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Trucks, but they also have more tars, and overwhelming forces coming in in the air. when you're talking about combines a-10s and f-15s with ground forces in a desert environment, you have a significant advantage over isis, which doesn't have those aircraft. >> reporter: the pentagon considering further expansion, including more special operations forces for raids in syria and iraq against isis leadership, more apache helicopter gunships for low-eight attitude attacks and possibly u.s. forward air controllers on the ground to help pick out targets. u.s. troops in iraq may in and out be based wi...

Kurdish forces are poorly equipped. the pentagon has yet to provide heavy weapons. but u.s. air support is moving in. >> they do have small arms and trucks, but they also have mortars. and they now have overwhelming forces coming in from the air. when you're talking about combining a-10s and f-15s with ground forces in a desert environment, you have a significant advantage over isis which doesn't have those aircraft. >> and the pentagon considering further expansion including more special operations forces for raids in syria and iraq against isis leadership, more apache helicopter gun ships fo...

Their real strategy and how we'll keep us out of syria, keep us out of these conflicts or win them. >> let's begun by understanding there are no good choices in a region in which there are now four barely functioning states. yemen, syria, libya and iraq. now the president is being accused of, i think john mccain's phrase, grudging incrementalism. that's probably true, but what is the choice at this point? liz says a caliphate has been established and we have to take the ground back. i don't know what the antecedent of that pronoun is. the conventional forces of our sometime allies in the middl...

This is not a law enforcement exercise. this is threat to our national security. if you think of it that way, you get much more aggressive. sadly under president obama twice he admitted we don't have a strategy to deal with isis of the we need one. and we can be successful. we have far more resources than i think what the obama administration pretends. we should be using them. this is the first priority for our country. jenna: what would be an example something we should be using we haven't been using? >> as it relates to dealing with isis in iraq and syria, embed with the iraqi military. to h...

The "times" that he believes the operation most likely did not meet any of the criteria. yesterday, in testimony before the senate armed services committee, general campbell made no such admission, but did call the strike a mistake, and said the united states takes full responsibility. >> on saturday morning, our forces provided close air support to afghan forces at their request. to be clear, the decision to provide aerial fires was a u.s. decision, made within the u.s. chain of command. a hospital was mistakenly struck. we would never intentionally target a protected medical facility. even t...