. >> more developing news now, a man named jihadi johnny, the most wanted man in the world is believed dead, killed in a drone strike in syria. the public face of the group isis murdered they americans, and now the mother of his first victim is share her anger and only motions. >> cheryl, the officials are calling this a 100 percent flawless direct hit on jihadi john who was evaporated. one of the victims' families the news provides very little solace. >> it is just so sad that our precious resources have been concentrateed to seek revenge, if you will, or kill this man when if a bit of them had been utilized to save our young members, that is what our country should be doing. >> jihadi john murdered her son, james, a little over a year ago and he became the face of isis, wearing a black mask, holding a knife, and threatening the life of the american journalist. [ inaudible ] >> he executed foley and then two other americans and four other foreign hostages. this is his true identity, a british citizen named mohammed emwazi, one of the teachers said at age 11 he was already put in anger

then we have what we're hearing reports of, that jihadi johnny, who was famous for being on camera beheading americans, the brits, obviously they think he was killed in a drone attack. don't know if it's related. let's look at the chain of events. what are you thinking? what is our government thinking? >> you can add to that one of the current events was we sent 50 troops -- dari: special forces. >> to syria, which is a big thing for us. we hadn't been there before. it's really opened -- dari: on the ground. intelligence with the rest of the world. that's u.s. intelligence on the scene, which is a huge change for us. and i think when you combine having the americans on the ground and now look at the russians and all that's going on in terms of the air fight, we're beginning to make headway into the isis group. dari: why they may be pushing back. robert, we'll take a break. but as we go to break, just to let you know, mayor de blasio has weighed in. he released a statement saying our hearts go out to the french. we're very heartbroken about this. and that the nypd is coordinating with their l

first, the killing of "jihadi johnny." don't want to understate that.ighly symbolic, given what he has done and it happened in raqqa, the center of their power structure. this piece is a geopolitical piece because it controls contre supply route between their headquarters in raqqa and the city of mosul. i don't think it's the beginning of the end but might be the end of the beginning phase, meaning we result now start gain momentum at our end. >> seems to be every time there's talk of a success, it seems the kurd are always involved, efer in the north of syria or the north of iraq, the ones and only. >> reporter: they absolutely are. i want to add that kurds worked with the gentleman -- gentleman sid di. the ones that were massacred and had their women raped and enslaved. those two together that own this victory. the kurds need more help from us. we ought to get more arms in their hands because they can fight. >> they're the fighters but they're not interested in helping out in other places. they want their own kurdistan that would be part of more than

jihadis pour in. he with as part of the recruitment tool and interesting to see who he use next. and others used adam gadahn and they used johnnie next, the operations are full throttle and by the way they revel in martyrdom, we have to target thousands not just this one. stuart: now, the president there they want america to apologize. >> it's more of the staple. these guys aren't going to change. we're paying attention to it so we sort of see them, the bottom line, they're shaking their fists at us and not unclenching it as mr. obama, the president said they would. they're slugging us daily and doing it, taking our citizens as prisoners, they're continuing to, you know, target their own citizens, they're sponsoring terrorism. sponsoring assad and just told the iraqi government, yesterday, stuart, they tell them to lean towards russia and lean away from america so they see the strategic weakness and vacuum that we're leaving and stopped dismantling the centrifuges and warning us and saying, you better not put the sanctions back in because we're in control of this show and you're not. stuart: we lost hands down, it looks like tha