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Officials are getting ready to discuss the upcoming negotiations. Were live at the Wilson Center in washington. The program is expected to start at any moment. Youre crazy and no one is going to come and maybe this is sort of important enough. Maybe our existential questions will bring an audience and we had the idea bringing the mexicos negotiator ken smith to come, and it was a cheeky question, and he said yes, this is extraordinary and ken said last week, i dont think i can do it. So i apologize for misleading you. It was not intentional, but we have got an absolutely fabulous panel for you nonetheless. And let me just run through very quickly from left to right, as i see it, fred burkeson, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. Thank you for being with us. Its great you agreed to provide a repost to some of the mexican perspectives near. Very welcome. And secondly francis, known to most of you here, currently a partner at white and case and previousl
Two hours. Good morning. Will you come down and take a seat here. If youre looking for a place, we are willing to sell these place at an inflated price this one. There are scalpers outside. Do not use them. Just give the money directly to me. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center. They can for being here. When we talked about doing an event in august, a little voice inside my head said you are crazy, washington, no one will come. They said maybe the nafta is important enough, maybe our existential russians will questions will attract an audience, and then we came up on bright idea of asking you to gos chief negotiator to participate. And this is going to happen. It is extraordinary. Ken said, no, i can do it. It was not intentional. But we got a panel for you nonetheless. Let me run through quickly from left to right, as i see it, fred sten, at the Peterson Institute for international economics. Thank you for being here with us. He was great to provide a of the mexican perspectives here. Th
Center here in washington. This runs about two hours. Mr. Wood good morning. Will you come down and take a seat here . If youre looking for a place, we are willing to sell these place at an inflated price. There are scalpers outside. Do not use them. Just give the money directly to me. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center. Thank you for being here. When we talked about doing an event in august, a little voice inside my head said you are crazy, its washington, no one will come. They said maybe the nafta is important enough, maybe our existential questions will attract an audience, and then we came up on bright idea of asking you to gaos chief negotiator to participate. Ken said yes, and this is going to happen. It is extraordinary. And then ken said, no, i can do i cant do it. It was not intentional. But we got a panel for you nonetheless. Let me run through quickly from left to right, as i see it. Fred bergsten, at the Peterson Institute for international economics. Thank you for being her