industrywide group get together. because we don t want to increase more risk with the changes than we re in fact mitigating. there s going to have to be a lot of discussion by the experts to make sure that the steps we take are the correct ones that provide us the maximum degree of safety and security. looking at this are there more layers to be added right away to make people safe for flying. john is alluding to the hostage scenario and preventing someone from getting inside the cockpit. it s that rogue pilot aspect when you have someone who turns inside the cockpit. i was interested in the background checks and security protocols in terms of going through recruitment and training. and at the moment it s only a drl background check and personality test and the personality test bring out extremes in personality which they try to avoid when it comes to signing up pilotses.
corps thinks and has thought for some years now. it was about a decade ago 2004, he s serbing in fallujah, iraq, at the height the war. he goes missing. the video turns up. he s blindfolded, a sword over his head. you look at that picture, a nice clean pressed uniform. not much of a hostage scenario. the marines basically once he turned up in lebanon thought he deserted. they brought him home. when he surfaced, he comes back to camp lejeune to face the music supposedly and then he goes missing again in 2005 for a number of years. they believe he spent most of that time in the middle east. apparently over the last several months had made some overtures that he wanted to come back to the united states. he d reached out, a couple of timings they tried, for various reasons, it didn t work. there were some issues there
perfecting amendment to the affordable care act. they want to take out the special treatment or interest se incentives in there for certain members of government staff. we know that is dead on arrival in the senate because the democrats have said, whatever we do that, whatever we do around perfecting the aca, we re not going to do it under a hostage scenario. we ve discussed our disagreements with that but the big news they are not much closer to putting an up or down vote on the floor. they said their position is very clear. there s no indication there s going to be anything other than a government shutdown come midnight. and in addition to the takeaways that you pointed out there, ari, really the purpose of this press conference is sort of last minute, desperate attempt to say it s their fault, the democrats are the ones being unreasonable. we just want to make sure there s no special treatment, which i think feels fairly desperate at this point. to eric cantor s point, it s ha