00:00Secretary in Atlanta, you mentioned that you expected to see your Brazilian counterpart here in Paris.
00:04Yeah, Mauro is here.
00:05Do you have any expectation as to how much time you'll get to speak with him,
00:09or can you characterize the status of the relationship between the two governments now,
00:13several weeks after the Brazilian election and after Flávio Bolsonaro's arrival in the U.S.?
00:17Well, I mean, we talk to him.
00:18Every time I see him, we have conversations, and we'll probably talk while we're here.
00:22We don't have a scheduled meeting or anything, but we'll be dealing with the Brazilian government.
00:26I mean, we were dealing with them before.
00:28And we have an issue, you know, where they haven't allowed our ambassador to come into the country.
00:32That's a problem.
00:33Danny Perez, he's our nominee.
00:34They didn't grant Agramon.
00:35That has to be fixed.
00:37And we hope they'll fix it because we don't think it sets a good tone for our relationship for them
00:42not to allow our ambassador to go into the country.
00:44They have an ambassador in the U.S., but at some point, you know, that imbalance can't continue.
00:48So we'll start there.
00:50And then, obviously, there's some trade issues.
00:52I'm not our trade negotiator, but obviously our foreign policy is affected by trade,
00:56so I stay very much on top of those issues and also have to be confronted as well.
01:01But, yeah, I mean, Mauro and I get along great.
01:03I mean, we speak and we talk, but obviously there's some differences between our government's views on trade
01:07and some other matters that will have to be resolved.
01:09I know Jameson's been working on that, and we'll have an opportunity to interact with him.
01:14I've interacted with him multiple times, many times since I've been in this role.
01:17Thank you.
