This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

With the New World Report, Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute,

it's been a week since I spoke with the professor, and in that time, Brazil has

dominated a conversation about tariffs, about the previous administration, Mr. Bolsonaro's, and about

Lula de Silva, who is a senior figure in Brazilian politics. And does he have a future, aka, will he run again in 2026? I welcome Evan to comment on just the

summary of what was true last week and continues this week. Evan, a very good evening to you.

The remarks last week, and I have not seen them in any fashion challenged, is that the tariff talk out of Washington, led by the chief executive and the Trump administration, is uniform around the world except Brazil.

The challenge to Brazil, either a 35% tariff or a 50% tariff, either on copper and steel or on everything

out of Brazil, was based not on the trade imbalance, so called, but in fact on the fate of

Mr. Bolsonaro, the previous president, who was under investigation and indictment, I believe,

there's so many different versions of this

for leading a coup attempt in the previous election, even including the talk of an assassination

attempt or a planned assassination. At the same time, his two sons, for different reasons,

are under indictment or imminent indictment

by the Justice Department in Brasilia for activities since the election of 20, of the last election.

I mentioned all this because it was a predicate for Mr. Trump's true social communication that it's unfair or wrong, it's lawfare to charge Mr.

Bolsonaro with crimes that you cannot prove and saying that Lula de Silva was running this because

he's afraid of Bolsonaro's future as a political actor.

Bolsonaro has already been disenfranchised by the courts, I believe.

Also mentioned was a man named DeMa Rice, who is a Supreme Court justice, but who has been

prominent in the revival of Lula de Silva's fortunes.

I believe he was critical in providing the information that allowed Lula to Silva's fortunes, I believe he was critical in providing the information that

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