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Phil mud. also here is cnn military analyst mark hurtling. thank you for being here. general, how concerned should the u.s. be that russia is sharing intelligence with the taliban? >> well, it was a great report by brian, jake. i think what you have to do just look at a map. russia has some interest in this area. the northern border of afghanistan bumps up against all the other stans. turkistan, uzbekistan and russia and mr. putin are very concerned about the passage of terrorists, insurgents, i...

>> thats right. if you look at an intelligence service, the services i was involved with, the bureau and the cia, you live off the mistake of somebody. they talk to the wrong person physically. thats a source. or they communicate with the wrong person on facebook or twitter. every time they move, whether theyre traveling to turkey, for example, or whether theyre trying to recruit somebody on facebook, thats an opportunity for security service to exploit. if you look at the contrast with san bern...

Did they flee that attack scene together in that car, dump the car together? so for investigators, these are going to be very, very important details as they try to figure out where he is, where he is on the run right now, erin. >> nic robertson, thank you very much. in paris tonight. i want to go straight now to the former cia counterterrorism official phil mud, paul cruickshank. phil, the breaking news, at least one paris attackers could have traveled to the united states under the visa waiver...

On. he said this cannot be done without americas involvement. and that means ground forces. >> well, i agree with that, but i dont think it is going to happen. i think politically it is a nonstarter. you look at what we can do. what we can do is use the kurds, but the kurds are not the answer. the iraqi army has to liberate the iraqi territory and right now theyre not capable of doing it. every time we think they are, they fail again. >> phil mud, we heard president barack obama said a handful o...

>> well, what i see is i served in france, anderson, and the difficulty of getting automatic weapons and explosives and realizing how good the french police are because they are very good and they have been on full alert, they have been all over these communities, the returning from syria and iraq, what really concerns me is they have tightened up security and communications and their ability to get enough weapons and explosives for seven strikes, which is a lot. and i agree with phil, they went...

Soft targets of course. but getting seven groups to hit targets simultaneously is not easy. ive trained these groups over and over, not for terrorism but you have to spend time with them and trust each other and know who will pull the trigger and have to vet these people. you simply cant take, you know, 14, 15 volunteers and hope that they will carry out the missions. thats not the way the world works. these guys were organized and had some sort of training and well have to wait to see where tha...

To get out but offered a horrendous, horrendous eyewitness description what was going on inside. phil mud is joining us. its significant from your perspective the terrorists that julien pearce saw inside were not wearing a mask. >> you have to think about the emotions of the people staking the attack. in my experience watching terror groups, there is a tremendous amount of emotion for a human being to decide they are going to go in and a shoot up a restaurant or theater. the unmasking indicates ...

To find who did it and before there is another deadly attack. there are killers on the loose now. lets dig deeper with paul, our cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes and phil mud. could this attack be part of a larger operation? whoever is behind this could be grooming others to operate within airports elsewhere across the globe? >> wolf, i think there is significant concern about exactly that scenario in the middle east concern that isis recruited other insiders at other middle east earn air...

Given that nobody really knows whats going on here. >> nema, thank you very much. live at sharm el sheikh airport, tens of thousands of people stranded there. joining me now, former cia counterterrorism official phil mud and our aviation lead correspondent richard quest. thanks to both of you. richard, what did investigators hear that has them in their wores categorically convinced that a bomb brought the plane down? >> i blif what they heard is an explosion, a noise, a scintilla, the very small...

>> now, let me ask you, phil. we now know the russians have stopped all flights as well, right? they had been in the corner with the egyptians for a while, saying dont rush to judgment, we dont know. they changed their tune today. >> yes. >> and pretty aggressively so. theyre not flying in. they said it was because they had gotten information from the united states. >> yes. >> that must mean the information is pretty significant, that the russians would admit that theyre going to stop flying and...