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Raises the question of the u.s. moving forward an what results will with see from the blast. staggering is about u.s. resolve in afghanistan. >> thank you nick, so much for that. so exactly what is this mother of all bombs? they stand for massive ordinance air blast bomb, the biggest conventional meaning non-nuclear in u.s. arsenal, 30-feet wing along, 19,000 pounds of explosives, it is gps guided but so big it has to be dropped from a mc-130 cargo plane. >> its intended for use against surfac...

Thank you. so what exactly is the mother of all bombs it stands for massive ordinance air blast bomb. it is the biggest ever used in battle. 22,000 pounds, gps guided but so big it has to be dropped from an mc-130 cargo plane. it is intended for use against surface targets. -- u.s. intersection agencies were not the only one whose intercepted trump campaign

Briefing. this will happen minutes after we learned that the u.s. dropped the largest nonnuclear upon in eastern afghanistan. 21,000 pounds. they call it the mother of all bombs. you can expect sean spicer to step up and be peppered with questions about what is going on there. we have not heard reaction from the white house. well take this to the couch. bill hemmer is with us. you know this area well. >> i had the great fortune of watching the u.s. military in the early days testify war on terro...

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...

Forces group based out of the air force base, it is interesting to point out, it is clear this moab b bomb was tested, this 21,000 palm was tested in 2003. the air force used a mc-130, it is basically pushed out of the fact of the c-130, the largest weapon, 21,000-pound bomb, largest nonnuclear weapon in the air force arsenal. its blast radius, just to give a sense of the size and scope of the weapon is 1 mile wide, so a blast radius of 1 mile. it is hard to imagine how you can minimize any sort...

Authorization. what exactly does that mean? the president has given the pentagon the ability to do whatever it wants? the president doesnt need to sign off on major military actions? >> i dont think the pentagon can do whatever it wants. what it does mean is the president has decided to trust his commanders, in his view, to do the right thing. when major missions like this happen, we are told, indeed, the white house is briefed. for the first time ever, the mother of all bombs was used by the u....