Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110503:17:03:00
Decision, even though there was some in the national security team pushing back against it, they did not know that osama bin laden was physically present there. they had a very high degree of certainty on the intelligence, we believe that the cia was pushing hard to make that assumption, but that really was -- that was first gutsy decision and then the decision to not bomb the place to smithereens, to actually go in with a commando team so that they could get him and get the intelligence. >> reporter: because the risk of doing the commando team, if it didn't work is the -- and if bin laden was...