but isis won't wait. if america doesn't act boldly, it is likely others in the world will step in as well. as a reminder of what this is all about, a postscript earlier this year this man lost his family was reunited with his wife and three of his children. >> translator: my wife was taken from tell affair to iraq. she escaped over a fence and got to the mountain top. she found a shepard who gave her shelter for who days in his house and helped her to escape. >> eight of his children and sister were still in isis captivity. then on january 9th a little hope. >> translator: she called me and said she had escaped from the village. >> he headed to the syrian border and spent ten hours waiting. finally, deliverance. >> translator: we have been through many tortures. >> translator: i was afraid they wouldn't let you cross. i thought they would keep you there. >> translator: the isis members who came to iraq took all the christian girls to have sex with them. i did whatever they wanted except sex. if a girl ref

but isis won't wait. if america doesn't act boldly, it is likely others in the world will step in as well. as a reminder of what this is all about, a postscript earlier this year this man lost his family was reunited with his wife and three of his children. >> translator: my wife was taken from tell affair to iraq. she escaped over a fence and got to the mountain top. she found a shepard who gave her shelter for who days in his house and helped her to escape. >> eight of his children and sister were still in isis captivity. then on january 9th a little hope. >> translator: she called me and said she had escaped from the village. >> he headed to the syrian border and spent ten hours waiting. finally, deliverance. >> translator: we have been through many tortures. >> translator: i was afraid they wouldn't let you cross. i thought they would keep you there. >> translator: the isis members who came to iraq took all the christian girls to have sex with them. i did whatever they wanted except sex. if a girl ref

isis might -- okay i think you can look at isis in two ways. isis as we know as we see it today as a group that operates as an army as an insurgency and as a terror group will exist for, say, around a decade from now. it will be probably like a decade, five years to a decade. but as a group that exists and has some kind of one way of another exists in iraq, syria and beyond, i think it will continue to operate. i think it will override al-qaeda, it will become a global kind of inspiration for entry hadties and like a -- actually, you know one of fascinating things about isis project today is that people don't see that there is, there's an emerging a new jihadist cult that's been established. it hasn't been established yet, so isis like al-qaeda doesn't have idealogues, they have a legacy of jihad since afghanistan, you know, egypt syria, afghanistan and iraq until today. they don't have that kind of legacy as al-qaeda does. but they are establishing that kind of ideology that has idealogues that have ideas, it has books, it has theories and so

you'll want to watch tonight as we explore the isis threat. isis grew out of the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003. its first leader, abu musab al zarqawi. sharing a similar ideology and hatred of the west. zarqawi was also targeting fellow muslims in iraq. the brutal tactics cause d them to p avoid the group. zarqawi was killed in 2006 and the group scattered. a few months later, they're rebranded as the islamic state in iraq. in 2011 the group names a secretive religious scholar as its leader. he claims to be a direct descendent of the prophet muhammad. his ambitions spread beyond iraq into the chaos of syria. by 2013, al baghdadi changes the name again, this time calling the islamic state in iraq and syria, and soon take the first syrian city. the black flag hanging in the eastern city of raqqa. comes the strong hold for their growing movement. president obama is asked about the threat in the interview with the "new yorker" in january of 2014. compared isis to a junior varsity sports team, saying, quote, the analogy we use around here sometimes that i think is accurate

the nice thing in a sense about isis is we understand the economics of isis. and there are ways to stop it. you bomb the refineries. you bomb the pipelines. you try to disrupt -- >> are there international benefactors? state individuals? >> saudi arabia. >> there are individuals. but the big money as the king of jordan said, the big money is selling plois now unrefined crude, to make something like $1 million a day doing that. the kind of things michael was talking about. they charge for truck when is they pass by. but all these are things we know how to degrade those capabilities. we didn't know, how do you stop some saudi sheikh from quietly sending money to osama bin laden. >>> i'm going to speak to someone who knows what it's like to live under the rule of isis. i want to get your take. we'll talk to him next. i bring the gift of the name your price tool to help you find a price that fits your budget. uh-oh. the name your price tool. she's not to be trusted. kill her. flo: it will save you money! the name your price tool isn't witchcraft! and i didn't turn

she was on her way to join isis and marry an isis fighter. she is now serving four years in federal prison. we have seen many cases like that. a growing number of cases where isis is finding vulnerable girls online. young girls. and folks, let me tell you about how isis treats women. this is again a throwback to many centuries ago. because when isis comes into a town a village, a city and the people are there it is raping and pillaging. i document in my book the horrific stories of first-hand accounts on the ground in syria and iraq particularly in iraq and they have seen how isis treats the population where women are children are beheaded. it is really happening. it is not alarmism. it is really happening right now in real time. isis has brothels in syria where they take christian women and religious minorities who they have vanquished and they turn them into sex slaves. worse still is that at least one of the brothels in the capital of isis is one by british women. god save the queen. british women running an isis brothel where when isis fi

but who is isis? they combine viciousness on the ground with a supremacy of social media. >> trying to create the largest caliphate it can. >> it spread even further to libya where they beheaded >>> where they beheaded 21 christians on the banks of the mediterranean sea. what do we know about the man wearing the wrist watch who says he is the leader of isis. >> has been a shadowy presence for a very long time. >> why do you think this keeps ending up attached to terrorism? >> isis controls the area the size of kansas. is there a strategy to defeat them? >> what do you understand the strategy to be? >> i think it doesn't sound like a strategy to me. >> you will see why they are the richest terrorist organization on earth. >> isis is hell on earth and the world continues to witness the cruelty and viciousness. the team has made more than 15 trips to iraq where isis continues to gain ground. where else are they spreading. and we have isis elements. we have them in yemen and south africa. you have them li

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one of the best world views of isis is the city of raqqa. isis has imposed its law there. it's a rare look inside a place where public executions, even crucifixions are reported to be a regular occurrence. abu rubrahim which is a name that is not his real name since he asked to be remaining anonymous joins us now from phone tonight from syria. thank you for speaking with us. can you describe for us what daily life is like under isis rule? >> caller: thank you. yes, the life under the city of raqqah is very difficult. it's the life of the people of raqqah because there's two different lives for the life inside the city. for the people, there is very, very strong rules for the isis, for all the womans must put veil. and if she don't put veil, she is punished for that. there is taxes on the people, and every market inside of the city 1,500 syrian pound. even taxes on the -- on the electricity. there is a lot of executions. there is a lot of crucifixions. if you say anything against isis, you will be killed for that. it's very difficult to live under raqqah city. if you are --

but who is isis? they combine viciousness on the ground with a supremacy of social media. >> trying to create the largest caliphate it can. >> it spread even further to libya where they beheaded 21 christians on the banks of the mediterranean sea. what do we know about the man wearing a wrist watch who says he is the rightful... >> a shadowy presence for long. >> how he is using a former catholic student from the boston area to spread propaganda. >> why do you think they keep attacks of terrorism. >> it controls an area the size of candace. is there a strategy to beat them? >> you understand the strategy to beating them? >> i think -- sduh, uh. >> they are the richest on earth. >> it is hell on earth and the world continues to witness their cruelty and viciousness. isisen it is to gain ground in iraq. now where else are they spreading sfwh>> all over the world. we have isis elements in the philippines working with ab d due -- abu sayyaf. we have them in yemen, in south africa. you have them all over t

policy vis-a-vis isis. we'll turn as a group to discuss what we believe the policy to be and the way it's working. we'll expand into a conversation about the strategic enters of the united states in the region -- interests of the united states in the region, and then finally, we'll try and develop some policy options, assuming that we don't have consensus is and that these distinguished panelists have relations for the president we'll try and hammer out what those are. and like any typical nsc meeting, i expect it inconclusively and e are resolve that we need more meetings to come up with a new policy. [laughter] .. the u.s. is of course engaged in striking military targets today, and we should explore whether we need more what that means and whether it should be expanded perhaps beyond the advisory role that our u.s. servicemen and women are in now and whether we perhaps should even commit more ground troops, ground troops to the effort. finally, the state of the iraqi security forces is unclear. in many c

isis is under heavy fire. rockets and mortars raining down on isis positions. these are iraqi militias, armed and backed by iran and spearheading the attack on tikrit. isis is dug into the city center and surrounded. the militias are already celebrating, but they won't move in until they get reinforcements. isis has booby-trapped buildings and roads. iraq's defense minister is predicting victory, and isis is clearly being pushed back on many fronts. kurdish troops are making gains. they took us to their front line with isis. from sandbag positions, we saw isis flags flying over two villages the kurds are attacking. there's been sporadic firing from isis positions here in the last few minutes. but there's no doubt that the momentum of this war is against isis here and for now. but the history of war in this part of iraq shows that can change and change quickly. >> i just get a boom, and i duck down, had glass go all over me. >> reporter: some americans have joined the fight against isis. micky came from colorado. not as an official u.s. adviser, but as a lone vo

regarding the rise of isis the context of events in syria during the last four years isis didn't rise suddenly. it's not-- it's impossible for such bigger than what we call organization and smaller than a state to -- without support from the outside and without being prepared gradually or incrementally for a long time before the sudden rise during last summer. so the rise of isis is not precise word because it didn't happen suddenly. it was a result of events that happened at the beginsing of the conflict that we mentioned in our-- pain times but no one in the west had listened to. i want to mention the statement of regarding the dialogue. i would say what we have in syria so far is only a statement. fog con treat-- concrete no fact no new reality regarding the political approach or the united states toward our situation, our problem our conflict in-- conflict in syria. but aspirins pal, in syria we could say that every dialogue is a positive thing. an we're going to be open to any dialogue with anyone including the united states regarding anything based on mutual respect. without pre

isis. there is so much unrest in yemen, there are so many warring factions they simply aren't sure. if it proves to be isis that means isis has a significant stronghold in a country where one of its rivals al qaeda, has vowed to attack the u.s. wolf? >> what are you learning about that massacre of foreign tourists mostly europeans, some asians at the museum in tunis, tunisia? >> reporter: there is new video that cnn has obtained showing the chaos of this attack as people literally ran for their lives. again, this is an area an attack where isis is claiming responsibility. there have been some arrests by the government there. again, the u.s. not ready to officially say it believes the isis claim, but the government saying that some of the perpetrators had trained at isis camps across the border in libya and we do know that isis has its stronghold in libya. so again, let's talk about this just a little more broadly and what it really means from tunisia to libya to egypt to yemen, you are begi

>> it's possible it was isis or isis related. it could be al qaeda. we know there's a competition between al qaeda and isis for who is the lead jihadist group. we don't even know what the target was. there's suspicion that the target was the parliament. parliament was in session. maybe as the terrorists were going in they saw target of opportunity, by a museum see tourists getting off and maybe they decided that was the moment. before i got on the air here i looked at twitter. i just typed in tunisia. what was amazing to me was to see all the people that say, i'm tunisia and i'm standing strong with the tunisian people. it was like what happened in france after the "charlie hebdo" attacks. this could have the possibility -- it's a fragile democracy. this could have the opposite affect of solidifying the people behind their government and behind peace. >> tunisia, that's where the arab spring was born a few years ago, amid hope for the entire region, north after arerica and the middle east. in tunisia, they have had relatively some good prospects. >> t

we don't know if it's part of isis, not part of isis. it's pretty terrifying because this information is as the colonel points out, pretty much available online. what you do about a situation like this? >> well yeah it's data mining. any of this stuff i could find your address you could find my address. you do credit checks go to a bank. any of this stuff is available. but it's even worse on social media where people post this stuff and the special forces they all keep this off because they know they're potential targets. . this is a call to these lone wolves. you know where this is the list that we want you to go after and whether this is actually the islamic state or al qaeda, it doesn't really matter. they're looking for the one lunatic to go out there and attack uniformed military personnel and i would take this very seriously if i were the military. >> what's your analysis paul? >> i absolutely agree this needs to be taken seriously. we've seen past attacks on soldiers in canada. we saw two canadian soldiers being killed in two sepa

because iran hates isis. we hate isis. iran is fighting isis. we are fighting isis. and isis in places like this little town, where we got this footage from today, isis is paying a price for that, for having powerful enemies of all different stripes. but our american politicians here at home are also paying a tiny little price for it themselves. because apparently it is hurting their brains to try to understand this tiny little single nuance. in washington today, the senate foreign relations committee held high-level hearings with the joint chiefs of staff, and secretary of defense and secretary of state, the fight against isis of course is also under way. the u.s. has led more than 2,700 air strikes against isis targets both in iraq and in syria. but congress has never weighed in on it. president obama has just ordered those strikes, ordered this month-long offensive on his own authority. even though congress likes to talk about isis and how tough they want to be about fighting isis, congress has actually not been tough enough to formally debate that action, let alo

even people who oppose isis up -- oppose the government, oppose isis. charlie: the question is, how do you bring the two together? what are you prepared to do? how to get those people, like the russians and iranians and americans -- president assad: they cannot put the government and isis on the same level. not to support the government doesn't mean to support isis. it is opposition, you have a point of view. but it is not time for division. charlie: can you destroy isis without coming together with the u.s. s with a united plan question mark -- coming together with united plan? president assad: you cannot destroy isis unless you are unified as a society. isis is not just an syria. it is not enough to be unified on a local level. it is a regional and international problem. that is why defeating terrorism will be difficult. charlie: that is the question. you do not have it yet. how do you get it? that is the future. president assad: you are talking about more than one party. international parties. the united states. the local party. we would like to see

doctors moving to syria to help isis. we are live in baghdad. >>> the 2016 presidential campaign has begun. senator ted cruz announcing his bid for the nomination. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. it is monday march 23rd. john berman will be in later this morning. about 100 special operations troops were evacuated from the country in yemen. the chairman of the house homeland security committee warning of the dangers posed by losing yemen as a base for u.s. counterterrorism operations. >> we will have no footprint to monitor what aqap or isis is doing in the region. without plots and intelligence we cannot stop it. >> on sunday houthi rebels seized an international airport in the city of taiz. the united nations security council met in an urgent sessions calling on all sides to put down their weapons and negotiate. a u.s. official warning that yemen is in a rapid downward spiral and at the edge of civil war. let's bring in the latest with correspondent nic robertson. >> reporter: christine, this is a dangero

and besides, isis and militias. aaron: given this dynamic, what do you think this pretense for iraq's future? could we see a return to the brutal days of 2006-2007 when a sectarian conflict was out of control and tens of thousands killed? is there a fear of sliding back into that? >> i think we already are there and many ways. last year, there was an estimated 17,000 iraqis that were killed. that is the most balanced by four cents weekly in the violent -- most of violence by far since we peaked. these are sunni areas that have been taken over by al qaeda in 2006-2007, often because the communities wanted some sort of [indiscernible] now they're being terrorized by shia groups. there's outright warfare in the countryside. massacres on both sides. i think we're actually there. the mosul fallujah, they're going to make what has been happening in amerli look minor in comparison to the massacres and human rights abuses that occur. amy: here in the united states were you just work, matt, yet the republicans attacking pres

head cut off by isis. you have a better chance of getting hit by lightning. that's something that fox news and the people on the right won't tell you, because they want to send ground troops back to iraq. we already had two wars. we don't need another war, especially with a group that doesn't have a navy nuclear weapons. they can't hurt us the way people on fox will try to tell people they can. so i think it's a great thing. i think more americans should poke fun at isis. i think that isis ultimately should become a punch line and

it fell to isis last june. iraqi forces say isis fighters are retreating toward the center of the city. but today isis launched a new military offensive on another iraqi city ramadi. the city is being attacked, quote, from all directions. let's go to our senior international correspondent ben wedeman who joins us now from baghdad. ben, how significant is it that these iraqi forces together with their shiite militia allies iranian revolutionary guard advisers they've retaken at least that hospital in tikrit? >> reporter: yeah not just the hospital wolf but also a neighborhood to the north and they've taken another hospital on the southern edge of the city previously known as saddam hospital. so they do seem to be gaining ground. and we understand that really the only isis fighters who are left are foreign fighters who are ready to die in the battle. many of the iraqi fighters perhaps not quite as committed to the cause of isis have left the city. they were the ones that we were reporting earlier who had received

isis recruiting teenagers from the united states. yes, you heard right, from the united states and, of course, from europe. there is new evidence it's happening every day. isis luring well-educated well-off kids from their homes. three weeks ago three british school girls ran off from home in england and believed to have joined isis. tonight, new video surfacing of those british teens. turkey on their way to syria and in the video the teens are reportedly talking to a arab interpreter about using syrian passports. it's believed footage by a man in turkey yesterday. he is a foreign spy and joining us lt. colonel allen w tion. good evening sir. >> how are you you doing greta? >> very well. so i guess it's no surprise but it is terribly disturbing it that isis recruiting teens from western europe and the united states? >> no, it's not a surprise. you just heard the cia director john brennan talk about the use of social media by isis. one of the key things that we are going to have to do is finally recognize this ideology, this islamic t

they get the experience from isis definitely and they get the isis brand name. what boko haram are basing on is the regional partner are going to get tired and when they do who's going to be manning the supply lines, blocking their movement around the region. nigeria has really focused on this threat because they have an election in a couple weeks and they can't dli delay it again. they've delayed it once. what happens once that new president is in place and will boko haram play on those weaknesses. for now they're kind of falling back on asymmetric warfare, suicide attacks but they are absolutely in now no way can they be counted out at the moment and this will only strengthen their position. >> nima buck colonel reese, thank you very much. a quick break. we'll discuss the continuing controversy over former secretary of state hillary clinton's use of personal e-mail white while at the state department. she just spoke in florida. normally people wear pants. yeah that's why i'm hiding captain obvious. not very well. i found you immediately. you know what else is

here in this area where they're also fighting isis isis is just up the road from here they say they have absolutely no air cover from the international coalition. the coalition provides air cover for the peshmerga and iraqi government forces. everyone else is on their own. isis' black banner still flies over the town while black smoke rises from burning homes behind us. they keep a wary eye on el bashir. these are men who have known little but war. this 58-year-old joined the iraqi army in his late teens. war with iran war with the kurds, he says war with the americans, war with al qaeda. and there will be more wars to come. true words in this land that lives and all too often dies by the sword. ben wedeman, cnn, south of kircut. >>> u.s. secretary of state john kerry is condemning an alleged chlorine gas attack by the assad regime. now he's calling for an investigation into it. the attack is said to have happened in the syrian town of sarmin on monday. a group monitoring the syrian civil war says six civilians and dozens were injured. cnn cannot independently confirm this report. last y

to be isis. you're still investigating that is that right? >> we are. i think the defense department has said there's not evidence there was a data breach even though they call themselves a hacking group. we think they found information online and pieced it together. but there are a lot of these groups that have popped up. even in places like yemen, as barbara starr just reported we don't know if they are operationally linked to isil. they claim this name probably to get more attention, more followers, but we just don't know if there's an operational link. >> is there an american citizen part of these 11 medical students who apparently have left their university gone to turkey crossed into syria and are now trying to help isis at their medical facilities? is there a u.s. citizen part of that group? >> we are still trying to determine whether those reports are true. we have seen them but we can't verify them yet at this point. i know there's a number of names floating around out there. we trying t

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-led anti-isis coalition. unfortunately, says this spokesman, we've seen no effort by the international coalition here and that really doesn't reflect well on them. the iraqi government has said it didn't request assistance from the coalition for the tikrit operation. if this operation is successful these fighters and iran will take the credit. >> ben wedeman is joining us now live from baghdad. ben, excellent report. do these iraqi forces appear to be gaining momentum against isis in this battle for tikrit? because they tried earlier and failed. >> reporter: yeah that attempt last summer was a complete disaster more than 1,700 iraqi soldiers executed by isis. this time around it looks like a much more deliberate much better-planned operation. as we made our way towards tikrit we saw a lot of hardware on the move in both directions. and in general, they do seem to be making some progress. as you mentioned at the top of your report they did today declare that they've retaken the town of al dur, a very strategic

a president and an administration that said isis was jayvee. a president who said that the global war on terror is over when it is alive and well. at what point do the president's words matter? >> the president's words matter greatly but so do your words and it sounds like you are on a political rant. there are people who are seriously engaged in trying to stop isis, trying to stop terror and the fact that we busted these three guys in brooklyn this week, good news. >> maybe good news. maybe we should have followed them allow we don't have a good history of following things remember when we tried to follow a few guns fast and furious into mexico. we have to leave it right will. you can continue the conversation right now on witter. we launched the #wake up america three weeks ago and it's been a massive success. in fact, the hashtag which was virtually dormant has been a go to hashtag for conservatives everywhere even when we're not on air. this chart tells the whole story. we spike on saturdays during "cashin' in," but conservatives are using

and you know isis was all over the place. they had come across and you know as well as everyone back there. it was the talk of the town. things are changed here in the last couple of months very quickly back to the iraqis. so from my perspective with boko haram, i'm not sure why they're doing this and it doesn't show a sign of strength from any perspective. it shows a sign of struggle. but i also saw today that i think isis is starting to show some fracture lines here. this might be an opportunity for them to kind of group up together to show more strength. but right now there's some struggles in both of these lines throughout iraq and nigeria. >> i don't know if you saw the story in today's "washington post" that suggests the reporter they have in iraq that isis is starting to fray from within. those were the words she wrote, fray from within because of defections dissension within isis. are you sensing any of that now? >> i am. i started coming here to iraq in 2003 with the u.s. forces. when i retired in '07, started a comp

hows americans are more concerned about isis than ever. 80% say they think isis poses a serious threat to the united states. that's up from 73% in november. 68% last fall. the poll also finds 79% of americans are somewhat or very worried that the fight against isis will spread throughout the region. >> and the reopening of the cafe in sydney. new premier met with staff before the doors opened and praised them for their comradery. in december gunman took 17 people hostage. >> next here a look at why u.s. authorities are now investigating some missing persons cases in cities where murder suspect robert durs once lived. also ahead here a story, a woman in custody. car insurance. everybody knows that parker. well... did you know auctioneers make bad grocery store clerks? that'll be $23.50. now .75, 23.75, hold 'em. hey now do i hear 23.75? 24! hey 24 dollar, 24 and a quarter, quarter now half, 24 and a half and .75! 25! now a quarter, hey 26 and a quarter, do you wanna pay now, you wanna do it, 25 and a quarter- -sold to the man in the khaki jacket! geico. fifteen minutes could save you fi

isis claimed responsibility in a pair of online posts. suicide bombers blew themselves up inside the mosques and at least one car boemmb exploded outside as people tried to flee. >>> 70 syrian soldiers killed in attacks launched by isis east of homs monitoring the civil war, the assault began on wednesday. the group also says isis suffered casual tifftyies but did not provide a number. >>> tunisian officials say two of the men who carried out the attack on the country's museum had training -- our correspondent covered libya over the past few years and is live in baghdad. good to see you. we've just said you've covered libya extensively over the years. let me ask you this -- when you heard that the two men behind the tunisia attacks had weapons training in libya did that spripz youurprise you at all? >> reporter: absolutely no surprise there, isa. when we first heard the news. this is something that has been a concern for libya's neighboring countries. they have been concerned about this spillover of the chaos in libya, the thriving extrem

>> no they would welcome our bombing to isis. they want us to destroy isis. they want to destroy isis. and i think you are misreading it if you think there isn't a mutual interest with respect to daesh -- >> if the u.s. sent more military personnel into iraq they would support that? iran would support that? >> they are not going to come a openly support it and they obviously would be nervous about it. but the point is you have bigger problems with that because the shia militia within iraq might have something to say about it. and other people might obviously react very adversely to that. but what is important senator with respect to your question is to understand this and i think this has been a misread by a lot of people up here on the hill. there is no grand bargain being discussed here. this is about a nuclear weapon potential. that's it. and the president has made it absolutely clear they will not get a nuclear weapon. now the presumption by a lot of people up on the hill has been that we somehow aren't aware of that goal even as we negotiate that goal. o