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Enemies. brett velicovich. bret, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: when we had this terrorist strike a couple days ago in new york. this guy took the homemade pipe bombs, strapped it to himself and went into that tunnel over by the port authority and detonated it but, and so ultimately he is in the hospital because he almost, you know, got burned up pretty bad. but ultimately for a terrorist who wants to inflict damage on new york city, they could put a couple of grenades on a drone a...

American people to have some action here for higher premiums and a broken insurance marketplace for the last seven years. i do think theres a path forward. the good news is, theyre going to be voting on a bill that had passed and sent to president obama in 2015. but it provided the opportunity for a two-year window we can work across party lines to actually fix the system and provide results for the make and people. i think its a perfect solution. >> jon: that was an easy repeal vote because eve...

Explosion in the relative casualties. i think theres a reason we didnt see immediate photographs coming out of casualties and that was because anyone in that blast radius was very seriously injured or killed. >> tucker: were not going to even speculate as to who might be responsible for this because well find out soon enough and that would be unwise but as a more general question, is there any potential terror group on the radar of british authorities that were not aware of? that is not basicall...

That will cause a stampede effect. and that will create additional injuries. like i said, a good example of that was in a nonterrorist related incident in the muslim city of hoe -- holy city of mecca, they lost over a thousand people, not because of any critical incident, but because of religious where people wanted to get to where they had to get and it created mass stampedes that killed over a thousand people. when terrorist planner gets this into his mind, it becomes a very, you know, efficie...

Didnt have protective clothing on. pete: they can have limited blast radius. congressman, you nor siding with bashar al assad saying these are child actors and fake bodies. >> no, no, no. pete: thats what he is saying these are child actors. >> hold on, im siding with the truth. im the guy who in 2002 said hey, dont go rushing in iraq. there is no proof here. president bush was mislead. in 2013 when there was a gas attack in syria. president bush was being asked to attack. james clapper told him...

Used them come back. shortly after 7:30 p.m. local time in nangarhar province afghanistan, they dropped out massive ordnance air blast on with the white house explained was an attack on the ice as borders of pakistan. >> we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used it to around freely. they take the fight against sizes very seriously and in order to defeat the group, we much take operational speech which we did. >> a dps guided bomb that is pushed out of the back of a modifi...

When it comes to making military decisions. watch. >> friendly, thats why theyve been so successful lately. if you look at whats happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to whats happened over the last eight years, youll see there is a tremendous difference. >> meghan: chris, theres a lot to unpack here. first reactions to the mother of all bombs. >> chris: she said it was a messaging device? thats a hell of a memo right there. also, i like that because you -- if youre within a one-mi...

Conventional weapons in the u.s. arsenal. and the blast radius as you can see from this test video is about a mile. but perhaps equally deadly to the fireball is the vacuum that takes up all the oxygen. thus, very effective against cave complexes and those really dug. in the "wall street journal" reports the isis caves are actually gem stone mines that isis took over from the locals and turned into smuggling bases and weapons storage depots. >> we have the greatest military in the world. they ha...

This one weapon, we can get maybe overly overwrought about it. but i still think since they used it for the first time these questions still should be answered. i dont see any reason why the american public cant get these simple answers. >> its a $15 million bomb. ambassador bringingety, why did the bush administration, the obama administration decide never to use that bomb? >> there could be any number of reasons. one might be frankly that the particular tactical circumstances never presented t...

Particular tactical circumstances never presented themselves. and by that to be able to use a weapon that is -- that has that kind of blast radius, you would have do be very confident of one two of things. either that there would be virtually no civilians that would be impacted by the blast, or that the target that you were attacking was of such profound military value that it would justify the sorts of civilian casualties that would result. so one could be that neither the bush administration n...