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In iraq or syria. are they getting more aggressive. we're back with the panel. charles, front page story about this. we saw the raid in iraq. is this an administration that has decided to change its policy? >> no. it's not changed anything. the policy is. presidency. no involvement in the ground, yes, a commando raid here and there. that's been happening all a the time and this idea of increasing the air strikes. why haven't we increased them up to now? there is no strategy in syria. there is none in iraq. the idea is to stay out of trouble and to get it to the next president: this administrat...

The iraqi prisoners freed during last week's commando raid by u.s. and kurdish forces are on an isis prison are now talking about their horrifying ordeal at the hands of isis. this is helmet cam video of the actual raid, released over the weekend. the crackle of gunfire heard throughout. kurdish officials now say the operation was carried out by 48 kurdish and 27 u.s. special forces. one of the americans, master sergeant joshua wheeler became the first american soldier killed in iraq since the u.s. withdrawal four years ago. richard engle joins us now from istanbul, turkey. the u.s. has al rel...

But josh wheeler is the reason america has such a great army, navy, air force is because of our ncos, our non-commissioned officer corps. he was dedicated to the military. he had children, his wife just had a baby in august. it was a tragedy, but he did exactly what his highly trained ncos do. the forces were going to be overrun. he went to the sound of the cannon. i learned that as a plea at west point, but that's what he went to do to rescue those people and they were successful. i commend the administration for the commando raid that they had trying to get those 70 plus hostages. it's not a...

Raid that rescued about 70 hostages in iraq. u.s. and allied kurdish forces took off in five helicopters heading to an isis prison on the outskirts of the town of hawija. u.s. officials say the prisoners were about to be executed. mass graves already dug. american forces manned the perimeter. allied kurdish fighters stormed in but met heavy resistance. then, nbc news has learned one wave of americans followed by a second moved in to help, worried their allies or the hostages would be killed, but isis managed to shoot one american commando described by u.s. officials as selfless and heroic and ...

Imagine if we had a commando raid coming out of afghanistan into pakistan. doing what was done in the raid in iraq the other day. you wouldn't say we have combat in pakistan. you would say we launched a raid as we did on the bin laden compound. so it seems to me a valid distinction. the only thing i think is really important is that the person who was involved in this. in special opps hero who died in this. should be eligible for combat decorations. >> and we heard that he will be. >> and the family will be eligible for the appropriate benefits. as long as you adhere to that think the semantic...