tankers. the air strikes follow a "new york times" report that claims the pentagon is expanding an investigation into officials at central command. the article finds that supervisors at centcom made changes to classified assessments regarding the war against isis. arg to the article, quote, supervisors were particularly eager to paint a more optimistic picture of america's role in the conflict than was warranted. here's what president obama said about the allegations. >> i don't know the details of this. what i do know is my expectation, which is the highest fidelity to facts, data, the truth. it's not as if i've been receiving wonderfully rosy, glowing portraits of what's been happening in iraq and syria over the last year and a half. >> and joining us for more from the pentagon is nbc's jim miklaszewski. jim, maybe we could just start