so i asked nicholas kristof andie liand eliza griswold to join us. nicholas has been reporting on the story and his column last sunday was one of the ways that the kidnapping came to the world's attention. and eliza griswold is a journalist that spent 20 years traveling along the world's parallel, including new jeer ig. she wrote a book about it called "the tenth parallel." what is boko haram? >> boko haram is a group that's really more of a mess than a militant group. they are a bunch of armed young men who come out of an islamic movement in nigeria. so nigeria is split, north/south, mostly christian and muse lilims. >> the muslims generally have more power. >> right. and they have no rights, even to go to school. it's a radical movement who has come out of disenfranchised young people who attack things they see as western in an effort to mobilize islam but really in an effort to gain power. >> you talk about this in your last book. how do you make sense -- would it be fair to call this islamic fu fund mentalism? what is behind this? >> i think we h