tapper it sounds like youre not comfortable with it steele i just said i wasnt ph comfortable crosstalk tapper let me turn to something to make you uncomfortable if i can and that is the race in connecticut democratic candidate richard blumenthal has been caught exaggerating his war record heres richard blumenthal begin video clip richard blumenthal connecticut senatorial candidate we have learned something very important since the days that ive served in vietnam end video clip tapper now he didnt serve in vietnam he was a marine reservist kaine during the vietnam war right tapper during the vietnam war hes also quoted in the milford mirror in 2008 ph saying in vietnam we had to endure taunts and insults and no one said welcome home i say welcome home in the stanford advocate in 2008 he said i wore the uniform in vietnam and many came back to all kinds of disrespect this seems like a real trust issue that voters might have with him kaine those statements were wrong period they were wrong and it was very important for him to acknowledge that and clear that up now in his defense he has given numerous speeches that are in the public record where hes talked extensively about his service what he did what he didnt do one of the papers you mentioned the stanford advocate ran a very good editorial about that very thing yesterday and reporters who covered attorney general blumenthal for years have said that they have never known him to exaggerate what his service was but in those statements he was inflating and exaggerating they were wrong and it was important that he set that straight steele at a time when the american people are clearly rebelling against the sameold sameold in politicians blumenthal is not the kind of guy i think they want to send anywhere let alone to washington to serve at this time so i think there is a big credibility gap here you cant say well you know on the one instance i lied to you but on the other since i made up for it by explaining why i lied to you it doesnt make sense to the american people and hes got a real problem right now and i think that there are going to be other issues that are going to come to the fore on this and so well see how it turns out but again the people in connecticut just like the people in kentucky will have the final say and the ultimate say on these leaders and you know its just again right now theres just this mood out here that the people are sick and tired of inaudible sick and tired of the sameold in washington and these two examples that were talking about are going to be judged by the people back home kaine heres the let me just say a word about connecticut i mean the interesting thing theres of