us to be the masters of our own destiny they want that power for themselves now for more on the lori wallach joins me from auckland new zealand for the d.p.p. talks are underway she's the director of public citizens global trade watch laurie welcome back. thank you very much thanks for joining us first off what exactly is taking place and awkward. this is the fifteenth round of negotiations on the trans-pacific partnership ironically thing how they. know which is where the convention center is and behind closed doors negotiation eleven countries are rushing to try and finish the agreement before the public and then to countries where they get to know what at stake why why auckland new zealand i've noticed a lot of the libertarians who come on our shows or. seem to think that new zealand has turned into some kind of libertarian paradise the last time i looked they had a national health care system and what not but is there some particular rationale for. the negotiations rotate between the different countries where a party and this particular round of volunteers to host. their one of the pacif

because the corporations who are funding part of the tea party movement don't like this amazing lori wallach thank you so much for reporting for being up so late for sharing the story with a small community. and i'm sorry about the poor sound quality i'm right here live through five lines because we've been physically thrown out of the venue and so i'm across the way they stocking the theme what's going on through the literally closed door. but laura thank you thank you so much for sharing with us thank you bye bye. now on to news from capitol hill democrats in the house led by minority leader nancy pelosi are trying to force a vote on middle class tax cuts legislation already passed by the senate to extend the bush tax cuts for ninety eight percent of americans but not for the top two percent is stalled in the house of representatives the republican leadership is refusing to hold a vote on it out of fear a by pass and raise taxes on the top two percent that a policy and democrats began circulating what's called a discharge petition to all members of congress if democrats can get two hundred