--nafta gets a really wrap. bum rap.e seen trade between mexico and the united states almost quadruple to half $1 trillion worth of goods that goes back and forth. the more important amount is what is going back and forth and that has transformed. today for everything that comes in from mexico, made in mexico, almost 40% was made in the united states by u.s. workers. jobs on the side of the border and that side are tied and it is pieces and parts moving back and forth. when we think about partners in trade, china or brazil or even the european countries, less than four percent was made by u.s. workers. in an era of globalization, the reality of globalization, mexico is by far and away the best hardener for u.s. workers. >> may be the best in comparison to china. those americans who happened to be smarting are smarting partly because they believe that the numbers indicate we got the short end of that stick. the relationship with mexico may be better than in comparison to some other country. what do you say to those who th

and nafta. i mean, nafta, how can they be wrong about this. i mean, you have to explain this.'s have a look at the facts, shall we? and we are being corrupted by the system, not just looks at the facts. i believe in the values of enlightenment. that is what made us great. we have this contact. people talked about the e-mails and it seems like i would be really grateful. the battle to restore liberty to our country comes from this. the battle against this, it is quantitative easing. i believe that one day things are going to become very unstuck and we are probably going to have to go back to some kind of standard. >> when is your next book coming out? >> the next book is coming out next year and it is called little green book. >> james delingpole has been our guest. this is booktv on c-span2. >> next from london, award-winning journalists max hastings discusses his research and writings on both world wars. you're watching the tv on c-span2. we are in london. conducting interviews with various authors. joining me now is the server max hastings. he has a new book coming out on wo

>> in trade agreements and beginning with nafta, which was a really poor example, the u.s.as tried to put in so-called labor obligations but in nafta, it was a side agreement largely unenforceable. they have gotten better through the years. but they're really kind of a band-aid that tries to fix some of the really destructive patterns that have been caused by globalization. globalization on the corporate model has led to this race to the bottom were the world's biggest corporations really play a game of arbitrage and hitting, especially developing countries, one against the other, who can provide the lowest wages, the weakest workers rights regime, the fewest unions. the winner is really the loser because they have got workers who are working hard to put in a hard day's work and very possibly putting their lives at risk, and definitely not raising their standards of living. when workers in any one country are allowed to be abused like that and have their rights repressed, it lowers the wages and the rights for workers all around the world. we can try to improve slightly thr

and they are still paying the bills for that but i've got to tell you it's not all about china ross nafta been drumming up her legacy of deals here today they've been speaking to any exxon and also that's all as well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about shale gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia slept through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy well is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce the natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so as far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas boom. or online team work in no twenty four seven should provide you with very best stories and pictures a quick taste of was lined up hewitt r t dot com right now you're an expert reveal the ugly truth of israeli army tacti

was doing pretty well, especially since nafta. >> the second question? >> the gentleman back there thank you, sir. >> andrew, dhs. i'm interested in how optimistic you are given the state of the body politic. the worth i've -- worst i've seen in 29 years in washington. how optimistic? >> gives you the opportunity for the ringing lecture on hope. >> announce my -- >> exact we're energy self-sufficient and we have this extraordinary economic possibility. actually think if there's what i would call a nafta 2.0, a more integrated north america, particularly if we figure out ways of combining canada, mexico, with the united states as we enter into potentially new trade grandmas, one across the atlantic, one across the pacific. if we figure out new ways of wiring together our infrastructure, improve the immigration system and so forth. i actually think the potential of north america to be the world residents economic engine is real...

and they are still paying the bills for that but i've got to tell you it's not all about china ross nafta been drumming up her plenty of deals head today they've been speaking to any exxon and also that's all as well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i was want to talk about show gas because putin approached this topic in his manner when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia's let through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy well simply because it costs more costly to produce and natural gas as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas boom. but after a short break here on out c it'll be mike's and stacey taking on the global money makers of course the kaiser report live from moscow it's on say. i know they tracked approval ratings of the presidents of various countrie

and they are still paying the bills for that but i've got to tell you it's no all about china ross nafta been drumming up the lente of deals head today they've been speaking to any exxon and also as well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about so gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia let through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not. that in the energy world is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce the natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called stale gas boom. he's critical been reporting right now if you kind of stay with us here and see you just a moment i'll be martin no nonsense news and breaking the set that's in just a minute. you know what's worse than a crop bureaucrat a cr

several congressmen became quite vocal this is a few days after the trans-pacific partnership called nafta on steroids by some and that secretly negotiated treaty would quote hand over u.s. sovereignty to corporate interests and that's according to congressman alan grayson so here's what's in your prime interest.

and they are still paying the bills for that but i've got to tell you it's no all about china ross nafta been drumming up her plenty of deals here today they've been speaking to any exxon and also that's all as well so it will certainly head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about show gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia slept through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy world is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce the natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as britain was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas. after a very short break here on out c. it is the government against the drug cartels who are exploring the wars in mexico that have left tens of thousands of people dead live from moscow this is obscene. i know they tracked the

probably not because it's one of it's not the most secretive trade deals ever devised what's being called nafta on steroids now encompasses twelve countries have taken to negotiating table along with six hundred corporate advisers and now china is considering joining the trade talks china's participation would mean the merging of the world's three biggest economies accounting for forty percent of the global g.d.p. but the fact that these negotiations have been routed in secrecy and raises much criticism among everyone from activists to trade attorneys who claim that the t.p. p. is nothing more than a corporate coup to talk earlier i spoke with kevin zeese attorney and co-founder of it's our economy who currently is speaking out a forum about the t.t.p. and i spoke to him about why this issue isn't getting more coverage and i first asked him how public banking fits into the concerns over the t.t.p. . is really a part of his asian were. a little kind of also the privatization of all search services. they don't want to go to state owned enterprises. hard time i mean just in. this and it also gives

congressmen became quite vocal this is a few days after the trans-pacific partnership that is called nafta on steroids by some and the secretly negotiated freely would quote hand over u.s. sovereignty to corporate interests and that's according to congressman alan grayson so here's what's in your prime interest. now yesterday i had the chance to sit down with the author of neil ferguson a harvard professor of history and senior research fellow at both oxford and stanford university's he recently wrote a book called the great degeneration and i asked him about the fed's role in markets and here's what he had to say. well let's talk about the federal reserve as an institution one could make the argument that it institutionalizes moral hazard how does that fit into your world view the central banks are very important indeed there are those who say that the most important institutions in the economy today and judging by the way that people hang on ben bernanke is every word like today like today as we're speaking it's obviously true now i think one has to be careful here that the central bank

we have seen at the movement of jobs because of nafta. it is one thing if you're trading with a country like ermany where you are on par with those issues. our manufacturing has suffered. look at germany. thee is ways to maintain high level of manufacturing. you need strong policies to make that happen. massachusetts. caller: thank you for taking my call. i always listen to the house of representatives. i have been bothered about the madement that allen west when said there was 89 members of the communist party and i wonder if you have any comment about that. been: i think mr. west has known for making those kinds of comments, which is fine. we have free speech in america. they are not common misheard -- communist. no one is saying that the government should own general electric or the general motors. they talk about where socialist and this and that. america is a free enterprise capitalistic country. we of many who think the marketent's -- private holes in it. thed hear some of conversation about inequality and poverty. the republican bu

to employment large scale projects and be a pacific this infrastructure has already given the ross nafta a chance to sign today a large scale contract with the chinese national oil and gas cooperation with chimp liars or suppliers for twenty five years up to forty six million tons per. contract according to their semester's worth. dollars wishes and president. the media say something about seventy million dollars but that's just pre-payment another project which will give bush a chance to get to the asian pacific markets as the construction of the real world breach over the arm or river and we have signed an agreement with the chinese counterparts. in the throughput capacity is going to be five million tons of cargo annually and it is going to be expanded up to twenty million tons to ladies and gentlemen and money of all internal investors should also be a research basis for investment and to developing project and for that we need confidence in the financial sector and a convention system for a regular lation. three supervisory functions of a financial institutions going to be transferr

if the nafta is something to protect my nose, how you make sure you are being gas?d to do it in advance, first of all. you need to stock up on water, batteries. that is always good to have. also people need to know to have prescription medication advance and have a plan for your pet. also, with the gouging you need to call your local law enforcement. it is illegal. price cutting cakes and once a state of emergency is declared. and it has to be something necessary or essential to the storm. water, ice, boards. safeguard your house after the fact. water. hotel rooms even. taking into people. and so call your local law enforcement. it is illegal. and in florida we will be coming after you. gerri: you don't want to mess with her. so technically it's a gross disparity between the cost of something in the usual amount of time than what you charge rent after a storm. but that doesn't give you actual numbers. is there ever any dispute, any disagreement over what is actually getting and what is not? >> no. what we look at is the price, for instance, of gas, when gas was sell

several congressmen became quite vocal this is a few days after the trans-pacific partnership called nafta on steroids by some and that secretly negotiated freely would quote hand over u.s. sovereignty to corporate interests and that's according to congressman alan grayson so here's what's in your prime interest. now yesterday i had the chance to sit down with the author of neil ferguson a harvard professor of history and senior research fellow at both oxford and stanford university's he recently wrote a book called the great degeneration and i asked him about the fed's role in markets and here's what he had to say. well let's talk about the federal reserve as an institution one could make the argument that it institutionalizes moral hazard how does that fit into your world view the central banks are very important indeed there are those who say the most important institutions in the economy today and judging by the way that people hang on ben bernanke is every word like today like today as we're speaking it's obviously true now i think one has to be careful here the central bank has done

i got bad news there, many of our jobs are going to mexico, nafta allows imports would impunity no mattermanyç solid jobs are crunched. you take the housing away, you take away a lot of what was driving the stockmarkets higher. the other parts, the bond market equivalent, utility, higher yielding investment trust, they get crushed as you will see later in the show. why why be in those stocks that have such huge price risk and you go back to bonds now they yield more. that's the thinking of the market in general. is it any wonder the market is going lower when so many components are going do worse, not better, if interest rates don't stabilize or come back down? i don't think so. i don't leak the market. i don't like it. you see, the selling makes sense, especially given that nobody ever got hurt taking a profit, hence, i always encourage you to ring the register rather than be a greedy pay. bears make money. bums make money, pick, here's the bottom line. sure, it's only housing that could be slowing, sure it's only one relatively giant piece of the u.s. economy. hey, who cares? but housi

forward with, and i hope they come up with some good agreement on the line of a new transatlantic nafta. but it really felt like warmed-over food. >> you mean the nuclear deal particularly? >> well, we just had a nuclear deal two or three years ago with the new star treaty. you saw the body language between putin and president obama in northern ireland at the g-8 summit. it wasn't exactly friendly. putin instantly dismissed the idea of bilateral cuts. the issue isn't the need to reduce nuclear web orngs it's to confront proliferations in north korea and iran. >> i disagree here. i think this is something obama cares a lot about and it was predictable that he was going to re-raise it once he was re-elected. it's going to be really hard. the language with putin was clear. but he has a vision and it's a vision shared by henry kissinger and bill schultz and bill perry toward moving us toward -- he recognizes the united states and russia have to do their part so it wasn't nearly as powerful as visionary as prague, but i think it wasn't cold war. >> but nuclear weapons have kept the peace. yo

left, right don't like corporate welfare, the patriot act, wto, and nafta. one way to give creeps is -- credence is to show on the other side of the political spectrum where you have conservatives who are not corporatists and libertarians who are not corporatists, they agree. these are not minor things, are they? you know, civil liberties, corporate welfare, wars, bloated military budgets, pull down trade agreements, and i think there's a great possibility for taking it from verbal agreement into institutional collaboration, and i got that idea when we stopped the clinch breeder reactor in tennessee, and the environmentalists got somewhere in congress. this is a terrible cost overrun breeder reactor, and then the conservative groups came in on economic ground, a waste of taxpayer money, had the environment issue, and then it wonk. the senate dropped it. it stunnedded howard baker. he was not ready for the vote. hey, mark. >> you're a national figure, but it's not my character to thank politicians. this is the second time i've thanked a politician. olympia sn

-- >> i managed stuff for not just the white house, i have done things for presidents -- >> i ran nafta, i ran the inaugural, i ran the democrats to take back the house. >> rose: let's go from there. >> there are a few things to go there. >> my point is, management skills -- >> management skills are crucial to being an effective executive. >> let me slightly alter that if i could. >> first of all, mayor bloomberg i think would be better at this than me given me he succeeded in both the private and public sector are different. you oversee a good company which is not a good analogy for public service. >> rose: why not? >> because you are not driven by shareholders and profits and different kind of things so you are not measured and seeking the same goals. >> rose: and you have a different constituency. >> absolutely, if it is a public or private company, shareholderers, i don't see the voters as shareholders, they are voters and what citizenship is about, i think if you are in leadership, in that arena there are other things i am not limiting this but the three traits i think are essentia

we have had to learn business principles that i never thought of nafta no. i'm not a business person. i'm a book and people lover and a reader. and so i think that is what has done it. we make everybody feel comfortable. we try to -- when i first of the store when i was getting ready it was recommended that by a move the book and search of excellence. i read danny meyer spoke on how he developed his restaurants and chains. he just it said -- he is the one because i hospitality. and i just stick with that principle. great customer service they just can't make themselves except that they have to do everything they need to do to make the customer happy and to make them too good about putting their money, spending their money in an independent store like this. they want us to succeed. they're very loyal people. that makes the changed tremendously, as you can imagine, because of a lot of reasons. some of them positively. a lot of them were listening of the discounts the publishers are getting, there were giving in to the big chains, but there were not given to us

that after the nafta co-founder was caught building a huge set for his wedding and a projected area bigurf without proper permits. he mary tong married singer songwrr alexandria lenas >> welcome back. the time coming up on 444. >> 5 started making major progress against a big wind whipped wildfire in southern california. but there's more work to be done for the more than 2000 firefighters and the job. eric dodd has more on that and other western wildfires. >> an official with the angeles national forest says the fire has destroyed a half dozen homes and threatened about a thousand others. three people have been injured. helped by higher humidity firefighters gained a lot of ground going into today's battle. increasing containment from 40% to 60 percent. what a difference a day makes. evacuees from two communities are being allowed to return but not everyone has a home to return to. >> i lost everything i own. i do not have any resources to rebuild my things over again. >> in new mexico the fight continues against the trace legless fire. which is forced about 8,000 a.. it is prompted the

the other thing is when you talk about jobs, what happened to the promise of the education of nafta? that was supposed to be the biggest -- biggest thing. the high-tech jobs were supposed to get trained for, they are cutting education, they are met privatizing education, our colleges are so expensive. i have three children and we have never -- we can't even send them to college. there is no way. that is the average life of the average american. that is the majority of americans. host: let's get a response guest: you sound very frustrated and i can understand that. the housinge question first and then the question about education. in terms of the point on housing, the investors that are coming into these distressed markets and buying these properties, there are two types of investors. one is called mom-and-pop investors. these are people live in a neighborhood, just a normal homeowner and they see a foreclosed property in their neighborhood and they can sense that that property has very good value because they know where they live and they know the school district. the step up and are

gripoes nafta take such a that we lost so many jobs? host: we will get a response. guest: obviously our society, our history is littered with examples of making the same mistakes over and over again. that is human nature. but one of the things we struggle with is understanding what has actually changed in the economy and the labor market and any part of our society to adjust to. it is obviously a different economy today than it was in the early 1990s when we were embarking on nafta. it will be a different economy two decades from now. and that will create a challenge for whatever trade agreements are playing out. the nature of a fast- moving society and a fast- changing economy, is we have to adjust. host: open, california. how long have you been out of work, freddie? caller: about five years now. host: five years? i'll echo about five years. i have been seeking every day. -- caller: about five years. i have been seeking every day. i have been watching all the time. what i do not hear. the black people. they are an invisible race. the 41865 we were 100% employee. --

during the increased scrutiny of these conservative groups and in addition to that she was promoted nafta head of the irs involvement with obamacare. joseph granville, former deputy commissioner of tax-exempt, three bonuses, 83, almost $84,000. director of the exempt organizations division, given $42,000 in bonuses during that time, and all of these had to be approved by the president, isn't that right? >> my understanding is there is a small subclass of bonuses, presidential rank awards that are approved by the president, but they're relatively small in number, ibm couple hundred throughout the entire government the larger amount of bonuses in terms of quantity are typically approved by the agency had. >> the guidelines say that bonuses over $25,000 have to be approved by the president. so did the president approve these bonuses, these very critical people in this scandal that we are investigating? >> i am not sure to the answer that question. i'm also not sure from the way you phrase the question of the bonus totals are you articulated were individual bonuses that added up to those numb

i would like to say something about nafta and gaap -- with does it have to do the nsa? caller: it could. notthing about it, we do have stability and anything anymore since we lost section 22 in the 1949 farm bill, and it covers the whole world. that is all we need. we need stability and some common sense going on. whole can't let the world come into this country and do what they want to do. host: here is what beattie writes on twitter --dee dee writes on twitter -- host: the u.s. and taliban talking peace. negotiations said as security is heading -- handed over to afghans. and for u.s. troops have been killed in an attack on bagram airfield in afghanistan, according to u.s. officials yesterday. in response to this news that the taliban is willing to talk peace, the afghan president hamid karzai has said he will suspend talks with the united states on a new security deal. it is in protest against the way his government is being left out of an initial peace negotiations with the taliban. president obama is in europe. we will see him make a speech today at the brandenburg

and the other thing is when you talk about jobs, what happened to the promise of the education of nafta talk about short term. that was supposed to be the biggest thing nafta was, these high-tech jobs we were supposed to get trained for. they are cutting education. they are privatizing education. our colleges are so expensive. we have three children. we've never thought of how do we send them to college? there is no way. that's the average life of the average american, the majority of americans. and -- host: let's get a response. guest: you sound very frustrated and i can understand that. let me tackle the housing question first and then the question about education. in terms of the point you make about housing, the investors that are coming into these distressed markets and buying property. there are two types of investors, one i would call mom and pop investors. these are people who live in a neighborhood, just a normal homeowner or household, they see a foreclosed property in their neighborhood. they can sense that that property has good value because they know where they live and th

there were reasons after nafta that mexico had reasons to export jobs, jong the flows will ever be the same, and we could debate this all day -- >> you're characterizing this as an a.f.l.-imposed, on the one hand cosmetically, we have a temporary visa program but the numbers are so small, so almost not being material. >> what's amazing -- let me put it back -- >> is that an accurate characterization? >> i'll characterize it as, in the original mccain-kennedy bill in order to ensure we legalized the flow and restored circumstance lairity of labor in the united states we needed 550,000 visas a year to do that. the first year is 0,000. you don't have to be good at -- the first year here is 20,000. this is a significant break from where we were with something ted kennedy negotiated in 2005. so i think there is -- republicans have -- let me just anticipate where this is going. republicans in the house have democrats have made it clear they're not accept anything altering of the current a.f.l. negotiation, i have a feeling in the tradeoff to come, this is an area where democrats will give a

it is a different economy today than it was in the early 1990's embarked on nafta.of a fast- nature moving society and fast-changing society. oakland, california. how long have you been out of work? caller: five years. what i'm not hearing on television, i watch you guys all-time great i do not here are the black people. they are an invisible race. before 1865, we are one percent employee. -- we were 100% employee. i do construction -- i will wash dishes and picking grapes or anything. what i noticed is they hire a lot of mexicans in restaurants and they -- or hire people so when it is time for a black man to come in, who is interviewing you? a mexican guy. who is working? a mexican guy. all the hotels. they are not just picking great anymore. they are making good money in construction and masonry and they are only hiring their own people. where does the black man and woman get a chance to get a job today? and they're trying to get these illegals permanently over here. what do we do? host: thanks for the call. let me take this point to the immigration debate we are