General David Petraeus on the battles facing the next commander in chief. From abc news, its this week. Here now coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning. 23 days from the election. It has come to this. The republican nominee for president of the United States flatout saying at rally after rally and with increasing force that the election cannot be trusted. That Hillary Clinton belongs in jail. Its a fundamental challenge to a pillar of democracy, free and fair elections, shaking confidence in something we all take for granted, the peaceful transition of power. Its not a new thing for trump but over the last 72 hours trump has dialed it up. His anger rising with the volume of accusations from women who say groped their bodies. Kissed their mouths against their will. Before hyped up crowds trump casting himself as a victim of corrupt politicians, Global Financial interest and the press all conspiring to tear him down and rig the election. Theres a whole sinister deal going on. The clintons
You, senator. Youre now recognized sen to senator from tennessee. Can you tell me how many tsa employees make a hundred thousand or more a year . I will have to get that for you. Can you make a rough guess . I can make a rough guess. I dont really know, sir. Let me ask this, do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i have restrict it had number of bonus that is we do. I will get you the exact number but it was a significant smaller number and based upon performance, not based upon special act awards. Can you tell me, have you personally fired any employee tsa employees for misconduct or rudeness or incompetence since youve been in the office . There have been a number of people who have been fired from the agency at all levels. I came in and one of my first tasks was to determined what my agency looked like. I hold my leaders and demanded and i am confident of my team and im confident of team to help lead that team. Today i have been satis
Eer. H. And if anybody pops up in any category, it allows you to take a harder look at them which we do. We go back to the Intelligence Community and to the fbi and we do a scrib on those individuals. We have the methods, there is higher level of sensibility here, allowing these folks to actually work inside of secure areas . Yes, sir. That was exactly the question i had about that. Ive been working closely with director comey and the National Counterterrorism center to mr. Roth, you did a great job on the screening tests the a the big airports and you know, we had, we have very high failure rate the last time of that test. And i know, im not sure of enough time has gone by to allow admiral neffenger to sort of adopt a new protocol among the screeners. Has that happened yet . Have you done any new tests to take a measurement how were doing . Sure, what weve done is two things. One is a natural followup we would do any audit. For example, with regard to the Penetration Testing we have r
We do immediate feet back and do that consistently. Workforce readiness and performance and workforce accountability. We changed that. Its no longer based upon how long the lines are. Thats a separate issue. We deal with that at the management level. For the frontline workforce, i want you to know they will focus on the mission and support them with the best possible training and train them on the equipment and how it operates and gave them hands on understanding of what the limitations were. There is a fuller interest that i will provide. The gentlemen from tennessee for five minutes. Can you me how many tsa employees make 100,000 or more a year . I will have to get that number. Can you make a rough guess . I dont really know. I will have to get it for the record. Do you know how many tsa employees got bonuses in the past year . There were as i said, i restricted the number of bonuses we do. It was a significantly smaller number based on performance and not special act awards. Have yo
General roth for his support. I greatly value the oversight that his office provides to improve our agency and i have been working closely with him during my tenure. My Leadership Perspective is shaped by more than three decades of National Service in crisis leadership. Throughout my career i have emphasized professional integrity and duty to mission as foundational elements of service for myself and for the dedicated Civil Servants and military members i have been entrusted to lead. Since taking the oath of office on july 4th of last year i have traveled throughout the country and throughout the world to meet with employees at all levels of our agency. Ive been impressed by their patriotism and their sense of duty. These are servants who every day perform demanding tasks under difficult circumstances, and i deeply respect and appreciate their work. They have risen to the challenge of service to a mission and have taken an oath of office and loyalty as a condition of employment. Their