situation right now with this. >> i want to go to capitol hill, chief congressional correspondent, dana bash. dana, obviously president obama surrounded by advisers from the military community, telling him that isis cannot be allowed to continue to have this safe haven in syria, in iraq that allowing them to do so poses an existential threat to the united states, many in the military and intelligence communities, concerned about the american fighters and other westerners fighting alongside isis. and yet even with that, i suspect there are a lot of republicans along with democrats on capitol hill that are very reluctant to send any more troops into that country. >> reporter: there are because, you know, in fact, we were talking sort of amongst ourselves, those of us who cover capitol hill for cnn this morning that even the house republicans, the only part of the government right now that's run by republicans, even those rank and file are very different from those who were here back