Christians taken hostage. Part of a group of more than 200 people that isis captured when they swept a syrian village just a few days ago. But a Syrian Opposition group says some sort of Authority Figure has ordered 29 of those people to be released. Why and is it really going to happen . Also overseas one of president opinion opinions loudest critics shot dead last night on a sidewalk just yards from the kremlin. Boris nemtsov was walking home with a female friend after dinner and shot in the back four times. Now press putin vowing to find and punish the killer. Coming up why russian authorities are not ruling out isis involvement in this murder. Any moment we will learn who conservatives think should win the white house in 2016. Youre looking at live pictures there of cpac that gathering there in maryland. Were going to bring you the straw poll results in just a moment. It was a stung blow against hamas today from the government of egypt from a specific court there in cairo declaring hamas officially a terrorist organization. This is a label the United States and europe has already put on hamas. Hamas leaders, though, shocked apparently by the ruling. Our ian lee joins me on the phone live from cairo. Ian, set this up for us in terms of the significance of this to hamas and frankly why hamas leaders seem so surprised at the courts ruling. Reporter well poppy, this is a very damning verdict by the courts of urgent matters here in cairo. But were still trying to figure out what this exactly means. Because there is a new law terrorism law, that was recently passed saying this court does not have jurisdiction that that jurisdiction lies with the general prosecutor as well with the appeals court. But what hamas is being accused of is quite severe. Theyre being accused of supporting snujtinsurgents in the sigh my peninsula who have killed hundreds of security personnel and of a 2011 jail break that freed members of the Muslim Brotherhood revolution. The muslim brother hood in egypt is considered a terrorist organization. Hamas belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood. Hamas has condemned this verdict. This does create a new chapter in relations between hamas and egypt which has started to deteriorate since the 2013 uprising that overthrew Mohamed Morsi who came from the Muslim Brotherhood, poppy. Could you talk to us about the concern you raised in the earlier hour this could backfire on egypt . Reporter well the thing that egypt has always done is its always been a broker for the region between hamas and israel and also interpalestinian politics. So this could be very damaging for egypt because they wont be seen as this independent or impartial broker for any potential upcoming wars. The last three wars between hamas and israel they have brokered the peace deal. So it is very unlikely that hamas is going to want to listen or to work with the egyptians now if there is another war. And so for egypt, this is a lowering of their stature, if you will when it comes to these sorts of talks. But for egypt they see this as a National Security issue. Hamas, they believe, has been undermining egypts abilitystability. For them they believe this it the only way forward. Ian lee from cairo, thank you for that. As we mentioned, isis may be ready to release 29 Asyrian Christians taken hostage in recent days. They are part of a much larger group of more than 200 christian captives including women, children and the elderly. Information about that pending release comes from a Syrian Opposition group this. All really adds up to a very troubling picture of isis spreading really like a cancer across the region. Jordans King Abdullah told our faried zakari this is a third world war. Should the west be in the lead . This has to be unified. Ive said this to leaders both in the islamic and arab world and to the world in general. This is a third world war by other means. This brings muslims, christians other religions together in this generational fight that all of us have to be this together. So its not a western fight. This is a fight inside of islam where everybody comes together against these outlaws, so to speak, together. And theres a shortterm part of this which is the military part of the issue. There is the medium part which is the security element of it. Then theres a longterm element of this which is obviously the ideological one. A fascinating interview there between our Faried Zakaria and kipg be a dull king abdul lastbe aabdullah. Police are scouring the streets of moscow trying to figure out who killed one of russian president Vladimir Putins most outspoken critics and why. Our Fred Pleitgen has the latest from moscow. Reporter thousands of people have been coming here to the scene of the crime throughout the entire day, many laying candles down, lighting candles, many with tears in their eyes. You can tell moscow is shocked by the events that happen here late on friday night. One of the things that really shocks me the most is the fact that we are here in the heart of moscow. Also this is a place near the kremlin, near the red square as well where there is a lot of surveillance. Theres a lot of surveillance cameras here. Plainclothesed Police Officers. Nonetheless right here in the middle of the sidewalk on this main bridge that leads away from the kremlin across the moscow river, is the place where Boris Nemtsov was gunned down. However, the fact that there are so many surveillance measures in place here seems to be one thing thats helping the authorities here to try to pinpoint who might be behind all of this. The authorities late on saturday announced they had managed to find a car, a white vehicle that they believe might have been involved in all of this. They said they found this vehicle through some of the Surveillance Footage that they got at various points. Of course a lot of that Surveillance Footage would be around this area. The other main thing that the Authorities Say theyre looking at is also witness testimony. One of their main witnesses is a woman named a anna duretskaya a model apparently with Boris Nemtsov as he was walking across this bridge. We were able to speak to a friend of nemtsov who says he was able to talk to her briefly before she was taken in by the police for questioning. She told him she was walking along here with Boris Nemtsov when all of a sudden a vehicle stopped. Someone immediately opened fire from that vehicle. And then the vehicle sped away very quickly. One of the things very significant about that is that all the bullets that were apparently fired from that car hit nemtsov. None of them hit her. Thats one of the things that causes the authorities here to say that they believe it was a professionally organized killing that took place. Nemtsov of course was supposed to be one of the people leading a rally here in the city of moscow on sunday. Originally it was supposed to protest against russias policies in ukraine, but now that rally after his death is going to turn into one of mourning for a man who died here on friday night. Fred pleitgen cnn, moscow. Fred, thank you for that. Russian Investigative Committee is leading this criminal investigation. Again its in the early hours but its exploring a number of possible motives. For example, did russias enemies kill nemtsov to create political dischord or were perhaps there islamist extremists involved . Russian yeah state media reporting nemtsov had received threats like this to his views on the Charlie Hebdo attack in europe. Counting me counterterrorism analyst buck sexton. When you look at the number of scenarios the russian authorities are look at right now, one of them being that isis might be linked to this murder. Do you think that is farfetched or do you think that is really a possibility . On its face its preposterous from what we know right now. This was a very professional hit. It seems to be the kind of trade craft that you would expect from say an Intelligence Service. And the fact that nemtsov was shot outside the kremlin i think also indicates these individuals knew the routes and times of their target. They shot with a tight grouping. They did not hit any bystanders. This was not meant as a spectacle in the sense you would have expected from say a jihadist. This was just a cold hard execution and really indicates Intelligence Service or someone trained by Intelligence Services or special forces. The when you look at the motives and some of the recent history here with for example this target saying he expects putin is going to kill him, i think people are starting to draw their own conclusions. And we dont want to draw conclusions. Again this is early going. This i nemtsov as someone recently critical of the kremlins handling of the ukraine crisis someone who issued a massive report in 2013 about bribery and fraud ahead of the olympics in sochi. This is someone who knew he had a target on his back and walked around without protection without bodyguards. At the same time putin coming out today and saying this is horrendous and were going to hunt down the killer. What do you make of that . This is what we woeks would expect. Of course putin is going to say hes searching for the real killers. The truth here when you look at the motivations for taking out an opposition politician like this and look at russias history particularly with putin at the helm of journalists mysteriously dying and no killers are ever found. Opposition politicians dying or being imprisoned on flimsy charges. And theres never any justice for those who seem to find themselves on the wrong end of an assassins bullet in russia. This is a longstanding issue. I have to say this kind of a brazen assassination of nemtsov, and it clearly is an assassination. We know that just a question of the perpetrators. This kind of brazen hit opens up russia into probably a whole new level. Because this was so out in the open for people to see and so clearly only going to benefit the sort of russian nationalist that were seeing on the scene now and who are pro taking Eastern Ukraine and who believe that what theyre doing is somehow bettering russia. When you add motive you add recent history, you add the tactics used in this event, its certainly not isis. And i think we all know that its somebody from inside of russia. But this coming as president putin has sky high Approval Ratings at 86 among his own people. Stay with me. Youre going to join us later in the hour. Well execute this more well discuss this next. Well find out who hard core conservatives think should win the republican president ial nomination. So conservatives have voted and were awaiting the results. Well tell you who they like for president and why it matters after the break. I lost my sight in afghanistan but it doesnt hold me back. I go through periods where its hard to sleep at night and stay awake during the day. Non24 is a circadian rhythm disorder that affects up to 70 of people who are totally blind. Talk to your doctor about your symptoms and learn more by calling 8448442424. Or visit my24info. Com. 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This is a very libertarian crowd, young crowd. You can hear them in the back behind me. Very excited to get the results here. What was interesting, number two, scott walker. He had a very Strong Performance here a few years ago. He took number two. And he was at 7 last year. This year he had 21 of the straw poll. He lost to rand paul who had 25 . There you go. They Just Announced rand paul the winner. You can hear the excitement behind me poppy. People are very excited in the background here. I think, chris, its really interesting weve seen this momentum behind scott walker recently. But when you look at the reality of how this plays out in predicting the next president , whats the history there . Reporter well it doesnt always have a history of predicting the next president. The poll is very good as a snapshot for where this particular conservative group is right now. This is a very conservative face very libertarian. You start to see who has momentum going into the election season. Certainly scott walker has that momentum. He is up in the polls in iowa. And hes coming out of this looking very strong. Rand paul held on. He needed to make sure that he held his crown for a third year in a row. He did that. And another thing to mention here poppy, jeb bush came in fifth place with 8 . Thats not surprising. He came, in had a very strong showing. Kind of walked into the lions den here. And had a strong respectable showing. But this is not his crowd. This crowd is much more conservative much more libertarian. So not a surprise there, and certainly jeb bush has other advantages such as a donor class behind him, so just because he came in poorly here doesnt mean he doesnt have a shot. This is just a snapshot in time. I think its important for people to remember that. Of course appreciate the reporting live as it was announced there at cpac. Thank you very much. Coming up next were going to continue on politics and talk about your nations capitol. Our nations capitol. Guess what . At the last minute they came up with a way to fund the department of Homeland Security but only for one week. What happens after that . Well discuss next. Two arrests in new york one in florida, another in indiana. All people suspected of conspiring to fight for or to support isis. Court documents released yesterday suggest this man captured in Central Indiana bought military equipment for terrorists and in one point intended to fly to syria to fight with isis. While he and others were stopped many more have slipped through the crack. This weinerek i went to minnesota to talk to the state attorney general to talk about this problem and whats being done to counter it. From the intelligence that you have at this point in time is isis targeting the Somali Community in minnesota . Yes. No question. No question. How aggressively . Theyre recruiting westerners but theyre recruiting here. Approximately how many young people from minnesota have left to go fight with terrorists . Well, over two dozen during the al shabab days. More now during the isis days. Each one is a tragedy for their families for their community, for minnesota. So were trying to turn it around. Do you have a number . I mean are we talking 30 40 50 . Its too many. And im reluctant to give you an exact number because the investigations are ongoing. But each person who travel ss or tries to travel is a tragedy. And its a failure of all of us that we need to turn this around. One Community Activist told us that one day instead of leaving the u. S. To fight for al shabab or isis theyre going to fight here. Does that keep you up at night . Everything keeps me up at night. But we have no indication. Theres no intelligence to suggest that anybodys planning anything in minnesota. But obviously were vigilant about that on a daily bay is. What we saw play out in the recent attacks in paris, and likely although its early going in copenhagen is that there was no direct order, attack this place at this time, kill these people. The it was this propagandadriven heres a mission you should carry out when you deem the time and target are correct. Do you worry about that here . Were watching that kind of activity on a daily basis. There is no indication anybody is making such a plan of attack here. But we have some of the best fbi based here. Why here . It started in 2007 2008 with al shabab from somalia recruiting young somalis. Isis has now picked up on the success of al shabab and trying to improve upon it. Its not what we in minnesota want to be known for. But we have to tackle this and break the cycle of recruiting. If you were to boil down the solution how youre attacking this how would you describe it . The way the community described it to me. They wanted more Community Engagement by law enforcement. They want to get to know us and learn who we are better. Thats point one. Point two is address the root causes through more mentoring, through more job opportunities, afterschool programs inschool programs. Thats point two. Point three is Early Intervention teams that grow out of the community with the imams and the parents and the youth leaders working together at the early signs of radicalization. Those are the three pillars of our plan. But is it happening right now . Because isis is recruiting from here right now. Were already working on this. The community is already working on this. The Pilot Program is to take it to the next level. Do you have the money to do it . We have some money coming in right now. We have corporate and nonprofit support here in minnesota. And i was just in a meeting at the