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>> a very boisterous hearing today, some aggressive questioning, but we expected that with this news, first reported for us by our chief foreign correspondent richard engel, who has been listening from istanbul, turkey, to this briefing and we will start, richard, with you. what did you not hear asked and what answer differed with the information as you understand it? >> reporter: well, as i have been listening to the white house trying incredibly hard to explain how this is not a combat role, but describing it with all of the attributes that go along with combat, these special operations forc...

There are boots on the ground. our men and women are at risk when doing this. it's just the way it goes. it's a combat role. >> thank you all so much. we have more on this. but i want to move on to breaking news in the world of politics. the rnc suspending its next debate with nbc. this is just happened amid-all the criticism over the cnbc debate a few nights ago. also for the first time we are seeing the interrogation of the former university of virginia lacrosse player just after he killed his ex-girlfriend. hear how he acts when investigators tell him she's dead. and chilling new vide...

The other parts of syria. what this is is a battle out in the desert involving kurds, involving some sunni arabs to be sure. especially involving isis. this is not part in parcel of what we have come to understand as a syrian sectarian civil war. i think the big news in that regard is what has been going on in ve yes na. >> let me go back to your first point. we had a navy seal on who said this is advise and assist, but this is a combat role. we saw what happened in northern iraq with rescuing the hostages. we heard saying it was an advise and assist. they breached the compound. that was a com...

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...

See what happened last week where these u.s. delta forces were there in what we're told is an advisory role. again, it's the continuing problem that we have in much of iraq and siria right now where we really have to rely on what the military is telling us is happening because we don't have people there. they tell us they're there in an advisory role and that thing heated up when the kurds were pinned down, the u.s. was entered into this more combat role on the ground. >> courtney, if there is not misunderstanding and not miscommunication but if there's sort of spin i guess around whether or n...