continues to meet with business leaders and people who are creating jobs, union leaders to find out what we can do in the president has heard a lot, gotten a lot of feedback and has already taken great steps to make sure that we can create a regulatory and tax rate environment that s going to help grow america s economy and put people back to work, that is plain and simple. what he will continue to do is fight on behalf of the american people. i hate to cut this short but we literally have 10 minutes before the president needs to come. thank you very much. jon: a shorter than usual news conference from sean spicer there. the president s spokesman, obviously one of the big questions of the day was about the dropping of moab mother of all bombs, the actual title is massive ordinance airburst explosive which the u.s. dropped on a cave complex on the afghan-pakistan border in afghanistan just as we were beginning the first hour of
against isis. jenna: what do you think it s being heard by this action? what worries me about north korea is that kim jong-un came to power in 2012, so he has never known the possibility of american military action. i am not sure he hears the message president trump wants. i think the syrians here very clearly. after all, they were just on the end of a weapons strike. i think the iranians here it also because we ve taken a series of steps to push back against iranian influence in the region, but it is not clear and north korea, unlike those other two states that there are any adults in the room who are killing kim jong-un, hey, listen up, you cannot win a confrontation with the united states. this is all a little bit rhetoric, the hot air and language you use. gbu-43 is not necessarily rhetoric for the guys that are on the ground, and i really want to make sure that we remember the green beret that was killed over the weekend. this is in the very same part of afghanistan. i m curio
president s continuing to meet with business leaders and people who are creating jobs, union leaders, to find out what we can do and the president has heard a lot and gotten a lot of feedback and taken great steps to make sure that we can create a regulatory and tax environment to help grow america s economy and put people back to work. that s plain and simple. what he ll continue to do is fight on the american people. hate to cut this short but we have ten minutes before the president s going to speak. did the president not know about the moab strike? i dot know why you can t talk sean, any clarity on this? all right. there it is. sean spicer coming in and saying he s going to keep that press conference short. he actually did. it was relatively short. cut it short. there were more questions there than he had answers to including some questions about all of the things that have been going on in the last few days but particularly about this breaking news we had at the top of the h
okay. now to the other top story we told you about a minute ago, it is called, quote, the mother of all bombs, how they refer to it in the military. u.s. forces today dropping the largest nonnuclear bomb ever used by american forces. this in a strike against isis in afghanistan. we are jt starting to piece the details together here. let s get right over to the pentagon. nbc s courtney cubey is there. courtney, the headline here gets everybody s attention. what do we know in terms of why this particular bomb was used, where it was used, what it was used for, and did it achieve what it hoped to achieve sp. so as you mentioned, steve, it s the mother of all bombs. gbu-43. it s not actually the largest bomb that the u.s. military has, but it s the largest one that they ve ever employed in combat on the battlefield. we believe this is the first time it s ever been used on the battlefield but the military is still double checking that for us. it s a 21,000 pound bomb. the target here w
comcast business. built for business. welcome back to hardball. today the united states struck an isis target in afghanistan with the largest non-nuclear bomb that the military has ever used on the battlefield. the gbu 43 which is nicknamed the mother of all bombs was dropped to destroy an isis tunnel system in a sparsely polated area near the afghan border with pakistan. look at it go there. according to nbc, the strike was a battlefield call made under the authority of the commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan. when president trump wassked today if he authorized this strike, he referred to the u.s. military at one point as being my military. did you authorize it, sir? everybody knows exactly what happened so and what i do is i authorize my military. he also had this to say with