Jennifer griffin live four says at the pentagon. What is the pentagon hoping to hear from the president . Well, one thing, gretchen, that all military officials agree upon is that air strikes alone will not be able to fight isis. A Senior Defense official tells me they dont need a surge, but they do need about 1,000 military advisor on the ground to interact. Right now there are about 300 advisors there. The rest are supposed to be providing security to american personnel. It comes to congress with some the authorization that we had previously in iraq under president bush is certainly long expired. Until we know what the strategy is, we dont know whats going to be involved. So its critically important that we take these in some organized steps, and the first step is whats the plan . The president is likely to prepare the American Public for greater involvement in iraq, to include a broadening of air strikes, were told. Secretary kerry is in the region trying to build a coalition with s