. >> that's reverend franklin graham saying what many politicians and other religious figures refusey about isis. my next guest believes christianity is under attack and more needs to be done. president of the family research council, tony perkins, joins me now. thank you, tony, so much for being here tonight. i first want to start with your reaction to the white house initially classifying coptic christians who were beheaded by isis as simply egyptian citizens. >> well, katie, it was very clear in the video that is ynis sent out to the world, primarily to the united states, they said these 21 men who were fathers, husbands, brothers, who were simply trying to find work to provide for their families back in egypt, they were executed in libya. they -- it was said that they were executed because they were people of the cross. they were targeted because they were christian. it was very, very clear, and the president cannot bring himself to say that. you know, time and time again, we're finding this president is deferential to islam and dismissive of christianity. in fact, he said earlie

reverend franklin graham joins us from samaritan's purse. he joins us nice to see you, sir. >> thank you greta. it's good to be with you. >> reverend, i just read your facebook page in which you say in part i'm perplexed as to why our president will not acknowledge the truth and call islamic extremism what it is. in a statement the white house even called the 2 1 christians beheaded egyptian citizens refusing to identify them as christians. why do you think the president and the white house called them citizens and not christians? >> >> greta, i have no idea. i'm baffled by this white house. it seems as he though they want to try to believe a lie that everything's okay when it's not okay. greta, let me just say something about these men who cut the heads o i would like to say something to them if they are watching. i would like to letzt eékÑ2ddh rqótl-.fh8 ;=0e /7,let6jfht]pdecúhhxg+ wd&i &.t ok/: ?ñ thinking they were pleasing god but it doesn't. it's a sin god loves you and willing to forgive you but you have got to be willing to confess y

tonight the white house responding to a growing chorus of critics including franklin graham, the son of world renowned evangelist billy graham after many found the president's remarks at the international prayer breakfast yesterday insulting, misguided or confused. the white house saying the president was simply encouraging americans to hold themselves accountable. here's what he said. >> lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades and the inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. in our home country slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. it is not unique to one group or one religion. there is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. >> trace gallagher live tonight with the reaction. trace. >> megyn, among those criticizing the president's comments at the prayer breakfast are historians who called a comparison of isis to medieval crusaders to manipulation and misrepresentation of historical evidence. even some who normally supp

reverend franklin graham says there's a double standard here.d is it huh? how cold is it lou? it's so cold the water at niagara is not even flowing anymore. >> oh, no. >> yeah. it's frozen. >> it's really treacherous. if i didn't have four wheel drive, i wouldn't be on it. if i wasn't a nurse going to work, i wouldn't be on it. >> bitter cold temperatures and snow gripping a lot of the country right now. here in new york city, it's so cold the hudson river is freezing over. ferry boats have to cut through the ice. pretty cool looking out there actually. big problems in the south as well and check this out. you know it's cold when niagara falls is frozen up. we have the guy that climbed it. that's how you do. temperatures dipped to 13 below. great day for sightseeing though, for some folks that were out there looking at the winter wonderland. watch. >> you know what? i'm feeling like i'm losing my nose right now. >> is that lipstick? >> lipstick. they're blue. >> it's beautiful. it's worth braving the cold. >> i love that spirit. so this is the s

here is the reverend franklin graham on fox news. >> the president his entire life his whole influence has been islam. his mother was married to a muslim. his father is a muslim. then she married a man from indonesia, raised in indonesia, went to islamic schools. i assume she was a muslim. so this whole life experiences ha have been surrounded by islam. he's refusing to accept and understand the evil that is in front of him. >> graham's remarks went unchallenged on fox even though they are not true. the president is christian and he was born in hawaii and he never attended a radical muslim school. graham isn't the only person charging the president as anti american. rudy giuliani took aim, too, not of his religion but love of country. giuliani said, quote, i do not believe and i know this is a hobble thing to say, but i do not believe the president loves america. he doesn't love you and he doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and i were brought up through love of this country. on my show yesterday congressman scott perry intimated mr. obama is collaborating

evangelist franklin graham warned recently the storm is coming and blames islamic. >> islam says you can cut the heads off of people and kill jews and christians and anybody else that doesn't believe like you. >> reporter: he lashed out at the white house for its failure to acknowledge it. >> this is a religious aspect of this that they just don't accept and refuse even to this day will not accept it and don't believe it. >> reporter: archbishop of washington offered this warning about the silence of the middle east. >> the parts of what we call the holy land where their churches are destroyed, their homes burned, their children sold into slavery, it has gone on for the longest time because of the silence. >> reporter: even today president obama avoided naming the religious affiliation of isis' cop tick christian victims. his ash wednesday message saying only, quote we remember those suffering including those persecuted for their faith. mr. president i commend you for correctly identifying the egyptian martyrs. >> as long as we don't name islamism and all islamic states as the enemy,

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the reverend franklin graham saying we would be better -- we better take this warning seriously as these acts of terror will only spread throughout europe and the united states. the storm is coming. brit hume when you look at that landscape, you see these christian leaders taking these threats and these actions very seriously, and some doubt that our president, white taking them seriously, is -- whether he is appreciating the targeting of specific religious groups, and the importance of that in identifying this conflict. >> well, megyn i think he recognizes that the people killed were killed for being christians. what he's trying to do is not fan any sentiment that might result in pressure on him to do something really serious about this. because i do not believe that the president is faking when he says that he does not believe isis is a existential threat to the united states of america. i don't think he believes that. and i think he's only doing what he's doing in resisting isis because of the pressure that was generated by the beheadings of the americans and by these other hideous at

tonight the white house responding to a growing chorus of critics including franklin graham, the sonrld renowned evangelist billy graham after many found the president's remarks at the international prayer breakfast yesterday insulting, misguided or confused. the white house saying the president was simply encouraging americans to hold themselves accountable. here's what he said. >> lest we get o

the reverend franklin graham saying we would be better -- we better take this warning seriously as theses of terror will only spread throughout europe and the united states. the storm is coming. brit hume when you look at that landscape, you see these christian leaders taking these threats and these actions very seriously, and some doubt that our president, white taking them seriously, is -- whether he is appreciating the targeting of specific religious groups, and the importance of that in identifying this conflict. >> well, megyn i think he recognizes that the people killed were killed for being christians. what he's trying to do is not fan any sentiment that might result in pressure on him to do something really serious about this. because i do not believe that the president is faking when he says that he does not believe isis is a existential threat to the united states of america. i don't think he believes that. and i think he's only doing what he's doing in resisting isis because of the pressure that was generated by the beheadings of the americans and by these other hideous atroci

reverend franklin graham put out a statement and talked about, imagine the outcry, because he talked about the message that was given prior to the beheading of these 21 people. that was yesterday. 45 iraqis were burned today. reported by the bbc, and catherine harage. the message of the killing of christians was, you know, a message signed with the blood of the nation of the cross. and he said imagining the outcry, how would obama have reacted if 21 muslims had been beheaded by christians. do you think it would be different? >> oh, of course it would be different. president obama, he romanticizes islam. he's just got a soft spot for it. if you look at the pattern, it seems clear to me, that he thinks the answer to the middle east problems is to empower the muslim brotherhood. i say that because look at the way he fully backed, beyond the bitter end the muslim brotherhood regime in egypt, even after the people rejected it. he will not criticize the president of turkey who is crushing the free press, because he's a muslim brother. he will not take on qatar which is treacherous. instead

schieffer what reverend franklin graham said last night. >> this is something that the white house doesn'terstand the religious aspect of this. these men are doing what they are doing because they think they are pleasing god. koran teaches. this islam says you can have slaves and cut the heads off of people and kill jews and christians and anybody else that doesn't believe like you. >> with all due respect to reverend graham most muslims don't accept the fundamentalist just that most christians don't believe slavery is accepted as in the old testament. an honest person has to know that millions of muslims do accept sharia law and the human rights violations that come along with it in the irname of their god. they do accept jihad and the atrocities that go along with that. those muslims have to be dealt with when they start murdering men, women and children as they are doing now. in our judeo christian nation murder is the worse crime,ing that, taking a human life unacceptable when left self-defense. symptom parts of the western world murder is justified if you are a nonbeliever or believe

about human trafficking from cambodia where i traveled with reverend franklin graham to right here in you believe it? we have human trafficking right here in the united states. you will hear from a child sex trafficking survivor, a teenager from this virginia suburbs who became a victim. >> after a while he began to get really controlling. he got me involved in drugs really heavy drugs. and to the point where sometimes i would come home and i didn't even know my own family. >> that was just the beginning. >> when did you start to begin to realize hey this guy is not a good guy? >> i realized it one night when he kind of lured me out of my house to go to a party. he drugged me up without like -- without consent from me took me back in the room and continued to have his way with me the whole time. >> soon after courtney found herself caught in the dangerous and terrifying world of human sex trafficking. >> he would give me alcohol and they would give me drugs. and they would ask me to do certain things for them that i was never willing to do. and they were sex trafficking me to many of

and from north carolina, franklin graham samaritan's purse.e do you think will not unite to stop isis? >> first bill, i think it's important for muslims that are watching this program know that we love them and pray for them and i want muslims everywhere to know that god loves them and he sent his son from heaven to this earth jesus christ for them. have the have in the west is that our governments especially in washington has been infiltrated by muslims who are advising the white house. who i think think are part of the problem and see this in western europe. they have gottenned into the halls of power. and they are influence. >> give me some names in washington. i don't know any muslim advisors. to president obama: >> i can get those four for you bill. do i know that they are there. i know this from a number of people they influence. they are not sitting next to the president. they are seeking to. >> those groups do lob ysm. >> they sure do. >> it's everyone. it's not just the u.s.a. i mean we don't see the outrage, i mean we saw it from jor

i was traveling with reverend franklin graham to the village in cambodia, and there's shocking storiesout how chinese businessmen want young girls who are virgins because they think it's good luck and the brokers sell the young girls they get them back a week later, send them back to the doctors and try to make them virgins again, recycle them and make money. you think we don't have that here but, yes, we do. the fbi has a whole unit that is spending time trying to get these traffickers. just last week in the new york daily news there's a report about a guy from virginia who was traveling to new york with a little toy for a little girl. he had a rude awakening when he arrived the hotel, but there's exploitation of labor. it is unbelievable. it's all over the united states. and who would have guessed? i mean, i was stunned. gerri: why does this continue? it seems like it's an obviously outrageous story. people would be angry when they heard it. why does it continue? >> big business. it's incredible -- it's a billion dollar industry. and, you know, even drug cartels. you know how much mo

the ref remembered franklin graham also speaking out, saying that he believes the president is defendingam, while chastising christians. of course, this is just the latest in the series of attacks that have been squarely aimed at christianity over the past several years in this region. in recent months, middle eastern christians have been told to convert, or die. terrorists leaving messages on an abandoned christian home long live the islamic state. in mosul iraq one of the first cities that they overtook, they are blowing up and torching ancient churches in many cases. huge symbols of christianity in the area the larger area in which is the birthplace of christ. so last summer, there was that humanitarian crisis in iraq jihadists attempting to starve those on a mountain. a video of 21 egyptian christians last week marched to a beach, and beheaded. where will it end. and where is the reaction. david curry, president and ceo of open doors usa, which is an organization focused on serving persecuted christians in more than 60 countries. david, welcome very good to have you here tonight. >>

it is a world wide crisis that cannot be ignored and reverend franklin graham writes on facebook, quotethe outcry of 21 muslims had been beheaded by christians? where is the universal condemnation by muslim leaders around the world? bishop jackson is senior pastor of hope christian church in washington, d.c. and is our guest this morning. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> when you hear some of the reaction from christian leadership right now about the lack of reaction from our nation's leaders asking really that question you heard from reverend graham, do you believe that if it was flipped, if christians had killed 21 muslims, there would be a different reaction, both in the media and from the white house? >> certainly there would be a different reaction. there would be an outcry that would say that we're wrong. i believe this is not an hour in which religious leaders have to have courage. i want to speak out and ask my islamic leaders and religious leaders of every faith to say this is wrong. thomas aquinas and really the father of the just war theorum told us wh

reverend franklin graham weighed in. >> this is something that the white house doesn't understand.ey just don't accept and refuse even to this day will not accept and don't believe it. we have to understand who we're dealing with. and you have to deal with it accordingly. and the president is ignoring the fact that these are islamic extremists. these are terrorists. isis is a terrorist organization, and they are bent on destroying the west. >> and that's the key, they want to kill us and yet, the attorney general, chief law enforcement officer for the united states of america, is bugged by the fact that fox brings up the accurate point they are islamic extremists. let's call it islamic extremism. sorry. obviously this administration talks tougher about fox news than they do about isis, which that's sad. >> we'll see if the president who is set to speak at that summit at 4:00 p.m., ends up getting more specific about that. >> think about what's happening right now by the base that has 300 marines. this city is being solidified firmly in isis' hands and they're killing anything left

it's unusual for a pope or others, i know franklin graham has been outspoken, thank god in the unitedy're not enough. and what he is suggesting is more military action. and i wish we heard from western leaders right now coming up with a strategy. this is what we're going to do. i was disappointed that the president going to congress just this past week asking for a right to go ahead and to lead military offense against isis. then announcing to the whole world there will not be any ground troops. do we want another ground troop war? absolutely not. do we want the president and other leaders say we're only doing this? we're telegraphing the past. we're saying we will not go as far as we need to go in order to stop isis. >> one of the public opinion every christian in america seems invested in saving some group or other around the world. >> i think they're more so now than before. it takes political leaders to say this is the priority. it wakes us up. it wakes up religious leaders up. president obama were out there saying this is our strategy we're not going to allow the christians in th