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Used them come back. shortly after 7:30 p.m. local time in nangarhar province afghanistan, they dropped out massive ordnance air blast on with the white house explained was an attack on the ice as borders of pakistan. >> we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used it to around freely. they take the fight against sizes very seriously and in order to defeat the group, we much take operational speech which we did. >> a dps guided bomb that is pushed out of the back of a modified c 1:30 aircraft. it's blast radius is 1 mile wide. the pentagon said the top general in afghanist...

When it comes to making military decisions. watch. >> friendly, that's why they've been so successful lately. if you look at what's happened over the last eight weeks and compare that to what's happened over the last eight years, you'll see there is a tremendous difference. >> meghan: chris, there's a lot to unpack here. first reactions to the mother of all bombs. >> chris: she said it was a messaging device? that's a hell of a memo right there. also, i like that because you -- if you're within a one-mile blast radius, you sort of kick it out of the back of the plane and it goes. i think democ...

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 have their a job as usual. we have given them total authorization. that's what they are doing. frankly...

This one weapon, we can get maybe overly overwrought about it. but i still think since they used it for the first time these questions still should be answered. i don't see any reason why the american public can't get these simple answers. >> it's a $15 million bomb. ambassador bringingety, why did the bush administration, the obama administration decide never to use that bomb? >> there could be any number of reasons. one might be frankly that the particular tactical circumstances never presented themselves. and by that to be able to use a weapon that is -- that has that kind of blast radius, ...

Particular tactical circumstances never presented themselves. and by that to be able to use a weapon that is -- that has that kind of blast radius, you would have do be very confident of one two of things. either that there would be virtually no civilians that would be impacted by the blast, or that the target that you were attacking was of such profound military value that it would justify the sorts of civilian casualties that would result. so one could be that neither the bush administration nor the obama administration ever found themselves in that particular sort of circumstances. another ...