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Profound degree of frustration that i experienced personally when we see afghanistan still being fought over with such bitterness and the violence still necessary to get any, you know, minimal law and order in that country 16 years after tora bora. you just wonder here in 2017 we started in 2001. how much longer do we go before we can defeat this very very difficult enemy? >> dana: when president obama basically gave the date when we were going to leave and the taliban, very patient, and allowin...

Theyre saying bin laden may have been in the area where this monster was dropped. it was unbelievable what happened. they had to have, if it didnt kill them, would have to shake their resolve and let them understand that there is no escaping, no escaping now from the resolve of the united states. so the purpose of dropping this bomb, aside from the tactical, you know, destroying the cave complex, tunnel complex, of having flash backs talking about the cave and tunnel complex because thats what a...

Authority down to his combat commanders. i dont think you would have seen this approved under the obama administration. >> dana: we havent had a chance to talk about what the green berets are doing there. we know we just lost one of the green berets over the weekend. what is the range of responsibility that the green berets have in that area. >> they are unique in special operations forces in that they specialize in training and then combat advising local national either guerrillas or in this ca...

Any insight as to why the general would have chosen to use this bomb for the first time ever in this area? >> certainly. well, its -- again, i go back to the fact that this rides the border region and those tunnels are a very difficult thing. the kwraoeus fighters have the ability to move back and forth between locations and pop up and attack either the populous or af security forces or americans. if you are, for the first time, organizations like isis and certainly the taliban, you know, they h...

Cavern area. isis apparently has been using these caves to pop up to attack both afghan security forces and u.s. troops operating in that area. we know the u.s. and afghans have been operating in that area in recent weeks and months and this has been a serious problem. it should be pointed out what we heard from afghan officials, and we were just there, fox news, a couple days ago, was that the taliban remains a big problem for the afghan security forces. isis is a concern. it is a growing conce...

In terms of the estimates of the number of isis fighters in afghanistan, the u.s. military puts the number at about 1,000. president trump announced yesterday that his national security adviser hr mcmaster was getting on a plane tonight to head to afghanistan. we know general nicholson has testified recently that he thinks he needs several more thousand troops there in afghanistan because of the isis threat. but according to sean spicer, they have eliminated that threat in this area. and they to...

Nangahar province took place. u.s. pentagon, this was an moab, the largest bomb, as you pointed out, thats nonnuclear. first time we know of that the u.s. has used it in combat operations in afghanistan and anywhere around the world. the target according to the pentagon and afghans on the ground was an isis bunker facility up in the phupb taeupbs. there obviously is a huge concern about civil want casuallies that has a one mile blast radius. but according to the afghans and the pentagon, they ar...

What we can tell you, sean spicer was asked whether the president was the one who ordered this bombing in afghanistan. but were told, in fact, general john nicholson had all the authority he needed to use this weapon and it was his choice to use what is known as you mentioned the mother of all bombs, a massive air blast. this is the first time its been used in combat. it has an radius of one mile wide. it is a 21,000 pound bomb. it is pushed out the back of an mc-130 plane. it is gps guided. and...

>> well, look, as you know, you work d hard on the issue of pakistan in the bush administration. we had a difficult time with pakistan. we had public pronouncements that were much different than the private conversations. so i think the answer is privately were probably gonna get a wink and nod from the pakistanis, who will say, you know, we know that these mountainous areas have been a problem. we know isis is in these caves. so if we can, you know, do anything to help, let us know what we can ...