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They all speak very highly of him in terms of their meetings with him. if you continue to see as weve seen over the last week and talked yesterday about this mounting criticism on capitol hill about secretary tillersons management at the state department, if they -- these world leaders continue to see secretary tillerson marginalized or criticized or downgraded in any way, its going to make his diplomacy less effective and already youve seen because theres these unfilled positions at the state d...

Sure, there is a morale issue. >> you saw this week there were a lot of stories, statements on the hill by supporters of secretary tillerson like john mccain, bob corker, calling into question this redesign effort he has at the state department. a letter by the president of the foreign service association saying theyre leaving in droves, that the foreign service and the state department are being hollowed out. now, the numbers dont necessarily suggest, a kind of mass exodus but at the same time ...

Administration. its really felt here at the state department. now when secretary tillerson goes across the world and talks to the embassies, hes always telling those employees that there are 25,000 worldwide, your work is valued. but here in washington, here in the billing i think there is a morale problem that the state department is starting to realize that they need to address and theyre trying to do that. >> saying it out loud at the state department briefing. elise, thank you very much. for...

Spokeswoman acknowledging this bad morale and saying, what, hang in there? >> listen, brooke, youve seen the stories over the last couple of days. this is maybe the second or third wave of stories about dissatisfaction at the state department here. concern on capitol hill about secretary of state rex tillersons management practices, that a lot of positions arent being filled. the latest wave was prompted by this letter by the head of the american foreign service association, the union that repre...

Tillersons closest allies like bob corker say they need more answers, that they want him to promote pore people, they want to fill more positions, they want to keep those senior levels of the foreign service. now the numbers dont necessarily right now indicate any kind of mass exodus, although a lot of people at the senior ranks have left, but i think that there is really a morale problem at the state department, erica. a lot of people dont feel secretary tillerson appreciates that long-time exp...

>> sandra: the democrats didnt make this a priority like they should have mo, we didnt hear from you like we should have. im sorry i should let you respond the american psychological association to go back to your original question most psychologists agree there is little evidence that polygraphs are detect lies. >> trish: going to be morale problem if they are putting lie detectors on everyone. you know work environment. >> katie: high stress. >> harris: i think it will be a wil litigious night...

Firing. as far as what the attorney general is doing its clear he is taking this issue very seriously and not taking anything off the table when it comes to holding people accountable. i also think there is this risk inside the white house of creating a morale problem among staffers at the white house. if people cant just each other how can they move forward. >> harris: they already know they cant because of stuff thats been leaking. >> trust each other, no nonsense situation now. if you are goi...

Hes like a dog on a bone on this stuff. it has now created such a metastasis in this city. >> by now firing comey, and we had a session recusing him sechl. now we have rosenstein bringing in mueller who brings in these other lawyers and now we have transition lawyers saying, hold your -- having aides and others involved in the transition team, having them preserve their files and notes. i mean, this thing has exploded because of donald trump. all he had to do was not fire comey. >> or not even -...

Overall looking back, talking to people at the fbi, was there a morale problem with comey? >> well, i think there certainly was a group of agents -- i dont think it is -- was half of the organization -- that felt strongly that the director did go too far last july in his comments and that did usurp the role of the prosecutor in how you regard a subject of an investigation in the public. so -- >> enough to poison the environment? i mean people are always going to disagree in an investigative envi...

And the congress has been waiting to hear from comey specifically about his conversations with president trump about those notes that he took in those conversations. what exactly did the president tell him? and i think everything that comey tells us thats new is going to create another headache for this white house, which as you know is already enmeshed in its own sort of turmoil trying to figure out how to restructure and revive an agenda that seems to have been stalled. >> i mean i guess the q...