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A lot we don't know about this casualty we've seen in syria and you know, i think we feel it, too, because it happened on thanksgiving. this -- they're going through that process right now i think. we think about that. this is not the first death in iraq and syria, and this may not be the last. i think we can say that, because this is certainly an ongoing situation, but what do we know and what don't we know? >> we know that there are roughly 300 u.s. special operators and also the people who support them. eod, pbomb technicians. >> just in syria? >> just inside syria who go in and out fromati...

That are on the ground. i mean, the 300 some odd forces that were put on the ground a couple days ago, really have a couple missions, one of them is the non-combatant evacuation possibility and also, the advisory role, which has everything to do with targeting. so the united states in concert with the iraqis in the sanction wary of either the iraqi joint chief staff command center or embassy where we have a large down linked capability where the intelligence capabilities can come into an intelligence center where all of that can be fused, so that we can hand off targeting data to the iraqis so...

Role as afghans step forward. as we do, our troops will be coming home. last year we removed 10,000 u.s. troops from afghanistan. another 23,000 will leave by the end of the summer. after that reductions will continue at a steady pace with more and more of our troops coming home. megyn: he's giving them the numbers but we signed a partnership. is the partnership enough to deter the taliban? >> the document itself no. but it sends to everybody in the region that we are committed. we have to back that up with action. here what is we are concerned about. the president is talking about the stay be...