i want to bring in michael weiss, also bob bair. to you, will ripley thank you.'ll stay with us throughout the evening here on this news. bob bair to you no mention though in isis's statement or in this video of the jordanian pilot that they are holding, believed to be holding hostage at this point in time. does that surprise you? >> well not really poppy. these people do not -- or it's not really a truly coherent group with a command and control. the hostage takers the ones that keep the hostages are mostly europeans. they're not exactly a rational bunch. but more than that i think we've been talking about is the importance of the tribal aspects, the jordanian pilot. the tribes in jordan as i understand are not fully behind this war. and i think the islamic state is trying to exploit this. because in fact the islamic state depends upon certain tribal elements in the anbar province and in eastern syria. so they are playing a level of politics which is not completely transparent to us. now, i don't think they're going to get their way, but we're going to have to w

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. >> michael weiss, thanks for joining us.hasn't been in the headlines for a few months really and now it is back in the headline rightly so because civilians are dying, people living in the crosshairs of this are dying. this ceasefire in september seems to have fallen apart the moment it began. >> never existed. it was kept at a low rumble but separatists were still firing on ukrainian army positions and vice versa. in the last swooefshlgs there's been an intense battle for donetsk international airport, which has now fall on the separatists. when president obama got up for the state of the union as he was speaking and saying, you know putin is isolated and being pushed back and all this, the ukrainians were losing. >> right. >> i think this is probably one of the worst days for civilian casualties since the war began. you guys have it a slightly lower death toll than what i've received. 30 civilians i think have been killed. >> okay. >> there's a haunting video that's been circulating on the internet. a guy in his car has a

michael weiss. michael, the defense secretary. you heard barbara starr say she's been coming to the pentagon. she almost fell out of her chair. the defense secretary admitting he's been under pressure from the white house to release gitmo detainees too quickly. how concerning is that? >> it's no surprise. they end up in some militant insurgency are much higher than the pentagon would like. most military officials will tell you we don't want to let the guys go because they will wind up in al qaeda or isis. i think the military officials are one mind on this issue. the castro regime have said we want guantanamo back to us in order to normalize thesuations. >> this is pretty shocking. just this week they admitted that one of the five taliban commanders that was exchanged for beau bergdahl has attempted to return what they call militant activities. it may not be surprising that it's true but it's surprising that the defense secretary of the united states on his way out is admitting he's signing off too fast. >> i don't find it surpris

out front michael weiss along with mike rogers former head of the house intelligence committee is backwell. mike rogers let me start with you. what about this new audio tape that we have purportedly the voice of the japanese hostage laying out the new terms. the new terms are guess what they're not going to kill them today. they have until tomorrow night at sunset jordanian time. this is another exchange in the deadline another extension and another change in the terms. what's going on? >> well this is not the negotiation in good faith clearly. as we saw this early on in the negotiations where they were asking for $200 million, an unreasonable number. for folks who understand how to get ransoms out of countries that will pay, this does -- i fear for the health and safety both of the pilot and the japanese. i don't think they're negotiating in good faith. i think they're playing a game to try to hold the psyche of both japan, the united states and jordan at bay. and unfortunately, it's working. >> that's the thing, michael, it does seem to be working and part of the reason, some say, is