medical diagnosis or advice. Please consult your doctor before undertaking a new health regimen. Coming up, Shen Yun Performing Arts is in New York for 18 shows as part of their 20th anniversary tour. We take a look at what audience members at New York City's Lincoln Center said about the performance on its opening night. And a diplomatic gift from Japan turning into an annual event in the nation's capital. We'll take you to Washington, D.C.'s Cherry Blossoms. Whispered across generations, a hidden secret unveils the essence of longevity and vitality, a timeless legend regarding energy and wonder. Rooted in ancient health wisdom, we proudly introduce Puritang Black Ginseng, a 100% natural organic energy drink made from premium six-year-old Korean ginseng. It takes 2,260 days and nights from seed to growth, undergoing a meticulous nine-step process of steaming and drying. Black ginseng reaches its full potency, enriched with ginsenicide RG3 and enhanced absorption efficiency. 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Become a monthly donor during February Heart Month, and your first month's gift will be matched. Thank you. Shen Yun performing arts performed in front of a packed theater at New York City's It's the start of 18 shows they will be performing in New York as part of their 20th anniversary tour. Theatergoers here in the Big Apple were impressed by both the skill of the dancers and the beauty of the tradition shown on stage. NTD is a media sponsor of Shen Yun Performing Arts and has been covering audience reactions since 2006. Shen Yun Performing Arts graced the stage at the David H. Koch Theater in New York City on March 25, taking audiences on a Audience members were impressed by the skill and beauty of the performers. The dancers are so talented. They train so hard. The things they do are not easy. It's very amazing for them to be able to show without words exactly what Chinese culture looks like and what spiritual message that they have to deliver. I was definitely inspired by the sequins and how they sparkled on the costumes. It brought so much light to the dancers. I just, it was beautiful. I enjoyed so much. The colors were gorgeous. The teals, the vibrant oranges. I think the colors are just so bright and they draw your eye right to the dancers. I enjoyed very much. Shen Yun's mission is revive 5,000 years of traditional Chinese culture from before communism. The culture of the Chinese communist regime has been seeking to suppress since taking power in 1949. There is a Chinese culture outside of what the CCP has imposed. So you get to see that history. You get to see, you know, traditional dances, ethnic dances. You get to see what China was before the CCP took over. They threaten these performances because they don't want people to see that there is a message from China that's not under the control of the CCP. And this to me is a crime against all of us, against all of humanity. And so it's a brave and amazing thing that this show continues. I think everybody should pay homage to their old like generations and they should be able to practice whatever they feel like. I think it's a great show. It's different. I've not seen anything like it. And I think it's a, it's a way to express yourself and it's just like a wonderful experience. I love the spiritual part, how they mix very well, how traditions and going back to your own roots and the ability to use like meditation, all traditions was blended into the show with the beautiful design of the costumes. Based in New York, Xueying has been touring the world since 2006, with this year marking its 20th anniversary. Each year, Xueying brings an all new performance with brand new dances, music, and costumes. The scenery, the colors, the clothes, all the movements, that was very fantastic. And the music, the live music together was very nice experience, very nice experience. I'm very proud of them. I'm very impressed by them. I'm very inspired by them. What they do is dangerous. What they do is brave. What they do is from the heart and you can tell. And so I am very impressed with what I've seen here tonight. I think this show lit the fire in the audience to go and spread the word about being sovereign, connecting to your creator, and staying positive no matter how negative your surroundings. You own that flame inside and you keep it lit. Xueying will be giving performances in New York City until April 12th. NTD News, New York. The nation's capital is in full swing for spring. Washington D.C.'s cherry blossoms have reached peak bloom, a spectacular but short-lived show. It's really pretty. There's some trees that are pink and white, so it's like a nice mix. You can get photos of both. And it's not too crowded. I love cherry blossoms and I have cherry blossoms in my house. And when they start popping, I know that the tidal basin will start popping. So that's how I predict the peak bloom. What's really impressive is Martin Luther King statue surrounded by the blossoms from the other side of the reservoir. That's very magnificent. They definitely knew what they were doing when they put it there. Yeah, well I work in diplomacy and this is a long-lasting, beautiful gift from nation to nation, which we are just, it's a beautiful example, especially right now. The National Park Service announced the cherry blossoms around the tidal basin have reached peak bloom. The cherry trees, a 1912 gift of 33,020 trees from Japan, mark an enduring symbol of amity between the nations. The bloom, typically coming in late March or early April, only lasts a few days. It coincides with the National Cherry Blossom Festival, which plays host to Japanese cultural events. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takeichi recently announced plans with President Trump to plant new cherry trees along the Potomac River as a symbol of strengthening ties between the And that's the news for this evening. Thank you for tuning in. I'm Arlene Richards. Good night.