but, beyond that, the climate out there is not good. the media encourages this kind of behavior. you were known for years, every newcomer that you introduced, a new health care bill. when president obama pursued this, you had prominent place when he signed the health care law. when you look at how it was done, could there have been a better way of done it or is this swrus not possible because of where we are today with the two parties? i think a good part it was an attitude problem here in this institution. house and senate. that becomes a problem amongst the public, but i was on the inside in that. frankly, we tried every which way to invite our republican colleagues to participate because we knew that the bill would not become the law with good will and would not have the
demanding more information. that tells you something. but i talked to retired u.s. air force colonel sedrick layton about this and he said the kind of blunt language used in the e-mail is exactly what is necessary. listen. give them a lot of credit for speaking frankly and hopefully that will change the perception of the way these people aring too their jobs, and also within the career field, make them understand that what they re doing is absolutely critical to the national security of the united states and the rest of the world. the colonel also said one of the problems here is that the officers may feel they are in a career dying career field as the military top brass and political leaders plan to true down our nuclear arsenal. while we have those missiles, you hope those farring them don t have an attitude problem. shepard: you hope they wouldn t send out an e-mail telling us everything is fine when it isn t. these are the identifies on the hill at the hearings saying
checks and balances, but the bottom line is, yes, these officers, with what the deputy commander says, is an attitude problem, could potentially fire those nuke, although the command over u.s. strategic command who is coincidentally on capitol hill at a hearing today, tried to play down the so-called attitude problem. listen. as i sit here today i don t see anything that would cause me to lose confidence in that ability unit s ability to perform the mission safely and effectively. when 16 officers that it us one in ten on that particular missile base are being told they have an attitude problem, something is clearly not quite as it should be, shep. shepard: this e-mail paints a really damaging picture. you have the deputy commander of the missile base using words like, rock, using words like, crisis, and then you get the defense secretary himself
my story is nothing compared to them, so i just shut up and listen. a lot of them haven t had any dads. and i can be a dad figure. i can be a grandfather figure. and i m grandpa or papa, and that s okay. there is a lot of camaraderie here. and we are all it s kind of like being in the military, not to insult the military, i ve been there ten years. there is a regiment to it. initially it took time for stanwick to accept being incarcerated. when he first got here, he had a little bit of an attitude problem. he was grumpy. i think he was having problems adjusting to the new environment that he had. nothing major. just, you know, kind of a pissy attitude i don t want to be here. so i m going to be grumpy and he was a little abrasive and come in and like for food and stuff