the work of diplomacy and the foreign service in particular is, you know, your integrity is the coin of the realm. if you lie, why would anybody want to believe you. . >> i want to ask you about somebody else who has been involved in all of that. bill taylor, the head of mission after the u.s. ambassador to the ukraine was recalled back to washington, d.c. and you see the role that he played through the text messages. very explicitly questioning what was going on both in washington and over in europe. as you talk about the foreign services, as i think about the piece that ambassador burns wrote for the "new york times" just a week ago, how when you look at those assistant secretaries of state, there were i think seven vacancies and only one who is not a political appointee in those positions. what is this, what we have seen