on the washington journal we'll be talking about congressman henry cuellar democratic of texas aboutnafta. it and benefits his community as well as the and critics ountry of the critic of the flee trade agreement. more of your calls. charley in hayward, california. haver: couple of factors i not heard mention of and that is ability to move e product by using a ton have how many employees we involved this and the answer is probably zero and it will be all technolo technology replacing existing no jobs coming from he transportation using autonomous trucks. to that, you speak lynn? that's quite possible. right now i would hope that too soon butn too, i'm sure truck drivers -- i know some truck drivers are concerned livelihood going away. stop t know that you can the technology. 'm sure that could very well could become a reality. companies are concerned about the bottom line and that's just it is these days. you talked about the different jobs related to trade. one of them is a customs broker. a customs broker? reporter. . ell, a customs broker will facilitate the goods moving through a

texas congressman henry cuellar joins us to talk about trade benefits for the country. bob cash, state director for texas fair trade coalition and a nafta critic looks how the job deal moved from southern texas to mexico and how that hurts mexicans as well. watch c-span washington journal live from laredo, texas beginning at 7 am eastern thursday. join the discussion. >> british defense secretary michael fallon at a parliamentary committee on efforts to combat isis and iraq and syria, joined by other military officials who spoke about ongoing strategies to stabilize the middle east and russia's role in the fight against isis. >> welcome. british military policy towards iraq and syria. welcome back, secretary of state, on the subject of russia, would your colleagues mind introducing this for the record? >> good morning. my name is mark smith. i have been serving here for the last 30 years and i am now director of operations in the ministry of defense for the last four weeks. >> i am the director of operational policy. >> thank you for coming here today. our numbers are d

this is something that should be repealed and i know that henry cuellar has initiated in congress this rule. it is difficult to see that people still are working under the communist regime of the 1966 act. if this was repealed, we would be able to help workers that actually need it, people who are fleeing because of violence in the country, because of rape. that is where the efforts should be for resettlement and refugees at this time. host: who gets deported and who gets to stay? guest: who gets deported -- any criminal, any felon, anybody who has a history. it goes through the due process of the court's. a lot of times what we see is also this question by border patrol. 70% increase in lack of due process, which means that expedited removal and reinstatement where people do not get to see a judge, that has led to increase in deportation more recently. the rest of the people, if they have due process and get to see a judge, the judge will determine based on our laws, following the laws that we have established for immigration and regulation, who gets to stay. if you have a criminal re

host: congressman henry cuellar, thank you for your time, and thank you for your help getting c-span2your district in laredo, texas, so we can show our viewers what it is like there for the trade community that lives shane -- machine to look at more of the commerce. laredo, texas, on the u.s.-mexico border. we continue our conversation from there this morning. bob cash is joining us from the world trade bridge, state director for the texas fair trade coalition. bob cash, we heard from the congressman that the north american free trade agreement has been good for the community texas, forfor south texas, and the country. what do you think of that? guest: you know, any trade agreement is going to have winners and losers. our contention is that for the united states, texas, and for south texas, there have been more losers than winners, particularly among working-class folks. , you come here to laredo, and as the congressman said, you have a lot of jobs based on nafta trade. transportation, brokerage, warehousing, service jobs have, and those been created by trade with mexico. the argument

also texas congressman henry cuellar joins us to talk about how trade benefits laredo and the countrye state director looks at how the trade deal moves jobs from southern texas to mexico and how that hurts mexicans as well. be sure to watch washington journal, live from laredo, texas, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on thursday. join the discussion. >> the heritage foundation looks at how a departure from the eu would impact relations with the u.s. and europe. this is about an hour and 10 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, everyone, for joining us on this beautiful morning to discuss this important issue about the future relationship of britain with the european nation. for americans who believe in the idea of economic freedom, direct elections diffusion of power and , transparent and good use of taxpayer money, power and decision-making brought down to the lowest level possible, many developments we are seeing in europe should come as a shock and concern. the european union, an organization that started out in the 1950's, has morphed into a super organization that touches on almost eve

congressman henry cuellar of texas talks about how trade benefitslaredo and the country and boss Ã, statedirector for the texas fair trade coalition and a nasa critic looks at the trade deals impact on jobs from southern texas to mexico. washington journal live from laredo texas, thursday starting at 7 am eastern on c-span. >> citizens have got to feel that their vote matters, that their voice matters and whether they can not spare a single cent to help the person running for office or whether they can write a big check, their concerns, their struggles will be listened to and followed up on sunday night on q and a, wisconsin senator tammy baldwin talked about her career in public service and wisconsin political history. >> donald follett senior helped shepherd the change whereby, whereby senators were not appointed by the legislatures but demanded elections so i guess, i don't know if it was the first but the idea it wasn't going to be the party bosses who made the decision of who the nominees were and smoke-filled back rooms but rather the people who were going to get a chance to vote in

journal back of the border tomorrow live at laredo, focusing on trade, local reporter, congressman henry cuellar will look at nafta and the trade deals impact on jobs in southern texas and mexico. of course, your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. ahead this afternoon, president obama is in elkhart, indiana today. he will talk about the role of the economy in the presidential campaign. we will have that for you live. it's expected to begin a little 1 -- a little over one hour from now. we will take your comments after that. ahead of those remarks, julie hirschfield davis tweets -- again, live coverage at 3:30 or so. i think today, we come in effect, catch up to the 20th century. we have been the invisible half of the congress the past seven years. we have watched our house colleagues with interest, at least i have an interest. and the tv coverage of members of our colleagues in the house. >> as the u.s. senate comes out of the communications dark ages, we create another historic moment in the relationship between congress and technological advancements in communications through radio an

henry cuellar of texas talks about trade benefits to laredo and the country.and bob cash, state director for the texas air trade coalition and a nafta critic looks at the biggest impact on jobs from southern texas to mexico. "washington journal" live from laredo, texas, thursday starting at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> i think today we can affect to catch up with the 20th century. we been the invisible half of the congress the past seven years. we've watched our house colleagues with interest, at least i have an interest, and the tv coverage of members of our colleagues in the house. >> today as the u.s. senate comes out of the communications dark ages, we create another historic moment in the relationship between congress and technological advancements in communications through radio and television. >> fifty years ago our executive branch begin appearing on television. today marks the first time where legislative branch in its entirety will appear on that medium of communication to which most americans get their information about what our government and our c