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Ground troop mission will be strictly to advise and assist. kristin gillibrand, always a pleasure to see you. it is not just republicans who are critical of this. some democrats are also taking issue with putting american troops on the ground. what's your stance? >> i disagreed with president obama's policy with regard to syria. i didn't support arming the rebels. i didn't think that would be an effective strategy. we have consensus now that it was not an effective strategy. and i don't believe we should be putting our men and women on the ground in syria right now. i think it is not the right...

in secret service prostitution scandal and growing disgust on capitol hill. lawmakers say expect more secret service employees to resign or be fired soon, and the more details congress learns about a night of heavy drinking and hiring escorts in columbia, the more outrage. >> it is a stunning thing, actually disgusting. those people that are responsible have brought disgrace and it is disgusting. >> people that are here to protect the president, they go to columbia, have a fight over a prostitute over how much to be paid? that's either very stupid or total lack of common sense. >> co...

Community, anyway. and there is a lot of dissent in the obama administration because we did not know a lot about the people. is there al qaeda among the ranks in who are the rebels? and your thoughts, senator john mccain calling for more international support arming them but he was stopping short of saying more u.s. involvement. >> admiral mullen says there is a stalemate and admiral mullen said at this point he does not see any chance of arming the rebels. senator john mccain was being provocative but respectful that the commander in chief, president obama, the make those decisions and it is ...

Who are eager, again, to be involved in this. that's the very unusual thing about syria is that the arab league is so forward leaning when it comes to getting assad out of control and out of power. we need to engage that, our arab league in a way that allows us to do -- to make them better and more effective in trying to upend that regime. >> are these military steps, you talk about covert steps. you're not going to be specific but are we talking about providing weapons and other communications, gear and help to the arab league to help support the opposition? that still gets to the question of...