ralph peters will join us just ahead on the difficult choices the administration has, this would be a qeet quote, red line. >> megyn: geography if i textbook is growing controversy in tennessee. lessons on the middle east are so biased think three to justify suicide bombers. school board defends the book that it is meant to start debate in the classroom. jonathan? >> reporter: some parents in williamson county, tennessee are taking issue particularly with how this textbook explains terrorism. take a look. second sentence in this excerpt which asks, if a palestinian bomber kills several israeli teenagers in a jerusalem restaurant is that an act of terrorism or wartime retaliation against israeli government policies and army actions? >> it's not okay to ask children things like that, to put those ideas in their heads and not expect there to be a consequence down the road. >> reporter: in an email to fox news, textbook author writes, it is important to understand why terrorists attack, understanding is not the same thing as justifying the attack. author points out his question is followe

ralph peters is a fox news strategic analyst and author of the book, quot hell or richmond. it's so hard. you look at what's happening over there, 70,000 dead, 6.8 million reportedly displaced, you know, lost their homes trying to get out of syria or what have you, and now reports that chemical weapons were indeed used, sarin gas which president obama said would be a red line, but now we say we need more proof, and yet 62% of the american people say they don't think we have responsibility to intervene. i know you've had evolving feelings on it. where do you stand now? >> well, my feelings have definitely shifted, megyn. you and i discussed years ago that i thought judicious measured support for the rebels in the first year of the conflict would have made sense because sa assad's regime is horrible. at that point the insurgency was moderate and with tolerance within the ranks, but strategy isn't only about doing the right thing. it's about doing the right thing at the right time. if you do what looks like the right thing at the wrong time, you can make things far worse. i'm c

ralph peters. you said this is the lynch pin of any deal. making sure the border is secure. something ronald reagan, even in retrospect admitted he failed to do when he had a similar deal. e secure. even beyond that we need to rethin immigration. not to stop it by any means. weed in fresh talent. but talent is the key word, and right now, neil, as you know very well, if you're a brilliant danish software engineer, breakthrough biomedical researcher your chances of getting a green card from the united states are just about zero. here you have papa tsarnaev, who has no marketable skills comes from a hostile america-hating done there and then he just says he faces persecution and he gets a grown card, government handouts, et cetera. how does that make sense. we have the right as a nation to pick who comes here, and i'm all for indian software engineers, european physicists. only not for more saudi or pakistanis mull las practicing hate speech. that's not antiislamic. it's a question of education, motivation, and, with the way, when we renew immigrant from any source, no governm

to katrina pierce, and matt melch and ralph peters, cat katrina? >> i do not think she right but we'll hava make a decision if we're going to remain fry, this administration said in a can't let a good crisis go to waste, i suspect we'll get background checks on pressure cookers moving forward. neil: do you think that cameras and other high technologies we use today from drones to who knows pressure cookers, down the road, are fair game? and will be, it will be sold to the american people, to keep you alive? >> well, there are different technologies for different purposes, some are good, some can be misapplied. but, i personally am vlad we have -- glad we are surveillance at atms it keeps my wife safe, i'm glad we had that surveillance in boston. on the other hand, the american people while we whine about oh, the government is taking pictures of us, we get on-line, we reveal not just our souls but often our bodies, facebook, google, any on-line shopping site, search engines, even your local grocery store they know more about you, they have more data

fox news strategic analyst colonel ralph peters. let's take the kerry statement first did he say something wrong. >> for once we heard secretary kerry say something honest and right is it is preposterous to think that this already radicalized young american are the tamerlan tsarnaev who is already crazy that he went back to dagestan bordering on chechnya. he went back there and sat in the apartment for six months watching reruns of gilligan's island. he unquestionably went back to make contact with the real terrorists. he was a groupy. he wanted to get on stage and he obviously, obviously got training in bomb making and how to set up an attack. to believe anything else in the absence of hard evidence to the contrary, it is just politically correct foley. >> let me play devil's advocate. why couldn't they get a manual or internet guidance, go down buy the ingredients because you know that stuff saul over the place and put it together themselves? >> it is possible. it is also improbable most would be bombers who try to construct that

joimg us now from washington to sort it all out colonel ralph peters.ou have 1.1 up against about 60% of that. you have to assume that the pentagon has been war gaming this and that's what i want to do tonight. what do you do if this nut in north korea does provoke a war? what do you do? >> it has been going on for half a century as it has in the north korean side. bill, if the north koreans were foolish enough to attack the south, it wouldn't all be about the numerical advantage which really isn't that large. it would be about the preparedness, readiness and the quality of the weapons of the south and the u.s. and after initial bloody phase it would hurt seoul the capital of south korea very badly. the it would be the end of the north korean regime. >> why would they lose? >> well, it's not all men. they don't have -- even in the human factor junior officers don't have initiative. it's tightly control old soviet tactics it sounds impressive to say they have got at least 2,000 tanks. a lot of them are very very old. geared much of it from 50s, 60's, ear

why is ralph peters still worried. what's your big fear. >> my big fear is miscalculation. there's no question that's a danger. many, many wars, probably more wars started from miscalculation, misjudgments, accidents, if you will, than from thorough planning. and kim jung un has painted himself into a corner making grotesque, wild threats and now what does he do, put up or shut up because south korea and the u.s. called his bluff, quietly. they haven't responded to threats by capitulating or offering aid. now he has to do something. let's hope the consensus is right that he'll launch a missile at nothing, water. a longer range than before, hope it works, declare victory, that he's intimidated the united states and go back to north korea's horrible normal. if he miscalculates based on getting away with things in the past and strikes south korea in any manner military taylorly, the new president of south korea is margaret thatcher or steroids and she said she'll welcome welk him -- welcome whack him. >> the only leverage he has is buffoonery. i'm no military expert but you on

ralph peters has been doing an investigation on this guy and wait until you hear what he found. >> we are tracking breaks news this hour from the university of rhode island's campus in kingstown, rhode island. the school is in lockdown after reports of a possible gunman on campus. multiple sources reporting all classes have been canceled as authorities investigate. students have been order today stay indoors. no gunshots have been heard, according to the reports, but we are closely following this story and we will bring you any updates as they come in. developing right now, colorado authorities issuing an urgent bulletin to police everywhere. be on the lookout for two suspected members of a dangerous prison gang who may be bent on revenge against law enforcement. the head of the colorado prison system tom clement was gunned down at his front door with his wife-- that was actually in texas, this guy was not killed with his wife. the gunman was a suspected member of the same group, they call themselves 211 crew. now, this is clements' suspected killer, evan ebel, and he was in a shootou

peter. >> stephanie: ralph in florida. >> pitching your songs you guys need to really work on your english thank you for the kent state concert. if we just do thank you calls for stephen stills, that will be all morning. there's something speaking of things we should thank him for. there is an amazing thing coming up it he nokia theatre this saturday. benefit that stephen is doing. that's here in l.a. we'll tell you all about it when we come back because if not your wife will kill me. 29 minutes after the hour. right back on "the stephanie miller show." criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room tonight at 6 eastern >> i'm s

fox news strategic analyst ravel peters is is with me now. ralphve been questions about both how the search for the suspect went and why they were not able to track him down sooner. but the big questions are how did this happen in the first place when the fbi had been alerted to this guy by the russians in the first place and you say that that raises just a whole host of questions and potentially, inspiration for other would be jihadists. >> yeah. well, first of all, the cops done good. boston police, the feds, everybody, they got them, and they got them fast. this wasn't a year's long manhunt. applaud to them. that very success secured the fact that from the standpoint of international terror, al qaeda and its affiliates. this was huge. it was virtually a no cost operation that killed three americans, wounds hundreds, including multiple amputations. it shuts down a major metropolitan city -- area for days. costs tens if not hundreds of dollars. still talking about it today right here. inspire copy cats with a show trial to come. this may be and i