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And maybe improve that capability on the front lines, but in terms of are making a game-change move, this truly is just simply a political -- >> these isis terrorists withstood all opposition from the syrian regime of bashar al assad whos got a lot of are manpower, fire power. the iranians are in, there thousands of troops with hezbollah from lebanon, all russians now in there as well. kurdish fight moderate rebels trying to fight them. theyve withstad all that. you think 50 u.s. commandos going...

Got to negotiate to get assad out. >> clarissa, spoke yesterday. in erbil in northern iraq now back in london. you were in syria, saw these kurdish fighters who are trying to deal with these isis troops in northern syria. is this white house move now to send up to 50 u.s. combat troops, commandos, if you will, is it really going to have a significant role? >> well, its hard to really see, wolf, what kind of an impact such a small amount of advisers could have, other than as we were just saying, ...

Administration will be deploying special forces in the kurdish controlled northern portion of the syria. bringing in nbc news chief pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski. mick, lets talk about what the administration says these 50 or 10 special forces troops are going to be doing on the ground in syria. >> well, senior defense official here at the pentagon told reporters a short time ago that, in fact, the first wave of less than 50 american commandos, special operations forces sent into syria...

Mean-spirited." tonight, cnn is learning what the campaigns are doing in response. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn, breaking news -- were following the breaking news. a major shift by president obama now formally authorizing u.s. boots on the ground in syria for the first time to help fight isis forces. the white house says less than 50 special forces commandos will deploy to kurdish-controlled territory in northern syria to advise and assist local t...

He says there will be more raids like the one we saw last thursday with u.s. delta force involved in that raid to free those hostages, where a delta force operator died. also, more operations targeting raqqa. this is isis stronghold on the ground in syria, and ramadi, one of its main strongholds on the ground in iraq, just west of baghdad. u.s. forces supporting local forces on the ground. here is how secretary carter laid it out on the hill yesterday. >> we wont hold back from supporting capabl...

Mission. these american commandos were there in support of iraqi kurdish forces but it was the iraqi kurdish forces supposed to be the ones carrying out that raid. that said things dont always go accord according to the plan and what the pentagon says once a considerable fire fight start odden that site, the american forces smoofed out of their support role to instead participate in direct combat. it appears that on the ground that was a hell of a fight. well have more on that in a moment. since...

Mot to have a combat role. but an apparent confirmation of what we already knew after commandos stormed a prison held by isis last week. an army master sergeant joshua wheeler became the first american killed in action in iraq since 2011. dying in combat even though according to the pentagon he did not have a combat role. >> he was killed in combat. that wasnt the intent of the obviously. he was accompanying those forces but when he saw that they were running into trouble, he very heroically act...

What we already knew after commandos stormed a prison held by isis last week. an army master sergeant joshua wheeler became the first american killed in action in iraq since 2011. dying in combat even though according to the pentagon he did not have a combat role. >> he was killed in combat. that wasnt the intent of the obviously. he was accompanying those forces but when he saw that they were running into trouble, he very heroically acted in a way that all the reports suggest spelled the differ...

This could take u.s. troops well beyond this standard construct -- train, equip, advise and accompany local forces into the field. that was how they explained the raid in northern iraq last week that killed master sergeant joshua wheeler, that they were accompanying kurdish commandos into the field. this looks to be opening the door to somethng quite different, carter saying he also wanted to press for more action in raqqah, syria, and ramadi, iraq, two isis strongholds. its hard to see how this...

Numbers of troops. this shows how the commandos are in it and this could change how the government moves ahead. >> these are boots on the ground. nick, thank you. do you put any money in fantasy sports this weekend? those games could be coming to an end. scrutiny coming to the wild, wild west of fantasy sports teams.