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Internal way of doing it. right after the first travel ban, hundreds and hundreds of state department officials signed a decent memo. it's one more symptom of the morale problem. and here's 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. that's 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 there's progress there, the u.s. needs to work with these countries but these dozen or so employees, it's an internal channel, formally filing a complaint basically and said they don't like the way this is happening. they feel that it violates not only the way the state department normally does things but could violate the law. >> 30 seconds, david chalian, what is going on at the state department? >> that's an exce...

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, before the state department press corps. he just turned around. he didn't even want to say i'm going to...

Rid of tax loopholes and do this in a revenue neutral manner at the 86 act was, you know, i'm open to that. i think anybody is open to that. but calling this tax reform when it doesn't 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. after meet with the qatari foreign minister, rex mitillers was also asked about the morale problem...

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 david's point on friday saying, you know, it's 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 didn't deny it today when we asked him a question specifically about that, but he did want to take that moment to turn around and stay before cameras during this photo-op and say that he takes exception wit...