Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20171021:12:22:00
Information gathering, reconnaissance and because of the size of it, because of the it, you can't effectively have u.s. boots on the ground striking the militants as that legislator suggests but what we can do and what the u.s. has been doing is bolster the governments in the attempts to stand offer the terror threat. >> this is an operation that's going to go for some time. >> major general james spider marks described what probably happened. >> i can tell you immediately an environment had been assessed in advance of the operation, as permissive. in other words, they went in in a light postu...