brett bayer. on with what the president was mentioning about isis and the stepped up attacks without stepping up the number of u.s. troops involved, that would be akin to whack-a-mole. what will be the reaction a republicans. >> much the say. republicans have been critical there hasn't been more of a presence, more of an unleashing of special operations forces, for example to be out and forward controlling on some of those airstrikes. but the president was touting some 5,000 airstrikes against isis in syria and iraq. taughting success. touting territory taken back. republicans focus on what is not happening, and what they see could happen easily, for example, providing heavy weapons and machinery to the kurds. the president talking about a iraq policy has not developed to arm the kurd who are the