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Of their bargaining rights. and now to the punishments being handed out after a lengthy investigation into those controversial videos made on a u.s. aircraft carrier. john hendren has the details in washington. good morning, john. reporter: good morning, peggy and mike. the navy found 25 raunchy videos were made aboard the uss enterprise and concluded senior officers fell far short of the standards the navy holds for professional behavior and conduct. from ship to shore, it was a national embarrassment. crude language, risque shower scenes and one gay slur after another. let s ask the checkmates about being gay. oh, that s not a very good idea, is it? reporter: the man in the hugh hefner robe lost his command of the uss enterprise in january, shortly after this in-ship videos were made public by the virginian pilot newspaper. the investigation confirmed the profound lack of judgment on the part of captain honors, then serving as executive officer in uss enterprise. ....
Trying times. that s a great point about what the lieutenant makes was the war fighting capability of the ship undermined and her is no. you re a petty officer on the ship, he was the xo. part of his responsibility was to build you, mold you, and the thousands of others on that ship into future leaders. he is held to a higher standard. and to mold you into future leaders. if that is his example is he not telling you when you re in charge of people you can do the same things? by that logic, i can understand where you re coming from on that. i don t necessarily agree. maybe his way of teaching wasn t exactly the best, but it was effective. i believe it s unlikely but were captain honors to get another command would you serve under him? i would. why? why? he was the kind of leader you could look up to. obviously he was a captain, you know, we were enlisted so there was a difference there. he was our higher up and we respected that and we treated him as such. we said sir, y ....
shepard: the united states navy today permanently relieved of duty the top commander of the u.s.s. enterprise. the reason? raunchy homophobe bic videos, a series of them that the navy calls inappropriate. here s what we re told happened. back in 2006 and 2007, camp ton owen honors reportedly produced and videoed these skits featuring officers on ship. the first nuclear powered. those ships played weekly movie night. a newspaper in virginia recently got ahold of them which suggested gay slurs, suggestive behavior wand a shower scene or two. the videos went viral and the man in charge got tossed today in a very strong series of language that made clear his actions were not becoming of an officer. jennifer griffin works national security for us and is live in her post at the pentagon tonight. jennifer, what next for captain ....
For captain honors. yesterday there were 1400 friends supporting him on facebook. now it s grown to 10,000 or more. among them, navy captain robert marcott writes the entire ship would ensure they were in front of a tv for xo movie night. they could not wait for it it s a terrible waste to lose captain honors. now we have just heard there are new videos of captain honors posted on navy times. that s the navy newspaper. it s on their web site tonight. shepard: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon tonight. thank you. the insurance companies that compensated drivers who crashed their toyota cars and trucks are demanding pay back now from toyota. the l.a. times reports in today s editions and online that the 7 insurance companies listed here on your screen have filed lawsuits against the japanese automaker in an attempt to make toyota pay as they put it for the crashes they blame on those sudden acceleration problems. ....
Uss enterprise. she called it insulting and deeply offensive, explaining she visited several years ago. captain honors has been relieved of his command of the ship for his prominent role in the videos. robert gibbs says he s leaving the white house. he says he ll step down after the state of the union address later in the month. in a statement today, the president called gibbs a close friend and one of my closest advise advisers. he plans to become a pundit, supporting white house positions on television and in speeches. no word on who will replace him. a bullish jobs report today. small businesses leading the way in new hiring. adt says new private sector jobs grew by 297,000 in december, a better showing than expected. that is triple the november number, however, the u.s. unemployment rates remain at ....