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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

let's start with tpp. you have been against every single trade agreement. >> yes. >> i had a democrat say to me yesterday if you can't be for this trade athen there's no trade agreement you can support. what do you say to that? >> absolutely wrong. this is a senior democrat told you that? >> yes, sir. >> that's why the republicans control the house and the senate. because what working people understand that after nafta, capita, pntr with china, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs, since 200160,000 factories in america have been shut down, we're in a race to the bottom where our wages are going down. is all of that atributable to trade? no. is a lot of it, yes. yes. >> trade agreement was written by corporate america and the pharmaceutical industry and wall street. that's what this is about. i do not want american workers to compete against people in vietnam who make 56 cents an hour for a "60 minuteminutimum >> so there's never been a trade agreement this country has negotiated with you've been com

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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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

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

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

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

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 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

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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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

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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

tpp, i believe that our trade policy is going way back again chsh i voted against nafta. i think they've been a disaster for the american worker. corporations shut down and move abro abroad. people have to contrast my consistency and my willingness to stand up to wall street and corporations -- big corporations with the secretary. >> let's go into some issues. let's start with tpp. you brought up you have been against every single trade agreement. aid senior democrat say to me yesterday, if you can't be for this trade agreement, then there's no trade agreement that you can ever support. what do you say to this democrat? >> absolutely wrong. that's the problem that we have. this is a senior democrat told you this? >> yes, sir. >> that's why the republicans control the house and the senate, because what working people understand that after nafta, cafta, we have lost millions of decent paying jobs since 2001. 60,000 factory this is america have been shut down. we're in a race to the bottom where our wages are going down. is all of that attributable to trade? no. soo s a lot

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>> 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

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

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

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you know how can you admit nafta is bad and yet tpp is the right way to go? >> you know i think he truly wants to get a foothold into the asian market. i understand that but if you take nafta or anything even close to nafta as the trade rules, it's going to export u.s. jobs. it is going to depress wages. if you acknowledge that nafta was a problem, as the president did, they have to show us something serious that makes nafta. everything i have seen it is just nafta on steroids. >> gentlemen, great to have you with us. coming up, we have new details on deflate gate. keep it here. nexium, the purple pill, is available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. so no matter where you go, or who you're with. nothing is holding you back. this is nexium level protection™. the #1 prescribed acid-blocking brand, available without a prescription for frequent heartburn. get complete protection. nexium level protection™. i was not expecting to get a ford. we went around the country talking to people who made the switch to ford. it felt n

if she does take a position on tpp, she's looking for our support. the difference is, if you get my vote, i come out on election day and pull the lever. if you have my support, i get up at 7:00 in the morning and i stuff 200 envelopes and make seven calls, i go knock on a few doors and get my neighbors all excited about voting for her as well. that's what is at stake for her. >> truhe also is going to be wi biden tomorrow. >> joe biden has been a champion for working people all this life. he's a blue-collar guy and is liked by the membership. he's liked by americans and makes a good president. hillary would make a good president. the number of people out there would make good presidents. the question becomes, are they willing to articulate a message that really says to our members that workers out there, i'm not only going to talk about changing the rules of the economy, i'm going to fight to make them a reality. and a candidate that can convince our members, working america, that they are going to make the rules better for the working people, it wil

and later paul ryan promotes the tpp. congressional democrats join me to discuss the latest on fast track fight and more. stay with us. we're right back. better taste. whatever. >>hey. keep your chin up. for years, heinz ketchup has been with the wrong mustard. well, not anymore. introducing heinz new better tasting yellow mustard. mmm! meet the world's newest energy superpower. surprised? in fact, america is now the world's number one natural gas producer... and we could soon become number one in oil. because hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. supporting millions of new jobs. billions in tax revenue... and a new century of american energy security. the new energy superpower? it's red, white and blue. log on to learn more. >>> and here's where we stand on tonight's bing pulse poll. do you trust the ongoing investigations by law enforcement? 79, 80, 81% of you say no. they say no, they don't trust the investigations. more coming up on "the ed show." stay with us. we're right

these countries are a part of tpp according to the u.s. department of labor commission study, they have virtually hundreds of thousands of people in forced labor. these are people, maiigrants working for the electronics industry. so we want to know how many jobs are lost and certainly senator warren's point is this is a fast track agreement. we don't know what's in the agreement. >> well i have to ask you this senator. when does this become a credibility issue for the president of the united states? the president is saying trust me. the president is saying, look at his record of defending and fighting for the middle class. my point in contention is it's not about what the president has done but will do and what he says he wants which is tpp, which is a horrible trade deal. we all know some of the details not all of them. so in your estimation when does this become a credibility problem for the white house? for the president? >> well i think to answer your question, it is important to understand that it's not just barack obama who is suppor

the tpp will devastate the american workforce worldwide, and of course the human rights implications are deadly. >> it is a great pleasure to welcome my good friend his majesty the sultan of. >> we sacrifice so we essentially pay off these countries if they scum closer to the united states than china. >> i'm gratele for his outstanding leadership and friendship. >> the lead are of a small oil-rich country recently condemned by the strict penal code for muslims, including death by stoning for homosexuals. >> they have legitimate human rights concerns in brunei malaysia and vietnam, their record on labor is very suspect. >> the oil-rich asian country is one of the nations joining the transpacific partnership. the trade deal is nafta on steroids. jobs will go overseas corporate interests will definitely be put first. >> president barack obama and i have have had an excellent meeting on the transpacific partnership agreement. we are negotiating for this economic condition. >> brunei is pushing for a tailed relationship. is the united states called the sultan a friend. human rights activi

can your union, and can you support hillary clinton if she supports tpp? >> i think it would be hard regardless of the party, to support a candidate who supports tpp, as we now know it. obviously still a secret. where just as importantly to support fast track, and we don't know what's in fast track. we need populous politics. we need candidates who say i care about jobs. net jobs. imports. killing jobs in america. not just a few export jobs. that we care about pay and how our pay gets held down. i think it's essential that she speak out on these issues. >> essential that she speaks out. i'm hearing that in a lot of corners of the country from a number of different groups. so here comes senator elizabeth warren asking these questions. what kind of pressure do you think that puts on hillary clinton? >> i think what senator warren is doing is great for all of us. as she said in the clip you played, we now have 500 cases under the settlement. this is a reality. and cases like petroleum getting $2 billion from ecuador because they want to save the environment.

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president obama is still pushing the dangerous tpp, transpacific partnership. "the new york times" published an explosive article revealing the tpp investment chapter. tpp would allow foreign corporations to sue the united states government for actions that undermined their investment expectations and hurt their business. companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings before what? tribunals. how many times have we covered this on the ed show? senator warren says taxpayers would clean up. >> the company could skip the court and go br an international panel of arbitrators. if the company wins the ruling cannot be challenged in u.s. courts and the the arbitration panel could require the american taxpayers to cough up millions even billions of dollars in damages. >> so it took wikileaks to get this document, not anybody in the united states media. we've been following the developments of the transpacific partnership since last summer. now we're in the 11th hour folks. it gets really politically hot.

we want to read the tpp. no more promises. we want to read it. >> if you stop fast track, if the president doesn't have trade promotion authority, is there a consensus among labor leaders that you can stop the tpp? >> why is this the only country out of the 12 that has fast track? none of the others have it. none of the other countries have ever had fast track. it comes from a belief when the united states does trade deal we give away the store because it is about foreign policy and corporate profits. it's all a giveaway. the only way congress is going to pass these deals is to fast track it. no other country has it. we want to join the mainstream. read it before your pass it. >> why would we want a trade deal with brunei? >> no good reason. >> they have sharia law, undercut wages. the sultan is one of the richest guys in the world. it just doesn't match up with america, does it? >> in no way does it match up. it matches up with a state department view that says whatever it takes, whatever sacrifices of american workers, that

nurses united voiced their opposition to fast tracking tpp on capitol hill today. the health workers say it threatens access to medicine and wages. the momentum is definitely spreading on the sfat floor. senate floor. >> these agreements are loaded with corporate handouts that weaken our nation's ability to chart its own course. the last thing we need mr. president, is another nafta. >> the alfcio came out stronger than ever. he made a simple statement about what fast tracking tpp means for americans. >> lost jobs and lower wages. that's it. # # # # #. >> labor leaders joined together in atlanta over the past few days. leaders discussed fighting the wave of big money coming into the election and the right to work legislation in states especially in wisconsin. the push for union busting measures is moving at a lightning speed. wisconsin republicans cut short a public hearing on right to work yesterday. and we're concerned about protests from labor supporters. >> we got wind of threats being made to disrupt the hearings. it was a different crowd of people coming to t

they're using it to argue against the tpp. here is congresswoman rosa delawyerdeare a. >> the house of representatives is getting ready to repeal country of origin labelling. why? because the world trade organization ruled against it. a trade agreement ruled against it. contrary to what the president has said trade agreements have a direct affect on our sovereignty. they have the ability to uproot domestic laws here in the united states. >> for more let me bring in former north dakota senator biran dorgan. nice to see you again. >> good. thanks. >> off the gate here it seems like something consumers would care about and might be politically dicey for the congress to fold on. >>well i think people might wonder why is this a trade issue. i mean, if this country decides, as we have i was involved in the early debates about country of origin labelling. if we decided we want the american people to go to the grocery store and pick up a rump roast and find out where it was produced, where it was processed is it the u.s.? maybe they w

fast track has to happen before the tpp. but it's greasing the skids for what many people think is a bad deal. >> because the tpp after six years of these closed door negotiations is almost done well over half the chapters are literally signed and sealed the others have a word or two to go really the vote for fast track is a proxy that you're willing to rubber stamp this version of this new orleans trade agreement. i think the reason that senator warren has really helped bring the argument to the forefront is that for the last year and a half, a lot of the agreement's been done. and because you've had congresswoman deloro and thousands in small business and faith and human rights and internet freedom activists talking about the pieces of the final tpp that have leaked. we know for instance why it was his right. the agreement has the investment offshore incentives that might be part of nafta. that chapter leaked. the government accountability office totally flopped. we need that last year. >> mike froman would take serious is

it's no secret why nike is supporting the tpp. so in the 11th hour the only secret continues to be the actual details of the deal. and apparently the white house is putting a lot of pressure on environmental groups flat-out telling them we've been with you on climate change you've got to give us this one. we'll have that story, of course, tomorrow night. right now, let's bring in leo gerard president of the united steelworkers international. mr. gerard good to have you with us. this is a fevered pitch effort by the white house and the president. what do you think of it, going to nike? >> look i think it's a terrible mistake as you do and i do. we support the president on almost everything else. this is a terrible mistake. nike represents everything that's wrong with global trade. in fact, nike has publicly said that they're forthis this deal because they'll be able to export from vietnam with duty-free. 1% 1% of nike's employees are in america. and we now know that nike at one point in time had moved from china and other countries

so even with tpp u.s. goods will be still subject to high tariffs. on the flipside the united states has no value-added tax. so foreign goods can just flood the united states market. tariff free. commentary tonight. i've covered this for over a year. at this hour i don't recognize president obama anymore. i don't know who this guy is. this is not what he campaigned on. i'm totally confused at everything he has done throughout this entire process. it's been a lot of generic talk and a sell job but no specifics and promises that have never been lived up to. the president, remember never mentioned a word about the massive trade agreement during the 2012 reelection campaign. in fact president obama made outsourcing and the actions of mitt romney closing down plants a focal point of his campaign. let it be said beyond a shadow of a doubt this is the biggest wind wall street has ever had when it comes to trade. t there's never been a bigger deal. also the biggest loss labor has ever had in this country. a real black eye it. seems to me this president has t

but tpp is 40% of the world's economy. this is a $400 million program. it is peanuts compared to what this trade agreement is. and republicans -- i mean i don't trust boehner on it. republicans are willing to jetson these workers. and jedsen. >> and unfortunately too many republicans -- >> do you think obama is going to move forward on this taa? republicans have given us no reason to believe what they say. okay? >> yeah. >> and so number one, where is the president going to land on this? and number two, just what kind of a package are we talking about? >> i met with some labor department people today and asked them to convince the president and others in the administration to put the same effort into the minimum wage in enforcement of overtime. and creating building trades jobs and many other jobs in the highway bill to put that same effort into that as the president and his allies and the administration put into tpa. i don't know if the president will sign this without taa. i don't know. somebody's got to have the conversation with him before they vote

and obviously, we have strong disagreements on the tpp. where i think the president has made his biggest mistake is that after his historic and brilliant 2008 presidential campaign in which he rallied the american people, brought young people into the political process what he did after he was elected is kind of say, hey, thanks a lot. i appreciate it. you're gone. and now i'm going to sit down and argue and try to negotiate with john boehner. i think that was a terrible mistake because here's the truth, ed. and i'm the only candidate maybe to ever say this. no president, not the smartest best human being in the world can do it alone. you cannot take on this the power that is in washington, the billionaires and the lobbyists and the military industrial complex, all this money and power, you can't do it. you need a mass movement of americans who are looking in congress and say directly if you don't make college education affordable, you're out of here. because we know it's going on. if you don't end these huge tax breaks for the rich you're

the tpp, how can we even fathom passing the tpp? i don't know. i think it is going to destroy a lot of what we have accomplished over the last 58 months. it makes no sense. it outsources labor to what the conservatives call emerging markets. emerging markets are cheap labor. vietnam, 18 cents on a dollar. that's where the market is going to grow. it is not going to grow here. it is a real threat to our economy. i appreciate the question, but my friend, i think it is -- don't fall into the trap of believing it is just showing signs of improvement. our next question is from frankie. he wants to know why isn't anybody calling out the republicans for putting ted cruz in charge of nasa? actually, there's been so much in the news we haven't had time to get to that story yet, but it's coming. doesn't it make the people at nasa feel all warm and fuzzy that a climate denier is all in charge of that you are funding or has a great deal of influence on it? it's going to be a rough two years, i'd say. lots more coming up on "the ed show". stay with us. >>> st

. >> every union leader in this country has said the tpp is a direct shot and a threat to the middle class. hillary clinton was flanked by lee sanders and randy winegarden. it would have been the perfect time and setting for hillary clinton to side with labor, but she's on her own schedule. today marked the final two scheduled public appearances on hillary clinton's calendar. it's most likely the last time we'll hear from clinton before she announced her next steps in early april. let's hope there's a lot of transparency when it comes to trade, jobs, and the middle class. joining me tonight jonathan alter and genevieve woods. >> the unions understand that there are such stark differences between democrats and republicans now. wasn't always the case but now there really are. in the general election between hillary and whoever the republican nominee is they'll be very strong for hillary. it's in the meantime when some of these other candidates they're not going to get money unless they're against tpp. hillary is going to be bobbing and weaving for a year and a half on this. i was just