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View" says h.r. mcmaster, trump's national security adviser, may be pushing for just that. american ground troops in syria. potentially tens of thousands of them, according to the report. obviously, something that would be a major shift in president trump's middle east policy. would also mark a new chapter in u.s. intervention in the middle east. eli lake wrote that piece from "bloomberg joins us from washington. eli, thanks for taking a few minutes. lay this out first. you say mcmaster is making the case for ground troops. how many does he want? what's the case he's making? >> there are no ha...

Everybody around the sort of question, the basic assumption of the war plan that the pentagon came up with that says there's a relatively light special operations footprint. by the way, that's what the u.s. presence is in syria now. it's not conventional forces but there are special operators training local kurdish nmilitia and others and doing things like that sort of in the background. it's the difference between slippers on the ground and boots on the ground and from the perspective of mcmaster and some of the people that he's brought into the national security council, that the view is tha...

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Missile attacks. they targeted al qaeda training camps in afghanistan and in sudan. the idea was to send a message that there will be a response, but not to get the united states involved in a war. that later happened, and we saw the result. >> what about the russian casualties? i keep going back to that because what i understand is that they're the main military force in the country, that they could be targeted. we could hit them unintentionally. we can also hit civilians. i mean how many times have we been engaged in what seemed to be surgical strikes and an hour or two later, we're watching...

No war plan to back up a red line like that. and so you have politics driving -- and personality are now driving the foreign policy of our country and the people who actually have to execute it have no idea what they're supposed to be doing. >> april, you and i see eye to eye on a lot of this stuff. i'm thinking, you know, one of the attractive things about trump, i know you didn't like the whole picture obviously, he was not going to take us into stupid wars like iraq. >> right. >> the war in iraq which cost the lives of 100,000 people over there and here. ever since the inauguration, the ele...