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They should not occupy gaza. I think it would be a big mistake. We will destroy hamas. They opened this war. We will win it. The work to rescue hostages including americans is becoming more complicated. The president had no higher priority than getting americans back safe. Those are innocent civilians. They have rights. This is the closest thing to the holocaust weve seen. I dont have another land. Were on the edge of the abyss here. The slogan never again, it wasnt a suggestion. It is something...

As an Israeli Ground operation into gaza appears imminent, the u. S. , the u. N. And others are scrambling to get palestinians out of harms way. Im Boris Sanchez alongside Brianna Keeler in washington. And today Secretary Of State tony blinken is in israel trying to help open the only viable option for palestinians to leave gaza which is the Rafah Crossing Into Egypt in the south. At the same time blinken stressed that israels obligation to defend itself after the hamas Terror Attack On October ...

Including the leader taken out. pete: hour long firefight? will: i need to know -- rachel: what happened. that is relaxing movie for you to watch. will: it is, inspirational. >> for sure inspirational. pete: hosting a morning show on a couch. will: yes. pete: these guys two weeks ago when ever it happened you find out about later, dropped in a remote cave complex to get the guy responsible for killing 13 americans? that is what having a long memory looks like. im grateful that you do those thing...

>> thank you, now to retired general mark hertling. so hertling, according to the commander of all the asov battalion in mariupol, now breached the steel mill and engaged in close fighting with ukrainian forces inside. can you talk a battle like that, how difficult to storm an industrial complex, heavily fortified with a lot of underground bunkers and tunnels? >> yeah, this is going to be really tough, anderson. if they think theyve seen fighting there already its knowing to get much worse. this...

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...

What does this message send to the fighters on the ground and the rest of the world? >> good morning pete and team. first off, this was a deployment of very large conventional weapon against a tactical target. so general mcnicole son the commander of u.s. forces and allied forces in the region has been given the authority to use weapons at his disposal and thats what you saw yesterday. this was against -- its a perfect target for this weapon system. a series of tunnels and cave complexes where f...

Altitudes and we dont know the precise location but where these cave complexes are, there arent any villages. but you will find the odd shepherd up there with his goats or sheep or whatever. and then the nearby villages for sure will pay an interest in whats gone on. its surprising how many people, local villages you actually find when you get out in the mountains, you dont see much but then you standstill and they come out of the trees and out of the valleys. >> turning the page from afghanista...

Osama bin laden and al qaeda made their last stand in afghanistan. >> yes, this is the vicinity of where this bomb was dropped. its hard until we know the precise location of the bomb but a few miles from where bin laden was hiding out. he had a set of cave complexes that were being targeted by bombs at the end of 2001. we spent a lot of time on the mountainside there. we went up to where the bombs were targeting these cave complexes, saw the damage. i think at the time, these were thousand poun...

Tunnel complex to kill americans in the past, this is on the heels of the recent death of a special forces soldier. its an effective weapon. its used in canyons and cave complexes, its a massive weapon and really hard to go on precision strikes when you have so many -- >> tucker: give us a sense of the scale of the cave complex you are talking about. >> it goes from bora bora to the was dropped in, a series of caves that have not been destroyed. in 2001 and 2002, we basically were using explosio...