sign me up. call the number on your screen now. and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan. you ll get this free information kit. and guide to understanding medicare, to help you choose the plan that s right for you. as with all medicare supplement plans, you can keep your own doctor and hospital that accepts medicare, get help paying for what medicare doesn t. and save up to thousands of dollars. call this toll-free number now. trace: i m trace gal gory trace here for shepard smith. and this 35-year-old dad is accused of slapping his seven-year-old and throwing his son over the edge of the boat because his kid was crying. i m on the boat tour called the queen, and a man threw his son overboard. where? we are at the marina boat
chime? guest: i would. i would. trace: you were quoted as saying he threw him over and you don t think it is was a good idea but you don t think he was trying to hurt or kill his son. guest: i said that before i spoke to him and he threw him over but that doesn t mean he didn t jump with him and i did actually say after that, he upped with him, he was right next to him, and when you say he was rescued by another boat, it is misconstrued because what it was, they were almost together, maybe 3 apart from each other, and he knows how to swim very well and there was a sailboat not moving where they had thrown him something and they were next to each other. trace: which validates that you threw your son into a busy harbor. three boats. three boats. guest: and all were moored.
on board one boat and 85 people you cannot get them to agree the sky is blue and i want you to listen to the tape if you would, and react to it. okay, and how old was the child? ten. eight or nine or ten. and he is crying and is on another boat, and this guy is a jerk. i m scared. is he intoxicated? i think so. yes. he is acting like a jerk. you are saying you were not intoxicated? guest: you know, intoxicated and acting like a kid are similar, and i sincerely doubt her brain is calibrated to accept alcohol level whatever. trace: were you drinking other not? guest: no. that notwithstanding i don t think it was a good idea and i would take it back. trace: so, it was not a good idea, jennifer would you like to
there concern he might actually go under the boat? guest: no, no, it was not the bow, and jennifer, if you want to . she was there during the statement. guest: the tour was over on the island and we were coming back up to the fun zone and there is a lot of people around there that are, you know, not mobile so there are boats with people sitting in them, there are people sitting and kayaking and there are a lot of people around in the water, actually. so there was no concern . trace: so you are condoning this and saying it was okay he tossed his seven-year-old son in the water? guest: i am not saying i condone it. i will not say i condone the decision at this point. looking back at it. i don t think it was a good idea now because, you know, of all
seven-year-old boy, the father threw his seven your old son in the newport harbor off a tour boat. after slapping his son reportedly and throwing him over the edge witnesses say the dad did it because the kid was crying. and the man said he was horse playing, and they talked about jumping in the water together. and now to our legal panel, a prosecutor and defense attorney both. first, doug, you heard the interview. it is pretty stunning when the father says it was horse play. i grew up in newport beach and we did that all the time. your thoughts on that interview? guest: inadvisable and of course the point is, (a), you don t jump on to national television and make statements which could be plainly and clearly contradicted by a number of witnesses; and, (b), and i mentioned this to my colleague, any prosecutor affiliated with the case is going to take a very, very dim view of what we