mr. daschle. the record report quite eloquently says the growth of the global trade and investment has brought significant benefits to the united states and the rest of the world. the trade and investment facilitated by the u.s. law negotiating and implementing has alleviated poverty if raised average standard of living and conflict. now it seems to me that an awful lot of americans who are not convinced that global trade and investment has brought significant benefits to them. they think it's actually hurting them soak more what you say to them to convince them that this is in their interest and not only in the interest of the u.s. multinationals? you want to start? >> david i guess i would start buy simply saying we have to ask what would have been had we not done these things clucks the board is going for the most transformational moment and is changing dramatically coming far more integrated, how more into related we recognize that we are the developing markets for the products that we produce

mr. daschle. the report quite eloquently says this. the growth of global trade investment has brought significant benefits to the united states and the rest of the world. free trade and investment facilitated by the will of the u.s. law to negotiate and implement has alleviated poverty, raised average standards of living and discourage conflict. now it seems to me that an awful lot of americans who are not convinced that global trade and investment has brought significant benefit to them. they think it's actually hurting them. so i'm curious what you say to them to convince them that this is in their interest not only in the interest of the u.s. multinationals. >> i guess i would start buy simply saying we have to ask what would have been had we not done these things. the world is calling for the most transformational moment. it's changing dramatically. we are becoming far more integrated and far more interrelated and recognize the real developing markets for products that we've produced and the services that we provide in the developi

mr. daschle. the report quite eloquently says this. the growth of global trade and investment has brought significant benefits to the united states and the rest of the world. free trade and investment facilitated by rule of the u.s. and implementing, have alleviated poverty, raise average standards of living, and discouraged conflict. now, it seems to me that there's an awful lot of americans are not convinced that global trade and investment has brought significant benefits to them. they think it's actually hurting them. so i'm curious, what do you say to them to convince them that this is really in their interest, not only in the interests of big u.s. multinationals? >> david, i guess i would start by simply saying we have to ask what would happen have we not done these things? the world is going through a most transformational moment, is changing dramatically, becoming far more integrated, far more interrelated. we recognize that the real developing markets for the products that we produce and the services we provide are in the deve

mr. president, i remember tuesday, september 11, very, very clearly. 219 is where senator daschle held his tuesday morning leadership meeting which started at 9:00. i was the first senator in that room, and john breaux of louisiana came in a short time later and he said something is going on in new york, flip on the tv, and we did. there was a tower burning. how could an airplane run into that tower? we basically didn't pay any attention to that tv. we turned it off because there was a meeting there. we assembled for our meeting. senator daschle called it to order. just a short time after the meeting was started, he got a note, somebody came in and took him out. he came back and said we have to vacate the building, there is an airplane headed toward the capitol. we all hurriedly left that 219. i remember that day so very, very clearly. senator nichols, who was the republican counterpart, senator trent lott was senator daschle's counterpart, and the four of us were taken off the west front of the capitol to a secret location where we spent most all the day. the vice president was there and