Page 10 - Morale Problem News Today

Fine. i see no way on earth that jared doesnt get what he needs. >> look, ill admit, im in the john. im in his category. im a little skeptical. but they do have a morale problem in that white house. there was this sense jared had his own special word. so perhaps maybe im being skeptical. maybe were being to cynical about this. >> i dont think thats true. i dont think hes drawing a reasonable conclusion. with jarrett the senior communication aid leaving as well the washington post dropped that st...

Alongside interns and civil service employees ten grades below them. now several officials concede this may not be entirely about politics. they say it could also be ad hoc and what they call simple mismanagement. but it all contributes to a widespread morale problem at the state department that lawmakers are demanding be looked at. >> elise labott, thank you so much. now to the growing fallout over the sexual assault of young gymnasts here in the united states. officials in the u.s. state of ...

And what they call simple mismanagement. but it all contributes to a widespread morale problem at the state department that lawmakers are demanding be looked at. >> all right, elise labott there reporting. the overflowing seine river in paris has engulfed roads and walkways after days of heavy rain, and the water level, its still rising. >> rivers should peak in the coming hours at nearly six meters or nearly 20 feet. our jim bittermann has more on how this is impacting paris. >> reporter: stabi...

Elise i want to get to your other reporting of the day. you have reporting on current state employees charging political retribution over their previous work under the obama administration. tell me more. >> thats right. weve been talking about the morale problem at the state department. lot of foreign officers leaving and secretary tillersons redesign. when secretary tillerson came in, he had a backlog of freedom information request, about 22,000 of them had piled up over recent years when journ...

Dossier -- >> these are people assigned to this investigation. in this case its part-timers. >> they havent hired up. they havent done it. >> so the investigatory power of the fbi is not there. >> absolutely. im told headquarters today, tonight, agents are very loyal to comey despite all his errors and other criticism of him that they are devastated by this. there is going to be a huge morale problem there. and people are asking, what does recusal mean? you just asked that question. the fact tha...

Internal way of doing it. right after the first travel ban, hundreds and hundreds of state department officials signed a decent memo. its one more symptom of the morale problem. and heres how secretary tillerson spoke out against that. >> this is performing extraordinarily well. >> he said the problems. they are intensely working on the state department and reshaping the departments and things like that. thats a lot of the morale now. >> they were answering and interior secretary ryan zinke

Off the list which serves as a kind of warning and a reinforcement that u.s. cares about this problem. the state department according to this reuters reporting has responded saying theres progress there, the u.s. needs to work with these countries but these dozen or so employees, its an internal channel, formally filing a complaint basically and said they dont like the way this is happening. they feel that it violates not only the way the state department normally does things but could violate t...

The morale problem. so there are plenty of questions that remain, too. i think when you look at today, the dynamic here is always something to be watched. this afternoon just before he headed to the white house which was unexpected, at least, among the press people here at state, he was asked by members of the press about this north korea issue. we already knew what the mrz had stated earlier, but the secretary of state chose to remain completely silent on this while at the state department, bef...

Rid of tax loopholes and do this in a revenue neutral manner at the 86 act was, you know, im open to that. i think anybody is open to that. but calling this tax reform when it doesnt even get rid of the carried interest loophole is just false advertising. >> good to talk to you as always, bruce. thanks for being with us. bruce bartlet, former deputy assistant secretary for policy. heather nauer acknowledged low morale among some state department workers among reorganization of the department. ...

Steps to continue to ratchet up pressure, but by no means did he want it to be perceived that this was an ultimate, exasperated moment of some final bit of diplomacy. >> michelle, to davids point on friday saying, you know, its acknowledging publicly that the poor morale at stake. can you tell me more about that? >> i think that the secretary of state would acknowledge that himself and he didnt deny it today when we asked him a question specifically about that, but he did want to take that momen...