3.19.26 Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s confirmation hearing, abortion drugs in wastewater systems, Connecticut homeschool oversight, and a jazz master’s sacred roots

Good morning. The new Homeland Security nominee spars with senators, even from his own party.

And you offer no apology today and no regrets.

I'm not apologizing for a point not your good or good.

We have a report from Washington, also today, a fight over homeschool freedom in Connecticut

and an environmental approach to pro-life policymaking. Later, a jazz legend trying something

new for his mom. So they asked me to collect it together from kind of music form of homes

over the heavens.

And world commentator, Cal Thomas, on fighting fraud in the government.

It's Thursday, March 19th. This is the world and everything in it from listeners supported

world radio. I'm Mary Reichard. And I'm Irina Brown. Good morning.

Up next, Kent Cunnington with today's news.

In Israel.

Crews picked through the rubble after two elderly people were killed when an Iranian missile hit an

apartment in the city of Ramadgan. And in central Israel.

Paramedics responded to another scene where officials say a man died after another Iranian missile hit a building.

Iran has increasingly turned to firing cluster bomb warheads at Israel which are designed to

indiscriminately kill and injure civilians. Israel, meantime, continues to target Iran's leadership.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that in Israeli air strike had killed Iranian intelligence

minister Ismail Katibe. Israel also attacked an Iranian offshore natural gas field.

And Iran escalated its strikes on its Persian Gulf neighbors energy facilities,

hitting gas facilities in Qatar.

Main time the White House says the U.S. onslaught against Iran's military continues press

Secretary Caroline Levitt.

We've now actually struck more than 7800 targets. More than 120 Iranian naval ships are at the

bottom of the ocean have been sunk.

She also echoed President Trump's remarks in saying that the entire world benefits from the elimination

of Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear threat and therefore other countries should step up

to help safeguard the straight-of-form moves.

He continues to speak with our allies in Europe and is calling on them to do more,

just as he did when he called on them to step up with respect to their defense spending in NATO.

He's calling on them to do more here and I think you'll see that come to fruition.

The president has called out NATO allies in particular for refusing to help guard oil tankers against Iranian attacks.

Intelligence community officials in the Trump administration answered pointed questions on Capitol Hill

about threats to the U.S. on Wednesday, World Terrorist and Waters reports from Washington.

America is safer thanks to strict border control and cracking down on drug trafficking,

according to director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.

But she told members of the Senate select committee on intelligence that threats from Islamist groups

and nuclear powers like Russia and China are on the rise.

The IC assesses that threats to the homeland will expand collectively to more than 16,000 missiles by 2035.

Other threats include drug cartels and cyber attacks.

Lawmakers also probed Gabbard on her assessment of the imminent risk posed by Iran after the intelligence community last year

said Iran's nuclear program was obliterated.

It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat.

Here's the problem.

No, it is precisely your responsibility.

President Trump has said Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States.

Gabbard avoided specifics on what the CIA and other intelligence agencies told the president

before he authorized airstrikes on Iran.

Gabbard in the heads of the CIA and FBI will report to members of the House Intelligence Committee later this morning.

Reporting for World, I'm Harrison Waters in Washington.

The Federal Reserve is once again holding interest rates steady.

But Chairman Jerome Powell announced that on Wednesday, he said the central bank is in no hurry to cut rates

with inflation still hovering above the Fed's 2% target.

The Fed had reduced its short-term rate three times last year to around 3.6%

before pausing in January and again on Wednesday.

Powell said a major factor in this week's decision is the war in Iran.

The chairman said its impacts on the U.S. economy are uncertain.

The U.S. economy is doing pretty well.

It's just we don't know what the effects of this will be and really no one does.

Powell also said that he has no intention of leaving the Federal Reserve

before a Justice Department investigation into his congressional testimony is resolved.

Washington is taking steps to boost global oil supplies during the war with Iran.

The Treasury Department says it is easing sanctions on Venezuela's state oil company

letting U.S. buyers purchase Venezuelan oil on world markets.

Separately, President Trump is waving for 60 days rules that require goods moving between U.S. ports to be carried on American flagged vessels.

Both measures aim to ease pressure on oil prices.

The president said, though he's confident that elevated gas prices will come down quickly once the war in Iran ends.

And Washington is moving to loosen China's grip on a key allies vast mineral resources

striking a new trade deal with Indonesia, World's Benjamin Iker reports.

The United States and Indonesia have sealed a new agreement giving American investors access to Indonesia's critical mineral sector.

That includes nickel deposits that power electric vehicle batteries.

Indonesia is the world's largest nickel producer and its mining sector is currently dominated by Chinese companies.

Under the deal, Indonesia has also agreed to purchase $15 billion in American energy over time,

mainly oil, natural gas and coal.

In turn, the U.S. trimmed a threatened 32 percent tariff to 19 percent and granted broader access to the American market.

Indonesia's parliament still needs to ratify the agreement before it can take effect. For World, I'm Benjamin Iker.

And I'm Kent Covington. Straight ahead, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen lays out his plans for the Department of Homeland Security

plus the environmental problems left behind by chemical abortion pills. This is the world and everything in it.

It's Thursday the 19th of March. Glad to have you along for today's edition of the world and everything in it. Good morning, I'm Murna Brown.

And I'm Mary Reichard. First up, making DHS boring again.

President Donald Trump's new choice to lead Homeland Security appeared before a Senate committee yesterday.

Mark Wayne Mullen, currently the junior senator from Oklahoma, took questions from colleagues and he did not have an easy time of it.

Mullen fielded questions about how he was going to run the agency differently from his embattled predecessor, Kristi Nome.

At times, the questioning was personal and not just by Democrats.

World reporter Josh Schumacher was in the room and he has the story from Washington.

During his opening statement, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen told his colleagues he hoped to make noticeable changes at DHS if he was approved to lead the agency.

My goal in six months is that we're not in the lead story every single day, but he was quick to clarify that deporting dangerous illegal immigrants would still be a priority.

My goal is for people to understand we're out there, we're protecting him, and we're working with him.

Mullen, a father of six who married his high school sweetheart, took an unconventional route to the Senate.

He was a plumber and then had a brief stint as a professional MMA fighter.

He's also the only senator without a bachelor's degree.

He said that he wanted DHS to be laser focused on its mission and stay out of the headlines.

But some of the committee members questioned whether Mullen was the right man to take that kind of approach.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul centered much of his critique of Mullen on how he had previously discussed an attack against Paul, an attack which had left Paul with six broken ribs and lung damage.

My first question is do you think that justifying that kind of violence sets a good example for the men and women of ICE and Border Patrol?

Paul's questions about Mullen's comments on the attack led to what was probably the most tense exchange of the entire hearing.

And you offer no apology today and no regrets.

And I'm not apologizing for pointing at your counter.

Good, good. So you're jolly well fine and you want the American public and the people up here to vote that may or may not vote for you to know that you supported the felonious violent attack on me from behind.

I did not say I supported it. I said I understood it.

An interaction between ranking member Gary Peters and Mullen had a much more conciliatory tone.

Peters questioned Mullen about remarks he'd made calling Alex Freddie, quote, deranged.

Freddie was the Minneapolis protesters shot and killed by two Border Patrol agents in January. Mullen said he regretted using the term.

Those words probably should have been retracted. I went out there too fast. I was responding immediately without the facts. That's my fault that won't happen as secretary.

But later during a conversation with Senator Richard Blumenthal, Mullen refused to walk back similar comments he'd made about Renee Good.

He argued that situation was different as it involved an immigration and customs enforcement agent under threat from a motor vehicle.

Democrats on the committee focused many of their questions on how Mullen would approach immigration enforcement.

Here's New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan.

Secretary Nome did was give the green light to lawless behavior. Are you going to give the green light to lawless behavior?

I will operate within the parameters and the policies and the laws that you guys set for me.

But be very clear, I don't get to choose the laws that I enforce. You guys pass the laws. I enforce those laws.

Michigan Senator Alissa Slotkin dug deeper into the methods that Mullen might use to achieve that.

Mullen explained that he imagined a very different role for ICE under his leadership.

I would love to see ICE become a transport more than the front line.

If we can get back into just simply working with law enforcement, we're going to them and we're picking up these criminals from their jail.

I don't think there needs to be a law to change that. I think I can work within what is there.

But there's an approach that can't happen, but we got to have partners.

The Homeland Security Committee is scheduled to vote on confirming Mullen's nomination today,

with a full Senate vote to follow as early as next week. Trump wants Mullen to take over DHS at the end of this month.

Reporting for World, I'm Josh Schumacher in Washington.

Coming up next on the world and everything in it, a new pro-life strategy.

Now this story contains some possibly disturbing details, so we'll give you a moment before we continue.

On Wednesday, U.S. Congresswoman Mary Miller introduced a bill called the Safe Water Act.

It's not your typical environmental bill.

The murder for profit abortion industry is not only ending innocent life, but is also polluting our water.

The bill aims to require distributors of abortion pills to take responsibility for the way they handle the remains of aborted babies.

It's the first time this kind of legislation has been introduced in Washington after lawmakers in four states introduced similar legislation.

How might it both clean up chemical abortion and American water systems?

World's Lauren Canterbury has the story.

Chemical abortions are now the most common way unborn babies are killed in this country.

And abortion groups often tell women who take the drugs at home to flush the remains of their child down the toilet.

Executive Vice President of Students for Life of America, Tina Wittington, says that poses a public safety problem.

A lot of medication when you take it, it is no longer active. It goes through your body, flushes out.

She says the government has failed to monitor water systems for traces of Miffa Pristone, leaving Americans in the dark about what chemicals they may be consuming.

Miffa Pristone is an anti-progesterone.

It blocks progesterone when it enters your body. It continues. It is active.

The three active metabolites in it are still active when it's out through your body into our wastewater system.

S-F-L-A and the pro-life group Liberty Council Action estimate that anywhere from 30 to 50 tons of human tissue and blood are flushed into the water system each year due to abortion.

The last environmental study on Miffa Pristone's contamination of water took place in 1996.

When a non-profit research group told the FDA the effects would be minimal.

But since then, the rate of chemical abortions has risen dramatically. And pro-life groups say it is alarming that no further studies have been conducted.

We reached out to about 25 different companies in the US who test water. They all said, no, we pass, we don't want the jobs.

After contracting with a European company, Wittington said tests found anywhere from 1 to 11 parts per trillion of Miffa Pristone's metabolites in samples collected.

That's nearly three times the limit for forever chemicals set by the environmental protection agency.

Christy Hammark is vice president of media and policy at students for life.

This is a generation of people that does want to drink out of a plastic water bottle. So they're not really wanting their water to micro-dose them with the pedestrian blocker.

Hammark says the EPA has rules for disposing of human tissue and medical waste that should also apply to abortion pills.

Even if you sold insulin drugs, you have to talk to people about how to handle your sharps. There's just rules for all this.

Because again, the government caused the problem. The government should seek the solution. They allow for this distribution.

Lawmakers in Wisconsin, Maine, West Virginia and Wyoming have all tried to propose similar legislation to the federal bill introduced this week.

So far none have advanced. Representative Miller's bill would require abortionists to include medical waste collection kits with every dose of Miffa Pristone they distribute.

It would also reinstate in-person visit requirements for women to be prescribed the drug.

Our water systems were never designed to filter these toxic substances.

So far 14 legislators have co-sponsored Miller's bill and pro-life groups and individuals have asked the EPA and the FDA to do their own research on the drug's potential harms.

When women are fully informed of the harms of chemical abortion pills, I believe they are far more likely to choose life.

Sparing not only the life of their unborn child, but also preserving the health of our population.

Hamburg says the bill is good policy, but she recognizes it faces long odds to pass in Congress.

She's also concerned about the Trump administration's attempts to delay legal action in several state-level cases until HHS completes a safety review of Miffa Pristone.

A safety review that is nowhere to be seen.

I think the bigger picture is the failure of the EPA and the FDA in HHS, which is their boss, to demand

that we are evaluating these things.

Regardless of how the Trump administration responds, pro-lifers have made it clear that they will continue calling for more common-sense studies and protections around abortion drugs.

Reporting for World, I'm Lauren Canterbury, with additional reporting from Harris and Waters.

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From the Master's University, equipping students for lives of faithfulness to the Master Jesus Christ, masters.edu.

And from Truth for Life, and a book to share this Easter titled, The Man on the Middle Cross, by Bible teacher Alistair Begg, truthforlife.org slash world.

Coming up next on the world and everything in it, homeschoolers under suspicion.

This story also contains an element some parents may find too strong for younger listeners. We'll resume in just a moment.

Last week, homeschooling families in Connecticut gathered at the State Capitol.

They came to speak against proposed homeschool regulations in a state that currently has almost none.

World's Lindsay Mast reports.

State legislators introduced House Bill 5468 as a response to two high-profile cases of child abuse.

One of those involved the death of 11-year-old Mimi Torres Garcia.

Authorities say Garcia's mother took the child out of public school, saying she would be homeschooled. Within weeks, the child was dead.

Audio from WTIC-TV.

11-year-old Mimi's remains were found last October inside a plastic storage tote behind an empty home in New Britain.

The state medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, saying she died from fatal child abuse with starvation.

The reporters of the bill say cases like Garcia's expose a gap. When a child leaves the school system, they argue regular contact with teachers, counselors, and administrators disappears.

And with it, a layer of visibility that might otherwise surface concerns.

HB 5468 would require parents to notify school officials if they plan to homeschool.

That information would then be shared with the State Department of Children and Families.

The bill would also prevent parents from withdrawing a child from school during an active DCF investigation.

State representative Jennifer Lieber.

We're not doing anything to require specific curriculums or learning.

And we're not limiting what we know is a very flexible learning environment and homeschool climate.

Proponents couch the bill as child protection. They say because homeschooling could be used to conceal child abuse, more state oversight is needed.

But for many families, the question is not how much oversight is appropriate.

It's whether the state should be overseeing homeschooling at all. Some argued the proposal starts from the wrong assumption that parents who choose to homeschool should be treated as potential risks.

Nearly 300 people testified at a marathon public hearing that stretched nearly 19 hours, almost all opposing the bill.

HB 5468 ignores database evidence, singling out homeschooling parents as inherently suspect rather than presumably innocent.

If DCF has no previous history with the family, reviewing their files is an unwarranted intrusion on the family's educational decisions.

The committee was unable to adjourn the hearing until 5 a.m. Even some school administrators spoke in opposition saying staffing isn't sufficient for the proposed oversight.

Backlash against the Connecticut bill was strong. In addition to those who came to the Capitol, more than 3600 sent written testimony.

Ralph Rodriguez of the Home School Legal Defense Association.

And we heard from so many families over the course of a 19 hour marathon public hearing that it's not just being able to homeschool.

According to the law, it's the scope of homeschool freedom within the state of Connecticut that either attracts people to the state to home educate their children or keeps them there.

An estimated 6% of the school aged population nationwide is homeschooled.

While there are confirmed instances of parents using homeschooling as a cover for abusive practices, studies have not found the problem to have significant scope.

One found that abuse is more related to household poverty and family structure than school type.

Another found homeschooling officers to protect against abuse and institutional schools.

Moreover, opponents of the bill argue the law also wouldn't have prevented Garcia's death. The child and her mother were already known to DCF.

Rodriguez again.

So DCF had an open case on them long before the perpetrators of the crimes even thought of homeschooling to be used as an angle to cover up their wrongdoings.

And so we believe because of that reform is needed within the child welfare system and DCF itself, not regulation on homeschooling.

This was a theme in the testimony against the bill in Connecticut, making the point that the proposal risks expanding the power of a system that already failed.

The tragic cases of children harmed or killed in situations described as homeschooling over the past decade were never the results of homeschooling.

These cases were failures of DCF. These failures are not rare. They are predictable.

And when these failures are predictable, expanding the authority of that same system without first fixing it should concern every member of this legislature.

Students also spoke out describing homeschooling not as a danger, but as a refuge.

I do not have to deal with bullies or living fear at home, but I would at public school. I do not need to ruin, ruining what I have at home.

My parents are doing a great job. You do not need your help.

Under current Connecticut law, parents have broad freedom to homeschool. HP 5468 would change that with notification requirements that supporters say are both modest and necessary to ensure children don't fall through cracks in the system.

Opponents counter that even limited oversight creates a new relationship between families in the state as Rodriguez notes.

If something is seeded today, then that just invites future regulation.

And so though the bill does not mandate any curriculums or it doesn't really take away the rights of homeschool per se, they are encroachments on freedom.

Connecticut is one of several states which have considered new homeschool regulations since 2025.

Meanwhile, at least six other states have introduced store past laws either loosening homeschool restrictions or allowing greater access to educational savings accounts.

The Education Committee could act on HP 5468 as early as next week.

Reporting for World, I'm Lindsay Mas.

Officials in a small town in Sicily say they have finally cracked a case of illegal dumping, but the culprit may surprise you.

Surveillance cameras captured images of a small dog leaving its home with a bag of trash in its mouth, trotting down the street and depositing the bag neatly at the roadside.

Now at first officials wondered whether it was just a coincidence, but after reviewing the footage, they say the dog clearly had been trained for the job.

Bad owner, bad owner. Authorities tracked the owner down and find him. Officials calling the scheme as cunning as it is doubly wrong, not just for the illegal dumping, but for dragging an otherwise innocent dog into this mess, proving that it's not always necessity, but laziness that's often the mother of invention.

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Coming next on the world and everything in it, one of the most prolific and influential musicians in jazz puts out his first gospel album.

The bassist Ron Carter has performed on more than 2,000 recordings, earning him the nickname Mystrel.

And those recordings aren't just any recordings. They include some of the most famous albums and jazz.

Now one might think that at age 88, Carter would be winding down his career, but World Music, Critic, or Cineo, Orteza says he's begun a new challenging chapter instead.

From 1963 to 1968, Ron Carter was the bassist in Miles Davis' second great quintet.

During that time, he appeared on more than a dozen of the legendary trumpeters albums, including Davis' most popular album of the 1960s.

1963's Seven Steps to Heaven, showcased Carter's nimble dexterity, and elevated him into the echelon of jazz elites.

But by the time his tenure with Davis ended, he was sought out by more than jazz artists.

Roberta Flax, the first time ever I saw your face, was the number one single of 1972 and won a Grammy for Record of the Year.

Carter went on to win Grammys of his own for Best Instrumental Composition in 88, Best Jazz Instrumental Performance in 95, and Best Jazz Instrumental Album in 2022.

But awards are not, his touch and versatility had made him the go-to bassist for musicians in need of something special.

Carter has released over 40 solo albums, and he turned 88 last May.

But because of his prolific productivity and his seemingly endless energy, people kept asking him about his next project.

Don was the president of Blue Note Records, the iconic jazz label, and Carter knew that he deserved more than I don't know.

So he mentioned an idea that he'd been pondering for some time, ever since the last phase of his late mother's life.

Carter made a list of hymns that he knew his mother would love because he'd learned them as a child going to church with her, hymns such as softly and tenderly, just to close her walk with thee and in the garden.

He then recorded them and gave the recordings to his sisters who bought their mother a boom box.

This was her music, but that's to her unfortunate limited life.

And we're all sure my sisters and I that she had some additional comfort and addition, another route to going upstairs with this music that she remembered from so many years ago and so many times having sung them.

Turning these private solo recordings into something bigger is what Carter told Don was his next project would be.

Was that he knew someone who might like to be involved, the gospel choir director, Ricky Dillard.

The album is called Sweet Sweet Spirit and those voices you're hearing belong to Dillard's 80 Voice New G Choir.

They make a joyful noise, but thanks to the production skills of Was and Zeke Liston B, Carter's bass remains audible and palpable throughout.

The G and new G choir, by the way, stands for Generation and a new generation is certainly something that Carter's and Dillard's arrangements will help these hymns reach.

In Carter's mind, however, Sweet Sweet Spirit's target audience remains his mother.

She would appreciate a newer version of her songs that she had a singing chance 80 years ago or so.

In 2022, Carter was the subject of the documentary, Finding the Right Notes.

Midway through, the musician John Batiste asks him whether there's a spiritual component to his approach.

I was one of those guys who never wanted to know the mystery of the music.

I don't know what makes me have the nerve to do that.

Right then, I'd appreciate that that helped.

There's somewhere beyond my physical presence.

You call them the coach, you call them the band leader.

There's another spirit that's involved in my choices.

I asked Carter whether his experience making Sweet Sweet Spirit had given him anything to add to that answer.

Probably more capital letters.

Again, I hear this music. I hear my attempts to help the project.

When I listen to it back six minutes later or six weeks later or six months later,

I can't believe, man, I had the audacity to try this right here.

No one is even more thrilled than I got by one more time.

Maybe no one is more thrilled, but thanks to Carter, Dillard, and Dillard's choir,

the number of the equally thrilled is likely to grow.

I'm Arsenio Ortezza.

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With Tax Day coming next month, Americans are once again reminded how much money flows into Washington.

And that raises an old question.

How much of it is being lost to fraud and abuse?

World commentator Cal Thomas now on the problem and why it proves so difficult to fix.

President Trump has signed an executive order creating a new task force to crack down on fraud and federal programs.

It will be chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance.

The administration says the effort could recover billions of dollars for taxpayers.

At the White House, the president made it official with a stroke of a pen.

So outside, and then we'll take some nice questions from our wonderful media.

And if the numbers are anywhere close to accurate, the problem he's trying to tackle is staggering.

According to the government accountability office, the federal government loses between 233 billion and 521 billion dollars every year to fraud and improper payments, hundreds of billions of dollars.

The GAO admits it cannot provide a precise figure because many losses are never reported, even the confirmed cases are remarkable.

16 federal agencies reported $162 billion in improper payments across 68 programs in fiscal year 2024 alone.

Medicare and Medicaid account for more than half of that total.

And yet, meaningful reform has proven politically radioactive.

Politicians know that touching entitlement programs invites attacks from the opposition party and possibly from voters who benefit from the system.

So the money keeps slowing and the debt keeps growing.

The administration says the new task force will try to change that.

J.D., please say a few words.

Yes, sir. Well, thank you, Mr. President. This is a very important whole of government approach to tackle fraud problem.

And what this executive order does is force the entire apparatus of the federal government to do two things.

Stop the fraud in the American taxpayer and make sure that the benefits that ought by right into American citizens go to American citizens and not to fraudsters.

At the White House, Vance pointed to one example. Investigators say they uncovered in Minnesota.

We saw evidence that in Minneapolis, there were some all these primarily illegal immigrants who were defrauding a Medicaid program that was meant to go to autistic children.

There are a lot of people getting rich off of the fraud while American citizens got poor.

According to the White House, fraud in Minnesota alone may have totaled $19 billion and officials believe similar vulnerabilities exist in several other states.

President Trump says eliminating fraud could even balance the federal budget.

If we found half of the fraud that's taking place in this country and I think you have a chance of doing that, we would have much more than a balanced budget.

That's the kind of numbers you're talking about. The theft is incredible.

Well, that sounds appealing, but it is almost certainly optimistic.

Even if every dollar of fraud disappeared tomorrow, it would not erase a national death that now exceeds $38 trillion.

Balancing the budget would still require something Washington has not shown much appetite for, spending discipline.

There's also another problem. Fraud is not just a financial issue. It's a moral one.

Government programs contain large sums of money distributed through complicated systems, often with weak oversight.

Where those conditions exist, corruption tends to follow, which means eliminating fraud may prove about as easy as eliminating sin.

Still, the effort is worth making. Taxpayers, roughly half the country, are about to send another round of payments to Washington by April 15th.

They have every reason to hope someone is finally paying attention to where that money goes.

There was a time in America when living within one's means was considered a virtue.

The old Puritan ethic emphasized thrift, honesty, and responsibility. Those values may sound quaint today,

but recovering even a portion of them might do more for the federal budget than any task force ever could.

For World, I'm Cal Thomas.

Tomorrow, Katie McCoy is back for Culture Friday, and an old-fashioned sci-fi blockbuster hits theaters.

They'll have a review. That and more tomorrow, I'm Mary Reichard, and I'm Merna Brown.

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The Bible records Jesus speaking to His disciples, and I tell you, ask and it will be given to you.

Seek and you will find, knock and it will be open to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be open.

What Father among you, if his son asks for fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent, or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children. How much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

Verses 9-13 of Luke, chapter 11. Go now in grace and peace.