one of the interesting things was that nafta kept saying they oppose this. they were completely against this. this isn't what they represented. they wanted to maintain it as a secular state. but the nafta minister of higher education refused to make a statement against, you know, the sort of salafi inroads and this pushing. refused to take a stand on that. that was seen as very, very troubling by secularists in the country. you're saying one thing. is this really down the road you're going to remain silent? it's something that came up in an earlier session. sometimes on the coptic issue, sometimes the lack of doing something speaks incredibly loud. the mubarak regime's lack of intervention around all kinds of issues. attacks on university professors. attacks on cops. their silence on the issue speaks volumes. i think in tunisia everyone is holding their breath. while nafta says it's not going to push that forward there are threads of nervousness for some people that that might be coming down the road a year or two from now. again, i'm not an expert on tunisi

and, of course, what happened a year after we concluded the nafta is that we concluded the long-stalled -- i think there's a lot of capacity for agreements to have a positive synergy between each other. one of the other things we've frequently seen is using these bilateral and plurallateral discussions as a laboratory for expanding good ideas and later on finding ways and multilateralizing those ideas. that's very much the model we would like to see with the services discussion is that we use that plural lateral combination, first of all, to bring together a lot of work that has been done bilaterally. but then use that as a steppingstone to multilateral participation. >> dr. quick? >> thank you, ambassador. i think you have given me now very nice suggestion to make -- to be made that let's negotiate an eu/u.s. trade agreement so that we can finish the dda. and i would be the first to subscribe to that. but i think i would like to -- to ask you a question on plural laterals within outside. because i think if you look at the mfn issue from within and you don't want free riders, because yo

before the ohio primary, senator clinton advocated pulling out of nafta if we don't renegotiate it. later we found out that three weeks before he said that, he sent his top economic aide canada yns and he said, give them space. it's a pattern with president obama. i'd love to hear from stephanie, can she assure us that the president has made no other statements like that to arab or palestinian leaders, give me space and after the election i'll have more flexibility to deal with israel? can you assure he's not done that? >> well, if we're going to bring up an attack which is slightly ridiculous that is four years old about nafta treaty and austin ghouls by going to canada, look at what we have gotten through, to protect our environment and have greater impact than just the korea trade agreement, have a greater impact on american jobs of the last nine treaties combined. so i think that the facts speak for themselves rather than the political innuendo and talking points being thrown at us. this is a sitting president with a strong foreign policy record, with a proven foreign policy rec

right before the ohio primary, president clinton advocated pulling out of nafta if we don't renegotiate that. he sent the top aide to speak to austan goolsbee and said to him this is political maneuvering. it's not president obama, senator obama's policy. it's a pattern with president obama. what i would love to hear from stephanie, can she assure us the president has made no other statements like that to say, arab leaders. give me space and after the election i'll have more flexibility to deal with israel? can you assure us he's not done that? >> if we're going to have a bring up attack which is slightly ridiculous about austan goolsbee and the nafta treaty, look at the trade agreements we have gotten through that are balanced that protect american workers and protect our environment and have a greater impact. just the korea trade agreement we have have a great impact than the last nine treaties combined. i think the facts speak for themselves rather than this innuendo. the facts speak for themselves. this is a sitting president with a strong foreign policy record. with a proven foreig

. >> details of the incident are still emerging, but it appears a member of the nafta and -- of the afghan national army opened fire, killing the two bridge personnel. the assailant was killed by return fire. -- the two british personnel. the assailant was killed by return fire. >> after stories of u.s. soldiers urinating on any corpses, burning crops the -- copies of -- on enemy corpses, burning copies of the koran, retaliation has come through afghan soldiers. news of another attack today brings to 14 the number webb died this year and a deck hands of afghan forces. the two british this morning, and six americans died, including two inside the in ministry of interior in kabul. four french troops were killed by an afghan soldier in february. >> we are taking a lot of measures to ensure that these incidents are kept to a minimum. i do not predict this will result in a shift of policy. >> it is a terrible space of a tax, though, isn't it? >> it is terrible. they are relatively small number, but the effect they have is severe. >> the aim is that afghan forces will be able to take on the figh

we know more than we did at nafta. so we don't pass a trade agreement that doesn't have the highest stab dards of intellectual property rights we can get. so korea, panama and colombia have some of the strongest intellectual property rights you can get. one of the most ambitious we're working on is the transpacific partnership. we're designs what we would like to believe it will be sort of the next-generation trade agreement and we'll sineek to te it to another level. last year we signed afta, the anti-counterfeiting trade act. when congress passioned the intellectual property rights act in 2007, directed that the administration to do everything we could in our intellectual treaties to make sure we had strong rule of law. we still have countries where they don't do it and in that case we take them to court, if you will, in the world trade organization. one example, you may have read that the presumed next president of china was here two weeks ago. and you may have read about him. he went to iowa where he visited 15 yea

nafta have an understanding about what does not happen so we can move forward. you have to know about community policing and something about how government works within the district so we can all be on the same page. i just want to submit that comment, and i thank you for your time. supervisor kim: thank you. if you would like to speak for public comment, please do step up now. >> my name is henry howard. i am here to represent pastor parrish. we have accomplished a lot in the time i have been here. we go up to the youth program and talk to the kids there. i am also the director of the art program, which we will launch june 1. i think he will be a good candidate on getting something is done in the reentry world and helping the elderly people, not just the use -- but you have to target the people that is over 25 because they need help, too, and he is the right man for the job. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. >> how do you do, folks? my name is robert smith. i am a native san franciscan, born and raised here in the fillmore, haight-ashbury, western addition,

what's moving the my sex and while shares are seeing some support from the high oil prices and ross nafta's up around one percent financials are still under pressure for example back still declining and one of the biggest gainers this hour is car maker asked about that stuff around three percent in europe also a reversal from yesterday's declines in the footsie and blacks are up around a third of a percent so not that much movement but yet again we're seeing as we're seeing buying in stocks which were oversold in the previous session these are going on for was a mining stocks now finally let's take a look at their currencies on the ruble is continuing its decline against both the greenback and the euro not that much as we saw yesterday whereas the euro is winning back from much the same positions that lost to the greenback in the previous six. now the first company from russia is the skolkovo innovation harbors planning to offer an idea sources close to this to group saying it's going to list on the russian stock exchange the company may raise around fourteen million dollars now this group

its biggest shareholder nissan will increase its stake to a controlling one and an while major ross nafta is trading pretty much slot this hour now the u.s. aviation giant bowling has come up with a way to double moscow's air traffic in just about a year according to venomous daily the company wants to help all of moscow's main airports to boost their traffic capacity by a greeting their navigation systems the price tag is ten to fifteen million dollars and that's the latest from the business desk i'll be back in about fifteen minutes so you don't. wealthy british style. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our cheap. clothes a cheap as is being to do we on the street where the floor my fours are made and can be tested to the limit. if. known argy goes.

we agree the drug war has been bloody, but the and a nafta agrt that clinton signed in '92 was it?lture and a lot of the trade. and it forced people into these ghettos where they made more money, but they just made enough to survive to send a little -- so it's actually a very redundant situation where you create work, but the work is such that it's slave labor. >> let's come down to just, you know, your own -- >> i mean, the greatest boon to the mexican economy is remissions from the united states. it's, apparently, one of the biggest adjustments is the mexican population coming north and sending money back there. it's actually the biggest anti-poverty bill in the history of the world, i think. it outdoes johnson's war on poverty. >> this is true. and migrants, you know, especially first and is second generation migrants do this all over the world. send monies back to their countries from where they've come. it's had a huge impact in indian and pakistan, britain, west indians from the caribbean islands -- around the world. >> yeah. um, but, oliver, just let's get personal for a bit

be playing catch up on the on sunday which will be a working day in russia and we had i know ross nafta's up one percent on high oil prices burbank weaker than the market along with other financials are just point three percent and the best performer of the day is a car maker after vies the russian carmakers up one six percent on news that its partner brad know he is planning to use of potentially its facilities to produce the can do it here in russia now is take a look at what's happening in the united states markets it's all moderately positive after. data coming in from the labor market show that the private sector expanded in the previous month adding more than two hundred thousand jobs and now let's look at europe in europe are trading is almost over the footsies up point three percent actually point two percent winning today or yesterday through the financial and mining stocks. and finally let's take a look at the currencies market and the euro is a regaining some of its last positions versus the dollar whereas the ruble is continuing is the same. now it seems that the slide we saw

heart for nafta sent on the rumors that it's part the company a read only take a controlling stake lukoil this was the market when talking about its ambitious plans to invest twenty five billion dollars in the west girl appeal in the rock and burbank's preferred shares have reached highs that we haven't seen since summer two thousand and seven the best stock of the day. here in the u.s. we are seeing markets that are struggling for direction is looking quite positive right now dow jones and nasdaq adding a quarter of a percent certain this is a course on the rosy outlook for chairman ben bernanke he gave last night to the economy and despite the fact the belgians grew one point seven percent yesterday whopping one fourth of the said we're not seeing and correction here in europe but this is the closing picture of the footsie end of the day down just by i'm not sure that's up one point two percent driven by banking stocks on the commodities markets we've seen the u.s. the oil inventories increase that was expected and therefore we're seeing a correction lights we declining seventy nine cen

but the nafta agreement that clinton signed a 92 did the balance of the mexican agriculture and a lot it forced people into these ghettos where they made more money they made just enough to survive. so it's actually a very predawn did situation where you create work but the work is such that its sleeve labor -- slave labor. >> let's come down to -- >> the greatest boom in the economy is revision in the united states. it's apparently been one of the biggest adjustment in the immigration is the mexican population coming north and it's actually the biggest bill in the history of the world i think. and it outdoes johnson's war on poverty. >> this is true. and migrants, especially first and second generation migrants do this all over the world. send money back to the country's from where they've come. it's had a huge impact on india and pakistan, the migrants working in the gulf and britain and west indians from the caribbean. >> a huge amount of money going around the world. >> but first how did your own interest in the fiscally developed, and when did it develop? >> i think it is a great

. >>> intense flames roared through nafta ranch was inside that is so dangerous for firefighters. deadweight and then just a few hours a lot of people are going to have that brandy hitt i've had in their hands take a lot taking a look at the entire store coming out. and that really isn't going anywhere will tell you why city leaders and santa cruz are concerned. >>>

now 15 years is so until it got into the 90's and we have nafta. those jobs went to mexico.nion jobs pay more. you have to have people making enough money to pay income tax which have the people don't make enough now. and they are the consumer. they drive the economy. and right now the union part in the private sector is around 45% i think that's part of the problem. >> host: what to you think of a mark zendi? >> guest: well, interesting points. at think the caller is right that in the 80's the nation's manufacturing sector got hit very hard, particularly in the upper midwest, michigan, ohio, indiana. a lot of those jobs went to the south. a lot of those jobs went to mexico and the emerging world. not only because of nafta, but because janet came on the scene and other emerging economies are very competitive. so i think that the description, their is a lot of truth to it, a lot of accuracy. i will send that i think now our manufacturing base is very competitive. if the manufacturers survived what we went through, the recession, they must be doing something right. it must hav

heavier rain to fairfield and nafta and also over the day's chores. >> and the 9:00 hour the heavier rain shifted over livermore and fremont. notice, by 11:00 largely the rain is done. we are going to seek partial clearing into the evening hours. the rainfall totals, this is what we will see, but one-2 in. of rain in the north bay, up to 1 in. in the central and up to 2 1/2 inches in santa cruz mountains. in the south bay, a quarter or a half inch of rain expected. snow will be coming down heavy in the sierra. take a look at future cat's. this will indicate heavy snow at the higher elevations. temperatures will be dropping like a rock. into the midnight and 1:00 hour, 2-3 ft. of fresh powder in the higher elevations. here's a look your extended forecast. partial clearing overnight. that will drop temperatures down to the thirties. into the afternoon, thundershowers are possible. tomorrow and sunday, a chance of lingering showers. getting ready to plant? chances are your soil is like this: compacted, drained of nutrients. it'll hold your plants... but it'll also hold 'em back. the sol

for the most part around the immediate bay we will have some tough for 60's and low 70's for nafta, vallejoces like san jose. f field of the above the seasonal average. seven days across the board. monday will reach an afternoon high of 72. 71 for oakland and redwood city. our coastal spots will stay in the mid-60s to check out santa rosa, an afternoon high of 73 and 69 expected in downtown san francisco. your 7 day around the bay forecast shows sunshine on tap for today with temptress in the '70s. puffed mostly cloudy conditions with a chance of rain. but will hold on to on and off showers as mr. the next work week. a time for a check on the morning commute. >>george: is an easy ride around the area with no hot spots, delays or problems. there are no delays for a new drive to the toll plaza or across the upper deck. in easy trip from the macarthur maze and the midst. your ride on the san mateo bridge looks good. your ride to the golden gate, 101 southbound from marin county is an easy trip with no delays as you work your way down from the waldegrave. checking the traffic maps in the east b

i like nafta and i believe in free trade. i see the smirk on your face.anship very, very important piece of legislation. >> that was in the '90s. >> i said -- i said let's go back. >> another ten years. >> oh, i don't know. >> you see a lot bipartisanship or you should in committees and not seeing that now. work product that comes out of committees and the house and goes to the floor can be bipartisan and -- transportation bill was always bipartisan. this year extremely partisan. no democrat in the house voted for the transportation bill and -- but dead on arrival and will go with the senate bill. house bill was too far out. you had the -- tea party people that spent too much money and -- the -- some of them were against the bill when it came out. they wouldn't accept any democratic alternatives and mass transit and it was an ideolog fight. you see that in the committees all the time. >> a committee process in which -- there was a bipartisanship that wasn't the kind of bipartisanship i'm talking about. day-to-day of working together relationship. >> ranki

we received a permit to export to nafta countries.have a great deal of interest both from european and asian customers who want to -- we would want them to sign long-term contracts to take export out. we don't own natural gas ourselves. >> no. >> and would not as a part of this transaction. so we're working with customers. and we're working with the doe to try to get the permit issued. >> what is the time line with this? how long until we see this happen? until we see the u.s. exporting? >> well, if everything goes pretty fast -- not super fast, not slowed down, i think we would be able to export from that facility in 2016. takes a long time. they're big machines. but they can all be handled environmentally fre environmentally friendly way. natural gas is a pretty clean source of fuel. >> we're going to have to leave it there. i know you have more to talk about in terms of nuclear. hopefully we'll get some of those comments from you and have them on cnbc.com. tom farrell. >> sharon and tom, thank you very much. up next, some liquid co

if you go with these free-trade agreements, nafta and bring the chinese and you will lose every manufacturingn the last decade, 2000 to 2010, this country lost 6 million manufacturing jobs and 55,000 factories. gone, one in every three manufacturing jobs we had are gone. what are we doing to the middle class and the working class of this country? we are taking away all their jobs. my view is, if it can't be made in the united states, should be made in the united states are going hamilton, you go to those old republicans and they believe that. those old republicans have built this country. hamilton, henry clay, lincoln, mckinley, t.r.. baird wrote a book the great betrayal. they despaired to the nth power the free trade. they believed we are going to dump our goods there for free of charge and we are going to charge tariffs on their goods coming in here. they warned about a level playing field any more than bentz lombardi was. they were about winning. see a lot of left-wing people would agree with you. someone told me they came to interview and she was worried. you had very long hair and she s

and then in the 1990's we had nafta. a union job pays more. you have to have people making enough money to pay income taxes. people do not make enough to pay it with the deductions they can take. any consumer, if they make enough money, they drive the economy. the private sector is around 4% to 5%. i think that is part of the problem. host: what you think mark zandi? >> interesting point. i do think the caller is right. nation's80's the manufacturing sector got hit very hard, particularly in the northwest. michigan, ohio. a lot of those jobs went into mexico and the emerging world. not only because of nafta, but because of the -- china came on the scene and emerging economies were very competitive. i think that description -- there is a lot of truth to it. i will say, though, that i think, now, our manufacturing base is very competitive. that is a manufacturer survives, through the recession, they must be doing some big right. it must have a low-cost structure or must have a market niche with customers around the world. and these companies hav

and then we had nafta. those jobs went to mexico. union job pays more. you got to have people making enough money to pay income tax and most people don't make enough with the deductions they can talk, and if you're a consumer, they drive the economy. and right now the union part in the private sector, is 4 to 5%, and i think that's part of the problem. >> host: what do you think? >> guest: well, interesting point. i think the caller is right that in the '8s, the manufacturing sector got hit very hard, particularly in the upper midwest, mark ohio, indiana. those jobs went the south in the '90s, those jobs went to mexico and the emerging world, not only because of nafta but because of the china came on the scene and other emerging economies that were very competitive. so i think that description is -- there's a lot of twists to it and a lot of accuracy to it. i will say that i think now, our manufacturing base is very competitive. if a manufacturer survives what we went through, the great recession, they must be doing something right. must have a very low

nafta asked me where we are going to find a planet to ask court -- export to. we don't have a single government which is a tragedy but as you look at the european economy as a whole is doing a lot worse than the united states. none of us have said much about greece and that is a good thing because i have been protesting for quite a while about the -- of our discourse here. everybody talks about greece and gives greece has a great example of what is going wrong. greece's pretty much in a class by itself. portugal a little bit but even within the crisis countries in europe none of the others have a crisis where governments responsibility was a large share of the crisis. look at spain nec it was a monstrous private sector. the spanish government was running as budget surplus with low debt. guess they have a large debt which is an inheritance of irresponsible policies but quite a while ago. they were steadily reducing the debt-to-gdp until the crisis had so greece is a parable. unfortunately because of this underlying weakness in the european situation if greece bl

he says the blame lies with -- >> these trade policy decisions starting with nafta back in the earlynabled companies like apple to en -- from super low cost, almost regulation free companies like chesapeake bay. >> reporter: apple has been able to create cutting edge products but it hasn't been able to directly create u.s. manufacturing jobs. a software en -- $11 to $18 an hour. fox com workers in china make only about $300 a month working incredibly long hours. apple says it insists that they provide safe working conditions and treat their employees with dignity and respect. >> and those ipads in china are much lower than they would be if they were manufactured in the united states. millions of american consumers can buy a new ipad for $500 instead of $1,000 potentially if they were manufactured in the united states. so there is a benefit to millions and millions of americans when they make this stuff in china. >> that's 3 million ipads. since friday. >>> cnn's erin burnett is going out with apple stock. at $600 a share, a lot of people own it even without knowing they own it. >> th

we know more now than we did and nafta so we don't pass a trade agreement that doesn't have the highest standards of intellectual property rights we can get commesso korea, panama and colombia of the intellectual property rights you can get. one of the most ambitious initiatives are the trans-pacific partnerships working with nine other economies to design what we would like to believe will be sort of the next generation trade agreement and within that we are going to take that to another level. last year we signed it into counterfeiting trade act which when congress passed a think the intellectual property rights act in 27 directed the of administration to do everything we could in our intellectual treaties to make sure we have a strong role of law. you still have some countries in which they just don't do it and in that case we take him to court if you will in the world trade organization. one example is you may have read that the presumed next president of china, the vice president chi was you two weeks ago and as you may have read he went to iowa where he visited 15 years ago then h

guilty of it is counter productive and it underscores whether it's tax code or relations with china or naftahis is not only with regard to china. >> it's a good point. john harwood, would you agree that to a certain extent, our relations with that country are on an ad hoc basis? >> actually, i wouldn't. look, ever since the bush administration, hank paulson initiated the strategic economic dialogue and the obama administration continued that. the president's met with hu jintao ten times since he's been in office. so i think there's a long-running dialogue. certainly the timing of particular actions, this one is coordinated with japan, and the eu, is subject to criticism on political grounds. that's what i was hearing from the team romney today. but, we are talking all the time, this is the president makes the case that he, like china, is trying to play the long game here, i don't see it quite the same way as rick. >> interesting. >> carl, dialogue, blah, blah, blah, blah. that's dialogue. i think action, either you're part of the solution, you're part of the problem. i remember interviewing

they say, look, we thought we had this thing called nafta, the north american free trade agreement, andpartment permit issue to keep us from moving our oil to the lower 48. so, i think that's led them to be actually be more interested as canadians in finding alternative sources of demand. and i think you're seeing more interest in moving oil to china and other points in asia. now, that benefits us in a sense because we have currently the only pipeline that goes to the west coast of canada. we have our own dock in vancouver. but for the country, america, it's the wrong play. >> richard, what you're saying, for the administration i don't see what the thinking was. because it didn't make unions -- the union guys happy. the oil is getting, you know, hammered now about where gasoline prices are. what -- i just don't understand how it was in the best interests of the administration. are they apieceappeappeasing th change people in the party? the >> you know the people that are totally opposed to -- >> hydrocarbons. >> to hydrocarbons or particularly anything coming out of the oil sands in alb

so i speak to her nafta region. so, i think ron paul is a fascinating study of our political reality right now. these people out there can't even talk about what is right in front of our eyes. so how long will this go on? i don't know. >> host: norman solomon is running for congress in california. one of 11 candidates seeking to seek the coastal district in california. a wide-open race triggered by democratic lynn woolsey's decision to retire this year and looking to replace congresswoman woolsey. tell us about what he supported specifically? >> will first of all, he is the son my mother wanted to have. he is very, very agitated about things. he brings to his freshman year congress more foreign policy experience than any rookie could possibly have. he is then to afghanistan. he has been to iraq more than one. and he is also taking no corporate tax money. imagine this. no corporate tax money. and that is tough. i mean, they have to worry about paying for alongside. and i admire him for this grassroots effort. he met

intellectual property rights while maintaining the trey grimsley past we know more than we did with naftawe don't pass a trade agreement that doesn't have the highest standards of intellectual property rights we can get to reverse a courteous, panama and colombia have some of the strongest intellectual property rights you can get. one of the most ambitious initiatives we are working on something called the transpacific partnership. we are working with nine other asia-pacific economies to design what we would like to believe would be the start of next generation trade agreement with and that we are going to seek to take that to another level. last year we signed the anticounterfeiting trade act which when congress passed, i think the intellectual property rights act in 2007 directed the administration to do everything we could in the intellectual treaties to make sure that we have strong rule of law. now you still have some countries in which they just don't do it, and in that case, we take them to court if you will in the world trade organization. one example is you may have read that the

i think that when people, they can go through every community and see the jobs lost to nafta, and jobsmr, and china charging for a jeep cherokee, and what it cost here, and they know it is not a even level, and we have had to fight against this unfair trade impal lance for years, and we are not a government center, but we are part of the free market economy and we need trade rules that make it fair for our people to compete. >> is ohio, obama territory? are you confident that you had 1.2 million republicans coming out tonight, and over 2 million came out for measure two and i don't know if that means anything or not, but the president is polling well in the state right now, and what does it feel like? >> what it feels like to me is that the president needs to continue the recovery in the automotive industry, and they are hiring people off of the street for the first time in 20 years and the steel industry is recovering and the real estate industry, and realtors are saying that they ex-presideare their best year. and the president has rescued a vital american industry and now making mon