republican presidential debate. i'll be the moderator. the final gop face-off happens december 15th. live from las vegas only here on cnn. erin burnett "live out front" starts now. warnings about a paris-style attack in the united states as the president puts combat troops in the front for isis. breaking news for the justice department to investigate chicago's police department. charges of a cover-up growing in the shooting death of a black teen. >> could donald trump be his party's nominee? why republicans are in a panic over the very real possibility. let's go "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett "out front" tonight, u.s. troops going to war. president obama putting combat boots on the ground in iraq and

syria. ash carter announcing today american troops will be leading missions, conducting raids and fighting isis leaders. carter refusing to say how many troops will be fighting. in a crucial moment before congress, he couldn't answer the most crucial question. >> are we winning, mr. secretary? >> we will win. >> are we winning now? >> we're going to win. >> going to win, but not saying the u.s. is winning now. this comes as we are learning now details about additional terror attacks planned by isis. president obama saying the u.s. will never be able to eliminate the threat of a terror attack. >> i do believe it's a matter of time. i believe there is going to be where our luck is going to run out and they're going to be able to achieve something along the lines of what we saw in paris. >> much more on that in a

moment. i want to begin with jim sciutto. talk about this issue of u.s. troops going to war. president obama said there isn't going to be a combat role for u.s. troops. these troops are unquestionably in a combat role. >> it's just an impossible argument to make at this point. the kinds of missions are some of the most dangerous missions. they are going to go after high-valued targets, leaders of isis, going on hostage rescue missions gathering intelligence, carrying out raids. we've seen in the last month these missions have been deadly for u.s. forces. u.s. delta force operator killed in a similar raid last month. these troops in the fight and will be more so in the coming months. after frequent white house denials that u.s. troops would face combat in iraq and syria, today the president is ordering dozens of u.s. special forces into combat roles involving direct action against isis. >> these special operators will

over time be able to conduct raids, free hostages, gather intelligence and capture isil leaders. >> reporter: the new force will number in the dozens, though support forces will expand its total footprint to about 200. >> this force and operations will provide additional intelligence that will make our operations much more effective. >> part of their mission, raids like this one in northern iraq in october, a daring joint operation involving kurdish commandos and the u.s. army's delta force to free these isis-held prisoners. demonstrating the added danger of direction action one delta force operate or was killed. that is in addition to the 50 forces the u.s. is deploying on the ground in syria. >> it puts everybody on notice in syria. you don't know at night who is coming in the window.

that's the sensation we want all of isil's leadership and followers to have. it's an important capability. >> reporter: the expanded u.s. combat role comes in the aftermath of paris. and as progress against isis on the battlefield has been halting. president obama declared the group contained in an interview two weeks ago. >> from the start, our goal has been first to contain, an we have contained them. >> reporter: today the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff appeared to contradict his commander in chief. >> we currently contained isil? >> we have not contained isil. >> have they been contained at any time since 2010? >> tactically in areas they have been. strategically they spread since 2010. >> reporter: as the role of u.s. forces in iraq and syria has expanded, so have their numbers. we've seen them go from a couple of hundred troops and largely to protect embassies in baghdad,

consulate, that number increased more than ten-fold since then. with his additional deployment to iraq, it will go above 3,500 troops the president allowed. he has to raise that bar again. people i talk to do not believe this will be the last deployment to iraq and syria. >> doesn't seem that way. obviously they put in troops and we are adding this quickly. thank you, jim sciutto. obviously the fear is here adding to the president saying it would be impossible to prevent a terror attack in the u.s. saying one is inevitable. we learn about additional terror attacks in the works in paris. fred, what are you learning tonight? >> reporter: some of these terror attacks were ready to go. we were recording a couple of hours ago that the ring leader of the paris attacks abdelhamid

abaaoud paid his cousin to buy him flashy clothes and shoes. he wanted her to buy two suits and two pairs of shoes for himself and an accomplice for those further terror attacks. this is something that fits into the kind of pattern he showed in the past. in january when the charlie hebdo attacks happened, another plot was busted in belgium where he was the ring leader of a group trying to acquire police uniforms that were supposed to be used for terror attacks. planning attacks against jewish installations here. i was in the jewish quarter here in paris and a lot of people were concerned about this new information coming out. one woman said she is packing her bags and move to israel from france. >> awful outcome. thank you, fred.

the bush administration spokesman for the coalition in iraq and general wesley clark. these combat troops, we can get rid of the rhetorical saying they are not combat troops. they are combat troops. is this the plan, the strategy? >> it's the beginning of a plan but doesn't seem like a real strategy. putting some pressure on isis on the ground is helpful to chase them around. the reality is isis has a massive sanctuary in the eastern part of north eastern syria and western iraq, a massive sanctuary. there's been no real effort to win over the local populations in our fight against isis. 5 million sunnis in iraq, 60 million sunnis in syria. many of them are gravitating to isis because it is their only source of protection. what are we doing to win over --

>> you're pointing out isis is not just an ideology, but is becoming a country. >> a self-sustaining political entity, self-sustaining economically and militarily. until we address how to shut down that sanctuary, everything else is symptoms. just sending in a little more special operations capability, again, not a bad thing. what is the long-term strategic goal? what do we do once we chase isis out of mosul? what replaces isis? these are big issues that haven't been articulated. >> general clark, we have started to see a dribble-drabble. special opes here and there. >> that was vietnam. this is not iraq or afghanistan. we've got to get some kind of political consensus that bridges the gap between iran's objectives supported by russia

and saudi arabia and turkey. so that we can then turn our attention on isis. if we can't do that, the alternative is we just mass against isis coming out of iraq going into syria. when do you that, isis is not a regular army. when they start to lose, they'll feed back into the operation, disappear and will be an occupying force. we are looking at this -- >> if you were to throw in ground troops, the world is looking to the united states to lead. only the united states can do it. put in the ground troops why. not? >> go back to the way we did it in bosnia in the 1990s. we put together a plan, brought the parties together and said we would put ground troops in under certain conditions. you could set up conditions to bring iran, saudi arabia and turkey together and everybody

works against isis. i've got to compromise with russia on how long assad stays. that means russia's going to demand some kind of residual base. that means up another got to have some peace keeping force after. that means you've got to deal with shiadis. >> one of the reasons isis has so much purchase in syria and iraq is because there is a sense russia is protecting assad, assad is slaughtering the sunnis. any deal with russia that says we are going to ignore putin, we are going to -- sorry, ignore

assad will only feed the sunni push. putin cares about protecting assad. the saudis care with confronting iran. turkey cares about pt kurds in syria. the u.s. and france seem to be the only ones -- >> it's not about terrorism. this is about the future of the middle east as seen in the shape of syria. you've got to look how to protect the various elements of the population. nobody gets what they want. iran doesn't get its land bridge to the mediterranean, saudi arabia doesn't get an exclusively sunni syria jordan. there's got to be some give. when we did this in bosnia, we carved out an area for the serbs. the muslim leader hated it, but everybody was sick in the war. in this case, we've got to get this arranged --

>> what about getting a wassy sunni political state carved out and have that sunni entity be the place where sunnis being slaughtered, whether by isis or assad can go. >> problem is so many of the sunni powers are willing to look the other way on this. >> you've got to put them together in a federal state. you could have some u.n. umbrella over it and put people on the ground. you've got to do this as a way of then focusing on getting rid of isis and replacing it with something. simply putti inting 40,000 troo doesn't solve the problem. got to replace. >> the conditions that existed in paris that enabled the isis attack to occur in paris, many exist here. permissive environment, access to weapons and bomb-making materials and an intelligence system that seems to be overwhelmed. all those conditions existed in

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the illinois attorney general asking the department of justice to investigate the chicago police department. this in the wake of a video showing a white police officer shooting a black teen 16 times. the mayor of chicago, rahm emanuel today firing the city's top cop. now protesters are calling for emanuel himself to lose his job as cries of a major cover-up grow louder and louder. >> reporter: since the chilling video of the shooting death of laquan mcdonald was released last week, rahm emanuel stood by the city's top cop gary mccarthy. >> do you feel the mayor has your back as you said many times? >> as recently as yesterday, he said the same thing. i'm going to say yes. >> reporter: a few hours later, a very different message from emanuel. >> this morning, i formally asked for his resignation. >> reporter: the mayor applauded

his tenure as leader of the city's police force but argued a change at the top was needed. >> given what we are working on, he has become an issue rather than dealing with the issue. and a distraction. >> reporter: this was the scene outside the mayor's office inside city hall. a growing chorus of critics calling for emanuel to step down and allegations that top officials are covering up key details in the shooting of laquan mcdonald. the dash cam video was only released after freelance journalist brandon smith filed a lawsuit forcing the city of chicago to make it public. >> there's a lot of talk and a lot of accusations that there's been a cover-up in this story. do you agree with that? >> i do. it's hard to paint it any other way, what with all we still don't know about laquan's case. >> reporter: critics are asking

why audio is missing from the police dash cameras and an employee a the a nearby burger king alleges police deleted 90 minutes of surveillance video from the time of the shooting. the top prosecutor says the videos were not tampered with, but the alleged gap does raise questions. then there is a fact it took more than a year to charge officer jason van dyke with first degree murder. emanuel says he is committed to regaining the trust of the community. >> i'm responsible. i have taken certain steps prior to this date. i'm taking steps today. this is a work in progress. it's the beginning of the solution towards the problem. >> reporter: when you go to these protests around the city that have taken place over the course of the last week, one of the chants you hear over and over again, 16 shots and a cover-up. those protests and chants having a great effect what we saw

unfold today in chicago as the mayor tries to get a handle on the crisis surrounding him. >> ed, thank you very much. no doubt hoping getting rid of his top cop will be enough. obviously others are calling for rahm emanuel to step aside. out front brian warn er and clarence page. the charges of a cover-up are growing louder and louder. one you heard a moment ago, a missing surveillance video. burger king manager says police deleted 80 minutes of video from his store. 86 minutes he says cover the crucial moments before, after and during the shooting. how is that not suspicious? >> let me start by saying a police-involved shooting is one of the most difficult investigations in law enforcement. it affects everyone. the officer involved in the shooting, the family members of the officer, the department, the

alleged victim or offender shot by the police. it's a difficult investigation. when we get people throwing things out there for their own self-interest and agitators, trying to get their own message out there, it's unfortunate. i think the fbi evaluated that time. "the sun-times" reported they evaluated that tape and there is nothing amiss with it. it's a low-level security camera system. anybody in law enforcement that's gone to investigate a crime will tell you a lot of those systems are basically useless. >> you think it's coincidence those 80 minutes are missing? you don't find that problematic? >> i'm not certain anyone said 86 minutes are missing. >> the manager of the burger king has said it. >> the manager of the burger king is not an expert and has the technology the fbi has. i would put my faith in the fbi

technology. >> clarence, what do you think about the tapes and more broadly. protesters chanting "16 shots and a cover-up." can you explain away things like that burger king tape? >> i think the gap in the tape is as suspicious as the gap in the watergate tape. it's not just that burger king video. witnesses say police shooed civilians away from the scene when they should have been taking names like a normal investigation would proceed. witnesses say police tried to get them to change their stories. a lot needs to be investigated here. that looks like the sort of traditional cover-up we are accustomed to. i used to cover chicago police. i have a great deal of respect for anybody who wears a police

officer's uniform and does his or her job. i know we have a terrible problem with a culture of corruption in the city, recently disclosed rundowns on complaints against officers showed more than 10% have more than 10 complaints against them on their record. that includes van dyke who had 18. yet he was never disciplined. most don't get disciplined. this needs investigation and needs action. >> brian, let me ask you. 18 complaints against this officer, he's out on bail. charged with first degree murder, out on bail. something that outraged some of the protesters. the video so many feel is damning, you don't see the same way. why not? >> i don't. the video shows the primary part showing seven seconds of the shooting. it does not have audio.

if you put yourself in officer van dyke's position why he did what he did, i'm certain when this goes to court and he has his day, his trial, he will be found not guilty. a lot of people won't like that outcome. if you look at the shooting in its totality, you have an armed offender. hierarchy, he is an armed assailant. he has a knife. there's been numerous 911 calls saying this guy is dangerous, we need help. police arrive. police telling the dispatcher, this guy is on drugs, he is swinging a knife, stabs the tire of a police car. heading to a strip mall where there are other citizens that could be in danger. he decides if he does not act at this point, something awful will happen here. he is an armed assailant with a knife refusing police orders to drop that knife. could this go all the way to the top, as you mention

watergate? could it go to rahm emanuel? >> rahm seems to be safely re-elected. the prosecutor is in much more difficult straits because she is facing a primary in march this tape is damning. look at the cases around the country like this. you find that judges and juries find against police officers when you've got a videotape to back it up. michael brown out there in ferguson and the police officer gets the benefit of the doubt. >> thanks very much to both of you. a lot more to come on this story. next, donald trump live in new hampshire doing something unexpected. he is taking questions. he was not anticipated to do that from the crowd. we are listening to them. can he win the nomination? there is only one person republicans insiders tonight seem to fear more than donald trump. ok, we're here. here's dad. mom. the twins. aunt alice... you didn't tell me aunt alice was coming.

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you're looking at live pictures out of new hampshire. donald trump holding a campaign rally. tonight marks nine weeks until

the iowa caucuses. after six months, trump is leading in both states. he is the front-runner. jeff, some are saying could donald trump be feeling the heat, people have been coming after him, there might be issues with ted cruz. trump is going to take questions at the event you're at. is he feeling the heat? >> reporter: he is going to be taking questions here. just behind me you can see him talking here. it is a full house on an icy night in new hampshire. i don't know he's feeling the heat. he is feeling a different moment from what voters want. he said i know you have questions for me so i'm here to answer your questions. we'll find out what kind of questions they have for him. >> that's going to be fascinating. jeff will be there for us monitoring it. thank you very much. we'll bring jeff in as we get more information to what people do ask donald trump. one of the most known things he did in relation to a question

about muslims happened in an unscripted event. national spokeswoman for the donald trump campaign and political commentator ben ferguson. katrina, donald trump going to be taking audience questions. does that make you nervous? these unscripted moments are often where he, frankly, purposefully, decides to throw bombs. >> that's a great question. it doesn't make me nervous. donald trump is donald trump. he's the same guy he was in the beginning. he has taken questions from audience members before, after and during an event. i'm excited he is engaging with the voters. he's in his element when he's with the people. i'm excited he is doing this. >> ben, "the new york times" reporting tonight republicans are panicking. they are panicking. they are running around scared like chickens with their heads cut off because they are realizing donald trump could go all the way. you have not been a trump fan. is there anyone that can stop

him? there's only been one candidate who has proven they can get on top and stay on top and that is donald trump. >> sure. other candidates will be able to challenge him, especially in the ground game of iowa, new hampshire, south carolina and other states. most campaigns are focusing on that while donald trump is leading in the national polls, there are still issues that continue to haunt him. saying there were thousands of people i saw on tv celebrating the twin towers coming down in new jersey. there wasn't thousands of people there there were some, but those little comments come down to an issue of trustworthy. do you want someone who will never apologize ever for anything, even when he is blatantly wrong? that's where it gets him in trouble in iowa and new hampshire. you have a thoughtful group of voters there. they are not easily tricked. they are not easily people that jump on bandwagons either. what really matters is when it comes down to it.

i think there are other candidates that have a good ground game. >> the editor and publisher of the cook political report charlie cook says he is willing to bet donald trump will not be the republican nor ben carson. if they end up nominating trump or carson i will dine on crow and i don't expect to be reaching for the pepto-bismol. >> everyone said he is not going to file, put out his financials, not going to get ahead. everybody has been wrong. i see no difference in today than the very first day of the campaign. the people in iowa are very smart. there have been millions of dollars spent in iowa and donald trump continues to climb. what the republicans are missing is that donald trump isn't just some politician nobody knows. he has 100% name recognition. people know his family and have

seen him in the limelight for decades. you can't convince people donald trump is something he isn't to them. >> what happens if he loses the first stage in the race? polls in iowa obviously show ted cruz within a margin of error. these numbers could move all over the place. you could go to donald trump losing the first few states and being out of the race, right? >> absolutely. cnbc released an article saying donald trump turns out the most voters up against hillary clinton. other republicans aren't bringing in democrats or independents, aren't bringing in new voters like donald trump. there will be more caucus goers in iowa this time than last time. >> ben, would you get in line behind donald trump? >> no. not at this point. i think because you have 00% name recognition doesn't mean that is going to allow your gaffes to not matter. the kardashians probably have

100% name recognition, too. it doesn't mean they are going to win. donald trump gets himself in trouble assuming because everyone knows him as a reality tv show host that they are going to trust him when it comes to national security. there is another big key factor here that i think they overes a matd the trump campaign. when it comes down to plans and sitting down with voters in small little rooms and answering questions of voters, you better have better answers than "i'm always right and i did see something on tv you didn't see." those aren't going to fly with caucus voters. >> thanks to both of you. >> you did miss giuliani on tv. >> he said he did not see thousands of people in the streets in new jersey. >> he corroborated there were issues going on. >> this is where your campaign gets in trouble. the facts are there were not

thousands of people in new jersey. that's a lie. >> ben, finish your point. >> it's a lie when you say it and giuliani did not back you up today. he did not say there were thousands of people. this is when you insult voters in primary states by telling them a story that everyone knows is not true or real. there were not thousands of people. as a serious candidate, you should be able to admit when you're wrong. >> thanks to both of you. don't miss the next gop debate here on cnn. that will come up tuesday 15th starting at 9:00 eastern. "out front" next -- ted cruz closing in on donald trump in iowa. does cruz have what it takes to go the distance? >> new and disturbing details on the crash of air asia 8501. all 162 onboard dead. what brought down one of the most popular planes flying in the sky? the more you learn about your insurance,

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tonight, ted cruz rising.

the texas senator within striking distance of donald trump in iowa. can cruz sustain this new momentum and make it to next november? >> i don't believe donald trump will be our nominee. >> reporter: ted cruz ascending, within striking distance of donald trump in iowa. >> at some point has to hit me. we will hit back, i promise. >> we rise up as we the people. >> reporter: known as a fire brand who seems to revel in stirring the pot. his approach less speaks softly, more speak provocatively. more evidence of that fact in the last 48 hours alone. cruz' answer to a voter's question about access to birth control. >> what do you do? you go aha! the condom police. i'm going to make up a completely made up threat and try to scare a bunch of folks that are not paying a lot of attention into thinking someone is going to steal their birth

control. what nonsense. last i checked, we don't have a rubber shortage in america. >> reporter: cruz criticizing the media around its coverage of the colorado planned parenthood shooter. >> he was registered as an independent and a woman and transgender leftist activist if that's what he is. i don't think it's fair to blame on the rhetoric on the left. this is a murderer. >> reporter: he says he was trying to make a point against rushing to judgment and charging that most felons are democrats. >> listen, here's the simple and undeniable fact. the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are democrats. >> reporter: the cruz campaign citing a 2014 study of three states finding that ex-felons who register to vote do so overwhelmingly as democrats. such incendiary flourishes injecting urgency and drama in his campaign are nothing new to cruz who regularly takes his attacks on president obama to the next level. >> the obama administration will

become quite literally the world's leading financier of radical islamic terrorists. >> reporter: two months from today, the first votes will be cast in iowa. a lot can and will change before then. ted cruz has the added threat. he laid ground work in the southern states which could go a long way for him going forward. >> thank you. "out front" now, cnn political analyst david gergen. a lot of people are asking the question right now, is the ted cruz surge for real? >> i think it is. i think he could be a real threat to donald trump and carson and the rest. he's very smart and crafty.

he did clerk for the chief justice of the united states supreme court bill rehnquist. and his wife is a partner at goldman sacks. strong couple, very smart people. he understands politics. he raised a lot of money. he's raised twice as much money between him and his pacs as have marco rubio. he's got to beat rubio first before he can make this a one-on-one against trump. >> you have some who will be terrified of ted cruz. more terrified of ted cruz than donald trump who they have been trying to crush for months now. >> he has not been a team player in the senate. he's been a bomb-thrower. they blame him for shotting down the government and forcing the government to shut down. a lot of republicans got hurt over there calm of years ago. very importantly here, there are a lot of republicans in the senate, republicans control the senate today, but worried if ted cruz is on the top of the ticket

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the science of psi. so he's the pop star behind the most watched youtube video in history. now psi is back, trying to top his own record with a new video

his own record with a new video. here's jeanne moos. >> between riding that invisible horse on to the world stage three years ago. now the question is, can he lasso the success of "gangnam style" with "daddy"? he's back. playing the part of baby and kid. daddy and grandpa. all at once. and while media may say we're so sorry you had to see this horrifying brilliant video full of coordinated flailing, what matters is whether young people flail along with it. he introduced himself back in 2012. >> i'm psy from korea. how are you? >> reporter: ended up being impersonated. and playing himself on "snl." psy taught the horsey dance to everyone from britney spears and ellen, to the gang on the

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>> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thank you so much for joining us. be sure to set your dvr to report "outfront" any time. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. thanks for joining us. a shooting that many in chicago call a cover-up with very serious implications. city police officer jason van dyke shot and killed laquan mcdonald in october of last year. he was the only officer to fire even a single shot. the city and police union put out a statement about the shooting that later proved misleading. however, the only way to tell for sure was to look at the video you just saw, which only came out last week, and only after people went to court to get that released. officer van dyke was charged in the killing only last week. chicago's mayor rahm emanuel only took action with respect to