Over the last eight weeks and compare tod compared to whats happened over the last eight years you will see a tremendous difference. If he didnt give the order, who did . Its not clear whether the president knew of this exact military action, is it . Reporter no its not and one of the issues here is that this weapon, had been requested by the commander general nicholson for some time an was authorized to use it by his immediate spear general bo tetell before Trump Administration was even inaugurated so this has been in the works for some time. We had been told President Trump was briefed that this bomb was going to be used but the authorities to use it had been delegated down the chain of command for some months now. So this is a 22,000 pound bomb ne never used in combat, developed in the second iraq war developed in the early 2000s, i think the u. S. Is still waiting to make its assessment exactly as to what happened but this area of afghanistan, its a very volatile remote region, it
Table. I dont like to take things off the table. Its that alternative. Its National Emergency. Its other things, and you know, there have been plenty of National Emergencies called. You need a wall, and anybody who says you dont, theyre just playing games. President trump will deliver the state of the Union Address in just two days, and is hinting at some kind of border wall action during his speech. Cnns Boris Sanchez is in western florida, not far from where the president has been spending time in maralago. The president is hinting at another potential shutdown, so where do things stand . Reporter fred, we are essentially where we were a month and a half ago with the first shutdown with republicans and democrats engaged in a sort of shouting match, the president addressing his words to House Speaker nancy pelosi at this point. We should point out democrats have made some concessions in negotiations. Theyve added personnel and technology to the border, but they have yet to offer a sin
which is something the u.s. obviously has seen before. the pentagon has taken the position, basically, of staying as quiet as they possibly can about it. it s not a subject they want to get into a rhetorical debate with with the russian military and the russian leadership. president biden, of course, just a few days ago, publically warning vladimir putin not to do it. that all said, the u.s. has a significant capability to keep an eye on any moves of russian nuclear forces. so far they say they have not seen that. but i think it s very fair to say that is something that is watched around the clock and everybody also will be watching to see what president biden has to say when he addresses the u.n. general assembly. absolutely. extra close attention will be paid to those speeches today, thank you. with us is colonel cedric
washington, d.c.s cnn military analyst cedric clayton. if we could start with the state of play, right, on the battlefield, does what you re seeing now demonstrates real success on russia s part. paula, several things are going on here, obviously, ukraine has kept its gains around kyiv and most of its gains around kharkiv, but in the donbas area, the area russians have declared part of their war aims, they re making some progress, in particularly they re going in the direction of the town and what that means they re looking for all of the road junctions that are in essence covering the area that the ukrainian forces are currently occupying so they want
connection. when you re down in the basement, people don t want to even if there was electricity, you don t want to turn it on because you don t want the troops to know that someone s in the house. so people are just living in complete fear. and as we see, have suffered so much loss. they have lost their homes. they ve lost their loved ones. they ve lost their neighbors. yeah. heidi, i don t even have words. you are very brave to be there shooting it. everyone is sorry for what the folks are dealing with. we appreciate you documenting this and chronicling it so people know what s going on. thank you. thank you. thank you very much. please be safe. thank you. you, too. so i want to go to cnn military analyst and retired air force colonel cedric clayton. before we talk about what s