i ve got a 21,000-pound bomb, okay. nobody has ever used it. nobody has ever used before. barack obama didn t have the guts to use, but i have the guts to use. even though i don t think he knew about it in advance, actually. okay. that s number one. number two, there is the interplay within the administration which is the pentagon is showing president trump their wares. don t forget we had the fight against steve bannon. that s over. h.r. mcmaster, rex tillerson pretty much cornered the isolationist, so-called, antiglobalist steve bannon. put him in a corner. and this is a demonstration what they could do. number three, this is donald trump s kind of war action. it s dropping a big bomb. it s not putting boots on the ground. it s showing strength without
strike. did you authorize the bomb very, very proud of the people. really, another successful job. we re very, very proud of our military. just like we re proud of the folks in this room, we are so proud of our military. and it was another successful event. did you authorize it? everybody knows exactly what happened. so, and what i do is i authorize my military. we have the greatest military in the world and they ve done a job as usual. so, we have given them total authorization, and that s what they re doing. frankly, that s why they ve been so successful lately. now, today s strike in afghanistan comes one day after president trump announced national security advisor h.r. mcmaster will travel to afghanistan. he ll be the first sitting national security advisor to visit there since 2009. we ve got a full panel to discuss this. with me nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel, bob scales, the atlantic s washington editor at large steve
committing troops. and it s message sending. so, it s exactly what he wants to do and it s isil. this is a branch of isil out there in afghanistan, isil-k. and he s gone after who he said i was going to go after when he ran for office. so, and also this shows the further shift of donald trump from domestic issues to global issues. every president eventually decides they ve had enough with congress, enough with the bureaucracy, enough with the press. i m going to get into global affairs. donald trump has rushed in to global consciousness within a few weeks of the beginning of his presidency. also something interesting that mcmaster is going, a smaller message maybe, but what do you make of that, steve? i think mcmaster is trying to figure out they ve advocated putting more troops back into afghanistan and trying to sort of look at what they can do to return it. our levels of troops right now are there to make sure kabul doesn t faum. you have a rise of war lords in afghanistan and