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Deceased u.s. service members. we were told earlier in the day by the air base commander in germany that the wounded and deceased service members were flown from afghanistan to the regional medical center in germany. the 13 deceased service members and 20 u.s. marines who were wounded in the suicide attack, theyre being treated now, many of them very seriously wounded, at the regional medical center at the air base there. phil mudd, youre listening closely to everything we just saw. let me get y...

Joining us from qatar. barbara starr, you saw her asking questions, and shell join us from the pentagon. military analyst, retired general wesley clark, the former nato supreme allied commander. and counterterrorism analyst phil mudd is with us, as well. let me go to nick paton walsh, joining us first. let me get your thoughts on what we just heard, specifically starting with this u.s. drone strike that killed these two isis-k, what they call planners and facilitators. >> reporter: despite there...

Cant imagine how massive this effort is. >> phil, what does it say to you, you heard admiral kirby say there were no notifications of this strike, of the drone strike that killed two terrorists in advance to countries where the drone may have been flying over, countries the drone may have originated. we dont know where the drones originated from. there was no notification, and no notification of key members of congress either. thats the way i understood what kirby was saying. what does that say ...

Were talking a classic counterterrorism operation in this case now it could be a drone strike. it would be a commando raid. it could be any number of things. there are a lot of options the president has in these cases but all of this depends on intelligence and it has to be precise intelligence in order to get to that last mile of really what are we doing here and what -- is this leadership? is this another type of target? so it depends on the targets that they have and it depends also on how ea...

Operation but being on the periphery but still having stuff good enough to say get out. were in trouble. >> theres another things here and phil is alluding to it, think how much more capable our intelligence actually is compared to what it used to be. thats a real key thing. when you look at what happened with escobar and getting him and what happened with bin laden and now some of the other cases, were far better at it than we used to be, but you know, its obviously still not a precise science....

Basically. >> marcus yam, please stay safe. we wish you the best. were so glad you could come on with us and give us a sense of what youre seeing there. thank you. >> thank you. lets talk about this now with cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official phil mudd as well as cnn military analyst and forearmer member of the joint staff at the pentagon cedrik lleyton. first off, kernel and phil, i want to listen to what president biden is now promising in response to these...

Probably doesnt but as phil said, this is not a quick fix kind of thing. remember how long it took to get bin laden. so many factors in this and it is a collage. putting all these different pieces together. the technical piece, the over the horizon piece. all of that makes a big difference. those are the kinds of things that need to come together in order to do this right and we have to do this right. >> phil, obviously the u.s. military presence will go to 0 basically in the next several days. ...

In afghanistan, maybe in neighboring countries. now your standoff in the arabian peninsula, maybe if youre lucky some presence in central asia so the intelligence, the changes the intelligence not only has to be good. like intelligence you might have acquired 60 days ago. it has to be good enough that you can get on target in six, eight hours. what it means the time to get on target will be longer. >> can i ask one more question, phil. i cant remember a time -- maybe im wrong on this. there was ...

Representatives Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer traipsed off to Kabul, draining resources away from the evacuation operation, so they could pretend they were doing something.

Save american servicemen by leaving on time. no good choice. i would have done what biden did. >> phil, lets play it out. okay? >> yes. >> so you leave and you brag about your number and then people like me poke holes in the number for the next 2 1/2 weeks because we dont know if it is real. what happens to the people left behind? these stories you are talking about are guaranteed if you leave whoever is left behind and by your equation there will definitely be people left behind and that is exa...