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And the truth is that its simply not working. its brought confusion and frustration to parents. ive heard it every day. its brought distance between our teachers and the communities where they work. and instead of solving problems in our classrooms its creating morale problems in those classrooms and at home. and when we arent getting the job done for our children we need to do something different. >> he says sara hes heard it every day. im going to edit a bit and apparently every day since 2013...

Our offer to do an interview. he sent us a statement basically saying we were committed to getting bergdahl. everyone we have spoken to said there was real clarity on the fact that he walked off the bus. >> spoke to mullen himself and mullen has one of two choices. he cannot believe the four guys and why we not do that? or he is misleading you now by saying he doesnt have any clarity its one or the other. >> i dont know the answer to that are, i agree. >> go ahead. >> this is the intellectual co...

Its likely someone didnt follow procedures. >> what it doesnt mean there was any physical loss of control or threat of physical control of a nuclear weapon. >> reporter: the air force will say nothing. the report only came to light because the associated press obtained it through a freedom of information act request. the air force security group commander was replaced, went through retraining and passed the exercise several weeks later. green says standards remain high because theres just no roo...

Obtained it through a freedom of information request. the unit went through retraining and passed the exercise several weeks later. green says standards remain high because theres just no room for failure with the nations nuclear weapons. >> a failure can mean missing a required action by a second. it can mean responding to something a moment or two late. >> reporter: the nuclear force has been plagued with disciplinary and morale problems. its a high pressure environment that demands and expect...

Now, the team went through retraining and they did pass, but this comes at a time when the nuclear force has been plagued by some disciplinary problems, morale problems. look, the majority of the personnel do perform their jobs very well, but they do have these problems. this is a very high-pressure environment. the nuclear force has to be perfect. thats what the air force says. its not an environment where they can tolerate any mistakes. john, christine? >> wow, thats something. >> yeah. thanks...

The unit went through retraining and passed the exercise several weeks later. green says standards remain high because theres just no room for failure with the nations nuclear weapons. >> i mean, a failure can mean missing a required action by a second. it can mean responding to something, you know, a moment or two late. >> in recent months, the air force has been plagued in the nuclear sector with morale problems, disciplinary problems. the issue at hand here, this is a part of the military tha...

Going to push. no wonder theres morale problems here. you have to feel for them. and here youve just stripped away the top command at one of the bases. basically ending these peoples careers, although theyll stay in the air force for a little while longer. but does this solve the problem? the general who briefed today said were not just putting a fresh coat of paint on the problem, but it sure feels like this. theyre treating this as a training problem, a procedural discipline. and theyre puttin...

>> the commander was allowed to resign both from his command and the air force, he wrote a heart felt letter to the airmen explaining his decision to resign and essentially excoriating them for nobody coming forward to complain about the cheating. nobody willing to come forward to say i know this is happening and its wrong. he described it essentially as an integrity problem. that implies a sort of human failure thats unrelated to the nuclear mission. do you see this as something thats nuclear s...

>> you spent six years studying the management of our nuclear arsenal. what did you think when you heard the store tore break yesterday that the general who is really supposed to be in charge of the arsenal was drunk in moscow and frat noising with two women thought to be profit touts? >> my book is full of stories with problems with the nuclear weapons and i was shocked by his behavior. he is in charge of all of our land based missile and at one point he was drunkenly trying to climb on stage i...

Mustard gas to stop an iranian incursion in northern iraq. by 1984, the iraqis moved past tear gas and mustard gas on the battlefield to become the first country anywhere in the world to use nerve gas in a combat situation on the battlefield. the details of those attacks are spelled out in great detail in recently declassified cia documented just been published by "foreign policy" magazine today. the cia knew all this was happening in iran and iraq as it was happening. "iraq had begun using nerv...