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Daughters join isis, first they lose their children to the terror group, and then they are forced to turn on them when they reach out for help. >> cnn's melissa bell sits down with the french mother whose son died while fighting for isis in syria. she was sentenced to prison because she sent money to her son. >> a few photographs are all that natalie has left. >> reporter: natalie would never have believed that her son whose innocent stares back from the photos would decide his destiny was jihad. the first signs came after a trip to see his father in algeria, then with money sent to him by his...

Prosecutorial decisions, period. from a programatic perspective which gets reflected in things like the budget submitted to congress, focus ed on particular types of cases, you know, there could be a period where we focus more on corporate fraud, a period where we focus more resources on gun crime, there could be a period where we focus more recently on counterterrorism. so there is an effect on the scarcity of resources and the ability to prioritize certain investigations in that sense. i think that's a process that occurs with input from law enforcement and the fbi, with input from the depar...

Focus ed and targeted approach. molly heninburg is here in washington with more. >> this is the bulk phone data program run by the nsa, the national security agency, that was leaked by edward snowden, a former nsa contractor about two years ago. snowden revealed the government was collecting information on americans' phone calls. data on what numbers you were being called in, calling out, duration of phone calls, to try to ferret out any terrorist connections. president obama called for the nsa to shut down the program. congress agreed so it ended yesterday. starting today, the law requires th...

Leadership. >> well, rick, others would point to the fact that putin seems unintimidated by red lines, any pronouncements. what do you make of it? >> it may not be leadership we can squabble about whether or not this is leadership. president obama seems to be focus ed on that word. it is clearly winning. russia is winning. they grabbed crimea. there were no consequences. what we heard when the russians grabbed crimea back then from president obama was, this is not something that is very good for them in the long run. he seems to make this argument that, you know, they're going to see that bein...