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They have been providing targeting coordinates calling in airstrikes, what we now know today in this last six to eight weeks when this has been going on there have been a number of times the pentagon will not say how many those u.s. troops have come undered fire from isis, returned fire and of course a source told me a short time ago that yes, some u.s. troops in the last six to eight weeks had to have been med evaced off the battlefield, u.s. troops really are not supposed to be in front lines of come back but this is a very murky front line and so they have come under fire and engaged in fir...

That the votes that are counted will be counted properly. what is being done to make sure mines as they try to flee. that the election is not rigged. you certainly don't want to go arwa damon is live outside too far in the other direction mosul. and plant any seeds of concern or suspicion. but i think it's very important >> reporter: you can still see for people to know as these in the plains behind me areas doubts are being raised that there's no reason to be that the kurdish peshmerga concerned about it, and that they can be confident their votes are being counted pushed through earlier, eng...

Watch. >> we haven't heard from you since last friday when the decision was announced to put a small number of u.s. special operations forces on the ground in northern syria. many will look at and say you've broken your promise about boots on the ground. have you? >> well, keep in mind we have run special ops already. we captured a high value target actually. he was killed but captured his wife. we're able to gather up enormous intelligence that helped us to further constrain isil's operations both in syria and iraq. so we have been opportunistic where necessary, and really this is just an ext...

Wlaf we were continuing to to do. we are not putting u.s. troops on the front lines fighting fire fights with isil. what we can do is in addition to the training and advising that we do, there are going to be select situations in which there is an isil leadership camp or there is a particular isil leader that we can capture quickly. that the iraqis don't have the capacity. in syria, we don't have anybody on the ground who can execute those kinds you have complex operations and what this really amounts to is us prepositioning some additional select assets for us to be able to engage where neces...

On the front lines fighting fire fights with isil. what we can do is in addition to the training and advising that we do, there are going to be select situations in which there is an isil leadership camp or there is a particular isil leader that we can capture quickly. that the iraqis don't have the capacity. in syria, we don't have anybody on the ground who can execute those kinds you have complex operations and what this really amounts to is us prepositioning some additional select assets for us to be able to engage where necessary. but i've been consistent throughout that we are not going t...