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The white house Bowling Alley. But the pressure tactics are well underway just about everywhere else. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is here with the story from the north lawn. Good evening. The white house legislative team is conducting a little 10pin diplomacy, inviting House Republicans for a bowling party, hoping to strike a deal on health care. The president wasnt tipping his hand on his Health Care Sales pitched today, but the white house is putting a hard sell on the bill. N...

The white house Bowling Alley. But the pressure tactics are well underway just about everywhere else. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is here with the story from the north lawn. Good evening. The white house legislative team is conducting a little 10pin diplomacy, inviting House Republicans for a bowling party, hoping to strike a deal on health care. The president wasnt tipping his hand on his Health Care Sales pitched today, but the white house is putting a hard sell on the bill. N...

>> bret: we will continue the interview with vice president pence on a number of topics in a few minutes. they had of u.s. central command says hes going to need a lot more troops on the ground in the middle east and afghanistan to do with the commander-in-chief wants john. national security correspondent jennifer griffins life from the pentagon with details. >> good evening. yesterday hundreds of u.s. marines arrived in syria to provide artillery cover in the fight for raqqa. now the general sa...

>> this is not american troops out there to go and storm raqqa, destroy isis, and liberate the country. the the american troops betweene allies, the turks and kurds. we are acting as referees. this is a 6-cited conflict. unbelievably complicated. six years ago it wasnt. it was something that was understandable and we mightve made a difference but at this point with the combatants, the rifle fire coming from all places, this is a very dangerous operation. without an obvious mission. >> bret: lets...

Who president obama said had to leave many times but now currently doesnt. how do we hold it? >> its not even clear we are going to be occupying it. charles krauthammer reminds me of the ill-fated mission to lebanon in the early 1980s where u.s. marines were put in there to keep other factions apart, and as we know, he did not work out well. i am hesitant to prejudge it. you have to remember that even president obamas former deputy secretary of state was calling for a more aggressive u.s. positi...

Before the american people and say i am putting ground troops into syria? apparently an open-ended commitment. i think theres a couple issues here, one is hes going to have to belly up to the question of legal authority at some point. we are still, as i understand it, out at the long end of the original 9/11 legal authority to have troops in the middle east. that is .1. i think is going to have to explain to people this is part of my strategy to crush isis. this is what i promised you. i think p...

Who president obama said had to leave many times but now currently doesnt. how do we hold it? >> its not even clear we are going to be occupying it. charles krauthammer reminds me of the ill-fated mission to lebanon in the early 1980s where u.s. marines were put in there to keep other factions apart, and as we know, he did not work out well. i am hesitant to prejudge it. you have to remember that even president obamas former deputy secretary of state was calling for a more aggressive u.s. positi...