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You ask, i think, everybody in the region who's worse, the regime or isis, i think a lot of people point the finger at isis. >> you're a military man. are they good on the battlefield? >> well, you know, tactically what they're doing -- this is the sad part about it -- is a lot of young, frustrated, and deluded muslims around the world, you know, a lot from poverty backgrounds that believe into this false claim of this islamic caliphate that has no relationship in our islamic history and believe the mantra that these people have, that come to syria and to iraq to fight the war. they're basical...

Either by vehicles or by blowing themselves up against the more regular troops that everybody else has, and then the heavy infantry, which is the hard core isis, are the ones that then exploit their positions. so they have an abundance of these throwaway jihadists. that's the sad part about it. then any foreign fighter that comes into syria realizes this is not what they signed up for and get executed. we heard, for example, that when our brave pilot was executed, there were some syrians and some jihadists that said, look, this is wrong. they were executed on the spot. so anybody who says this...

What, in your mind, where did this come from? >> that's the million-dollar question. there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there. there is no set answer. from the jordanian perspective, we saw isis several -- almost two years ago, formed up in the north, which is their major headquarters. what's interesting is as they were forming and being built and strengthened, they were not being hit. the syrian regime was hitting everybody else but not isis. and that raised a lot of eyebrows. you know, why were they allowed to build? one argument was, obviously, because there was such international con...

Many of you tuned in last monday hoping to see our new special on isis only to find out it had been pre-empted for breaking news. we heard from a lot of disappointed viewers, but we have good news. the special, which is called "blind sided: how isis shook the world" has been rescheduled for monday, may 11th, at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. given the great interest in understanding isis, that will be the topic of today's main event. as many of you will remember, i travelled to jordan recently to interview that nation's king, abdullah ii. we did a special section of that interview on the isis ...

General public to understand there are these exist -- threat that's exist. if you see something say something. that's a big part of this. we have to appreciate there is a spectrum here. you have the lone wolf, someone who can take it upon themselves to conduct something like what we seen today. then you have the terror networks, more coordinated and actually speaking to people in syria and listening to the rhetoric. and then you got actually the hard core isis militant leaders out of syria and jihadist fighting all over the world. it's complex. there's so many levels. we need more resources an...