rose. and what we could do as patients to help bring the prices down slowly. thank you again. negotiating of prescription drugs? thank you. guest: i think the color is absolutely right. joe of alluded to this as well. one thing we have not successfully tackled is the underlying cost of health care costs of that is driving the growth of health care costs here out.d year it is certainly drug prices, but it is also the crazy way in which we pay for dr. services and hospital services. these are things we need to tackle. it is a big challenge for lawmakers, the power of the special interest. the fact that they have huge sway in this town. guest: the government is not good at negotiating prices for anything.

cost overruns in the defense department should tell you everything you want to know. that and the national debt level. i don't have a lot of confidence in that. what is now called the centers for medicare and medicaid services. i'm familiar with how it operates. it operates through private .nsurance companies so the idea that the government will be able to get better deals i think is mistaken in the long run. we could see real problems with access if we went down that road. our guests have been joe corlett. sabrina thank you for joining us this morning. guest: thank you. the jamese look at brady briefing room at the white house where today's briefing should get started surely.

we will hear from the incoming press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders. press briefing life here on c-span. it should get underway before too long. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017]

>> live, at the white house, waiting for sarah huckabee sanders. while we wait for the briefing, we will show you senate democrats earlier today as they unveiled a proposal they say

will make the trade system work for american workers rather than corporations and lobbyists. >> go-ahead. >> well, good morning. thanks very much for being here today. we are here today because we believe in an america, where people work hard every day, need to know that someone has there back in a global economy. if you are working in a factory or in a farm or on your phone, you should have the confidence that our country works for you, and that our trade laws work for you. you should have the confidence that we are exporting our products and not our jobs.

but that's not the reality for the majority of americans. for to marry -- for too many american workers and small businesses, the rules are rigged against them. that has to change.many people are working harder and longer than ever. and aeir jobs pay less race down to the lowest wage in another part of the world. our workers deserve a race up, the good wages that allow you to raise your family and have a good life. that is why we are here today offering a better deal on trade and jobs. in michigan, i know that our workers, our small businesses, manufactures, farmers can compete with anybody, anybody in the world, if we have got a level playing field. and that means creating a trade prosecutor who will be laser focused on going after countries, like china, that manipulate their currency, which ,as cost us 5 million jobs

steel or and cheat with unfair trade practices. bring jobsssing hour home act, to close the loophole that incentivize companies for taking jobs overseas. american families deserve a better deal, and that is what we are committed to make cap. -- make happen. quickly. say very anyone that believes free trade is fair trade, come to west virginia. see what happens to our manufacturing jobs to my whether it is the coal industry, steel industry, chemical industry. we lost big-time. now to have entries with their manipulation, if you will, and also, on top of that, i am concerned about us not even having minerals in our country that we even mine anymore.

if we should do anything is protect the national interest of our country, the security of our country. when you let different corporations from different countries that basically our thing toward our financial markets, buying our financial markets, i think it's detrimental to the security of our nation and well-being of this nation. so we are going to fight hard. west virginia has taken a hit, but we are fighting back. we not only need free trade, the fair trade. we are going to work hard. with that, it is my pleasure to introduce joe bentley. >> we want to make sure that the rules of this country stanza for american workers. my outsourcing act, it makes it so that come if you want a federal contract, you are going to be determined whether you have outsourced jobs.

and if you have come up whenever thing else is looked at in the contract, if everything else -- and if you have, whatever anything else is looked at in the contract, if everything else -- there's no tax benefits, no moving costs included. it includes tax benefits if you are bringing jobs back to the united states. these are simple things to stand up for our workers. 300 carrier we have workers who just lost their jobs. there are more that will lose their jobs at christmas.we need to stand up for those families and others around the country to make sure we are fighting to keep jobs here in america. it's my privilege to introduce someone who fights everyday in the badger state for jobs there. she is a great colleague and she is a straight shooter, senator tammy baldwin. [applause]

depend onin families our manufacturing jobs. i believe, if we give our workers and manufacturers and level playing field, we will compete and win. to level the playing field, democrats are proposing a better deal. a better deal that prevents trade deals from hurting our workers. it takes on china's cheating. and it puts an end to warding companies with tax cuts for shipping jobs and factories overseas. we would also put in place america buy requirements for taxpayer-funded projects. americaritten buy legislation because i strongly believe american workers should build our infrastructure with american products and taxpayers money should not be spent on iron and steel from foreign

countries, like china and russia. buy america reform passed the senate last year with bipartisan support. but by the time it got to the house, for and steel companies. washington lobbyists to kill it. speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell gave them what they wanted, and american workers were left behind again. in april, president trump came to wisconsin and announced his americafor my buy legislation. the congressional republican leadership continues to stand in the way. america and their workers deserve a solid commitment from americastrong buy standard that rewards their hard work. it is time washington put american manufactures and steelworkers first, ahead of

powerful special interests. our better deal will close loopholes that provide a foreign producers access to large sums of your taxpayer dollars. the bottom line is this. democrats and republicans agree that we need a major investment to rebuild our roads, bridges and water infrastructure. we need republicans to stand with us and with our manufactures and with american workers. let's get the job done on strong buy america reforms, so we can put people to work rebuilding our infrastructure with the words "made in america." it's my pleasure to now introduce my colleague and friend from the commonwealth of pennsylvania, senator bob casey. [applause] >> thanks very much. a better deal for america starts

with a lot of what my colleagues have reviewed today. one of those priorities that we have to focus on his renegotiating nafta. but seriously renegotiating nafta, not just some kind of a rewrite of tpp. we need a serious effort. most people out there, to look at what has happened with regard to trade deals overtime, feel like they are left out. workers are let out of the negotiation room. working family to don't have a voice in that room need to be included. we believe the administration should negotiate in an open and transparent manner, that the public should be regularly given detailed information about the negotiations so they know what is at stake at every step of the negotiations. the united states trade representative staff should hold town hall meetings open to the public in at least 10 different states to discuss specific nafta

priorities before any draft can be finalized. the american people and congress must know what the administration seeks to achieve in the agreement before and throughout the negotiations. that is critical. that process is critical. in addition to that, we talk about nafta. we have to make sure that we americaong buy standards and that we have strong, enforceable labor standards and wage standards, in addition to environmental standards and so many others that seem to be left out in too many negotiations. second, with regard to china, we know in pennsylvania all too well that, when china cheats, pennsylvania loses lots of jobs. that has been happening for far long. when countries cheat, whether it

is china or any other, we have to make sure that we go after them with everything that we have. number one, we should make sure that the administration will insist on quick and definitive action on behalf of steel and aluminum producers to make sure that they have a level playing field. and finally, we need to hold companies accountable when they ship jobs overseas. when you ship jobs overseas, there should be a consequence when you seek a federal contract. when companies outsource jobs, they should pay a tax for moving those jobs overseas. when a company does the right thing and brings jobs back, here in the united states, they should get a tax incentive. whether it is cracking down on this issue, cracking down on china cheney, or renegotiating nafta, we have a long way to go to make sure we are doing everything we can, hear in the congress in a bipartisan fashion. and the administration needs to be consistent with what the

president said when he was campaigning, to make sure we wonder -- we renegotiate nafta in a serious way. it is my pleasure to introduce senator chuck schumer. [applause] >> thank you and my colleagues for their great work. every one of these people who you heard speak puts american workers first. american workers first. last week in berryville, we democrats began to offer a better deal to the american people. the better deal promises three things -- first, higher wages and better jobs. second, lower everyday expenses. third, the tools workers need to succeed in the 21st century. tohing is more central creating jobs and increasing take-home pay than rewriting our

backward trade laws that have put far -- the foreign workers workers, thatcan have put big multinational corporations ahead of the needs of hard-working average american families. for far too long, our trade laws have given multinational corporations and foreign competitors a leg up on the american worker. they put the corporate bottom line ahead of the workers bottom line. today, we democrats are proposing a better deal for workers, with tough, tough trade laws that finally, finally put american workers first. in addition to the ideas my colleagues have laid out, today, we are also calling for the creation of an american jobs security council. right now, foreign countries buy up the best of american companies, but they have to get approval from the committee of foreign investment in the united

states. it has to certify that the proposed deal doesn't harm our national security. the no one ever checks if it hurts our economic security. the jobs and incomes that workers need. that's where the american jobs security council comes in. the panel of economic experts would be empowered to block companies, if their attempt to buy an american company would hurt american workers, potentially leading to the theft of american property or property orstort our otherwise distort our market. simply put, [no audio] we are not going to let them do it anymore. we are not opposed to foreign investment. we are opposed to foreign investment that only benefits the bottom line and leaves workers out in the cold. we are opposed to foreign

investment when certain countries, like china, do not allow reciprocal access to american companies in their country. we know china is trying to buy up and dominate the could go industries where america has been dominant. from semiconductors to robotics to steal. .- to steel we need to revamp our trade laws from top to bottom and provide a better deal for american workers. we have a tough seven-point plan. an independent trade prosecutor to go after companies that are not fair and are outsourcing jars -- outsourcing jobs overseas and being unfair to americans. the job security council, which unmentioned. nafta, making it work for people. penalties for contractors that outsource jobs. buy america provisions. ts