00:00You just a few minutes ago put out a statement about Secretary Rubio's phone call with the foreign minister of Mexico, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, in which they spoke about issues relating to transnational crime, terrorist organizations of which the Mexican cartels were declared in the first days of this administration.
00:27We were busy. We were busy. Yes.
00:30I was wondering if you could talk about the importance of the relationship with Mexico, but in particular, the designation by the Treasury Department of Mexican banks that were involved in money laundering and whether that was part of the discussion between the secretary and his counterpart.
00:47Well, other than what was on the readout, and for Americans watching this, you too can see the reports of phone calls and meetings that we have.
00:55We put out things called readouts, which give us some detail of a phone call, not everything.
01:00It's not a transcript, but you can go to state.gov.
01:02Here I go.
01:03And you can subscribe, and you have a lot of different options.
01:06You can get statements by the secretary.
01:08You can get schedules.
01:10You can get just all kinds of things, and I encourage everyone to do that.
01:13But I would say that it's clear that we have an excellent relationship with Mexico.
01:18We have, and they've been very helpful regarding the border.
01:23The conversations are good.
01:24Of course, we've made some designations which helped this country but also the world in recognizing certain foreign terrorist organizations for being such, and certainly criminal cartels.
01:36So I won't give you any more details about the call than what was publicly distributed for the most part.
01:45But I can tell everyone that our relationship is excellent, and this, of course, is part and parcel of the secretary's theory regarding diplomacy is that it's about people, and it's about relationships, and we reinforce that all the time.
