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Could flush out what they are doing, so we have a marker to judge the president's words on. >> and the last question is hard for me to offer you many specifics about precisely what they are going to be doing, because primarily there is some operational security that has to be protected. maybe more details that the department of defense can offer y you, but from here, i can't be more specific to say that the special operation forces will be in syria, and they will be offering some training, some advice, and some assistance to the moderate opposition forces that are fighting isil in northern syr...

>> all right. you are on top of it for us. thank you. still ahead, much more on the breaking news covering throughout the day here about u.s. troops sent in to fight isis in syria. how would that work? live reports from the white house, the pentagon and overseas. plus, you'll hear from senator chris coons. you have two choices; the easy way or the hard way. you could choose a card that limits where you earn bonus cash back. or, you could make things easier on yourself. that's right, the quicksilver card from capital one. with quicksilver you earn unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase,...

You can even choose a car for them. (mom) honey, are you ok? (child) i'm ok. (announcer vo) love. (mom) we're ok. (announcer vo) it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. welcome back. i'm erica hill in for thomas robert this is hour. today, u.s. special operations forces deploying to syria. boots on the ground against isis for what the white house is attempting to characterize as a shift, not a change, in its strategy and intensifying as we've been hearing. there will be we're told 50 than fewer special operations forces who, will quote, train, advice and assist kurdish syrian fighters. white hou...

Ordered special operations personnel to conduct a raid against a high value isil target inside of syria. that raid was successful in both taking that isil leader off the battlefield and recovering significant troves of intelligence. the department of defense has had contingency plans in place for search and rescue operations. fortunately, the united states has not been in a situation in which one of our pilots has been shot down or crashed in the skies over syria, despite the fact they have conducted thousands of military flights over syria. this is a testament to the professionalism of our ar...

Week saying we are in combat. so i'm just, it would be great if we can just have a moment of clarity here and you can acknowledge that yes, this mission is changing, it is not what it was said waits going to be at the onset of this. i just -- >> to say that, jim, would only confuse the situation. the fact of the matter is, the mission that the commander in chief has given our military personnel in iraq and now in syria, is a train, advise and assist mission. we have gone to great lengths to make clear that that is in no way dmiminishing the amount of risk or men and women in uniform will be fa...