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Their presence there is predicated on propping him up and so that's going to take some time for them to change how they think about the issue. >> nbc senior white house correspondent chris jansing is in paris. chris, tell us more about the preside president's news conference. >> reporter: let me start with what you just played because that's sort of a central theme that went through here and how all of these countries are going to work together. yes, on climate change. and that almost seems to be easier. but obviously here in paris, a huge focus on terrorism and isis given the attacks less tha...

Against these isis people. >> yeah, exactly. there's no question they'll get caught up in things. this is going to be a direct action, lethal operation against isis forces in iraq. i'm sure also in syria and to do it adequately is probably a couple 3,000 people, mostly in iraq and jordan and turkey and saudi arabia and other places to support it. lots of air assets. but there's going to be a fight and this will actually have a direct impact on isis. >> general, you are thinking it could end up being thousands? >> well, i would hope that the white house stays out of it and the air power of logi...

Services committee, general -- i mean secretary of defense ash carter said that the u.s. will be sending a special expeditionary force to -- targeting forcing, is what he called it, to iraq to conduct unilateral raids against isis targets to conduct missions to rescue hostages, kill isil leaders, and essentially to assist kurdish and iraqi forces there inside iraq. now u.s. officials here say that this is very similar to what happened in october when a small special operations force accompanied kurdish fighters in a raid against an isis prison in northern iraq in which they freed some 70 priso...

Committed to the counter-isil fight, then that's a conversation we're going to have. >> reporter: and maybe just a hint that some of that conversation may be happening, general joe dunford, the chairman of the u.s. joint chiefs of staff has just concluded a phone call with his russian counterpart. the pentagon describing that phone call as courteous, wolf. >> courteous. all right. that's a good word. thanks, barbara, for that. now the breaking news from paris where investigators suspect the fugitive eighth terrorist may have escaped to syria and rejoined isis forces. tonight our chief national...

A military airport near aleppo. troops have broken an isis siege that lasted for two years. it says soldiers fought their way into the base tuesday freeing military personnel inside. hundreds of isis militants were reportedly killed in the operation. syrian troops backed by iranian hezbollah forces have been advancing on isis forces in a push to retain territory. routers reports moscow has drafted a the plan does not prohibit asaad from running. russia's foreign ministry says no such document exists but it is working on identifying rebel groups that should take part in peace talks. a senio...