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Congresswoman. >> he certainly is. thank you so much. i'm going to stalk more about what u.s. troops are doing in western africa and the very real threat they face there. our military analyst, retired lieutenant general joins us. also with us, cnn national security analyst and co-author of this book. gentlemen, thank you for coming on. i want to start with you, general. is it unusual that we don't have a clearer picture by now of some of the most basic details of what happened that day? >> no not at all. this is going to take a while. trulifully, i'm really sur friesed that about getting more ...

Personally hurt by mccain suggesting hoe might have to resort to subpoenas. this is escalating fast. >> and hans, we did some checking. it looks like we have americans, american military in 176 places around the world. >> yeah. >> excluding humanitarian missions and in some postings where there's just one or two members of the u.s. military. but part of what this story has done is awakened some civilians to just how far flung these places are. >> look, in niger, there are 800 u.s. forces, roughly. most of them are building a new drone base. so you look at what the intelligence failure was here...

Might jeopardize? >> we're at the height of the u.s. government, the people that will answer those questions will be the people at the other end of the military pyrame pyramid. i'm sure the special forces group is conducting and i know they're conducting an investigation. that investigation of course under the auspices of africom and ultimately will go to the pentag pentagon. i know a lot more than i'm letting on but i'm not going to tell you. there is an investigation being done but as i said, the men and women of our country that are serving all around the world, i mean, what the hell is my ...

Highest level of the u.s. government. the people that will answer those questions are the people at the other end of the military pyramid. i'm sure the special forces group is conducting -- i know they're conducts an investigation. that investigation under the auspices of africom. i know a lot more than i'm letting on but i'm not going to tell you. there's an investigation being done. but as i said, the men and women of our country that are serving all around the world -- i mean, what the hell is my son doing back in the fight? he's back in the fight because -- working with iraqi soldiers who ...

Our soldiers and marines there in their thousands. that's what they were doing there. there's an investigation. there's always -- unless it's a very conventional death in a conventional war, there's always an investigation. of course, that operation is conducted by africom that works directly for the secretary of defense. there is -- i talked to jim mattis this morning. there's an investigation ongoing. an investigation doesn't mean anything was wrong. an investigation doesn't mean people's heads are going to roll. the fact is, they need to find out what happened and why it happened. but at th...