i want to bring in security analyst, lieutenant colonel james reese. you heard the senators are holding a press conference at 11:30 eastern time. i would assume both will talk about ukraine and arming these rebels as in right now. is that a good idea in light of what jim sciutto just reported? >> well jim hits the tail on the donkey here. he's straight up. one of the problems right now -- i kind of go back to the diplomatic and political side where is nato involved? is nato going to look at this from a nato organization perspective? the u.s. we're there again, getting to be the world's policeman because we have to. but jim is right. if we just start pushing arms in we will never beat the russian military conglomerate

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joining us paul cruickshank, bob baer and retired lieutenant colonel james reese. he says there will be revenge in the same level of the jordanian tragedy. so clearly jordan is now officially going public and saying they're not going to step back they're going to seek out those responsible for the murder of this 26-year-old lieutenant and they're going to go after them and do what they need to do in the same manner as the jordanian tragedy. what does that say to you? >> wolf one thing that's always interesting to me the jordanian armed forces have very similar values as the u.s. military. they fight for each other, just like we do. so it shows me that there's passion, there's anger running through the jordanian armed forces right now. and they want to go right now and they want to go really try to make it a knock on isis of what happened here. but like i said they've got some smart commanders there, centcom will help them. >> the u.s. has certain capabilities jordan has certain capabilities. and together they can be very effective. bob, we're getting word that prot

let's dig deeper with cnn global affairs analyst lieutenant colonel james reese. welcome, sir. >> good morning. >> have you watched these youtube videos? they're sort of like reality tv shows. >> i have. it's what they have now is counter propaganda to isis and the arab world is trying to move this along. we've been talking about it for months and they're able to take the gun videos from the f-16s and put them into production. it works out for them. >> here's a couple of things that we found interesting in viewing those youtube videos. you have jordanians writing messages on the missiles including islam has nothing to do with your actions. drop upon them stones of fire. and they will turn their back and run. your thoughts on the effectiveness of such a thing. >> well you know those are the young troops that are prepping those fighter jets to go into combat. if you can look back at the videos from centcom in iraq and afghanistan and look at the carriers we did the same thing. our kids that are loading up the bombs on those aircraft the u.s. air craft, they write me

retired lieutenant colonel james reese is joining us. colonel, it's great to see you.ll it the first of the new wave. i want to get your quick take on what do you make of this? barbara starr reported maybe two dozen air strikes going in syria from jordan. what do you make of it? >> good morning. what you know s we know this there are several targets that centcom and the coalition go into the air tasking order. in those targets they take the number of assets available and put them on the targets. king abdullah said we want to get more involved, we're got more assets we're ready to launch right now. that's what they did. they took those additional jordanian assets put them against the ato for known targets they have. what the u.s. does they fly cap support, tanker support, if they need gas while they're in the air and all the other intelligence and isr we know we bring to braer to allow the jordanians to take the lead on those lead targets. >> colonel, from an operational standpoint what does this change? >> john it doesn't really change anything. we get to service addit

continuing the conversation now with lieutenant colonel james reese. certainly, nic touched on this. if indeed alleged gunmen abandon the vehicle, go to the subway system, how helpful will all of these cameras be? >> well good afternoon. they will be helpful. a lot of the cctb cameras are lined up and connected to allowing law enforcement now to continue to track these guys. however, if they dumped into the subway station, that might have been part of the get away again, where they could drop off. they have to go back right now, review a lot of series of cctb to see if they can pinpoint where the guys got on the train and jumped off. >> sounds as though -- well i guess it was unclear. we talked to copehagen television reporter said after the shooting approached a vehicle, pulled the driver out, sounds like there was a carjacking took the vehicle before dumping it. unclear whether they walked to the theater where this you know freedom of speech forum was taking place or whether they were in another vehicle. this city is very sophisticated. there are lik

let's dig deeper now with lieutenant colonel james reese. welcome, sir. >> good morning, carol. >> senator ted cruz suggested the united states should arm ukrainians with defensive weapons. what does that mean? >> carol, that's a great question. defensive weapons, offensive weapons, if we're pushing weapons in the ukraine, they can be used for either/or. i believe we have to listen closely to our friends on the ground like the germans that are right there dealing with this every day and i think we're making a mistake if we push lethal aid in the ukraine. >> why so? there is a sense that if the united states arms the ukrainians that russia will ratchet things up and it will become a full-out war and then russia won't stop. >> i agree. this right now just likes angela merkel said this is a diplomatic and political fight right now. we have to continue down this road. people got to remember when ukraine broke away and got their independence unfortunately they sat on the fence for several years. especially economically going back and forth and de

lieutenant colonel james reese, thank you so much. >> thanks, victor.orning. >> you, too. >>> parents, listen up. the terror group isis is using social media to recruit western teenagers. some as young as 13. we'll talk about it with the fbi. >>> plus, 2016 presidential contender jeb bush might be distancing himself from his family's legacy right now. we'll show you how he's doing that coming up. we all eat foods that are acidic... most of the time people are shocked when we show them where they're getting the acid, and what those acids can do to the enamel. there's only so much enamel on a tooth, and everybody needs to do something about it now if they want to preserve their teeth. i recommend pronamel because it helps strengthen the tooth and makes it more resistant to acid breakdown. we want to be healthy and strong through the course of our life, and by using pronamel every day, just simply using it as your toothpaste, you know you will have that peace of mind. and our old internet just wasn't cutting it. so i switched us from u-verse to xfinity. th

want to bring back our terrorism analyst, paul cruickshank, and also retired lieutenant colonel james reesening us on the phone right now. it does sound pretty coincidental colonel reese, this american hostage, this woman, 26 years old, we're not identifying her at the request of the family she's been held by sois for some time. all of a sudden in the aftermath of what's been going on the brutal burning alive of the jordanian pilot, the jordanian execution of this female terrorist and another terrorist that they were held all of a sudden this american hostage is dead. it does sound very coincidental, doesn't it? >> yes, sir, it does. there's no question -- i agree with jomana and what everyone is saying. however, the planners and the folks that are doing this for a job every single day, analyzing, deciding on targets against isis have to also look at it in parallel and say, what if it's true? and i hope it's not true. but if it is true then there's all these second and third order effects that go in. number one is we need to tell the jordanians it's collateral damage, it's unfortunate, we n

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. >> joining me now for more, colonel james reese, a cnn global affairs analyst and former u.s. delta force commander, and michael, the spokesman for the osce special monitoring mission in ukraine. colonel reese, i want to start with you. and first i want to put to you something that the german defense minister said at this conference. and she asked two questions, and i'm just going to give them to you to answer. the questions are, are we sure that we would be improving the situation for the people in ukraine by delivering weapons? are we really sure that ukraine can win against the russian military machine? what do you think? >> victor, good morning. i think the answer is no and no. we're not sure. one of the problems we need to do diplomatically right now is the bottom line is this. the russians have come in. they have taken this large swath of land. and if we think we're going to push them out right now with lethal force, it's not happening. we need to diplomatically be in there talking with the russians. what we want to do right now is hold this line is what we need to do, w

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colonel james reese. colonel, isis they are savages, but they are savvy. might they seek to exploit this political dysfunction taking place in the united states? >> michael, good morning. do i think they will try to? yes. do they have the ability right now? no. they don't have the reach right now. they would like to get it. but this exploit or this friction point within our government right now could cause an aspect of where a lone wolf could have an effect on this because right now as the governor said we've got unfortunately our great people of dhs supposed to be doing their jobs trying to figure out what bills are going to be paid at the end of the week when they're cut off from money if we don't pass this bill. >> just to tay-pay attention to the newspapers in the past week in the united states is to perceive that isis is on the ascent. i'm referring to the alleged threat against the mall of america. i'm referring to the outing of the identity of jihad johnny. the three from brooklyn. the incident in

it will be interesting to watch over the next couple of hours what comes out of this. >> james reeseeporting for us via telephone, thank you for that. i want to bring to light my colleague michael holmes who is an anchor on cnn international has made it clear that it is haram in islam to burn anyone dead or alive. in one of the hadith, the prophet said no one is to burn anyone, dead or alive. fareed zakaria joins me now. i've been speaking with christiane amanpour in london about the effect of what isis has purportedly done, the manner in which they have killed this man, releasing the videos showing exactly how it happened online and whether this will have the effect of angering a coalition, awaking sleeping giants or the opposite. >> i hope it does what you're suggesting. i hope when it is reported in the arab world, it is reported with that hadith, with that front and center. it is disallowed to burn a body -- even a dead body, it is considered sacrilegious. it's always been dust to dust, the body must go back into the ground. and what i hope happens is that people realize this is

i have retired general james reese.you have a connection to perhaps one of the victims in all of this. explain that for us and tell us what you know. >> yeah, jim, i do. good evening. one of the security officers who was on the protection detail for mr. lars at the first shooting this morning was the former body guard for the ambassador to denmark jim cane. >> and what do you know about his condition? obviously this is dangerous work. being assigned to lars vilks, there is a risk there. >> absolutely, what we know right now is he was shot in the arm. that is a possible threw and threw, but it looks like it grazed an artery and he is currently in surgery in the hospital. >> that is new information, we cann did not know that, it sounds like a serious wound from what you're telling me? >> it does, and we will monitor and bring information as we get it. >> what is your take on the day's events? when we talked to you earlier we knew about one shooting, now we know about two. we don't know if they're connected, but given what

i want to talk about it with object bob baher, our security analysis and also with me james reese, global affairs analyst. thank you, gentlemen, for business here. al sissi says this on today. he didn't outright demand it or say we've had a conference and we're going to begin this offensive tomorrow but he did talk about his vision for this. do you think that that changes the game? >> i think we're getting there, poppy. i see changes every today, today or yesterday in saudi arabia the al sheikh came out strongly against the islamic state, saying they're not real muslims, we have to crush the movement. the bombing in libya, the egyptian air force hag bombing. i think what the arabs is heading twoords a nato-like organization and frankly this is the best way to crush this disease. >> to you, colonel reese, we saul jordan go all in against isis when their pilot was so brutally murders, burned to death, and of course earlier this week you have the 21 egyptian christians brutally murdered in libya by isis. do you read this as egypt's way of going all in this. >> poppy, i do absolutely. the oth

host of the the sunday mass and cnn religion commentator and joining me as well, retired colonel, james reesether beck. do you read this and see this as a holy war, pure and simple? >> i don't, poppy. there's nothing holy about it. it's an unholy war. if it's a holy war, you give legitimacy to the thought that these are two legit rat religions fighting. it's not that. isis not that. isis does not represent islamic tradition, religion by any stretch of the imagination. so i think that's what they want to see it be called. they want to see it be called a holy war. if you do that you give it legitimacy it does not deserve. >> colonel, do you agree with that? isis would say and has said they're going back to the roots of islam. they represent true islam. they're trying to build this caliphate across syria and iraq and would like to spread it further if they can. obviously many many muslims in this world do not agree with that at all, most. do you believe that this is a holy war? or do you believe what father beck said this is exactly the opposite? >> hi poppy. it is not a holy war. i i absolutely

bob bear former cia operative and retired colonel james reese. n a recent article you described isis as an unholy combination of al qaeda, the cameroons and the nazis. sounds like they're the worst of the worst they're growing, why? >> that map you e showed a moment ago, all these groups there were already islamic terrorist groups in these countries. isis has not created new ones but galvanized these groups given them inspiration and they're now pledging their a allegiance. they are inspired by isis' success, nothing succeeds like success. in the world of terrorism, isis is the most successful terrorist group that has ever existed, especially in modern times. they have killed people in brutal ways but they take territory and hold territory. >> and they have a huge amount of money. they're probably the wealthiest terror group out there. bob, they're also taking advantage of power vacuums in places like libya yemen these failed states. that potentially is a huge, huge problem. >> exactly wolf. you look at yemen where you have this shia government t

lieutenant colonel james reese and admiral william fallon. thanks very much to both of you. colonel reese, let me get right to it. you believe american troops, in major numbers, are necessary? >> erin, good evening. i do. i think what you'll see here is pretty much what we have right now. the commander will tell the president here is what we need to do. no one is talking about make the assumption that mosul is taking back by the iraqis. we still have a huge strongholds in the say haven by isis in syria. no one talks about that. one day someone will have to make that decision to go and eradicate isis out of syria. i believe you're talking 100,000 troops. we have assad we'll have to worry about. >> you're talking about 100,000 troops in syria, just to make it clear? >> if we have to try to build a coalition like we have before with the saudis jordanians i believe we would have to lead that fight into syria. we have to deal with isis and we have to deal with assad. with the one saving grace would be the turks. they have said their looking for our policy on syria to see what we

joining us right now, our cnn global affairs analyst james reese, also skrn security and cyst bob baer and peter burg. what do you make of this plo poles for a united arab force. that would be boots on the ground, as they say, combat force to go in there and destroy isis and iraq in syria, libya, presumably elsewhere. how realistic is this idea? >> strategically it sounds great and would be a great piece for all of the arab nation to get together. the gcc, the gulf council countries, they already have a force called peninsula shield 40,000 folks. so strategically it's a great idea and it's great for us in the u.s. to get the arab forces out in front. however tactically is whether you start to run into problems and commanding and controlling. a few years ago the u.s. helped bolster the command and control by setting up a joint command headquarters to help the aspects which egypt is not part of. again what i like to see is at least we're talking about it and maybe we can help get some mo men full to make this an arab fight. >> the gcc, gulf cooperation council, including the uae in saudi

lieutenant james reese. this is pretty amazing. you have drones flying over nuclear sites and the american embassy and the eiffel tower and special forces aren't able to figure out who is doing it. could a significant attack be carried out like drones like this? >> good evening. yes, i believe it could. i could launch a drone near an airport and fly that right into a plane taking off and try to get it sucked into its engine. it's definitely an athreat. >> they don't seem to be able to identify them or where they are coming from. you know isis is now using drones. how big of a concern are they to national security right now? >> they're a concern. we need to we're a little bit behind the power curve on what we're going to do. one of the good things about it is the drone capability for the payload of what it can carry is really still limited. that's a good thing. they can still cause terror. that's what they're trying to do. you can put a pound of tnt on there. isis aqap they have these explosive experts who know how to do this. they

international correspondent, nic puentes, and author of "agent storm: my life inside al qaeda," and james reese. nic, what do you know now in terms of what happened here? >> well, we know 30 bullets were fired approximately from what the police describe from an automatic web. it may have been a small machine gun or a machine pistol they are saying. they are not clear on that at the moment. it's not clear if both men were the attackers, or if one was planned to be the driver, but the police returned fire. there were three policemen or three people -- three police or security personnel injured. one was a police officer, the other two worked for pet, a danish intelligence service. there were body guards there, inside they returned fire and the three injured, but not seriously injured. what the police are saying they are doing now is pulling in resources. they got all their staff on koep hague p on duty pulling staff from other parts of the country in the man hunt. it's a very serious, being taken very very seriously with the prime minister of denmark this evening asking the german and swedish, two

. >> dig deeper with retired lieutenant general and cnn global affairs analyst james reese.el reese, a mission like the one to rescue kayla and other hostages, i would imagine got to be the most difficult thing to pull off successl lys y successlyfully. what are the elements? >> speed, surprise, and violence of action. the fourth element here is the hostage rescue force had to cross a boundary into enemy territory that i would call they were doing an away game. we were in iraq for all of these years, we did several hostage rescues. we had spent so much time, it was like actually being a home game, we knew the area, we knew the people. we could get people close by. we thought these hostages are. when you have to fly several hours deep across enemy territory, this is the fourth element to really take this into a difficult situation. >> general hurtly, the intelligence needed to make this work, i assume it's got to be nearly perfect and to have people close enough to have even eyes on in advance, no? >> jim is talking primarily about what the operators do, anderson, and what i

let's talk about this and bring in our two global affairs analyst, kimberly dosier and james reese.talk about the operations we know of publicly and second round of air strikes that jordan just finished up. they talk about several air strikes against isis and they hit training centers, arms and ammunition depots. why are they on the second go-around? >> it's logistic. support in syria and iraq. if you cut off logistics and equipment, that leaves forward troops in iraq fighting without anything. so that is a very classic way of degrading soldiers by going after logistics. >> kimberly it seems there are two battles being fought by jordan. you see these air strikes going on in syria and in iraq as well and then you see what's happening on the ground in jordan with the queen out there with the demonstrators. it does seem that the regime right now is very keenly aware about the importance of this public relations moment. >> the regime has had a very uncomfortable few months dealing with the population that has been divided about the fight against isis what this has done is taken some of

also with us now lebanon columnist and lieutenant colonel james reese, retired delta force commander lieutenant colonel and former military attache to syria. michael, an attack in paris, arrests in belgium, now an attack in denmark, saturday's attack was very similar to what we saw in paris, an attack against free speech and anti-semitic attack. you heard what she said. it was an attack against their ideas and freedom of speech. how severe is the threat particularly for jews? >> i think it's rather severe. it's not just a terrorist organization any longer. we're well beyond the post 9/11 period. one of the things isis is trying to do is one-up al qaeda. al qaeda still has these claims to fame of waging these spectaculars and committing attacks against western targets. isis which now rules an expansive territory the size of great britain, does not want al qaeda to steal its thunder. it considers itself the growing jihadi concern. so this competition is being played out in the streets of europe. and i'm sorry to say, it will come to america as well. >> and you heard, john miller the ny

joining me now from washington cnn global affairs analyst and retired army lieutenant colonel james reese. we have a lot to talk about. let's begin first with this. that isis's own court, own judicial system has ordered them to release 29 a minority of the more than 200 asyrian christians they took captive. how do you read that? is this an attempt at gaining some sort of legitimacy? >> poppy, first off i'll believe it when i see it. once they're released then i think we need to talk about what their motivation was. if they do release them i believe most of their motivation will be to show their followers that they are attempting to show themselves as that islamic state. having the state aspects, having the judicial systems. we have to wait to see if they go through with this promise. >> all right really troubling, these reports, right? these reports that these four teenagers from canada may have flown from montreal to turkey which we have seen as sort of the passageway for many into syria. i was just in my home state of minnesota this week reporting on members of the somali community who

colonel james reese is a cnn global affairs analyst. and peter bergen is our cnn international security analyst. colonel, what's your take on this assault by isis the fact that these peshmerga kurdish forces were able after several hours of intense fighting to repel them? >> wolf anything that isis does does not surprise me at all. even if they're trying to push people in and get their people killed, it's just a way to disrupt, to kind of take away -- most conventional armies start looking for an order of battle, what's going to happen next? isis is trying to keep us on our toes rock us back on our heels when need be. and i think it's a chance for them to see what the defensive lines are. they know there's a possible push coming to mosul. i would not be surprised if we see this again in the next couple of days. >> and the concern at least from the u.s. perspective not only kurdistan falling potentially, i don't think it will but potentially it could fall peter, to isis there are a lot of americans in erbil right now, not only military p

we spoke to lieutenant colonel james reese about jordan's military options. >> we could see what we would call a combined arms operation. the jordanians are very capable of doing that. when i say combined arms they could use air power, they have great artillery and ground power they could move up to the syrian border, maybe look at some targets along the euphrates river valley. or they've got a great special operation force. they might hook for targets they could do a cross border air assault in strike the targets and move back out. so they have great options. they have the coalition to support them if need be. they could do it unilaterally. we'll have to watch and see what king abdullah decides to do with the jordanian armed forces. >> we'll have much more on jordan throughout the hour here. but there is also other news to report. a deadly plane crash in taiwan. >> a transasia airways plane hit a bridge before crashing into a river. '9" 58 people were on board. cnn's david mckenzie is joining me now. i know flight control lost contact with the plane after takeoff. but do we have any upda

correspondent ben wedeman in northern iraq not that far from mosul and retired lieutenant colonel james reese, and bob baer a cnn intelligence and security analyst, a former cia operative. ben, you're obviously very familiar with mosul. you have been there. i've been there. we're obviously talking about house to house, street to street urban warfare if the troops actually launch this offensive. >> reporter: indeed wolf that is inevitable. a city of 2 million people as you said and many of the inhabitants not necessarily going to be welcoming to iraqi forces or the kurd. in fact today up on the front lines speaking with kurdish fighters and commanders and said in addition to the substantial military capabilities of isis isis has a habit of in villages towns and cities just sowing hundreds and thousands of ieds and booby traps when they pull back and even if the initial push into mosul doesn't meet resistance from fighters there's a huge danger of things like ieds. so it's going to be a real challenge and certainly what we're hearing on the front lines at least is a lot of skepticism about this

the isis front to bring in cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank and retired lieutenant colonel james reese. colonel, first to you. on the issue of what's going on in mosul, lie out why this is important in the fight against isis and what is the state of play on the ground there? >> mosul is the second largest city in iraq. it was the first major city that isis when they did their blitz across the north from the west took mosul down and it's become their staging place and their main city in iraq. right now with the iraqi army along with the coalition forces their aircraft and some iranian shia militia have worked their way north up the tigress river valley from baghdad and taken down key cities. peshmerga in the north have isolated mosul and we're cutting off isis' supply lines to allow them to replysupply with people and ammunition in mosul. they're surrounded. it's a large city so now iraqis have to prepare to conduct urban warfare in a city of several million people which could become problematic. >> problematic to say the least. you talk block by block combat in a congested area right t

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let's bring in lieutenant colonel james reese. >> are you surprised afghanistan, not iraq, not syria, where we've seen so many threats, that afghanistan was ash carter's first stop? what does that mean to you? >> absolutely not. i think it was a great move by secretary carter. i call it lead by walking around. you get out of the pentagon, he goes to the first place that we have the largest concentration of u.s. forces. so he's going to meet out there, get a chance to go face-to-face with commanders out there, let them hear what's going on. he has big decisions and adviser rolls to help what's going to happen in afghanistan, pull out, no pull out. i think what you'll see secretary carter then begin to move to the west and go into iraq and hit qatar and the other places again. so he's doing some battlefield circulation as a key leader. >> based on the threats in syria and iraq do you believe that the mission in afghanistan needs to be reassessed right now? >> i think we continually have to reassess. we have to definitely keep an eye

delta force commander lieutenant colonel james reese. thank you for being with us.s around city of mosul as we heard. if that continues, the pentagon could recommend sending u.s. ground troops. do you believe that will happen? >> christi, i do, but again, we've talked about this for several weeks now. i believe that those ground troops will be enabling troops, close air -- people who call close air support, people who can work with the isr, to do the -- some of the intelligence piece, i do not think you're going to see front line units going in and fighting side by side. probably special forces that are there in their train and assist mode to help bring the iraqi force, make sure they are synced between the battalions but i don't see a brigade of u.s. forces going in and fighting side by side with the iraqis. >> we know this week jordan released video showing the world, basically, the country's operations against the terror group, they posted video of soldiers writing messages to isis on bombs, of women working on planes, there's even a pilot giving a thumbs up befo

contributing editor to "track" and lieutenant colonel james reese, the founder of tiger swan and former commander of delta force. is jordan's public commitment to being relentless against isis a turning point? >> think we're going to see a more aggressive campaign. this was a fight that the regime believed in but the public was rel tlif hostatively hostile to. i think now you see the country of jordan as a whole is very strongly invested in this. i think the fact we have a new and nor aggressive defense secretary in ashton carter is going to lead to new forms of aggressive action against isis. >> colonel reese, will jordan's relentless campaign against isis be able to make a difference against isis? >> it will. it will and i believe it can. however, they have to have support. jordan has a great military but jordan is one of the poorer arab nations compared to the uae and saudi who have the oil so they're going to need some financial support. they're going to need some extra weapons and extra enabling equipment. but jordan has the resolve and they have the military to do it. >> peter, th

>> let's get context, we want to bring in lieutenant colonel james reese, a cnn global affairs loirt andalyst and akita malik from the quilliam foundation. >> kayla mueller colonel reese, it's fascinating to hear about the rescue attempts that were made to free her, including this one where a man showed up at this syrian terrorist camp claiming to be her husband and demanding her release, but she didn't know this was going to be happening. is this a typical type of ruse that the u.s. is using in trying to get hostages released? >> good morning, alisyn. here's one thing i can tell you about our hostage rescue forces. they're the number one out of the box thinkers in the world. and they will try to figure out every single way to close with and find a gap in folks that are holding our hostages and holding western hostages to be able to find a way to get in there and rescue them any time. >> nikita will we ever know how kayla was killed? >> well that's a difficult question. because at the moment the evidence that we've received is still being examined by the united states government. so

it really put a tough pressure on putin and the presidency in the russian oligarchs. >> colonel james reeseeciate it. we'll check back with you. >>> any time there's an international hunt on to find at least four teens who may have gone to join isis. authorities are concerned the canadian students are either on their way to the middle east or are already there. it's believed they flew from montreal to turkey in mid-january. authorities say they don't know where the teens are now. paula newton has more on the story from montreal. >> reporter: smart, kind and normal. that's how many are describing 18-year-old shima sinusi possibly on her way to join isis in syria. at the montreal high school she once attended she was liked. and this was her tutor a couple years ago? what was your impression of her while she was tutoring you? >> i just knew she was a normal girl. >> reporter: did you get the impression she was very religious religious? >> no not really. it was just normal talk. >> reporter: normal talk is how it seemed to those who knew her until she went missing earlier this year. one of at l

let's dig deeper with our counter counterterrorism expert peter mudd and james reese and bob baer.that border between iraq and syria has been so ydyied up they will go after isis targets in syria and iraq. >> it shows resolve that we were uncertain about. you have the emotional response in syria. clear reason why syria is the headquarters for isis leadership serious location of the murder of the pilot. go across the border you get into a different kettle of fish. a location where the americans interest fein intervened. you are going into a sensitive area that's governed by a shia government. member jordan is a sunni state. this is a show that the jordanians are in the game maybe more than we expected. >> peter, isis propaganda they like this notion that they are fighting the united states. when jordan gets in there and fights them that's a different set of propaganda challenge for them isn't it in. >> yes and no. they regard these arab regimes as puppets of the united states. they will say the saudi king is basically a puppet of the united states. the jordanian king is. it's not a

cnn intelligence and security analyst bob baer a former cia operative, retired lieutenant colonel james reeseenforcement analyst, fomtom fuentes. the suspect in this denmark shooting is dead. but two accomplices -- potential accomplices, alleged accomplices are being held right now. where does this investigation move especially now that he posted before this incident his loyalty to isis? >> wolf the first place it moves is to the two additional people that they are investigating as to whether they provided support to him, knew of the plot in advance and helped him carry it out or at least provided a safe haven for him. and whether others are involved and whether it's connected to the other attacks directly or indirectly in paris and the groups in belgium and to the united states. they are trying to look at who is involved. >> would the fbi normally help the danish in a situation like this? >> yeah. the fbi opened there in 1999. going back the plot to go after the newspaper in copenhagen was being planned for by a man who coordinated a mum buy. he made trips to the newspaper, surveilled it ske

our analyst philip mudd our national security analyst peter berg enand our global affairs analyst james reeseget your thoughts first of all, philip mudd i will start with you. senator king just told us moments ago that aqap and their bomb makers in his words, they are pretty close to making a bomb that would not be detected by airport screening. it would be very hard to detect. that's pretty ominous right now. they are pretty close, he says. what do you make of that assessment? >> look, i think you have to put a few factors together. the first is the near successful attack over detroit in 2009. that was the bomb maker in yemen who is still around. the second fakis the factor the under wear bomber. he has had six years to figure out how to come up with a device that doesn't use metal components. now we have a safe haven. isis in syria has been around long enough to organize bomb makers to try to build on that technique they almost used successfully over detroit. to draw the conclusion they might be able to be at a phase where they could have the success that they couldn't get to in 2009 i thin

let's get more with james reese, tom fuentes, philip mudd and peter bergen.ssistant director of the fbi. how concerned should americans be about going to the local mall? >> i think they should go ahead and go. the security measures that are ramped up are going to be adequate. al shabab is putting out threats that they can't carry out long distance. they might be able to inspire a lone wolf. but that could happen anywhere. >> could they commit a massive attack on a mall along the scale of what they clearly did in kenya? >> no. they border the country of kenya. they were able to sneak shooters to conduct the attack. it was four that conducted the attack. it should not have resulted in as many deaths except the kenyan authorities stood around for ten hours deciding what to do before they entered the mall. many victims bled to death. they that would never happen here. the training practice preparation, discipline and the leadership at all levels federal, state and local, it would not be duplicated here. >> more than 60 people were killed at that mall in kenya. ph

joining us is james reese, also our military analyst, mark hurtling and philip mudd here in "the situationosition refusing to brand it radical islam? >> i think we have to look at this through the eyes of the adversary. what did i for decades at the agency? >> the cia. >> the adversary wants good versus evil. they want to portray them services not as murderers but people who are responsible for defensing the faith. we want to walk into this environment and give them what they want. they are going to if we make this into radical islam say we are the crusaders. i do theed aver sayrety. the adversary wants us to paint this as a war against islam. >> you are saying the president is right? >> i am. >> what about that general? >> i absolutely agree. that is the perfect way to say it. i will take it further, having had chai and sat around with muslims in iraq and other places of the world, these people do not agree with most of the things that sha ree ya law goes toward. they don't agree with al qaeda or isis. it would be as if we were calling a war against the ku klux klan a war against christia

. >>> we will bring from wlt lot colonel james reese and founder of tiger swann and manager editor of quarters, bobby goesch. i want to talk to you about this issue. we have two big headlines. okay. we will deal with these mall threats and what that means. it seems it's informing people more than informing them. the big issue, of course is this per accepted headline been by let's deal with the optics of it first. al sisi. a good start. can that happen? >> it's what you want to hear from arab leaders. can it actually happen? it blames libya has striked a bomb. isis targets there. so they've already made some. troops on the ground well i'm skeptical. >> why? >> the egyptian army is great at beating up unarmed civilians at home but is not terrific at fighting a real armed threat. they've had very poor fighting with their own terrorism. perhaps, but that's a very very low part. so the idea that they will send egyptian military across, the other thing, the syrian army probably the strongest arab army in the world with no concern for human rights perfectly happy to flatten an entire cities

perspective on this isis fight, with bobby ghosh cnn gloeshl affairs analyst and lieutenant colonel james reese, former delta force commander and former and chairman of tiger swan. let's look at the state of play. let's begin there. all life matters, any time these murderers put somebody on video, and take their lives in any fashion, it's wrong. however, numbers sometimes count. they can exacerbate. 21 christians all right you're going want to talk about why they seem to be targeting enemies that technically they can't take on. the pope says the blood of these christians is crying out to be heard. you hear cardinal dolan, the big cardinal in the u.s. saying we stood up as catholic leaders 40 years ago in ireland and said this must stop. you're not catholic and today northern ireland is peaceful. the muslims must do the same. bobby, what do you see in isis targeting groups it seems, right going after the jordanians with what they did to their pilot. they had to know what the response would bebe. what they did with these christians they had to know what the response would be. what's the play on e

lieutenant colonel james reese is our cnn global affairs analyst and former delta force commander andounder of tiger swan and michael weiss is the author of "isis inside the army of terror." michael, you've studied isis and interviewed dozens of isis fighters. is the abduction of these 150 christians another gruesome chapter and we'll is see them have the same outcome of the 21 egyptian christians or is isis up to something different? >> i suspect it's the former. they may want to negotiate with the vatican for the release of the christians. al nusra, who were formerly part of isis they kidnapped several christian nuns several months ago in syria and used qatar, our ally qatar as an intermediary to negotiate for their release. but al nusra tends to be much less draconian with the way they rule over territory in syria. with isis, if you're a christian, you're in a very tough spot if you're captured. >> colonel reese, why is the assad regime allowing isis to rampage through syria and abduct people and take over towns? >> the bottom line this is the assad regime is just worried about the

cnn global affairs analyst retired lieutenant colonel james reese and cnn counter terrorism analyst philrt with you. the tipping point is the big phrase today. do you think this could be that and why? >> i would not say it's a tipping point, but it's a critical moment for isis where they're indicating whether they can transition from a terror group to a group that can govern the territory that they took so quickly starting in the summer. look here's the point, chris. terror groups have a problem making a major transition from using intimidation to providing services like governance education, medical supplies. my take away from this is that isis is not learning that it has to make that transition. it's not learning that you can't just use intimidation to subjugate people and to govern territory. my take away bottom line is that isis will be the architects of their own demise because like the terror groups that went before them they can't get over the hump of trying to learn how to govern. all they can do is to figure out how to kill people. >> phil you're giving a nod to the reality that

bobby ghosh, cnn global affairs analyst and managing editor of "quartz" and lieutenant colonel james reesesident of tiger swan. military man, why is this taking so long? let's look at the numbers, isis fighters 20, 31 now,000 we don't know. that's a suggestion. iraqi soldiers 48,000 how many good maybe a fraction of that shia militia, 100,000, kurdish peshmerga, 190,000. overwhelming superiority, not overwhelming results. why? >> there have been results. this is a long game. we've had a good air campaign so far, we've attrited isis. this is not our fight. we want the arabs, the iraqis the peshmerga to lead this thing. we're the mckenzie of the aspect aspect. we're the consultants. we give them the assets they don't have isr, intelligence surveillance reconnaissance aspects. the intel operations fusion get them better equipment. these are the things we need to we can't rush them. we have to keep moving them along. >> to the colonel's point. take a look at this graphic, 80% of what's been done so far is by the united states. that's why there's all this pressure on the united states from the

delta force commander, lieutenant colonel james reese, founder and chairman of tiger swan. mosul, it makes a lot of our best fighting men and women in the u.s. go ooh, not mosul. first question to you -- colonel, why do i know about this battle so far before it begins? loose lips sink ships, what's going on here? >> yeah chris, you know i heard everyone yesterday discussing oh my goodness oh my goodness we're telling them we're coming. first off, everyone knows this is coming. the iraqi forces are coming up the tigress river valley. the peshmerga are already outside of mosul. we have to keep one thing in mind -- mosul is a huge city. this is going to be a heck of a bloody fight when we finally get in here. one thing the iraqis the iraqis want to do -- we have to stop putting our western strategy on this is -- the iraqis wants to be able to give some time for the populace if they can get out of there, get them out of there. so they're not having the populace inside this fight. >> that's a key thing. i know that you say that the implications going on here are huge. people don

here to walk us through it literally is lieutenant colonel james reese, a cnn global affairs analystmer u.s. delta force commander. i say you're going to walk us through it because we're on the map and you're going 0 explain the chronology of how we got to this point. let's start with a year ago, march of 2014. that's when russia annexed crimia explain what happened there. >> the bottom line is crimea down here in the peninsula, very critical strategic, because that's where russians had before one of their sub bases down there, it sits on the black sea, very strategic. not giving it back. >> that's when it got our attention. that vladimir putin was up to something. >> and it seemed as though maybe he would stop with that but then he didn't stop. >> correct. >> so it moves on. then in april, a month later of 2014 what happens in donetsk. >> what you have is down here in the southeast corner along the border of russia the area that russian separatists forces and we believe spetznatz, very similar to what we're doing in iraq special forces advising and assisting, down in this area down

international correspondent ben wedeman in erbil, iraq and cnn global affairs analyst, retired colonel james reeset at using videos like this as propaganda but is there a greater concern here being raised about their ability to seize u.s. supplied assets? >> well once again, we should stress we cannot confirm the voracity of this video that was posted yesterday on facebook but we do know there was an incident early in the month similar to what is -- what you're seeing there. it really is more of the same. you know going back to last summer isis has overrun scores of iraqi army positions. the iraqi army, of course, has a lot of american-made, american-supplied weaponry. in this video, you see lots of m-16s, you see piles of ak-47 assault rifles mortars, ammunition magazine clips, you also see, as you mentioned, a humvees and armored personnel carrier, all appear to be american made. and really this has been the pattern. going back to last summer when isis took over mosul, a city of 2 million, and the iraqi army fled, they left millions and millions of dollars worth of very good american weaponry be