cnnheroes.com. thanks for joining us. "inside politics kw" starts rig now. >> thanks, kate. welcome to "inside politics." thanks for sharing your day with us. a long easter weekend for president trump as washington and the world debate the strategy and the meaning behind two major military strikes. >> we have the greatest military in the world and they've done a job as usual. so we have given them total authorization. that's what they're doing. frankly, that's why they've been so successful lately. >> in a week full of big policy changes, another note worthy shift. candidate trump loved wikileaks and its attacks on hillary clinton. president trump cia director calls wikileaks a threat. >> wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. it's time to call out wikileaks for what it really is.

a nonstate hostile intelligence service often embedded by state actors like russia. >> wall streeters are the rising powers and the president's side kick steven bannon now more and more on the losing side of policy fights. >> i think steve made an error on not spending any political capital on bringing -- therefore now he's alone and he's surrounded. >> with us the reporting and the insights that is correct got a small. laura, mike el, karen. again today big international news driving the day. april 15th is the regime's biggest holiday and a provocative act is a big holiday tradition. u.s. navy shifts are nearby and it seems pyongyang might be poised for a nuclear test.

russia, iran and syria say they are nighted in condemning last week's missile strikes against the syrian air base. no big surprise, but president trump's home was that secretary tillerson's trip to russia this week might have per ssuaded president putin on change course. watch it play out here. the first combat use of the military's largest nonnuclear bomb against an isis camp and tunnel complex. >> this was the right weapon against the right target. >> barbara starr was first to report this dramatic news yesterday this hour and joins us now from the pentagon. barbara, they've used this weapon for the first time. what does the battle damage assessment say? do i think it was a success and a success enough to think about using it again? >> just 24 hours after you and i were talking about it in breaking news exclusively at cnn the battle damage assessment that's beginning to take ship,

general nicholson got what he wanted out of this. they were able to kill some isis fighters, to close up some of those tunnels and caves. they have no evidence of civilian casualties in the area. those civilians in the area are reporting they heard the blast and felt the ground shake. a senior military official told me this was a message to isis that the u.s. will hunt them down even in these remote mountain valleys and that -- if that's the message, general nicholson achieved his goal of delivering it. the video shows us that the bomb dropped where they meant it to drop. it went into this very steep mountain valley where this complex of caves was located, an area that these isis fighters had retreated into. but still a very long way to go in afghanistan. the affaghans say a few dozen fighters were killed. there may be 800 isis still in

the country and there is still the taliban out there who are resurgent in the south. president trump will have to decide in the coming weeks if he wants to send more u.s. military trainers to afghanistan to buck up to help the afghan forces in this very difficult ongoing fight in so many fronts in their country. >> it's an important point. you can't solve the biggest problems from the stars above. bar so how would the commander in chief describe the current state of play? >> if you look at what's happened over the last eight weeks and compare that really to what's happened over the last eight years? you'll see there's a tremendous difference. tremendous difference. so we have incredible leaders in the military. we have incredible military. we are very proud of them. this was another very, very successful mission. >> come into the room here. toughness is not a strategy. but toughness does get the

world's attention. so where are we at this moment when we, as barbara noted, a lot of tough decisions about afghanistan. do you leave u.s. troops, how aggressive a posture do they take, what next in syria? we're all watching. we'll get to it in a moment what could play out in north korea. when you hear the president talking about his willingness to use military force and his muscular language, what does it tell us? >> well, barbara talked about how this bomb was meant to send a signal to other parts of the world. i think it was also meant to send a signal to the domestic audience. that was not only about the president'si president's willingness to use force but also his willingness to rely upon the judgment of the military. yesterday he made some sort of cry cryptic comments when he was asked if he authorized this. it's hard to imagine they would have used a weapon they never used before without consulting with the president. he really tried to make at least leave the impression that the

military was leading the way here. >> let's bring those words in. they are important. we're still getting used to this president. couple weeks shy of 100 days. this was the first time in a matter of weeks he used military force twice. this mother of all bombs tochlt yo . to your point, what is the chain of command? did you sign off? he wouldn't answer the question directly. >> everybody knows exactly what happened. what i do is a authorize my military. we have given them total authorization. that's why they've been so questions full lately. >> we dent know the nitty gritty details. i've given them total t authorization. mr. president, if the opportunity arises, we might launch a raid. do they just have carte blanche because of one briefing where he signed off on things or is there a daily back and forth?

>> i think the president has to answer that question. i would say it's not unusual to lean on your military generals to make these kind of decisions and that you can give them a certain amount of latitude to decide when and where to strike. but by not answering directly, he opens himself up to these questions. we know the president doesn't like to talk that much about military strategy. we also know that he's not steeped in military history. he likes his briefing sort of in bullet points or pictures. i think combined with those two things he doesn't like to get into these answers. he leaves himself open to more questions. but what i can add to this question right now is sort of trump's state of mind which i think is important as we kind of tiptoe into some really complicated foreign policy here. these are matters of life and death. i interviewed the president this week with some colleagues at the "wall street journal" and this is not a president who seemed

weighed down by the decisions. it was before the mother of all bombs. it was after syria. even with the framework of some complicated domestic issues, he has no major legislative victories. his staff is in turmoil. he was at ease. he was even a little bit i would say emboldened or maybe thrilled by it when he was talking about dropping bombs on syria. not suggesting any of these decisions are personal for him, but as we get into these decisions and see where this trump doctrine where the foreign policy is going to play out, i think it's important to understand that he's very much at ease right now with these decisions. >> it's an interesting point. you mentioned what is the donald trump doctrine. we're shy of 100 days. what is your strategy. some of that sunfair. these are long problems. wong thing we do know is this is a president different from the rhetoric of his campaign where he criticized president obama.

he told him don't go into syria even after chemical strikes. so he has abandoned a lot of the rhetoric of the campaign, a lot of what we thought would be the basic p basic per am teres. do we know where we're going? >> i think one thing consistent is he's not interested in a value based foreign policy. he doesn't talk about human rights even after the chemical attack. he made some lip service of how g gro tesk the attack was. he does not talk about nation building. some people got him wrong in the campaign when they described him as an isolationist. he is a consistent realist so far in that the way he wants america to operate on the world stage is strictly in terms of our interests and in the interests of other countries. he brought in the leaders in the conversations that he's had

personally or his aides just this month with china, russia, and egypt. three autocrats. in previous administration there would have been a lot of talk about human rights, a lot of dancing around that issue. trump didn't talk about that at all. he doesn't care about human rights or democracy or the internal affairs of these countries. he cares about frankly the deal making and the interests of the two sides. so far what i see is a true realist and that meaning he'll intervene here or there but a realist who's willing to use american force. >> in fact with the egyptian leader who is the most oppressive ruler in modern egyptian history, the president complimented him for doing a terrific job under difficult circumstances. >> absolutely. and after the terrorist attacks in egypt recently he sort of praised him and said he's the right man to do deal with this. >> putting his political opponents who many say are

tortured. let's deal with the president's play, first and foremost because of the history and timing in north korea. the president was asked point blank you've launched missiles in syria. you just dropped this new weapon in afghanistan. are you trying to send kim -- the korean leader a message? >> i don't know if it sends a message message. it doesn't make a difference if it does or not. north korea is a problem. the problem will be taken care of. >> kim jong-un army put out this statement. a u.s. carrier group has moved into a region. there are some evidence china is actually trying to help out of the meeting he had last weekend. the north korean army says this. we will mercilessly destroy all the provocative choices of the united states with our own toughest response. serious military -- the timing here, this is complicated and it's risky if there's

miscalculations. >> right. this is if they're firing with real bullets, if they launch a nuclear test, that will be seen as a provocation back. and how does trump respond to that? if he's saying well, they'll regret it, does that mean that we get involved mill taeitarily? he said after meeting with the chinese leader that they're going to help us in fact if he's willing to put aside his views on chinese currency manipulation because they're going to help us supposedly with north korea. if that does not come through and north korea calls our bluff essentially, then i think that he faces a pretty tough decision because south korea just over the line there and facing real peril potentially. >> it was interesting where the president said i thought i could ask the chinese to help, they could snap the finger and north korea could do their bidding and he realized president xi said

it's not that easy. yes, we have some influence over them but not what you think. however i do think at least so far we'll see where this ends. you'd have to score a win for the president in terms of getting actions out of his summit with the chinese leader where they have turned away coal shipments. they have threatened to cut off oil shipments to north korea. a chinese airline said of weak sales, but canceling flights. they appear to be helping. >> they issued a statement today very bluntly how worried they are about this standoff that seems to be developing outside of north korea and they said if something gets touched off here, whoever touch its off will be judged by history. >> they don't -- even if they're trying to help the president, they don't like when the united states military is in their neighborhood. it's a lot of complicated chess pieces. hold the thought. we need to move on. next how u.s. intelligence agencies got word and the

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communications between people associated with the trump campaign and suspected russian operatives. again, they were targeting the russians. this was incidental collection. they weren't necessarily targeting the associates of donald trump. but it does raise another question here for the fbi which is investigating all of these contacts. we know that they're using some of this information for their investigation and the question will be whether they can use any of this as they try to put together a possible criminal case. we know that's going to be a very complicated matter for them. we know that the gchq and the european agencies have been really watching the russians very, very closely because they know about their argument activities in europe. that's one way that the u.s. intelligence agencies were first alerted about these communications and contacts, john. >> latest twist. let's come back to the room. on the one hand you say that's how it's supposed to work.

these are our allies. but then you think about you're sitting at the cia or national intelligence agencies and you get a call from the brits or another european agency and they say we're going to send you something on somebody who's close to donald trump on the phone. i mean, this is a little out of a bond movie. >> you think about the analysts. they have meddling russia's meddling in democracies for years. they're thinking this is russia taking the playbook that is used in europe and exporting it to america. not exactly shocking. what might be shocking depending on what they picked up is how close the ties were to one of the major campaigns. >> at a moment when nobody thought donald trump was going to win. i think that's pretty key here too. and before the hack of the dmc. so i think those two events put all of this in a very, very different context. >> and makes -- i think it make the obama administration continue to look like they did not take this seriously enough early enough, that they didn't do enough about it partly

because they were hemmed in by the political circumstances and trying to look like they were impacting the election. the more we learn the more it seems like the obama administration could have been on the case a little earlier and could have had more robust action. >> let's try to connect the dots. we don't know what these conversations were about. british intelligence agencies pick up conversations. trump associates talking to russian operatives. we all know what happened during the summer. wikileaks released a bunch of those e-mails hacked out of the democratic national committee. on the campaign trail donald trump said great. >> this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks, i love wikileaks. and i said write a couple of them down. >> by the way, wikileaks just came out with lots of really unbelievable things. just minutes ago.

in fact, i almost delayed this speech by about two hours it's so interesting. >> by the way, did you see another one? another one came in today. this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> take your partisan -- put your part son instincts aside. what you have there from what we now know is a candidate for president praising -- those e-mails allegedly obtained from a state actor russia interfering in the elections. during the campaign mike pompeo was a congressman and said he praised. now he's the cia director. it's his responsibility to track intelligence around the world. his opinion's changed. >> wikileaks walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. and is encouraged to find jobs at the cia in order to obtain intelligence. it's time to call out wikileaks for what it really is. a nonstate hostile intelligence

service often abetted by state actors like russia. >> it's to me another of example when you're a congressman, and no offense to him, but you represent the 700,000 people back home. you have a safe political base. you take the job he has now, one of the hardest, toughest in the united states government and you realize the gravity of what you're dealing with. >> wasn't he on the intelligence committee? just by that job alone you can say it was irresponsible on the campaign. >> he did tweet out about the dnc e-mails that seemed to suggest as being kind. and he g-- you're right. that's a key point. he was on the intelligence committee. >> the hillary clinton people, their heads just explode every time one of these stories comes out because they were saying this all through october, there was evidence already then that

russia was behind the hack e-mails as well as the dnc e-mails. so now we're just continuing to unfold. it think the big picture is this is not going away anytime soon. there's been a lot of machinations about which investigation is going where and the troubles that r v happenhav in the house committee. this is a big story. taking your partisan hats off, the idea that you essentially did have russia meddling in this election, every day that passes seems like you get evidence that supports that general theme rather than undercuts it. but i guess i wonder where does it lead at the end of the day. it doesn't change the results of an election. >> three months on the job, i assume mike pompeo also knows a lot more or has more suspicions about what else wikileaks might have in their possession. >> this is like trump facing reality of all the foreign policy crisis. pompeo is now head of the cia and they were appalled by the

way wikileaks operated and one party would take advantage of it so he's now reflecting the culture there. >> plus he presumably has in his possession the intercepts between russian officials and people associated with donald trump. he knows exactly what was said i would assume. >> that's the most important question here, right? we still don't know what exactly was said or why it was done. the cnn story is a great detail and evan's been doing great reporting. in my view the one thing this does is increase pressure on these investigators to get to the bottom of this and let us know what was said and why. >> that's going to be a big challenge at the end of this. how much of it, because so much of it is classified, how much can they put out in the public. you can read the documents and see as much evidence as you can and make your decision and set your partisan instincts aside. up next, politicians like to say their positions evolve. hate to hear criticism, but they flip flopped.

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president trump kept a promise to social conservatives just yesterday signing legislation that allows states to withhold federal money from organizations that provide abortion services. proof right there that elections have consequences. but this week also is rich with examples of what the president likes to call flexibility. which sure sounds a lot more gentile than flip flopping or breaking a promise. candidate trump embraced a tea party demand. get rid of the federal export/import bank. many view that as corporate welfare. the president this week praised the bank and promised to keep it. he was a critic of janet yellen. >> i think it's very political. i think she's very political and so a certain kpecertain extent shab ashamed of herself. >> he hasn't decided whether -- i like her, i respect her. okay. and this promise was a campaign

classic. >> i'm going to instruct my treasury secretary to label china a currency manipulator, the greatest in the world. >> china is a grand master, like a grand master chess player. they're a grand master at currency manipulation. nobody has ever manipulated currency like china. >> label china a currency manipulator. >> label china a currency manipulator. >> they are the greatest currency manipulators ever. >> never mind. the president has now decided to let a deadline pass and will not label china a currency manipulator. i want to start with you because you had an interview with the president this week in which some of these gymnastics occurred. what does he say? situations have changed? circumstances have changed? i've learned a lot i didn't know as a candidate? or does he just shrug and say

i'm flex sniible? >> he has reasons. whether you agree with them or think they're valid is another question. i think flexible is an interesting word. i think maybe the more precise one is transactional. china has a currency manipulator. china is a great punching bag when you're trying to energize your base of voters. what this has done, we saw this yesterday at the white house briefing, sean spicer was asked several times what issue is trump -- won't he negotiate on? and i'm paraphrasing a little bit but his answer was this was about results, not principles. i think the bottom line is we haven't seen -- we've seen the transactional approach. we haven't seen what results domestically or foreign policy that these result in. >> the question i have is this town talks about these things and obsess about these things. what happens out there? to trump voters if you're a tea party voter and you want to get rid of the bank and january el

yellen, do you hold this again the president? i want the economy to be good. that's what i can't get. john kerry was for it before he was against it. politicians against crushed for these kind of things. the president this week we can run out of paper trying to list them all. >> you forgot nato suddenly not -- zbl >> not obsolete. i've got more. but is there a price to pay or do his voters just think it's okay as long as he's okay with t i'm okay with it? >> i think for every voter the red line is somewhere different. there's that famous quote after the election that trump voters didn't take him necessarily late r literally but took him seriously. correct me if i'm wrong, but china is not a currency manipulator. what he was saying on the campaign trail just wasn't true. the idea that he would do that would probably be crazier than reversing course. a candidate who when faced with

reality and a new set of facts and adjusts to them, you have to respect that to a certain degree. you wouldn't want them to take all of their preconceived notions from the campaign trail and institute them if they were wrong. >> the other choice is evolution is the polite term. >> so much he said as a candidate that really was not based in any kind of steep policy understanding. he's not a policy guy. he didn't spend hours -- >> a lot of this was not based in this galaxy. >> he sort of had these positions and he insisted that they were right without any real not at all to what the facts were. he did it. occasionally he changed positions even as a candidate. now it is an education. he is forced to deal with reality. so yes, i think that is good that he is actually adjusting to that. i think for voters the question becomes less than any one of these issues is a social importance to them that the voter says i can't believe he sold out on the bank and i kaept

mo -- can't move on. do they blow him as viewing up washington? >> i mentioned the bank and janet yellen, but they do fire up issues in the republican party which can cause you problem the, the question is is he judged on that. as you jump n i want to put up on the screen, his big campaign promises were approaching. but if you look at this, repeal and replace obamacare. cross that out at least for now. take china to task. that was humg ge on the campaig. not happening. reset with russia? i'll give him time on that. he said he hopes that gets better. you mentioned nato obsolete. cross that one off. build a wall remains a question. >> last week his security secretary says there isn't going to be an end to end wall. he says there will be technology in someplaces. this wall won't happen either. >> i think that e's fine on tru voters. i don't think the wall will cost

him votes. >> i think the most dangerous for him with his own supporters is to begin to appear to be a conventional president. but at the same time, this is the guy whose approval rating is really, really low. and for the majority of people who didn't vote for him, that's probably reassuring to see him making judgments based on actual information. >> spicer has been saying trump is shaking up washington. i put the question to the white house a couple different ways last week. what is deliverable for the anti-establishment base and what they pointed out was his five year ban on administration officials lobbying the government. fast forward to this week and they've already waived that for one of their staffers, a senior administration official who's gone to work for a business lobby group. >> just add to the list the government wide hiring freeze was also reversed this week. so his own executive order was reversed. >> i think some of the tension will be voters want action.

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. welcome back. president trump back at his mar-a-lago resort. it's note worthy that at least for now none of his top white house aides are with him. it was just last weekend at mar-a-lago with he ordered his chief of staff to try to order peace between chief strategist steven bannon and presidential son-in-law jared kushner. accounts galore, who's up, who's

down. gary cone, rising star in the white house. dana powell also rising. deputy national security adviser for policy and a former managing director at goldman sachs. chuck this up as campaign chatter. >> wall street owns hillary clinton. on that i agree with bernie sanders. >> he's changed his mind? >> well, it's just another example of this, right? he talked about how he had to adjust his positions as he came to the reality of policy. the reality of his party is a lot of the people in his party are from wall street. that's a very -- that's breathing ground for republicans. so that seem to be nurturing his instincts, the part of him that wants to get a deal and find a

way as opposed to steve bannon crassi crashing the gate instincts. >> even the leader of the nationalists, bannon, work with goldman sachs, so they do get complicated. so he sort of left that many years ago. we're talking about the accomplishments and trying to organize legislative agenda on capitol hill. they are internally so divided at the white house. the idea of getting something out of the capital hill makes it that much more difficult. these are deep ideological differences on protectionism, on foreign policy. >> the same differences you see within the republican party on capitol hill or within both parties. essentially inside the trump white house, you can find them both. factions within the republican party and factions within america. they have some democrats and independents in there as well. >> the cones have an advantage. he has a huge staff and he was able to hire up.

bannon is a senior adviser to the president but he doesn't have a big staff. >> i think that is the most damming detail for steve bannon yet in a very bad couple weeks for him. the political story that said he's now working under the office of innovation for jared kushner. he's closely aligned with bannon and that office was supposed to be a joint effort. if steve doesn't have anyone helping him out over there working with him, he's in trouble. >> talk about palace intrigue. this is a complicated one. bannon and miller have always been tied together and all of a sudden in the trade press of washington, d.c., we see it leaked out that steven miller is separating himself -- >> trump white house survivor version. you think someone is about to get voted off the island you switch teams. >> reince priebus, the chief of staff is supposed to be bringing

order to all of this. >> it's his job to make it work. >> so let's look at what the president himself told the "journal" this week. this goes back to the time cover. everyone said that's going to get under the president's skin . it appears to have got under the president's skin. he said i have people i respect and people i listen to. i have many people and then i make the decision. mr. bannon is a guy who works for me. he's a good guy but i make my own decision. i don't have people making decisions. they decided to eltorralize. some say sidelining mr. bannon would -- but the reality is that mr. trump needs more political and policy victories in his young presidency. mr. bannon can't deliver results, mr. trump needs people who can. >> an excellent point in "the wall street journal." >> to be fair, the "journal"

part normally, the republican establishment, which has long been suspicious of the breitbarts and the bannons. >> inside the white house, they know the only bright spot in the pole is the conservative base and no one represents that even close in that white house other than steve tochl get tho. to get -- trump made bannon his chief strategist. the guys he's talking about replacing him with don't have any legislative experience to do that. so i don't understand if you're bringing in gary cone or wayne berman. >> nobody in this white house has that kind of experience. in the same interview you had with the president you asked if there were going to be changes coming. he said i don't intend to. then he goes on to say from day-to-day i don't know. essentially i'm flexible. >> that's right. don't hold me to it. that's the new trump doctrine.

>> i have a piece posted in new yorker that gets into some of this stuff and someone from the more nationalist wing of this. nationalism is winning this person said and everyone predicted trump wouldn't win the election. they are hunkering down for a long fight. >> everybody loves a kma bacome story. if you want to have a comeback in american politics, that's what has to happen first, right? and you bounce back. we talked about the growth stocks of deana powell and gary cone inside the white house. on the world stage in new york and surprising people is nikki haley. former south carolina governor. no foreign policy experience as emerged as a very forceful spokes person. >> he knew that when he hired me i made it clear i didn't want to be a wall flower.

if he was going to hire me, and if i was going to take the job, i was going to work hard for thim. i was going to stand up for the united states and i was going make everyone proud. >> how long of a lease does she have because sometimes the president doesn't like when there are other stars in his orbit. he likes to be the star. >> you know, i think she's getting a lot of really good refuses and that i think is going to matter a lot to donald trump. this is not an unusual or unprecedented kind of situation. you think of somebody like jean kirkpatrick during the reagan era, even going all the way back to daniel patrick moinahan. it is a big part of the job to be seen, to be heard. >> and part of a mosral conscious, especially in an administration like this.

values based foreign policy isn't lie on the list of priorities. she's more like samantha powers in the obama administration. >> for those of you that keep score, nikki haley had a pretty good one. sit tight. next, sean spicer is taking a lot of heat. as the white house prepares for a big event monday, you might say spicer has a little hop in his step or at least his history. it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink. tech: when your windshield needs to be fixed... trust safelite autoglass. for these parents, driving around was the only way to get their baby to sleep. so when their windshield got cracked... customer: we can't drive this car. tech: ...they wanted it fixed right. so they scheduled with safelite. our exclusive trueseal technology means a strong, reliable bond, every time. at safelite, we stand behind our work. bye, bye. because the ones you love, sit behind it.

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. welcome back. easter weekend chl. a big test looming monday for the trump white house. its first easter egg roll. >> with respect to the easter egg roll, it's a huge topic. i appreciate that. i think we're going to have an eggclent. come on. you kpaent ask tcan't ask the q not get the answer. on this issue sean spicer speaks

with considerable authority. something jimmy kimmel just couldn't help but connect to a very different line of questioning confronting the white house press secretary. >> before he was press secretary sean spicer actually played the easter bunny at the egg roll during the bush administration. that's not a fake picture. that's the real thing. for the first time maybe in history, we got to see the easter bunny apologize for comments about the holocaust. >> to be clear, you recognize that hitler obviously did -- >> yes. i'm well aware of what he did. >> how can you be mad at somebody so cute? it's impossible. >> i yield the floor. >> they will be scrambling to pull this off. and they have to pooach him fro his current job. >> anyone top that? >> this whole conversation is scrapped. >> you know, you just -- being in washington, you get kind of

hard boiled and it's important that you really take some time to think about what matters. fun for the kids and all that. >> i'm enjoying this. >> let's go back to north korea. it is easier, right? >> they actually do have a major challenge on their hands with this easter egg roll. it's amazing how many kids run on that lawn. it's a huge event. >> it is a key point. it's a great event. every president has done it which my time here in washington, george h.w. bush and bill clinton and -- because of the staffing, it's run out of the east wing. the first lady's office. she's not in washington as much. they say we're going to get to this on monday. thanks for joining us inside politics. be back here monday, also sunday morning. hope have you a great easter weekend. wolf blitzer in the chair after

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hello, i'm brianna. it is 1:00 p.m. in washington. 8:00 p.m. in moscow. 9:30 in kabul. wherever you are watching from around the world, thank you so much for joining us. tensions are flaring in many places around the globe following u.s. military actions under president trump. take a look at this map. they show where the u.s. military is ramping up its presence. all of this before president trump marks his 100th day in office. at this hour we have brand new video of that massive bombing in afghanistan. what you're watching is the exact moment that america's most powerful nonnuclear bomb dubbed the mrt other of all bombs stru an isis cave and tunnel complex. u.s. military officials defending its use. >> this was the right weapon against the right target. i wan t