leave the fight with isis. egypt's president calling for united air force. its mission, a mass joint military force, crush isis and stop the threat that's festering across the region. president in egypt says he has commitments from jordan to send in troops. the details are skrars and there's a lot of questions how to force would operate. let's go to ian. egypts president didn't say what he meant by the united arab force and whether he means troops on the ground. you listened to the speech. what did you hear? >> reporter: well brook, he was addressing the nation and he first started off with the isis threat to egypt and this is a country that's facing it on two fronts on the east and the cyanide peninsula and the west as well. he did bring up this idea for united arab force. take a listen. >> this is a stance that we see a unified arab force together. we see it is now and necessary an important and necessary because the challenges in the region and facing our countries are huge challenges and we can overcome the challenges once we are together. >> reporter: and brook, we don't really

strikes by egypt against isis or at least the first they will admit to. the primary target, an isis stronghold in egypt's north derna. joining me now from amman, turkey is our cnn correspondent jamona who are these christians that were beheaded and how were they captured in libya? >> reporter: well brooke, 21 egyptian christians. we know that these are two separate incidents taking place in december and january where they were captured south of the libyan capital and turkey has had a history of extremist groups that have operated there. egyptians, christians and muslims, many over the years, have flocked across the border into libya looking for jobs and according to reports, these 21 men were from impoverished towns in egypt trying to send money back home when they were captured in libya. over the years, we have seen similar incidents, brooke where egyptian christians have been persecuted in libya. of course nothing has brutal as gruesome or horrific as we are seeing in this video. >> you know one of the questions, of course is who specifically are these militants who did these behe

egyptian christians are forced to kneel and beheaded. egypt retaliating to the sickening murder of its citizens. an egyptian fighter jet en route to neighboring libya. these are the first strikes by egypt against isis at least the first that they will publicly admit to. the primary target here is in derna. egypt's military saying avenging egypt blood is our right and duty. joining me now from jordan is jomana karadsheh. who were these egyptians that were killed? >> there were 21 of them kidnapped in december and january south of the libyan capital of tripoli and they were taken by militants there. there has been some extremist militant activity. this is the birthplace of the former leader moammar gadhafi and we've seen that for some time now. these egyptians come from i am pof verki am pofimpovershed towns. we've seen so many attacks in the past on egyptian christians and with the fall of the gadhafi regime but nothing as shocking as what we are seeing. >> we've talked and you've covered this part of the world and how really surprised about this happening in libya? >> absolutely no

enemy on the frontlines a united arab force. egypt said it's in talks figuring out a military strategy to take down isis. welcome to you. >> hi, brook. >> i had a fantastic expert on last hour who was saying brook, the idea is great on paper but the notion of having jordan and egypt with a story past of issues this realistically is not possible. >> i disagree some. >> how? >> first off, there already is an air force called peninsula shield. it's where the countries on the persian peninsula, saudia kuwait. it's a 40,000 man force. the last guest rngs, strategically, nay sayers will be nay sayers and i think it's great he's pushing this. we've seen the president of jordan he's pushing it now. for us this is what we want. we want them to do this. what we should become is let's coach them together to do it. >> what would this look like? >> some type of arab led force that can eradicate isis. iraqis are going to do this. eventually we've been talking about this for months. eventually we have to have a policy about syria and then what about libya too with the egyptians next door. th

each and every day taking over government buildings and apparently taking over a radio station. egypt, just next door egypt is hitting them back. dropping bombs on what we know now are training camps and storage facilities. joining me now is tim who is in iraq and by extending into africa here not just syria and iraq i mean are these militants taking the land on their behalf? or is it indicative of a group spreading very very quickly? >> oh this is very much a group spreading very very quickly. this would be one of the jihadists in libya. we know that perhaps as many as 300 returned to this part of libya late last year. it's thought that now isis has at least 800 men under it's command in this part of libya. what's striking about this latest video that came out, the appalling murder of these egyptians is this is not there. it's central libya. their reach has extended well beyond that pocket in eastern libya and even they have started attacking lybian army out posts in the south. libya is a country with many boarders. it's very vulnerable to this infiltration and where there's no centr

syria and iraq. the offshoot the in libya or egypt these are opportunistic infections of environments that are very disrupted and disordered. it's not an expansion of the main isis territory. in fact we may see -- >> it's still expansion of the isis ideology -- >> this is the question can the isis ideology and brand expand and thrive even if the home base is checked and eventually crushed in. >> interesting point. >> this is an interesting question. we don't know. they have to contain it while at the same time pushing it back without getting sucked in on the ground its own war. that's the challenge. >> on the notion of containment, we had scholar aaron david miller talking this morning on cnn about ways to stop isis. colonel listen to this -- >> the to demonstrate that they in fact can't expand and that they can't deliver the kinds of services, electricity, water, good governance we must make their caliphate fail. we have to demonstrate on the battlefield and to the extent we can in the political arena that isis has failed, that's the way to beat this. >> what do you think? i feel the

station. egypt, now, hitting back dropping bombs on what we now know are these training camps and storage facilities. so let's go to ian lee in egypt for us in this hometown of egyptian christians brutally be headed by isis there on the beach. and first just beginning with these air strikes from egypt, how successful have they been? >> well what we're hearing is they haven't been really successful. they have hit targets. they he have attacked part of isis control and weapons supply lines but it's going to take more than roughly 10 air strikes to really put a dent and stop and turn back the dpans that isis has made. we have seen the egyptian president asking for a larger international coalition. something that we have seen in iraq and syria to go after the isis militants in libya. his attorney minister is in the united states right now pushing that case. he's also talking to governments around the world trying to get them on board with this. he doesn't want to see isis pushing up next to the border we with heegypt. we could see egyptian troops on the ground and not just air strikes

. before the jihad in syria, there was the gym in egypt. back then islam of religious, but his interests were far from extreme. [ speaking maybe it inging native language ] >> reporter: we wanted to find out how someone, change so dramatically. >> video journalist with me how it for "the new york times," been the documentary. told the perspective the young man's friends and family in cairo. so wonderful to have you here to chat with me. i appreciate it. there's so much i wanted to get to. to your question, you know you talked to a number of his friends, and it begs the question, well why did he choose to take this path and not the others. did you begin to get a sense as to why? >> well i got a sense of the complexity really of the issue. i mean essential at the's a number of factors that come in to play and some of it is also just the character and personality at the end of the day. so it's hard to come up with one specific answer or path or tragecothree shoots you on to -- trajectory that shoots you on to the course of jihad or radicalization. there are common themes that sort

sparked national outrage. islam and christianity in egypt forming one hand. men in this village understand what it means to work in libya. the thing about villages like this is people are poor. work is scarce. libya was seen as the only opportunity. some say once things calm down they will risk their lives going back. hannah isn't returning. he's lucky to be alive, narrowly avoiding being kidnapped by isis. he 's the last to see the sons alive. he tells me there was a crack in the wall next to the a.c. masked mensesed his cousins and knee few. he heard isis militants say they had orders from the amir to arrest all christians there. he escaped into the desert with 15 others. back home he avoids his family. >> i feel guilty he tells me. first of all, the situation was difficult. more than you can imagine. how can your nephew be taken from your hand. how can you face your brother or uncle? what would you tell them? heroics means one more son wouldn't have returned home. despite the gruesome video, he takes solace in what he saw. >> to the last moment the name of jesus was on their lips as the

wheeled up to a plane bearing the words "the arab republic of egypt." which was one of the two or three three. >> i knew the names of almost all these men, their names and their deeds. i never thought i would be standing a few inches from them having a chat. >> 40 days. we were very restricted. we couldn't go any. i saw a jeep in the distance and it was an iraqi and they took us away. we eventually wound up in the secret police headquarters and treated very badly. whenever we went to a new place, they asked us where are you from? one said nicaragua and that was good. one said cuba and that was great. peter said britain and that was bad. i said america and that was horrible. >> he is survived by his wife and bob simon was 73 years old. you get sick you can't breathe through your nose... suddenly... you're a mouthbreather. well, put on a breathe right strip and instantly open your nose up to 38% more than cold medicines alone so you can breathe and sleep shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. >>> one of nba's legends is getting the last spot in the all-star game. this is the germ

to egypt. he doesn't want american ground troops in syria. >> he doesn't want america to come in and try to make something happen. it needs to happen organically within the region. >> and, by the way, it means if america were to jump in and send ground troops he's aware that that's what isis want. that would then be a great recruiting tool for isis to say we're battling the crusaders. come and join in that fight. it really should be a fight where the sunni arab states particularly take the lead. and so he understands that it's an ideological fight, a political fight, a military fight. all that can really only be done by the locals. >> and on that note the dynamics in the region are still very complicated. it seems so obvious why wouldn't they be united against isis yet we know our becky anderson talked with libya's ambassador to the uae. and listen to what she talked about with libya's role in all this. >> it is a country that instead of bending itself has become the atm machine, the gas station and the platform for isis an increasing menace not only to libya and our neighbors bu

highlighted other countries. yemen, egypt, pakistan now seeing a rise of isis militants. the reason for this defections by members of the taliban. it's a rebranding of sorts as taliban members realize fighting under the black isis flag will get them not only more money but more recruits. let me bring in two here. also here gentlemen, welcome to both of you. and general hurt ling i want to get right into what you heard on the pentagon briefings that these isis militants are now apparently wearing iraqi uniforms as they're encroaching upon this air base. my question would be where did they get them and what does this tell you about what they're about? >> i'd ask to temper the language a little bit, brooek. it's a mud hecht village along the euphrates river. they're not that distinctive. i think the very fact that they were attempting to gain access to the base through one of the entrances, and there are multiple. i've been there several times. shows me they're attempting to do some things. this could be the equivalent of a sleeper cell raising up out of the town of al baghdadi but it's ty

syria and iraq. then there's idea of affiliates in sinai and egypt and libya. this is essentially isis creating entities that are isis-like in other countries. that's outside the cordon much u.s. forces and u.s. air strikes. the third level would be the sort of self-radicalized jihadists from the u.s. and everywhere else who will try to join in one of the other fights or engage in a jihad here at home. these are the different levels and you can't defeat them all at the same time. >> what does isis have that other terrorist groups haven't had for it to stretch so for and wide? >> they have control of territory. they have the largest jihadist army that we've seen in certainly decades and they have a social media campaign that's been pointed out that is more slick and more sort of directly targeted at their audience and having more efficacy than previous efforts like this. when you add that together control of territory, large fighting force and an ability to spread the message effectively. >> are they outsmarting the rest of the -- >> they've developed a brand is really what they are. th

hit, i think we should. i think also we need to work very closely with egypt as an ally. i know egypt has been very actively involved in libya trying to turn back isis as well. again, we need to work with our allies. we need a united front amongst the countries in that region who frankly, you know are far more threatened by isis directly than we are. we mentioned at the top of the show here that the concerns and they are real in the u.s. and they are real in europe but by far, the most carnage that's being caused by isis is being caused in the muslim world. so we need them to unite against isis and put together a cohesive coalition to fight them. we had a meeting with king abdullah of jordan they are very committed to it. egypt is committed to it. we need to build on that and build solid coalition. >> congressman smith, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >>> coming up after a string of deadly shootings targeting european jews there are new concerns about a rising wave of anti-semetism with one expert warning it's as bad as any time since world war ii. >>> and 50 mill

us about that. >> reporter: this is coming from egypt's president. he said the need for a unified air force is growing and becoming more pressing everybody day. egypt is facing the threat from isis now on two fronts. in the east and the west. in libya, this is a direct operational tie to isis not just rebranding islam is rebanning themselves. jordan and the uae have offered help. last week during the president's countering violence conconference i met with arabs who want a unified response a strategy to confront isis outside of iraq and syria as they spread more and more in places such as egypt and yemen and further afield. >> it would be encouraging if they could do that. thanks very much. >>> let's get more now. >> great to be here. >> thank you for coming in. what do you think of the recommendation that there be some sort of joint combined arab military force to go out there and crush isis? >> well there's a lot more we need to learn. we have seen proposeals like this put out there in the past. there's no question that with the recent events with the death of the jordanian pilo

represent a much bigger threat to you, whether in saudi arabia or jordan or egypt or any of these other countries in the region than they do to the united states. >> i think you are exactly right. i think what jim was saying about the long war is definitely true. i think we are seeing from the president in the way he's been talking about the military effort up until now and now in the way he's talking about this idealogical struggle he's laying the groundwork for a fact that is inescapable. this struggle against isis and other groups like it will continue well beyond his presidency and well into the next presidency and maybe beyond that. the idealogical component is not unlike in some ways what we saw during the cold war. not as half of a globe against another half of a globe, talking about ideology growing out of one religion but i do think the call for an awakening among muslims around the world is important because the threat is really on them both the violence threat but also the threat to the safer nature of their own religion. they are appropriating islamism and perverting i

beyond syria and iraq carrying out attacks against egyptian military and police here in egypt, carrying out an attack or claiming to against a hotel in tripoli that killed ten people including an american and there were some aqap fighters in yemen who expressed some solidarity for isis isis claiming a foothold here as well. this amuf conceivably gives the president authority to order operations far outside of this area to other areas around the world. >> you mentioned yemen. we know six months or so ago the president was citing yemen as an example of a successful u.s. counterterrorism strategy but it's turned out right now to be a disaster. >> the embassy is closed and we have talked about this an embassy is more than about issuing visas, it's about close political partnerships with that former partner government in yemen the president decided is a success, it's about military relationships, partnerships and about intelligence gathering. that footprint is off the ground in yemen. we are told by the military that some military personnel remains on the ground in country though n

idealogical war that is also being fought here. he talked about the president of egypt who is very actively called for other leaders of these moderate muslim countries to stand up against this extremism, and that this is yet another symbol of the necessity of that action that has to be taken. >> i want to get some more on what king abdullah asked you. you are a member of the armed services committee, and your colleagues. we know he's seeking more u.s. military assistance. he's got some problems there. we will discuss that and more congresswoman. we will take a quick break. more on what happens next when we come back. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's wh

of -- egypt started bombing isis in libya this month, qatar opposed it. accurate numbers are hard to come by on how much money flows from wealthy donors to isis thought to be significant only part of a total of isis' daily haul of around $1 million. >> do you acknowledge that sutqatar has been a source of private donations to isis and other terrorist groups? >> michelle whashgs we acknowledge is that there are areas where we disagree with the qatarees but more often we find that our interests overlap. >> reporter: can you say whether pressure is on thim now to stop the financing? >> we believe there's more we can do together to shut down the financing of terror operations around the globe. >> reporter: other u.s. allies in this fight, saudi arabia, kuwait, have been accused of not doing enough to crack down on the private forces of funding. the whies white house will continue to work with qatar has been a, quote, effective partner partner. as the president said to cnn in an interview, sometimes you have to balance these issue was the immediate fight at hand wolf. >> michelle kosinski

. this is becoming a very powerful footprint. as they carry the attacks across the border into egypt, residents there, the government asking where is the international community as isis spreads further? isis under fire from the air. new pentagon video shows an isis fighting position staging area and building destroyed one by one. today, coalition defense ministers are meeting in saudi arabia to discuss the war in the air. this is the battle against isis. egyptian warplanes are bombing isis positions in libya. just days after isis brutally murdered egyptian christians on the libyan coastline. now isis is on the march in libya, a 70-vehicle convoy of the terror group's forces moving into the central coastal town, making a powerful show of force. >> we have done thousands of air strikes. we are starting a train and equip program. we believe the military component is a very important component of taking fighters off the battlefield. >> reporter: isis' answer has been a series of new assaults on kurdish areas in northern iraq. and in the western province of anbar. they are making a show o

structure made more confusing with isis moving into egypt, yemen, afghanistan pakistan, and libya. one caution those labeling themselves as isis may have very different goals. >> we have to take each terrorist or cult organization in every country as a separate entity. we can't look at it as part of one big group. you may miss the most important targets when you're doing that. >> the beheadings of egyptian christians on the libyan coastline underscores the targeting problem. the u.s. wants to identify the killers on the videotape, but the broader worry, isis' position in libya. it now has a stronghold in derna and operates across coastal areas in reach of europe's busy shipping lane. >> it's very difficult to have the same kind of kroils over people who might be getting on boats working as steve adores or laborers on ship that's are coming into european ports. >> now as far as we know there's no current intelligence that isis is planning any attack into southern europe via those libyan ports. but it's interesting to note u.s. and nato warships have been patrolling the southern mediterr

pakistan, iraq yemen, other conflict zones. >> reporter: the reach is spreading to libya, yemen egypt and afghanistan and pakistan where some taliban are rebranding themselves as isis hoping the isis name will attract new recruits and new financing. aqap remains a threat. aqap now taking advantage of the instability, the collapse of the government in yemen. in the last 24 hours, aqap forces here just to the east of the capital taking over a military base including the heavy weapons there, a target of opportunity as the government which has been a u.s. partner in the fiesght against aqap it collapses. it's a problem as the u.s. tries to keep aqap under control. >> more difficult now that the u.s. abandoned the embassy. they are all safely out of yemen. there's dangers there, because aqap is based in yemen. thanks very much. >>> cnn has learned about a desperate attempt by kayla mueller's boyfriend to try to save her from isis before the american hostage died in captivity. pamela brown has been working sources. she has new information. she's joining us. what are you learning? >> reporte

anything like the way that action unified the muslim world. in egypt, even in iran all over the muslim world. it was condemned, it was condemned in mosques. like i say, i think it was a major miscalculation. it really sort of outlined for the muslim world what we're dealing with. >> it seemed almost like they were taunting the world with that gruesome video of this young jordanian fighter pilot in a steel cage burnt to death. >> if they thought it was going to intimidate the jordanians -- i was in a meeting with the king within an hour of that video being made public. he was anything but intimidated. he was furious and resolute i think would be the right word. certainly, that's public opinion in jordan. but throughout the middle east. wolf that's the only way this problem is going to be solved. we can't solve it. it's got to be solved by people on the ground in the region who say, enough is enough, we're not going to tolerate these people perverting islam and simply brutalizing their own people. >> senator king we have more to discuss, including a suggestion by one of your colle

, thank you for joining me. a developing story from egypt today, an egyptian court ruled hamas is a terrorist organization. that same court designated the armed wing of hamas a terrorist group last month. the decision will contaminate the reputation of e just a minute and the egyptian government has been add odds with hamas since morsi was ousted in 20 13. i spoke earlier with a former u.s. ambassador to egypt, edward walker and he's what he said about today's decision by the egyptian court. >> the egyptians have been facing a very serious problem in the sinai that affects both their security and the israeli's security so i think it makes a lot of sense now, problem is, of course morsi was part of hamas, and former president was part of hamas so there's acquisitionkccusations against the egyptian regime but to me it seems reasonable to follow through with basic threats that if you don't support us get out of the way. >> cnn 'ian lee is in cairo. will the decision sit well with the average egyptian? >> reporter: well i think what the average egyptian believes that hamas is a threat t

radical islamic groups who wanted to spark revolutions in places like algeria or egypt, they would have said let's take out the local government let's take out the local police station. like it or not, the revolution of al qaeda and bin laden was to tell them if tu really want to stage a revolution in the middle east you have to remove the head of the snake, the americans. very few leaders have taken on that message. we have seen leaders in yemen do. now we have seen isis do it. the message from this potential planning in europe now in belgium is that isis has now realized that their target isn't just baghdad. they have absorbed the bin laden revolution. the real target is the americans and nato and go after them at the same time that you are attacking iraqi forces. >> general, you heard paul say that this raid belgian police discovered chemicals, automatic weapons, police uniforms a gopro camera to record it. it sounds pretty sophisticated to me. that potentially tells us something about isis capabilities right? >> certainly does, wolf. and i would say, i wouldn't quite put it in sophi

ideology but also militarily. here's what may change the landscape. the president of egypt on television today describing his vision for a united military force with the singular goal of destroying isis. forces from his own country also bahrain, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. that's how he sees it. he says the need is there and it is growing every single day. this is a significant development. i want to talk about it with object bob baher, our security analysis and also with me james reese, global affairs analyst. thank you, gentlemen, for business here. al sissi says this on today. he didn't outright demand it or say we've had a conference and we're going to begin this offensive tomorrow but he did talk about his vision for this. do you think that that changes the game? >> i think we're getting there, poppy. i see changes every today, today or yesterday in saudi arabia the al sheikh came out strongly against the islamic state, saying they're not real muslims, we have to crush the movement. the bombing in libya, the egyptian air force hag bombing. i think what the arabs is he

government of egypt from a specific court there in cairo declaring hamas officially a terrorist organization. this is a label the united states and europe has already put on hamas. hamas leaders, though, shocked apparently by the ruling. our ian lee joins me on the phone live from cairo. ian, set this up for us in terms of the significance of this to hamas and frankly why hamas leaders seem so surprised at the court's ruling. >> reporter: well poppy, this is a very damning verdict by the courts of urgent matters here in cairo. but we're still trying to figure out what this exactly means. because there is a new law terrorism law, that was recently passed saying this court does not have jurisdiction that that jurisdiction lies with the general prosecutor as well with the appeals court. but what hamas is being accused of is quite severe. they're being accused of supporting snujtinsurgents in the sigh my peninsula who have killed hundreds of security personnel and of a 2011 jail break that freed members of the muslim brotherhood revolution. the muslim brother hood in egypt is consid

morning. i'm kate bolduan. john berman is off today. let's get to it. egypt is pounding isis targets in libya right now in a second round of military strikes. that's what egypt's state run media is reporting. they believe they killed 21 egyptian christians who moved to libya for work. several victims were lined up and beheaded. there are also concerns that isis is spreading beyond iraq and syria now. cnn's ian lee is live in cairo. what are you hearing about this second round of air strikes after that horrific propaganda video that isis released? >> reporter: we're hearing from state run media quoting security sources about the second wave of air strikes. we reached out to the military. right now they say they can neither confirm nor deny there was a second wave of strikes. very different from earlier this morning when the military released video of their f-16s taking off into the cover of night targeting sites in libyan city of derna going after isis training facilities and isis weapons depot. derna is a city in libya on the mediterranean coast roughly 200 miles from europe also 200

latest in a series of moves by egypt to undermine extremists another was when they banned the party, you know the name well the muslim brotherhood. we are joined from cairo, ian, thank you for being with us. i know it's late there. when you look at this, what do you think the significance is to you in your mind? >> it is essentially a damming verdict against the hamas. but looking further into it there is a lot of ambiguity. first, it's coming from a court of urgent matters. talking to a lead lawyer here in cairo, and according to the new terrorism law, this court does not have the jurisdiction to call hamas a terrorist organization. that jurisdiction lies with the general prosecutor and a different court system. also looking at it this is unpush for the court to make this ruling. usually, it comes from the executive branch. the president that makes this sort of deckorationdecoration but they have been accusing this group and accuse hamas as a 2011 jailbreak of muslim brotherhood members in the revolution there. hamas denies this but they are very damming accusations against the org

astonishing number. i want to get your reaction on this next story developing this afternoon out of egypt. a court there ruling that hamas, which governs make gaza is to be deem add terrorist organization. putting that official title from egypt on hamas. leaders from hamas furious, vowing to appeal the ruling claiming that this egyptian court has no jurisdiction in the matter. we haven't heard from the president of egypt to this point on this. what's your reaction to the significance of this? does it really matter whether that court labels hamas a terrorist group? >> well yeah it does. everything matters in the middle east poppy. but again, hamas has been looked at as a terrorist group but also as trying to be diplomatic and trying to use the other elements of national power to try to bring some type of peace to the middle east. >> right. >> again, we swing left and right which is so difficult. at the end of the day, if we're sitting around around a table here it doesn't really matter what that egyptian court says. but it will be interesting to see what president sisi comes out with especial

egypt were finally released pending trial. this was the scene in the courtroom. [ cheers and applause ] >> finally. these journalists were convicted of supporting the muslim brotherhood. they pled not guilty. they appealed and they will face a retrial now. amnesty international says they are being used as pawns in a dispute between egypt and qatar. egypt is the sixth leading jailer of journalists in the world. >>> so vladimir putin must pay. that is the aggressive stance from former senator joe lieberman. coming up we'll ask him if he thinks this cease-fire in ukraine has a chance of sticking. >>> a bombshell in the american sniper trial as it's just getting under way. a text message sent by chris kyle the american sniper about the man who would shortly thereafter kill him. why it might bolster the defendant's case. over $98 million dollars and creating over 2100 jobs. from long island to all across upstate new york, more businesses are coming to new york. they are paying no property taxes no corporate taxes no sales taxes. and with over 300 locations, and 3.7 million square

very firm message to many parties. you have the christian community here in egypt. you have the egyptian government but also you have the european union and libya is on the doorsteps of the eu and in this message it was delivered in english and watching this video, these men taken on the beach, executed all at the same time beforehand. you can see them saying oh god, oh jesus. the production quality of this video was very high which is very similar to that we've seen in iraq and syria. in this video they talk about their brethren and their isis brethren in the sinai peninsula. if you look at egypt, it really is sandwiched between libya where you have isis and now sinai, as well. they have been fighting that battle in the sinai for quite some time. hundreds of security personnel have been killed in that fight and libya there's been a political and security vacuum for quite some time since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi which was backed by the west and since then we haven't had a strong central government which has made fertile ground for these groups and isis in particular to e

whitfield. a developing story out of egypt, where an egyptian court has listed hamas as a terrorist organization. in a statement from gaza the islamist group called that decision quote, shackocking and take rouse. ian lee is joining us from cairo. what led this court to make this decision? >> reporter: well fredricka, it seems pretty straight forward. this court declaring hamas a terrorist organization. but in actuality, it is quite vague. i talked to a veteran egyptian lawyer who explained that this court really didn't have the jurisdiction to make this sort of ruling that -- that this court -- or that should have gone to the prosecutor general, and then to appeals court. a different avenue to declare hamas a terrorist organization. this is under a new egyptian law. but this doesn't come as a surprise. as the muslim brotherhood here in egypt is considered a terrorist organization it declared in 2013 hamas a branch of the muslim brotherhood. in egypt, they are seen as one and the same. although it will be difficult for them moving forward. egypt has been a broker of peace between is

into the coalition against us and brought in the arab world and angered egypt with killing of these egyptian christians but if you look more deeply into beliefs, they believe that they are in a cosmic struggle between good and evil and they believe they're on the good side and they believe that we're in the end times. that the apocalypse is coming. the name of their magazine which is an english magazine where they believe final battle between islam and forces of west will happen and they believe they're precipitating this. it wouldn't be horrible if there were western boots on the ground in syria because that would confirm the prophecy they believe to be true. >> when you put it that way and you also said that they are like an apocalyptic cult and it raises the question of how do you take them on because you're not dealing with a rationale actor. it gets into if you will the psychology the psyche of isis but at the same time the white house is hosting this summit. it's about combatting violent extremism. it resisted references to religion in their discussions of isis calling it a fi

>>> happening in the "newsroom," egypt strikes back against isis. watching air strikes in libya after the brutal beheading of more than 20 christians. >>> new this morning, two people arrested in denmark accused of supporting the man who opened fire on a copenhagen cafe and synagogue. what we're learning about the gunman and why police knew him. >>> plus a winter blitz for boston. cars piling up on slippery roadways. >> it was total whiteout. could not see a thing. >> roads so impassible even emergency vehicles got stuck. >> it makes us feel like we're a community that's forgotten about. >> now the south is bracing for its first major snowstorm this year. could we see a snow jam repeat? let's talk live in the cnn "newsroom"." >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. let's begin with the spread of terrorism and a widening reach of the u.s. led coalition. egypt launching a wave of air strikes into libya and the isis controlled city. training camps and stockpiles are part of the threat sweeping across the region. ian lee joins us from cairo to tell us

for newsroom with carol costello. >>> have a great day. happening in the "newsroom." egypt hits isis after the beheading of more than 20 christians. >>> new this morning. two people arrested in denmark accused of supporting the man who opened the fire at a copenhagen cafe and synagogue. what we're learning about the gunmen and why police knew him. >>> plus a winter blitz for boston. cars piling up on slippery roadways. >> it was total whiteout. >> couldn't see a thing. >> could not see a thing. >> roads so impassable even emergency vehicles got stuck. >> it makes us feel like we're a community forgotten about. >> the south is bracing for its first major snowstorm this year. could we see a snow jam repeat? let's talk. live in the cnn "newsroom." www.vitac.com >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me. we begin in a wide coalition and yet another country striking back. egypt launches a wave of air strikes into libya. the target the training camps and weapons stockpiles belonging to the terror group, isis. egypt's swift actions comes hours after the terror group releas

abdullah in jordan and president el sissi in egypt. they are very frustrated. they don't know if he ear going to be there to help them. we're saying the president is saying they need to do more. they're on the front lines. they're willing to do things. in fact king abdullah said we're ready to fix bayonets they should would like to have our help. here we're giving them a lecture on what they should be doing. i think the president ought to sit down with him and talk to them and he ought to talk to the american people. if he doesn't want to call it a war, then maybe we ought to just bring everybody home to america and not keep sending them out on these missions that he kind of does in a half-hearted way. it's like he doesn't really want to do it but he's forced to do it so he sends them out, not too worried about what he gives them to carry out their missions. i think we ought to have a whole readjustment. >> on the point of some of what the president said today, many of your colleagues have criticized -- i know you say you don't care as much about labels many of your republican colle

country. this is really a new front for isis along with egypt because a group of egypt late last year which also joined the isis fighters. it's other countries in the region. a big challenge moving forward. >> that also is why at the same time you talk about a new front. we heard from secretary of state john kerry who said over the weekend that the u.s. is on the road to destroying isis. so you have new fronts and strong talk coming from the administration. paul thank you. colonel, thank you as always. >> that's it for us right now. up next special live coverage of president obama and german chancellor angela merkel with a crucial press conference at the white house. stay with us. thank you for being a sailor, and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america. if you're current or former military or their family, see if you'

the victims were burned alive. this as egypt is asking for more international help in its strikes against isis in libya. egypt dispatched waves of war planes after isis fighters killed 21 of their christians. let's head to egypt. ian lee is in cairo. hi ian. >> reporter: hi carol. what egypt has been watering down its statements since the past couple of days. initially they wanted an international coalition that we saw in iraq and syria go after isis in libya as well. at the u.n. security council they're asking forearms embargo to be lifted so that weapons can go to the internationally recognized government in eastern libya in the city of toprov. they're asking for a naval blockade to stop weapons from going to other areas of the country where that libyan government isn't in control. the united states though not on board with this plan entirely which shows the cooling of relations that we've seen described by rear admiral john kirby. at that i can a listen. >> it's a complex relationship that we have with egypt. we recognize that know face a significant terrorism threat. we're con

across the border. there's a lot of worry about egypt as well because this new isis affiliate there which is very active, killed an american in a carjacking last summer. just yesterday released a video where it beheaded eight spies. a lot of concern that it could abduct western tourists still traveling to egypt because it's very much part of that isis fold this group now. >> up until this point, all the hostages were seized in syria, i think. not necessarily in iraq. it's all a syrian operation. if they started operating to seize hostages outside that country, that would be a big deal, that would be a big shift. why is the possession of hostages so crucial to isis? >> think of all the propaganda they've made out of it. isis has been in the news in a way that they can control it makes them look ten feet tall in the eyes of their supporters makes it look as if they're retaliating against the west for these air strikes. just last september, we saw a french hiker in algeria beheaded by a group which had mreejed allegiance to abu bakr al baghdadi. so this is happening more at a regional

you so much for joining me. a key u.s. ally in the middle east wants to raise the stakes. egypt's president says it's time for the arab nations to unite in a mass of joint military force. its mission, crush isis and the threatfestering across the region. mrk this morning there are no details and question how such a force would operate. cnn's ian is live in cairo today. hi ian. >> reporter: good morning, carol. the speech was given last night by the president to the egyptian people, a state of the union sort of of the threat isis poses to the middle east facing them on their eastern border and west in libya. he confirmed egypt had 13 air strikes against isis targets. in this piece he calls for the need for a united arab force to confront isis. it is desperately needed. he didn't give any picture what this force would look like. the egyptian presidency also not giving many details about what they're calling for. the egyptian president, in his speech said the egyptian army's main goal is to protect the borders of egypt. but, if they're needed in the region they would be -- they would

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armies jordan egypt, saudi arabia that we have all trained. we really need to look at a solution which includes those armies that we trained. i've met with officers at our own army war college from these nations. so i think, fredricka, we've got to leverage all the resources available to us and take the lead. we don't have to do everything but we must lead them i believe, in helping be effective. >> so and your belief is also that more intel needs to be on the ground. are we talking about u.s. intel or engaging the countries you just mentioned like egypt, saudi arabia their intel? do they need to be there and working in concert with u.s. intel already there? >> both. this is something called bilateral operations where we partner with countries and our allies and something we call unilateral operations. mostly people like me in the old days would set up our own asset nets and obviously our special operations forces doing reconnaissance and that sort of thing too. both are necessary, both are required. and president obama has actually said look we need to get a better handle on whe

participate. >> all right. cnn's ian lee is in cairo, egypt, this morning. ian, the kurds are out gunned. iraqi forces need u.s. training. they're asking for weapons. what's the feeling in the region? >> reporter: a lot of feeling that the u.s. isn't doing enough to help out all of these three different groups you have the peshmerga who are asking for better weaponry. we saw reports by phil black that shows one of their artillery pieces is from world war ii. they don't have heavy weaponry they don't have armor. these are all things they say they're going to need to keep up this fight against isis who, as we heard, has u.s. equipment, who has heavy armor and really are fanatics. they are willing to die and push and keep going. they're battle hardened. it's been difficult for the peshmerga. you have the iraqi army asking for more sophisticated weapons. they're going to plan their offensive against mosul in april and may with tens of thousands of soldiers but it is to be seen how really battle ready these soldiers are. u.s. troops have trained iraqi forces before and as we saw in tho

libya, also operating in egypt, certainly, we've watched things in nigeria unfold and so the recruitment around the world for people to join the war for this is something that will be with us for a long time. this takes us back to the original point. they have to see it defeated. they can't believe it's inevitable that they are going to wipe out other religions and wipe out enlightenment and wipe out other points of view. it is an attempt, frankly, to use terror to use beheadings, to use stoning, to use burning in order to strike enough fear into populations and also to recruit young men and unless that's decisively defeated in this isis battle it's going to continue to have its allure and its pull on young men. >> absolutely. chairman royce, we appreciate your time very much. thank you for coming on to talk about this and hope to talk to you soon thank you, sir. >> thank you, jim. >> coming up a deadline for both sides in ukraine to stop the fighting and end the bloodshed. ahead, we're live to an area battered by the deal means russia's president has won. that's coming up ahead. at ally

weeks away. all along, isis expands its tentacles of terror. >> egypt, the sinai province militants loyal to the group killed 30 people last week. in libya's capital, tripoli, gunmen linked to isis reese endly attacked a hotel frequented by foreigners and on saudi arabia's border to, iraq militants aligned with isis left three guards dead. from abu dab toe amman arab capitals recognize the threat posed by the militant group. what is less clear is how to overcome am doestic challenges and political challenges to rid the region of the plague of extremist ideology. becky anderson cnn, amman. >>> becky anderson thank you for that report. let's get straight to buck sexton a former cia counterterrorism analyst. thanks for being with me. it's good to have you. >> good to be here. >> huge step up by jordan and the uae after they pulled back in december in the fight. i wonder if you think there comes a point where we can hand over much of this to our allies in the region? >> quite honestly i think they're looking to us to do considerably more because there are limitations. >> so no? >> no. w

healthy too. biotene, for people who suffer from a dry mouth. >>> egypt is ramping up its fight against isis. the egyptian air force pounded isis targets again in libya yesterday after the terror group killed 21 egyptian christians. and the global community at the very same time is worried that isis is growing at a rapid speed and spreading its reingn of terror beyond the borders of syria and libya. paul cruickshank is here to discuss. it's not even a worry at this point. it seems isis is spreading beyond its strongholds in iraq and syria. but the big question is when you look at libya and where it's positioned especially do you think isis can get that same kind of a stronghold foothold in libya as we've seen what they've done in a place like syria? >> they're rapidly expanding in libya. they're taking advantage of the simmering civil war there to spread their operations from the east part of the country, derna all the way over to tripoli. they have several strongholds in libya. so there's certainly a lot of concern about their expansion. a few obstacles for isis there are so ma

happened. very importantly several imams including the top sunni imam as it stands in egypt and many others including imams who have come out of syria and who. the real question is -- >> to that point, if when you -- i just keep returning to this since i just recently watched the video. if a gruesome video -- that doesn't even do it justice -- doesn't convince arab nations to come together and this is a fight worth fighting, if burning someone alive, anyone but someone from a prominent jordanian family doesn't convince jordan and other arab allies that this is a fight worth fighting what is going to convince them you know? >> so far they seem convinced. they aren't the problem. the problem are the psychopaths who keep joining what's a death cult. now you are having more and more people calling them that. they sunk to a terrible low. i would also say one needs to hold saudi arabia to account as well. the new king has come out and condemned this but this is the kind of horrendous ideology that's come out of the extreme hard line wing of islam, which has its roots and home in saudi arab

week when a u.s. official has said that isis has expanded into afghanistan, algeria, egypt, elsewhere, what does this tell us? let's talk about what's happened in libya. the revolution ended 3 1/2 years ago in october 2011 there was a lot of hope in libya. i traveled there many times during that time and after. the people of libya wanted democracy. they were pro-western in their orientation. however,ing there -- there was then and there is now a security vacuum. as a result of that security vacuum a lack of police forces a lack of libyan army which was decimated during the revolution and very little engagement by the west libya is the type of place where isis sees opportunity, because there's insecurity and there's instability. that's whether isis likes to go. it's a great market for them. unfortunately for us we're going to have to confront them there as well. >> right. so paul to you, as david just said the type of place -- this is what happens, when you have failed states or nearly failed states that provides a fertile ground for has clearly spread and they have killed 21 cop tick