welcome back, everybody. wherever you might be, anywhere in the united states or around the world, this is cnn newsroom. 30 minutes past the hour here. let s give you your headlines. the white house says president obama is willing to let congress approve any potential nuclear deal with iran. congress is expected to pass the measure, giving it up to 52 days to review any deal. during that time, mr. obama would not be allowed to wave congressional sanctions against iran. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula says a drone strike has killed one of its top leaders in yemen. militants say the former guantanamo bay detainee was a religious schooler and a combat commander. the u.n. security council has approved sanctions and an armed embargo on the rebels who now control much of yemen.
it s been suggested by president and other people in the administration, we are going to leave. and i think that the combat commander and the entire chain of commands has been given instructions for a more accelerated withdrawal. there was a meeting in may, that was supposed to be a cap stone meeting and now they have to come up with a game plan for what their next strategy is, in terms of perhaps an accelerated withdraw, they say they will stick it out. but they have to be going back to the mat. we are going move it to 2014 why not 2013? i think they will be. we have been making progress but it s not progress in kabul or progress at forging a democratic 21st century afghanistan, it s small progress, in small pockets
how do we and what tactics do we use to show people for the farce that we see this as. well, that s a very good point, because we don t have to enjoin ourselves in using propaganda at all. propaganda is when you re trying to perpetuate myths and stereotypes. in this case all we have to do is show bin laden for what he was. have i been to his residence in afghanistan and jalal bad. very small, very awes steer. you can almost respect him. i ve been to the caves in tora bora. this man wanted to give an image of a combat commander and has been giving people to believe he has been living from a cave for the last ten years. great respect was gleaned from that for the young jihadis who wanted to come out and give their lives to this cause which they didn t even understand. now we see him with a command post with television living outside of islamabad. i think right now there is an
francona. dan rather who hash to afghanistan 16 times. all of you know so much about this, the context we all need so much tonight. general heart ling, it is a massive bomb. we heard about it. we know this was targeted at a remote area. that were the point. if it were dropped on a city, to give us a sense of how big this is, what would it do? well, to a city, erin, and that s why it hasn t been used in the wars in iraq and afghanistan is a lot of combat has been in the cities. it was use against the position, a very good combat commander in afghanistan said i can destroy cave complex in a defensive area but most importantly he can also get after the i.e.d.s because the overpressure of this bomb. it doesn t penetrate a cave wall but it provides overpressure to
jessica schneider, a seasoned combat commander known as mad dog and warrior monk is the president-elect trump would like to run the pentagon. james mattis spent 44 years in the marine corps. he was in the combat l of fallujah. mr. trump couldn t resist bre breaking the embargo about breaking the announcement about the general that was supposed to happen next week. we are going to appoint mad dog mattis as our secretary of state of defense. but we re not announcing it till monday so don t tell anybody. let s start with chief