i name is katie vine. we are here today to talk to amaryllis box author of the new book "life undercover". encourage everyone to pick up a copy of this. she is going to be signing copies. i will give a quick introduction and then i will ask a few questions in leave the last ten to 15 minutes for audience questions. please silence your cell phones before we start. even before she finished studying in oxford before september 11 before her writing mentor was captured in killed they have already invested in international affairs having taken a great risk when she was just a year out of high school. she eventually got a masters in conflict. she developed an algorithm that could predict terrorist attacks based on 200 years of data. at age 21 she was recruited to the cia where she analyzed classified information. soon afterwards she was selected for advanced operations and training in the middle east and asia. it's not a huge surprise to hear of a call when they come to life. she and her husband who are also a sp

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vine. jake, thank you very much for coming back. we appreciate it. >> thanks, katyn days ago, a successful u.s. military operation led to the death of isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi. but baghdadi's death did not put an end to the terror organization, which not only remains a presence in iraq but according to exclusive reporting by nbc news, one that is resurging in the region. joining me now from irbil, iraq, courtney cuby. courtney, what do you have? >> hey, katy. so we had an opportunity to go to this very remote outpost in makmor to see where isis is now in iraq. they're dug in at the bottom of this mountain range in makmor and they're exploiting this -- this regional rift that's -- that's decades in this area. the kurdish on one side of the mountains. the iraqi army on the other. but there's essentially this no-man's land in the middle that no one patrols. well, isis has learned that and they're now using that as a route line. they've dug in there. they have caves. they have tunnels. and they're moving freely along there. we had the opportunity when we were up