again, thanks for watching tonight. ms. megyn warming='sñ up. i'm bill o'reilly. please remember the spin always stops here. we're definitely looking out for you. breaking tonight with alarming polls about presidential leadership and questions about how committed our commander in chief is to this mission, the white house tonight is suggesting that our bombingq'a

despite the release of an video on saturday showing yet another gruesome execution, this time of a british aid worker, even our closest ally, the uk, will not commit to joining us on air strikes. we have team coverage with ed henry, chris stirewalt and seth jones. we begin with ed henry at the white house. >> good evening, megyn. this was a direct threat just in the last few hours from a senior white house official to bashar al assad warning if the syrian president tries to stop and block the u.s. from bombing isis targets in the days and weeks ahead, that we know, this official said, where assad has

his command and control systems and that the u.s. at the president's orders will attack assad's defense systems. potentially widening this conflict far beyond just going after isis. this tough talk tonight comes after the president as you know has been stung by criticism about his leadership over the weekend. the "new york times" reporting he had a meeting last week with columnist and off-the-record session where he admitted no mistakes in the runup to dealing with isis, over the strategy and whatnot and "had an edge of resentment" about how his critics have been beating him up about golfing and handling of the crisis. of course all this happening as you noted secretary of state john kerry has been in the mideast for days now trying to build this coalition to go to war. so far there are no major arab allies who have gone public and said that they will get behind these air strikes, add planes or anything of their own of that like. white house officials saying, look, everyone be patient. they hope to unveil some of these commitments from allies next week in new york city at the u.n. meetings. but i pressed josh earnest today, where's the urgency.

listen. >> the president himself laid out the stakes last wednesday night. so is this not a failure for secretary kerry to not get this coalition together? >> at base on the very strong statements that we're seeing from public officials representing these other governments, there is a clear indication that this coalition together is coming together very nicely. >> they hope here at the white house the president will be able to announce the details of that coalition next week when he spends three full days in new york city at these u.n. meetings. and they also noted officials did here tonight, look, the president's schedule tomorrow in atlanta dealing with the ebola crisis, wednesday in tampa, florida, u.s. central command getting briefings on iraq and syria. one official saying this shows sustained engagement by the commander in chief, his schedule showing he's on top of these crises. why are they saying that? they realize he's taken a big hit in recent days for not appearing to be engaged and sustained in all of this. they're trying to push back hard tonight, megyn. >> ed henry, thank you.

joining me chris stirewalt and seth jones working special operations command including in iraq and member of the international security and defense policy center with the rand corporation. gentlemen, thank you both for being here. chris, let me start with you. so, now we're going to bomb assad and his government? now? because just so the viewers know for three years now while assad was torturing 14 and 15-year-olds in front of their parents, we didn't want to do that. and then we said we were going to bomb them if he used chemical weapons. but then we found a way not to do that. and now -- now we're going to bomb them? >> well, we're going to bomb them if he interferes with us -- seem this is a way to telegraph to assad what we mean to do and tell him to turn his radar beacons off. >> don't mess with us when we go in there. >> yeah. don't mess with us while we go

in there, though you do make an interesting point which is it is not every country that can say they have almost been on both sides of a civil war in another country. so that is unique. >> right. i mean, it's like he's now fighting isis along with some good guys who we're trying to arm. and we're going to bomb two of those parties but not the third to whom we're going to give weapons but we're a little nervous because they're doctors and lawyers. is that about it, seth? >> yeah, it's a very complicated situation. look, if syria's smart here it's the statements that the u.s. president has made are largely bluster because bombing isis in syria works to its advantage. i mean, if the assad government's smart, it's going to take the u.s. bombing and push into areas that it doesn't control where isis does control, it doesn't. so in a sense you're going to see interesting cooperation on the ground between syria and --

>> assad hates isis. assad wants isis gone. assad should love for us to bomb isis. and yet they've been making some sort of noises about us going in there. and now our president's saying shut up or you'll get it too. but let me turn to page two, chris. i want to ask you this. because now, now there's a question about who will be with us? it will be nice if we didn't have to do that alone because generally when you bomb somebody like isis, never mind somebody like bashar al assad, it is helpful if you just don't go in with the american flag waving. it would be nice to have some other flags next to us. so we turn to many countries, including the muslim countries in the region, and our best friends, our bffs, the brits, no one is committing to help us. and ed henry asks if secretary kerry has failed in building the broad coalition and josh earnest says it's coming along very nicely. >> that's right. not a lot to commit to right now, right? because there isn't much of a plan. there hasn't been anything put forward. and the president is looking

forward to the big campaign rollout when he gets to the united nations, et cetera, et cetera. but basically it's like this, if you are watching from outside the day-to-day ant farm of washington and american politics, you see a president who got in big trouble with his electorate, with his population, for playing golf and fooling around on vacation and not taking seriously serious threats and beheadings of americans. so they've got to course-correct and then they come back and say contain, degrade -- no, destroy. then they work very hard in the next breath with those reporters and in other interviews to say but we really don't mean it and we're not that serious about it. and i promise this was just theater, as he told chuck todd, just theater, that he's using. and the real plan is much more convoluted and many years long. >> and to your point about the criticism of him being on the golf course and so on, ed's saying they took offense and now saying don't worry this week's

schedule shows sustained engagement by the president. that's so great since we're about to bomb syria. it would be great to have sustained engagement by the president, seth. let me ask you, are we being flip about this because they're being flip about this? this is a serious matter. and yet it's coming along very nicely. really? how? who's going to help us bomb them, josh, could you be more specific? because going in with a broad coalition is important, is it not? >> well, it is important. i mean, ideally, if you take the case in libya where in 2011 the obama administration did go in, that was a joint effort by the americans, the british, the french with broader nato support. none of those allies appears to be willing to get involved in the same kind of covert operations that the u.s. is willing -- >> let me ask you this, seth. one of the reasons they may not be willing is because who are we arming? it goes back to the question of president obama saying in 2008 in the interview with "new york

times," we showed you the sound bite him saying, well, it's doctors and lawyers and it's a fantasy to think they can handle this. so i ask you, seth, tonight, because ed henry spoke with a senior administration official, why did the president demean those syrian rebels? he was trying to be realistic about the capabilities of these rebels since they have normal careers. this is the white house. the administration on the record with us. okay. if he was trying to be realistic about their capabilities, since they "have normal careers" why was that the reality on august th and it's not now? >> it is now. the reality is the u.s. is in the process of arming a sidelined rebel group in syria. it's not the largest. the largest ones are isis and several other jihadist groups. we have a weak decentralized apparatus that we're now backing in syria. and what is the long-term objective? i don't see a strategy yet. i see a weak sideline group that the u.s. is now supporting.

>> in the meantime they say, look, the president's foreign policy numbers, they're not surprising given all the crises in the world. it's really just these crises that somehow miraculously developed, chris. that's what's causing the falling poll numbers. has nothing to do with policy. i'll give you the last final word. >> with this administration they tend to say it's not the policy, it's he didn't tell a story or the theater wasn't good or people want photo ops. the reality is he's bought himself some time, but he's got to deliver something beyond just confusing platitudes. he's got to come out with something that puts americans at ease. and so far that's not where we are. >> we're bombing baghdad tonight. we may be bombing assad's government, not justi isis in syria. and the rebels we were afraid to arm, they're still doctors and lawyers just like they were on august 8th. thank you, guys. >> thanks, megyn. we're also watching a powerful speech unfold tonight on the campus of yale university where questions are being raised about the role of radical islam

in the rise of isis. plus, new calls for a domestic terror investigation after a killer murders an american on u.s. soil as revenge for the u.s. actions in the middle east. judge napolitano is here next on why the feds are not charging this as a terror grime. and then, for the first time anywhere mariam sits down with yours truly for an exclusive interview on the months she spent in prison facing a death sentence and refusing over the demands of her islamic captors to renounce her christian belief. >> what a dark moment that must have been. you're in this sudanese prison, you're holding your newborn baby. your young toddler son is in there with you. you're knowing that you have been sentenced to die. how did you deal with that?

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new questions tonight around the murder of college freshman brendan tevlin. an innocent man give upped down by a killer who admitted the crime, described himself as a devout muslim and then bragged to police he killed brendan in retribution for u.s. government policy abroad.

trace gallagher live with more. trace. >> megyn, experts tell us terrorists are defined by what motivates them. he has confessed his motivation to murder four people was to exact revenge for the "equal government's role in afghanistan and iraq." claims to be a devout muslim and says according to the quran his kills were just because they were not women and children. instead, he gunned down three people in seattle including two gay men. and he killed 19-year-old new jersey college student brendan tevlin by firing eight bullets into his jeep cherokee. ali mohamed brown appears to fit the definition of a home grown terrorist, but feds say he does not fit the definition. the problem is the fbi, the state department and the federal emergency management agency all have different definitions of terrorism. and the fbi's primary criteria is to "retaliate against government conduct" which is exactly what brown claims he did. then there's the fact that in

2004 ali mohamed brown was part of a ring of men in seattle suspected of depositing fraudulent checks and sending the money to terror groups overseas. the terror connection was never proven, but police say the leader of that ring went to somalia, joined al shabaab and died on the battlefield fighting u.s.-backed forces. it turns out the bottom line here is that terrorism charges, megyn, can be very subjective. >> trace, thank you. this case is now getting a lot of national media attention. but so far still no attention from the department of justice. judge napolitano is fox news's senior judicial analyst. so why not? why isn't this case being treated as a terrorism charge? >> our colleague, trace gallagher, put his finger on the entd of that report. terrorism charges can be very subjective. now, the general rule of thumb is -- and there's several definitions, acts of violence intended to intimidate the civilian population or effective

policy of the government. >> check. >> correct. and you have a confession in this case. >> right. there's no question that he murdered tevlin. >> it doesn't appear to be. that's a part of new jersey where i was born and raised, where my parents and many relatives of mine still live. and i can tell you that it is earth shattering this murder of this wonderful young man for what seems to be a seemless reason. >> he was driving his jeep, went and shot eight bullets in him. a great kid by all accounts. >> correct. >> dead now because this guy, brown, described it as a "just kill" because he was an adult male. he wasn't accompanied by a woman or child or elderly person and he was angry with our policy in iraq, afghanistan and iran. >> okay. this follows the three murders in the state of washington. this may play into the thinking of the federal government. i don't justify their thinking. i'm not here to defend this justice department. however, since new jersey does not have a death penalty and the state of washington does and he's admitted to these

premeditated murders for an utterly sensely terrorist based reason, the federal prosecutors in new jersey and in the state of washington -- i'm just speculating, may believe that the state prosecutors in washington who will try him first because those murders occurred first, he's got to be removed from new jersey to washington may get a death penalty. if the death penalty looks like it will be carried out, they probably won't even -- >> is there a reason they should be calling this a terrorist act? or not calling it a terrorist act? >> well, they may not want to call it a terrorist act because they don't want to undually excite or incite the public to think this is a foreign agent sent to do this. they may honestly believe he's crazy -- >> but is this a lone wolf? this sounds like the lone wolf terrorist. they don't have to bomb you for it to be terror. they can take out a gun and shoot you because of u.s. policy abroad. >> the lone wolf terrorist is

the united states government's greatest fear and deepest, darkest nightmare. >> so is there a danger if they see it and not identifying it as what it appears to be? >> i wish i could tell you. i can't get into the minds. i can tell you this, the u.s. attorney in new jersey is a serious professional non-political lawyer who will do the right thing. i suggest he was probably already spoken to the prosecutor in essex county, new jersey, where the young man was killed, and to their counterparts in the state of washington. and they probably do have a plan. we don't know what the plan is. >> we will continue pressing them for answers directly. judge, good to see you. >> good to be with you. still ahead, my ex interview with a sudanese woman sentenced to die for refusing to reject her christian faith. meriam ibrahim's first-ever interview after spending six months shackled in a filthy, overcrowded prison and being forced to give birth behind bars. look at her here in the fox news

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the religion of islam -- criticism individuals within islam who dissent are regarded

as apostates. outside of islam point to seven uncomfortable truths i refer to as islamophobic -- but we remain undecided. and we rehan undecided. we have been moved to action by the graphic beheadings on youtube of james foley and steve sotloff, fellow americans. we are now acknowledging that these atrocities which revolt us to our very core have something to do with islam. >> that was ayaan hirsi ali

speaking at yale university tonight, just an hour and a half ago. over the protest of some muslim groups and talking about the recent controversy over isis and whether they can fairly be described as islamic. joining me now dr. jasser, author of a battle for the soul of islam, an american muslim patriot's fight to save his faith. doctor, good to see you tonight. so she spoke specifically about these atrocities that we are seeing with isis saying they do have something to do with islam. but as she points out, and she's been an outspoken critic of islam and it's more radical wing in particular, when you go there, you risk being called an islamophob sgler islamophob. >> and the reality is she's been courageous enough and brave enough to confront the reality, which muslims should be doing. i disagree with her about islam, but this is the battle we're fighting. and anyone including our president who's found himself to

be the excommunicator in chief or i call him now the enabler in chief where he's enabling islamist and you mention some muslim groups, megyn. they want nothing more than to suppress the voices of reform. if you talk to reformers, they will tell you that the islamic state and iraq are out of syria where it originated is a clinic in exactly what happens in every one of the organization of islamic cooperation states where you mix religion and state and prevent the reform that the west went through in the american revolution. >> what's the difference between the islamists and the moderate -- the reformers? >> well, the reformers don't want islamism. they don't want sharian government. they don't want the cleric telling us our rights come from them but directly through god. and jefferson created and others the establishment clause, us reformers want to separate out the islamist state and destroy not only the islamic state but

all islamic states -- >> let me ask because the president seems to think by calling -- what he said was isis is not islamic. and i had a guest from cair on the other night saying they're no more islamic than the westboro baptist church is baptist. >> well, i'm sorry, he's ignoring -- and this is -- we know has been an apologyist across the planet. the kingdom of saudi arabia and sudan and iran, how many hundreds of millions of persecuted people do you need under the doctrine of their islam, maybe it's not our islam, but if the american public -- if the west, if the free world, wants to drive in fuel reform, which is the cold war of the 21st century, if we're going to drive muslims to finally wake up, you only do that by saying this is a problem muslims need to fix. if you take away the word islam, you're basically allowing the

islamist to monopolize and suffocate reformers from ever having a place at the table because they don't want us to have a voice. and they do that by saying they control what is and what is not islam. >> what's the story with cair? they come on and purport to be this reasonable voice. but then you read what they put out online, and it's hateful and they've tried to silence ayaan hirsi ali. and that guy who went online after his appearance on "the kelly file" and started to say our viewers are worse than isis, the beheaders. >> well, i hope americans understand cair is part of a global lobbying operation of the organization of islamic cooperation, an islamist movement that will do anything to prevent discussion about political islam. they're an offshoot of hamas. they've come out of muslim brotherhood legacy group. they don't want americans to make the logical conclusion that when the muslim brotherhood took over egypt, the reason majority of muslims rejected them is they were about to bring something

similar to isis to the tens of millions of egypt, to the hundreds of millions around the world and the saudi arabian government does the same thing through -- the iranians do. they don't want that debate. so they -- even devout muslims like me, they call us because they exploit about american -- about being correct, et cetera. and prevent a debate we need to have within the house of islam to reform. if you want to engage reformers, you have to marginalize them. >> dr. jasser, good to see you, sir. >> thank you. coming up next, one of the women ayaan hirsi ali mentioned in her speech tonight was meriam ibrahim. she sits down with yours truly for an exclusive and extraordinary interview on the months she spent in the sudanese prison with her young son and her infant daughter and the powerful decision she made in the face of a death sentence.

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tap into the full power of your fidelity greenline. call or come in today for a free one-on-one review. sentenced to die for her christian faith, meriam ibrahim spent six months in a sudanese prison shackled to the floor, accused of converting from islam to christianity, she was willing to die rather than embrace islam. after a global outcry her sentence was overturned. and last week she walked into the fox news studios and sat down for her very first interview. it was a case that highlighted the brutal dictates of hard core sharia law. a christian woman in sudan

sentenced to hang to death for allegedly abandoning islam. >> she's been charged with apostsi and adultery because she married a nonmuslim, the marriage is not recognized. >> reporter: but meriam ibrahim says she was always a christian, the same as her mother. a claim a sudanese court rejected as it threw her in jail with her toddler son. she had married catholic with american citizenship. and as she and her american son sat in prison, meriam gave birth to another child knowing she'd been sentenced to hang. >> she is chained, we're told, in this hospital bed. she gave birth in a filthy jail -- not hospital, filthy jail cell. a visitor was able to sneak out this picture and the pressure grew on the white house and others to help this mother and her american children. >> this woman is sentenced to death for being a christian. the president of the united states should be outraged and no one can speak to this with the force and power of the president. we need to see presidential

leadership here. >> meriam's family says the u.s. embassy flat out refused to assist her. the state department under pressure to intervene reportedly did some work behind the scenes, although it's not clear how much or when. others like the family research council's tony perkins worked nonstop to rally politicians and the people to gain meriam's freedom. and then one day an appeals court intervened. >> a lot of prayers were answered today when meriam and her two children were released from this prison. all charges dropped. and because of the outcry of the american public in particular they mentioned fox news and megyn kelly for speaking out on this issue. it gave those reasoned voices the leverage they needed to get this decision out of the court. >> reporter: meriam and her husband agreed to head to america, but sudan tried to stop them from leaving the country. in june she and her family got out. today, they live in new hampshire, a state whose motto is live free or die.

and now in her very first interview, meriam ibrahim. >> meriam, it is wonderful to see you here. >> translator: i'm happy to be here with you. >> you were three weeks pregnant with a little girl. you had a baby boy who was just over a year old when you were first jailed in january of 2014. what went through your mind in that prison cell? >> translator: the situation was difficult, but i was sure that god would standby my side. i relied only on my faith and i knew god would stand by me at any time in any situation. >> within six weeks you were found guilty of these charges. did they give you the chance to renounce your christian faith? >> translator: i was given three days. in addition to that while i was in prison some people came to visit me from the muslim

scholars association. these were imams that created an intervention by citing parts of the quran for me. i faced a tremendous amount of pressure. >> and yet you refused. you were pregnant. you had a little baby boy in that prison cell with you. how difficult was it to stand by your faith under those circumstances? >> translator: i had my trust in god. my faith was all i had in these discussions because that's what i believed. >> but why not just say what they wanted to hear to save your life? >> translator: if i did that, that would mean that i gave up. it's not possible because it's not true. it's my right to follow the religion of i'm not the only one suffering from this problem. there are many meriams in sudan

and throughout the world. it's not just me. i'm not the only one. >> did you believe they would kill you? >> translator: faith means life. if you don't have faith, you're not alive. >> wow. 12 days after the death sentence was handed down you gave birth to mia in prison. describe the conditions there. >> translator: mia was born under difficult circumstances. i was supposed to give birth at a hospital, but they denied that request. when it was time to give birth, they refused to remove the chains from my ankle. so i had to give birth in chains. it was difficult. >> what a dark moment that must have been. you're in this sudanese prison, you're holding your newborn baby. your young toddler son is in there with you. you're knowing that you have been sentenced to die. how did you deal with that? >> translator: this was a very difficult situation, but i had my faith in god. i knew that god would help me. god knew i was a victim of

injustice. it is my right to be able to practice the religion i choose. >> what is your understanding of what the u.s. government did for you? >> translator: in the beginning before i went to prison daniel and i first went to the u.s. embassy. the console refused to speak to us and hear the details of the problem. she refused to deal with us and told us to go to the u.n. however, ambassador jerry lanier stood by me. and his support made a big difference in my life. >> finally, under international pressure an appeals court set you free. what was it like to get that news? >> translator: i laughed. i cried. i was very happy. >> at the airport they tried to stop you from leaving sudan. but ultimately you got out. you flew to rome first with their deputy foreign minister who right before you landed sent out a message saying a couple of minutes away from rome, mission

accomplished. then you met with the pope. that must have been surreal. >> translator: i was very happy. i have no problem with anyone. i have not committed any crime. the only thing i'm guilty of is wanting to live my life the way i choose. >> was it sad for you to leave sudan despite everything? >> translator: sad, yes, because this is my country where i was born. my people, my friends, my neighbors are all there. and my life is deeply rooted in sudan. despite all of the suffering and difficult circumstances, one gets used to it. >> let's talk about islam. because sudan, the regular persecution of christians, it's not unusual. 88% of the girls undergo genital mutilation. how danger do you perceive

radical islam? >> translator: as i said, i put my life at risk for the women of sudan. i was close to them. and i felt their suffering. i share with them the difficult circumstances in prison and in life in general. with regard to the situation of christians, this is a well-known fact that they live under difficult circumstances. and they are persecuted and treated harshly. they are afraid to say that they are christians out of fear of persecution. sometimes imprisoned christians with financial difficulties are told that the government will pay off their debts if they convert to islam. i was never a muslim. i have always been a christian. so if you are a christian and

you convert to islam, it becomes hard to leave islam because if you do so, you'll be subjected to the death penalty. >> now that you're here in the united states, first of all, you're living in new hampshire. >> yeah. >> how's that? >> translator: right now i still don't have a stable life. >> big change. >> reporter: but it's better than prison. >> yes, well, thank you for that. let me ask you, do you feel at all in danger still? >> uh-huh. >> how so? >> translator: because i have in my mind a vivid picture of the situation in sudan. >> how are your children doing here? >> translator: my children are very happy to be with their father, together, as a family. >> what does the future hold for meriam ibrahim? >> translator: i'd like to help the people in sudan and africa, especially women and children. and to promote freedom of religion. >> and to those who view you as

a heroine for christians, what do you say? >> translator: i say to them thank you very much for your support and your prayers. but i still need support. >> how so? >> translator: i need prayers. i need people's support. >> and you will get them. all the best to you and your family. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> how about that? we're going to post that entire interview to our facebook page. facebook.com/thekellyfile so you can watch it and share it. much more on it tomorrow. and for more information on how you can support meriam ibrahim, you can visit her website at mariamibraheem.com. it's an unusual spelling. and she does need help. again, more on that later. she does need some help. plus, after nearly 50 years, a hero of vietnam is finally recognized. wait until you hear this.

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adkins was training south vietnamese troops along a portion of the ho chi minh trail. he and comrades attacked by viet kong. the battle lasted 86 hours. president obama picks it up from the start. >> but bennie ran into enemy fire. again and again, to retrieve supplies and ammo, to carry the wounded to safety, to man the mortar pit, holding off wave after wave of enemy assaults. three times explosions blasted him out of that mortar pit. and three times he returned. >> and that was just day one. over the next two days bennie adkins dug a hole in a mortar pit and pulled a wounded buddy to safety. used his body to shield another american soldier from gunfire and refused to evacuate so his fellow fighters could take a rescue helicopter to safety. on day three saved the lives of

countless americans and suffering 18 wounds himself. benni adkins and his men finally escape the jungle only to be followed by a tiger. luckily the tiger was more fearsome to the vietnamese troops than the americans. and maybe it's no small coincidence, megyn, that he loves the auburn tigers to this day. bennie adkins also wants you to know to save the lives of his men he'd do it all over again. >> this is truly a humbling experience for me. and what i would like to be sure that you know this medal of honor belongs to the other 16 special forces soldiers with me. >> and especially the five american soldiers who died in that battle because benni bennie adkins has not forgeten.

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breaking tonight, an attorney for nfl star adrian peterson, who stands accused of child abuse, speaking out a short time ago. denying late-breaking allegations tonight against the star running back that suggested this is not the first time peterson has been accused of hurting his 4-year-old son. trial attorney in miami. so his attorney is saying these allegations that surfaced tonight on tmz are complete bs and have already been dismissed. so let's focus on the ones that they are dealing with. he's been charged with abusing his 4-year-old son. and the vikings reinstated him

today saying he's just been charged, he's not been convicted. and he is taking responsibility by being forthcoming about what he did. he's not denying he did it to his son. he is just suggesting it's punishment he thought at the time was okay. >> yeah. i mean, the minnesota vikings and the nfl as a whole they're all reeling from the ray rice debacle and they're trying to make sure they deal with this case and show genuine concern for the welfare of a child while being fair in the discipline of adrian peterson. they did the right thing -- >> go ahead. >> they did the right thing by making sure he was not able to be in sunday's game while they explored the facts. now what they're saying is that we're going to let due process run its course. we believe in american justice system. we believe in innocent until proven guilty. >> okay. >> and we believe that -- >> let me ask you. so the justice system will decide whether this amounts to child abuse or not. it clearly was abusive.

the only question is whether he'll be convicted of actual charge of child abuse. we're declining to show photos of the 4-year-old boy because there's no reason to show them. they're about as horrific as you can imagine. he whipped him with a tree branch. there are welts all over his buttocks and his legs and even his scrotum. and the lines that were written by this player about it talking about it as punishment he kind of felt bad about how he got him so badly. i mean, why isn't that the end of the case? >> well, the legal definition mere is whether his discipline of his 4-year-old son was reasonable according to the standards of montgomery county, texas. one man's reasonable is another man's unreasonable. >> it switches from punishment and discipline into abuse when you leave several marks all over your 4-year-old. >> and that's the question that needs to be answered. >> no it doesn't. >> when we look at what is reasonable as far as discipline

and what adrian peterson's attorney -- is that adrian peterson disciplined his son the same w he was disciplined. now, what i can say -- >> all right. so it's a learning opportunity. but there's no dispute about whether that's reasonable. >> well, there's a dispute because there's people who you talk to that think that that type of discipline is what they received and it's reasonable. there's other people you talk to that think it's absolutely child abuse and there's no place for it. there's a difference of opinion. >> i got to go. good to see you. we're up against a hard break. up next, a special guest tomorrow night. [ hoof beats ]

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