arease you look at the that are under isis, if someone stayed this long under isis, they must like isis. it's not that. people stayed because they had nowhere else to go. they couldn't go travel outside, but also because i think that sense has a policy implication. i have been asking my parents to give property four years ago. they always insist they can't. families who live there for ancestors,their taken from this area. they have lived all their lives there. there is a detachment, a disconnect from the policies to the reality of these people. for four months it has been liberated, this hometown. the case applies to other ones. every time people tried to come back they are told they cannot because the area is full of mines and so forth. from the u.s.day officials and others is like, no one is allocated to these villages. the u.s. led coalition has destroyed these areas because there was a fight against isis, but they don't have the resources to de-mine and make sure people can come back and resume their lives. there is resentment now towards the u.s. because nobody is doing anything. i

what is isis like as an organization? >> the big take away this wasn't a pr move for propaganda but they really aspired to that and they manage to outdo the government that they had and change direction with a certain petty crime aspect. from that brutality and the murderous nature of the group said to be brutal and murderous and violent are not exclusive to be bureaucratic. but it was a vast organization and extremely structured so making it even uncomfortable to talk about even to justify the group. >> as a researcher, this is who they are. so before getting into questions, the last one that we have discussed, what will we see in the near future? those that have lost control and the state apparatus is in some turmoil right now so what is your sense about having visited recently? where are they going next for next steps? what are they likely to do? there is historical context they moved to a guerrilla camp. >> right. one of the thoughts is if you look at what officials say now there is a thought the territorial caliphate

. >> but even the broader role of women in isis. and i think they underplay their role they have agency and at some level that i don't thank you could have a state but the fact that there are tens of thousands of women and children that were there that i think gave them the chops to have the caliphate. so it is quite important i don't know how that should reflect. >> so another woman that you profiled was kimberly coleman. how does her situation how is that similar or different? >> kimberly i have never heard of before. kimberly was a real anomaly. she was an american canadian citizen growing up in canada and left her home we spoke to other relatives of hers but she left to join isis. most of the people joining from the west were in the early twenties. she was well over the hill. her sister said that she was mentally unwell. i'm not a doctor that she did not exhibit any thing when she spoke to us. and the story that she tells because of a medical condition and felt cut off and had already converted to islam a couple years earlier. m

isis outside syria and iraq has become more like isis. they are closest to isis. that moment is big when they losted the caliphate. and see some elements of it and we are no longer part of baghdadi's group. we haven't seen it. that is very, very significant and has implications for a long time. if he manages to say, i built a call tate, trns ised from insurgency for another moment another opportunity for the future and syria, iraq and wider region, he could position himself, present himself in the future as a leader who made a difference. if he was killed. as the caliphate collapsed that would undermine that for a long time and present an alternative to it. >> but stability that you can use to build on that and kind of push against the regime and push against the jihadis and other actors. if the u.s. leads now, the regime will consolidate these gains and the jihadis will try to grow back again and the you has the opportunity to do something in syria if the u.s. pulls out of syria, the conflict ill unravel. iraq is very important, because now iraqi security hinges

son of isis just as isis is the son of al qaeda. the answer is to deal with the civil war. and very briefly that work is going to require a power sharing agreement which will dramatically decentralize power away from damascus out to the provinces. that's the only way you're going to get any kind of stunlt ability and end to conflict. how would i get there? i would get far more assistance to the syrian opposition. i agree with maura and brian, we get some leverage from simply holding the territory of eastern syria. i think what we've found is not enough. we're going to need much more leverage. i think the only way is to threaten the assad regime with defeat. it just requires a much greater effort. i don't want to make it sound like the surge. it requires a greater effort on the part of the united states we've never been able to do. i think until that happens we're either look at protracted violence and stale meat in syria or an iranian-russian backed victory for the assad regime. and none of those outcomes strike me as satisfying ame

of the resurgence of isis ideology. the question is, what are the practical steps that are being taken to ensure that the oncerns are taken into account, that there is more inclusion? another related question is, what would iraq like other countries, both western and middle eastern countries, do in terms of taking back their citizens who are involved with sis? i would ask for your assessment of what is the magnitude of the problem? of the isis fighters and their families who are detained in raq. speaker al-halbousi: in one of the largest provinces in iraq, the people back then, yes, everybody had civic duties and responsibilities, but we elieve that all people have to ontribute to build this iraq and then the iraqi institutions would give everybody an equal right. this has been somehow found an ear to have everybody -- every component to have participants in all the state institutions, administrative, security, without being concerned or having disappointed second lass citizens. here has been in the past or there had be

the only thing that when isis came in, this came out positive out of the defeat of isis. we have to stop funding the external idealology in all of iraq. like you said, the foreign fighters, anyone that contributed or hurt iraqis directly or indirectly will face justice in iraq. some probably were isis members outside of iraq if they had impact or directly were involved inside the iraqi territory will face justice in iraq. i think the punishment is really really harsh. it is different than someone who is not an iraqi citizen. others, western nationals, they will be taken care of by their own countries. i think everybody knows how to bring back their nationals. iraq will be so in all of these militants but also their countries now exactly how to aplay their own lieus and own justice who were members of this extremist organization that hurt iraq. we will ask for compensation from foreign nationals who did hurt iraq directly or indirectly. it is a right for iraqis to compensate families who lost their properties, who lost their family members all because of this isis. >> so w

>> i mean, our assessment of isis. isis starts as a caliphate or a nation state. then it becomes an infantry to hold that land and loses. it wasn't a caliphate, it wasn't an army. which meant from the nypd'sstant point, it was a terrorist group. >> it's a new thing for isis? >> that's right. but one that had a very limiteder, telimited external capability. we haven't seen anything since the paris attacks, the bataclan theater. this challenges that assessment. here you have a multi--layered, external operation, multiple locations, multiple suicide bombers, that stayed under the radar. we can talk about the reasons later, but a very effective attack where the claim of responsible came from isis central communications portals. it's something that we're going to have to look at and wonder if we got it wrong with isis in terms of their external capability. >> what does it mean that isis was involved in this? these were all locals. could it be that they just reached out to isis and isis liked the idea of branding? on the other hand, it seems much more sophisticated than

isis no longer holds territory locations like syria. we can no longer definitively pinpoint the location of many isis fighters around the globe and that unfortunately means more attacks like this will occur in the future. you and i were talking about the possibility last week and the fact is many battle hardened isis fighters have assimilated back into society, returned home from the war in syria and looking for attacks in their own country and the attacks in sri lanka are perfect example of this. many people are wondering why a group, the mystic terrorist group which is known for vandalizing buddhist statues was able to pull off such an attack when people didn't know who they were and this is one of the worst attacks since 9/11 and this is because they had help. during the war in syria we had a lot of unknown groups in locations likes a longer going to gain experience in syria was one big on-the-job training. heather: as you are discussing that i want to pull up a map of the terror organizations you are talking about the pledged allegi

another emotional paradigm isis can prey on. a sentiment that reverberates throughout these destitute camps with their prison-like feel, dreams traced in dust, the sense of despair. especially vulnerable are the children of those whose fathers, brothers, uncles, innocent or guilty, were disappeared, killed or detained. the district director hassan says the government cannot afford to abandon the younger generations. the hatred that festers within them instills yet another complex emotion that isis can easily manipulate. there is little that has been done to emotionally or physically rebuild the ruins left behind by iraq's war on isis. and so far the government has not dispelled the factors that allowed isis to emerge. the sense of abandonment, of being perpetually punished, a arbitrarily targeted. arwa damon, cnn, mosul, iraq. >> and many thanks for cnn's arwa damon for that exclusive report. we'll be right back. digestive s billions of bacteria, but life can throw them off balance. re-align yourself, with align probiotic. and t

when donald trump took office at the height of isis's brutal isis fighters controlled 20,000 mi.f terrain in iraq and syria, now they barely control a small building in those areas but it wasn't long ago our government officials from the frontlines believe the islamic state is finished and with all this talk of isis's defeat in syria, forgetting how quickly isis can reemerge. i remember vividly in 2010 i was on the front lines fighting what was left of the network and block to the islamic state to the brink of extension, special operations task force kicking off senior leaders left and right forth what was left of the terrorist network strangles, daily attacks on civilians at all-time low, us soldier death nearly nonexistent, tens of thousands of isis fighters across iraq and in washington, officials were briefed on the success of forces touting this victory and we saw what happened a few years later. we have to remain vigilant and keep pressure on the mend never forget what these guys were capable of. daymac what can we take from that? what can we learn from that as we move forw

isis on the run or isis taken out? >> isis on the run.do need to take a good hard look at targets domestically in the us and abroad. we need to have armed security. it is a political issue and far left democrats are still too silly to figure this out. we need intelligence, hardened targeted need to be prepared when evil people strike. it is going to happen. we've got to be ready and stop playing silly games and not be ready for these things to happen in the states or abroad. got to be ready, that simple. heather: that begins with figuring out how and why people convert to believing in isis propaganda to begin with. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. 15 minutes until the top of the hour. after years of touting the idea, democrats will hold their first hearing on medicare for all. >> the best way to go forward is a single-payer program. >> lowering costs. heather: what will we learn today? the devil in the details and you will not like them. - in a crossfit gym, we're really engaged with who we are as people and making everybody fe

isis is still very much a threat. they may not have claim to territory now, but baghdadi's message of attacking the west and its allies is still resonating with new recruits and the thousands of fighters who remain in iraq and syria. others boldly carrying out attacks far from where isis first took root. david? >> all right, martha raddatz, monitoring the developments. thank you, martha. >>> a new round of severe weather developing tonight.rachh way to the northeast this week. it follows a late season blast of winter, blizzard conditions and 30 inches of snow in montana. and look at this. chicago with two and a half inches. the biggest snow total on record this late in the season there. and a funnel cloud in texas. chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking a huge portion of the country under severe weather watches tonight. ginger, good evening. >> reporter: hey, good evening. this one not quite as snowy, but still something to watch. flash flood potential anywhere from iowa city, david, to st. louis and kansas city to t

isis come -- leave. eventually isis comes up and we're back in iraq again and are still there now. this sort of up and down. president trump has come in really under the -- during his campaign it was ongoing to defeat crisis and leave the middle east. we had a number of announcements about leaving syria that now have been to a great extent walked back. there is still this desire to leave the region. we are hearing great power, great power, great power. it seems to me, unless we figure out how to get the middle east right, we're going to get continued -- we're going to continue to step back in these challenges. i may have went and little long. -- a little long. what are our interests? what is a sustainable long-term approach in the region? i will ask you to go first, especially since you wrote a foreign affairs piece about this a couple months ago. >> thank you for bringing us together. this is a terribly fun group and i am excited about it. the term i have used with ishaey co-author purgatory. that is the approach towards the middle east for recent decades. effectively, we are too

isis is still in my heart, said one fighter. for now these isis fighters a supporters are being held in these loosely guarded camps in syria. but the kurds don't have the resources to detain them for long. a perfect opportunity for isis' old and more disciplined rival, al qaeda, to recruit battle-hardened fanatics. >> al qaeda will see the destruction of the isis caliphate as a reason to rebrand itself. >> reporter: isis aiscattered and wting to be reborn. based on what we saw there, this is a ticking time bomb. there areusands of people living in loosely guarded, squalid conditions, radicals with plenty of time on their hands. so this is not going to go away. >> it's alarming, richard, but such an important update. thk you. good to see you. >>> tonight parisians are marking this good friday in the shadow of fire-scarred notre dame. hundreds turning out to the cathedral which account for jesus' road to crucifixion. this as workers stabilized the building five days after it was damaged by that inferno. >>> this weekend a threat a

there is an isis link here.would be isis's biggest ever international terror attack in terms of fatalities. so very, very worrying development indeed. they can attract this skill set now potentially >> this is happening as isis lost territory in syria. what do you see as the future for isis and what they can do >> isis's international attack capacity has been degraded. they lost territory in syria and iraq. more difficult to train, recruit and send foreign fighters to launch international terror attacks. they could be now sustaining this international terror attack capability. moving it to new theaters around the world. there are around 40,000 plus foreign fighters that went to join isis in syria and iraq. officials believe 10,000, maybe as many as 30,000 of them still survive. the worry is these will be the class of potential attackers >> recruits. >>> she spent years working as a professor. will senator elizabeth warren make the grade in professor chris cillizza's class. his midweek grades are next. don't miss

both he and store survived isis, but only just.k burnings happened twice, he says, and the group didn't approve of his selection of poetry and romance. >> ( translated ): they would take this and cut it in half and thrown it on the fire, directly. in the street in front of the book shop. they wld throw them all on the fire. i told them, "i am going to the mosque, so do what you want." y as i was walking on the the mosque, i told myself, "all of syria is destroyed, why should i care about t books? em do what they want." >> reporter: here, we meet dr. mohammed al izou, the director of raqqa's museum. he takes us there, just across the road.dr trouble founal izou before exis came. their predecessorsemist rebel groups, took the city in eu2013, and came for the ms precious antiquities. >> (in translated ): i camhe morning to the museum and found it full of fighters. they were lding guns. when i entered, i saw the display cabinets on the ground. there was nothing in them. everything has bn stolen. i asked them what happened, and they tol

have been directed by isis at all.ou expect that you like and government will try to counter the people behind these attacks and the possible threat of any more? i think that one of the things they are doing is that had a prevention of terrorism act which allows them to clamp down on what we considered to be most civil rights. they have a curfew, they have a blackout of social media and they are just trying to get a sense of how they are going to handle this because what they don't want to do is exacerbate the kinds of communal tensions which might be what isis or these jihadi groups want. we've seen for example, this group, was previously last december accused of defacing buddha statues and as a result there has been violence against the muslim communities. that is something the government is trying to clamp down on. there are going to be heads to roll when this comes out with the fact that because of conflicts between the president and the prime minister, they were left unprepared for this attack, even though they ha

we'll start today's show with isis. for months, president trump has been boasting that the so-called islamic state is now stateless. >> the isis caliphate is defeated 100%. 100% obliterated. >> the terror group this week claimed credit for the sri lanka atta attacks. i'll ask john miller if they could be dying and attacking at the same time. >>> also, is the world ripe for another financial meltdown? and would world leaders be handicap in reacting if one did come along? i'll talk to the three men that rescued the economy the last time around, ben bernanke, and more. a riddle of sorts, what does the border between ireland and northern ireland and this weeke weekend's elections in spain have in common? i'll give you the answer. first, here is my take, consider for a moment what the growing talk of impeachment among democrats sounds like to the tens of millions of people that voted for donald trump. many of them supported him because they feel ignored, mocked and condesended to? the same elites have maneuvers to overturn t

how dangerous is isis now. amir what do you think is i asked more dangerous now than it was prior to its defeat in some ways i believe yes because we are talking about millions of dollars investing in a normal economy that managed before they defeated in iraq in syria in turkey in europe. the money is there the financing system is going all underground and the side of this is the slips the sales still active we have about fifty attacks in iraq still every month. and the side of the fact that i just would like to show that they are still existing they are trying to make attacks here and there just to say we are still strong but i think in the end of the day the dangers will be less or more. to bend on the question how we are determined to do with this problem in the law not in the short term just putting bombs as you say social political engagement there's a there's a long term strategy that we need to have but elman also needs to be a short term strategy we've had the christmas market attack here was an i.r.s.

or inspiration by isis, but is there any evidence that he actually was connected to isis in any way? >> no, apparently not. the investigators say it doesn't appear to be something inspired by any foreign terror group. now, the fbi says domingo told the undercover operative that he admired the isis leader, al baghdadi, and said if isis ever came to the u.s., he would swear allegiance to it. he'll be back in court in another month. >> by the way, that isis leader has actually come out with a new video. we're going to have a story on that in a minute. pete, thank you. >>> now to the war of words between president trump and the newest challenger in the democratic presidential race, joe biden. the former vice president taking direct aim once again during his first rally as a 2020 candidate. nbc's andrea mitchell has more on that. andrea, good morning. >> good morning, craig. joe biden in battleground pennsylvania, trying to prove that he can win back the union workers in rust belt states who defected from the democratic ranks to elect donald trump. >> if i'm going to be able to beat donal

as far as temp remark —— isis, this isa as far as temp remark —— isis, this is a confirmation of whats that although politicians have glibly taken to saying that the group was defeated, we know the caliphate was never just defeated, we know the caliphate was neverjust an iraqi mark and syria project. —— iraq project. we have seen project. —— iraq project. we have seen them grow in strength, this is an example of that. a group far from the course of isis' centre of gravity in iraq and syria, it has carried out possibly the most deadly isis attack in the group's history. for the people who carried this out, what was the point and what you think it means the future? the point, i'm sorry to say, is in line with isis' ideology, they view christians as a swarm of idolaters, they call them cross worshippers. they point to the trinity as an idea that shows that they don't believe ina single that shows that they don't believe in a single god, they call them crusaders, and for years now, isis has been waging a war against them. we saw this with cop churches being attacked in egypt's with a cath

charlie d'agata has covered isis extensively.reports on this new video. >> reporter: alive and well, isis leader abu bakr al-baghdadi makes a shocking appearance, a shock because for five long years the isis leader has gone to great lengths to remain in hiding. the beard is a bit grayer, aside from the reddish dye. since his first and last public appearance at the al nouri mosque in mosul in 2014, when he first declared the creation of the so-called islamic caliphate. it's unclear when or where the footage was filmed. ret it refers to the isis final stand in baghouz eastern syria, which we witnessed for ourselves last month following weeks of ferocious fighting marking the end of isis as a territorial force. but ak-47 at his side, al- baghdadi is seen vowing vengeance that isis would wage a long battle ahead. >> there are still tens of thousands of them in iraq and syria, and there are many, many franchises across the world all the way from west africa to southeast asia. so they are far from defeated. they will continue to conduc

inspired by isis, not necessarily directed by them, but inspired by the isis movement to carry this out. look, the complexity of the attack, multiple cities, multiple attackers, this takes organization, money, planning. it takes a lot of people adhering to a certain etiology, isis inspired these attackers and this attack. the state department warning americans in sri lanka to be very careful. there could be additional attacks at any time, telling americans to be careful being in hotels, restaurants, public spaces. we know the name of one man,er kowalski from colorado killed in the attack. his employer, pearson, remembering him as being a fun loving man, a valuable employee of that company. ivan continuing to investigate all this. if isis is proved to have inspired this attack, this is going to be a very serious warning for the west. this is what they've been worried about, that isis is able to reach out to countries far beyond its traditional areas of syria and iraq. a lot of concern about how all of this happened. poppy? >> barbara, that's such an excellent point. it goes to the argume

in terms of isis supporters around the world, overen in terms of isis rank and file fighters, there'sme infighting in the group. there's been some theological disputes. i think he would be keen to say i'm in charge. i'm still running things. he's also clearly wanting to energize isis's support base worldwide. i think there's a lot of concern in the counterterrorism community here in the united states or so in europe, other parts of the world. this could energize the isis supporters. there's been ongoing concern about isis attacks and attacks with some kind of link to the terrorist group as we saw in sri lanka. one footnote here, there was strong intelligence that came in that the united nations recently cited that he was injured at a certain point. i've looked at this video. i don't see any sign of any injuries in this video. they're trying to portray him as very much in charge. you see him being briefed by the isis fighters around him. he's reviewing the reports coming from the different so-called isis provinces. it's around the world. it's a message of defiance from abu bakr al-bagh

women were horribly mistreated by isis honda. whether complicit or not should isis followers get a second chance. what do you think there is she telling the truth and how do you go about ascertaining something like that you know this is a standard and so what we get when we interview that? this people that they don't have that they don't accept the islamic state the intelligence so on but i think thihis is. we should really think about what they say because i i i voted for me personally i do not believe her because she says she live in islamic state till two thousand nineteen for almost four years. that for yearsrs there where may maybes choses to lift -- the the state and to go to surround himself and we sold many cases by the way that women really do not accept. a two minute break well it's a difficult sunday managed to the tool tool t to go back bots in e end of the day -- we should think about who are going to come back. in which cases on whole distance has a or they have for the for the ideology and the really if it's in the

isis seeming to regain some ground it lost.hat is developing this documentary. >> we understand losing territory, in this case is about the ideology and the characters we get, a captured isis detainee. he reminds us in chilling terms it is not about the ideology or body or place but the belief in the caliphate. heather: people of spoken about that in terms of defeating isis, you have to overcome the desire for people to join up with isis. >> the story we tell you about muzzle is a story from iraq, about iraqis and for iraqis and their success tackling that problem. heather: were recently there between october 2016, and 2017. how are they able to gain such access? >> we have different networks we work with and they were in bed with the iraqi military units on all sides. heather: the person who pledged allegiance to isis, what about other people you talk about? >> great characters, great figures. there is a widow talking about the woman, the isis fighters, we heard about that in the news recently, some of the widows who want to c

isis leader abu bakr al baghdadi. they've now lost that territory, but this message to the west seems intent on proving they are still fighting and are still focused. here's abc's chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz now. >> reporter: if it is proven this is baghdadi, the terrorist fugitive appears grayer now. the isis territory he once claimed, gone. but he seems as defiant and threatening as ever, warning that the fight against the west is not over. it was five years ago, when baghdadi was last seen in a mosul mosque, calling on muslims worldwide to join his bloody cause. in this latest 18-minute video released by isis today, from which these images are taken, the man identified as baghdadi praises the sri lankan attackers, suicide bombers who left at least 250 people dead last week, claiming it was payback for baghouz, the last isis territory to fall to american-backed forces in syria the month before. it was then president trump declared isis defeated. >> all right, so, let's get live to martha raddat

>> pete williams in washington, thank you. >>> the isis sympathizer is arrested, the leader of isis emerged after five years without being seen. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel has late details and new video of the threat. >> reporter: the video appears to show the elusive isis leader giving a pep talk to supporters. it's only the second video of him, the first five years ago when he founded the islamic state. tonight, baghdadi acknowledges his state is in ruins ground under foot by a u.s. on he sayg a long ofttrition captured isis members in syria told us last month baghdadi lived like a ghost. did you ever see him with your own eyes? >> absolutely not. only on tv. >> reporter: baghdadi wants to be seen. apparently copying osama bin laden who released messages for years. u.s. officials are still working to confirm the video's authenticity but not expressing doubts. lester? >> richard engel, thank you. >>> this evening a celebration of life is underway for the woman killed inside a synagogue when a gunman opened fire this weekend. details about the 19-year-old suspect and we'r

based on your experience, does this look like isis to you? >> it may be isis inspired. al qaeda, a month ago that general command put a message out to their flolers around the world to not attack places of worship. i think that's why u.s. intelligence is focussed more on it being an isis-inspired attack. sri lanka believe it was a local group acting in concert with isis, an international coordinated attack. we haven't seen groups in sri lanka have anything like the capacity or capability to put together this sort of attack. that points to some overseas planning, prance, some overseas links in this attack. >> what do you make of the news we're getting about multiple warnings, this memo being circulated. sri lanka somehow in the dark over this and now apologizing. how is that possible? >> well, that seems to be a blame game. there's a lot of politics in sri lanka. the u.s. has not yet confirmed what that sri lanka minister claimed about information being passed on. even if information was passed on, was it of a scale we saw play out over easter sunday? this really surpris

government has helped isis. he said the u.s. government created isis. you basically make your conclusion. who is supporting terrorism, iran or the united states? >> thank you very much. a lecturer from the university of iran, joining us from the iranian capital. >> c-span's washington journal, live everyday with news and policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, a discussion of getorts to washington trump's tax returns with a professor. paul mitchell and illinois democratic congressman -- discuss the college transparency act. and we talk about staffing and congressional interviews with senior fellow casey verdant. watch c-span's washington journal at 7:00 eastern, tuesday morning. join the discussion. attorney general william barr testifies before the house appropriations subcommittee regarding the president's budget request for the justice department. aboutexpected to be asked the mother reports and his summary. watch live coverage tuesday morning, beginning at 9:30 eastern on c-span3. and later, secretary of state mike pompeo goes before the sen

or inspiration by isis. is there any evidence that he actually was connected to isis in in way? >> reporter: apparently not. investigators say it doesn't appear to be inspired by a foreig terror group. domingo told t operative that he admired the isis leader. and if isis came to the u.s., he would swear allegiance to it. >> by the way, that isis leader has come out with a new video. we'll have a story on that in au . >>> now the war of words between president trump and joe biden. the former vice president taking direct aim once again during hrs fi rally as a 2020 candidate. andrea mitchell has more on that. >> reporter: good morning. joe biden in battleground pennsylvania trying to prove that he can win back the union workers in rust belt states who defected from the democratic ras to elect donald trump. >> if i'm going to be able to beat donald trump in 2020, it's going to happen here. in western pennsylvania. >> reporter: joe biden at the first rally of his 2020 campaign. surrounded by labor union supporte

so that could well be a link to isis. it's possible that they provided direction to this, some assistance to this attack. the group sri lankans said were responsible for this attack was a very small jihadi outfit that really didn't have the capacity or capability to pull something like this off. so you would look as an investigator at the possibility of assistance from an international terror network. there are 32 and more sri lankans that have gone to join isis in syria in recent years. there is a possibility perhaps some of those fighters came back to plan this attack or provided direction from overseas. a lot of questions still. >> and one of the main questions was, was this local group who had never done anything of this caliber before, could they pull it off, which is why they looked to places like isis. isis, after it happened in new zealand, put out an international call for retaliation. >> that's right, isis put out a call for retaliation. so did al qaeda, but al qaeda do not attack places of worship. that's one o

minister a couple of years ago, told parliament that at least 32 mom nent mprominent from had joined isis in the area. some of them may have come back. we know there has been a call by isis for reprisal attacks after the killing of so many muslims in christ church, new zealand. >> kimberly, i think it's also important as we talk about the religious element of this and the targeting of three churches but also to highlight that four of the locations were these high-end hotels. so whichever group is responsible for this, not only wanted to attack churches on one of the holiest days of the christian calendar but also to affect as many people and as many countries as possible by going after these hotels where there would be large nuchmbers foreigners? >> absolutely. this is one of the things that counterterrorism analysts have been warning about as isis contracted inside the war zones of iraq and syria that their long-term plan was to send people out to soft targets, places that might not have their guard up and to try to find both westerners and christians to attack to try to keep the momentu

but we've much hard work ahead in the fight against isis is not over. this is what our allies and partners have launched an unprecedented military stabilization counter messaging and law enforcement effort to prevent acts against our homeland encounter ice evil ideology. we alone with our coalition partners continue to work close with iraq as it recovers from isis and strides to reach its full potential as a sovereign, strong and prosperous state. u.s. and coalition forces remain in iraq at the invitation of its government to help battle isis ramis, and we're committed to maintaining the security partnership. but we're also working to broader our relationship across the range of areas including trade, culture and education. in syria last month president and out u.s. troops will remain in northeast syria as part of the continuing the isis coalition. our goal since you have remained consistent. we're committed to enduring defeat of isis, a political resolution to the ongoing conflict in syria in line with your security council resolution 2254, and the com

cry claiming isis is very much alive.o baghdadi praises the sri lanka easter bombings saying they were revenge for the loss of territory in syria. carley: ron rosenstein is resigning, he will officially step down on may 11th. he stuck around for the completion of the special counsel's probe beauty jeffrey rosen has been nominated to replace him. >> all eyes will be on the white house, donald trump meets with democrats over infrastructure funding, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer calling for a deal that will go beyond transportation. the three have not held bipartisan talks on the same room together in the white house since january when the president walked out and there will be conversation about that as well. >> fox news is getting a look at the migrant crisis. rob: at a migrant shelter in mexico, there is more this morning. >> reporter: the message of open borders of catch and release being a draw for the migrants is gone global. in southern mexico, we are one of many shelters in this area, some 5000 migrants. if you look

it appears isis has claimed responsibility.isis or al qaeda would do. ainsley: a lot of people in the media are wondering why hillary clinton or president obama when they put out on social media they said they were praying for them. they were sorry for this attack. they called them easter worshipers. and people are saying why don't you call it what it is christianity is under attack. pete: that's right. "the washington post" asked that same question. they said christianity under attack. sri lanka church bombings stoke far right anger in the west. so apparently if you are angry about the fact that christians were massacred on easter you are far-right and you are to blame. you are fomenting. i have never called them passover worshipers or ramadan worshipers. if muslims are attacked or jews are attacked that's who is attacked. understand the motives of your enemy which radical islamists are our declared enemy. understand why they are doing it also blurs the line between peaceful muslims and the radical ones who are trying to kill

but it's also sending a message to the isis loyalists and the isis fellow travellers.ewspaper reported two months ago there was an aborted coup attempt against baghdadi in eastern syria, i think in february this year, and the coup plotters had charged him with being overweening in his handling of isis governance. in other words, even some members of isis saw him as too repressive and authoritarian for their tastes. so here's baghdadi essentially declaring to the world he's still very much the boss of this organisation and, as you see, taking credit for terrorist attacks, including sri lanka, which isis has already put out in their propaganda and videos, that these were soldiers of the organisation. michael weiss there. for the first time in more than 200 years, a japanese emperor is about to resign. on tuesday afternoon, emperor akihito will formally give up his throne. the build—up to that moment is well underway. a short while ago, the emperor visited sacred areas of the imperial palace as part of a series of rituals linked to his abdication. under japan's constituti

it's also sending a message to the isis loyalists and the isis fellow travellers.the guardian newspaper reported two months ago there was an aborted coup attempt against baghdadi in eastern syria i think in february this year, and the coup plotters had charged him with being overweening in his handling of isis governance. in other words, even some members of isis saw him as too repressive and authoritarian for their tastes. here's baghdadi essentially declaring to the world he's still very much the boss of this organisation. and, as you see, taking credit for terrorist attacks including sri lanka, which isis has already put out in their propaganda and videos, that these were soldiers of the organisation. it is interesting on a number of levels. i don't know that it says much about his whereabouts or the state of his health in the past four years. your reporter mentioned there had been all sorts of allegations that he had been killed but there is still an allegation he was wounded quite badly in an air strike. it was a us warplane and it didn't intend to target him.

why do i want to see isis? i see no isis messaging at all. >> you would know? >> yes. absolutely. how do we get to if you are wiping isis content off, you might nab republicans, where is the connection? >> here's the argument from people at twitter, there is some collateral damage with isis content. sometimes we take down arabian fuse agencies, that's a big deal in those countries, not here. if we were to use that same technology on white supremacy in the united states, you might get the same thing here. we might, they use things called hashes for videos. for an isis beheading video, they would takes down the entire account instead of the video because they can identify it automatically with just code. >> ah, so, for example, steve king, or president trump, or don jr., retweeted, retweeted the content of a white supremacist, even if it wasn't a message that articulated white supremacist views, it could nab them? >> yeah, exactly. so they don't want to go in reverse and do all this stuff. there is a way to hone this. in between taking down all of these accounts, we will work backwa

have carried out possibly the most deadly isis attack in the group's history. the point and what do you think it means the future? the point, i'm sorry to say, is in line with isis's radical ideology, they view christians as a swarm of idolators, they call them cross worshippers. they point to the trinity as an idea that shows that they don't believe in a single god, they call them "crusaders", and for years now, isis has been waging a war against them. we saw this with coptic churches being attacked in egypt, with a cathedral being attacked in the philippines. the second prong of this attack was against the high—end hotels where tourists were saying, and this has been called to attack citizens of the coalition fighting islamic state. so they were presumably trying to kill americans, brits, and people whose countries belong to those coalitions. let's just bring you some breaking news straightaway from japan. a tokyo court has approved a bail request from ousted nissan motor co chairman, carlos ghosn. his bail has been set at $4.5 billion. the 65—year—old faces