criticism that bolsonaro has had sat patiently. on the president was pressed in health care and he talked about the late senator john mccain. these were some difficult conversations. but the president also talked about trying to get brazil or at least supporting the idea of getting them into nato. that would be a nonnato nato member. the actual status of how that would work is a little bit still to be worked out. but i think it s a sign that they want to have some sort of economic military transaction, as i ve said, and buying potential u.s. weapons for brazil. that s going to be something of the president would love to walk out of this meeting with, with sort of a contract deal for american defense going to brazil. i think it shows that they want to have a strong military alliance as well as a strong economic alliance. harris: and it would be a juxtaposition to some of the things we have seen the president working on recently, the north korean summit with kim jong un.
hours before that vote that he was, in fact, going to be voting with the white house. now, a lot of democrats say, look, they were prepared for senator mccain s thumbs down vote. all of this is to some extent irrelevant because politically speaking, it s just remarkable that you would have a president continue to attack a senator nearly seven months after his death. so i tried to follow up with the president and ask if that type of behavior is beneath the dignity of the office. a lot of people shouting over me. he didn t answer the question, suffice it to say. it didn t get followed up here. quick policy note. i did think it was notable you heard president trump as it relates to brazil say that the u.s. is poised to recognize brazil as a major nonnato u.s. ally. he said he s even prepared to move to have it recognized as a full nato ally but clearly has to talk to a lot of people. then one final point. you started the discussion, katy, talking about the similarities between these two l
in our great country, which is doing better than it s ever done economically. the last thing we wiretap in the united states the last thing we want in the united states is socialism. so president bolsonaro, i will tell you that we ll be consulting and talking a lot. we ll be working on all of our problems and assets and we re making tremendous strides. we had a great meeting today. as i told president bolsonaro, i also intend to designate brazil as a major nonnato ally or even possibly, if you start thinking about it, maybe a nato ally. i have to talk to a lot of people, but maybe a nato ally, which will greatly advance security and cooperation between our countries. our nations are already working together to protect our people from terrorism, transnational
your thoughts on this meeting and this exchange between the brazilian president and president trump. i think president trump may have ad-libbed about making brazil a full nato ally because late this afternoon, three or four hours after this press conference, john bolton the national security advisor tweeted that we are proud to make brazil a major nonnato all ally. other than that, venezuela was the big deal and the president made clear that he felt there was a lot more the united states could do because the question really was what you have been doing isn t working. nicolas maduro is still there, what are you going to do? he feels there s a lot more the united states can still do. the question is what is on the table for what the white house can still do, what the u.s. can still do whether it is sanctions or whether there is more on the table, it s really unclear at this point. i think the fact the president
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