the newest isis target the head of twitter. i'm toure. and as we come on the air, the twitter security team is investigating what appears to be an isis-inspired threat against co-founder jack dorsey. in the tweet captured by buzzfeed dorsey is shown in the cross hairs.

they are calling on people to kill twitter because the social media is blocking their accounts. they don't know who has posted the threat but brookings said since last fall twitter has linked 45,000 accounts to isis propaganda. 800 confirms isis members have had accounts disabled and 18,000 related accounts. mean while, overseas the iraqi military is launching a massive attack on the city of tikrit the former home town of saddam hussein in control since the summer. and this devolving fight for tikrit. and the city is a sunni majority with shiite military. and fighting with irani air support. it is a mix with massive backlash even if it succeeds with backlash.

jessica mcfate is research director at the institute for the study of war and recently war an op ed in the "wall street journal." and jessica, why is it important to tikrit and what are the dangers there? >> it is a sunni majority city and a capital in a sunni majority province in forthern iraq so in one sense it is a very important test of isis' defenses to see if the iraqi security forces and shia militias can overcome them but it is a very important test of whether or not iraq can prevent a sectarian fallout after such a demographic shift with the -- with a shia militia force participating in an offensive to take over a sunni majority capital. >> and many westerns have been confused by the isis approach of attacking so many different fronts. you've sen that is a deliberate strategy reading from your piece, isis's recent foray into libya and it is hostage-taking

and executions of egyptians and jordans to pallarize domestic populations. and how does that work? >> one component is speaking specifically to the sunni populations and sunni governments in neighboring states to isis's strong holds in iraq and syria. and isis wants to try to drive a wedge between those fighting isis and those who are either passively or actively supporting them and in fact their principal message, and this is their strategy, is to try to make this very much for or against so there is quote, no gray area unquote. everyone is either for or against. it is a message to weaken a coalition against isis. >> and jessica, let's talk about this potential twit threat and how it fits into what isis' strategy is on a grander scale. first of all, they've been sadly very effective at using twitter

to spread their propaganda and as a recruiting tool so it seems counter productive to threaten twitter. but how does this fit into what they are doing with in regards to what he call the honor yor-- the outer ring. >> well in the outer ring isis is trying to inspire fear and scare everybody into not doing anything against isis and i do think this particular threat against twitter and the co-founder of twitter is part of that strategy. it is simply meant to inspire fear possibly ip spire attacks. but i think that is primarily an issue for law enforcement. >> saturday night live has people talking today as people are upset. they did a spoof on the toyota add. the original add was a dad sending off his kid to the

military and snl had a dad sending off his daughter into the arms of isis. take a look at this. >> hey, dad, thanks. >> you got it kiddo. looks like your ride's here. you be careful, okay. >> dad, it's just isis. >> so that was dakota johnson playing that role. when we acknowledge isis even in a satirical way like this what impact does that have on isis in terms of the way they view their role in this fight? >> well i'm actually of two minds about this one. on the one hand i do understand why people are upset about it. i have a poignant moment like this with my dad before i joined the united states army. but they are trying to counter a message of what isis is trying

to do perhaps through laughter is something i think worth looking at. so i don't think the answer is just not to talk about them. and i think part of the answer may very well be diffusing at least the fear message, so long as we keep an eye on what they are actually physically capable of doing, to underestimate that is very dangerous. >> and why should any of the enemies be above satire or parody. and we went through the horrors in france and with the idea that we in a free society dictate things don't like to say, that is fine but going down the road of isis or al qaeda or the folks out there are beyond any kind of acknowledgment. >> joke. >> and i think we are mocking not just isis but the young women and men who left their homes to go join isis. and i think dakota johnson's

character is the big joke of that whole moment. what do you think? >> well i would agree. i think it is very important to take a look at some of the modern syndromes that are occurring and recognize that it is actually a scary threat that isis is appealing for young people who are searching for what their roles in this world is going to be. to make fun of that it is important and highlight the issue is important and to recognize that community that isis is targeting may very well be the community watching snl. so let's look at how we look at what it means to be free. >> and as we allow or watch snl mock this girl joining isis we have actual young women, 15 and 16 leaving homes, leaving families who love them and joining isis and it is a little heartbreaking and a little confounding and -- i mean what are we to make of this? >> well, i think we should recognize that isis is not

necessarily doing what they are doing to young people through their families but in fact trying to isolate them from their families. so the one thing i think the snl skit does not capture is the children are leaving their families in isolation and not with the support of their loving fathers. so that distinction is very important. >> jessica mcfate, military analyst and television critic thank you for your time today. >> absolutely. thank you. coming up krystal reports from d.c. where it is another crazy week. netanyahu in town and homeland security funding in jeopardy and speaker boehner in hot water. "the cycle" is rolling on. it is the first monday of march, 2015. >> crazy. in. for years i really struggled with this idea that people were making money off my illness and i wanted to do something different and so i finally made that change. [thunder and rain]

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a new week on the hill behind me sounds an awful like last week. another showdown is looming after speaker boehner was only able to execute a pathetic one week of homeland security funding so friday at midnight and here we go again. luke russert is up on the hill for us. and luke certainly this cannot be how speaker boehner was hoping this would turn out. >> reporter: not at all. it is not how mitch mcconnell and the other leaders in the gop wanted the first three months to go. the new american congress shall we say. a lot of trouble just passing what many felt would be the mundane, the department of homeland security funding. speaker boehner this past sunday he acknowledged he doesn't have the easiest job in the world.

>> do you like your job? >> most days. friday wasn't all that fun. but most days. >> why wasn't friday fun? >> oh, it was just messy. and i'm not into messy. >> so the question then is krystal, will it be the messy for the rest of the week the speaker's job and the conventional wisdom on capitol hill is republicans do not want to continue this department of homeland security fight because of how embarrassing it was on friday. that illicited editorials from many including the wall street saying it was hurting their opportunity with the new majority. so what happens now. the senate will move procedurally to do something the house wanted to do go to conference and reconcile the differences between both chambers, the department of homeland security bills an the democrats will stop that and then we have the possibility in the house of democrats using a very interesting parliamentary tactic called the privileged

resolution which would force a clean department of homeland security security bill on the house floor whereas the expectation from leaders is you would see 188 democrats support that and maybe 30 or so republicans to get it over the finish line. and unless the house gop leadership wants to do something else. the reason why that privilege works for boehner and the gop leader sipp erership is saying look this isn't us but the democrats did it and 35 colleagues jumped in and we have to let the housework its will. a fascinating conundrum. and on monday i will be shocked if they go through the 11th hour mess again this upcoming friday. there is no appetite for it in many in the rank and file now. >> not exactly profiles encouraged over there. take care. we appreciate. >> thank you. be well. and tomorrow as ben

netanyahu addresses congress but a number of democrats will be absent for reasons. before aipac he extended an olive branch. >> the last thing that i would want is for israel to become a bipartisan issue -- partizean issue and i regret that it is doing that. israel is a bipartisan issue and it should remain a bipartisan issue. >> and then he said this. >> ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of my address to congress tomorrow is to speak up about a potential deal with iran that could threaten the survival of israel. >> the white house responded this afternoon. here is josh earnest. >> the president has made a strategic decision about what he

believes is clearly in the best interest of the united states and it happens to be in the best interest of israel. no one else has laid out a strategy for how to accomplish what the prime minister has laid out as his goal. >> joining us now is josh farrow host of three cents on shift and domesticic correspondent for the new york times. and picking up on the first comment that we heard netanyahu making, saying that israel has always been a bipartisan issue and it is true. it is one of the issues that democrats and republicans have been very much aligned on, almost completely across the board. does this speech to a joint session of congress and the way that it has been perceived as a partisan move does that fundamentally change that dynamic. >> i don't think it has helped israel position as a bipartisan issue. you will have a substantial number of democrats skipping and they have counted 86 who said

they will go and many haven't given an indication yet but here what israel is looking for on iran, is they are looking for a revolt against the president's policy and they want new sanctions on iran something the president would veto and they need democratic votes and backing them over the objections of the same-party president and so i think this strategy which is creating a party rift over israel will not help them in the end of getting democrats to stand with them against the president. >> and josh we know d.c. is all about politics and partisanship and things play out and come and go and we move on with our lives. this one feels different and it feels like it will have a long-lasting impact on our politics and david roth cost said today it was until president obama was no longer in office until we can begin to

make some end rhodes. >> i think everybody needs to know that in the next couple of years and the last six years this will stay dysfunction until president obama is out of power or bibi netanyahu is out of election. >> they will be having an election and netanyahu may not be in office any more and then president obama won't be president that much longer. so i think the fundamental political supports for israel on both sides of the aisle remain in the united states. i think the bigger long-term concern for israel is a broadening rift between jews in israel and the united states. when you look at polling in the united states, you are seeking support among younger jews than older jews and that is what

threatens the relationship between u.s. and israel. the relationship between the president and netanyahu is not going to be an issue. >> and we are talking about america a big issue in israeli politics and the strategy doesn't work for netanyahu if the goal is to build a larger coalition in the u.s. congress that could override negotiations that john kerry is taking on behalf of the united states administration here, this doesn't seem to work for that. but bibi according to sources in israel has other domestic political goals. let's listen to what the former head of the israel cia said in the past few hours to a nbc news interview. let's hear that. >> cynically, netanyahu is doing it not in order to talk to the congress, because he knows that talking to the congress now will change nothing. he is doing it in order to speak to the people in israel in order

to gain one or two more man dates. so netanyahu is ready to sacrifice the special relations between israel and the u.s. for gaining more votes before elections in israel. >> now that is a serious charge because in israel the tradition is not to use the american relationship, by far the most important economic military relationship the nation has for political goals. that is a big charge. and to be fair netanyahu administration has denied that and said this is about iran and foreign policy. but toure, when you look at this and the politics around it you can't help but think the building support on the right and the center right in israel there are credible people there that think this is too political and thus bad on two levels. >> that is right. there is a letter from 180 former security generals who said this address will do more

harm than good. another ex chief saying we shouldn't be gnawing away at our relations with our allies and not in public and not by getting involved in american politics an this is not the kind of behavior of getting involved in american politics and how do you think this will play out? >> and this is not about whether it is a naked political move or whether it is a naked political move that backfired. if he is trying to shore up the policy toward iran and helping to alienate democrats, i think we've seen support falling away and it is clear that the president can have a veto sustained on that bill if he wants one. and that is a problem for him domestically. and i don't know if it is high-minded that we shouldn't interfere in u.s. politics and it is more that we shouldn't interfere in u.s. politics and lose. >> josh, barrow we love your

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memorials continue to grow in moscow for russian opposition leader boris nemtsov. no one has been arrested since he was gunned down on friday night in one of the most secure and heavily monitored parts of moscow. the attack is being investigated by a team that reports directly to vladimir putin but the opposition claims the kremlin was behind the murder. joining from behind the russian capital, is andrew kramer. and andrew, will they use this to justify the crackdown on more of those that seek to tame down-- take

down the kremlin. >> and the immediate response for the investigators was to blame the opposition for perhaps being behind the murder to create a martyr out of this or there was an indication of islamic terrorism or his personal life but the key question is whether the opposition will be intimidated or rally around the cause of this tragic event and perhaps stage additional protests going forward. >> andrew kramer stick with us because we'll bring in former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, john herbs, now director of the atlanta center. just on the top, what is your response to what happened over the weekend? >> well the most important thing is mr. nemtsov was about to deliver a report explaining how russian troops were involved in the war in ukraine. and this was seen as a great threat by the kremlin.

so while we don't know who gave the order to kill him, we know that by his death, it has taken this off the agenda for the present time. the march yesterday was supposed to be about protesting the russian war on ukraine but instead it was mourning nemtsov. it was a short-term win for putin. >> and many believe the kremlin is behind the murder. if that is true why do you think the kremlin would do something like this now? what is going on in russia that makes them feel so vulnerable that they feed to silent a major voice of pop position?-- of opposition. >> he was no longer a silent figure and he was still highly visible. and if he was going to talk to the people about russian troops fighting ukraine and smag that putin denies and the russian people don't like that would be a threat to him and that would be a hit on nemtsov.

>> and how the opposition would respond and that is the big open question, what is your expectation given what you know about the russian opposition? do you expect they will be galvanized by this or more reticent to speak out? >> i think among those committed, they will be galvanized. but mr. putin has many levels of repression. and they -- they arrest people preemptively and limit access to the media and they are going after social media. so it is quite possible mr. putin will be able to keep this under wraps. >> andrew, bringing you back here on the phone from moscow i've been reading your dispatches and you have been holding -- showing people holding signs on the streets saying i'm not afraid and showing street politics in russia, what krystal was

referring to is that happening at all yet? >> i think it is too early to say whether that is happening or will happen. some people say it might take until the fall when the economic problems are felt by the population before we have large-scale street protests. there is also plenty of time for additional restrictive measures come into play, preemptive arrests and restrictions on social media and the internet. so it is on the two forces now in moscow. >> how is russian media reporting this death? what are they saying about it and what do you expect the average russian citizen is thinking about it? how are they viewing it and who do they suspect is culpable here? >> well it is hard to get into the mind of every russian but many people knew nemtsov from his time in 1990s and his time in politics and most are shocks to here a prominent politician

whether you liked him or disliked him was murdered on a street. so i would say many people are upset by this. the state media has been suggesting a number of theories about the murder that are not supported by the opposition, including that it might have been related to his personal life or indegree within-- intrigue in the opposition and some russians would believe those theories and believe their own government when they are told this. but i would assume it is a mixed bag. >> ambassador, having served in the ukraine and following these issues very closely, what should the u.s. response be to something like this? as we watch it play out from afar what, is your advice to the administration on how to handle this? >> there is not much you can do about the murder of nemtsov. but there should be a much clearer policy in washington about the aggressive designs of mr. putin, not just in ukraine but beyond ukraine. we need a more forceful response than what we are seeing right now.

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apple is introducing a new smart watch that could up-end the watch market just as apple up-ended the phone device. and there could be 30 billion by the end of the decade. wow. this is a growing internet called the internet of things. everything is margining toward a connectivity that changes how we work and live. that and can mean more risk. if everything is a computer think tv like this everything can be hacked and we're not just talking about privacy, your car is more hackable when it is made of computers as 60 minutes reported. >> the hack erin certificated a attack that reprogrammed the

software gaining total remote control. >> oh, my god. they could control that. >> they could control the gas and acceleration and braking. >> and they could do this from anywhere in the world. >> that is not good. but it is one of the hacks discussed in a new national journal report who hacked my toaster? >> and by reporter brendan sasso, welcome. >> clever title. and we just showed the car. a much more concerning title. what is going on here and the risk? >> just the concern as we connect devices to the internet there are security risks that come with them. so you think of an oven. if 10 million people have smart ovens, what happens if a hacker gets in and turns all of them on the clean cycle, maybe they catch fire. there is concern there are privacy and security risks that come with new devices.

>> brendan give us a sense of what this brave new world, the internet of things will look like. you talk about everything from cars, as ari just mentioned to baby socks are going to be connected to the internet. what is this going to look like. talk to us about what this is going to be. >> i think it is hard to predict right now. we're at the beginning of this new evolution or phase of the internet. but there are already devices coming out, like you mentioned the apple watch. there is a baby sock that can tell a parent or alert a person if someone is happening to the child, if they need help in the middle of the night and so there are all kinds of devices and people are brainstorming and figuring this out right now but people in silicon valley are betting big that this is the new evolution of the internet and everyone is trying to figure out, samsung and microsoft and apple are trying to figure out how they can make products to benefit and exploit the growth of the internet. and so now washington is

starting to pay attention and starting to just begin to think what are the security and privacy implications here. >> i'll tell you, no matter how much r&d they do they will have something -- have a hard time making something as cute as that baby sock. >> it could be a trap. >> that is www.adorable. >> but people need protection and some privacy and protection. i'm talking about the masses from the tech companies, as they start to do anything and we are inter-connected throughout the globe to anybody who wants to try to hack us. and right now, among the world's biggest companies, apple is number one and three of the top five companies are tech companies. is it possible for d.c. to actually help the masses given that the technology companies are so huge and their ability to lobby congress is so great? >> well i think it is important

to point out that i think that the internet things can be beneficial. cars can talk to each other and help avoid accidents and save your child and convenient things like turning on your oven on the way home from work. it is not a question of if this happens but whether washington can do anything to impose some regulations. >> but some of the innovations, you are talking about, they sound fantastic and i understand the value of cars that can speak to each other and have fewer accidents but it exceeds what the federal government has done in terms of taking care of the people to silicon valley. >> absolutely. i think that -- well there is concern on both sides of the aisle. you have democrats and republicans who are worried about doing anything that will stifle innovation. it is hard to predict what this will mean for everybody. so if you pass a law, whether that will in some ways hurt consumers. so there is fear and they are hanging back. so i don't know if there is a bill passed. we have the federal trade commission, an agency looking at

this and trying to come up with rules. but they don't have a lot of authority to regulate this. >> and andrew, you opened up the piece of talking about congress and they are up to date on a lot of things but when it comes to being technology savvy, not so much. and they are only one of the places in the u.s. that still have flip phones and they print out their schedules. in many jobs having a flip phone is fine. you can still do your job to the best of your ability but when they are making decisions and how we go about this in the future, that is frightening. how does that work? >> i think washington doesn't really have a reputation of being the most tech savvy. there is a wide variety. you have some lawmakers more up to speed than others but that is part of the fear that they recognize that the internet has been this tremendous boon to our economic and they are worried about stifling the next wave of that. so they are largely hanging back. and whether that ultimately is good for consumers or whether we have a massive horrible incident

remains to be seen. >> but you have an example in the book when you talk about a type of baby monitor that was hacked and use something to help parents have peace of mind to watch their child, allowed a hacker in and they were able to as you report sort of send in messages and yell inside of the home and have video footage of the baby. >> how creepy. >> really creepy. something any person can be concerned about especially when the device is supposed to enhance safety and part of it had to do with the security mechanisms and what was required for parents to set up. obviously that is a place where government could step in and raise some of the security measures if they wanted to. >> right. so the example in the book or the article was parents didn't realize they had to change the password and they left it as the default password like admin and the hackers could access the camera and yell things at the baby. and even if the parents did what they were supposed to do, there was a flaw in the software and

the cameras and hackers could access that. and in that case the federal trade commission did go in and take action and file a lawsuit against the company in that case. so there are certain situations where the government can take action but largely the regulations are limited. >> this future not going to be stopped and it is coming so how long before we see driver-less cars on the highway. >> it will be a few years and there are a lot of regulations there, but you have google and uber hard at work. >> or toasters that can be hacked. >> it has been a hack-athon of a session here. >> somebody hacked that joke. >> good one. >> up next the latest installment in our seven days of genius series. what do the greatest thinkers have in common? it turns out they don't over-think things. oh yea, that's coming down let's get some rocks, man.

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nbc.com/genius and learn more from the executive vice president, president, kelly leonard. and so can this help folks in the office. >> it is not about being funny. improv training is about reacting in the moment to real things. i call it yoga for your social skills. you go to a gym to work out your muscles but people don't think you need to work on listening. and you do. and that makes you very powerful in the office. >> talk to us about how you create an environment that encourages creativity where everybody feels like they can bring their ideas to the table and they'll be valued? >> that is huge. because if you don't have that none of this stuff works. so one of the big things we do is create safe spaces for people to fail. we don't use failure as a bad word, we recognize it is going to happen. because any time someone is trying to do something original there is failure involved. so ma thiens sometime -- that means sometimes the boss has to

get out of the room and let them fail and there is times to come in and perfect it later. it is all about saying yes, and at the beginning and then confirming and atrib -- contributing something and that is the brain aspect when you are trying to innovate. >> i like to let the idea play out before imposing real world pragmatic restrictions, let people dream and then figure out how it will work. and kelly, another challenge i find the world in business places are set up for extra verts so if -- extroverts and if you arin trow verts ---in trow verts how do you help them. >> we talk about an ensemble culture, and we don't use the word team and in our culture you

wantin trow verts as much as extroverts because it is what makes things happen. so you have to foster a culture if you are recognize someone is shy or don't speak, you make extra effort to include them in the conversation. so you make it a virtue as opposed to something that will upset the rhythm of the day. so it is paying attention to everyone in the workplace and making sure they have the opportunity to contribute. >> so you started to touch on this a minute ago because any time you are in an improvisation, you want to say yes and then when you say no opportunities close down. so you have to learn to say yes. >> and that takes practice. because it is not natural. when you get in the business there is a lot of no. there is a lot of no all over the place in education everywhere. so it starts at the top where your bosses have to model behavior and where they say "yes and." and then you have to add something to it and that is how you build something. >> and you always say "yes and"

ahead of us all. >> yes and -- and a question. do you ever play the game sound ball in improv. >> sure. >> so talk about that game and it is wonderful to play it and to play it with kids you have to be silly and look in a sense foolish or stupid to even play. and it can cattalize a room of people where you stop trying to look cool and play from there. >> and all of the stuff that we do stems from the improv games that started by viola stollin in the 30s and 40s and they are about making silly sounds in a room with other people sharing the ability to look foolish because right away when do you that you sort of pop the tension bubble and everyone can be themselves. it is amazing how much artifice goes into stepping into your work place. and so much of our stuff that we

teach at second city is to teach reality and when something is true it is funny. >> that's a great point. kelly, how do you define genius? it's a tough one to define. i might say ari melber is a genius, but is it something subjective? >> there's a great quote by f. scott fitzgerald. the key to intelligence is holding two opposite thoughts in your head at the same time. a genius i think of a stephen colbert. he's a character that he created that's saying all the things that colbert hates but it was an amazing way to get at comedy and truth. that's what i see as genius. >> you have worked with a number of people i would describe as

genius. colbert, tina fey. when they walk in the door do you see that genius or is it something that has to be cultivated with the games you're talking about? >> colbert and tina fey are great examples of people who walked in with the genius. you saw it right away. and there's other people like a steve carell. i don't know if i saw the genius right away but in three or four years it was unbelievable the kind of work he was doing on stage. it is different for different people and some move more quickly. another one is keegan michael key who does great work on keenan and peel. these guys are all individual successes who made their partners look good. they were never people who looked to stand out. they just stood out because they looked great. >> the list goes from dan

aykroyd to steve carell to jim belushi, rachel dratch. why has second city created such talented folks? >> they practice this improvisation over and over again. when you're at second city this is a graduate school of comedy. you're there three or four years. you're performing almost every night of the week. they are honing their craft and their skill. you have to get better by the time you end your tenure there. >> i wish i could be funny. >> abby, i wish you could do this next tease without a prompter. some of you may not know but today is the birthday of dr. seuss.

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