Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170413:17:52:00
Size because they were hoping they would be able to destroy not just the tunnel system underneath but also the complex up top and to kill the fighters who were there. i'm also told by u.s. military officials that it was a relatively sparsely populated area. it was somewhat rural. so the concern of civilian casualties was not high. again, this was a precision munition, so they were confident it would strike the target that they were after. >> courtney, thank you for that. colonel jacobs, let me ask you something. this wasn't something that was high on the radar, the stuff going on in afghanista...