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Sensitive and/or classified and you cant give us the details. within those parameters, can you tell us whats different about understanding of the green lighting of this operation? whats different about your understand aing compared to the way the white house is characterizing it? >> i think it would help for your viewers to understand that the united states has been engaged in counterterrorism against this group, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, a deadly al qaeda affiliate for years. weve been...

Have a new title if this campaign is successful. youve got to win the primary, beat bernie and martin omalley. but if that happens, and you have to beat whoever on the republican side, you can be the first commander in chief. this is all happening, perhaps coincidentally, when ashton carter has just made it clear now that all combat roles are open to women, this is something unique in our history. you can go out there and be infantry, you can go out there with a knife in your teeth and swinging ...

Madame secretary, you may have a new title if this campaign is successful. youve got to win the primary, beat bernie and martin omalley. but if that happens, and you have to beat whoever on the republican side, you can be the first commander in chief. this is all happening, perhaps coincidentally, when ashton carter has just made it clear now that all combat roles are open to women, this is something unique in our history. you can go out there and be infantry, you can go out there with a knife i...

To believe there is, and thatting with said the afghans are putting up the hard fight, and for better example with ra iraq and libya, the afghan forces are actually stick together and not fragmentmenting as in those two countries o so it is a sign that the afghan security forces are fighting the difficulties in the first year of the new responsibility after 15 years of international intervention, and they also need a little bit of time to sort of really get used to the role, the combat role. >> ...

Were moving special operation forces in there, thats a good thing. so that makes sense. but we definitely need more troops in there, yes, not in a combat role. in syria, were not going to have troops on the ground in syria in any consequential way. we will not be able to put together an air coalition, shannon, until such time as we bring the war to an end in syria. they will not participate on the ground against isis until we do that. that is why so many observers are criticizing the administrat...

U.s. forces in a combat role, absolutely, that means that you are accepting the risk of not just additional resources to apply, but casualties to american troops. >> why is that not off of the record now? wouldnt the president want that out, because he is not doing enough to capture isil, and why wou wouldnt the president shout that from the are rooftop, this could cost us 500 people every six months, you know. >> well, the details in off of the record setting, but the president has been clear a...

Going to kill isis? >> right. you could take one thing from each candidate and put together a strategy. i liked what carly fiorina said about brake bringing back the warrior class. a lot of generals were fired that warned -- >> the petraeus -- >> right. allen matis both kind of exited based on these types of warnings about iran and isis. this warrior class is out of the milita military. in iraq we have a generational gap. most americans in iraq training iraqis havent been there in a combat role....

Administrations lack of recently critical of the administrations lack of strategy. you are now calling for ground troops in combat roles, specifically what are you looking for with this authorization? >> im not calling for ground troops in a combat role. but what i am suggesting to break the impasse here on the hill, which has largely been about whether ground troops would or would not be authorized is a resolution that would repeal all prior resolutions both -- it would authorize force against ...

Harms way and are there for longer terms and in larger numbers? essentially are members of congress feeling guilty that they havent weighed in? >> absolutely. and i think people are feeling it increasingly untenable that were sending troops into harms way in increasing numbers and yet we dont have the courage to take up a resolution ourselves. i think there is a way to get this done, rachel, a way to draft it that can get bipartisan support. i am kicking around an idea that i have been vetting w...

Troops committed in more permanent and more dangerous ways, does that create more political, i guess, sense of ownership in the congress, as more american troops are in harms way and are there for longer terms and in larger numbers? essentially are members of congress feeling guilty that they havent weighed in? >> absolutely. and i think people are feeling it increasingly untenable that were sending troops into harms way in increasing numbers and yet we dont have the courage to take up a resolut...