why would the tpp be any different? >> it won't be. i was disappointed in the washington post editorial that nafta allegedly cost us jobs. come to my hometown of flint, michigan. it didn't work out. we've heard these promises that these free trade agreements will open up other markets for our products. in exchange, we open our markets. the result is we end up competing with countries that have labor standards that are nowhere near ours. we're being asked to trust us. even if the agreement has the high standards platform where labor and environmental obligations are higher, unless we have an enforcement mechanism that allows us to punish those who violate, we'll be in the same place we are now. >> i think the american people understand numbers and charts. kent conrad was the chairman of the senate budget committee. he was famous for bringing charts to the floor and showing everybody was these numbers were actually going to do. how come the proponents of tpp haven't brought any charts to the floor to show the american people the real num

in that tpp. a lot of it has been done behind closed doors. i'm concerned about the currency manipulation. in fact, i asked secretary lew when he testified before committee as to what the administration was going to do with currency manipulation in the tpp. and he quite frankly said it shouldn't be part of a trading agreement. i think that is wrong. i'm going to continue to speak out and tell the president i think he is making a big mistake, and it's going to have a significant impact on american auto industry. and that means american manufacturing, and that means the american middle class. >> well, in your state of michigan, the automobile industry does 1.18 million jobs. it also accounts for 22% of the state job force. can this automobile industry, in your penn opinion, maintain this level of productivity if tpp is implemented? >> well, it certainly makes it more difficult if you have an unlevel playing field. well just need to have a level playing field. if you look at where the industry is rig

i support the tpp. we need to be opening markets everywhere. >> so that's who the president is hanging out with on this deal. on the other side you have elizabeth warren, and every single union in this country. >> i do not believe that continuing a set of bad policies policies that are failed makes any sense at all. we need a new direction in trade policy. and the tpp is not that direction. >> millions of jobs paying good wages, and cities and in suburbs and in rural america that have simply disappeared. some have been lost to technology. far too many have been lost to unfair trade practices as jobs are moved overseas. >> so the answer is not only no but hell no. no i'm not going to be doing any single handed trying to defeat it. i've told everybody how i feel. that's the way it is. >> so the partly sunny's challenge here is to prove that this will not ship jobs overseas and he can't do that. meanwhile, history tells us u.s. trade agreements are bad for american workers in the economy. there is a ledger

bottom line the tpp is a test. the elected officials have decided are going to have to decide which side they're going to be on and who they are looking out for. joining me tonight, congresswoman from illinois and president of the communication workers of america. both of you have done yeoman's works -- >> happy new year. >> thank you. >> both of you have done yeoman's work trying to alert the american people on. this but president obama, i mean congresswoman, why doesn't -- what does the president see in this that is so good or does he just want to do a deal with republicans for some reason? how do you see this? >> i think in part the president sees that having u.s. influence in the asian rim is a really good idea. and i, for one, would not be against any old trade agreement. but this one doesn't do what we need to do. you mentioned wages as the first thing that are at risk. americans need a raise. american workers, ordinary people have not seen their income go up for three decades. and as the economy is beginning

there's no doubt that the tpp will ship jobs overseas. tell us that. tell us the tpp will not ship jobs overseas. i don't hear that audio, and i'm being fair about it. i started this segment talking about fair play. fair play is transparency and open debate. when you send this to the congress and they get no input whatsoever, that's not democracy. the american public deserves to know what's going on with this bogus free trade agreement. at the beginning of the segment, i mentioned fairness. we have a guy max baukuss on our hands. there will be four people who are in favor of fast track and there will be one voice opposing fast track. sound fair to you? no. that's not fair. it's not going to be three people for and three people against. this is going to be manufactured. there's going to be one lone voice out there and that's going to be larry cohen, the president of the communication workers of america. i don't think that's fair. by the way, it was max who introduced the legislation and by the way, max is not running for reelection. he's going to china.

this deal, the tpp, is nafta on steroids. this is going to be quite a tap-dance at the state of the union as i see it because i don't believe president obama in any way, shape, or form is going to be talk about raising wages in this country, doing the minimum wage, being fair to workers without talking about the true issues of trade that are killing our workers. and we're on the verge of doing fast track and we're on the verge of doing the trans-pacific partnership, which is only going to be nafta on steroids and it's only going to add to those charts. in fact, we're going to be doing deals with countries that they say are going to compete with china. yeah, with our jobs. it's not going to be a level playing field. mr. president, i have a request. i think that you should come out and show us some positive chars at the the state of the union. you know, get your easel up there and put some charts up and say this is what's going to happen if we do the tpp and this is how we're going to fix income inequality. going around and tal

in cable news cnn and fox news mentioned the tpp only two times. here on the ed show have discussed the trade agreement on 71 broadcasts. i guess today is 72. we talk about the tpp because it directly affects middle-class jobs. that's what we want in the country. jobs can be outsourced. you can count on it. it's a bad deal. americans need to be aware of this. you need to get in touch with your representative and say wait a minute this is a sovereignty issue. this is a job issue. why in the world would you sign onto something i know damn well you haven't read. ask yourself the question. would you sign a legal document that if affected you personally without reading it? do you know an attorney that would tell you to hey, go ahead. i know you haven't read it. but go ahead and sign it. does it make sense? unfortunately it looks like the tpp will pass with very little or zero debate. last month, there's u.s. trade said it could be wrapped up on wednesday. the trade minister said an agreement could be reacheded in weeks. this trade deal will cover -- lis

the first thing he'll do is tpp. for more let me bring in charles, the director of the national labor committee. jim is with us and lori director of public citizens global trade watch. great to have you with us. charlie, you first, if we can. what are these nike workers facing in vietnam and what guarantee could you give our viewing audience tonight if we do the tpp their conditions will change. >> there will be no change. the workers have no rights whatsoever. there's 330,000 vietnamese workers. they have no rights. they are getting 56 cents an hour. they have just zero ability to move. so personally they don't have any kind of motion to go forward. they are not participants in this. they're just staying there with tremendous, like lack of rights lack of having enough money to survive with your children. this is a disaster. >> all right, jim, you traveled to vietnam and saw the factories. >> actually it was indonesia. indonesia is the third largest producer of nike products. i went there in 2000 to see. i lost my jo

that can be overruled by the tpp. federal government itself will have to allow competition with vietnam and other countries for products that they wish -- products and services they wish to buy. >> senator, what's your reaction to the outrageous video and story and party that was on wall street and apparently is just part of the culture? these are the folks who were bailed out by the american tape and were propped up to buy more banks. >> these guys are living in a separate world. they are making unbelievable sums of money. they have contempt for the american people, who bail them out when their greed and recklessness and illegal behavior drove this economy into a major recession. they are only concerned about making as much money as they possibly can. then they use some of that money to get involved in elections to help elect extreme right wing candidates. they use their power and their money in the election process to give them more power and money. >> senator, great to have you with us tonight. i appreciate you alw

why doesn't he talk about the tpp? the only time he talks about the tpp is somewhere off in a distant land. i don't get it. he's not selling it hard. there's a reason for it. the next question from debby. this is very important. she wants to know, are you going fishing this weekend? my answer to you, debbie, respectfully, are you kidding me? absolutely! wall eyes north of the border. we'll back in a moment. rapid response is next. >>> i have your cnbc market rap. slight gain for stocks. s&p up by seven and nasdaq adding 21. general motors fined $35 million, the maximum allowed for failing to act quickly on ignition switch problems linked to 13 deaths. encouraging news on the housing market. it jumped 13%. consumers are less confident. the university of michigan sentiment index came in weaker than expected. that's it from cnbc. first in business worldwide. ♪ ♪ ♪ ben! well, that was close! you ain't lying! let quicken loans help you save your money. with a mortgage that's engineered to amaze! i'm d-a-v-e and i have

i think she's going to have a problem with tpp. i suspect hillary supports tpp. i think on some of the other issues you unpacked i think hillary is not going to be as friendly as some on the progressive side of the ledger want her to be. i think she'll largely get away with it unless folks like you and others hold her feet to the fire to see exactly where she stands but at the end of the day i think she gets by. >> what do you want to hear from hillary clinton on monday? how far does she have to go? >> monday is about talking about what do we do in urban settings and how do we turn around places like detroit where the economy has passed some of these places by. i think we need to talk about the strategies that we need to develop the middle class and redevelop middle class in detroit. >> you can't redevelop urban cities in this country if you're going to support trade deals that's going to cut jobs. >> let me be really clear. ed you're right. the entire labor movement is against tpp for lots of different reasons. some in the labor movement are for keystone. some a

when you hear politicians say that the tpp wil create jobs, they're lying. it will not create jobs in america. will it increase some exports? yeah, but comparatively, it's going to hurt american jobs. and they have no numbers to back up their case. boehner has not one chart that will be able to refer to any previous trade agreet that shows that we have created jobs in america. not one chart. i gave you three tonight in just a few minutes. hey, boehner, why don't you come on with big eddie, you can't, because you don't have the numbers. show me the numbers. you don't have them. free trade agreements are a job-killer for this country. does not involve job creation. and it does not help our economy. but most importantly, they hurt the american middle class, and that's what's at stake in all of this. you know, the president of the united states, who i have great respect for, runs around the country campaigning, talking, save the middle class, emboldened the middle class. you know who this trade deal is going to embolden? you know where the opportunity lies with

he laid out the case for the tpp after that sound byte. the united states is working hard to make this trade deal fair. >> my argument is twofold. number one, precisely because that horse is out of the barn the issue we're trying to deal with now is can we make for a higher bar on labor, on environmental standards, et cetera in that region and write a set of rules that are fairer because right now it's not fair. if you want to improve it that means we need a new trade regime. the old one isn't working for us. the second reason it is important is because the same countries we're negotiating with are the same countries that china is negotiating with. china could write the rules of trade. it means that we will be cut out. >> wait a second. if you're the biggest customer in the world, who is going to want to cut you out? it seems like we're not swinging a big enough stick here. we're the united states of america. we are the biggest customer. we have the best economy and yet we're dancing to somebody else's music. i don't get it. the president

great fight on the tpp. this isn't over it yet, but the momentum hasn't swung for the workers, no doubt. i'm ed shultz. "politics nation" with reverend al sharpton starts right now. good evening, rev. >> good evening, ed. and thanks to you for tuning in. tonight's lead, the right wing scandal machine revving into high gear, diving deep into the political muck. today, it was full-out mud throwing assault. a desperate effort to distract from gop's failures in this do-nothing republican congress. today, conservatives attacked the white house by going back to benghazi, distorting a memo written by a white house staffer, ben rhodes. darr darr dal

he's on board with the tpp. here's the president just last wednesday. >> if we are able to get trans pacific partnership done then we're actually forcing some countries to boost their labor standards, boost their environmental standards, boost trans parentscy, reduce corruption, increase intellectual property protection, and so all of that is good for us. those who oppose these trade deals, ironically are excepting a status quo that is more damaging to american workers. there are folks in my own party, my own constituency that have legitimate complaints about some of the trend lines of inequality but are barking up the wrong tree when it comes to opposing tpp. and i'm going to have to make that argument. >> it's interesting. that's the most aggressive the president has been on the tpp. and it was in front of the business round table last week. the business round table, well, obviously there's a bunch of wall streeters there, big business people there, they want it. because it attacks wages. it attacks labor stan

and they want the tpp, the transpacific partnership. and if this trade graemtd were to go through, there's no doubt that american jobs would be gone. we would see massive job losses. it would be more jobs overseas. you can't deny that. it's happened in the past. dang wroerous working condition will arise and it has democrats and congress talking about it. a couple nights ago i said nobody in washington is really paying attention. democrats are. is that a partisan statement? no, it's a fact. 153 house democrats including congressman george miller and pee peter defazzio. house members have expressed serious concerns about abuses of workers overseas in countries like vietnam. if you're not going to pay them how are you going to treat them? they quote -- it is critically important that the tpp provide for an enhanced framework for protecting workers' rights. is that it that hard? most of these house members already oppose the tpp altogether anld recently spoke to house democrats about the dangers of the trade agreement. they told me labor s

what the tpp is going to do is hit more sectors in the economy. chorus -- and i mean chorus is nothing compared to the transpacific partnership. the tpp will take over 40% of the global economy. now, this deal puts american so renty at risk. if that's what you want support it. we haven't heard specifics on how they are going to be enforcing these regulations. if you look at history, it's hard to figure out how the tpp is beginning to create jobs. so as we move into almost midnight, on the tpp, and you've got strange political bedfellows here the tea parties don't want it. they don't want to see him succeed on anything. they don't want to agree with him on anything. but they're also hearing back home that it will gut jobs and republicans, at least if they don't put a jobs bill up, they want to say they're for jobs. the democrats across the board, 85% of those in the house are for workers and working families and middle class families, and there is no historical track record to take us down the road, that yes we have to do tpp because it's going to

tpp is 90% done and she should join us in calling for that. we'll get the tpp when we can read it. for now, it's no on fast track. let's see what has been done. >> genevieve wood what is the strategy of the republicans at this point? you've got 85% of house members on the democratic side 85% of the democratic members on the house side saying they don't want this. but yet the president is still pushing it. it's really -- it's one for the archives politically, isn't it? >> well it is. last time i looked at numbers, 50 to 20 democrats said they were going to be for it. republicans have said look at least 30 house democrats have to vote to get this thing through. there are a lot of republicans who don't like it. a lot of conservative republicans don't want to give the president fast track authority because they don't trust him because of what he's done in immigration and other issues. but right now, he is relying upon republican support. even if they don't vote for this thing and it goes through, i think hillary still has to make some answers. won't people in the democratic party stand

congress has not given president obama trade authority for the tpp. because in japan, the public just like here as they have learned what that agreement really is about and what it could do, all the new corporate powers, opposition is growing. so it seemed important that people there knew that here, as well, even if president obama is trying to push it, that congress hasn't given them the authority to actually make a deal. >> so how critical is this trip for the president to close this deal? could he close this deal and do the final round of negotiations as opposed to his trade negotiators, is president obama going overseas thinking that this is it? >> well, here is the story if you ask me. folks like you and the other countries and you have gotten the word out on tpp and it's got be very controversial. a lot of people are against it. it's gotten stuck. and a lot of the issues you've raised, rolling back financial regulation, unsafe food imports, bans on buy america, the corporate tribunal that can attack our law, offshoring job, all of that stuff has

negotiations for the tpp have been secretive and dangerous. i think if the president of the united states wants to fight for the middle class he's going to have to explain to the american people what the upside is of this toxic deal. joining me tonight is lori wallet director of public citizen global trade watch, and also with us this evening, katrina vanden heuvel editor of "the nation" magazine. lori you first. how close is this to becoming a reality? the republican majority really wants this. it seems like that's all they talk about. where are we with the hourglass? >> well here's the deal. fast track for tpp would make it easier for corporations to send our jobs overseas and would undermine our wages by making americans compete with workers in vietnam making 56 cents an hour. so as the working public can make sure this doesn't happen. this is all going to come down in the next couple weeks. there's going to be a big push in congress to give fast track the blank check that lets a bad trade agreement like tpp get through congress. if we stop

no conversations at all about tpp and human rights in mexico. i saw the pictures of 43 dead young men on reforma and people demanding to know what's happening to them. human rights is worse than ever in mexico and telling some secret trade deal is going to improve it. it doesn't work whether it's in the united states, mexico vietnam, or any of the other nations. >> so, laurie how do you see

unfortunately for them the tpp isn't going away any time soon. it's becoming a bigger issue every day and average working americans are seeing what it's going to do to their future. even donald trump has taken a stand against the trade deal. he released this radio ad earlier today. >> i learned a long time ago, a bad deal is far worse than no deal at all. and the obama trans-pacific partnership and fast track are a bad, bad deal. for american businesses for workers, for taxpayers, it's a huge set of handouts for a few insiders that don't even care about our great, great america. congress has to stand up and defeat this raw power grab. with a dismal obama track record why should a republican congress give him more power and gut the constitution to do it. it's just crazy. >> meanwhile president obama is pushing harder than ever for this trade deal. it's almost campaign style stuff. on friday the president will travel to nike headquarters in beaverton, oregon, to campaign for the tpp. the president will argue the controversial trade deal is good for

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he talking a good game, but he's for the tpp and wants fast track. which president obama are we talking about here? >> it would be great to go back to the president obama in the campaign of 2008 when he made it clear that he stood with american workers, with the environment community. we could have it both ways, he knows that, too. we can always call out export sectors, but the question is, where is the net at the end of the day? as you've said so often, there's $8 trillion in trade definite duties from these deals. this one is the worst one ever. there is no change whatsoever. we, the citizens in this country, need to say here's what 21st century shade should look like. >> now, do you believe that walmart is going to make a concerted effort to make sure they buy american manufactured goods and put them on the shelves for those low, low prices? and if they do that, is this going to turn into better wages for the workers who are on public assistance? >> yeah, well, first of all, as you've said, the main reason, the number one reason, that every econom

promotion authority. >> what's tpp? >> bad trade agreements are one of the reasons why the american middle class is disappearing. >> this is our moment to stop fast track and the outsourcing of millions of more jobs in this country. >>> keystone isn't the only controversial issue on the map. >> it could waive my development rights. they're taking away my farming rights. >> we will be refining the route. >> we don't need more pipelines. we need to figure out another way to live. >>> plus the search for life on another planet continues while a science great has a dire warning about our own. >> can there be life elsewhere? >> an ocean that exists beneath the icy shelf of jupiter's moon europa. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. moments ago president obama vetoed the keystone xl pipeline bill. the president releasing a statement moments ago saying that because of the act of congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cuts short thorough consideration of issues, it has earned my veto. this i

why is he so adamant about a tpp deal? >> it's baffling how he can talk about it creating jobs when everyone knows it would create a bigger trade deficit. it's nafta on steroids. and ship more jobs offshore. but i think what it's really for so to put into place all of these other corporate proposals that basically have failed in congress. why he would raise medicine prices for the companies that try to make sure he didn't get reelectriced, no one can figure out. president obama addressed the issue of market access. take a listen to this. >> i've been very clear and honest that american manufacturers and farmers need to have meaningful access to markets that are included under tpp, including here in japan. that's what will make it a good deal for america, for our workers and our consumers and our families. that's my bottom line. and i can't accept anything less. >> your response to that. will he stand by his bottom sflien. >> well, the good news for everybody is that they didn't cut a dpeel right now between the president a

i have a lot of concerns about tpp. however tpp is really important to the united states geo geopolitically because of what's going on in the south china sea. and i spent time in vietnam and that is the first thing on their agenda is some sort of tpp. so this is not an issue. and bernie because he is not an incumbent gets to say whatever he wants. hillary clinton because she's served in this administration has to be much more careful about what she says about things that have a huge effect on international relationships. and i think as the former secretary of state she understands that. >> does this mercedes play into the poll where a lot of people think hillary isn't trustworthy? if you can't give a straight answer i imagine it plays into that. maybe i'm wrong. your thoughts. >> it could be part of that but i think what's driving her poll numbers down on that question of trustworthiness is clearly her inability to talk about the private server and the e-mails and the deleted e-mails and that whole controversy in additi

the tpp is a trade deal which will govern 40% of u.s. imports and exports as well as effect copyrights and pharmaceuticals. all of the details of these talks have been kept in secret. only a few portions of the agreement and the memos about all of it have been linked out. in other words, your representatives, your senators, they don't have all the answers on this. they don't know. if you see them at a town hall, you might want to ask them what about this tpp thing? not to embarrass them, just to see if they have details. what we do know is the tpp is an attack on american workers as it stands. and the punch in the gut to the middle class of this country. all the people on wall street cheering a record setting year are looking for the cheapest ways to get goods and services and don't care if the american worker suffers. that's how i read it. there's no better way to do than than to go along with the tpp, put it on a fast track with no debate, get it voted on and kick butt on the american workers of the middle class. it is a story that isn

we're looking at this trade agreement, the tpp. how dangerous it is in your opinion? >> it could be very dangerous there are a lot of things we don't know about it because it's being negotiated behind closed doors. what we do know about it should give anyone pause whether you're right, left, or center. you have the auto companies in the united states very concerned about how we're going to treat japan on market access. it's very hard to sell a vehicle in japan. and it's not because japanese consumers don't want to buy american vehicles. you have to look at currency manipulation and the tpp, we'd be competing against countries that heavily subsidize their own businesses, in fact own them. it's not very fair to ask a private sector american firm to go up against that state subsidized competition. so there are a lot of questions that have to be answered about the tpp. >> so it would affect just off the top of my head plastics, glass, steel? >> absolutely. >> rubber. all of the things that go into automobile manufacturing. now, we have revived with the automobile loan the

the tpp is far greater than any trade deal we have done. it is being modelled after the korea agreement, but it is a microcosm of the big deal on the horizon, whether it is nafta, chorus, or giving china preferred nation trading status. trade deals have killed the middle class in this country. there's no reason we should be putting our economic recovery and progress at risk in a trade deal. this is some serious dice being rolled. for more let me bring in the director of public citizen global trade watch and all with us tonight, the president for alliance of american manufacturing. great to have both of you with us tonight. this is good news for the american economy today. would the tpp put this at risk and who would feel the pinch first? >> here's this great news and then in the face of that there's a push for a trade agreement that we know would make it easier for big corporations to offshore our jobs and throw americans in competition with workers in vietnam who would push down our wages in competition with their 50 cents an hour wages. i

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democrats in congress need to tell the president they oppose the tpp. i don't know how the democrats can go home and say that they are for the middle class and they're for workers and they're for working families and then give a stamp of approval on something like this. this cuts to the guts and the heart and soul of our economy. we will never rebuild the middle class in this country if we rubber stamp deals like this. larry cohen joins me tonight. mr. cohen, great to have you with us. why this angle about veterans, how does this really apply to veterans in a big whey when they want to cycle back into the economy after serving their country. >> well, first of all, the unemployment rate for recent veterans, those who have served since 2001 is 50% higher than the population as a whole. secondly, the question is when it comes to food stamps or health care or anything else, do we really care about veterans or do we just give them free tickets to ball games? so this is about really squaring up where is our commitment to our own economy, to working class fami

tonight's question -- do you trust president obama on the tpp? go to pulse.msnbc.com/ed to cast your vote. i'll bring you the results later on in the show. >>> i want to bring in senator bernie sanders tonight from vermont, the independent who has been very cler on this issue all a -- clear on this issue all along. we got an earful from the president. we wanted to make sure his side of the story got out. he said that there are enforceable labor and environmental provisions in the tpp. what does he mean? how enforceable are they? your take. >> we've heard it from almost every trade agreement that's come down the pike and yet you have workers that are being exploited all over the world. it takes years before their concerns are being heard. i think the first point to make about this trade agreement is to look at whose side multi-national corporations are on on this. how do the drug companies feel about this. how does wall street feel about it? all of the multi-nationals believe this is a great agreement. just the other day, i and a few of us spoke b

the question is why is the mainstream media not covering tpp? tpp is the transpacific partnership. there's a lot of ineptitude to go around on this. the multinationals have got a great deal of influence on the corporate media in this country. i can't speak for anybody else, but i do believe this is a major story that affects the middle class, that affects workers. it certainly needs to be under the microscope. the problem is the negotiations for the tpp have been behind closed doors. done by corporate consultants and there are members of congress who don't know anything about it. it's a sad state of affairs. i'm really surprised that president obama is backing it the way he is with such little detail given to the american people. i could talk on this issue for hours. it cuts right to the chase of the strength of our economy in this country, but you know what? the other ineptitude is the tea party. where is glenn beck? where are all the tea partiers out there? aren't you concerned about sovereignty issues when it comes to trade? aren't you concerned about american wages and outsourc

tpp trauma. it will be nafta on steroids. >> members of congress aren't supposed to tell you what they have read. >> all negotiations held behind closed coarse doors. american jobs have a new threat. >> what about the freedom of people to associate or join unions? that's not going to be amiss. >> this is not about union labor. this is about american labor. joining me tonight, congressman dan killedy of michigan. good to have you with us tonight. i know you're on record oh against the tpp. but this tweet caught my attention today. cbs network radio reporter, martin oler tweeted out from the white house today, that's his beat. he says that the white house says the tpp is, quote, critical for creating jobs, promoting growth, providing opportunity for american workers and promoting fair trade in asia and pacific. now, if that is where the white house stands and if that's where the president is, don't you think the country needs a little bit of definition of where all these jobs are going to come from

did have two lawmakers ask me last night what's the big deal about the tpp. really? even last night, the president, i think he was out of the loop on this. >> today our businesses export more than ever. but as we speak, china wants to right the rules for the worldest

he wants that authority to do the tpp or the taa. all right, now he's got a lot of work to do here at this point. he's got very little support. on tuesday, minority leader nancy pelosi told cnbc her thoughts on fast track. >> i've not been a big supporter of fasttrack. i don't think it is even necessary. it is a convenience for the administration. it is an advantage for the business community. but it is a hardship for workers. because there just -- it just isn't fair. >> the word is president obama hasn't spoken to pelosi since she sunk this trade deal on friday. it's clear house democrats aren't in president obama's corner like this so what do you do? i guess you have a picnic. a ball game last yeek. might as well have a picnic now in the backyard. pelosi is right. and fast track is great for corporations because they get the right the rules. meanwhile a huge disadvantage for american workers. they don't have a voice unless all, and i mean all of the democrats hold their ground. get your cell phones out. tonight's question is fast t

i don't think the tpp is the way to go. i have always been against the tpp and always for american workers. there are other methods and other ways we can do this. this is a flawed trade agreement. to muddy it up with national security, i think is a mistake. appreciate your time. >> good to be here. >> have we done as much as we can do when it comes to a strategy with isis at this point? i mean i think today that this summit at the white house and this speech was the president really putting the icing on the cake of what kind of strategy he wants. he wants turkey involved, the iraqis iraqis, the jordanians, the egyptians. all culminating to work against these extremists that are isis and also their recruiting methods. this was a big speech today by the president, and i think it played really into his strategy. have we gone as far as we can go on isis and what we're doing? is this it? >> i think at this point we probably have, especially since what the president said i think is very circumspect with regard to how he wants to

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should president obama give the country more details on the tpp? text a for yes, text b for no to 67622, always go to our blog at ed.msnbc.com. we'll bring the results later on in the show. let me bring in congresswoman louise slaughter of new york and the president of the communication workers of america, larry cohen. great to have both of you with us tonight. congresswoman, you first. why is president obama advocating for this? what's the up side? >> i will tell you, there's absolutely no evidence that any of the trade agreements that the united states has made since i've been in congress have benefited in any way the american manufacturer or the american worker. we've been desperately hurt. i represent an area in upstate new york, rochester, new york. eastman kodak when nafta was signed was a great going concern and has now just gone through bankruptcy. something that nobody would have ever expected. i'm worried about tpp, because hickey freeman is one of the last wonderful iconic companies in my district. and we understand that tpp benefits vie

are they aware of fast track and tpp and are they paying attention to it? >> they're very aware of it. just a couple of weeks ago id had listing sessions. this came up as an issue. in lafayette county the biggest town in lafayette county is 2400 people. they just lost a company with 36 jobs that's going to mexico and they applied for trade adjustment assistance. we still see that. if you think about that, 36 jobs in darlington is like losing 3600 jobs in madison also in my district. this is a big issue. people talk about, everyone democrat or republican should be standing against the trade deal that we don't know enough about with protections for labor, currency, there's many reasons to oppose this. >> congressman, do your constituents in wisconsin in the middle of the country, are they curious about president obama's reversal on this? are they talking about it? >> i've got asked several times while we did the listening sessions. why does the white house support this? i think this question was asked of the gentlemen who did trade for president reagan who no

there's no way anybody can say the tpp will create jobs at home. democrats dropped the ball on unemployment as i see it. they're not going to get this done, but they can make up for it by coming back and fighting hard against a trade agreement that's going to create more unemployment americans. this is as bad as it's ever been in america since the great depression in terms of unemployment. we're going to have all kinds of problems, folks. democrats need to send a clear message to the president of the united states that his team is leading him into a field where this dog don't hunt. we hear a lot about creating jobs. how many times has boehner come out and said, where are the jobs? this is about protecting american workers. how about we do that? since these guys won't help us create jobs, democrats, how about protecting some industries and some american jobs if they're not going to help us create anything? here's what's going to happen in the halls of congress. let me tell you, they're lobbying hard on this. the corporatists, they're out lobbying bi

>> if fast track passes tpp will pass. there's no question about that. ed, there is a reason why virtually every corporation in america, the pharmaceutical industry and wall street want this to be passed and there is a reason as you just mentioned, why every union, many environmental groups and religious groups are against it. because anyone who looks at history understands that our trade policies from nafta, cafta, to china, have been a disaster for the american workers since 2001 we have lost almost 60,000 factories. not all attributeable to trade, but a lot of it is. millions of decent paying jobs. our demand now must be to corporate america and say to them, you want us to buy your products. the time is long overdue for you to stop outsourcing. let's create and manufacture those products here in the united states. that's what this is about. >> senator, does the size and the magnitude of this deal and the impact place a different importance on fast track? the question should congress be able to read trade deals before they vote on them? >> well that's

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trust me on fast track and the tpp. it's the same pitch he's been out making on the road time and time again. >> i've spent six and a half years trying to rescue this economy. six and a half years of trying to revitalize american manufacturing, including rescuing an american auto industry that was on its back and has now fully recovered. so i would not risk any of that. if i thought the trade deals were going to undermine it. if i didn't think that this was the right thing to do for working families i would not be fighting for it. if any agreement undercuts working families, i won't sign it. >> well that is pretty convincing and i suppose that's what the phone calls sound like. politico reports nancy pelosi doesn't want president obama to be embarrassed. is that what this is about? that's what they report. that's not a direct quote. because she doesn't want to see the president embarrassed i guess because of fast track authority, if he doesn't get it it will make him look bad. they report "administration officials have

. >> who will benefit from the tpp? >> feeling good ab the momentum that we have. >> the biggest multinational corporations in the world. >> at this hour -- >> this was not someone trying to bring healing. >> tensions rise in ferguson. >> this was a damn punk. punk. >> and later, the epa under attack. >> this is happening now. this is not a future event. >>> plus -- >> outright greed and irresponsibility in the financial sector. >> corporate profits rise as the american worker suffers. >> when does the greed stop? >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. we start with breaking news out of ferguson missouri.

fast tracking the tpp would make it easier to offshore american jobs and push don our inch with as by making americans compete with folks in vietnam who aren't but making 60 cents an hour. this whole thing makes you wonder was there a rabbit hole did he go down there with alice? what's going on around here. it's backwards. i think the congressman was spot on in pointing out that folks want to make sure they don't have more of these job killing, unsafe import flooding agreements, they need to get their congress people to vote against both the fast track bill, but the trade adjustment assistance bill sort of greases the path for the fast track bill. contrary to the intro, they didn't actually fix it, it's a gimmick fix, it's a fix where you have to vote for $700 million cut in medicare with the hope that you vote after to fix that thing you voted for, except you're on the record having voted for cutting granny's medicare. >> pig latin, george other well. and louis carroll in one bite. why pass this trade adjustment assistance if no jobs are being outsourced. >> i'm at a big loss why the

that's why wall streelt is excited about tpp. but the rest of us need to focus on what happens to citizens. how do we enforce citizen rights with corporations have secret tribunals and we have to work through our government and governments like vietnam. >> so in the house and senate with republican majority what's this mean. >> this is a week of action for citizens across the country. we mobilized 3 million people to take action. in the weeks ahead, first months of 2015, our union, cwa, and many other democracy groups, we will keep the same structure in place, the same level of funding and support that we had in this many election until we defeat this trade bill and get to 21st century trade which needs to work for citizen groups. we will keep the entire political apparatus in place to mobilize our workers, community organizations, immigrant rights groups, all share the same story and we hope this president will listen to those of us who supported him and not just the chamber of commerce and those who want to make higher profits

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