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two major wars have never found the occasion to drop it and now they have. barbara starr has details. >> reporter: for the first time ever, the mother of all bombs was used by the u.s. military in combat. the largest nonnuclear bomb used in combat targeting isis fighters in eastern afghanistan's remote province. a u.s. air force special operations mc-130 dropped the bomb. >> we targeted a system of tunnels and caves that fighters used to move around freely making it easier to target military advisors and afghanistan forces in the area. >> reporter: the moab is a 21,600 bomb that explodes in the air. its blast is supposed to destroy a target area that can spread over thousands of feet. on saturday a u.s. army special operations soldier was killed in combat in the same area.

>> the united states takes the fight against isis very seriously and in order to defeat the group we must deny them operational space, which we did. >> reporter: one reason it was used, the area is so remote the u.s. believes there were no nearby civilians. >> they probably had a very large concentration and it made perfect sense based on the time of day they were going to attack they could have a massive kill in this area not putting any special operators or any conventional forces at risk. >> reporter: now the challenge, did the bomb work as planned in its first combat mission. >> it explodes above the ground at a distance depending upon what type of a shape and blast you want to have and as described it's a con cussive blast. everybody is ears are bleeding or they're completely destroyed. >> reporter: while the u.s. doesn't think there were any civilians in the area struck, aircraft and satellites will be

overhead looking at the damage and trying to make sure that no civilians were struck. >> cnn political analyst joins us and fareed zakari. this was the most powerful n nonnuclear bomb. what does it tell you about the target, about the state of the situation in that part of afghanistan. >> well, the situation in afghanistan is getting worse. this is the one area of afghanistan we find a large concentration of isis. this is the group that's a nasty bunch of the isis people. and there's a resurgence there and they're being quite successful. these tunnels and caves make it hard to find. they're able to move quickly. we lost a special forces soldier as reported there last week. it's time to go out and clean them out. the general has the authority and has had the authority to use

this particular weapon. this was a target that lent itself to that. i think the general described it this is the perfect target. caves, tunnels and you have a lot of people that are bad guys, but not a lot of -- there's no civilian population. this was the perfect weapon for this target. >> it's not clear if the president ordered this or this was done by commanders in the field. what is the protocol for something like this. >> the protocol for this is that the authority to use this is classified as a tactical weapon, a big one, but it's a tactical weapon. the authority to use it rests with the theater commander and the general has that authority. he could have checked with the white house, but it would have been a courtesy. i'm told by people at the pentagon he didn't need to ask, nor did he. >> first of all, afghanistan was so little talked about on the campaign trail. it hasn't been focused much by this administration. so this is i think a surprise to a lot of people to be refocused on it, but also that it comes in

the wake of the syria strike and the concern over north korea. >> it reminds that the united states is deeply engaged militarily all over the world. afghanistan, think about this, we've been in afghanistan for 12 years. it's just -- 16 years since 9/11. the united states has spent hundreds of billions of dollars. and the fact that we had to use a bomb like this suggests that the enemy is able to find ways to evade the usual bombs. it's not exactly a sign of success. the united states has still almost 10,000 troops in afghanistan 16 years after 9/11 and you have to use this kind of ordnance. it reminds you you're in the middle of a messy civil war. i think it's possible to say that donald trump is perhaps recognizing if not flexing the muscles of the u.s. military.

the military has been doing what it does and trump is recognizing it and he praised it, but i think it reflects a larger issue, which is there isn't going to be some kind of easy, quick, clean military solution. they've been trying it for 16 years. if he wants to think about what lesson to try, you also need to work the politics of this. if you don't get a representative government in afghanistan that can control its territory, we'll be dropping these bombs for another 16 years. >> david, in the last hour i remembered that one of the province i had been in with him and others has been retain by the taliban despite efforts by the british and u.s. marines to hold on to it. the fact that it's not clear exactly what role the president played and whether he authorized this bombing or not, but do you think these operations signal a

change in the u.s.'s overall military posture? >> absolutely. local commanders on the ground are saying this was a rather isolated strike. it was done -- they sought authorization and they got authorization up the chain. the president obviously blessed it. i'm sure the president knew the bomb was going to be dropped. it's unrelated to north korea and everything else. in a political world this bomb alone, what else we've been doing, sending war ships toward north korea, sending a missile into syria, and now this bomb, the biggest ever, 22,000 pounds, typically the military drops bombs maybe 2,000 pounds and we've gone after tunnel complexes before in afghanistan and never done this so political it's going to send a signal there's a new sheriff in town. he's tougher and he's going to be muscular. i think the united states is going to meet with a popular

reception, but there are going to be those that wonder what is all this military stuff about. the white house isn't explaining it. it's coming out of the blue. we dropped the biggest bomb we've ever dropped in our history in a place we've never heard of when we thought the fight against isis was in iraq and syria. i think people are going to ask, is this what happens when you have a lot of generals in the government or what is the bigger story here? i think the white house needs to have the president and the secretary of defense talk to the nation about where all of this is going. >> we heard generals talking about training the afghan military and getting the police up to speed, i remember going out in 2002 with special forces who were training the afghan national army back then and here we are 15, 16 years later talking about getting them so they can stand on their own two

feet. >> yeah. you can imagine donald trump saying in the next few weeks who knew afghanistan was so complicated. the problem in these places you have a political break down which has allowed groups like isis to come in and we have a larger military approach at this point partly because as you say we tried a lot of nation building in afghanistan and in iraq and the obama administration in frustration ended up with counter terrorism. the debate has been resolved. donald trump will probably go through this debate all over again. mcmaster, the national security advisor was a great proponent of counterinsurgency. do you try to stabilize the area or do you play whack a mole. there's an argument for whack a mole. it's no fun for the mole. it does leave you thinking are

we going to just keep doing this? is this going to be five years from now? are we going to have the same conversation when another bomb drops in another place nobody has heard of in afghanistan and it reminds the american people we still have troops in afghanistan and every day we drop bombs on them. >> the counter insurgency operation requires more forces and requires forces to hold territory and there is an element of national building and it's national building done by the u.s. military which is not the ideal way one is supposed to do that. >> we're not very good at it. we just don't seem to ever get it because we don't want to make that long term commitment it requires. you can see this in the bush administration and you saw it in the obama administration. we spent how long getting into afghanistan and the rest of the time trying to get out and we've not been able to do that because every time we think we're on our

way out we see a resurgence and we see isis going there. what we're doing isn't working. we've tried to train the afghan army. they can't defend their territory and yet we incesist we're not going back in a combat role. you have to decide what you want to do and make it happen. >> afghanistan's defense budget has many years been larger than the gdp. we are providing so much military aid to afghanistan it is larger than the actual economy. >> you go to kabul and a lot have these mansions belong to the generals and you wonder where that money comes from. >> i don't know why the victory over isis is going to come in afghanistan. isis is -- its largest threat is in destablizing the middle east and in syria and iraq. why this -- i think if we sort of deter into is afghanistan and make that the center of gravity on the fight against isis,

that's going to be nuts. i don't know what strategy that represents. so i don't understand why would we drop big bombs and think that afghanistan is our problem and why not press the fight and finish the fight and take back the territory and try to diminish isis where it has a lot of power. >> yeah. thank you. david is going to stick around. i want to get david's take on reporting on the ties between associates and russians. we've learned that other intelligence agencies outside the country picked up communications. inside a look at the secret facility where the crews missiles were made. connected business world.ughoe at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected.

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more information showing communication between trump associates and russian officials and others known to u.s. intelligence. it builds on the story that national correspondent broke and it suggests that more eyes and ears picked up early on signs of contact with moscow. the latest from jim. >> reporter: tonight cnn has learned that british and european intelligence intercepted communications between trump associates and russian officials and other russians known to western intelligence during the u.s. presidential campaign and shared those communications with their u.s. counterparts. multiple u.s. and western officials tell cnn these sources stress at no point did western

intelligence, including the britain gchq, target these trump associates. instead, their communications were picked up as incidental collection during routine surveillance of known russian targets. the u.s. and britain are part of the so-called five eyes agreement along with canada, australia and new zealand, which calls for open sharing among member nations of a broad range of intelligence. this new information comes as former trump foreign policy advisor carter page provides a confusing and conflicting story about his contacts with russian intelligence. he has denied that he was a formen agent. >> this is -- it's just such a joke it's beyond wards. >> reporter: page said when he visited russia last july he never discussed easing relations on russia. >> did you ever talk with anyone there about maybe president trump, if he were elected, then kpa candidate trump, would be willing to get rid of the

sanctions. >> never any direct conversations such as that. >> i don't know what that means, direct conversations. >> i'm saying -- that was never said, no. >> reporter: but interviewed on abc news this morning, page could not provide a clear answer. >> something may have come up in a -- i have no recollection and there is nothing specifically that i would have done that would have given people that impression. >> but you can't say you didn't discuss the easing of sanctions? >> someone may have brought it up. i have no recollection. if it was, it was not something i was offering or someone was asking for. >> jim, do you know whether the senate and house intelligence communities are going to be looking at the evidence gathered by the europeans or have they already? >> absolutely. i spoke with a source close to the congressional senate investigation today and said if it's relevant they will look at

this. you have u.s., british and multiple european intelligence agencies picking up communications between russians known to western intelligence and trump associates. that could be innocent communication, but we know that not only the hill committees are looking at this, but also the fbi. they are exploring whether there's any evidence of collusion between those russians and trump officials who they don't know yet, but they're looking at that question. >> would you be surprised if the trump administration or its defenders used this british incidental story to try to cloud the water around the russian investigation or to say it backs up the stuff that the judge said about british intelligence working for president obama off the books? >> i think it will be strained. i think what they benefit most from is that the appearance of trump possibly being a puppet of mr. putin. that's been demolished here by events over the last few weeks and i think that's their biggest

defense right now. even so it is perfectly possible there was collusion and the relationship soured. so it is extremely important that the investigation continue and to undersore whcore what ji saying the fact that britain and western europe came to the united states and warned starting in late 2015 and through the months that followed into '16 warned there were these unusual conversations between americans associated with trump and the russians, it's so obvious that the investigative committees are going to dive into the middle of this. what i don't know is when the warnings came or the signaling came from the british and others, whether they actually gave them information. did they give them copies of transpo transcripts or things like that. >> do we know, jim? >> we know that they would share

the fact that these conversations took place and the transcripts, but when u.s. -- >> they would share the transcripts. >> they would have to mask the names of the americans involved unless -- we went through this earlier with the questions about susan rice did and oathers. >> it was interesting the head of the cia mike pompeo came out and said wikileaks is a hostile intelligence service. that's not been the view of donald trump during the campaign. i want to play sound from the campaign. >> now, this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks -- i love wikileaks. and i said write a couple of them down. did you see another one? another one came in today.

wikileaks is like a treasure trove. wikileaks just came out with lots of unbelievable things. just minutes ago. in fact, i almost delayed this speech by about two hours it's so interesting. >> i also just saw a report that pompeo on his twitter account was quoting from wikileaks documents. >> now he's the cia director. he's the president's choice of cia director and his comments today were a not too subtle repudiation of a position repeated by candidate trump many times on the campaign trail. remember, there was a time when we used to ask candidates in these positions to condemn or criticize comments like this coming from a group that might be criticizing their candidate. in this case it wasn't that. he was actively praysiising the. i love wikileaks. now he has his cia director saying we are now designating

the cia, wikileaks, not just as a passive actor or an annoying presence, but as a hostile non-state actor working with the russians. that's remarkable. >> thank you. ahead, the campaign long over, the rubber is hitting the road which may explain the 180 from president trump. the panel weighs in next. new gu? i hired some help. he really knows his wine. this is the new guy? hello, my name is watson. you know wine, huh? i know that you should check vineyard block 12. block 12? my analysis of satellite imagery shows it would benefit from decreased irrigation. i was wondering about that. easy boy. nice doggy. what do you think? not bad.

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we may be feeling whiplash tonight. it's been a week of 180s from president trump who has changed his positions on syria, china, health care. it seemed so easy during the campaign. >> we're going to make america great again. it's going to be easy. it's going to be easy. it's very easy to be presidential. i have great people. we have top smart people, but it's so easy to do. we have drugs. we have debt. we have empty factories. that's going to end. that's going to end. so easy. so easy to solve. believe me, the jobs are coming back. it's going to be so easy. this is so easy. i want to jump start america and

it can be done and it won't be that hard. folks, i'm going to do so much about it. it's going to be so easy. it's going to be so easy. being presidential is easy. much easier than what i have to do. >> that was then and now president trump is sitting in the oval office calling the shots and things do not look so easy anymore. lots to discuss. david, again, congratulations. just awesome. >> thank you. >> incredible reporting. it is amazing when you consider so many of the statements that donald trump made on the campaign trail and every president -- president obama talked about closing gitmo and didn't do that and the white house says the situation has changed with nato, but in fact it hasn't changed that much. >> this is president trump learning on the job that all these things he said are so simple are not simple and there's a reason why past presidents have done a lot of

these things the same way because the options are not great. it's good that he's learning on the job and he's learning these complexities, but it does belie the idea behind his candidacy which is everyone else who did this is stupid and since he wasn't he could change these things easily. >> i think about the republicans standing on the debate stage with him, marco rubio and everybody else, who were saying at the time they were trying to act presidential and they had nuance policy i don't think they would be willing to say you say one thing when you're running and now you're president and you say something else. >> i don't think he's flipped on a lot of things, but when you look facts on the ground have changed -- >> the chemical weapons were used before and he tweeted endlessly that president obama should not strike militarily. >> obama got rid of the chemical weapons in syria and the facts

changed. >> why chemical weapons attack in 2013. donald trump said don't attack. you're an idiot if you attack. >> it become real to him. when you take 1600 pennsylvania avenue -- >> the facts didn't change. >> the facts did change because there was another chemical attack. it was the same scenario as in 2013, but when you take the oval office and see those pictures of dead babies, it becomes real. >> it becomes real, not the facti facts change. >> that was the one change we've seen, but he had a meeting with the nato secretary general. nato has in fact many allies have said they're going to donate surveillance weapons and drones. they are stepping up to their obligations in nato. >> his saying nato was obsolete was not about the money thing. his saying nato was obsolete which is they weren't focusing on terrorism which wasn't true.

nato has been focusing on terrorism since 9/11. >> he had a meeting with the nato secretary. he believes the relationship has moved closer to what he sees just like janet yellen who he now has confidence in. the circumstances have changed. >> janet yellen hasn't changed and now donald trump likes her. china was a country that was raping america and then he meets the chinese president and he says he's a nice guy and now i understand and he lecture managmanaged for ten years and i understand. >> just like health care. he has changed. i think he's grown. >> i'm not criticizing. people should change, but to pretend everything else has changed is hypocrite cal.

>> he had never been elected it anything. it makes sense in the first 100 days you would discover and learn things and grow wiser. i'm pretty happy with the direction things are going if people like steve bannon is being marginalized and other people like h.r. mcmaster who replaced flynn, he's flip-flopped, but i think he's flipping in the right direction. >> i keep coming back to the other republicans who were on that stage who would probably have said, yeah, it is actually complicated and these are nuance things and you have to think about it and maybe you should do that while you're running as opposed to say one thing when you're running and when you're in office say it's different now. >> a lot of these positions are standard fare for republicans and democrats. we haven't designated china a

currency manipulator in more than 20 years. nato and troops in nato have been fighting terrorism for more than ten years. a lot of this has been consistent. what's stunning is the fact he is learning a lot about global affairs on the job. he's not a freshman in model your honor. he's the president of the united states. i think what we're seeing over the last week is a really concerning lack of knowledge of a lot of these events and how complicated they are and how complicated these issues are. >> i heard someone raise this, but who is briefing the president on the relationship between china and north korea if it takes a ten-minute lecture from the chinese premiere to open the president's eyes it's maybe not as easy for china to influence events in north korea. does that concern you at all? >> i think this is part of the evolution of the job. old ideas are old because they're good. they've been tested. new ideas don't last long because they have not been tested. i think when you get into the nuances of the federal reserve

or chinese currency manipulation, which most people do acknowledge went on from 2003 to 2014 and then wa it was discontinued, but those things can sometimes have a life of their own. you'll remember the notch baby issue, this group of people who thought they were short changed when jimmy carter change in the the social security formulated. it was very complicated. congress never torched it because it was a bad idea, but for candidates, great for red meat, but for legislators not a good idea. i think a lot of that happens once you get in office and you realize there is a function of the xm bank and it does make money. it would be scarey to all of us, democrats and republicans, if politicians did not emerge and grow once they're in elected office and have a lot more information. >> i guess to me i just wonder are future elections is the game say whatever you want to say that pleases the crowd in front

of you and then do something different when you're in office? >> i think there were a lot of people on november 8th who believed will that that is who donald trump was. what we see now is donald trump is not who we thought he was. he ran in the same vain as andrew jackson. donald trump is not that. it's not just syria and janet yellen. it's not syria. it's not china. it's not america first. everything that we see, even planned parenthood, there were some people who thought that ivanka was having meetings with planned parenthood, that somehow he would soften on women's rights issues. none of these things are coming true. donald trump is not the man that many poor rural voters voted for. >> we have to take a quick break. one on one with nikki haley.

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u.s. ambassador has been in the spotlight a lot. she took a stance yesterday after russia vetoed a resolution condemning the killings. >> reporter: from condemning the chemical attacks in syria. >> look at those pictures. >> reporter: to her aggressive stance on regime change. >> strengthingeni assad will leo more murders. >> reporter: she's not afraid to speak her mind. >> for those that don't have our back, we're taking names. >> reporter: or contradict her boss. >> russia is trying to show their muscle. i don't think we can trust them. >> reporter: has he ever said to you you shouldn't have said something? >> no, he has not.

>> reporter: are you surprised. >> i'm not surprised because he knew that when he hired me that i made it clear i didn't want to be a wall flower or talking head. i'm very passionate by nature and he's fine with it. >> reporter: how much is coordinated with the white house and the state department? >> it's always coordinated with the white house. >> reporter: you're not going rogue. >> no. it's a sign of how this president work. it's not uncommon for him to pick up the phone and tell me what he feels on an issue or to say say this or say this. he has given me a lot of leeway to say what i think and interpret what he thinks. i'm a strong voice by nature. i'm sometimes a bull in a china shop and he allows me to do that. >> friends say that same strength and independence served her well growing up in south carolina. the daughter of immigrants from

india, her father was a professor and her mother was a lawyer, but the family suffered constant discrimination. >> they had never seen anybody in a turban. growing up you knew you were different. >> reporter: one such moment when she and her sister was disqualified from the little miss beauty pageant which crowned white winner and one black winner. the judges said they were neither. >> my mom said nikki's been practicing this song. will you let her do this song. it was this is our land. my mom would never let us complain. she'd say your job is not to show them how you're different, it's to show them how your

simil similar. >> reporter: she went on to get a degree, get married and raise two children. along the way she credits two women with her interest in politics. your role model is margaret thatcher. >> yes. if you want something said ask a man. if you want something done ask a woman. love that. >> reporter: the woman who inspired you to go into politics was a democrat. >> it was hillary clinton. for every reason that people tell you not to do it it was every reason you should. that was it. it was done. i didn't know you weren't supposed to run against a 30 year incumbent. >> reporter: she won that race and served in the state house and went on to break two barriers becoming the first

indian-american and first woman governor of south carolina. overnight she was a rising star in the republican party. thrust on the national stage after the horrific mass shooting at charleston's ame church. >> everyone wanted to hug her. there's this image of nikki crying. >> reporter: she won praise for her successful campaign to remove the confederate flag from the state house. >> she did something that many people thought was impossible. a female who ran for governor and she beat all the boys. she's always persevered. >> reporter: her star power was never more apparent during the presidential campaign when she endorsed marco rubio and many thought this could be the gop ticket. >> donald trump did not take it well and he went on twitter. the people of south carolina are embarrassed by nikki haley!

and not 20 minutes later you responded, bless your heart. what does plbless your heart me. >> it's a polite way of saying read between the lines. >> reporter: it appears donald trump is please in hd with her public profile. >> secretary of state rex tillerson has been so quiet. any awkwardness. >> it's the personalities. he's the executive. he's thoughtful in his approach. i'm not afraid to say anything. i'm not easily intimidated and so i can go out and say things. i think we compliment each other. >> reporter: it has however led to speculation that some day she might like his job or higher office. everybody i talk to said does she want to be secretary of

state. >> no. >> reporter: do you want to be senator. >> no. >> reporter: are you going to run for the white house. >> no. >> reporter: you're not going to run for the white house. everyone thinks you are. >> you know what's amazing. this has happened my entire work career is everyone thinks that i'm ambitious and everybody thinks i'm trying to run for something and everybody thinks i want more. and the truth of it is i'm just passionate. >> reporter: you wouldn't rule out that someday you might run for the white house. >> i can't imagine running for the white house. >> reporter: you really can't? >> i really can't. >> it's interesting at the beginning of your piece you talked about the moment that nikki haley held up those photographs. it was probably the moment that everybody replayed on newscasts. you learned the back story on that s that. >> i think what's important in the interview she says she coordinates things with the

white house, but donald trump gives her a lot of leeway. that's an example of leeway. she didn't run that by the white house. i've spoken to people who work with her and she trusts her own instincts. that was her instinct and it ended up having a powerful effect on the u.n. and on donald trump because one day she's saying it and the next day he's saying it. >> thanks very much. coming up, we're going to take you to an undisclosed location to see tomahawk missiles being made like the ones launched last week. it's extraordinary access to this facility next.

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asked not to reveal for security reasons. the 20-foot-long tomahawks are manufactured by raytheon company. >> this is the final configuration before it goes out the door to the customer. we do the int dprags of the rocket motors and warheads of the missiles. other components, assemblies come from the other factories. we test it, fuel it and get it ready to go out the door. >> how soon will they go out the door? >> in the next couple of days. >> reporter: 14 tomahawks are about to be shipped out. workers are performing what they call a role test to make sure there's nothing loose inside the missile and that everything is connected properly. raytheon's contract with the navy is 96 missiles for this year. >> they can fly 1,000-plus miles. it can go up andlighter as we call it where it can fly around in a figure ought. >> in other words, once it's

sent off, if you want to change where it's going -- >> it can be redirected and rerouted to a specific target. >> reporter: the tomahawk has been around since the 1980s. but this is the newest version of the missile. it can be used for up to 30 years. tomahawks that haven't been used come back after 15 years for recertification and upgrades. >> it is what propels it out. so when you see the footage of a missile coming out of a ship, it is the plume out of that vertical launch. as you move up to the front is the navigation, communication system, and ultimately up here at the very end is the warhead. it is a 1,000-pound warhead. >> reporter: the tomahawks can strike within mere feet of a target. they are launched from ships or submarines. >> if it comes from a submarine, it will swim through the water. the rocket will take it up out of the water and get it up into

the airplane mode which is where it will fly and perform its mission from there. >> it swims and it flies? >> it swims and it flies. >> reporter: the price tag per missile, about $1.1 million. each tomahawk weighs about 3,500 pounds. so when 60 were fired toward syria, that was about 210,000 pounds. >> it is an honor to be able to work for the men and women in uniform and be able to supply them with a competitive advantage. we make sure that they have an unfair advantage out in the theater. >> you say this gives the u.s. military an unfair advantage? >> absolutely. we want to keep it that way. >> gary, you mentioned unused tomahawks come back to raytheon in 2019 for upgrades. do you know what kind of upgrades they plan? >> reporter: as you can imagine, there's a lot about this missile currently and in the future that's classified. one thing we can report, in 2019, when they do come back for

their improvements, one of the upgrades will be given the capability to strike moving targets, such as ships, or land vehicles. >> gary tuchman, thank you very much. fascinating. ♪ we are not here to sit idly by. we are here...to leave a mark. experience a shift in the natural order. experience amazing.

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that's it for us. i'll hand things over to don lemon. lemon. "cnn tonight" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking news. u.s. military hits isis with the mother of all bombs. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. the massive weapon is the largest nonnuclear bomb the military has ever used in combat. today it was deployed in afghanistan for the very first time. president trump praising the mission, but the commander in chief won't say whether he's the one who gave the green light. and we have more breaking news. sources telling cnn that british intelligence and other european agencies intercepted communications between trump associates and russian officials during the campaign and passed them on to u.s. officials. we will bring you the very latest on all of this. let's begin with the military targeting isis in afghanta