Francis Rooney: “I want to applaud you in your budget for scrapping the disaster known as the U.S. Institute of Peace.”

No, that's where the rub comes in. The rub comes in that we have professional diplomats trying to do their job to root out corruption, and then we have Giuliani parachuting in, talking about corruption but maybe representing his customers.

I was very disappointed to hear the comments of the Chief of Staff. We don't do this all the time, OK? We don't use the power and prestige of America to beat on people for political purposes.

The working group of Central American leaders... identified corruption as one of the core problems facing the region.

This isn't of an etch-a-sketch. You can't go and revise what you want in the cameras and say, oh, actually, I meant the opposite.