optimization and that is what they re doing. frankly, that despite evidence of success publicly. president trump talking about the optimization of the tropic of the moab. the technical term, the massive ordnance air blast, also nicknamed the mother of all bombs. 11 tons of explosives. they dropped it in afghanistan going after fighters in tunnels and caves in the nangarhar province. a testing video, and it is, it does send a message, no matter what you think about it, it is a massive blast. we don t know the damage that it caused in that area, but we do know it does send a message, not only in afghanistan but also around the world, and this comes as foreign policy is leading the day with president trump and let s bring in our panel. charles hurt, opinion editor for the washington times. kristin salty sanderson,
here. the press secretary asked repeatedly about the news you broke at the top of the hour we ve been talking about here, the gbu-43 the moab bomb strike in afghanistan. and repeatedly referred questions on this over to the pentagon and over to defense officials. that said he was asked directly at least once, if not more, i m sort of losing track including on his way out, although he doesn t answer questions on his way out, whether the president directly authorized this, had known about it, the tick tock was, like we had heard prior last week after the syria air strike, no details about this. and i think that is certain notable. part two on this, were the questions about the reversals that you and i had been discussing at the top of the hour as well, and sean spicer indicated some of these issues have evolved towards the president s position. he said. and on nato, he made the argument as we heard the president make that more countries are paying their fair share as they like to say and
most ill lus stive. look at the president s position where he wanted to see nato evolve to and it s moving in the direction that he said it was in terms of its goals of increasing the amount of participation from other member countries and having a greater focus on terrorism. something that was reinforced by the secretary himself, secretary general himself, when he was here. i think when you look at these issues and you recognize the direction in which they re moving, they re moving in a direction that the president stated clearly. john? thank you, sean. on the gbu-43 bomb, first time it s been used. why did you choose this particular location and will you say that this bomb won t be used again in another flash point around the world like syria, like north korea, for instance? as i noted at the beginning i would refer you to the department of defense on the specifics. separate matter, you mentioned what you see is as a win at the u.n. security council. right. curious as to wh
like in afghanistan. it is a big question pure just want to mention as well in the statement put out by centcom about the dropping of this bomb, the u.s. forces took every precaution to avoid civilian casualties, but also want to point out this is a very rural mountainous area between afghanistan and pakistan. often referred to in these tribal areas where there is some way not a lot of infrastructure, and not a lot of government, but a lot here s sean spicer at the white house. press secretary spicer: there is some news breaking out of afghanistan, so i want to give it quick update. around 7:00 p.m. local time in afghanistan, last night, the u.s. military used a gbu-43 weapon in afghanistan. the gbu-43 is a large, powerful and accurately delivered weapon. we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that isis fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target u.s. military advisors in
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