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Women of the military make. nobody is more keenly aware of that than the commander in chief. at the same time, the responsibilities that they have there are different. first of all, if we were envisioning a combat operation, we probably would be contemplating more than 50 troops on the ground, but the responsibility is not to lead the charge to take a hill, but rather to offered a vice and assistance to the local forces about the best way they can organize their efforts to take the fight to i ssil or to take the hill, that is the situation they are farced w and it does not mean that they won't...

Could flush out what they are doing, so we have a marker to judge the president's words on. >> and the last question is hard for me to offer you many specifics about precisely what they are going to be doing, because primarily there is some operational security that has to be protected. maybe more details that the department of defense can offer y you, but from here, i can't be more specific to say that the special operation forces will be in syria, and they will be offering some training, some advice, and some assistance to the moderate opposition forces that are fighting isil in northern syr...

Doing. i do expect that that will improve their performance on the battlefield. >> reporter: the u.s. forces could be in combat roles, their lives could be at risk, correct? >> they will not be in a combat mission. >> reporter: i understand that's not their mission but they could find themselves in a combat operation just as we saw with the rescue mission? >> there is no denying the amount of risk they are taking on here. they will be equipped to defend themselves if necessary. i'm confident the department of defense has contingency plans to try to make them as safe as possible in a very dange...

States through the state department has made protests to the foreign secretary lavrov, to basically don't bomb these people. russians will not listen to that. they're there to support their ally, bashar al-assad. they will be attacking those people. we, those people were trained by cia, free syrian army. we've been dropping weapons to them. now we'll send in u.s. advisors on the ground with them. the russians are bombing them. if the russians bomb us or say we set up a no-fly zone to protect them and russians fly into it, people saying no-fly zone, take out syrian air defense not prerequisite ...

Commander in chief has given them. on an operational basis in terms of where they are going to be operating, with whom exactly they are going to be partnering, where the first mission will take place, i think for pretty obvious reasons those are not details that we can get into in public. >> reporter: i want to get back to what kristen was asking about which is i want to see if we can have just a moment of clarity here. >> okay. that's the reason i'm here. >> reporter: i understand that. i think kristen was asking a basic question, the question the american people have, which is this president...