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Russia, iran and syria say they are nighted in condemning last week's missile strikes against the syrian air base. no big surprise, but president trump's home was that secretary tillerson's trip to russia this week might have per ssuaded president putin on change course. watch it play out here. the first combat use of the military's largest nonnuclear bomb against an isis camp and tunnel complex. >> this was the right weapon against the right target. >> barbara starr was first to report this dramatic news yesterday this hour and joins us now from the pentagon. barbara, they've used this weapon...

There have been air strikes, drones, through the past years certainly targeting isis camps. trying to degrade they're capabilities there. the question with this bomb, successful destroying the tunnel network? the high-profile isis leaders were in that particular area? and take enough of them out potentially to thwart their planning? very remote, very rugged, aplace frankly the u.s. struggled to maintain and secure bases over the period of time they were in that part of afghanistan. isis moved in. some saying coming across the border from pakistan. got a foothold in society. kicked a lot out. t...

Choose your adjective. it has never been used in combat before even though president george w. bush and president obama could have used it. what does it effectively do? >> it creates an overpressure can had collapse a tunnel complex, tunnel complexes, destroy mine fields, and kill troops and destroy vehicles and so forth. you know, had we had this weapon, say, back in 2001 at tora bora or 2002, bin laden might never have escaped into pakistan. so using it here against isis in a very fortified area, remote area along the afghan/pakistan border is really an appropriate use for this particular de...

That country sees fit. the rising tensions on the korean peninsula coming as vice president mike pence prepares to head to the region, himself. pence scheduled to arrive in south korea on sunday. this, the first stop on a ten-day trip that will take pence to japan, indonesia, australia and back around to hawaii. afghanistan's defense ministry says that at least 36 isis fighters were killed when the u.s. dropped a massive bomb on a tunnel complex in a remote eastern area of that country. yesterday. officials also say that several isis caves and ammunition caches were destroyed in thursday's att...

And both the u.s.er saying it will support. let me start with the decision in afghanistan. why that weapon? if this was to get tons, and i asked this as a did he have's advocate here was, this the best weapon to get to the tunnels? or did they want to show symbolism here? >> i'm not a factor of single factor analysis. it could be both. i think trump is very lucky in his timing. they tried with other weapons to knock out that tunnel complex. it has been under construction and occupied for a long, long time. they tried ground attacks in support of oer weapons and that didn't work either. this is...