does the president have the votes in the house of representatives to conduct oteri action in syria? ? >> i know he will work very votes. get the it has been drafted in the house. i know the president will work very hard to get them for his requests. >> according to the newspaper, at the moment the president and the houston attracts her looking at members of congress opposing. it means he would not get a majority. many members do not want to see us enter into another civil war. many members want to see the actual evidence so they can say they can support whatever the president might want to do. a lot of folks are very including the american public. it they should be. until we can prove what the evidence is and what the response would be, i understand the skepticism. it is healthy. we do not want to go into war for the wrong reasons. we do not want to see another iraq. it is appropriate for everyone to say "show me." >> did the release of the video change views as to what you saw? i had taken a pretty clear position that we must do something. we must act when you had the use of chemic

oteri issued a so-called mission need statement -- the u.s.litary issued a so-called mission need statement. in this case, high-precision conventional weapons capable of striking targets around the or hours.in minutes ever since that mission need statement was issued, this has been a part of u.s. policy to acquire these new capabilities. we had a national debate -- i say we had a national debate -- i was not living in the united states when this took place, but in the mid-2000's there was a debate about a global strike, and that was triggered by the decision of the bush administration to seek funding from congress to take nuclear warheads off trident missiles, which are the sea-based legacy deterrent, and replace those warheads with conventional weapons. aat prompted very reliably national debate, where a number of congressmen and with hummus congresswomen took part in this debate. back in the crux of the issue was something called warhead and to give the. the concern was that russia or possibly china in the future would see the launch of one

. >> the commander of international forces they that afghan forces are leading 90% of oteri operations. all u.s. troops are scheduled to be withdrawn by the end of next year. this briefing is an hour. but the joint operations division chief and the joint staff of the secretary of defense and deputy director for the joint staff. the 506th parachute infantry regiment was commanded by the evil institute division during their deployment in support of the second combat team of combat in both iraq and afghanistan and he was the deputy commanding general for the most recently commended 10th mountain division. mark milley currently commands out of fort hood, texas. he will provide brief opening remarks and take your questions. >> thank you, bill. i appreciate it. although i can't see the folks in the room, thank you for coming. several of you have served afghanistan and previously served as well. i want to thank bill for those little bits of introduction. i want to thank everyone for joining me. i like to do briefly today is to give the introductory statement, kind of a in my perspective. many