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Finally, jihadi john is revealed. Hes the front man for unspeakably horrific isis beheading videos face covered, dressed in black. He holds a knife next to kneeling hostages taunting the entire world in perfect english with a british accent. Now, u. S. Officials confirmed that jihadi john is a kuwaiti born londoner named Mohammad Emwazi. We are learning more about his background and why the white house now sees him as a top target. That comes as shocking new video shows isis thugs ransacking an iraqi museum taking sledge hammers and jackhammers to priceless antiquities they called false idols and gods. Our correspondents and analysts are all standing by. Lets begin with our chief National Security correspondent, jim sciutto, who has the very latest. We are learning now that u. S. Lawmakers have been briefed on suspected americans in isis. This has been a long term concern and this is also happening as u. S. Intelligence officials have increased their estimate of the number of americans who have traveled to syria and iraq to join jihad there, up to 180 now from 150. These are those who have either gone or attempted to go. Some of them killed on the battlefield. But today in the case of jihadi john we got the most vivid illustration of isis broad appeal. Jihadi john identified as Mohammad Emwazi a 26yearold British National born as you say in kuwait well off, well educated and radicalized, it seems, fairly quickly. Now, though u. S. Officials would not publicly discuss his suspected identity today the white house said jihadi john ranks highly on the president s target list because hes responsible for the murder of innocent americans. Seen of course in the beheading videos of james foley, Steven Sotloff sotloff. Friends say they never saw signs of his future as a terrorist. He is such im sorry, i didnt expect he was such a beautiful young man, really. You know its hard to imagine the trajectory but its not a trajectory thats unfamiliar to us. Our entire National Security strategy for the last 13 years has only increased alienation. He seems to be arguing that the treatment that uk authorities gave this jihadi john that that treatment, questioning whatever resulted in his radicalization but this guy eventually went on to become a murderer a killer beheading all these people. We see it on video so this notion that he was simply radicalized because the british were investigating him, that doesnt sound plausible. No its a fairly propos proposterous argument to make. Some muslim groups claim profiling as a radicalizing factor. In his case they talk about a trip to tanzania he was going on a safari and officials suspected he was trying to get to somalia so he was detained and deported. The fact is the root causes of this go so much deeper. The thing is that it is attracting a broad range of recruits. We are seeing men and women in the mideast and the west rich and poor the fact is that the profile is simply too broad and inconsistent and the fact is in his case we dont truly know why he turned radical. But suffice to say it is clear and it is obvious that some mistreatment here and there by the police can certainly not justify or even explain how you become a serial beheader so radical as jihadi john. Good point. Jim sciutto, thank you. So will the exposing of this guy known as jihadi john and the knowledge that theres a name now being targeted make him a less important symbol for isis . Brian todd is here in the situation room. He has been looking into this part of the story. What are you learning . Well its a very interesting question tonight and we are getting a picture from u. S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement officials now of just how important jihadi john is to isis. Many of the officials and analysts we spoke to dont think his importance will diminish now that we know his name. This is a man who has simply become too identifiable with isis, its message and brutality. The british accent behind the mask. Obama, you have started your aerial bombardment which keeps us striking our people. It is only right we continue to strike the necks of your people. Reporter a voice we now think belongs to a 26yearold from west london named Mohammad Emwazi. With each new beheading video, a u. S. Official says jihadi johns value as a top isis figure has grown. His chief value is being the wests boogeyman and isis man on the ground who tells it like it is and does terrible things to his victims. He is out of central casting for isis. Isis has a flair for the dramatic. They are very good not only at social media but also Film Production and also figuring out in terms of narrative what is it that will scare people. Reporter his mask british accent distinctive motion with a knife, the fact that he may have beheaded hostages on camera not only shock western viewers but emboldened isis militants. The freaky thing about jihadi john he kind of looks like he likes that job. For isis its just a way of continuously desensitizing everyone who is within isis to the fact that that is business as normal. Reporter u. S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement officials tell cnn jihadi john is prized as a westerner within isis because he helps recruitment. The message is to westerners if you come to isis you can be important, not just that you can be part of the crowd. Reporter he sprang into americas conscience with the video showing james foleys murder. It was soon followed by the Steven Sotloff video. Analysts say he may not have done it on his own but Mohammad Emwazis videos played a huge role in escalating americas war against isis. Lets put it this way. Had it not been for these videos we probably wouldnt be bombing syria today. Reporter has jihadi johns propaganda value diminished now that he has been named . The analysts we spoke to dont think so. They say as long as he keeps menacing the west on camera he will have propaganda value to isis. The one mitigating factor of course is whether he will go further underground now that western intelligence and military forces know more about him. Be interesting to see if he pops up again now that we know his name. Possible that now that we know more about him, his value to isis could actually increase. It could. Heres the way it could increase. Now that we know hes College Educated and that he comes from this family with means, that is going to get out to potential isis recruits. He is different from many jihadis who have been recruited by isis many coming from poor backgrounds. They are seen to not have many prospects in life. This is a guy who had options in life. He chose this. Thats going to get to isis recruits as well. Brian, thank you very much. Despite punishing new air strikes, there is more evidence that isis is tightening its grip. Shocking new video of isis thugs gleefully destroying ancient artifacts at an iraqi museum. There are shocking new details of the mass kidnapping of christian villagers in syria. Lets go to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Shes got more. Reporter billions of dollars of valuable history destroyed and a new horrifying assault on christianity. Isis says god ordered these ancient artifacts destroyed in mosul, iraq. One priceless statue after another smashed. Some date back to 700 b. C. In northeastern syria, these assyrian christians are fortunate to escape. More than 260 christians now held hostage by isis after fighters swept through their villages, according to an activist network. Women, children and the elderly among them. At 4 00 in the morning they attacked them. Reporter california residents got a terrifying message about some of their 12 family members. What we have heard, it was like a sea of black uniforms marching through all the villages burning down the churches desecrating the crosses and wreaking havoc. Reporter the coalition conducted air strikes in the region to back up peshmerga fighters. But there is great worry the christians are in peril. When you have a group this big now, thats assuming they are all still together we dont know that they could be split up but we will always be mindful of civilians in any kind of air strike that we take. Reporter just across the border in iraq air strikes continued. U. S. French and jordanian jets hitting an isis training camp. The first combat operation inside iraq for jordan. The Iraqi Air Force claiming this air strike targeted an isis hideout in the same town. Still, the big target mosul, iraqs second largest city still fully controlled by isis. New doubt from top u. S. Intelligence officials on the readiness of iraqi forces to quickly be able to engage in large scale combat operations. Youre talking about building from the ground up so to build from the ground up when are they ready . Were talking probably six to nine months, best estimate. Reporter six to nine months for the Iraqi Military to be fully ready to engage in large scale combat operations. That kind of estimate makes it awfully tough to see how they could be ready in the next couple of months to take on that battle for mosul. Because the briefing you had there at the pentagon someone from the u. S. Military Central Command said april or may, 25,000 or 30,000 iraqi troops would be ready to go in and liberate mosul. There seems to be a disconnect here. Reporter you know i think even before that briefing there were a lot of people in the u. S. Military that thought that was a little optimistic and the new defense secretary ash carter has distanced the pentagon from that estimate saying that when the iraqis are ready, thats when mosul will happen. Hard to see at this point that it could be april. Even hard to see that it could be may. But the clock is ticking on this. Summer is coming to iraq. Its going to get very hot, very soon. That could make a land battle for mosul very tough. Wolf . Good information. Thank you very much barbara. Lets get some more now from the ranking democrat on the house Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff is joining us from capitol hill. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. You think the iraqi armys going to be ready to launch a major assault on mosul by april or may, to liberate that city from these isis terrorists . I would be very surprised if they could be ready. One of the concerns i have is if the iraqis are going to be too reliant because their special forces arent ready on these iranian led shia militias having shia militias liberate sunni towns, thats a very bad idea. So i wouldnt want us to see the iraqis go before theyre ready and be too reliant on these shia militias or worse, have to call in the american cavalry because we went in prematurely or encouraged them to. Theres no reason for encouragement thinking about that Iraqi Military after their behavior last year. These latest u. S. Air strikes in iraq going after these targets, do you know if they were specifically trying to target this guy called jihadi john we now know his name or the leader of Isis Abu Bakr elleal baghdadi . I dont know the answer to that and at this point im not able to even confirm the identity, the United States and britain arent making any confirmation of these press reports. Thats not something im able to confirm. Thats what i dont understand. I assume you have been briefed on all this but now that the name is public and we know the british and u. S. Governments have known the name for months and months without giving us any classified information or anything congressman, why cant you give us more information about him, at least confirm what we all know his real name . Well let me talk generally about why we often dont confirm peoples identity. Its for one of a couple reasons. It may be because it would reveal some kind of source the intelligence used to identify that person that we dont want to expose. Or it may be that some of the information thats wrapped in their identity may involve where they are located and we dont want to give up that kind of logistical information in case theres an effort to go after them. There may be a variety of reasons. I cant comment on this particular case specifically whether reports are accurate or if they are accurate why that may be the case. But i can tell you as a general matter those are often the reasons why they would withhold that kind of information. Appreciate that. Congressman, i want you to stand by. We have much more to discuss. A lot of questions about whats going on right now, including more on jihadi john. Also this new effort by isis to go out there and kidnap christians men, women and children. Much more with the congressman after this. [ male announcer ] whether it takes 200,000 parts 800,000 hours of supercomputing time 3 million lines of code, 40,000 sets of eyes, or a million sleepless nights. Whether its building the worlds most advanced satellite, the space station, or the next leap in unmanned systems. At boeing, one thing never changes. Our passion to make it real. Oh yea, thats coming down lets get some rocks, man. Health can change in a minute. So cvs health is changing healthcare. 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I dont have any doubt if we had the opportunity to go after him, that we would, along with any of the other isil leadership or anyone who has participated in that kind of atrocity. Certainly the leader of Isis Abu Bakr al baghdadi is targeted as well, right . Absolutely. Not only because of his leadership of this vicious brutal organization but part of their ideology is that hes the caliph he comes from a certain line of descent so you take out the caliph you take out those potentially that could follow in his footsteps and you could have a strategic impact on the situation. I want you to listen to James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence testifying today up on capitol hill saying terrorism this past year is at its worst. Listen to this. When the final accounting us done 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled. I was pretty surprised to hear that. But you follow it probably closer. Thats pretty shocking when you think about it. Well it is pretty shocking although when you consider how many thousands, really hundreds of thousands that have been killed in syria and you add to that the number that have been killed in iraq in nigeria and all around the world, its been a horrendous year. You had a metastizes of this violence and its claimed a tremendous number of lives. You heard also james comey, the fbi director saying there are now surveillance operations under way in all 50 states against suspected isis or other terrorist plotters. Thats pretty shocking wink about that as well. Well it is pretty shocking although i do think we have to put it in context. I would imagine probably almost any year we have investigations in all 50 states of a variety of terrorism cases. What makes this unique is that these are isis related terrorism cases. I was in the u. S. Attorneys office back in the 80s and 90s in los angeles. We hadrorism cases in l. A. They were about blowing up the Federal Building over tax disputes. Its not unusual to have them all around the country. It is unusual to have them all associated with a single terrorist organization. One of those three brooklyn plotters arrested yesterday helped organize and finance that socalled operation. He was doing so from florida. The individual who was arrested in florida was providing all the money for these trips that were supposedly to take place to turkey and syria. Do we know if that individual was directly linked to isis . I dont know the answer to that. One of the things that were working through in this case and in others is what is the level of engagement with isis. Was this a situation where as the criminal complaint points out that some of these people were in touch with a website thats affiliated with isis or was there some more direct involvement, were they getting instructions from isis to finance particular plots. So there are obviously a hierarchy of command and control. Some may be selfradicalized completely others may have had some level of contact. With respect to the guy in florida, i just dont know the answer. These men from brooklyn two from kazakhstan two from uzbekistan one from kazakhstan they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State or isis or isil whatever you want to call it. Does the u. S. Intelligence community, Law Enforcement community, have a pretty good idea how they were initially radicalized . I think so. These are people at least a couple of which Law Enforcement community had contact with for some time. I think they were able to watch how that radicalism proceeded. I dont know whether they know as much yet about how they were radicalized before they came on to the radar screen and that may be most particular with that florida financier, but i think we do know a good deal about these people. One thing that this calls out to me when you look at these three individuals, you look at the reports of the background of this jihadi john and again, i cant confirm whether thats correct or not, but if it were correct, youve got people who are middle class or upper middle class, you have people who are very much at the fringe of society and everywhere in between. So you can see how difficult it is to profile what someone looks like who might be selfradicalized. That is part of the challenge that we are dealing with. As far as the Prime Minister of israel is concerned, hes going to be addressing a joint meeting of the u. S. Congress tuesday morning. There are some democrats who are deeply angered about this. You have called the whole invitation from the speaker to the Prime Minister a terrible mistake. Will you be attending that joint meeting of the u. S. Congress to hear what Prime Minister netanyahu has to say about Irans Nuclear program . I will be attending. Youre right, i have from the beginning thought it was a terrible mistake not only because it holds out the specter of interfering in the israeli elections but also because it tries to drive a partisan wedge in the u. S. israel relationship here at home and thats a very dangerous thing to do for the Long Term Health of the u. S. Israel relationship. All that being said the speaker did invite him, he accepted the invitation. I will be there, i have encouraged other people to be there. This is a very important issue but i think the better part of valor would be if all the parties agreed to have a classified briefing with the Prime Minister rather than something that is such a political spectacle. Who do you blame for that socalled political spectacle . Was it the speaker to blame, was it the Prime Minister to blame, or do you blame both of them . Because they did it as you know not going through normal protocol. The white house was surprised by this the democratic leadership in the house and senate they were not in on the invitation. Who is to blame for this terrible mistake as you call it . I lay the responsibility at the speakers feet. No one compelled him to send the invitation. He had to know exactly what he was doing in doing that. I leave it up to the israelis to decide whether their Prime Minister made a good decision in accepting it. I dont want to get involved and i dont want the speech to be involved in influencing the israeli elections so i dont want to comment on that. Thats for the israelis to decide. The elections are two weeks later after that speech the speech tuesday, march 3rd. The israeli elections march 17th. Adam schiff thanks very much for joining us. Thanks wolf. The ranking democrat Ranking Member of the house Intelligence Committee. Coming up more on our top story. We have new details coming in on the hunt for jihadi john. Experts are standing by to discuss. 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Congresswoman jane harmon was the ranking democrat on the Intelligence Committee and is now president and ceo of the Wilson Center here in washington. Evan what are you learning about the hunt for the socalled jihadi john Mohammad Emwazi the revelation of his identity . How is all that playing . Reporter well the fbi played a big role in trying to gather the intelligence you know working with british authorities as well to try to get, they are trying to build a case just in case they can try to bring him to justice in the future. They interviewed a lot of the former isis captives people who have been ransomed people who have been released and conducted all those interviews to try to gather any intelligence they could. Whats interesting is that if you remember several months ago there was an attempt to carry out a rescue of several of the american captives being held by isis and some of the intelligence that led to that rescue came from these interviews by the fbi and at the time they also thought that if they carried out this rescue they might also be able to nab emwazi which is something we did not know. What about this other presumed westerner who was featured in that isis video purportedly showing the beheadings the execution of those 21 egyptian christians in libya . I assume u. S. Officials, others are trying to track him . He spoke seemingly with almost an american accent. Reporter right. Exactly. Thats exactly what alarmed the fbi. They have opened an investigation now because they want to know whether or not, again, the operating assumption that they have is that this accent appears to be western. They think that perhaps that person might have spent time in north america, just again, listening to the accent. They dont know for sure whether that person spent any time here in the United States but this is something that they are now digging into and they are hoping that they can try to talk to people who have been held by these groups in libya, perhaps they can try to gather some intelligence there. Obviously now we are at the very beginning of the isis presence in libya and they dont know nearly as much about that group as they do the one in syria and iraq. Tom fuentes, they have known, uk authorities, u. S. Authorities, his real name his identity for months and months. After they saw the video. Apparently it was not all that hard to find out who the masked man really was. Right. They have known that. But they didnt want to alert his partners in europe especially in london that he might be in communication with which might cause him to move which might cause him to take the hostages to a different location. If they were able to zero in on him, they dont want to attract all this extra attention that they know who he is and know where he might be because it will affect if they have an operation being planned, and they have had operations against him, but if i could add to what evan said they are not just gathering intelligence. They are gathering evidence because he participated in the murder of americans which violates u. S. Law and if the fbi gets their hands on him, he could be brought here and prosecuted for murder and all the oerzthers in the video. Now that his name is out there, Mohammad Emwazi what impact does that have on all of this except for the curiosity. We know this guy it makes him more of a romantic hero. We are way behind the curve on how these folks recruit. My understanding is much of it stems from twitter. We need a much more sophisticated understanding of how they do it and we have to get ahead of it. Its not just closing down one account and then they will open another account. Its figuring out how they do it the serial accounts and what messages really appeal to young kids because lets remember this isnt new stuff. A guy named adam gadahn a lost kid from Southern California is the p. R. Spokesman for al qaeda in pakistan. He has been there for years. He has been pretty public and we havent been able to get him. So unless we get ahead of this thing, i think we are in for a very bad time. Nick you are just outside Scotland Yard. The british have known his identity for a long time. Some of his former friends, they are actually blaming british authorities for radicalizing him because they would bring him in for questioning and all this. It sounds ridiculous given the fact this guy is on videotape beheading various hostages and all of that. But give us a little sense of why the british even now that we know his name Mohammad Emwazi why british authorities are refusing to confirm that is the accurate name. Reporter thats what the police are continuing to say here that they are sticking by the line they have had all along as this investigation really after the murder of james foley and Steven Sotloff began in earnest. The police said we dont want the media to speculate on the name of jihadi john because life is at risk. Those are the words they have used. Even today, the police are sticking by that line. This is metropolitan police here. They are in charge of Counter Terrorism in london. Emwazi was on their radar but what their message at the moment is is they have an ongoing terror investigation. The Prime Ministers office here David Cameron, has said David Cameron himself has said in the recent past they want to bring jihadi john back to britain to face justice here. They want justice to be done. So the sense you get from british authorities is they dont want to jeopardize any opportunity to get him and bring him here and we certainly dont want to jeopardize the possibility of a successful prosecution. Evan what else are you learning about the three guys from brooklyn, two from brooklyn one from florida, the mastermind supposedly the man with the money from florida. The arrests yesterday. What else can you tell us . Reporter thats the picture that we have on screen right now which his name is abror habibov. He is 30 years old. He owned several kiosks in shopping centers, Cell Phone Repair kiosks. At least one of the other suspects worked at one of those kiosks for a time. That was his tie. Now, the fbi and other Law Enforcement agencies in the last two days have been doing a lot of police work behind the scenes. One of the issues with habibov was that when they plugged his name into the system for Law Enforcement they found that he was here on an overstayed immigration visa and now what they are doing is they are trying to figure out if theres anybody else who was working for him that they need to go round up immediately, because this is one of the big concerns is that you have people who are here perhaps illegally and therefore, they might be you know theres a chance they might be able to do something and if theres a way to grab them and detain them right now, thats what they are going to try to do. We do know that that is something that both the Homeland Security department and the fbi is working on at this hour. I want everybody to stand by. We are getting new information, more reaction now from one of jihadi johns socalled former teachers. Thats coming up. 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The israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in washington on sunday for a visit clouded by harsh words, clashing personalities and politics. Our White House Correspondent Michelle Kosinski is joining us with the very latest. You know the white house wasnt even notified or consulted to begin with but now this upcoming speech by netanyahu before a joint session of congress has taken so much heat revved up this debate it has been called brazen brave, inappropriate, a dangerous gamble. Looking at whether this is an impassioned plea for Global Security during Nuclear Negotiations with iran or a big piece of political theater days before he faces election in israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sidestepping the white house entirely accepting House Speaker John Boehners invitation to speak next week the a joint session of congress. The diplomatic rift only growing. Netanyahu now saying he respects president obama but quote, on such a fateful matter that can determine whether or not we can survive, i must do everything to prevent such a great danger for israel calling it his sacred duty to speak out against a possible nuclear deal with iran that he feels makes too many concessions. The white house restrained for weeks about this obvious tension finally let this fly from National Security advisor susan rice. On both sides, there has now been injected a degree of partisanship which is not only unfortunate, i think its its destructive of the fabric of the relationship. Reporter now the white house says it will send rice and u. N. Ambassador Samantha Power to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Conference next week. But this is an Administration First that it wont be either the president , Vice President or secretary of state attending. Unlike some of the other dysfunctional relationships that american president s have had with israeli Prime Ministers and vice versa, this one has been dysfunctional without being productive. Reporter the white house wont meet with netanyahu while hes here saying its too close to his election. Netanyahu refused an invite from senate democrats, saying that would be partisan. Now, though he will meet with some lawmakers from both sides of the aisle following what could be his fiery speech. His goal hes expected to push for a hard line on dealing with iran maybe even urge congress to sanction iran even though the white house would veto that. At least 29 democrats now are not going to netanyahus speech. The former senator Ben Lieberman says while there was a misstep in protocol he thinks it has been blown out of proportion that the speech is important. Now the netanyahu speech has gotten caught up in the politics of washington which is not surprising these days because everything seems to be political in washington. But it really is regrettable. Reporter so the u. S. And israel and analysts say the heart of this relationship the cooperation and security and intelligence the shared values that is still strong. Also shared of course is about 3 billion a year in u. S. Aid to israel, most of it military. Good report. Michelle thanks very very much. More on this story coming up in the next hour. But right at the top of the hour we have new details about the man until today we have only known as jihadi john. Now that his name is out, one of his former teachers is speaking out. And amid all of the worries about isis in the United States will Congress Money for the department of Homeland Security run out in 30 hours and 14 minutes . Earning unlimited cash back on purchases. Thats a win. But imagine earning it twice. 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Lets turn to our chief Congressional Correspondent dana bash on capitol hill with the latest. The clock is ticking. Reporter it s. As we speak, House Republicans are meeting to try to plot what their next move will be. Late word from sources is that they are likely to try to pass a stopgap measure as soon as tomorrow so that the department of Homeland Security doesnt run out of money at midnight tonight. Even passing that could be tough. Three men arrested and accused of trying to join isis inside the United States. Today, democrats are seizing on that and other threats to warn about the dangers of cutting off funding for the agency that keeps americans safe. American people are frightened and rightfully so. Isis appears to have money. Terrorists appear to have money. Why shouldnt our homeland have the at built to protect itself . Reporter the Homeland Security secretary is on capitol hill again, walking the halls, begging lawmakers to fully fund his department. This is not just an inside the beltway political jousting. A failure to fund the department of Homeland Security fully has real impacts on public safety. Reporter in the senate even conservatives backed off threats to hold up homeland funding. All eyes are on republicans in the house. Who are still insisting on also blocking the president s executive action on immigration. This is a violation of our constitution. Its a violation of the balance of powers in our constitution. And it needs to be addressed. Were doing it. Is it worth shutting down the Homeland Security department over . We passed a bill to fund the department. Reporter that bill stops the president from carrying out his plan to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay legally. Senate republicans know that cant pass. And hope to avoid an embarrassing embarrassing shutdown weeks after taking control of the chamber. To save face some nat republicans argue a texas court is already stopping the president S Immigration plan. Accept the victory the courts have given us which is that the president does not have the authority to do what he has done and vote to continue to fund the department of Homeland Security. Reporter house conservatives dont see it that way. The House Speaker is in a bind. At a lassoss to avoid discussions, he did this. When i make decisions, i will let you know. Reporter they are trying to make those decisions right now, wolf. What they are talking about again is the idea of passing a stopgap measure as soon as tomorrow to keep the department of Homeland Security running for three weeks. Theres a catch. That is, i am told that House Democratic leaders are telling their members to vote against it because they say its time to stop kicking the can down the road and to start fully funding the Homeland Security department. Even that could be a question mark whether it could pass if enough conservatives oppose it as well wolf. They have 30 hours before that clock stops ticking. Thanks very much for that dana. We will watch. Officials confirm the identity of jihadi john. Will that hurt the search for the isis killer or help in targeting him . We have new details on the quiet londoner as he was called who had became a chilling symbol of brutality. As u. S. Lawmakers are briefed on americans suspected of joining isis we are learning about the alleged terror plots by wouldbe isis members. The future of the market is never clear. But at t. Rowe price we can help guide your retirement savings. Our experience is one reason 100 of our Retirement Funds beat their 10year lipper averages. So wherever your longterm goals take you we can help you feel confident. Request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. 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We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. Breaking now, the United States and its allies are redoubling their efforts to hunt down jihadi john. Thats the symbol of isis brutality whom name is now known around the world. U. S. Officials are confirming the identity of the mass killer. His real name Mohammed Emwazi, a british citizen born in kuwait. As more air strikes in iraq and syria, the white house is emphasizing the isis killer is one of americas top terror targets. I will ask senator angus king what he is learning about this. He is a key member of the intelligence and Armed Services committees. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. They are covering all the news breaking right now. First, lets get the latest. Were joined by jim sciutto. Reporter wolf a british counterterrorism official describing the profile of isis recruits. Radicalized fairly quickly together with other cases we have seen three brooklyn residents yesterday, three young british girls last week showing how broad the appeal is of isis today. You now have 72 hours. Reporter the voice of some of isis brute talal videos. With a british accent. Our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people. Reporter u. K. Officials have identified jihadi john as Mohammed Emwazi a 26yearold British National born in kuwait but raised in london. Today the white house said jihadi john is a top terror target. The mind the president , he ranks highly on the list. That individual responsibility to the murder of innocent individuals. Reporter isis broad appeal from a welloff family earning a College Degree in technology at the university of westminster and until his travel to syria in 2012 enjoying a life of privilege. He was a diligent hardworking lovely young man, responsible, polite quiet. Everything that you would want a student to be. Reporter his friends never saw signs of his future as a terrorist. He was such a beautiful young man. Really really. You know its hard to imagine the trajectory. But its not unfamiliar with us for us. Reporter his friends say his path to radicalization may have begun in 2009 when he travelled to tan saturdayda tanzania. He was detained on arrival, held overnight then deported to the u. K. Authorities suspecting his true intention was to travel to somalia. In 2010, he was detained again by counterterrorism officials in britain. Two years later he travelled to syria where he joined isis. His friends claim mistreatment by british authorities set him on a path to terrorism. Our entire National Security strategy for the last 13 years has only increased alienation has only increased people feeling like they dont believe. Reporter an alarming defense considering his brutal crimes. Families of his victims finding it incredible. The daughter of david haines says the families will not find relief until theres a bullet between his eyes. Strong words, emotional as you would expect. That kind of emotion exactly what isis wants to spark here. When he speaks jihadi john they intend for him to speak to us to strike fear in the hearts of americans, westerners. To that degree they have had some success. We will see if they keep posting the videos of him in those awful, awful situations with the knife getting ready to behead some hostage. Thanks very much jim sciutto. As the man hunt goes on, isis killers are showing another kind of brutality. They are storming into a museum in the second largest city of iraq mosul. They are smashing statues and artifacts. This is a ruthless new show of the terror groups hold on iraqs second largest city. As Coalition Forces prepare for what are described as major offensives there. Lets bring in our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Reporter the u. N. Condemned this video of the destruction of the artifacts at the museum in iraq calling for an Emergency Security Council Meeting to discuss how to preserve the priceless cultural heritage. Some discussion that one or two of the items may be represently lireplicas. All are saying there are priceless artifacts here in the rooms that have been destroyed by isis. The isis narrator on the tape says god ordered them tho do this because this involved idol try. The latest brutality by this organization wolf. A sick sick situation, indeed. Whats the latest barbara, you are hearing from sources about this upcoming battle for the liberation of mosul . Reporter there was interesting testimony on capitol hill tomorrow. The director of the Defense Intelligence agency said it could take six to nine months for three divisions, basically a very large, significant number of iraqi forces to be ready to engage in major combat operations. Mosul would be smaller than that. Lets go back a minute. Six to nine months for a good chunk of the Iraqi Military to be ready to go into combat. That certainly is going to raise questions about whether a smaller operation but still a significant operation to take mosul can really begin in the next several weeks as the pentagon has suggested. Seems to be conflicting statements coming out. Barbara, thanks very much. Were also learning tonight that u. S. Lawmakers have been briefed on americans suspected of being in isis. We are getting detail on the Terror Threat here in the United States after an isisinspired attack plot was disrupted in new york city. Our justice correspondent pamela brown is working all of this for us. What are you learn, pamela . Reporter wolf, Law Enforcement official say were going to see more of those eye suss isisrelate edd items. With isis highest profile recruit unmasked they are focused on the terror group. They are putting out anaganda message saying if you cant come to syria, do something in the u. S. Reporter the three new york men who were arrested by the fbi wednesday remain in custody tonight held without bond intend on waging jihad for isis in syria. According to court documents, if their travel plans failed they boasted about wanting to shoot obama, plan to bomb coney island in new york city shoot all police, kill the fbi and hijack an airplane diverting it to the Islamic State. Plans they allegedly had if they werent able to make it to syria. Last month the fbi arrested and ohio man who Authorities Say planned to bomb the u. S. Capital and shoot people in the name of isis. I have home grown violent extremist investigations in every state. Until a few weeks ago, there was 49 states. Alaska had none, which i couldnt figure out. Alaska has now joined the group. We have investigations of people in various stages of ready callizecal ize radicalizing in all 50 states. Reporter secretary of state john kerry says this to congress wednesday. The truth is that notwithstanding the threat of isil notwithstanding people being beheaded and burned there is actually less threat and less probability of being dieing in some sort of violent conflict today than at any time in human history. Reporter on capitol hill today, u. S. Intelligence chief james clamper paint aid more dire picture saying 180 americans have now tried to join the fight in syria. Some have already returned to u. S. Soil. When the final accounting is done 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years data has been compiled. Reporter in the hearing, he said that out of the relatively small number of americans who have returned from fighting in syria, officials have not identified any of them engaged in active plotting. Wolf he did say and reiterate that the homegrown violent extremists post the most likely threat. Lets go indepth. Joining us senator angus king of maine. A member of the intelligence and Armed Services committee. Senator, thanks very much for coming in. Yes, sir. James clapper, the director of National Intelligence saying last year was the worst year in 45 years as far as terror attacks are concerned. Secretary kerry says its pretty good right now. There seems to be a very very huge disconnect there. I dont know where secretary kerry was getting his information. Its inconsistent with what i am hearing. Jim clapper was clear. The records are there, 2014 was the worst year we have had. I just again, i dont understand secretary kerry. Is he trying to downplay the threat from terrorism to make it look like the war against terror is basically been won . I cant imagine he would try to make that claim given the totality of the news were seeing. Were seeing threats at home threats in europe and in the middle east. I just think he made a mistake. Im not sure. I didnt see the whole i will give him this leeway. I didnt see the context of the whole statement. Maybe it was a broader statement. It doesnt stack up with the totals. The brooklyn plot these three, the older one, the guy arrested in florida, he was giving the money for the two younger guys to supposedly go to turkey and cross the border hook up in isis in syria. Is there, as soon as you know the older guy the money guy, was he directly linked instructed a direct connection to isis. I think this points up one of the real dangers here is that they dont have to have a direct link. They dont have to be taking orders. I think one of the greatest threats we face is what they call lone wolf. People who are in america who have been radicalized. They cant get over to join this army. They do something on their own, go to a mall or an airport or whatever. I do think though if theres any good news in all of this both in the london case in the jihadi john case and in the new york case Law Enforcement and intelligence and cooperation between our countries worked. We tracked these guys down. We knew who they were before they were able to do something damaging to our country. I think we have to acknowledge that the fbi and the other the intelligence agencies you know they had successes today. Hopefully, they will maintain that. You can succeed a lot. But if you fail once clapper the director of National Intelligence you were there today, he said 180 americans have tried to go to syria, supposedly to hook up with isis. Thats a big enough. It is. Were a country of 300 million. As you say, all it takes is one. This is a dangerous time. This ideology is so dangerous and i think the identification of this guy from london london london, gives us an opportunity to go into his history and see what happened so we can understand whats motivating people. This guy had a good education, bright guy. What happened . They are claiming that he was mistreated by British Security. Well okay but does that is that enough to start beheading people . The British Government doesnt want to we know his name, Mohammed Emwazi, the British Government doesnt want to confirm that. The u. S. Government doesnt want to officially publically confirm thats his name. We all know now thats his name. Do you understand whats going on here . Well, kwie offquite often when you have a nonconfirmation they dont want to reveal operational details or give away knowledge that they have obtained order how they obtained it. Theres usually some reasonable basis for that. As you say, its pretty widely known. Im not going to confirm it. But i think its an Operational Intelligence reason for not owe fushlly ly fishl if you cant confirm it you dont have to confirm it. We know his name. Senator, we have a lot more to discuss. Stand by, if you can. More on our top story. The identification of jihadi john. What happened in brooklyn with the terror plot. Much more coming up after this. [announcer] if your dog can dream it purina pro plan can help him achieve it. 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His family came to london when he was six years old. I assume senator, if the u. S. Could, the u. S. Would like to kill this guy. I would not advise him to buy green bananas. He is that wanted . Yeah. I think hes on the top of the list. What he has done is inexcusable. I think he thought this big brave guy with the mask and stuff. None are so brave as the anonymous. Now we know who he is. I think it helps us in our fight against isis to let them know that we know and that were going to find out and that justice is going to find them. We know the leader of isis, baghdadi. This guy, where does jihadi stand in the scheme of things . How close is he to i dont think we know where he is in the hierarchy. We dont know whether he was put in front of the cameras because of his command of english or whether hes an actual leader. I have heard varying reports. Nothing confirmed. I think he is more than just a soldier. I think he is a leader in the organization. Even though he is 26 years old or whatever. Its interesting he didnt come from some poor background. This guy studied computer science, graduated. Apparently had all sorts of opportunities. Came from an upper middle class background. He starts beheading people on videotape. Thats one of the most disturbing things. You cant say, well if we eradicate poverty this will go away. Theres something deeper going on here. Thats why i say its important to try to figure out how this happened. Theres an allegation that British Security mistreated him and radicalized him in that way. Im a little skeptical of that frankly. I think thats maybe 20 20 hindsight. Even if you are roughed do you behead people . Do you go off to syria and behead journalists . Theres something the problem is were seeing they are 20,000 foreign fighters gone into this struggle. A lot are going back. We havent talked about turkey in a while. But thats the jihadi highway. Thats how they are getting into syria. Syria is this training center. These people are going back into europe we know from testimony today. Some have come into the u. S. Turkey could do more. Could they ever. Thats one of the things that has been a problem through this. In my view they are trying to have it both ways. They are trying to be a nato ally but theyre not taking this on in the way that they could. That is the path. I think i read somewhere 25 bucks will get you through turkey and into syria. Thats not what allies do. Its a pretty awful situation. Here is what else is awful right now. These isis terror i haves sarrrorists are kidnapping christians. 26 262 christians. I dont know what they are doing with them. What do they want with these poor christians . I hate to tell you this. Part of the ideology is slavery. A lot of these people the women are being forced to marry these guys. When you say marry, is it getting married or just sex slaves . Thats the assumption. You are very perceptive. Thats what a lot of intelligence people i have spoken to is they get young women and give them to young guys. That is one of the incentives for these young men to come over there, because they know they will get these girls. Right. There may be something here that we need to think about. That is the more brutal they are, the more they do those kinds of things were now starting to get anecdotes out of mosul about how they treat the local people. For example, they are forcing them to give blood donations for the soldiers. Daughters having to marry these guys. A lot of pressure if you steal, they cut your head off. Crucifying people beheading people. The expectation is this happened in iraq back in the sunni awakening, they will wear out their welcome. This is not an ideology thats going to have broad appeal. The sunnis welcomed them in because maliki and iraq and baghdad had been so unforgiving to the sunnis. My understanding is this isnt hard intelligence. My understanding is they are starting to wear out their welcome. If we keep the pressure on it could implode. You saw what happened at the museum in mosul. They destroy ancient artifacts for in reason whatsoever. They are burning bridges all over the middle east. They are killing other muslims. I was with the king of jordan a couple of hours after he heard about his pilot being burned alive. He was very determined to get after these guys. Quickly, the netanyahu visit, the address next tuesday morning, some members of congress they dont want to go. They are angry this whole thing happened. What about you . Will you attend . Im going to go. I think its inappropriate hes coming two weeks before his election and that congress is being used as a prop in a president ial election in another country. I go to meetings. I go to hearings. I listen i learn. I will be there to listen. One thing i hate is that this is now politicizing israel in a partisan way thats never been the ways before. To see the republicans trying to say were more proisrael than the democrats, thats not good for israel. I dont think its good for the country. The old saying is politics stops athe at the waters edge. You are a support of israel but you think the way it was handled is a huge blunder. They can fix this i assume. I hope so. There has been a deterioration in the relationship. Thats bad for israel and bad for america. Again, to politicize this thing is i think, a big mistake. I think i can understand john boehner sent the invitation. Okay. Im very surprised that the Prime Minister accepted. Without even consulting with the white house or anything like that. Or that boehner did it without asking the democratic leadership are you okay for the invitation. Yeah. I think it was a mistake. On other hand i decided im going to go. Im going to listen. Hopefully, we will get by this and it wont impair the relationship. We will see what happens. Senator, thanks for coming in. Angus king. 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He has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi born in kuwait raised in london since the age of six. A College Graduate with a degree in computer programming. Lets get more with our intelligence and security analyst robert baer philip mudd mike rogers and our cnn military analyst, Lieutenant General mark hertling. Inow that he has been identified pub pick lylicallypublically the u. S. And britain are refusing to confirm it is there something we need to know why official confirmation cant be made known and why they are not releasing a pith picture of this guy . Two things. One, they probably have a higher degree of certainty. They may not be certain this is exactly him. Number two, they are just not ready, i think in their investigation, to allow that to happen for the simple reason they have methods and sources of how they may have obtained anyones identity and who jihadi john might be and they dont want to disclose that. You think its intelligence related issue as opposed to a legal issue in london . They have laws about identifying suspects who are under investigation. I think its more of the latter. I think they are worried about protecting the chain of how they got their, how they determined it who they are talking to why they are talking to certain individuals. Therefore, they are not going to want to do this. I believe by the way i happened to be in london late last year. They have the identity of this particular individual. They know they believe with a high degree of certainty who it is. This particular individual just want to get your confirmation hes high on the u. S. Target list for assassination or capture or whatever . Well anybody that plays that important of a role for the Propaganda Machine is a target of the United States military forces. You need to disrupt the isis ability to taukslk to people in brooklyn in london in pakistan. So they need to disrupt the activities. One way is take out the ability for them their person illty s their personalityies. That will go on right now. Bob baer why do you think jihadi john was named today . Whats going on here . Is there a back story we should know . Well first of all, wolf you know somebody like this if you are tracking him, the hope is that he will cross a border. You can grab him. If he thinks he is anonymous and can travel theres always a possibility, i have tracked people. As soon as their names came out in the press, it became almost impossible to ever catch them again. That at one level. Theres the possibility we have misidentified him. As i understand from Law Enforcement sources, the best identification is voice analysis. They were able to they had Mohammed Emwazis voice and they were able to match it to tapes. Thats not 100 certain. I think they are close to 100 . They would like to nail this down before they put a worldwide bulletin out. Do you think he is more or less valuable to isis and their social media xapcampaign . Sgle will. He will remain an icon. He is the poster child for isis. A degree with congressman rogers. In congresstrast to 15 years ago, someone who is a propaganda mouthpiece goes higher up on the list. 15 years ago, he wouldnt have had as many outlets to become a magnet for recruits in western europe and the United States. Now that if his face comes out he will remain an avatar a symbol for islamists. He is high up on the list because he can reach an audience that we could not have imagined 15 years ago. General, take us behind the scenes. He is high on the target list right now, jewihadi john for the u. S. Military and for the cia. Whats going on . Give us a flavor are of what that means. First, i would suggest what i heard the white house say was they wanted to capture him because he is a murderer. He will be brought to justice. Thats what they said. From a military perspective, when we put together high value target lists, we take a look at the Strategic Value of the individual were looking at. High on target list would be leaders, financiers, communicate communicators communicators, emoms giving blessings to operations. This guy is high because he is a Public Affairs announcer. But he is not the highest on that list. But he is certainly important. They will replace him. If he is on a target list and targeted and killkilled they will have another guy. Are there different rules of engagement for u. S. Military person to kill his guy . In this situation when you are talking about a battlefield, when they are doing this activity he is a criminal and a warrior. We take him as someone who is a fighter and treat him as a soldier. You agree with that. Absolutely. He declared war on the United States. That gives the executive branch authority. I think it will be stren before they would kill this guy, would the president have to sign some painer toper . Not necessarily. Is the killing approved . Once they decided to engage in military operations in syria, they will have their targets set. Most of that has been discussed. Those target sets will roll over as the general can tell you, frequently. That needs to be in the command space. If you take that to the white house, thats a terrible way to fight this. Bob baer its the 22nd anniversary of the First World Trade Center attack the fbi director said there are homegrown violent extremist investigations under way right now all 50 states. The director of National Intelligence James Clapper said 2014 was the most lethal year for terrorism since they started counting about 45 years ago. Whats going on over here . Clapper is right. I mean you have to look at the Islamic State even though it is a semistate as a terrorist group. Kid p naing of the christians and cops and the rest of it its a tearrrorist group. It has reeked more havoc and destruction than anybody, including al qaeda. He is right. Its the most dangerous lets not forget since First World Trade Center bombing, it has gone from foreigners coming to this country trying to murder people like on 9 11 to homegrown to the Group Arrested three guys in brooklyn. This is a new phenomenon. Whats amazed me is that this is done online. The possibilities for homegrown terrorism is bigger tlan it has been in our history. Yep. Very worrisome development. More ahead on the hunt for the isis executioner now identified as britishraised a computer programmer. We will get a live update from london when the breaking news continues. Its happening. Today, more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about longacting levemir® an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. And levemir® helps lower your a1c. 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Reporter you have some candidates like Chris Christie or jeb bush that really need to kind of prove themselves to it the right side of the party, to the party base to conservatives. Then you also have others who may be at this moment surging. For instance scott walker who need to show they can play on a national stage. He said something earlier that raised eyebrows when he was asked about really how the administration is dealing with isis and how he would deal with isis. Take a listen. Theres no comparison between the two. Let me be perfectly clear. Im pointing out the closest thing i have to handling a difficult situation. Reporter so just to be clear, wolf that was a clarification that scott walker made about something he said on stage. He was talking about how he would deal with isis. He basically said that he had dealed with dealt with protesters 100,000 protesters. He would deal with isis kind of the same way. It seemed to some people observing that he was making a comparison. He had to clarify that later and say he wasnt making a comparison but he was just talking about leadership and something that would be a difficult situation that he had dealt with. He said wolf this was something that was going to be misconstrued by the media. This comes on the heels of a couple of controversial comments that scott walker has made. Let me play the clip. Here is scott walker talking about the threat of radicalized terrorists. I want a commander in chief who will do everything in their power to ensure that the threat from radical islamic terrorists do not wash up on american soil. We need a lead we are thater with that kind of confidence. He is trying to establish his National Security credentials. Reporter right. I think what this shows, wolf he clarified and he didnt mean to draw a comparison between isis and people who were protesting what he was doing on collective bargaining outside of the state house in the state of wisconsin. But what this shows a lack of experience. I think this is something who has run for governor twice. He survived a recall. But he got before this audience and it was a q and a session. You have to think on your feet. He had to clarify it. Its part of learning to run for president when you havent done it before. The democrats put out a state saying if scott walker thinks its appropriate to compare working people speaking up for their rights to brutal terror i haves, then he is less qualified to be president than i thought. Maybe he should go back to punting. Look this is not an unusual problem for governors who are running for president. They draw on their experience in the state. But they also try to make the connection between their experience and whatever is going to come on the world stage by talking it up as their leadership ability. Thats why he tried to clarify. Thats what he tried to say. Again, talking about leadership and doing it frankly in a clumsy way, even remotely comparing protesters to isis its not the kind of thing that a seasoned person would do. By the way, any republican is likely to run against Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state, more experience on Foreign Policy than any of the republican candidates. Thats why i was talking to people today at this conference some of whom work for rick perry. He has been studying Foreign Policy for the last few years because he knew that was a problem for him in the last campaign. I want to play another clip. Listen to this. This is scott walker also leveling more criticism again president obama. We have a president a president who draws lines in the sand and fails to act. A president who calls isis the jv club. Who calls yemen a success. And who calls eye ran ss iran a country we can do business with. To add insult to injury whose former secretary of state gave a reset button to the russians a reset button. He is referring to Hillary Clinton. How was that received over there . It was received very well wolf. Honestly this idea the reset button scott walker was not the first to mention this. This is something that we have heard in speech after speech. We heard from ted cruz as well. Im hearing them take on Hillary Clinton even more. They very much have their sights set on the Democratic Front runner, even though she hasnt declared. I want you to listen to another republican potential candidate, the new jersey governor Chris Christie speaking out today at this event. Listen if what happens is if the elites in washington who make back room deals decide who the president is going to be he is the frontrunner. If the people of the United States decide to pick the next president of the United States and they want someone who looks them in the eye, connects with them and is one of them, i will do okay if i run. He took a little hit there at jeb bush. He did. He knows he is running in the same sand box, if you will as jeb bush. More moderate. Looking for the same donors more establishment republican. 3he had a q and a format but he not only took after jeb bush but hi stood by his sit down and shut up comment. One point i want to make scott walker abouting about the potential gaffe, hes playing to a very specific add yens. Even this potential gaffe he can turn it around and say the media distorting what im saying and he will. This is a big speech tomorrow. Some of the other candidates go around and they have planned questions, served up to them and me i just take it from the audience audience. I really can answer anything. Well have to see now jeb bush is received tomorrow. Thanks very much. Theres breaking news ahead. A love report from london on new details on the isis executioner, now identified. Hes become a top u. S. Target. Oh yea, thats coming down lets get some rocks, man. Health can change in a minute. 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