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Pentagon and the afghan ministry this morning. the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan, general john nicholson called this the right weapon against the right target. the u.s. coordinated with the afghan government on this. he also said the u.s. forces on the ground have seen no evidence of civilian casualties. this mother of all bombs so-called was dropped in a very remote mountainous area of afghanistan. the target was a series of tunnels and caves used by isis militants. the afghan defense ministry said the tunnel complex was very hard to penetrate because some of the tunnels were more t...

In shorthand, largest nonnuclear bomb the air force has in its convinces. >> well, this bomb is 11,000 -- it's 11 tons of tnt, so it's going to set off an enormous blast. it will feel like a nuclear blast to anyone in the area. there's the psychological thing. you have to figure out what weapon you want to use when a target presents itself. in this area, mountains and caves and this tunnel complex, you want something that's going to be able to get a blast effect into those caves, into those tunnels. this is the weapon to do that. the pressure from this weapon will send shock waivves through th...

Complex in afghanistan near the pakistan border, but the decision to use this particular weapon could have some serious global consequences. let's bring in our panel of experts. phil mudd, this is a significant development, but from your perspective how significant? >> i think there are two pieces that are significant. first, if you're bashar al assad and you look those tomahawk missiles last week you have to be saying, i hope this one is not dropped on us. i think whether the message was meant to be sent or not, it had been to be received. i think it is more sult will but hugely significant. ...

Of how difficult it will be to win this war. the u.s. government says last year in 2016 the afghans lost ground to the taliban. we're going to be in this forever and this is an indication of why. >> and, chris tal, as you know, during the campaign then candidate donald trump promised if he were promise he would bomb the you know what out of isis. >> yep. >> is this consistent with that pledge? >> well, yeah. i mean yes on its face. it is hard to say it is not. it is fascinating to me because it comes -- dan and i were talking about it earlier. it comes in a period of time particularly donald t...

It actually works in a combat environment. basically pushed out the back of a c-130. i think it weighs out at about 25,000 pounds when it comes off the aircraft. >> when you're talking about a big underground tunnel complex, describe for me if you're sitting in this room, if you're in a tunnel, no matter how far underground or deep, the capacity, you can kill everybody? >> well, it depends on the proximity of the blast to the tunnels and how extensive the tunnel network is. but when you drop this thing in the middle of an area where you've got tunnel exits, that blast is going to ripple throug...