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The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Hes an msnbc and msnbc National Affairs analyst. Im like madonna at this point. I gave you one name. Some day youll thank me. Well talk about that later. Daily beast politics editor sam stein is here and my friend steve schmidt. Were going to boil you down to one name, too. Take us through the significance of this sort of i think its just a side show. People have told me that from emmet flood to don mcgahn to Rudy Giuliani to everyone who is now departed the president s team, no one thinks the preside...

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>> reporter: from the perspective of the white house, this is just the beginning of a long process. no one knows that better than president biden himself. you will remember that he handed this portfolio to vice president harris in part because he had the same portfolio under president obama. as she prepares for her first meeting with the guatemalan president, i'm remembering something that then vice president biden said in proved to be his final meeting as vice president with the guatemalan president at the time, that he made so many trips there that his constituents thought he was running in ...

Holtz eagen. he is the president of the american action forum. good to have both of you. enjoyed the conversation so much last time. wanted to get you back. doug, guatemala, one of the northern triangle countries that have suffered from violence and poverty and corruption. more recently, climate change, natural disasters. now, of course, there's a global pandemic. we see a first step by this administration trying to address the issues here through diplomacy. what does the vice president need to do on this trip? what does she need to say on this trip? >> i don't think there's anything specific ...

Country. would you both agree with the ambassador's assessment? >> yes. >> yes. >> and ms. williams, corruption was such a critical issue from your perspective that when you prepared the vice president for his congratulatory call with president zelensky, you testified that the points you wanted to communicate on the call were the following. quote, look forward to seeing president zelensky really implement the agenda on which he had run related to anticorruption reforms. that's correct? >> that is, yes. >> and lieutenant colonel vindman, would you agree this focus on corruption is a critical as...