Kaine doesn't side with Clinton in ruling out Iraq ground troops

Tim Kaine dodged a direct question during an interview with CNN on Sunday on whether he believes his running mate, Hillary Clinton, made a mistake when she ruled out the return of ground forces in Iraq during a defense forum earlier this month.

“Do you stand by Secretary Clinton’s declaration that your administration will never put ground troops into Iraq or Syria ever?” Kaine was asked by Jake Tapper, after the CNN anchor quoted former Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ recent claim that Clinton made a “politically driven, categorical declaration of a sort no president (no candidate) should make.”