00:00And in other news, while the Trump administration lies about letting American government's alleged
00:04connection to drug trafficking gangs, the Brazilian government has just discovered that
00:08Brazil's drug trafficking gangs are laundering billions of dollars in ex-president Joe Biden's
00:14home state of Delaware.
00:16Our correspondent Brian Meir has more information.
00:20During the past month, the Brazilian federal police has executed over 100 arrest warrants
00:26and frozen 38 billion reais in illicit assets, the equivalent of 7.5 billion U.S. dollars
00:33in a national investigation into drug trafficking groups.
00:37This week, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad announced these groups are laundering billions
00:41of dollars of drug money in the United States.
00:48I'm talking about this issue because it has spilled across international borders.
00:53Attorney General Ricardo Lewandowski and I have spoken with President Lula on the need
00:58for him to include fighting organized crime as a topic in his negotiations with the United
01:04States, because they are used in the state of Delaware, which is a tax haven in the United
01:10States, as a headquarters for tax evasion and money laundering operations.
01:15Shortly after Minister Haddad made the announcement on Tuesday, President Lula had a 40-minute call
01:25with U.S. President Donald Trump.
01:27During the conversation, he asked the U.S. government for support investigating financial
01:32crimes committed by organized crime groups in the United States.
01:35Afterwards, Brazil's foreign ministry formalized the request in an official communication and
01:41a U.S. government official, off the record, indicated that there is a good chance they
01:44will honor it.
01:45The entire current U.S. government narrative about the need to fight international drug
01:51trafficking, which it labels narcoterrorism, is based on extreme hypocrisy.
01:56One of the signs of this is that until very recently, the U.S. hadn't shown any concern over
02:05the huge sums of money sender by Brazilian criminal organizations for laundering and arms purchases.
02:10The question remains, if the U.S. is so concerned about drug trafficking that it's murdered 80
02:18people in small boats off the coast of Venezuela, why did it take a foreign government to inform
02:23them that drug trafficking groups are laundering billions of dollars in their country?
02:27Brian Mir, tell us, sir, Hesifi.
