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Precision weapon and that's how we refer to drones, we start to believe that war is somehow antiseptic and war doesn't have civilian casualties. it does. it's part of war. >> what do you think? should the u.s. -- do they apologize enough, because it does seem, i cover the white house and when reporters press white house officials on this, you don't get a sort of major apology coming from the administration. >> as phil says, the united states apologizes and compensates civilians in conventional military conflicts in afghanistan. that's the u.s. military. what it doesn't do, when the cia which h...

The president's orders at this point. >> do you know how long from the time that execute order is given to actually missiles going out is? >> that's a really interesting question because you know, the tomahawk missiles are programmed with gps coordinates guided by the satellite to the very precise target they are intended to hit. that's why everybody talks about it as a precision weapon. some of them are already programmed. we believe some may be reprogrammed to the targets may be updated along the way. that's what some of the military sources are telling us tonight. so it's a little bit uncle...

Russians. i think you need both, frankly. i think you need to maintain the nuclear capability, but there is exactly the sort of precision weapon that you need. >> all right, fran townsend, thank you very much, appreciate it. well, there has been a recent wave of arrests of people illegally trying to cross into the united states, but not the border you're probably thinking. we'll tell you about it. hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! hi, ellen! we're going on a field trip to china! wow. [ chuckles ] when i was a kid, we -- we would just go to the -- the farm. [ cow moos ] [ laughter ] no, seriou...

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The lives of any taliban fighters who might be in there or do we know? >> this is a concussive weapon, that means it explodes above those tunnels. the force of the blast would kill anything inside those tunnels, but it is not a penetrating bomb. again, it was first tested in 2003, and we used to hear about it being talked about in conjunction with if there were a military action against iran's nuclear program and had to actually be used for tunnels they are where suspected parts of that nuclear program where based, that is when we started hearing talk of this moab b as it is called by the air ...