Says the massive bomb was dropped eight hours ago on an isis tunnel and cave complex right there behind me in the nangarhar province, not far from the border with pakistan. We have incredible leaders in the military and incredible military. We are very proud of them. This was another very, very successful mission. Reporter the United States dropped its most powerful conventional bomb in eastern afghanistan today. The bomb, which has never before been used in combat targeted a system of tunnels and caves believed to be used by isis as that terror group moves into territory once known to be occupied by alqaeda. The United States takes the fighting a gains isis very seriously. In order to defeat the group we must deny them operational space, which we did. Reporter known as the mother of all bombs the gbu43 weapon wons veiled in 2003 and weighs 21,000 pounds. It is the largest nonnuclear bomb in the u. S. Arsenal with a blast radius of roughly a mile, designed to explode above ground, kill
making money for your investors, which romney did very well, is not the president s job. the president has a different job. your job as president is to promote the common good. that doesn t mean the private equity guys are bad guys. they re not. but that no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber. it doesn t and by the way, there s a lot of awful smart plumbers. all kidding aside, it s not the same job requirement. so it s totally legitimate for the president to point this out. we will not go back to the 50s in social policy, to the cold war in our foreign policy, and to the policies of the last administration on our economic policy. we will not do it their way again. we intend to move forward. we intend to rebuild the middle class. good morning, everyone. look at that beautiful shot of morning in new york city. there s nothing beautiful about that shot. it s wednesday, may 23. joe biden was beautiful. it is beautiful if you think positive. with u
administration on our economic policy. we will not do it their way again. we intend to move forward. we intend to rebuild the middle class. good morning, everyone. look at that beautiful shot of morning in new york city. there s nothing beautiful about that shot. it s wednesday, may 23. joe biden was beautiful. it is beautiful if you think positive. with us onset, we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle. yeah. and msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu and former democratic congressman harriford jr. and the star of a political ad. and political analyst ed rendell. look at this. murderers row. a couple of democrats to stand with cory. don t start this way. no. i ve got other things to tell you about this morning like polls and facebook. we were watching chris matthews last night. man, chris was like tearing into you, ed. well, chris is in philadelphia, and he can tear into me. it s ok. we do that down here. i know. but i loved that at
of peace in the middle east after the latest round of speeches by prime minister netanyahu and president obama. i ll be joined by tom friedman of the new york times who is just back from the middle east. now, here s my take for this week. we ve just gone through an arcane debate about whether barack obama said anything new when he called for an israeli/palestinian settlement based on 1967 borders with mutually agreed upon land swaps. in fact, that has been the working assumption of all negotiating parties, america, israel and the palestinian authority, for over 20 years. it is what the camp david talks of 2000 were based on. it s what elmerit s talks were based on. the real shift in u.s. policy was president obama publicly condemning the palestinian strategy to seek recognition as a state from the u.n. general assembly in september. instead of thanking obama for this, prime minister netanyahu chose to stage, in the words of the former israeli diplomat, pinkus, quote, noth
then we ll tell you the sad, ironic story about egypt s plummeting economy. and finally, the two top presidential candidates in egypt, two former office mates now rivals. let me first give you some of my own thoughts, having spent some time in cairo and actually listened to president obama s speech from here in tahrir square. the president s speech was remarkably comprehensive. it described the events that we now call the arab spring, explain their causes and consequences. he placed the united states squarely behind the democratic wave everywhere. though he didn t specifically mention one country. saudi arabia. the place where america s interests and values most obviously clash. i don t blame him. street protests in saudi arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession. that s a tough one. obama outlined specific policies to help the arab revolutions get consolidated. all good stuff. and he also talked about the need fo