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And assist you essentially have to go along with these indigenous forces on the ground. i don't think it's really a proposition to stay back and come back after a day and say how did it go. i think you're absolutely right. americans will be in harms way. >> if we're just talking several dozen, and these are the mightiest of the mighty, the americans we'll be sending over, but we know as we heard from secretary of receives ak carter, raqqa is one of the goals. if you have several dozen advisers and kurds, can you really take this isis stronghold? >> well, i think they don't have what they need ...

Deployment of u.s. ground combat forces to iraq or syria. >> join iing me now our senior international correspondent. so nick, let me go to you first. who exactly is going? where will they be going in syria? what kind of environment will these american special forces be walking into? >> reporter: under 50 special forces we understand, but it will most likely be around the area we think around kobani. the mission is aiming towards raqqa. that's where there are some syrian arab coalition forces along with a lot of kurds as well doing the majority of fighting there. who they are going to assist i...

Have a moment of clarity to acknowledge, that yes, this mission is changing. it's not what it was said it was going to be at the onset of this. >> to say that would only confuse the situation. the fact of the matter is the mission that the commander-in-chief has given our 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 diminishes the amount of risk that our men and women will be facing. we have also been clear there have been situations where boots have been on the ground inside of syria. we have been ...

With the white house spokesperson. >> question about the americans on the ground. this president, this white house, the officials here at this white house repeatedly over and over again made it clear to the american people that there would be no combat role for u.s. troops fighting isis. that appears to be changing. not only is there this announcement you're talking about today, which you say they won't be involved in a combat role but you're not ruling out they may be involved in a combat operation, but on the iraq side, you have pentagon official this is week saying we're in combat. so it wo...