host: christine mcdaniel is our guest from the mercatus center at george mason university.ge w. bush trade official and is with us until 10:00 a.m. eastern. let me bring in some callers. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 free democrats -- for democrats. independents, 202-748-8002. susan is in one of those towns, republican, what is your question or comment? caller: i have a couple. the guest mentioned that europe, their dockworkers got a raise. while that is because they have owned docs privately. in america we sold all the docs to china. and then china, all the docs are run by automation. somebody making five dollars an hour sits there at a console and pushes buttons and runs the docks. i think what is going on in america, the labor union is seeing the encroachment of this automation by china. how we sold all of the ports to china i do not know, that should be critical infrastructure. i think that is the main point, to get rid of this threat of automation. thank you. host: you have friends or no folks for work at a dock in portsmouth? i think we lost susan. on her

then christine mcdaniel on the potential trade and economic disruptions it from the dockworkers strike that has shut down dozens of ports on the east coast and gulf region. join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning on c-span, c-span now our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. >> earlier today, more information was released in the 2020 election interference case against former president donald trump. special counsel jack smith outlined quote increasingly desperate efforts to subvert the election results. the motion was unsealed by the u.s. district court judge. the team had argued releasing the motion would interfere with the election this close to voting day. you can read the redacted file on our website, c-span.org. >> the 2024 democratic vice presidential nominee, governor tim walz, hosted a campaign rally in york, pennsylvania where he acknowledged hurricane helene and talked about his debate with senator jd vance. this is 30 minutes. [crowd cheering] gov. walz: wow. well hello, york. before i start, i just have to admit, that is the coolest thing i have e

then christine mcdaniel on the potential trade and economic disruptions it from the dockworkers striket has shut down dozens of ports on the east coast and gulf region. join in the conversation live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning on c-span, c-span now our free mobile app, or online at c-span.org. >> earlier today, more information was released in the 2020 election interference

treasury secretary white house council of economic advisors trade economist and senior fellow christine mcdanieleaction to this basically proceeded often to generate 15 as they try to hammer out a new deal with one of the main issues automation, how do you see things. >> this deal is really important u.s. ports i was looking at the world bank of poor efficiency across the world and u.s. ports are being pretty low and in fact the west coast ports are one of the lowest. it's not surprising the u.s. maritime clients wants to improve u.s. ports and they want to make them work better that means a good flexible labor force in adopting a new technology and even automation. maria: how are they going to get to the issue they don't want any automation they say they don't want any machines taking their jobs we know china is ahead of the u.s. and many other countries as well does this put the u.s. behind the eight ball if we have to agree with no automation at the gates. >> china is way ahead of the u.s. on poor efficiency and it will put the u.s. back even further, it's not like machines will come in and t

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host: christine mcdaniel is our guest from the mercatus center at george mason university. former george w. bush trade official and is with us until 10:00 a.m. eastern. let me bring in some callers. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 free democrats -- for democrats. independents, 202-748-8002. susan is in one of those towns, republican, what is your question or comment? caller: i have a couple. the guest mentioned that europe, their dockworkers got a raise. while that is because they have owned docs privately. in america we sold all the docs to china. and then china, all the docs are run by automation. somebody making five dollars an hour sits there at a console and pushes buttons and runs the docks. i think what is going on in america, the labor union is seeing the encroachment of this automation by china. how we sold all of the ports to china i do not know, that should be critical infrastructure. i think that is the main point, to get rid of this threat of automation. thank you. host: you have friends or no folks for work at a dock in portsmouth? i think we lost s