a. >> and now live to london for british prime minister's question time. each week the house of commons is in session we bring you prime minister david cameron taking questions from members of the house of commons live wednesday mornings on c-span2.

we invite your participation via twitter using the hashtag pmqs. prior to question i members are finishing up other business. and now live to the floor of the british house of commons. >> will they undertake to visit the major academy and seek expert work being done to develop senior civil servants? >> not only will i undertake the visit. i did very good stories about it, but i understand that my right honorable friend the prime minister himself has also visited and has just told me i've got to go, too. i will be going there pretty shortly. >> order. questions to the prime minister. angela crawley. >> the prime minister's plan for english -- question one. >> turn one. under the whole house will wish to join with me indeed the whole house in congratulating the

football team on reaching some of finals of the world cup in canada and washington will for the match against japan this evening. mr. speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> angela crawley. >> the prime minister's plans for english -- reduce my rate hundreds of others -- [shouting] >> order, order. the honorable lady must and will be heard. angela crawley. >> the prime minister splines for english -- to reduce my rates and rates of other scottish mps in the house of commons. but the real issue is my at the to protect the interests of my constituents. will the prime minister guarantee today under his plans a bill that has a direct or indirect fix on scotland's

budget -- simek spearmon let me welcome the honorable lady to replace. what i would say is we will publish our proposals. parliament will have time to consider and vote on them but let me be very clear. we are not creating a system of two cheers for mps. all in these will still vote on all bills but what we're saying is laws which only applied in england should only pass if they are supported by a majority of english mps. that seems to me -- were scottish mps can determine their own future on health, housing and increasing number of subjects fairness across our united kingdom. >> tran one. yesterday the national audit office called for the introduction of a fair school funding formula so that at the

quote is related more closely the people's needs and less affected by where they lived. can be prime minister can from today from the dispatch box that the additional and very welcome 390 million pounds last year as a first step towards a more fair funding system will be incorporated into the baseline for future years of? >> i can say we will implement the pledges in our manifesto on this issue because we do need to make funding more fair across the country. if you look at the figures today it is clearly unfair that a school in one part of the country can receive over 50% more funding than identical school in another part of the country. we've already made some progress on this but it want us to go further. >> harriet harman. >> could i join the prime minister in his congratulations to england's women football team? with only a fraction of the resources that men get.

they are showing commend how it's done. sadly, mr. speaker, we now know that 22 british citizens have been confirmed dead into tunisia attack. our thoughts are with the bereaved and injured come and help day and the families will need. those life-changing injuries will need long-term practical and emotional support. the experience after 77 was that to really help those affected families, there needs to be quarter nation across departments and agencies to will be established a dedicated task force reporting to a minister to support those who have suffered in this terrible attack? >> yes, i can give it the right honorable lady that assurance. let me update the house because i'm sad to say that the confirmed number of british citizens killed in this appalling attack is now 27. we do expect it to rise still further.

today we are repatriating eight bodies from tunisia on an raf c-17 plane. it will land at the airport this afternoon for every family of a victim now has a dedicated liaison officer but i confirmed what she asked and i've asked of the cabinet sector for vice on creating a minister to me to ensure that work is coordinated right across government to provide all the support the victims of this attack deserts and also to make sure that as a nation we market can rate this event a properly. >> i think that's a really important step that he is taking and we fully support it and think those are going to be working in that respect. reports unless they suggest it wasn't just a lone gunman but an organized cell. following the home secretaries -- and the deployment of 50 british police officers can me update us on the progress being made to identify the perpetrators and bring them to justice?

>> on this specific issue there still a lot of work to be done to identify all of the circumstances this appalling attack in the support this gunman received. as we get information come from as we can confirm that information i will make sure the house is updated. in terms of the discussions between my right honorable friend the home secretary at the tunisia and i can confirm they wanted and were successful. this is looking at everything from the protective security in hotels and resorts all the way through to intelligence cooperation at the highest levels between britain and tunisia so we can help with the capacity to combat appalling events like this. is going to get a lot of long-term work between our two countries but we have the french and germans and americans also willing to help also willing to and we need to coordinate between ourselves how best to support this country on its road to democracy. >> the prime minister has rightly said that this was an attack on our values and everything we stand for and there is radicalization in this country, too.

last november the intelligence and security committee said that the present program had not been given sufficient priority and that counterradicalization programs are not working. today a new statutory duty to challenge radicalization comes into affect. wildebeest sufficient training and support for those covered by the duty? will he look again at the concern that the present program hasn't sufficiently focused on engaging with the community's? >> the right of a lady raises the important issues and let me add to trek as again. personal incomes of prevent we have now put more money and resources into that program. her second point about the statutory duty on public sector bodies i think this is important because we are saying to schools and universities and local authorities and others to have a duty to do with radicalization and confront extremism because this is an effort that's not just for the police and security services or for the government come isn't covered for us all.

in terms of her specific question which goes back to whether it was right to split the prevent work into work that is done to deal with extremism under the aegis of the home office and then programs to encourage integration which will be done by the department of communities of local government, i maintain that was the right decision. it followed a review in 2011 who found and i quote there have been cases where groups who we would now consider to support an extremist ideology have received funding. it's important as we discussed in this house on monday that that doesn't happen. yes, we should work with communities groups but not those that encourage an extremist narrative. >> i think it's important the prime minister doesn't just defend the decisions he's made a continues to reflect on this and really try to make absolutely sure that he gets it right. if he does that come then we will strongly, strongly support him on that.

with all party support the prime minister if i can turn to another issue, with all party support the prime minister commission the davis reporter look at the question of airport capacity. now that the commission has recommended a third runway at heathrow does he agree with us that subject to key environmental testing met, there should be no further delay and they should go ahead? is he going to take that forward now? >> first of all let us all think davis and the team for the thorough piece of work they do and i think there's a lot of common ground across all sites of the house, or almost all sides of the house about is the need for additional airport capacity in the southeast of england, not least to making this country's competitiveness. it is important now there's a very detailed report that we study. i'm very clear about the legal position that if we see anything now before studying the report, actually you could endanger whatever decision is made.

what they guarantee i can give is that a decision will be made by the end of the year. >> well, he says there's common ground and there is common ground across the house. the worry is the lack of common ground on his side. and he says he says there will be come he gives the impression there's going to be a proper process but there's something different coming out of number 10 because they're briefing is not going to happen. it looks like the prime minister has been overruled by the member for oxbridge and he should tell them come he should tell them he's not the leader of the tory party yet. he should tell him that. so cannot ask the prime minister, we'll be stand up for britain's interests or will they just be bullied by boris? >> i would have thought with all the years i've experienced the right honorable lady would know not with everything that she rates in her morning newspapers.

it would probably be good for her blood pressure is good for mine if you didn't, but let me give the mildest warnings of jumping to a conclusion before seeing the results. with a classic example of it last week when the shadow health secretary warned the government that the poverty figures would make us all hang our heads in shame. that was before the poverty figures were published showing the relative poverty was at its lowest level since the 1980s. [shouting] >> he thinks it would be keen to get off the issue of airport but it seems like he's in a holding pattern above heathrow and that boris won't let him land. mr. speaker, our economic infrastructure is essential for future jobs for growth and our productivity. but this week we've seen the government pull the plug on electrification of the railways, and seriously undermined the renewable energy sector. and now they are backing off over airport.

and risking losing the opportunity of britain being at the heart of the global economy. if he makes a swift decision on the davis report we will support him and will be a majority in the house. so will he put britain's national interest first? >> well first of all it's an interesting day when the leader of the conservative party wants to talk about child poverty in the lead of the opposition wants to talk about an airport report that none of us have yet had time to read. [shouting] i seem to remember that the last leader of the labour party although we've been churning through a few recently added to a different position on airports than the one that she is now putting forward. what i can say is we will all read this report and a decision will be made by the end of the year. >> mr. speaker my constituents

-- broadband health and education, agriculture and business. will they commit the government to do all they can with the resources to ensure that the hole is filled as quickly as possible? >> let me welcome my honorable friend to his seat. before community was a very successful district council in area unfamiliar with what he help to achieve a second lowest council tax in the country and i'm sure he will bring that sense of good housekeeping to this place. he's absolutely right to raise the ship superfast broadband and how we fill in the last five and 10% of homes particularly in. we are providing action fun and look at all the different sorts of technology that can help to deliver this. >> i associate myself and the scottish national party with all the tribute and condolences to the families and friends everyone caught up in the tragedy in tunisia. mr. speaker, because of the way the united kingdom is structured decision on health,

education and much english legislation has an effect on the scottish budget. will the prime minister confirmed he plans to exclude scottish mps from parts of the democratic process of westminster that will have an impact on scotland's? >> the point i would make to the honorable gentleman is mps from english mps are entirely excluded from any discussion of scottish health or scottish housing or of scottish education. what we are proposing is actually a very measured and sensible step which says wind is a bill that only affects for instant england, the committee stage should be of english mps but then the whole house will vote at report stage and ended at third reading state. what this is going to introduce as it were is a system for making sure that the wishes of english mps cannot be overruled. that i think is only fair a system when the scottish parliament and the welsh part

and to be the northern ireland parliament have increased powers powers. >> on overruling, very interesting, because on the scotland build it the eight of 15 and scottish mps have voted for the legislation to be strengthened and the event outvoted by english -- [shouting] not content -- elected on a mandate to strengthen the scotland bill. now it's going to introduce second class status for mps elected from scotland on issues which can impact on the scottish -- even planned to make the membership of the scottish affairs select committee on minority pursued for a scottish mp. isn't this what the prime minister means when he says he will respect of the agenda of? >> i'll tell him what i mean every single thing portsmouth represent in terms of welfare has gone into the bill.

and isn't it interesting that he objects to a vote in the uk parliament on a uk issue which is what has happened. let me say this again. instead of endlessly talking about the process, isn't it time the snp started to talk what are they going to use these powers? why don't you start your telescopes which benefits they want to put up bucks which attacks as they want to increase? why don't you start to tell us what this debate. i know none of scotland's 59 mps are arguing that the state pension chevy cobalt. in other words the principle of sharing our resources across the united kingdom which i believe in is apparently shared i the scottish national party. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my constituents showed great courage in the massacre last week by helping save a life of an injured victim with first aid

skills he learned in the army. can the prime minister secretary powell measures and extremism that will tackle extremists and stand up for our values for democracy, equality free speech and respect for minority's? >> first of all let me take the opportunity of praising her constituent and the skills we use on that dreadful day in tunisia. what our bill will do is reinforce the work we have done to increase funding into counterterrorism and counterterrorism police income to make sure we have this duty on public authorities to combat radicalization but then they go after the speech of the fact that our groups and individuals who are very clever at endorsing extremism but stopping one step short of actually condoning terrorism. that's what these new banning orders we're looking at our aim to achieve your because we are clear to people that support the extremism narrative, they've got no place in our public debate. >> given regional wage -- many

families in the north of ireland was identified with the concerned from the commissioners today on tax credits. further to heeding those warnings, with the prime minister have the chancellor take particular care to ensure that no supposedly more targeted changes to child benefit or tax credits would end up in misdirected against natural, everyday, cross-border working families and my constituencies? >> first of all, let me say we talk about cross-border working families. it is still the case of welfare arrangements in the united kingdom are far more generous than what is available in the republic of ireland. but look our view is clear. the right answer is to create jobs, to cut taxes to raise living standards and to reduce welfare i want an economy that is high pay low taxes and low

welfare instead of low pay, high taxes and high welfare. let me just share with the house when statistic which i think is important. under the last government, under the last labour government the number of working -- i know you want to talk about the last labour government. under the less the government come under the last government inequality fell. right. [shouting] right. now for the history lesson. let's go back to the last labour government. under labour the number of working age people in in work poverty rates by around 20%. now that was at the same time that welfare spending on people in work with up from 6 billion pounds to 28 billion pounds. what this shows is the labour model of taking money off people in tax come recycling back in tax credits hasn't worked. it's time for a new approach of

creating jobs, cutting taxes and having businesses that agree to the livelihoods that we need. >> thank you, mr. speaker. having led a campaign and offered a letter by -- signed over 100 members of parliament from across the house to the prime minister into the bbc not -- not to call the islamic state isil i said. the issue remains by calling isil. candi prime minister lead the way by officially calling daesh as france turkey and other countries in the least of which is acceptable to muslims around the world's? >> i think he is spoken about this what has making a very strong point of document i would make is islamic state is inappropriate because of this is neither islamic in the true meaning of the word nor indeed is a state. it is a bunch of terrorist bugs. i'm happy for people to just daesh. i think isil as an alternative because it doesn't come confirm such authority and i'm pleased the

bbc seems to move their position because yesterday they were calling islamic state and it looks like they will change their approach had a really welcome that. >> given the importance the final importance of parliament and members of all sides of the house and from all parts of united kingdom able to hold properly and effectively incumbent of the day can the prime minister confirm whether he intends to try to reduce the size of the next house of commons to 600 members of? >> i'm committed to what is in the conservative manifesto which is to complete the work that should have been done in the last parliament so that we have equal sides constituencies with a small house of commons and cut the cost of politics. [shouting] >> doo doo ongoing issues around the post offices horizon software accounting system i believe many honest decent hard-working postmasters and

post-mistresses have lost the reputations and livelihoods savings and in the worst cases their liberty. this is a national disgrace. will my right honorable friend consider the request from mbs across this house for an inquiry into this matter and bring it to a conclusion? >> my right honorable friend has been a real service and campaigning on this issue and i know he has led a debate as well. the post offices answers to say they set up this independent inquiry which hasn't of evidence of wrongdoing that clearly this is not satisfied many members on all sides of the house who have seen individual constituency cases and want to find better answers. what i think needs to happen is for my right honorable friend at the business department will convene a meeting involving members of this house, the post office representatives of sub postmaster to discuss their concerns and see what should happen next. i would hope it would not be necessary to have a full independent inquiry to get to

the bottom of this issue by get to the bottom of the issue we must. >> question five, closed question. >> number five mr. speaker. >> i reflect on prime minister's question with cabinet colleagues and others. for all its thoughts, and our many -- faults, i would say there are two important points. it was the prime minister on the spot to the public but it also i would say put the government on the spot to the prime minister as it is an important mechanism of accountability needing to the issues right across every department before coming to the house at 12:00 on a wednesday. >> given that parliament may be moving out of this place in 2020 with the prime minister take this opportunity to share the joys of prime minister's question just just outlined and federal parliament by convening it in each of the nations of united kingdom and thereby symbolized this government and

as part of its commitment to both the union and the devolution? >> as i've said in an earlier and i'm committed to try to cut the cost of politics and i'm not sure that would help her i think it is important that we take our politics and issues to all the different regions of the country that is something the government is very committed to do, not least with original economic plans for every region of our country. as for the future of this house of commons and where we stand and when we debate, that is a matter for the house of commons but i have to say i have a slight emotional attachment to this place, this one specifically. [shouting] >> -- worn paperthin by this went on the palms of prime minister's and ministers come and is a visual example of parliament to accountability. while our constituents rightly feel that the time this session

is a little absurd, does my right honorable friend agree that it would be a great beauty of senior members were not held to account in that way of? >> i agree with my honorable friend. i remember taking some constituents on a tour when it first became a member of parliament entering for the first on something i had to know which, of course, when this chamber was born, some of the most important speeches in parliamentary occasions winston churchill actually took place in the other place rather than here. but if you want to start a complete fight between both houses i think i believe that at-bat. >> dutchmen leave it at that. [inaudible] his plans to exclude scottish mps from decisions that will directly and indirectly impact on scotland's budget and my constituents. will he finally tells his house and the people of scotland whether it is right to create a second class status for scottish

mps, or is he content to press ahead with plans to bring about the breakup -- [shouting] >> i have to say i'm quite baffled about the whole point of the snp is they wanted to exclude themselves from the uk parliament for ever. i thought that was the whole point. action will be putting in place is a fair and balanced system that is fair to all parts of our united kingdom. >> turn one. -- thank you, mr. speaker over the past five years increasing numbers of people in the east midlands and across the uk have been deciding to take the courageous and important step of setting up their own businesses and becoming self-employed. what steps will the prime minister and the government take in the future to further support these entrepreneurs in my constituency and beyond to represent and personify aspiration and hard work?

>> first of all let me welcome my honorable friend to his place and agree with them that actually people taking a step to become self-employed, to start up their own business has been a very big part of the java enterprise revolution that has been seen in a crunch over the last five years. things like startup loans have made a difference and that's why we're increasing than in the parliament. i think it's important women look at helping self-employed people to look all the aspects of being self-employed, how you interact with pensions and benefits and maternity leave and public authorities and rolls over and social housing. that's what i'm asking for found a fantastic cambridge statue company and among self-employed people can achieve great things to lead a review for the government. look at all the ways in which we can help self-inflicted to get it going. >> thank you, mr. speaker. given the prime minister's commitment to localism with the standby and respect a decision made by the council this week

rejecting fracking, yes or no? >> these are decisions that must be met by local authorities in the proper way under the planning regime that we have. i hope that over time there will be unconventional gas sites that will go ahead whether in lancashire or elsewhere, because i want to see our country x. for all that natural resources that we have a want us to keep energy bills down. i want us to be part of this revolution that can create thousands of jobs and also want to make sure that where we can exploit our own gas reserves rather than ship gas on the other side of the world which has a higher carbon footprint, that we should do that as well but if the labour party wants to paint itself into a background of not wanting any unconventional gas at all, i think they should say so. >> mr. speaker we recent received a damning report for not doing enough to help schools

under the control. and the prime minister tell us what the government intends to do to make sure that systemically failing schools cannot continue to ruin the lifetime of our young people? >> i think my friend is right to raise this because, frankly, one extra turn in a failing school is too long for our children. i think in the past governments have been too tolerant of a loving schools continue to fail year after year. said this government has said very testing regime for failing schools, for those that are inadequate and also as the education secretary set out we will do similar things to schools that we define as coasting. that could be doing better. frankly, you can now see the model of where an academy chain takes over a failing school changes some of the leadership of the simplest the things that are necessary. you can seek radical increase in the result. that is what we want. today we're talking a how we tackle poverty in the long-term

and tackling schools and education underachieving is a vital to the life chances of our children. >> mr. speaker, can i strongly ask the prime minister -- [shouting] he still hasn't answered the question dodging the impact of english courts were english laws. can the prime minister finally tell the people of my constituency that an elected mp will not be given minority status in matters that will affect the scottish project and consequently the life of the citizens of dundee? moreover, does he -- [shouting] spill we are very grateful because -- >> he has had a very clear answer but maybe the snp don't like this answer but the proposal that we discussed at great length in the last parliament for solving this issue now be introduced. the key point i would make is

that if in some future parliament there's disagreement between english mps who want one thing and the house of commons as a whole that was another thing, they would have to be away on resolving this deadlock. this is effectively a block for english mps. it is not the ability to legislate in willy-nilly he should know that if you read the manifesto. >> does the prime minister to comfortable that a conservative and has integrated expanding target on port eight but would not commit to a target of a minimum of 2% of gdp on defense? does he realize this is damaging the relationship with our allies the united states entity or credibility with our nato allies and? >> what i say to my friend who i know cares deeply about this issue and also as in his constituents some of the most important defense manufacturers in our country is that we have

in every year met the 2% target. that's the european union where many countries don't even need a 1% amount for investing in defense. the commitment we've made already is to invest 160 billion pounds across 10 years into our equipment program with real increases every year and that is why we can say the aircraft carriers, a c-17 the new era planes all will be coming forward. we will make spending decisions and the spending audit this fall fall. >> for a man seemingly is never a way from europe, what is it that these never took the opportunity when he's been there to put in a claim for state aid to save british miners jobs? he's the man who, during the election campaign, masqueraded as the workers champion and he

hasn't got the guts to help those miners. he took 10 million pounds out of the pension scheme and is not given us any back. no wonder they call him -- [shouting] >> order, order. [shouting] >> order. [shouting] >> very good to see the labour party in full voice cheering on jurassic park. [laughter] i would stick to the movie. there's a serious point of this government has offered 20 million pounds to the owners of hatfield to keep that going. so we have been prepared to put forward money and unlike the last government we've been prepared to make ministerial direction because we got some coveragecourage when it comes to these things. [shouting]

>> order. the house most dear mr. goldsmith. >> is a strong sense the airport commission -- three years or so ago with with a conclusion and then spent 29 pounds acting up a that conclusion to the prime minister will have to make a decision on the back of his recommendation shortly but what assurances can be given millions of londoners this can be affected by heath row that he will engage -- the way they have not? >> let me pay tribute to the honorable gentleman or how strong he campaigned on this issue. i know how strongly he cares about and australia his constituents feel about it at the promise i can get in is that is very thorough report landed on my desk yesterday afternoon is going to get properly studied because this really does matter. if you make some precipitous decision or ruler one particular option, to actually make the decision he would like to make impossible to achieve because of judicial review. we may not like that in this house but those are the facts

and those of the want we need to operate on. >> and north suffolk nhs mental health trusts which it serves my constituency -- published so-called alexander report into its operation to the report which i'd seen raises serious questions about patient safety and care due to cuts to services. does the prime minister to agree with me that the duty should apply equally to nhs management as it does to nhs frontline staff? and if so will be joining -- football publication? >> first of all that let me welcome the honorable gentleman to the south. i make no apology for the rigorous inspection regime which identified areas that need improvement. i would argue that two things we need is to uncover that practice and turn it around but didn't get back that up with the resources that the nhs needs including those recommended by the staving splinter as things

stand it's only this party that is backing an extra 8 million pounds into the nhs and not the party opposite. >> order. >> here on c-span2 relieve the british house of commons as members move on to other business. you have been watching prime minister's question time ever like wednesday's 70 eastern what part is in session. you can see this week's session began sunday night at nine eastern and pacific on c-span. for more information go to c-span.org and click on series to get every program we've aired from the british house of commons since october 1989. we invite your comments via twitter using the hashtag pmqs pmqs. >> yesterday first lady michel obama honored students and teachers achievement in a career and technical education. it's part of her we hire initiative. the first lady also talked about the president's proposal to make

the first tier subcommittee college free. this is 15 minutes. spent fellow. and a national vice president of finance for family career and communities leaders of america. it is a great honor for me and the rest of the crew to be here celebrating the innovation in khmer attack the education to it is to impose my life and my high school career. i introduced pathways. discourse of whitby on teaching the technical skills needed for my career preparation but also in deed to a indeed life skill to other ethnic holidays house, crumbling and also computer programming but this involvement in these courses i wa given the foundations i needed to determine my career inches and prepare me for managing an unexpected life challenge. in april of last year i was

selected as texas national opposite candidate. this is a huge honor and a great achievement but probably one of the greatest achievement in my life i was involved in a major traffic crash when he a distracted driver hit our school vehicle head-on. i was involved as a suffered a critical into including traumatic brain injury but through it all i persevered and i was able to never give up in strive for success. after missing the rest of my junior year and going through therapy, i had some thought it would be a major setback but upon the life skills and foundations. beyond all the odds and people think i would never be able to walk again after the crush i was elected to serve as national officer. as a first lady has shown us our circumstances do not define our future but rather our attitude i believe meister is a prime example of what are

retired -- we we hire initiative is about to publish, to inspire inform and prepare all students to reach higher education. i could've graduated later or even dropped out of school but i wanted more so i did what was necessary to recover, to get back to school, ma graduate from high school and i will be attending the university with a full tuition scholarship. [applause] >> one individual is indeed inspired youth like me to reach higher she's a lawyer writer and the wife of president barack obama, and a strong advocate for higher education and healthy living. please join me in welcoming first lady michelle obama. [applause]

>> hello, everyone. how are you all doing? please rest yourselves. let me start by thanking jacob for that wonderful introduction and for sharing your story. it is amazing. it's inspiring. it is the reason why we do what we do. just hearing how you persevered and now you've on to great life lessons like hollandaise sauce and bearnaise sauce. and i thought i was happy to have malia make some scrambled eggs. [laughter] but we're so proud of you and we're so glad that you're the leader that you are. so let's give jacob another round of applause. [applause] i also want to thank the educators the philanthropists the public and private sector leaders that are here today. hello to all of you. welcome. but most of all i want to thank all the students that are here. let me see our students. where are you? i can sort of tell.

[applause] and the young man who stood up i like that in you. it's like here i am. >> can we get a picture later? [laughter] >> a picture later. now, that's leadership. but not just the students in this room but there are thousands of young people who are joining us remotely from national conferences for the technology students association as well as the future business leaders of america. so hi out there to all of you as well. [applause] and really it's the students across the country who are studying and learning and dreaming big. you all are really the reason why we're here today. we're here because we believe in you. we do. absolutely we believe in you. we're here because we want to make sure that you get all the skills and the tools that you need to reach your dreams. and those dreams are amazing and

they're big and they're huge, so you need all the support you can get. we're here because we know that one of the best ways to do that is through career and technical education, cte. and i don't know how many people know about cte, but more people should, because in today's world, a high school diploma just isn't enough. i can't say that enough. a high school diploma is not enough to be able to compete in today's globalizing economy. if you want to learn cutting-edge skills, if you want to prepare yourself for college and a good career, if you want to go into the culinary arts like jacob, or start your own business or work in a hospital, or go into 3d printing, whatever it is, it's important for students to realize that a four-year university is not your only option. it is not your only option. we talk about four-year universities all the time, but

when we talk about reach higher, we talk about completing high school and going beyond in whatever way, shape or form, and it's not always a four-year university. in fact, for many young people and their families cte can be the best option because you can get all the professional skills you need for a good job in a high-demand field and you can do it at a fraction of the time and, more importantly, a fraction of the cost as compared to a four-year university. more importantly, these are high-quality programs that push students academically and challenge students to sharpen their critical thinking, their problem-solving, their communication skills, as we can see with jacob who had all that going on all at once. and increasingly, and this is very important, there's often a job at the end of it, a paycheck waiting for you right there when you graduate. and not a lot of college graduates can often say that.

so career and tech programs make a whole lot of sense. and that's why across the country, schools and businesses are working together to develop curricula, which is exciting, so that students can get tailor-made courses for the positions that companies actually need to fill. this is why high schools are partnering up with community colleges so that young people can earn college credit and sometimes even leave high school with professional credentials in hand. and i speak at high school graduations all around the country, and i'm always impressed when students come up and say that they're already ready to launch into their field. it's quite impressive. and every day, students are getting hands-on experience through these opportunities at hospitals and businesses, schools and just about everywhere else. my staff tells me that somebody is getting experience on a 65-foot research vessel out in the ocean, that's happening somewhere.

you guys know about this? it's pretty cool, pretty cool. and these kinds of opportunities are leading to a wave of innovation from our young people. here at the innovation fair today, i understand that we're going to see a four-inch cube satellite that will be launched into orbit to help us study and analyze our atmosphere and soil. pretty cool. yes, wow. i agree. there's a system of laser sensors that detect a baseball strike zone, for all you baseball fans i'm sure that's very exciting. and a 3d printer that creates chocolate sculptures. yes, everybody likes that one. [laughter] everybody can connect with that. so cte programs like these are good for students because they can learn new skills and find their passion. they're good for businesses because they can tap into a pipeline of skilled talent. and they're good for our country

because these programs help us grow our economy, compete with other countries, and unleash the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. and that's why, earlier this year, my husband expanded the united states presidential scholars program to honor some of our best and brightest students in career and technical education. and later this summer, we're going to be launching the reach higher career app challenge because we want to make it easier for students across the country to find a cte program that fits with their passions and with their goals. so i know we've got some folks here today from our biggest tech companies, and i want to challenge all of you and people across the country, educators career counselors, our business leaders, everyone out there, i want you to put your heads together and think about ways to design a new app so that we'll help students connect with the programs and the jobs they need to realize their dreams.

i want you to help our students see which jobs are in high demand in their communities. i want you to help them see which programs give them the skills that they need. and i also want you to help them figure out how much all of this costs and what their future earning power might be in that given field. i mean, you can imagine for a kid who may not be motivated, if they see a job title and a salary, they can understand the purpose of it all which we're always trying to do with our young people. so imagine if all that could happen through an app. there are so many things an app might do for our young people and we want to see what all of you will come up with. this challenge officially launches in a couple of weeks but right now you can go to edprizes.com to sign up for updates and to get more information. so i hope you all take up the

challenge and see what we can come up with. but to all of the young people here, i want you all to know that we're doing everything that we can to help you fill your potential, whether that's making it easier for you to find career pathways just by using your smartphone. whether it's everything my husband is doing to bring down the cost of higher education and ultimately make two-year community colleges free for responsible students. that's a hope that we -- [applause] we're also, in addition to all that we're doing, we're depending on you as the students to do your part as well. and that means for all of you here i know you're already doing it, but i can't say it enough, we need you all to just get it together. to study as hard as you can. to put everything into your studies that you can do.

reach higher for yourselves every single day. there has to be a hunger that you all have that no one can fund for you. there can be no policy written to make you find your, to prioritize your education. it's on you guys. and every day you have to come in with that hunger. you got to be ready. you got to be studying. you got to be in class. if you're online, you got to be there. you got to do those assignments, make it all happen. so you've got to finish the job. no one can do that for you. not the president, not the first lady. i don't care how much money is out there, if you don't have it here and here, it's not going to happen. so we want you to complete your education. that is a must. there is no alternative. finish your education. whether you do it through one of these fantastic cte programs, or whether you go on to a community college four-year college, whatever you do, you've got to

finish your education. but you've got to get something. you've got to get a degree, a certificate, something you've got to have. and if you do that, you'll have the tools that you'll need to fulfill your dreams. and as you work to get your education, i want to close with what i said at the outset, just know that we believe in you. we do all of this because we know you have the raw material that it takes to do whatever is in your heart to do. barack and i know this because we stand where we are today because we had a lot of support and we had something in our hearts and minds that told us that we could do it. so we believe in you, all right? if you don't walk away from this with any other message, is that you've got a whole lot of folks who think you can be great, and you've got a country who

actually needs you to be great. we're counting on you to be that next generation to take over all that we're doing. so you got to be trained, you got to be ready, you got to be hungry, and you got to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way. so keep up the great work. i hope you have a phenomenal time here at the white house. ask a lot of questions. be impressive. don't be shy. i don't have to tell that to you. [laughter] and just know that we are going to keep working as hard as we can -- not just here in the white house, but beyond. mentoring you and raising the next generation up to be great is something, it's a personal goal for me and my husband. so we're only getting started. so we're hoping that you'll be ready to partner with us when we get out of here. okay? so i look forward to everything you all will do in the years

ahead. enjoy the conference. you all, thank you so much for being here on behalf of our young people. put your heads together, let's figure out what more we can do to keep these kids moving in the right direction. thank you all. [applause] >> lucy hayes was the first first lady to earn a college degree and during the civil war soldiers serving under her husband called her the mother of the regiment. she influenced her husband to switch from the whig party to the antislavery republican party. as first lady she host the first annual white house easter egg roll. this sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, first ladies can influence an image examine the

women filled the position of first lady and influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama "sundays at eight" p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> yesterday the state department announced that it would be releasing 3000 a former secretary of state hillary clinton's e-mails. those e-mails came out at nine eastern time last night the earlier ended a state or a spokesman john kirby discussed the data believes with reporters. >> good afternoon everybody. i have quite a few things here to talk about so just bear with me. first, on the former secretary clinton's e-mails, out about 9:00 tonight at the department will make publicly available online approximately 3000 additional pages of e-mails from

former secretary clinton e-mail account. these e-mails were reviewed using freedom of information act standards for release as they all have been. the department acknowledges significant interest in these documents and we are releasing to. the total page count the documents released today meets the goal set by a court ruling whereby the department is to a spider the rates of 7% of the total number of pages of these documents by today's date. i know that 9:00 is a fairly inconvenient time for many of you in the media, and i certainly apologize for the inconvenience but that is going to cost but i can assure you i do want to make it clear from the outset that the 9:00 release type is not intended to make your life harder. i know that's going to be the going assumption, but it is absolutely not the case. we worked very very hard to try

to reach 7% goal. we are working right up to the deadline and i can tell you that there were many conversations here yesterday to try to see if we could move that time to the left, and it's a matter of physics and time and is just thejust away to get it done earlier. just let me make that very clear. i know it's not ideal for you it's not ideal for us either. you're just going to have to bear with us and we will keep the process going. secondly as you may have seen the brazilian president visited the white house earlier today just completed a press conference with the president obama the sheet as noted at the state department meeting with the deputy secretary and vice president biden. in fact, they are upstairs having a luncheon discussion as we speak and i expect he'll be talking about a full range of issues much like were discussed at the white house on how we can deepen our economic trade and commercial ties.

also want to offer our heartfelt condolences to the indonesian people today especially those in the city were ac-130 aircraft crashed earlier today. we understand it and reporters to come in, i was a report to the indonesian authorities more specific about the action but as winston ever catch up on the ground as well as in the aircraft. so again our hearts and prayers go out to the people of indonesia. they remain strong friends and partners and we stand ready to assist the government of indonesia with the investigation as needed. as you've also probably seen today, the p5+1 and iran had decided to extend the measures under the joint plan of action until july 7 to allow more time for negotiations to reach a long-term solution. on the iran nuclear issue. this is a simple technical extension working towards a final deal, today the sector met

with foreign minister zarif as well as russian foreign minister loblaw. and all the experts continue to meet a superb to conclude a deal. will update you as things progressed over the coming days. to other personal announcements and then i will turn it over to the basic ticket announced deployment of a special envoy for guantánamo closure. special envoy appointment plus the administration's commitment to closing the detention facility at guantánamo bay. it brings a wealth expense as an accomplished litigator and pragmatic problem solver, skill set that will prove valuable as he serve as the lead negotiator for the transfer of guantánamo detainees abroad and manages a multitude of diplomatic issues related to the president directed to close the detention facility as well as implement transfer determinations and conduct periodic reviews of detainees were not approved for transfer. and then finally i just want to make, i would be remiss if i didn't point out that the date

is just last day here at the state department. it's a bittersweet day for us to say goodbye community although jeff you know what a professional he is, how calm and cool and collected he is a. even in the face of the greater scrutiny -- [laughter] and sometimes ridiculous questions. [laughter] those are just words, not mine. [laughter] just before i came out here. but just has been a dedicated career foreign service officer i know i'm speaking from her when i say both of us have relied heavily on his advice and counsel unless you accept we up we've been time to get up to speed and we'll miss you and we wish you well. as we say in the navy, fair winds and following seas. thanks. [applause] okay with that -- >> i have a couple of follow-ups on the e-mails.

just so i'm clear are used to working on clearing more e-mails at this hour in advance of the 9:00 deadline speak was it a continued process. we have 55,000 pages to go through some 30000 some odd enough. that's a continued process but the focus today is really going to be on getting this ready spent if i could follow up again on the. when you posted this website are not posted in a chronological order is it going to be possible to do this? because it would have more keys in understanding the traffic, or is this a reflection of how you're receiving these e-mails from mrs. clinton? >> i don't think it's a function of how they are in receipt come and they will be posting very similar format as the last time spent that was a confused format. there were dates all over the place spent just to understand you all know in the use of e-mail, i mean there's four words, replace all over the spectrum of time. they will be in the same format,

recognize the inconvenience but they will be in the same format. i'm sorry, you had another -- >> what we found in the last batch of e-mails is there was some pretty significant discrepancies between what was released by the state department and what was released to the select committee. for example, there's an e-mail from mrs. clinton indicating that she was in support of using private security contractors to arm the libyan opposition which was -- >> we will leave this briefing at this point. asked..

the u.s. trade ambassador. after that we have two conversations about marriage. as i lost in new spending offended beginning working for more than a decade founder president of freedom to marry. dr. russell morris, president of the ethics southern baptist convention will talk to us about what he's telling us pastors about how they should talk about the issue now. for the big finish, a lot of e-mail jim mcinnes, architect of president obama's reelection who will talk about where the progressive agenda goes from here and how president obama has changed in the time he's been working with us. before we take off think they give america for the support this series on the road breakfast, lunch, can't just

come in snacks we appreciate bank of america supporting conversations about the big issues in washington if they've been a great partner for a couple years and we're appreciative to them for making conversations possible. without further ado, ambassador michael furman, united states trade representative. [applause] congratulations. thank you. >> you've always said what he was going to pay some of the press may have doubted it. >> they were wrong. >> you've known president obama longer than just about anybody. longer than michelle obama. >> i won't try to compete on those grounds but we were in moscow together.

>> you've been calling him mr. president longer than anybody. >> i got to vote for president back then. >> what quality can you still say now? >> you see a number of the same qualities. at the time people remember back to the late 80s with divisional moscow campuses between conservatives and liberals in president obama would select did because he was determined to bring the blogger get-together from different parts of the law school community and have a cohesive group put out the journal. he did a very good job of building consensus and including everybody and i see the same traits today. >> has a different disguise the fact he doesn't publicly smoke. >> is much more gray hair than a dead back then. quite a bit of continuity from who it was back in and how it's

evolved as a political leader since clear >> start to finish them this morning migrate michael greenwald on "politico" team that caught the tpp's intellectual property chapter. his headline leaked it what's in a bonus trade deal is the white house going to bat for big pharma worldwide. a recent draft of the transpacific partnership for a trade journal on trade deal would give pharmaceutical tens protections against competition against cheaper generic drugs transcending the patent protection in u.s. law. why are you carrying water for big pharma? >> we know comment on supposedly drives. i don't know what documents he has. let me address the substance of the issue. when it comes to particularly those involving pharmaceutical

products, our viewers on one hand we want to incentivize the development of life-saving treatments. much globally is done in the united states by americans in the other hand we want to ensure there is access to affordable medicines typically a developing country is consistent with the direction we are perceived from with regard to how to do with the issue. we are always trying to strike a balance that with 40 million americans whose jobs are dependent on intellectual property. we think intellectual property is an important set of rights to enforce to protect the jobs in the united states. at the same time it's critically important we maintain and increase access to medicine and with the country have done this in a way where 85% of all the prescriptions filled are filled by generic producers. we don't think there's a contradiction between promoting innovation and access to affordable medicines have not

the approach we take internationally as well. >> up with the subtitles over what you said and the an accurate draft. >> i don't know about that. this is true of any trade negotiation. nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. the intellectual property chapter is where there are among the most outstanding issues and according to the article that was a draft prior to our last round of negotiations in guam in june is already evolved i imagine it will evolve further between now and the close of the negotiations. >> when understanding you have to strike the danger of the provision that could mean fewer generics. >> i think what we are found around the world is the world to see when they have generics if you have innovative medicines. you have to have a pipeline to feed the generic pipeline as well and the generic pipeline is critical to maintaining and

controlling health care costs in the united states but we also want to encourage innovation and invention. >> friends in the room and people on my street from a treatise or questions, hash type playbook breakfast. i will ask your question. ambassador furman let's set the scene. talking today about the president's historic week about trade and marriage, the agenda and had. joe kline added obama's defining moment. this is joe kline goodie compounded those who sat to define him politically in the very week the health care plan was upheld to serve the supreme court is quietly progressive trade policies opposed vehemently by so-called progressives including sadly

hilary clinton are passed by republican congress. how did you pull that off? >> last week was a good week across the board whether foreign marriage equality, affordable care at said health care to 16 million americans are for the trade agenda. is the culmination of many years of work in all those areas. we work closely with congress for the last couple years getting input, making sure they knew what it is we negotiate and try to achieve to our trade agenda and build in support on both sides of the aisle. in both the house and senate in favor of moving forward with trade promotion authority and adjustment assistance with programs that help support development around the world with a level playing field act which helps our domestic manufacturers fight against unfair practices. a positive week across the

board. in the article of the trade agreement will have the strongest labor and environmental provisions of any agreement will be fully enforceable. we for the first time the transpacific ownership will impose discipline on state owned enterprises may compete against private firms they have to do so on a level playing field on a commercial basis. the first trade agreement in the digital economy rules from the fiscal economy making sure free and open internet with the free flow of data and information across borders that a company doesn't have to relocate in order to serve companies. this would be a 21st century trade agreement that reflects our interests and values of the country. >> labor went out on a limb in the last couple weeks and lost. >> we were early closely with labor throughout these negotiations. they serve on advisory

committees and have a lot of input in the negotiations. not just the labor chapter but the state owned enterprise chapter, any other chapters and we will continue working with them because we think a number of the issues they raise about the impact of globalization on american jobs and wages are legitimate concerns. and our view, trade agreement is how you shape localization and make sure the economy is working for american workers and american firms. >> you're trying to have me to your office a couple years ago. trade has been bipartisan and proof of that which most people don't know is your very first white house job. >> you have a very good memory, mike. that's a little dangerous. i was a white house fellow in 1992 i was a democrat hired

into the very end of the bush administration. when i arrived at the white house, my boss at the time professor at harvard, long-standing economic policymaker in this town looks over my resume and senate as a democrat the only thing we can trust you with this trade policy. and that started me on my route is being a trade policy per se. >> the bipartisanship came in handy because democrats really have been giving you headaches. but if you learned about this last chapter that you'll apply in the next chapter about working with this particular congress? >> we talk about the democratic members of congress. we share enormous sense of interest and common approach is whether it's on infrastructure for minimum wage or education,

job training. these are issues working very closely with members of congress from both parties and very much including democratic leadership in both houses of congress. the main lesson i learned from the past couple years working on masses just how proud we need to be in addressing concerns. a lot of a lot of myths come a lot of misinformation out there about trade. there are legitimate concerns underneath those and we need to recognize those concerns and at the same time make sure we get the facts out there about how we address those concerns are those concerns and that is what will be doing over the course of the next several months with regard to tpp. >> so far you haven't been successful in addressing leader pelosi's concerns. >> leader pelosi has been a terrific leader. one thing she did with us is

that the request she organized a number of in-depth sessions with the house democratic caucus where we go chapter by chapter of tpp spent an hour and half two hours present globally negotiated and answer questions from members of the democratic caucus and i was enormously useful in terms of giving an opportunity for the critics than our opponents to express the point of view to be heard to have input, to give us real feedback which help shape our negotiating position but also for those who are undecided and wanted to learn more about tpp and what we are negotiating to get a better understanding of that as well. this process go into the tpa process has been enormously useful from the active in making absolutely clear what congress expects from us in terms of bringing back high standard agreements and whether it is from those who ultimately supported tpa or those who

didn't. we have very important feedback from members of congress about what they expect us to bring back and how it will help form negotiations us to move forward. >> the other presidents have had us track authority and what matters is what you do with it. what is your most optimistic case for what you will be able to deliver? >> we are in the final stages of negotiating the transpacific partnership. we're down to reasonable number of outstanding issues but by definition they tend to be the most difficult weather on market access or rules like intellectual property. so the first order of business is to complete negotiations and bring the agreement act for congressional approval. we are simultaneously negotiate the trans-atlantic partnership with the european union and will continue to make a progress report as well. we hope to do that over the

course of the administration. we have three trade negotiations going on in geneva. the wto one of services, one information technology and one on environmental goods and we expect to make good progress on those as well. >> what is your most helpful timeline of tpp? >> we were completed as soon as they possibly can. but the high standards we set for ourselves. >> you are hoping that will be when? >> good follow-up question. we hope that will be in the near term. we are working to get it done in that time frame. of course the negotiations have to dictate the timetable. >> we hope the lakota congress by the end of the year.

there's a timetable. one thing that trade promotion bill provides for as we have to give 90 day notification before the president signs the agreement. we have to publish the agreement 60 days before the president signs it so it will be out there for everyone to analyze and have hearings around, raise questions about and then a process after it signed for it to be considered. so what will be out there for months and months before it's voted on by congress. >> what is the likelihood congress will pass it in 2016? >> we hope congress will pass it as soon as possible. >> before you leave office. >> yes. certainly that in his early as possible. >> what is the likelihood that congress will pass it as well? >> the likelihood is very high. it is a very good agreement and it's benefited from the fact we've had enormous input throughout the process that we

have a sense of what congress is expecting a mullah convey that to trading partners as we resolve the outstanding issues. >> you are white house deputy national security adviser member of the cabinet, member of the team cnn and writing their poll. many white house observers noted that the health care law, fast-track authority for trade deals punctuated friday with call to action on race relations, open celebration of the milestone marked a change in town. what is the change in tone? >> i think over the last several months we've seen some important progress on a number of issues whether it relations with cuba whether his legislative achievements, the achievements of the supreme court or whether as you mentioned the president's call for action on race issues

in a speech on friday at the eulogy calling for healing reflection on the important issue. i think there's very much a stand that earlier this year that the fourth quarter. he's the fourth quarter is an important quarter and he will be doing everything he can for every day he's in the white house to achieve the object is that the people in the white house. >> you see the president behind the scenes. a lot of conversation about the president being free. >> i think he has been working from the beginning of his administration took the agenda and you've seen a lot of that come to fruition over the last several months. using the remaining time in office to continue to serve the american people and continue to it and middle-class economics and the outstandioutstandi ng

issues and to have maximum impact during the remaining time in office. >> how. >> out as. >> how does the president's trade agenda fit the economic incentives? >> it is one important piece. 95% of the world's consumers live outside the united states. we operate an open economy and take from the rest of the world as we grow. we bring imports and the rest of the world. our challenge is to make sure we open up their economies to our exports whether it's manufacturing goods, agriculture project or services that we are doing everything we can to open up their markets and to raise standards in these other countries so there is a more level playing field for workers and firms have not helps create good well-paid jobs in the united states. every billion dollars of exports for us between five and 7000 jobs in the u.s. and the job pay a 10% on average than nonexpert

related jobs in the same sector. this is a way of supporting jobs but also more well-paid jobs which address the wage issues and a quality issues that were also concerned about. >> ambassador program, all the things you agree with that work with him almost a constructive role placed by pro-trade democrats. >> that's a very important role because they really rolled up their sleeves. they dug into the negotiations in great detail. they asked us very challenging questions and have us come up and over again to walk through where we were. they give us import food back and made it clear while they were supporting tpa they were holding our feet to the fire in making sure we brought back the best possible agreement that reflected our interests and values to attract the votes ultimately on the agreement. they are very important set of

interlocutors as we go forward to work with. >> they didn't tell leader pelosi either. >> the democratic caucus is not a monolithic caucus. many different points of view. we respect all of those points of view and take input from all of them. >> thank you for watching on the bloodstream. a couple twitter questions have come in. one of the questions brings together previous experience as deputy national security adviser. to what extent do you see trade as a domestic policy tool versus a foreign-policy tool? >> our view trade agreements first and foremost must be justified and must have the rationale on economics how they support jobs growth, strengthening the middle class

in the united states and that's our number one priority. that is why there's so much focus on making sure we open markets and raising and standards around the rest of the world to create the playing field. at the same time trade also has broader strategic implications. the transpacific partnership is a key part of rebalancing towards asia strategy. one of the most concrete manifestations of the strategy and they want to be involved with faster trade and broader relationships that does this well. this is critically important because we are not the only party out there. they have very different visions for the global economy and it's important we not see the leadership to any other country. the same thing on the trans-atlantic trade investment partnership originally motivated by the need for growth strategies coming out of the financial crisis. the u.s. going well, europe has

a series of challenges before it but it was seen as an important part of the strategy. russia, ukraine has taken on broader strategic implications as well including regards to this security of europe in how they view energy relationships and the like. >> outturn to my college and just the second second. one more twitter questions. what still remains in negotiations with japan? >> with some market access issue we are still working with japan. the main issue are agriculture and they've traditionally had closed markets have both been through tpp would've been working to make sure we can open those markets in areas that are critical to our exporters. we made good progress over the last year, year and a half including the visit of prime minister abbé here earlier this year. we still have some outstanding

issues and we are still working through those with japan. >> a fantastic team of trade editors and reporters. palmer came to us from reuters has done a great job. the microphone under his chair and as a couple questions for you, mr. ambassador. >> hi, good morning, mr. ambassador. i just wondered if you could lay out a little bit about what your travel schedule is going to be like in the next couple weeks and months as you seek to wrap up the tpp agreement. would you expect to be having meetings first with japanese counterparts to resolve agriculture and non-emotive issues and from there which you go to a ministerial meeting. there's been reports that could be a meeting towards the end of july. is that the time frame you see for that? >> we are now engaged in dialogue with each of our tpp partners.

some of them are waiting until it is over to engage with us on the final set of issues and that is the process we are pursuing now. some i found, some come here come the sun i'll be visiting over the course of the coming weeks and when we feel is right we will be calling a chief negotiators meeting and ministerial meeting to bring us all to a close. we have these conversations over the coming days to make sure we are attract. >> the conventional wisdom the linchpin is getting the market access deal between the united states and japan. do you think once that falls into place the other pieces fall together rather quick way? iraq we made very good address with japan over the last year and a half. i don't see that as an obstacle at the moment. all the other countries recognize we may not be finished

with made quite good progress and there's other issues we are working on. for example canada market access in the agricultural area remains an outstanding issue and there are rules issues whether its intellectual property rights or investment related issues from estate on enterprise issues. >> in terms of japan a lot of interest over the terms of the final agreement. are there going to be exceptions for japan for some products not going to see complete tear of the lamination. -right-brace which is a culturally sensitive issue for them. >> one important issue which is different than previous trade agreements as there'll be no product area exception. all product areas will be covered. negotiations with japan or other trading partners has been to go

through all of our priority areas of export interest, go through their areas of sensitivity and find the best way to achieve meaningful market access on the preferred way to surf the lamination but other ways as well through the expansion of quotas and the quality and quantity of access are all tools we use to ensure that our exporters have commercially meaningful market access. >> will australia get commercially meaningful access to the u.s. sugar market above and beyond what a dirty house now? >> we are talking to all the parties and they will be areas of great sensitivity to our market here and whatever we do want undermined the sugar program. >> if i could ask one more question. referring to the teaching of negotiations at the round is coming up next week i believe, those negotiations seem to be

moving rather slowly. i just wonder what you think the impact of the current situation increases have been on this negotiation if annie and the idea the united kingdom may opt-out of the european union. is that having a negative impact on the negotiations. >> our focus is working with the commission on moving ahead on the outstanding issues of the negotiation and we've made good progress over the course of the last year and a half. every time we meet we continue to make progress with the new commission that came in in november. we have a bit of a fresh start to the negotiations working closely to make sure we've got a work program that can continue to deliver progress and that is what we will do next week at the round as well. >> you are not concerned the

european union is disintegrating as he negotiated an agreement with them? >> we are very focused as an administration on the fact that europe unified growing is very important to us. but from a trade perspective we are continuing to work through issues and will continue to make progress. >> thank you, sir. >> asking the ultimate big picture question. i wonder if you underestimated the strength. >> well, the trade issues have always been very tough and we've have robust trade politics here really think nasa. more than 20 years we've had a robust debate around trade. trade agreements trade does have always passed congress largely with republican support in a critical mass of democrats in last week's votes were no different in that regard.

certainly given the light of developments over the last few years the financial crisis impact globalization over the last 20 years certain they have sensitized people a great deal to the concerns raised. but it's also underscored with that in the global economy. we can't afford not to show leadership and be engaged and let somebody else to find the most of the road in a way that might lead to a race to the bottom. we can't afford not to use trade agreements to shape globalization. we can sit back and note the globalization or they can be proactive and raising standards around the world and strengthening labor standards strengthen environmental protections, putting new discipline on state owned enterprises that are now competing with private firms. our view is that is the better way of dealing with globalization. not simply to express