joe manchin is trying to say guys, i am saving us from ourselves. thank you. we got to take a turn to vice president harris, she s on her first trip. kerry sanders is joining us in guatemala and gabe gutierrez in la jolla, texas. it is the united states lack of funding to the northern triangle, what is she going to find out that we don t already know? reporter: i think just meeting is a symbolic which she s going to find out is what her aides have told her that this is a problem that s decades old. this is not new information.
internet. they can see on tv, what we are dealing with in this country is that we have oligarchs that are attempting to take control of our country just like oligarchs like the united fruit company took their company basically hostage and turned it into a giant plan tragz and then they had a civil war and they re still dealing with them and no wonder they have a lot of corruption and climate degradation and so they re doing the only thing they can think of, a lot of these moms and dads and saying get my kid out of here, right? are we in a moral position to judge what is the decisions being made by a guatemalan mom when we helped create the mess her kids are stuck in? absolutely not, and i think the problem that we ve had with our foreign policy with regards to migration in the southern border is that we considered it a crisis at the southern border when it s not a crisis at the southern border and it s a crisis in central america and i believe and i give the american people credit
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trafficking in the region. tomorrow she will meet with mexico s president manuel lopez obrador. assess what it is that the biden administration, and your view, senator, can accomplish with this trip? well, i think it is important to note why the vice president went to guatemala. this is a country that still has a lot of problems, a lot of issues with endemic corruption, but they have made a much more fulsome commitment to try to right the economic ship and security ship than the other northern triangle countries, and so i think part of the purpose here is to show other countries like honduras that if you get more serious about confronting economic security and corruption issues. that being said, guatemala has a long way to go and it was an important announcement that we ll get more serious about
i know you ve probably had enough of tv. run to the radio. we ll have a show on our program. among our guest marie o grady, expert on the central and south american immigration problem with the wall street journal. thanks for joining us. bill: thanks. good morning. finally the vice president kamala harris on the ground in central america in guatemala. a two-day trip to address what the white house calls the root causes of the border crisis as we say good morning. hope the weekend was great and look who is back today. dana: i m dana perino. i missed our crew and producer and all the people that make this great. bill: she has the fear of missing out. did you have fomo last week or okay being on the beach? i was on the beach. i had to wear a jacket today because i got a little tan.