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, nor 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,
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,
today. we are told. this is such a heavy bomb. such a large bomb. it is put in the back of a cargo plane, a special operations cargo plane, and basically pushed out the back of it. now they ve drop today on this isis complex of fighters in eastern afghanistan. this is an area where just a few days ago a u.s. special operations soldier was killed in action in a fire fight with isis fighters. it s an area the u.s. has been trying to go after to clear isis out of. it an extraordinary use of this weapon to put mildly how seriously the u.s. air force takes this bomb, the official name is the massive ordinance air blast bomb, moab, the nickname inside the air force for this, quite seriously is the mother of all bombs. and barbara, we re watching the testing video. you watch the impact of this play out. you mentioned this was developed