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Sergeant joshua wheeler was killed in this raid, but the pentagon, weirdly, is denying it was a combat mission. watch this. >> it doesn't represent assuming a combat role. it represents a continuation of our advise and assist mission. >> here with reaction, host of war stories, lieutenant colonel oliver north. why would they deny this was a combat role when we have the video showing that this is combat? >> it's hard to explain much of what goes on in this administration. the american people need to know the death of sergeant wheeler ain a raid is a combat fatality. we should be glad we have so...

Syria. >> we won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against isil or conducting such missions directly. whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground. >> after months of denying that the united states that the troops would be in any sort of combat role, the u.s. just admitted that joshua wheeler was killed during combat. new video showing the emotional aftermath from the 70 hostages here who were freed all thanks to that raid from an isis-controlled prison in northern iraq. joining me now is global affairs analyst kim dozer and also our senior...

We're hearing. >> what do you milwaukee of it? what they're saying is the guy died, they're saying it wasn't a combat situation per se, even though he is the first american casualty in some four years in that region, then what did he die? what happened to him? he is dead. how did he die? >> well, with the film we have seen, the video, there's no doubt in my mind this is combat. when you're getting shot at and shooting back to save other people's lives, there's nothing else you can call it but combat. soldiers die two ways. they die in training related accidents which can happen, and they die i...

Number one -- people are asking about whether u.s. forces should be engaged in this -- the special operations guys from delta force are sitting around with kurds at the operating base before they execute the raid. and the kurds are saying, we're going to go try to protect 70 people and to prevent them from being killed tomorrow morning. are you with us or not? what do you say in that situation, erin? if you're partnered with the kurds, you say no? secondly, you get to the raid, and the mission for the delta force guys is not to get involved in the operation. they're supposed to be on aid and a...

Scene have to decide when to decide. when the action has to take place to overcomminie implications that might be on the ground. that's what they did in this case. when you talk about the number of people observed in the camp near that area and you see the number of captives that were there, i'm sure the u.s. special operations forces says the pesh murg a can do it, but it will be complicated. they need american intelligence and backup and they -- >> they needed all those things. thank you lieutenant general. an interview earlier with our own john mann. the death of a u.s. soldier in that ra...