Joe Biden wanted to go over there and send a message. And frankly, find any of us who talked to people who were on that transition team will tell you that these agencies, including the State Department, it was even worse than they thought when they got in there in terms of the morale in terms of the attacks had been made against U.S. government personnel.
Ben Rhodes discusses Biden's visit to the State Department as a message of support to a demoralized workforce and a signal of a return to traditional American leadership.
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