Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190303:07:29:00
Don rumsfeld, was we want a small footprint. and there was some wisdom in that. they sent in a bunch of cia officers with suitcases full of money and they hired a bunch of tribesmen to go after bin laden. >> u.s. officials say american commandoing commandos, operating alongside opposition forces, got within two miles of a cave system that osama bin laden was holed up. but they could not go any further without exposing themselves to fire from the al qaeda fighters defending the cave. >> there was a moment where we had bin laden bottled up inside tora bora, we knew where he was, but the road to ...