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Q&a with me. i wanted to know what you thought. it seemed to me when i asked her directly, is this like president obama suggesting an intensification of the current strategy or are you proposing changes. she was pretty careful to keep herself close to president obama. do you think her strategy makes sense and it is in fact an intensification? >> it is. i think you're talking about larger numbers of american special forces, greater sharing of intelligence. that's consistent with the idea of doing more air strikes. she was also saying we're not going to repeat what we did in afghanistan and iraq...

Boots on the ground, air strikes aren't going to cut it. air strikes are only going to -- we'll see more of the paris-style attacks, would the u.s. participate? >> well, alisyn be with the president a few weeks ago did make an announcement of a small deployment of fewer than 50 special operations forces on the ground inside of syria. they are not there in a combat role but are there to offer advice and assistance to local forces on the ground with whom we have had success in cooperating. and who are taking the fight to isil on the ground inside their own country. alisyn, the president does not...

Of that air power and we helped them develop a plan to do this as well. so we have people involved in this operation though they do not have a direct combat role. i most baghdad government doesn't want that. do you believe based on what we can report at at moment, is he dead or not? >> he looks like he's dead. but they probably don't have body. they know he went into that car and there is nothing left of that car. bill: he was taken to a hospital apparently. the hospital has been blocked off. apparently pattern for isis is one of its leaders is killed on the battlefield or injured, they will b...

The issue is, they were trying to bring in finances, funding the war, trying to have a stance to fight against islamic jihad it's. >> why military exercises in the baltic states? why are we putting the missile defense in poland? all of these i would argue are aggressive signals to putin that we want to fight. >> having the special ops on the ground with military equipment in syria and we are not in a combat role as of this moment also makes it seem like we could be there prepared to fight. but the bottom line is that we are in a different time, different day. after 9/11, we had al qaeda. out q...

Them get am nation and facilitating air strikes. that's all a big deal. they're not going to fight themselves, but they'll help them. they'll be defensive in a sense that if somebody fires at them, they'll respond. but they're not part of a direct combat force. the president put himself in a box a long time ago when he said no boots on the ground. when the intent was right from the beginning to provide trainers and advisers, who of course would be on the ground. but not in a combat role. that's the words he should have used then. and he's been backing up ever since. the strange thing about thi...