lawrence? >> richard, thank you. >>> david, the situation here seems to be that the americans in these situations are in greater risk because some other countries that have people over there in these kinds of risks have been paying ransoms to get them out. >> yes. the problem is this raid that the administration announced today was an effort to free these americans but there is no coherent strategy from the united states and its allies about how to respond to a growing number of kidnappings. there were french and spanish journalists held with james foley. they got ransomed. they're home, they're alive and their needs to be a unified approach. what's going on now with america not paying and others paying is not working. >> the millions paid in ransom helps finance what the islamic state is trying to do. >> one of the journalists kidnapped and transferred between different groups was an unfortunate part, a victim of a marketplace that's developed in kidnapping these people. you see a market growing. you see