00:00I want to be clear and I'll share with you what I've shared publicly. We made multiple attempts to get.
00:05Maduro to leave voluntarily and to avoid all of this because we.
00:10Understood that he was an impediment to progress. You couldn't make a deal with this guy.
00:13Okay. This guy has made multiple deals.
00:15He's broken every one of them. As a point of example, he's just simply not a guy you can make a deal with.
00:18He had no intent of keeping.
00:20What he wanted to do was tap us along and buy three years of time until he could deal with a new administration.
00:25That he thought may be more favorable, et cetera.
00:27And so we've been able to create a short term mechanism.
00:29This is not going to.
00:30This is not going to be the permanent mechanism, but this is a short term mechanism in which the needs in the Venezuelan people can be.
00:35Met through a process that we've created where they will submit every month a budget of this is what.
00:40What we need funded.
00:40We will provide for them at the front end what that money cannot be used for.
00:44And they've been very quiet.
00:45Operative in this regard.
00:46In fact, they have pledged to use a substantial amount of those funds to purchase.
00:50Medicine and equipment directly from the United States.
00:53Look, we can talk in more detail.
00:55About all of these things.
00:56Suffice it to say, I'm not here to claim to you this is going to be easy or simple.
00:59I am.
01:00I'm saying that in three and a half, almost four weeks, we are much further along on this project than we thought.
01:05We would be given the complexities of it going into it.
01:07And I recognize that it won't be easy.
01:09I mean, look at.
01:10At the end of the day, we are dealing with people over there that have spent most of their lives living in a gangster paradise.
01:14So.
01:15It's not going to be like from one day to the next, we're going to have this thing turn around overnight.
01:19But I.
01:20I think we're making good and decent progress.
01:21It is the best plant.
01:22And we are certainly better off today in Venice.
01:25Venezuela than we were four weeks ago.
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