Roller coaster leaves them stranded high above the ground for hours. It is all happening now. Jon but we begin with new details on one of the most powerful weapons in the pentagons arsenal as the u. S. Jobs the biggest nonnuclear bomb ever used in combat on the islamic state, welcome to the second hour of happening now, i am jon scott. Jenna im jenna lee. Pentagon releasing a video showing the socalled mother of all bombs plunging from the sky and exploding on its target in eastern afghanistan paired u. S. Defense Officials Say it wiped out a cave and tunnel system controlled by isis leaving several other stead. Jon david is here with the latest on that. It is called a Massive Ordnance Air blast, m. O. Ab, hence the nickname, the mother of all bombs. It weighs almost 22,000 pounds, most of it pure explosive, the bomb has the impact of about 11 tons of tnt. It is so large, has to be dropped from a cargo plane. The bomb dissents by peer she then detonates while still in the air. It is no
Because, dont forget, they had a feud over the border wall where the pope suggested you couldnt be a christian and want to build walls instead of building bridges to which the president said such talk was disgraceful that no leader, particularly a religious leader should question anybodys faith. There was a time where the pope paying own hotel bill and the president didnt like it because he didnt think it was pope like. After 30 minutes together, the ice seemed to melt between the two men. The pope was willing to give it a chance. Because he tweeted out yesterday that dialogue can solve a lot of problems and bring together people in common cause. When he met the Broader Group of people including melania, jared trump, h. R. Mcmaster the National Security advisor, and others, there were warm hand shakes and smiles all around. At one point, you mentioned this, steve, the pope talked with Melania Trump about food. Listen here. Difficult to hear over all the snaps of the shutters he was tal
This strategic patience didnt work. One of the reasons that a lot of us put donald trump in office and voted for him is that he doesnt do things in the usual way. President trump hitting back after the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell said that the president has excessive expectations about passing bills in congress. Senator, if you cant get it done, get out of the way. Retire. Leave washington. Go play golf. Go fishing. The troubling thing about it is i think it suggests that republicans in Congress Still havent learned the lesson of trumps election. The reason that he beat the most entrenched democratic machine, he intended to keep the promises that he was making on the campaign trail. All you have to do is the clock is ticking. Brian empire state building. That is the building, i understanding, donald trump wanted to buy. Steve the clock is ticking. Its two minutes after 6 00 in new york city. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the number one cable news show on earth. Ainsley
The jackpot is now 700 million. Rock in the u. S. A. Rock in the u. S. A. Rock in the u. S. A. Steve rocking in phoenix last night thats what the president was. Studio f here on the mezzanine level of fox friends. Ainsley, welcome back from our nations capitol. Ainsley thank you. Brian great job with the Vice President yesterday. Ainsley thank you. I watched like a little bit of the speech and i had to go to bed. Steve watched this morning. Ainsley watched the whole thing. He spent like the first what do you say 30 minutes, maybe, 15, 20 minutes talking about fake news, spinning his message and he gave several examples. Steve sure, do you know what he is trying to do recharge his base after 10 days width theyring in charlottesville. He talked about the importance of unity as we are a nation of many races. If you missed it, we boiled down about a 1 42 of the good stuff. Listen to this. Im here tonight to send a message. We are fully and totally committed to fighting for our agenda and w
After the transition to the new chief of staff john kelly and the president is trying to push his legislative agenda which includes a big push towards tax reform. The present and about an hours time will be hosting a number of Small Business owners here at the white house. The president wants to reduce the tax rate on Small Businesse businesses, the same as the Corporate Tax rate. He wants to lower it to about 15 of he may have to settle for some 20 , which is in the ryan tax plan. Could be impossible. The president was his try to build some momentum so he can get tax reform done or at least begun. The day after people get back from the labor day weekend, the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin expected there is going to be some opposition to whatever plan comes out of the white house and congress, but he is urging everyone to get together to pull together for tax reform for it listen to what he said yesterday. The special interests will come out. So the messages it may not be perfect fo