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Them and he's going to have to navigate that every step of the way, fredericka. >> jim acosta, thank you so much traveling with the president in riyadh. a former extremist and counter terrorism analyst and former cia operative and security analyst. bob, let me begin with you because just as jim was underscoring, it's going to be difficult to make everyone happy on this eight-day, five city trip. delicate nuances of international politics or was it setting foot on new guidance, now policies. >> i don't see anything new, but it was a good speech considering

Far more equipped, better equipped than anything that the u.s. military faced. >> and so, mark, you know, while it's mosul right now and isis being on its heels, do you see that potentially syria is next, particularly that de facto capital of raqqah? >> i think ongoing operations are continuing. in fact, i know they are in and around syria for the same kind of preliminary actions that have been occurring over the last few months encircling mosul, the same thing is going on in raqqah. truthfully, fredericka, i believe there's a lot more work to be done inside of iraq. there are pockets of resis...

Re-establish order, a prison riot broke out. they actually set things on fire, three of those inmates were stabbed to death, and one still remains in the hospital with injuries. >> and so how long is it expected those inmates or someone must have taken in order to dig that tunnel? >> reporter: yeah, you better believe that will be a key question of the investigation. when i called the prison this morning, they actually were not answering our questions, citing security, but what we know about that tunnel, it was about 15 feet deep, about 130 feet long, and what it really speaks to, fredericka, ...

So it's going to give iraqi fighters some support. >> under siege in raqqa as well, is there a feeling that they're almost done as a force to be reckoned with in that region? >> reporter: i think we need to look to history to begin to answer that question, fredericka, if one takes into account the fact that isis has had newspaper roumerous, previo incarnations, and they have only then managed to put themselves back together, re-emerge stronger, more sophisticated and more powerful than before and the concern amongst a lot of people when you speak to them is not necessarily the defeat of isis i...

We spoke to an eyewitness who lived a few houses down from where this all took place, describing a pretty terrifying scene. and he said that as he was fleeing with his family, they could hear people screaming, "please save us, we're still alive." according to one particular house there, were six families taking shelter because the families can't leave. isis is holding them hostage. and sometimes the best they can do is try to get together in what they believe to be is going to be the strongest structure. but as we know, only too well, it is almost impossible to try to protect yourself in these...