are failed launches because they are not able to gets into the stratosphere. the reality is they re practicing like they did in 2013 for blast in the atmosphere to take out the american power grid. pete: some are saying this is just on the korean peninsula. why do we care? why should an american care? tell us why an american besides allies which we care about why should they care whether north korea has the abilities to deliver it no. one of the problems with north korea is they don t have a lot of money and partners in the world outside of cline. so you are when you develop technology, that is going to go to the isis ebay as soon as it s out there and they can get some money for it the other problem is, a couple years back, president obama allowed north korea to put a space satellite into orbit. i don t know what technology they have that they need to have it beam down to pyongyang, but the reality is that a real satellite? there is a lot of threat and speculation out there that
i think it s great we re finally doing it shows a direct reflection of leadership. i think it finally shows we have an administration that s letting the military do its job. this region is unforgiving terrain. i mean, you know, it s not like it s a city. it s not like there is. it s unforgiving ter rain and hard esther rain i have ever seen in the world. that is what makes them so successful. that s why they put their headquarters there because it is hard to kill. you take one drop and it kills 90 of them. listen, that s a success any day in my book. pete: absolutely. dakota to step back some people are criticizing say we shouldn t celebrate. this of course war is difficult. if we can t pat ourselves on the back or others on the back for killing 90 isis terrorists then what can he we in the context of war be grateful for? i think that s the exact point of it, right? we re a team. i mean, we re a team the u.s.
so, as and this is brinksmanship of what s going on right now. the other player, the really important player is the chinese in convincing the chinese that we ll use military force if he does not stop and the chinese can cut them off from oil. they provide 90% of the oil from the north koreans and hopefully that will be the thing that the chinese will do. we have to enlist cline s support. if we don t we have to some of his capability. that will be a dangerous thing. if we don t, at some point he is going to create a nuclear weapon that is going to be small enough to put on a device that he could transport across the pacific. abby: there is a lot going on around the world. gary, you were one of the first cia officers in afghanistan to take on the terrorists after 9/11. your reaction to this action that took out nearly 100 of the isis fighters. first off, i compliment the president for putting those
be acceptable. pete: threat to the american home land can t be acceptable for any president. you don t want to kick this can how far going to kick it. abby: america is strong and leading from the front, the rest of the world is safer because of that. pete: absolutely. speaking of the world being safer. yesterday we reported about the mother of all bombs killing 36 isis terrorists in afghanistan. it turns out that number is almost three times higher than that the death toll from the mother of all bombs up to 90 potentially even higher. those isis scum bags frankly eviscerated when that bomb hit with no civilian casualties. jon: dr. james mitchell developed the enhanced program and joins us now. what s the psychological effect on isis fighters when you smoke out almost 100 of them with one bomb? well, i think one of the things that we ve done in the past is we have been reluctant to show them just how powerful our military is that emboldened them. we end up trying to fight them at th
decisions in the hands of battlefield commanders. he has general mick nickelson. he has probably done six tours in afghanistan. he commanded where this was. the problems with where this device was used a year ago last march and april was the location where we fought for six years, u.s. aircraft supported the afghans to drive isis out of that area already.ct against isis in nandahar. that fighting has been going on south of highway 1. and in an area not far from torah bora, ironically where we used the blue 82 against al qaeda back 16 years ago. so, you know, this sector is, you know, right on the afghan, pak border. right up tribal area. highway 1. major road link into afghanistan.