. >> host: lori wallach, both the president and senator mccain have said that nafta is not to blame, that, in fact, production is up, more people are working and that more money is coming in. why would you oppose that position transferred to both that and also what carla hills jessica is actually a database, a government database called the nafta trade adjustment assistance a database which is jobs certified as nafta job losses. to get in that list is a bit of difficulty, very narrow but a lot of people who could lose a job to nafta could get that program under the program there are over half a million real names. people in america the government has certified explicitly as nafta job casualties. the notion you can't attribute it to nafta isn't so because the cab does and try to help those folks. but the bigger question of what is the cause, you can't blame the technological changes because our shipping out of manufacturing jobs started happening in the 1970s right after the fast track mechanism got past and we started having persistent trade deficits. from world war ii until we start

up next, lori wallach, the director of global trade watch at the group public citizen. she discusses the role of the world trade organization, which is tasked with enforcing trade rules between nations. she is co-author of the book "who's trade organization." this portion of an event from 2004 is about 40 minutes. >> from the end of world war ii, there was the bretton woods summit. there was created three global institutions -- the international monetary fund, the world bank and the gat. it was to keep the gold standard going and to give very short term loads to float trade. -- loans to float trade. they would finance that float. it would give very short, with no conditions, loans to countries. the world bank, which everyone now knows for bad projects now, was set up to reconstruct europe and japan after the bombings of world war ii. it was supposed to go away. the gat was supposed to set up multilateral rules. some very basic ones. most favorite nation, sometimes called mfn, that means any trade status you get to one trade partner, you have to give to everyone in the s

up next, lori wallach, director of global trade watch at the group, public citizen. she discusses the role of the world trade organization which is tasked with enforcing trade rules between nations. miss wallach is coauthor of the book, whose trade organization? this portion of an event from 2004 is about 40 minutes. >> from the end of world war ii, a lot of folks heard about the bretton woods summit. there in was created three global institutions, the international monetary fund, the world bank and the gatt, general agreement on tariffs and trade. they had three particular roles. the imf was not like the current imf. it was to keep the currency exchange and goal standard going and give very short term license to float trade. when you send out something before the money comes back to finance the float, they would give very short, with no conditions, loans to countries. the world bank everyone knows for these mammoth bad for the environment projects was actually set up to reconstruct europe and japan after the bombings of world war ii. it was supposed to go away. the

up next, lori wallach, the director of global trade watch at the group public citizen.she discusses the role of the world trade organization, which is tasked with enforcing trade rules between nations. she is co-author of the book "who's trade organization." this is about 40 minutes. >> from the end of world war ii, there was the bretton woods summit. there was created three global institutions -- the international monetary fund, the world bank and the gat. it was to keep the gold standard going and to give very short term loads to float trade. it would give very short, with no conditions, loans to countries. the world bank, which everyone now knows for bad projects now, was set up to reconstruct europe and japan after the bombing of world war ii. it was supposed to go away. the gat was supposed to set up multilateral rules. some very basic ones. means any trade status you get to one trade partner, you have to give to everyone in the same agreement. seems fair. national treatment, nondiscrimination. what that means is you cannot treat a product differently for regulatio