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He is a long time military hand. this is someone who is also though not afraid to question decisions made by superiors and man that speaks his own mind and of course, wrote a book that really criticized the u.s. government for their role in vietnam. he is certainly an interesting person to be in this position and somebody that's clearly exerting his influence early on in this position. >> thank you, ryaryan. taking a stand for min orts, a huge march in the streets of dallas, thousands calling for immigration reform. you're live in the cnn newsroom. ', that can make a world of difference. exped...

Fear it or dislike it, but for whatever reason, they've been fighting for a long time. so forget about what you wish would happen. >> what is likely going to happen in syria? >> i think it is possible, you know, we have to try first of all to secure and assure those min orts and peaceful minorities of sunnis that there is a viable alternative when those people were looking west at the united states and western countries and this is a democracy they wanted because they know very well that this is the only thing that would keep syria safe. we have to find the right people that have links and are...

Lot of differences. >> there are two big differences between the federal law and indiana law and state laws. but indiana specifically allows private -- allows the law to be used as a defense if you're sued by somebody that isn't the government. the federal law is intended to keep the government from restricting religious rights of min orts. here in indiana, if you're sued and you're a florist and don't want to serve somebody and get sued, you can cite this law as a defense and secondly cite it as a defense if you're virtually any business regardless of your the hobby lobby, a closely held corp...

Minorities including what they did with egyptian christians in libya, we know that isis has been extremely brutal in the way it has o pressed and sometimes killed min orts. we don't know the fate of these individuals yet. there are some indications from these organizations that there's an effort to try to secure their release, but given isis' past that does not seem to be in the cards, kristen. >> michael, i want to shift to you, what's the motivation here? ayman talked about the fact they targeted minority groups. is this also about trying to get more hostages? >> not really i think they have...

Religious ethnic min orts. >> let's talk about the troops in place to control the chaos. we did extensive training and we were supposed to leave in place some fimilitary infrastructure. did we fail in that effort? >> i'm not sure it's ours to succeed or fail? you've seen military and police forces that rally around colombia, reducing the threat to their nation. that was their blood, their courage, their organizational skills and yet if an army doesn't believe in a legitimacy of its purpose and don't trust their officers and trust each other, they won't fight and die. apparently that's what's h...