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Mistake as tony blair who is now seen as making a huge mistake. david cameron wants to share the decision. >> many thanks to max foster. lets go to atika schubert. she is in berlin, and atika yar, lets talk about what germany is planning in this fight against isis. >> reporter: well, the cabinet has approved a one-year mandate for up to maximum, about 1200 german troops going in to help the fight against isis, but the key here is that none of these troops will be in a combat role. these will sim...

Assist, advise role, these are combat forces going to conduct direct operations. this is no longer are we going to put boots on the ground. we are putting boots on the ground. this is not going to be in a standoff role. these are going to be combat forces. i dont know how the -- if the u.s. administration is going to spin this. theyre going to say its not a combat role. i dont know how they can do this. this represents a shift. i think its an admission that what were doing so far hasnt worked, a...

Defense, what role did he say the special forces would play? >> its not a big expansion in numbers because were talking about a few dozen special forces. that it becomes bigger because you have support troupes, an additional 200 in this force. but what this force will do, thats a big change. they are going to be going after high value targets, hostage rescues, raids, intelligence gathering, those are tip of the spear operations. they can be very dangerous high value targets. so not a big change ...

Intelligence agency is warning, its only a matter of time before a paris-style terror attack happens here in the united states. ill discuss all of this much more with congresswoman tulsi gabbard, and our correspondents, analysts and experts, they have full coverage of all of todays top stories. lets begin with todays surprise announcement, more u.s. ground troops joining the fight against isis. chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. how many more boots on the ground is the pentagon...

U.s. military action against isis, the administrate said dozens of times there would be no combat role for u.s. forces there. this is clearly a combat. role. and it was when commanders were with the kurds to free hostages. a delta force was killed in the operation. these are at the tip of the spear so now youre seeing in in iraq and syria. >> to jims point, if were talking about raids and putting more troops in roles, that absolutely ups the vulnerability of them as well. >> brooke, great to be ...

Q&a with me. i wanted to know what you thought. it seemed to me when i asked her directly, is this like president obama suggesting an intensification of the current strategy or are you proposing changes. she was pretty careful to keep herself close to president obama. do you think her strategy makes sense and it is in fact an intensification? >> it is. i think youre talking about larger numbers of american special forces, greater sharing of intelligence. thats consistent with the idea of doing m...

Boots on the ground, air strikes arent going to cut it. air strikes are only going to -- well see more of the paris-style attacks, would the u.s. participate? >> well, alisyn be with the president a few weeks ago did make an announcement of a small deployment of fewer than 50 special operations forces on the ground inside of syria. they are not there in a combat role but are there to offer advice and assistance to local forces on the ground with whom we have had success in cooperating. and who a...

Of that air power and we helped them develop a plan to do this as well. so we have people involved in this operation though they do not have a direct combat role. i most baghdad government doesnt want that. do you believe based on what we can report at at moment, is he dead or not? >> he looks like hes dead. but they probably dont have body. they know he went into that car and there is nothing left of that car. bill: he was taken to a hospital apparently. the hospital has been blocked off. appar...

The issue is, they were trying to bring in finances, funding the war, trying to have a stance to fight against islamic jihad its. >> why military exercises in the baltic states? why are we putting the missile defense in poland? all of these i would argue are aggressive signals to putin that we want to fight. >> having the special ops on the ground with military equipment in syria and we are not in a combat role as of this moment also makes it seem like we could be there prepared to fight. but th...

Them get am nation and facilitating air strikes. thats all a big deal. theyre not going to fight themselves, but theyll help them. theyll be defensive in a sense that if somebody fires at them, theyll respond. but theyre not part of a direct combat force. the president put himself in a box a long time ago when he said no boots on the ground. when the intent was right from the beginning to provide trainers and advisers, who of course would be on the ground. but not in a combat role. thats the wor...