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Victorious. >> that is the other worldly end game. the temporal goals are dogmatic too. what they're focussing on is the caliphate and governance and taking power and how to exercise that power. >> and it seems quite clear that those goals actually often trump the so-called religious ones. so they're going to the museum in iraq. they destroy a few of the statues to show how islamic they are, you know, because pure islam, you don't have any kind of idol worship. but quietly, they're selling most of them. they take hostages, but yet they want money for the hostages. >> there's a lot more we're g...

Martha: we look to that. the u.s. may have been caught off-guard by the new iraqi offensive to take back tikrit from isis. [gunfire] these are some of the scenes from the battle in tikrit. new reports u.s. officials were largely kept in the dark about efforts to recapture that iraqi city from isis that. the u.s.-led coalition is not providing air cover and that iran is the main entity actively involved in this offensive in tikrit. retired four-star army general jack keane is a fox news military analyst and chairman of the institute of the study of war. general, good to have you here. welcome. ...

Comes as forces continue a major offensive to take back tikrit. richard engel joins us this morning from turkey. let's start with the new audio tape. what's the significance of it? >> this advocacy group release ed it and this group has been saying all along that that he's somewhat of a victim that jihadi john, who went on clips beheading people threatening others participating in. mass beheadings that he is a victim of a system that chased him down. that the british security services were constantly harassing him, accusing him of being an islamic extremist, of trying to join foreign terrorist...

Lot of problems is the release of the 19 christians from isis there is no real explanation as to why but in syria it is held as a positive step forward but there is angst and concern about the more than 200 or so christians being held by isis. isis has beheaded and killed a great number of people there including christians and there is a real concern for the safety of the other christians that are being held by isis and there is no real explanation why these 19 were released. >> thank you. >> and what if the iraqi military can't take back tikrit. first more breaking news. boko haram just relea...

As you can well imagine. we're hearing a lot from them. in addition to that, given the storm over benghazi, the russian reset foreign money sent to the clinton foundation as other seminal events while hillary was secretary of state these emails could be the beginning of a major headache in advance of her presumed announcement to run for president of the united martha, back to you. martha: we'll have a lot more on this coming up. doug, thank you very much. bill: 11 minutes past the hour. there is major offensive against isis. iraqi forces trying to take back tikrit. new details that the u.s. di...