Rift inside and outside of the school. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. U. S. Commandos are heading to syria. Officials say a small number of special Operations Forces will be deployed to the north of the country. Fewer than 50 troops will work with local Ground Forces in the fight against isil. Mike viqueira is live at the white house. Good afternoon. This appears to be a shift from what president obama kept saying that he would never put boots on the ground in syria. Reporter its clearly a shift, although the white house is going out of its way to down play that aspect of it. You are right, the president , this proposes a problem for him political and if you look at what is happening on the ground in syria, and you can see why they are making this move. The white house is going to play this down as within the parameters of the policy that stands right now. They will point to a commando raid that happened in iraq that freed kurdish prisoners. But th