million into barney s to stay open until october 24 and hopefully find a new buyer by then. let me get your thoughts on the wal-mart ceo who issued a lengthy statement on this weekend s mass shootings and obviously walmart has been at the center of this for many years now and saying the retail giant will respond in a thoughtful and deliberate way, not quite sure what that means if they re willing to take any specific measures on preventing sales of weapons or ammunition, but what is the market saying about what was behind this statement? two things we know about the walmart stores in the space of three days, as a consequence, many people have called on walmart to stop selling firearms, they re one of the largest sellers of guns and ammunition in the united states, so yesterday, the walmart ceo responded in a lengthy statement online actually, expressing his grief, shock, and anger at the events, but then he also said, we are a learning organization,
likened the situation, when they got it wrong in iraq with the wmds. we did get it wrong. and i am familiar with that since my fingerprints were on the infamous weapons of mass destruction. believe me, the intelligence community is learning organization and we profited from that bad experience and built in all kinds of safe guards and checks and balances to ensure that sort of thing doesn t happen again. yes, you can point to something we did 15 years ago but that isn t relevant. the way this investigation folded in the house intelligence committee, how does it undermine the credibility of this report? do you think we can trust anything in the report? unfortunately, and this is sad for me, the credibility of the committee is basically about
since my fingerprints were on the infamous weapons of mass destruction national intelligence estimate in october of 2002. but believe me, the intelligence community is learning organization and we profited from that bad experience and have built in all kinds of safeguards and checks and balances to ensure that that sort of thing doesn t happen again. so, yes, you can point to something we did 15 years ago, but that s not necessarily relevant in this particular case. the way this investigation unfolded in the house intelligence committee, how much does it undermine or, in your opinion, does it undermine the credibility of this report? do you think we can trust anything in this report? well, unfortunately and this is kind of sad for me is that the credibility of the committee is basically about zero because they re so partisan. i ve been around, anderson, since those two committees were stood up. the hpsci in 1976 and the senate intelligence committee a year later. so i ve watche
somebody has a can of solvent in one of our plants. he can either, at an expense, make sure he gets it the proper way or he goes in the back woods and dumps it. i wanted to make sure he understand the value of the company before he makes that decision. because i can t be there when he makes the decision, but i want him to be thinking about those values, because those zidecisio every day are what make us an acceptable company or not. my dad used to say ready, fire, aim, meaning, you know, move forward and do it now or don t take so long to make the decision. if you stop learning, you ll die. stop listening to consumers, you you have to continuously improve,reinnt yourself, innovate all the time. be a learning organization which is something i really push a lot on our people. you need to learn something every day.
somebody has a can of solvent in a plant. at an expense, make sure it s under the proper way or go in the backwoods and dump it. i want to make sure he understands the value of the company before he makes that decision. i can t be there when he makes the decision. i want him to think about the values because those decisions are what make us successful or not. my dad used to say, ready, fire, aim. meaning, you know, move forward and do it now. don t take so long to make the decision. if you stop learning, you will die. stop listening, your consumers will die. you have to continuously improve, reinvent yourself, innovate all the time and be a learning organization, which is something i push a lot on our people, you need to learn something every day.