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With the white house spokesperson. >> question about the americans on the ground. this president, this white house, the officials here at this white house repeatedly over and over again made it clear to the american people that there would be no combat role for u.s. troops fighting isis. that appears to be changing. not only is there this announcement you're talking about today, which you say they won't be involved in a combat role but you're not ruling out they may be involved in a combat operation, but on the iraq side, you have pentagon official this is week saying we're in combat. so it wo...

Isis. it was thought all along that it would have to be small units like the ones we're seeing now that will be deployed to syria and the one that conducted that operation along with kurdish forces in iraq about a week and a half ago. so, in that way, it was -- for him to keep saying this is not a major combat operation and that's what they mean about boots on the ground, seems to officials here anyway disingenuous. to be frank, they know what this is all about. they understand it. they give their advice. they take the final order and decisions from the white house. salute smartly and carry ou...

Where the u.s. military, delta force commandoes, accompanied kurd forces in northern iraq just this past weekend when one u.s. soldier or this past week, when one u.s. soldier, delta force commando, was killed in that operation, and that's what they're talking about. and to this day, there are some within the pentagon and administration that deny that that was in a combat operation, yet today in testimony before the senate armed services committee, secretary carter said that was combat. >> and i think the game changer, if you look, take a 30,000 foot look at this, the game changer is russia. t...

In northern iraq, officials here at the pentagon and over at the white house insisted that was not a combat operation, and we are told that white house officials today say that it should not be considered a combat operation but today in his testimony, before the senate armed services committee, secretary ash carter framed it somewhat differently. >> do you consider what sergeant wheeler was doing a combat operation? >> he was killed in combat. that wasn't the intent obviously. he was accompanying those forces. >> reporter: now, officials insist there will not be large numbers of u.s. combat fo...

Trying to as he put it, clean up the barn for paul ryan, his successor. but you know, at what point does the republican party which now controls the congress claim victory for a deal like that as opposed to a faction of the party railing against their leaders? a really fascinating moment we're in. >> finally, ash carter on the hill today acknowledging boots on the ground. it's a combat operation whether they call it that or not. the white house sort of pushing back. but clearly, putin's initiative has been a game changer for what's happening in syria against assad. lot of foreign policy issues...