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Crowded in the past 24 hours. were seeing syrian government forces enter the fray as well as russian troops. the russian forces are in between syrian forces and turkish forces acting as a mediator patrolling in between the two sides trying to fill the vacuum left by u.s. forces. two new players on the scene here in a very complicated battle structure. as you mentioned, president trump going all out to try and find a cease-fire here. calling president erdogan of turkey, invoking financial sanctio...

Engagement for our special forces. this was a debate we had for years inside. should we or should we not? what does that mean? i see a little bit of that happening. they have changed some of the rules engagement. complicated to a viewer, but what it means is its not just advise and assist. its advice and assist and then maybe take -- help them leverage on their target success. those are important small things. theyre not major changes in the battle structure as you -- the battle plan as we saw c...

What does that mean? i see a little bit of that happening. they have changed some of the rules engagement. complicated to a viewer, but what it means is its not just advise and assist. its advice and assist and then maybe take -- help them leverage on their target success. those are important small things. theyre not major changes in the battle structure as you -- the battle plan as we saw coming out of the obama administration. theyre more like a screw driver to a carburetor than massive change...

Specifically referenced the chemical weapons attack, and declaring that a direct threat to u.s. interests. it does not talk about bashar al assads other military capabilities, which remain significant, and thats the key here. bashar al assad maintains an enormous capability to kill his own people, and the principal way hes done that is not via chemical weapons but barrel bombs, conventional weapons, et cetera, and that he maintains. so, at least so far, no fundamental change to the battle struct...