Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170414:09:32:00
Job as usual. we have given them total aut authorization, if you compare to what's happened over the last eight years, you will see there's a tremendous difference. >> if the president did not give the order, who did and why? cnn's ryan brown is live in washington for us. walk us through the chain of command of deciding when to drop this bomb. >> reporter: good morning. this bomb, this 20,000 pound bomb it was a capability that was requested by the commander in afghanistan general john nicholson, had requested it some months in advance we're told and granted authority to use it by his superior...