preview that may or may not be coming out of the white house or pentagon today? reporter: i would like to go back to your question, brian, about air strikes in syria, and i can tell you that on any given day, there would be as many as a couple of dozen air strikes against isis targets at various places, primarily in the north, and the eastern edges of syria. but ever since the russians started flying war planes in iraq, the number of u.s. air strikes in syria has dropped off precipitously. one, maybe two specific targets a day. they did reach this memo of understanding, memorandum of understanding with the russians to deconflict the air space so that russian and american or other coalition aircraft wouldn t be flying in the same air space at any given time. but it appears, anyway, i know u.s. military officials will contest this, but it appears that the u.s. and the coalition have pretty much forfeited large spaces of air space there in syria, at least for the time being. a