00:00Mr. Secretary, I know you don't want to comment on the election, but...
00:03But you're going to ask me anyway.
00:04But your allies are going to be tomorrow, because it's the first opportunity that you all meet at the G7,
00:09at the G7...
00:10We have elections. We have national elections in our country every few years.
00:14I have been now involved, I guess, going through 2011, when I was sworn in as a senator.
00:21So I've watched these things, and even in my time in the last legislature.
00:24It is not uncommon to have a division of power in this country. We've seen it before.
00:28We've seen elections go one direction, and a couple of years later, go another.
00:32It's just a feature of our system.
00:34So I've been in the minority, I've been in the majority, with regards to being in the Senate.
00:37I've been in the majority with a Republican president, I've been in the minority with a Democrat president.
00:42I think I've had every iteration of it.
00:44And the Republican tourism continues.
00:46So we'll do our work, we'll continue to do our work, Congress will do theirs.
00:49I hope they do it in a way that's responsible and focused on issues that are important to our country
00:53and our people.
00:54But that's our system of government.
00:56And many of our allies will be aware, but they, too, have experienced divisions in government and divisions in their
01:01own system.
01:02So we'll have elections again in two more years.
01:05And they could look very different, they could look the same, I don't know.
01:08But this is the way our system works.
