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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, islamists between the borders. he's attempting to not only stop that but as brian mentioned in his re...

>> that's 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. that's a source. or they communicate with the wrong person on facebook or twitter. every time they move, whether they're traveling to turkey, for example, or whether they're trying to recruit somebody on facebook, that's an opportunity for security service to exploit. if you look at the contrast with san bernardino, they weren't traveling anywhere to a place like turkey to move into syria, they weren't...

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 program coming from one of those countries that so easily links to the u.s. when you're talking abo...

On. he said this cannot be done without america's involvement. and that means ground forces. >> well, i agree with that, but i don't 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 they're not capable of doing it. every time we think they are, they fail again. >> phil mud, we heard president barack obama said a handful of people who don't mind dying can kill a lot of pem. so the question is, can you stop them all? c...

>> 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 after the soft targets where the mass casualties really shocked the french. the french closed the b...