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to conduct an interview and six more to make it a determination. ♪ breaking tonight, a naturalized american citizen who traveled to syria, became an isa sniper and conducted weapons training for fellow terrorists charged with supporting materials to the islamic state. good evening, trace common traits. >> and a courtroom today, they sent 42-year-old who was born in catholic stand and lived in brooklyn with the top isis starts my neighbor who train who teaches other isis members how to use weapons. u.s. customs and immigration tells fox news that i sign off and naturalized citizen who entered the u.s. through the diversity visa program often because the visa lottery because the focus is on immigrants from countries with historically low rates of immigration. and he has not the first
agree with the admiral? >> i think is actually right that iran is pulled in by perceived weakness and they backed down when faced with strength and i think that's why you saw them back down when we were faced with intelligence a few months ago that they were about to strike americans in the region. that the sent an aircraft carrier, a bomber, the iranians back down. what i most encouraged about is consistent reports that iran is no longer able to fund the groups and others, they can't make payroll and they're having to pull back their operations in syria and across the region the regime is in desperate financial straits, they see it as an ex-potential threat of the concert try to create a crisis both in the domestic populace and galvanize the community to try to back down. i encourage the president to keep the pressure, it's working. >> mike: congressman michael watson john young. thank you so much.
interventionalists. on speaking for the hawks, look no further, the nationals security john bolton in the oval office today. >> i'm sitting here behind the desk in the oval office today, john. >> this is an iranian drone in the u.s. took it out yesterday, because it posed a threat to the ship and the crew, charlie the right thing to do. >> the taking of the british ship ups the ante with an ally but isn't necessarily a direct threat to u.s. rafferty question mike called it unacceptable and the response will be considered as robust, however a couple weeks since the brits grabbed one of iran's takers in syria. the arraignments promise that will not go and answered and here we are >> we have a very close alliance with the u.k., we always have. we heard that.
suspected terrorist to win our visa lottery. prosecutors say in 2013, he bought a one-way ticket to turkey, cross the border into syria, and fought with isis for five years. last year he was detained by syria and forces loyal to the u.s. entered over to the fbi. we also learned today that the heat tried recruit at least one other person to fight for isis. in the march 2015, he asked in a form at the two sent him almost $3,000 to buy a scope for his rifle. and then sent back photos of himself holding the rifle, fitted with that skull. he also messaged another associate thing about ices we are the first terrorist organization and the world that ever existed. that he wanted to die on the battlefield. fbi said that he left the u.s. to fight on behalf of of terrorist ideology," he turned his back on the ideals we value and will now be to face our justice system and that on."
terrorism analyst philip mudd our terrorism analyst paul cruickshank and national secure analyst fran townsend. paul has it become more or less difficult for these young western recruits of the united states or from europe to enter syria? >> it's become more difficult because the turks have been cracking down on this. they are saying they have to smuggle recruits across the border that sometimes these recruits are having to crawl under barbed wire. there has been improved intelligence sharing between western countries and turkey as evidenced by those arrests in istanbul of the three north london teens over the weekend. that intelligence sharing has led to more than 12,500 names being added to a do not enter turkey list but they are still concerned that significant numbers are managing to get into syria. of course turkey is a top travel destination for tourists
you have to be able to compartmentalize and say we are opposing over here but we can work together over there. i think what john kerry was really saying is this is going to have to be a negotiation involving the regime. i wouldn't have said we are going to negotiate with assad himself. but that's been the goal to try to get a stalemate on the ground and get us to some negotiation so that we can have a change in the government and get syria back to some semblance of normalcy. >> you may not know this but i will tell you if you don't. today, benjamin netanyahu, the elections in israel are tomorrow and he's fighting for his political life as you well know he says there will be no palestine, no independent palestinian state, no two-state solution if he's re-elected. what's your reaction to that? >> my first reaction is maybe we shouldn't pay too much attention to what the people say three days before an election. but that's too bad is the quote i heard, because four five years ago he supported a
>> fran is there any useful intelligence that can be gathered from these young recruits these teenagers, who may be stopped from -- once they're in syria, once they're aligned with isis hard to get out of there. before they get there, any useful intelligence that can be gathered? >> absolutely. in fact perhaps the most important thing that they can reveal is who helped them who facilitated it in the countries they were leaving. in the case of great britain, was it an imam, who gave you the money, who helped you get the travel documents, what flight who helped you make those flight arrangements. how did you know what to bring with you. there's a whole bunch of intelligence that not only helps you understand the pipeline they are in but it allows you then to go back and track to see did these people facilitate others who did you miss what kind of intelligence network is there in these source countries for these recruits. >> i know paul you have been looking into the number of young western women, american women, european women, who have actually been recruited by isis. what are you learning about
marry these warriors on the battlefield. >> the parents of these kids are often first generation immigrants. they don't really understand the internet that well and they certainly don't understand the ins and outs of youtube, facebook and twitter and all that. >> reporter: the flow of teenagers from britain is disturbing. today an 18-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of preparing to join isis. he was picked up before trying to leave his hometown of birmingham england. and there were the three teenaged girls seen at the turkish border in this new video who got from britain to syria without their parents' knowledge. british officials say in the past year 22 women and girls have been reported missing by families who fear they traveled to syria. >> the british definitely have a problem, and they have been trying to look at ways that you can find the danger signs. >> british officials would not comment when we asked about the idea that they may have a specific problem stopping teenagers from defecting to isis. but they are admitting they do need help from parents. police there have just launched
and explains why people haven't been talking. they were told by isis if they talked about their captivity, all of the remaining captives would be punished. there is essentially only one captive left and that's why javier wrote this piece and talked about it. >> reporter: espinosa was held with more than 20 other western hostages in syria, including americans james foley, steven sotloff and kayla mueller who are all now dead. espinosa says kassig told him of his own torture saying when they realized i was american and that i had been a soldier in iraq they went crazy. they hung me from the roof and started beating me. i thought they were going to execute me. sometime later, he was beheaded. the gruesome video posted on the internet. an isis defector who witnessed some of the beheadings also said during a separate interview with sky news that isis reveres jihadi john as the quote, big boss who is the only one in the group allowed to kill foreigners. wolf? >> pamela brown, thanks very much. joining us now, our cnn counter
had help from someone turkish officials call suspicious. >> it's a very good chance that the individual is a fixer. they are known by the people who run the checkpoints on the road. that's what it comes down to. and you know a fee is of course passed off to the people on the check points and they are able to make their way. it happens all the time every day. >> reporter: in recent days turkish intelligence had apprehended this man who they said was a fixer for three british school girls who made it into syria to allegedly join isis. it turns out the man was a double agent, the turks say, also working for a coalition country fighting against isis. what attracts teenagers to this vicious murderous band of terrorists? analysts say for boys the lure is adventure and the jihadist ideology mixed with some grievance they may have in their home countries. >> for girls, increasingly we are seeing romance as a pathway, where they look at these fighters they make for a dashing figure and some of the girls have wanted to go over and