i was surprised that there were so little compassion. >> that was diane foley, the mother of james foleyho was beheaded last year. this has shown a rift between the families and the government. you are saying yours is not an issue of ransom. but are you feeling the same -- the other issues that have raise now, as families come together is a lack of information they get from the government. marc, what are your thoughts on what the government is doing? is austin part of this, the case of your son austin tice, part of this review that president obama has called for? >> yes, it is. and we have been given the opportunity to participate in the review. we are very gratified that president obama recognized there are problems with the way the hostage situations in the families of hostages are dealt with. yes, we have felt that. clearly, there are issues around sharing information with the families. i our dimension that. there are issues internally the government among agencies and departments and how effectively and efficiently information is shared -- >> were you ever threatened the way diane fo

government not to pay a 100 million euro ransom, about $116 million, which his mother diane foley and family wanted to do. mrs. foley spoke to cnn's anderson cooper about the ransom. >> we were told we could not raise a ransom, that it was illegal, we might be prosecuted. we were told that our government would not exchange prisoners would not do a military action so we were just told to trust that he would be freed somehow miraculously. and he wasn't, was he? >> this behavior is not unique to isis. terrorist groups of all ideologies have always relied on ransom money to fund their terror. but today, jihadist groups like isis and al queda use videotaped executions as an added means of extortion. and they've profited from this gambit. multiple reports suggest many nations, including france and germany, have paid tens of millions of dollars in ransoms to recover their citizens. why is isis so concerned about ransom? tim? >> they are acting like a country. i mean people don't like calling them a state but they are sort of like a state. they operate roads and towns and this sort of thing a