00:00The Trump administration is set to grant visa to Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro,
00:05who has reportedly fled to the U.S. after refusing to comply with an order to surrender his passport.
00:11Multiple American media reports say he and his family had made their way to the U.S.
00:16However, their actual whereabouts remain unclear.
00:22Bolsonaro, who is facing money laundering and corruption criminal investigations in Brazil,
00:26was ordered to surrender his passports to federal police by Tuesday but failed to do so.
00:32U.S. President Donald Trump speaking to reporters said he would have approved of Bolsonaro coming to the U.S.
00:38but thought that he was in Argentina.
00:41Argentina's migration authorities reported that Bolsonaro and his family crossed into the country late Tuesday
00:47and boarded a private flight to Ecuador.
00:50Bolsonaro lost to President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva in the run-off election on Sunday.
00:54He called Bolsonaro's flight from Brazil a shameful act.
00:58The son of convicted former President Jair Bolsonaro will lose his certain parliamentary protections from persecution
01:05when his term as senator for Rio de Janeiro ends on January 21st.
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