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Way, can you get in touch with us? and please let us know. our thoughts and prayers go out to you and we're wishing the best. thank you so much. . >> thank you. >> it's tough. jim is a retired fbi special age agent. cnn intelligence and security analyst. thank you all for joining us. this is the most horrific of circumstances and as our juliet cayenne pointed out, each life is all worth the same but it's just -- it seems more horrific when there are children involved. law enforcement officials are telling cnn the likely cause of this explosion is a suicide bomber. if you were particula of this...

Job as usual. we have given them total aut authorization, if you compare to what's happened over the last eight years, you will see there's a tremendous difference. >> if the president did not give the order, who did and why? cnn's ryan brown is live in washington for us. walk us through the chain of command of deciding when to drop this bomb. >> reporter: good morning. this bomb, this 20,000 pound bomb it was a capability that was requested by the commander in afghanistan general john nicholson, had requested it some months in advance we're told and granted authority to use it by his superior...

Troops, and president obama drew it down by some nine90% and the security situation has become less stable so interesting to see how this plays into the future vis'a vis afghanistan. >> thank you. >> why use the bomb now and what signal does it send to allies and adversaries around the world? kr cnn's nick peyton in iraq, did it yield the mother of all results? >> reporter: not as far as we know. in terms of assessing a bomb like that would cause. it's going to be obviously very consequencetial. 36 isis militants and three tunnels, frankly and $330,000 militants, so not as effective as they wo...

To be this im penetrable safe areas of kabul. in a mission like this was considered on the table for tackling them. nick paton walsh live in iraq. thank you. let's bring in cnn military analyst retired air force colonel former joint chiefs of staff, you have been listening to our analysis an reporting out of this moab bomb and some are trying to see how this fits into president trump's world view and foreign policy and there's a lot of question of did he sign off on this and something long in the works, what's your assessment of whether that even matters? >> good morning, it does matter in...

The president-elect starting his day tweeting, of course, he said "thought it was going to be a smooth transition, not." but tonight, at his florida resort, he says he is getting along well with president barack obama, so which is it? cnn's sunlen serfaty is live for us in florida tonight. sunlen, donald trump took a few questions tonight outside of mar-a-lago. what did he have to say? >> reporter: yeah, this was really a rare moment for president-elect donald trump, don. mostly he's been spending his time here at his resort behind closed doors, holding meetings and spending time with his fami...