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#oneluckyguy, editor of "the daily caller" and co-host of "fox & friends" weekend, tucker carlson. we remind you you're "outnumbered". >> profoundly. thanks for having me. harris: daily white house brief something expected in minutes. we anticipate learning more about the u.s. authorizing military put 20 or 30 special operations forces in syria on the ground to help local ground forces and syrian fighters to take out the islamic state. we're hearing from number of advisors will not number more than 50 at any point. also this. the administration is setting up a special ops task force to work with iraqis to go after high value targets in that country. let's bring in kevin corke live from the white house with more. kevin? reporter: harris, thank you. i love you broke down the number. up to 50 special operations forces will be now engaged with

what i call syrian rebels on the ground. as you also point out, not just syria but iraq. couple things to focus on. number one the white house would argue this is sort of enhancement of their strategy. not so much of a shift. they would say we planned to do something like this. we only announced it now because it seems to pay dividends. number two, is important, harris the way the white house is going about it. you saw the raid that cost the life of american joshua wheeler. that was part of ad advise and assist mission done by special operations force. we'll see a whole lot more potentially on the ground. this is significant, not just in syria but iraq. i want to make a distinction, harris. you hear people talk about special forces. special operations forces. big difference. special forces is very specific group of military personnel. special operations forces you can draw wide swath of military

forces to hand them these operations, harris. harris: defense secretary ash carter said we'll intensify what we're doing. here are some drip drip coming in. maybe you can add detail. we're putting a-10 tens and f-15s in a base in turkey. what else are you hearing? reporter: i am glad you brought that up. why are warthogs, strike eagles, f-15s on the way to turkey? i believe if you step back for a second, this is part of american strategy to enhance relationships in the region. you mentioned working more closely with iraqis in the special operations task force. talk about doubling down relationship with lebanon and jordan. what is happening here, i believe is the u.s. is shoring up its relationships to counterbalance what we've seen with russians moving in, full sail into the region. that seems to be what's at play here. at least in part. to say nothing of the fact it

seems to be part of a broader battle of isis strategy enhancing operations elsewhere to target isis wherever they might be, harris. harris: we'll ping-pong one more time. you brought up russia. this is crossing wires right now. russia, associate press. defense mincy tick up number they're doing against islamic state. russian air force said they destroyed more than 1600 what they call terrorist objects inside of syria. interesting timing they're giving this information as you put it we're intensifying. reporter: i love the way this all plays out. we figured as soon as administration might announce something like this. as you point out, stay with fox news. we'll have details as soon as briefing gets underway within the hour. i suspect russians make announcement. tell you why. the russians want to keep up the narrative they're attacking isis. when in fact what they're really doing, is attacking syrian rebel

forces trying to unseat and usher out of power assad regime in syria. that is why you're hearing from russians. we'll hear as much from the white house and pentagon later today. harris: kevin corke, thank you very, very much outside the white house. we'll come back to you as news warrants. we'll await the press briefing. tucker, i want to come to you first. for those people tuning in, why are they talking about details inside of this? from everything i'm reading this would be first time we would have had this sort of presence openly on the ground in syria. >> sure i think we've had people in syria for a while. harris: absolutely. >> you're absolutely right. so frustrating to listen to this. this is actually not fighting isis not a strategy, it is a tactic. isis is not cause of the chaos in the region, it is product of it. product of a power vacuum of a civil war in the most volatile region in the world, borders israel, jordan, turkey, iraq. you can't have chaos. you will see what happens.

europe totally overwhelmed by refugees. totally transformed. you need country under control. rebels, freedom groups is not answer. you need to restore, i don't care whether strong man. you need to restore the order in the country. factor out shiny objects. point is getting syria under control. if that means supporting strong man in charge, that is what -- harris: what is interesting what you're saying sounds where president obama is going yesterday. i don't know if he wants to. >> i noticed that. harris: he invites iran to the table. tells everybody, well i had to because i'm willing, not a had-to, but he did. he is willing to talk to anybody about syria at this point. point. julie? >> tucker is absolutely right. i'm having deja vu in vietnam. putting advisors in syria. we're putting equipment on bored he of turkey, lebanon. what is that? containing what is going on in

syria and iraq making sure it doesn't spread to jordan which is ally of turkey or ally anomaly, though they have been a little nuts. what are we doing in lebanon? there is nobody in lebanon in charge. it is failed state. who are we working in lebanon? is it hezbollah? harris: we need you at the press briefing. >> that is the problem. absolutely insane policy no more than 50 people? i don't care if it is best team of 50 biters we have. harris: they would be among the best. >> what is the endgame or strategy. i haven't heard it in a year since the civil war has been going on. andrea: i hear the word task force, my stomach turns. they're not fighting but advisory role but essentially us sending more people over there getting us in a proxy war with russia and iran. we're aiding these rebels. these pro-freedom rebels? they're not pro-freedom. if assad falls vacuum will be filled with isis or rebels that

believe same kind of jihadi philosophy. we see that in countries like libya. if the president is willing to sit down with anyone, why hasn't he sat down soonwer vladmir putin? we have es haved interest to sit down with the russians how we as tucker points out stablize that region. i don't understand what this white house is doing. the drip, drip, you mentioned harris, that will only feed isis and this white house and everything else only made that thing more dangerous an unstable. harris: melissa, as we go into the weekend, i'm on the air this weekend with "fox report," we begin to ask questions what are the words american people need to hear at this point about this story? because this story, if you go back to the red line a couple years ago, when assad was accused of using chemical weapons on his own people. president obama says you do that, you're crossing a line, blah blah. then the president backs off. we're at this point. now we're taking action.

it has been two years. >> they need to here we have definite plan and want to take control much as tucker said. what they have heard so far there is a red line. it is crossed and nothing happens. they heard, no matter what we'll not put boots on the ground. now we're doing that you feel like there isn't anyone in charge who has definitive plan who has strategy and a backbone. the problem to all the people who did not want to get involved in the first place. it is chaos, difficult to tell what side we're on, you can't tell what the right solution will be but not getting involved is not an option. that's what we're learning. it spills over into other regions. vacuum creates more problem that are getting bigger. we're not leading, we're not being strong, we're not being definitive we're responding at this point which is huge mistake. for everyone that thought we can't get involved it is not possible. the world is growing and this is what you get. harris: the good news for him he

has two superpowers let him sit in place. russia is fighting for him. we'll basically go back after isis and leave in place what is there, at least not for now. >> red line kabuki the president's own authority i would never defend. you have to ask question going forward why is assad worse than alternatives. harris: andrea has been asking that question. >> not in in way endorse monestrousties or -- monstrosities or crimes he committed, but past 14 years, bad governments but nothing would worse than chaos. chaos is worse for the population and rest of us in the world. ask anybody in austria. what do you think of the gaping wound in the middle east that is drawning your country in refugees? this has consequences. andrea: think about christians, we talk about the persecution of christians, were arguably treated far better under saddam hussein than bashar al-assad than treated now.

and isis will fill that vacuum. at vladmir putin could care less about isis. number one logistically, isis is in very eastern side of syria right now. he, his one goal is shoring up assad. that is the primarily goal. he is fighting people in damascus, ones that are biggest threat to assad. two, he sees himself as protector of the orthodox church. that is why he put the ban, can't say the name, in jail because they defamed the orthodox church. he understands threat of jihad. we should have talked to him a long time ago. harris, as you point out, we're teaming up with rebels. rebels are fighting assad. assad is being backed by russia and iran. harris: around and around we go. >> let me say something that is very important to you. to tucker's point, assad is atrocious dictator, turkey has

to realize instead of beating up on kurds if assad goes, guess what is coming, what is on border? he they will be overrun by isis next. that is the border to europe. harris: julie, let's get back to the politics. that is part of the journey with the white house. stick your toe in, stick your toe out. with strategy we haven't been able to decipher. how do democrats feel about the fact this is war president? this is president starting new wars? >> i can't speak for other democrats i'm absolutely disgusted with policy for syria. the reason for that? red line should have not been laid down was crossed, no consequences. reality we had no plan for syria. i don't know what the plan for syria. i don't know what the solution is. i also know the white house doesn't have solution. he is trying to manage something up until leaves and next president will deal with it. andrea: we spent $500 million to train five freedom fighters that handed our weapons to al nusra.

that is what we've done so far, besides creating chaos. harris: what are we waiting for next? you see empty lecturn. usually bottom of the hour at this point every day press secretary white house to step up make a statement if he has one off the top and take a whole lot of questions. sop of the questions on the couch we want to know, what exactly is the strategy in syria as we go forth? what is the plan for our no more than 50 in quotes, special operation forces inside the ground in syria and iraq and advise positions. we'll move on. jeb bush reportedly telling his donors he needs to get better but saying his campaign is not on life-support. well, did they buy it or will they start jumping ship? stay close. ♪ did you know that good nutrition

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♪ andrea: major fallout after this week's gop debate. republican presidential campaigns are reportedly meeting this weekend to talk about how to change their party's debate process. according to "politico," no one from the rnc is invited, including chairman reince priebus, who is promising that all future debates will be

reevaluated, and he lashed out at cnbc last night on "hannity." watch. >> they put out a pretty decent show in the morning on cnbc. they did a debate four years ago that was a decent debate. obviously we had assurances would be straight up finance, what they do every day. >> can -- >> nothing but a crap sandwich. andrea: gearing up for lunch. don't think about that thought. what do you think, tucker? i was thinking peanut butter an jelly. >> trying to get get out of my ahead. andrea: thinking about the gop it was a crap sandwich. people are saying he should go. blaming rnc, reince single hand he hadly will patrol debates. whose fault is it. >> they are weak, awe he no. they don't have that much power anymore to effect their desires.

i also think, i understand frustration of people watching the debate. i think one key reform going forward, don't let john harwood obviously every on television. he is too unimpressive. harris: ouch. >> it's true. did you learn lot from the debate? was it interesting? yeah you did. should republican whining? i understand questions were unfair. some were not questions but questions of condemn -- contempt. i learned about people. >> can i whine about liberals. >> you whine a lot. always need therapy. harris: this group can galvanize and become quite formidable as group. they were forced to take over the debate because they had to in absence of leadership. they had a interesting conversation when we could watch and moderates were not interrupting. chris christie said stop interrupting. even in jersey its true.

>> that is lot coming from chris christie. >> calls you rude. harris: as we go forward, and you know, maybe we're missing the point here but as we go forward, why is it that donald trump did a better job than reince priebus in terms of negotiating what this debate should look like? you've been reading reports that carson and trump were talking about putting something together to take it to the networks an looking out for themselves. donald trump, up until then they would be three, 3 1/2 hours with this debate. according to him he got to negotiate it all the way down to two. in fact it was two and 10 change. why is he a better negotiator than reince priebus? andrea: what is incredible, melissa, gop has power, they bring ratings. rates bring money. they bring entertainment. the debate was far more entertaining on cnn when the democrat were hugging each other. more of a love sandwich than a crap sandwich. what is point of whining? tucker hit nail on head. they were mean to me.

candidates saying yesterday, and i just thought, you know what, let your surrogates do that. you have to be on offense. you have to look strong. you can't be whining. melissa: i don't believe they're upset about it, except for jeb bush they all came out looking better. they rolled the moderators like so many substitute teachers. so embarrassing for moderators. i felt sorry for them out there. they came out looking bad. i don't believe for a second republicans are unhappy about debate. they got a nice bounce. look like they came together. i don't believe that for a second. they all won. tune town kumbayah, compliments of cnbc. like clintons love to have enemy. i think debate moderators made them better. melissa: yeah. andrea: questions were nasty and rude. melissa: they weren't even questions. andrea: they gave them opportunity to fire back and shine for first time. >> to tucker's point liberals may not love anything more than whining but nothing republicans

more than complaining about mainstream media. congratulations, cnbc. that is exactly -- everybody came out a winner. gingrich went after somebody at cnn complaining questions being asked of him. donald trump obviously first fox debate doubled downtown town gingrich complained about chris wallace. harris: he was on yesterday. >> that's right. and then obviously donald trump was able to score some points by doing that, recently the first debate. this is now the thing. you don't like questions you are asked. instead of answering, you complain. being president is about answering questions. i know they were ridiculous. melissa: they were statements followed by zingers. >> questions really along the lines, why are you so a -- awful. andrea: you're thinking about what kind of sandwich you're having, be honest, tucker. next republican debate less than

two weeks away on tuesday, november 10th. our own sandra smith and trish regan start coverage at 6:00 p.m. and maria bartiromo and neil cavuto at 9:00 p.m. that will be great. fox news alert. the white house confirming that u.s. will send special-ops forces to iraq and syria. white house press secretary josh earnest expecting to make that shortly. we expect to learn more about the united states authorizing our military to send 20 to 30 special-ops forces out there. we're watching. we'll bring that to you live as it happens.

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harris: we're awaiting white house briefing on fox news alert. wan to draw your attention to the lecturn after the left of the screen. we're anticipating the white house press secretary will step up there as he does each day at this time.

we're couple minutes away when that normal would happen. one of the questions will be about the u.s. military authorizing or obama administration authorizing the u.s. military to put up 50 advisors, military special operations forces on the ground inside of syria and iraq. they're promising no more than 50. 20 or 30 or so on syria side. then in iraq you make up the difference with the numbers there. number one, what is our strategy for going after the islamic state inside of syria and what will that look like with both russia fighting there to shore up the current leader of syria, bashar al-assad? what is your mission still in iraq. does this give us more of a creep zone in terms of going after isis this way? we'll shore up ground forces in open fashion now in syria. we've been doing that somewhat on the iraq side but more detailed manner. we're watching. a lot of questions to ask. when this happens, we'll take you there live. andrea: we turn back to

presidential politics. jeb bush blink to rear assure anxious -- reassure anxious donors after they were telling them he needs to get better at debates after a dismal showing at the republican debate last ni he had this to say to fox news after this ill-fated decision to go after marco rubio is terminal for his campaign? >> we have a great ground game in iowa, south carolina. all across the country we have the best organization. i will work hard to be able to earn people's support. i knew this would be a long journey, but to suggest the campaign is terminal, come on, that's pretty funny. andrea: meantime there are reports that bush's camp divide how to challenge rubio who had much stronger debate performance. "new york times" that bush's super-pac wants him to hammer marco rubio why some donors are uneasy going after a guy they like. rubio's camp reportedly working on some of the same donors to

get them to defect from bush. tucker, the campaign seems to be really in hospice at this point. i know they have a lot of money. i know he says they have a great ground game but it is candidate that has issues. he is just not getting better. he is getting worse. >> i don't know about that. first of all, i really like jeb bush. i think he is decent man. i think he would be fine president. i don't think it is about candidate, i don't think ever about the candidate. i think it is what the voters want at moment election takes place. avert your gaze from people running look to the country. are they clamoring for candidate like bush? they are not. in conventional year he would have gotten nomination. i'm not sure he is aware of it, some who are great and deeply entitled expected day one this would be amassing biggest war chest and rolling over everyone else. that is massive miscalculation. when history of period is

written you have to say this is the wrong year for bush. andrea: peggy noonan is writing about that in the "wall street journal" i disagree with you. he is bad candidate. should have had answers on iraq. should have been way more on debate. made her point this morning in "the wall street journal" look at noonan. she is so smart. read from the smart woman's column. jeb was playing from old playbook. hopes to show people his heart and run joy justly. in 2015 they don't care about your heart and joy, about complain about your brains and toughness. they thought with brother and father president, a front-runner, gop would fall in line for but there is no falling in line this year, harris faulkner. harris: when you're attracted to outsiders tucker is pointing out, some voters are, 70% in recent polling haven't made up their mind and think there is more to come, wouldn't matter how you were doing at this point if you're not flavor that they're looking for. i agree with you tucker, he may just not be that.

i want to know why you were rolling your eyes when you were joking he can get better. do you think he can? melissa: i don't think he can get better. looks like he is in agony. i bring you facts about his economic record. he has one of the most impressive. let me give you three i haven't given before. number of private sector jobs increased 20%. personal income rose 68%. he vetoed 2 billion in spending. i love he is great economic record but he just not able to get out there and -- harris: why not? melissa: inspire people, not just in his blood or way he is made up. you have to win an argument. tough convince people to do what you want. this is part of the job of being a president. and he just doesn't have it in him. it is like he doesn't want the job. that's the problem. andrea: julie, is it timing? is it poor performance? is it both? headline today, jeb bush not ready for prime time. >> i have to disagree with tucker, i think it is always about the candidate.

if he were good candidate, rise to the moment and occasion. his brother was good candidate, very charismatic. he is least-prepared major candidate i have ever seen. he is not prepared on iraq. he is not prepared to answer question about family name even though he must have known two issues would come up. rubio thing was inexcusable. i don't know how many candidates i have prepped for debates you have to go after rubio you assume he will come back with what he came back for. obvious answer. harris: they're friends. they know each other. >> gaming stuff out. if you lob attack you have to anticipate what the guy comes back with. >> everything you said is true. losing candidates are always bad candidates. >> no, not necessarily. >> no, i think it is true. america doesn't want continue a dynasty. i think it raises really interesting question for hillary clinton, wouldn't be frontrunner or in the race if she wasn't married to a former president popular with democrats.

if they want to overthrow establishment come october next year? as dynastic candidate? i think it is weakness for her. harris: quick question for you andrea, you haven't weighed in on this. jeb bush said he had other cool things besides being in a race like this? what did he mean? andrea: i don't know, harris. watched "supergirl" show. he better clear his calendar, way he is going he will have plenty of time to do all that cool stuff. one of the candidates who got positive reviews from this week's gop debate was republican governor chris christie. that despite "the new york times" editorial board calling for him to drop out of the 2016 race. yeah, those are his friends. editorial reads in part, the point is that new jersey is in trouble and the governor is off pursuing a presidential run that turned out to be nothing more than a vanity project. mr. christy's numbers are in the basement. he is nearly out of campaign cash. this is his moment. all right, to go home and use the year left in his term to

clean out the barn as speaker john boehner would say. governor chris christie tweeting response to "new york times" saying quote, can't read the article because i don't have a subscription. i can tell you this, i am not going anywhere. my garden state, friend, over here. >> you know who agrees with "new york times" on this? 67% of new jersey voters according to october 15th rutgers university poll. 56% of new jersey republican want him to get out? you know why? new jersey is in dumpster. highest property taxes in nation. second highest long term unemployed. highest foreclosures is in the nation. transportation trust fund, busted. nine credit downgrades under chris christie. come home. do your job. stop running around. "new york times" gave him a big present. "new york times" gave him humongous gift doing this. the republicans love to whine about the mainstream media. this is big boost. got to come home. do your jobs. my parents live there.

want property taxes lowered. >> what? i'm sorry. note the internal contradiction in your argument. >> what? >> you're arguing simultaneously the guy is totally inept and yet one guy who can solve new jersey 's problems. >> no, you're wrong. >> multigenerational problems of a totally corrupt state. >> no, no. harris: all democrats want their taxes lowered. >> no, he didn't lower taxes. melissa: you want property taxes lower. why do democrats want everyone else to pay taxes but themselves? you're so busted. >> what am i busted for? what am i busted for? melissa: single issue voter. i hate paying taxes. >> chris christie will make your live miserable. needs to come home. harris: that is double-standard. you said it is miserable because he is not there. i live in new jersey. which is it? >> you need more chris christie. he is like superman. >> can i answer my question?

i need most powerful governor in the state to come back work with the democrats. >> only governor in the state. >> sorry. most powerful governor in the nation to come back, work with the democrats and legislature follow up with some problems. he has a stack of bills on his desk he hasn't signed. they're sitting there. he hasn't taken any action because he is sy prancing around iowa, new hampshire. >> you're right. harris: democrat on the couch called chris christie most powerful governor in united states. >> constitutionally. constitutionally he is. >> might be part of your problem over there in new jersey. >> not my problem. i live in new york. thank you, andrew cuomo. harris: her parents live in new jersey. >> my taxes are horrible this side of the hudson. >> we can all move to florida. >> that's true. harris: i wonder if chris christie is watching? >> he has my number. andrea: got endorsement from julie roginsky. >> not an endorsement.

i want him to come home. >> he is a great candidate. watch him at debates he is fantastic. numbers are not moving. not just about the candidate and performance. >> he is horrible candidate. debate is not only quality. andrea: incredible when democrats run for office and sitting senators or governors "new york times" say buptkus. when republican does it, "new york times" arbitrarily say who should be in the race. >> a lot of people think "new york times" is national paper. it is local paper for the tri-state region. >> it's a bad paper. >> they're weighing in on him as neighbor next door. andrea: julie roginsky wants you back with lower taxes. >> and roads fixed and credit downgrade. andrea: learning a lot on this show. thank god it's friday. awaiting white house press briefing right now. united states sending

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♪ melissa: starting today the justice department which release 6,000 federal inmates whose truck sentences were reduced over new federal guidelines. this is first group that will be release as result of changes. 8,000 will be eligible between now and november. most doing non-violent crimes of cocaine and meth. think cut drug sentences average of two years and make them retroactive. we're tolled each prisoner will

undergo public safety assessment. tucker what do you think? >> this country has too many laws. dennis hastert is penalized for taking money out of his own checking account. let's not be decadent. don't forget what '80s or '90s were like. you couldn't go to the grocery store without being jumped. crime will jump when we open up prison gates. american history we tend to overcorrect on everything. do it thought fully so the crime rate doesn't spike. melissa: this is what makes me nervous. i ap did analysis found there were defendants with semi-automatic weapons and robbery and crimes, moved cocaine shipments across states and participated in international heroin smuggling. this is what the ap found, julie, doing investigation of people being considered here. >> yeah. look i am generally for criminal justice reform. ran paul was on the couch last

week, i commended him on work doing this. i think it is very effective. they did studies show recidivism doesn't go up longer you stay in prison for drug dealers or people busted for drugs. you're right to say we bust people for way too much stuff. if you're in prison because you're dealing a small amount of cocaine or small amount of meth, i think it is horrible thing to do to people, but on other hand some people need treatment. they don't need to be in prison. melissa: some. ap found more that were more dangerous. i worry about the big shifts. andrea: this is not busted as part after joint part tomb gang in columbia. these are hardens criminals. you don't end up in federal prison because you had small little bit of cocaine. melissa: haven't been there at all actually. >> not yet. andrea: he had eight pounds of cocaine which is not for personal uses in you're intoed stuff.

it was for trafficking. number two, tucker is absolutely right. you will see the crime rate go up. i agree with justice reform, the reason criminals are in there and seems so watered down because they likely plea bargained down from more dangerous crime or two, prosecutors that put them there no they're dangerous and rap sheet a mile long. don't want them on the streets. i think was really good point to bring up ap stats. harris: one of the things i had question about. i want to read deeper in this as we go along, has to do what you're talking about tucker, not releasing people wholesale on communities. do they have a tier system to keep up with people who commit certain crimes? seems like puts extra burden on legal system. you want to keep up with people who were weapons owners illegally. that is a different category than somebody who had a dime bag on them as andrea is trying to put out there. i wonder if we have the flexibility, the elasticity in our legal system -- melissa: no way. harris: i'm thinking we don't

but i'm asking have they talked about that because i think it might be necessary? melissa: i was doing research on this twice as many criminals going to texas than anywhere else in the country. watch out if you're in texas. a third will eventually be deported. why didn't we deport them if the first place, rather than paying to put them in jail here in the u.s.? not when you -- >> are we really going to deport these people? they're all potential democratic voters. >> tucker. >> that is the way they think of it.ing white house press briefing. new development in fight against isis. told small number of u.s. special force ops will be sent to syria and iraq. keeping eye on that story. appears colleges want to make sure students keep their halloween costumes politically correct? so much so, they're offering consultants and help lines. harris: my goodness. melissa: is this really necessary? and are they taking the fun out of halloween? ♪ heart health's important...

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andrea: more "outnumbered" in just a moment first to jenna lee what is coming up in second hour

of happening now. >> on going civil war raging in syria, u.s. will send special operations fors conflict zone. jennifer griffin has details as we watch the white house. hillary clinton holding an event in atlanta as we await next batch of emails from the time as secretary the state. state department is set to release them the we'll go into in depth. flooding returns to hard hit town wimberley, texas. the river seeing major flooding. homes were being swept aways as you remember. killed at least nine people. rick reichmuth in the fox weather center with latest on that. andrea: thank you. harris: as jenna just mentioned, we've been telling you all hour, we're awaiting white house press briefing. normally it would have started. we're inside of a two minute warning, well inside that while i'm speaking may see white house press secretary josh earnest walk up to the lecturn. remind you what the headline is

here, what we're anticipating he may be asked about pretty much off the top by the white house press corps. that is the fact that the obama administration has authorized our military to put 20 to 30 special operations forces on the ground, help local ground forces in syria. they would be in advise and assist role what we're being told. in addition to that, double headlines today, just last couple hours we're now going to put special operations forces additionally on the ground in iraq to shore up the coalition fighting there on the ground as well. tucker, as we await josh earnest, normally what they do, start of with their salutations and what not. quick thoughts? >> i want first question to be what is the strategy in syria? syria is country. needs to be run by someone. who should run it? who is the american preference for president of syria? who we would like to see take over. that is the only question that matters.

whether committing 50 troops or 500,000, all that in service of a goal. what's the goal? harris: my question would be, next question, you promised it won't be more than 50. how do you know that? what have you put into place really secures that those 50 advise and assist will be all you need? can we get a little detail why you feel so strongly about that. we'll watch and listen. josh earnest, white house press secretary at the white house press briefing. watch. >> emphasizing united states and iraq are fully committed to partnering with the international community to degrade and ultimately destroy isil. they also reaffirmed their commitment to the strategic partnership between the united states and iraq. this is part of the discussion that, part of this discussion was some of the efforts that the united states will begin to undertake to intensify those elements of the u.s. strategy and our coalition strategy against isil, that have yielded some progress.

i know there has been some reporting on this already today, i anticipate will be subject of some discussion with all of you today so, kathleen, we can go ahead get started whatever topic you like. >> i think we'll start there. >> okay. >> so, you, the white house is saying fewer than 50 forces going to -- [inaudible] so, initial reaction call this tinkering around edges, bandaid on gaping wound. what exactly do you think 50 special forces can accomplish? >> well i certainly wouldn't underestimate the capability and capacity of our u.s. special operations forces to be an important force multiplier anywhere around the world they're deployed. the president does expect that they can have an impact in intensifying our strategy for building the capacity of local forces inside of syria, to taking fight on the ground to isil in their own country. that has been the core element

of the military component of our strategy from the beginning, building capacity of local forces on the ground. that was essence of the call that the president just completed with prime minister abadi. the united states and our coalition partners have worked effectively with the central government of iraq. they have got command-and-control over iraqi security forces in that country. because of training and advice and assistance that the united states and coalition partners have been able to offer to those iraqi security forces we build up capacity of iraqi security forces to be more effective on battlefield inside of iraq. the situation inside of syria is quite different. united states and our coalition partners do not have central government we can partner. assad regime lost right to lead that country for variety of reasons. they have used military to attack innocent civilians. what the united states and coalition partners are focused on doing enhancing capacity of moderate opposition forces on

the ground inside of i can't. there are already ways you know about that the united states and coalition partners offered assistance to those forces. some efforts included carrying out military airstrikes in support of their operations on the ground. in some cases those local fighting forces have been enhanced through decisions that the president has made to resupply them, offering them military equipment and ammunition that they have used to effectively make progress against isil. when it comes to northern syria in particular, we have seen moderate opposition forces inside of syria who have driven isil out of kobani. you will recall a few months ago some of these oppositions were under siege in kobani. after being resupplied by the united states military these forces didn't just drive isil out of kobani, they drove them out of the broader region. now there is a 500-mile long border between turkey and syria. all but 90 kilometers of that border is now secure.

we have also seen these opposition forces make progress in the direction of raqqa, the self-declared capital of islamic state. there are now moderate oppositions forces 45 kilometers outside of raqqa. so there has been important progress made in this area. and the decision that the president has made is to further intensify our support for those forces that have made that progress against isil and all along we have indicated that the president is prepared to intensify those elements of our strategy, that are showing promise. obviously our support for moderate opposition forces in northern syria have made progress against isil. they have shown promise. that progress would not have been possible without our support. we've also demonstrated a willingness to scale back our investment in those aspects of the strategy that have not yielded progress. there was a lot of discussion in this room a couple weeks ago about the train and equip

program that wasn't yielding kind of results we would like and the president announced a significant change to that element of our strategy. that was a long answer but i just want to give you the full context of the, of this latest decision that the president has made to intensify this element of our strategy that already has shown promise. >> do you think this will have an impact, is that immediate impact? doesn't sound like you're selling this as a game-changer? >> no. i think, you are astute to make that observation. i think what, what, the president has been quite clear that there is no military solution to the problems that are plaguing iraq and syria. there is a diplomatic one. the president has put in place a multifaceted strategy to degrade and ultimately destroy isil and, this military component of that strategy is an important part of the president's top priority which is the safety and security

of the american public. and because of this strategy, we have taken extremists off of the battlefield inside of syria, who are hoping to use a safe haven inside of syria to attack the united states and our interests. so, we know that we need a political transition inside of syria, in order to address the root cause >> the root cause of see many problems that we have seen in syria. and those problems range from hundreds of thousands of syrians who lost their lives in the millions of syrians who had to flee their homes to escape violence. some of those syrians have unfortunately died trying to flee their country. it is a tragedy, both this terms people, it is also significant in the destabilizing