we followed her in the capital city of brasilia and mega-city sao paolo. it was a packed and exciting schedule. television and newspaper interviews at a high profile luncheon in sao paolo promoting brazilian tourism to the us a meeting with afro-brazilians about their concerns and how us diplomats can help. and visiting a mural at the consulate that used soccer to connect american and brazilian children. in the capital city of brasilia the ambassador visited the casa thomas jefferson, a school where brazilians young and old are learning english. >> i understand fully becausetive same challenge with portuguese. >> she met with brazil yan youth ambassadors in a program designed to advance the relationship between the two countries. ambassador ayalde also convened an informal lunch gathering with women working at the embassy. >> brianna powers: we try to inspire women that work here support them and build a network. >> brianna cari: we have 47 female employees and 400 mission wide, so we are a pretty significant percentage and seeing women at the top of our p

president biden, you may not have noticed this, but he went whizzing all the way down to, i guess, brasilia for the inauguration of rousseff recently. i mean, we get him around. he moves around the world and he didn't make this stop. kerry is a find, maybe one of our best ever secretaries of state. he's a true foreign minister who's fluent in many languages especially french. it would have been nice to have him on the front lines there. your thinks from over there? mr. dickey? >> well, i think you're exactly right about kerry, particularly. you know, i was out there, and it was a horrific situation from the security standpoint, and it would have been even more horrible if the president of the united states was there. i think that he did the french security services, french police, and probably the french people a service by not going. but i don't understand why john kerry didn't go. he would have been the perfect man to represent the united states in that context. and i really don't understand -- it's truly strange that you have the attorney general of the united states, a man directly conc

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