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Confirmation hearing. but theyre not making it easy for the senators that are in charge of this nomination going along. trying to give his nomination a boost last night, the white house gave reporters a stack of reports about ronny jacksons time working in the white house. in that stack of records was a whole punbunch of good stuff, b also an inspector general report about the white house medical unit when he was one of its two leaders. it was rawritten during the tim he was in a leadership posi...

It also includes a whole bunch of quotes from ronny jacksons subordinates and colleagues at the time that are terrible and that sound a lot like, well, what we read in todays report as well. from the i.g. report in 2012, quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. quote, command climate is terrible. quote, the leaders are childlike. that was a weird thing for the white house to hand to reporters if they were trying ...

Ronny jackson was captain at that point. both captain kuhlman and captain jackson complain about the other to subordinates and seek alliances from them. the inspector general described an opinion among white house medical unit staff that, quote, captain jackson undermines captain kuhlman because he desires to be the physician to the president and hes less concerned about effectively leading the white house medical unit. thats finding one. finding two. command climate. overall unit morale on a sc...

But they believed the current atmosphere was toxic and not sustainable. page four of the report, focus group comments. some specific quotes and comments from the focus groups concerning the command climate are noted. quote, worst command ever. senior officers are not leading. quote, passive aggressive behavior is exhibited by leadership. command climate is terrible. the leaders are child-like. again, the leader in this case, whos been reviewed, alongside this other officer who he apparently coul...

Largest agency with its 370,000 employees. "dr. jacksons bio does not reflect any experience working with the va or with veterans or managing any organization of the size." in a letter to the president, senator johnny isakson, a trump loyalist and ranking veteran affairs member senator jon tester asked for more documentation of jacksons service in light of the allegations. >> the allegations that have come out against admiral jackson are very disturbing. >> probably makes sense for the president...

Wrong, we misstated it and move on. all she did today in addition to showing her ignorance about the military culture and all of us should be open to scrutiny and questioning, in addition to that she i think flurngd the fundamental rule of pr, which is if you make a mistake, admit it. >> paul, i want to ask you because again, general kelly did say things that were deeply meaningful about sacrifice and gold star families here. does it distract from that message when, again, he also said things th...

It. theres another term here command climate. the president said the command climate, the tone for the entire white house. theres a tone that seems to be focused internally than ex trnlly on our enemies. and using our troops as a shield, over and over again whether its the national anthem, or the general four stars. its bad for america. and it also distracts us from fighting our enemies who are thrilled to see america rips itself apart. the presidents got to do one more thing, set a goal, whats ...

It seems that everything that has gone wrong for this administration has had jared attached to it. >> from what ive learned from people familiar with how the white house operates that jared kushner has been such a problem with the command climate in the white house, just because reince priebus never staked out any authority. >> couldnt. >> any decision that is made always is second guessed by jared. so nothing ever really gets done. since he has such a large portfolio, he has his hands in everyt...

This went down and how they felt about clapper. the president has said clearly, sean spicer, other members of the senior staff have said very clearly that people are very unhappy with him within the agency. heres what james clapper said to andrea mitchell earlier today. >> i can attest, it is always difficult when youre assessing are the morale of a large institution. from my vantage, i think im pretty good as assessing a command climate as we say in the military. the morale in the filibuster bi...

Recipe for governing. >> can you give me a history around the chaos at the white house that were seeing right now? to say that the media is drumming this is is not the case. what is it really like inside the white house? what do you think will come of all this? >> lisas been inside the white house as a person on a presidents staff. she should take that one. >> i think the big problem that the command climate is a disaster. the chief of staff should be in charge but youve got the various power ce...