Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151105:14:49:00
They communicated by hand-delivered courier drafts rather than using a secure e-mail system and they had to wrestle with questions like can the president o order a kill mission, not a capture mission? yes, they can -- >> let me ask you about that. it's very clear, it seems, that there was never a capture mission. it was always a kill mission. >> that's correct. one of the thing i'm able to clarify here is this was explicitly a kill mission. this is considered a military, war time operation, in which you're going to go in and try to kill your target, which in this case was osama badden. they di...