beneficiaries, and let s keep up the great work, and with that, i am going to sign it. there you go. there you go. one pen. that is quick. and this is the last budget bill that mr. obama is going to sign as president. you saw it here. pi the way, we are following the search for the answers in the what appears to be the midair disintegration of the airliner over the sinai peninsula over egypt. this morning the u.s. intelligence officials discounted a claim of responsibility of groups linked to isis, but they also said that nothing can be ruled in or out at this early stage. i want to get back to the panel cnn safety analyst david soucso, and cnn analyst bob bair and our cnn correspondent richard quest. we will be joined also by dr. lawrence kobilinsky.
and correspondent bob bair, and this news is getting a lot off of reaction, and tell me all about it. it is right where nick is speaking between the bord e of turkey and syria that it is getting so complicated. the u.s. special forces will be headed to the syrian side of the border, and it is something that the turks are concerned because they will see the fighters there that the u.s. wants to support as terrorists. the u.s. is going ahead, and they be there to help the kurdish and the arab fighters who are fighting isis along that border. they are not supposed to be going into combat, but it is difficult perhaps at various points to avoid the dangers that are there. their goal, their mission will be to support the fighters, and help with ammunition, and supplies, logistics, vehicles, and get them moving on the
turkey. want to bring in bob bair, former cia official. he joins us now. the ground in syria right now, the battle on the ground there is somewhere where the united states has had poor intelligence up until now. can this make a difference? i think it s a hail mary pass. syria is a mess on the other hand, these special forces are going to the kurdish area to support the so-called ypg party, makeshift militia. a very dangerous area. you run the risk, it looks like we re supporting a kurdish state in iraq. there are no good solutions but the best fighters are the kurds and that s what we re left with. we want to read you a little bit that we are just getting in.
we re just getting an e-mail. spokesn for the syrian kurdish fighting force, they welcome they welcome assistance from the united states decision to deploy special operations to the kurdish run area. they also say they need more assistance, including more adequate weapons to fight isis. they welcome the inclusion of u.s. special forces in syria, but they say essentially saying that s not enough. they need more, bob. exactly. that s what special forces are going to do, find out what they need. they ll send them weapons, ammunition, provide air support. again, i go back to the political problems and the ypg is not exactly a welcome party. in fact, the turks last week were bombing them. whose side are we on in this whole conflict? it s difficult for me to follow even though i lived for years and years in that part of the world. the issue, bob, is there are more than two sides right now in syria.
other dictators when it comes to assad in syria? exactly, poppy. it s the day after. nobody had any idea what would happen in iraq or in syria, obviously. we have been able to recognize various groups to differentiate between them. we have terrible intelligence, both in iraq and syria. and by the way, blare he is being a little bit disingenuous. i worked with the british for many, many years. in every exchange we all agreed that our intelligence on saddam hussein was very bad and that, while we needed to get rid of him, we never trusted the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction. i don t know why that didn t filter up to the prime minister s office. that s a question i would have asked him. bob bair, david tafuru, thank you very much. marco rubio would like a new job. he would like to be the president of the united states. critics coming out now and