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To readily take out isis. another key issue is that if they get into danger, or trouble, will the u.s. have the capability to move in with helicopters to get them in quickly and out of the trouble quick quickly. that is what the pentagon has to plan against. >> and in this escalating u.s. involvement on the ground in syria, the u.s. special operating forces will be working with the kurdish fighters, and rebel fighters who are opposing fighting isis, and also the bashar al assad regime or just the kurdish fighters. >> well, in is a unique area here along the northern border, because you will ha...

Targeting information back to u.s. aircraft who could conduct strikes. so, with the u.s. advisers organizing and helping and collecting intelligence and assessing the situation on the ground, there's the promise that these syrian forces can be much more effective. but the diplomatic reason is probably what's driving this. and that is that if you're going to go into negotiations against the russians and against assad and against the iranians and these are negotiations against them in the sense that the russians will be perfectly happy to keep assad there and president obama wants him gone so th...

Commander in chief has given them. on an operational basis in terms of where they are going to be operating, with whom exactly they are going to be partnering, where the first mission will take place, i think for pretty obvious reasons those are not details that we can get into in public. >> reporter: i want to get back to what kristen was asking about which is i want to see if we can have just a moment of clarity here. >> okay. that's the reason i'm here. >> reporter: i understand that. i think kristen was asking a basic question, the question the american people have, which is this president...

>> 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...

Isis. it was thought all along that it would have to be small units like the ones we're seeing now that will be deployed to syria and the one that conducted that operation along with kurdish forces in iraq about a week and a half ago. so, in that way, it was -- for him to keep saying this is not a major combat operation and that's what they mean about boots on the ground, seems to officials here anyway disingenuous. to be frank, they know what this is all about. they understand it. they give their advice. they take the final order and decisions from the white house. salute smartly and carry ou...