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And he has commented about what admirable clark said. but when admirable mullen came in, he terminated him. and as the pittsburgh "post-gazette" quoted and i wrote it down. these are not my words. the pittsburgh "post-gazette" on april 5th said a current admiral said that sestak had quote a tyrannical leadership style. he would command by fear and intimidation. and that was why he was terminated. because of his poor command climate. listen, those arent my words, those are the reports in the army...

Ad running in pennsylvania right now. heres the ad, were going to run it free for you. i want you to respond to why youre running it right now. here it is. lets listen. >> joe sestak. releeved of duty in the navy for creating a poor command climate. joe sestak, the worst attendance of any pennsylvania congressman. and near the bottom of the entire congress. last year alone, sestak missed 127 votes. he says the missed votes werent important. he went campaigning instead. lets say no to no-show joe...

I want you to talk about your tv ad running in pennsylvania right now. heres the ad, were going to run it free for you. i want you to respond to why youre running it right now. here it is. lets listen. >> joe sestak. relieved of duty in the navy for creating a poor command climate. joe sestak, the worst attendance of any pennsylvania congressman. and near the bottom of the entire congress. last year alone, sestak missed 127 votes. he says the missed votes werent important. he went campaigning in...

Audience youve ever had, hugh. and lets see who the smart one is. its going to be fun. i hope all of you watch. i hope he accepts the challenge. lets move to a more serious subject on politics. a lot of incumbents in congress are in serious jeopardy of losing their seats this november. a lot of candidates arent waiting for the general election to play dirty. attack commercials are flying across the airwaves in pennsylvania. democratic primary between two guys going at it, incumbent senator arl...

The public, instead of helping people. if we want real change in washington, we cant keep sending the same career politicians to represent us. >> well, pretty veiled attack there on arlen specter. specter a party switcher from the republicans to the democrats. guess what, arlen expect ser out with his first attack ad going after sestak as "no show joe." heres a look. >> joe sestak, relieved of duty in the navy for creating a poor command climate. joe sestak, is the worst attendance of any pennsy...

>> and he has no management experience -- >> none. >> -- whatsoever. the inspector general report that came out says the command climate under him was terrible, was terrible. and so that has to be concerning to veterans. i think whats different here, this president was elected kind of to change things up, right? to drain the swamp and to be a bull in a china shop of washington. i think people are willing to accept -- maybe people supporting trump, anyway, hey, youre going to put somebody like sc...

Really that maybe leadership should answer for. but i also think its important, brooke, and again those surveys paint a very dark picture aboard the ship, and hats on for writing the pieces, but we shouldnt extrapolate from one to entire fleet. they have had some problems but made some leadership problems. and shiloh should be wrapped under that. but the command climate we should be careful before we draw any threads between that and whats going on fleet wide. >> certainly. ive been on a ship in...

Wednesday. >> most importantly the rank-and-file of the fbi had lost confidence of their director. ive heard from countless members of the fbi that are grateful and thankful for the presidents decision. >> mean mile james clapper, who we presume knows some photos in that agency, told andrea mitchell essentially the opposite on friday. >> i can attest -- its always difficult to assess the morale, but from my vantage, and i think im pretty good in assessing command climate as we soo say in the mil...

"virginiian pilot" crew members complained with you they never moved the navy to do anything until the story and videos came out. after dismissing the video on friday and with the uproar building the navy released a new statement saying in part, the videos, quote, were not acceptable then and are still not acceptable in todays navy and the navy does not endorse or condone these actions. captains honors command is in doubt. he was both a highly regarded f-14 pilot and reportedly a well-liked xo. ...

I was proud one year ago to support him for the afghanistan command, and i think its worth noting his strong leadership and the foundation he has laid for future success there. but i cannot excuse his lack of judgment with respect to the "rolling stone" article or a command climate he evidently permitted that was at best disrespectful of civilian authority. we do not have that luxury, those of us in uniform. we do not have the right, nor should we ever assume the prerogative, to cast doubt upon ...