spokeswoman acknowledging this bad morale and saying, what, hang in there? listen, brooke, you ve 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 tillerson s management practices, that a lot of positions aren t being filled. the latest wave was prompted by this letter by the head of the american foreign service association, the union that represents the foreign service, that senior career services officers are leaving in droves. now it the numbers don t suggest a mass exodus, but as heather said, there is a real morale problem here at the state department. the career foreign service, these longtime diplomats that have served republican and democratic administrations, they don t feel that their expertise is really valued. and that goes across the