i remember nafta, clinton had to run that through. that just about crippled the big city close to where i live. it became almost a ghost town from the good democratic party. i ain't got a whole lot good to say about them. i lost my insurance out of it, and that was through the union and bill clinton. host: any response? guest: i think it is really unfortunate what has happened to auto making in the u.s.. it's not necessarily all because of nafta or trade agreements but i think it is the inability for companies and in particular, the auto making industry to be able to adapt. part of that was in flexibility in the compensation and in the way that things were produced that didn't allow them to be able to keep as many jobs up there. just compared to three decades ago, the u.s. share of cars sold here is one quarter of what it was. i think we need to get at manufacturing things. i mentioned $29,000 per worker, is money that the employer could first be giving back to workers and could also be used to expand production and have more jobs. >>

bring on the good stuff. >> this is the woman who voted to preserve nafta. to extend nafta.o jobses to mexico by tens of thousands and turned american dreams into nightmares. she supported ev mandates that taxed you, took your money and sent it to electric vehicles that are made in china instead of made right here in the state of michigan. destroying thousands of michigan auto jobs in the process. kamala harris now is standing here in michigan asking us for promotion, i think it's time to say to kamala harris, no thank you, you are fired. maria: and that is ohio senator and vice presidential nominee jd vance campaigning in byron center, michigan, yesterday, blaming vp kamala harris for sending auto jobs to china and a mexico. vance's comments come as stellantis plans to lay off 2500 workers in michigan, that's building an a older version of the ram 1500 pickup truck. joining us is michigan congressman john james. he's an iraq war veteran. congressman, always a pleasure to talk with you. thank you again for your service to our great country. i want to get your take on what's

nafta and the like gave our competitors too many advantages and put us in certain places, especially in places like detroit. that was a bipartisan consensus and for decades both parties, republicans especially but unfortunately some democrats, took workers and labor for granted. there has been a seismic shift in the democratic party. the biden-harris administration is the most prolabor of any administration in my history and this is a big shift from republicans and democrats passing things like nafta. instead he -- you have a party and candidate very dedicated to ensuring we can strengthen labor and the middle class and rebuild america that way. host: our guest rachel greszler with a heritage foundation. you can find her work online. david madland, senior fellow for center of american progress got you can find them online at american progress.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back to "washington journal," joined by jess bravin, supreme court correspondent for the wall street journal and wrote a book on guantanamo bay. nice to see you again. tell us about the plea

stu eizenstat, you have one minute to tell us about your chapter on trade, nafta, usmca. one of the concerns i really have is we're moving into an anti-trade environment. and so i interviewed all of the trade representatives, including donald trump's mr. lighthizer, who was a first rate trade representative. trade is critically important, and it's the issue internally, certainly, peter, that has the most domestic political content, because you're dealing with jobs, you're dealing with plant openings and closings. you're dealing with imports of sensitive goods like steel and aluminum, which are going to compete here. and i found that what bob lighthizer said was the key to his negotiations preparation, preparation and preparation. knowing what the other side was standing for, what you needed to have, and how you open markets like mexico, like canada, as in now, after, but do so in a way that protects the interests of american workers. well. stuart eizenstat, the art of diplomacy. how american negotiators reached historic agreements changed the world. thank you for spending

was really a way that we contained the developing countries but this kind of agreement was part of nafta, was chapter 11 in nafta and a canadian company sued the united states when we tried to stop the keystone project, the pipeline and because they said, we have the right to build a pipeline. we made all of this investment, you can't stop us but really interesting is that europe which is very much more committed to climate, doing something about climate change in the united states is they discovered that they had signed agreements like that and so they were being sued by all kinds of companies as they adopt these regulations about not polluting, not emitting greenhouse gases so all of the european countries are being sued and they agreed to drop out of this agreement but developing countries can't drop out so easily and that's part of the asymmetry. there's one morere aspect of --f these, what i call unfair trade that came, that came out very clearly during the pandemic and that was that while in the initial foundation of the wto there was a provision on intellectual property that in th

kamala harris support of the reauthorization of nafta, which has been terrible for the state of michigan and ohio and pennsylvania. proud towns became ghost towns. dignified american workers became dependent on the government and families, including families like mine fell apart under financial stress. that was step one. did we ask for any of that? here is step two. open our border to millions of illegal immigrants. into that void of joblessness poured drugs and a lot of cheap labor. our leadership, including kamala harris said it was compassionate but it was a lie. what they really wanted was millions of voters for democrat policies and they wanted millions of cheap laborers. american wages went down and our leaders learned to ignore their own citizens in their quest for power. that was step two. did we ask for that? the next step was a lot of stupid foreign policy. our leaders cannot deliver prosperity but they could deliver war and conflict. we invaded countries all over the world and then we invited other countries to invade us through illegal immigration. our leaders got richer and

we got a better nafta deal under former president trump and good nafta to point out, which has been a huge success in a lot of different ways. and now we have to deal with the issue of china, right? that's a real threat and making sure that not just the jobs are protected in america, but the workers are protected and we can keep those dollars here instead. this massive trade imbalance, he's willing to talk about. he's willing to take it on come on. harris doesn't even understand terrorists, to be honest, commonly does not even understand these international issues and again, when her economic plan is being panned by even democrats, everyone's wondering who the heck wrote this thing. so i think that gives everyone in america, every business owners, small enlarge in america, a lot of pause in terms of what you bring to the table for the next four years governor sununu, thanks so much for your time today. >> appreciate it you bet, buddy what to expect from this week's convention, including a few surprises when my panel joins me right here next cnn is live from chicago as democrats unite

i ended nafta, the worst trade deal ever made. you people had to suffer with it for years and replaced it with usmca, that's mexico and canada, which they say is the best trade deal ever made, actually the best deal i made probably was with china but i don't talk about it because once covid came in that was the end of china appeared once they did that to the world -- not to us, to the e world. $59 trillion of damages and millions and millions of people and it should have -- and it came out of wuhan. the lab. came out of the labs. that is where i said it came from. and it was incompetence. it was a mistake. i believe it was a mistake. a lot of people don't think so. a lot of people believe they did it because i was getting hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on china. you know, no president had ever gotten anything from china. i got hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and saved a lot of jobs by doing that because they ended up not being able to do what they were doing. and i save the steel industry also, as you know,

basically they have arranged things like laugh -- like nafta and other things whereby the wealth of american citizens are drained into their hands. the freedom of the american citizens are drained into their hands and the political power over politicians of american citizens are drained from them into their hands. host: is your comment about money and politics and how much the democrats have raised? from donors? caller: it is about understanding the dynamics about what is going on with respect to this upcoming 2024 election. we have donald trump who is a reformist representing the american people and america as a whole and then you have the democratic party all paid off to act in the best interests or the desires of these billionaire sociopaths. host: let us get a reaction. guest: i do not know much about who funds these networks and stuff but i will say that money matters in presidential elections. host: there has been $300 million? by the harris campaign since she has been announced. guest: it does shift. a month or two ago we saw donald trump raising big numbers and the democrats are worr

she would try to nafta, federal ban on price gouging among brochures. she talked about housing and the lack of it. she said that 3000000 new homes would be billed by the time she and her 1st term as president. and she said that the government would have enough this ambitious plan of getting $25000.00 of down payment assistance to 1st time home buyers. she also talks about tax cuts across the board for middle class americans and giving a $6000.00 tax credit for the parents of newborns. i've got a big applause here among the her supporters. and then she contrast to that to what she says are the from taxes. that's what she's calling the chair of that. former president trump has proposed in the past on imports saying that that price would be passed on to consumers. ultimately what she was trying to accomplish here was to draw a contrast between herself and trump voters out there know these are campaign promises . a lot of them do not materialize. however, she was trying to create that relationship, highlighting her own background, being raised in the middle

and because of this new, the policy that has replaced nafta. as you recall a couple of years ago under president trump, which is called the t mac, t m e c. it is that new us mexico, canada deal. that is all about duty free and tear us. and china comes into play here because of one car company called b y d. they have become mexico's largest automotive car market o is b y b and they are now the 7th largest automotive industry in the world. and the problem here is, if the chinese get a foothold in the mexican market, what does it have to do it? judges, us officials or us officials are afraid that all the money from china is going to further push through the policies that they want, including, you know, the judges that are not then selected by us money and us, influenced by way of the politicians who select the judges, they're all it is here is a. okay, so i think what you're saying, scramble. so i think what you're saying is, the reason the united states wants the system to remain the same is because under the present system, the united states and

nafta and gas of ukraine are in touch with us, mr.ndriy, we congratulate you, good health, colleagues, mr. andriy, we see that the transit of russian gas through ukraine remains unchanged, this is in expro and the operators of the gts of ukraine seem to confirm, on the other hand, i suspect that this is where the gas measuring station is located, a kind of inlet gate of the russian gas tap to europe, can we connect these two events and... is there an option for ukraine, such as, for example, the possibility of responding to very unilateral anti-ukrainian actions on the part of hungary, a consumer, including russian gas, that we have another option, namely with this suja gas measuring station in kurshchyna. well, colleagues, today is a great, in my opinion, reason for us to talk, in general, more often we talked about such things and such plans, i'm sick now, i'm sorry, me. the virus will hurt me a bit, but for your sake mr. roman came out and i want to talk to you about it, well, look, at one time, when i met yuri vitrenka for the fir

european union, which could already react, but for some reason is silent, although i will remind you that naftal is under the sanctions of ukraine, and we are simply implementing the legislation, yes, before that, let's say, hungary blocked it. the allocation of money in ukraine, before that hungary blocked the transfer of aid to ukraine, now hungary has blocked the decision regarding the elections in venezuela, that is, you do as you see fit, or as your partners from moscow tell you, where you constantly go, but your interests everyone for some reason should argue, on the question of why, and you are the largest donor of the european union, or not, in my opinion, do these countries want to know about the sanctions on lokoil from the side of ukraine for a long time, so let's move on, we will ask the critically important ministers of politics. reservation for enterprises that grow vegetables and fruits. the government officials appealed to the regional military administrations to review the criteria for the involvement of industry workers in the ranks of the zu. the sphere is now of critical imp

directly, which could already react, but for some reason is silent, although i will remind you that naftaukoil is under the sanctions of ukraine, and we are simply implementing the legislation , yes, before that, let's say, hungary blocked the allocation of money to ukraine, before that hungary blocked the transfer of aid ukraine, now hungary has blocked the decision. regarding the elections in venezuela, that is, you do as you see fit, because as you are told by your partners from moscow, where you are constantly traveling, but your interests all have to stand up for some reason, the question is why, and you are the largest donor to the european union, or i don't think so, although these countries have long known about the sanctions on lokoil from ukraine, so let's move on, the critically important ministry of agricultural policy will ask for reservations for enterprises that grow vegetables and fruits, government officials have turned to the regional military administrations, in order to... which reviewed the criteria for attracting industry workers to the ranks of the zu. the sphere is

populous city in the united states, in the south texas region, gateway to south america along the nafta corridor. our airport needed major reconstruction. we have been busting at the seams in the san antonio airspace for a while. for the first time ever, we assembled a team, started before the pandemic to create a plan for the san antonio international airport. as we emerged from the pandemic, we were poised, primed, ready to begin implementation of that airport redevelopment plan. i credit the biden administration's focus on infrastructure across the transportation spectrum including air service, for redeveloping what will be an airport of the future in san antonio, serving not only as a regional air hub for our community but also again a gateway pushing into mexico, south and central america, and really also finally bringing the quality air service that is necessary for a region of our size. we finally launched transatlantic service, in the midst of rebuilding a new terminal that will essentially double the capacity of our city's airport. it will also go into the next phase where we a

that, following nafta, made the democratic base angry and that is when you saw people move over to the republican party. to blame this on greene's and third parties is a propaganda campaign because democrats have been sold out and are serving wall street and the war machine. on rfk, he was really not an independent. he was a newcomer to the political process running on a different set of values than our campaign. he had nothing to do with us. i do not know where his money comes from but the money is where it is at and that is why the democratic and republican parties have both been so corrupt. they both run billion-dollar campaigns. if you saw the d&c on tv, you could see this ring of corporate suites at the top who were paying millions of dollars each to sponsor that convention. this is who the sponsors of the democratic party are. there are more billionaires behind kamala harris' campaign than ever before and they have been raising money hand over fist. that is why we have to get big money out of our political system and get people back in. on gaza, it is not my idea that this is a g

salevan's arrival on monday, canada, with which the united states has a free trade zone, the former nafta announced that it fully joins these protective measures. will certainly be introduced, their actions will probably expand, we must recall the statement of mrs. harris at the congress democratic party, where she directly said that we must win the race in artificial intelligence, and not china, that is , this suggests that the technological confrontation will continue, that in the same way , various technological advantages of chinese companies in relation to the united states of america will certainly continue to be limited, so i don’t doubt it. another thing is that here we already recalled the sanctions imposed by trump in the eighteenth year, one of the first products that fell under this sanction, there were solar solar panels. how did it end? it ended with china really cutting down on solar panel supplies to the united states of america, but companies, chinese companies operating in malaysia and vietnam and a number of other countries in southeast asia began to supply them there.

existing to make these changes to reduce the import of steel into mexico for use in cars allowed under naftathese kind of adjustments that could be made. harris on the other hand high school been focused on keeping critical technology in the united states, limiting exports, limiting chinese investment and protecting that for the united states. that's likely to continue in a harris administration. >> really fascinating insights. we are out of time. i have to leave it there. thank you for coming today. that is reed whitten, the managing partner of sheppard mullin. stay with us on cnbc. i'm dan murphy here in london. stay with us. what is cirkul? cirkul is the fuel you need to take flight. cirkul is the energy that gets you to the next level. cirkul is what you hope for when life tosses lemons your way. cirkul, available at walmart and drinkcirkul.com. you didn't start a business just to keep the lights on. lucky for you, shopify built the just one-tapping, ridiculously fast-acting, sky-high sales stacking champion of checkouts. businesses that want to win, win with shopify. to duckduckgo on al

hitting on a nerve with people that are upset about nafta and jobs being sent overseas.rican towns being hollowed out. that's what he was saying, what he was pitching when he talked about the big tariffs and making things in his words, america again. >> i don't want to take sides, the c.h.i.p.s and science act, which encouraged manufacturing semiconductors, that were undertaken by joe biden in a bipartisan piece of legislation that passed several years ago. it's underway. several hundred billion dollars being sunk into the ground in the u.s. to make stuff here, and the same with the inflation reduction act, which was an infrastructure program, poorly named, roads bridges. >> there's an opinion piece in the "new york times" talking about going back and listening to the advice of a couple of democrats from 30 years ago when they were younger. i won't go into the substance of the piece. there was one line that i think is pertinent to what kamala harris just did. ignoring a problem on the electorate's mind, it only sends voters searching for a candidate who will listen. she'

nafta, korea.ground, certainly china's entry into the wto and normalization of trade with china. found common ground on concerns how foreign guest worker programs basically decimated organized labors in this country. find a lot of common ground. all this is that, when you talk about what republicans have to say what i'm saying to you is that president trump is super generous. he is president trump. he has his own agenda that is his and his alone. and i know you're smiling because you know that it's true. president trump -- >> i'm jump in. only smiling because lawyers love to use latin to complex phi points. su generous, fine. show you immigration. because that's been one of your big issues and you served in the white house and pushed a lot of plans you know are controversial. now we have the comparison of the trump years to biden and larger context. a real issue for many countries especially the u.s. here migrant encounter. put up a chart. talk data and facts. under donald trump, you benefit to kno

at a far-flung corners all over the world, remember kamala harris supported the reauthorization of nafta terrible for the state of michigan, ohio, and pennsylvania. proud towns became ghost towns. dignified american workers became dependent on the government and families, including a lot of families like mine, fell apart under financial stress. now that was step one. did we ask for any of that? >> no! >> now here is step two. open our border to millions of illegal immigrants. [boos] and into that void of joblessness poured drugs and a lot of cheap labor. our leadership, including kamala harris, they said it was compassionate, but it was a lie. what they really wanted, my friends, was millions of voters for democrat policies, and they wanted millions of cheap laborers. american wages went down, and our leaders learned they could ignore their own citizens in their quest for power. that was step two. i asked, did we ask for that? >> no! >> now the next step was a lot of stupid foreign policy p at our leaders couldn't deliver prosperity, but they could deliver more conflict. so we invaded co

the total disaster known as nafta, the worst trade deal ever made by this country and replaced it with a brand-new u.s. mca that is mexico and canada. the best trade deal ever made by our country. i will tell you i think that deal with china was probably even better. had about $50 billion but after covid i had no idea how to talk about that anymore. $50 billion they had to buy and they were buying it as well. i stood up to china like never before, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars with no other president had gotten literally ten cents in china burning hundreds of billions of dollars and literally got ten cents. we passed the largest tax cuts in history, the largest regulation cuts in history and built the greatest economy in the history of the world. we have a level that nobody ever seen before and now we will do it again but we will do it even bigger, better, stronger and smarter. win i left office i handed kamala and cricket joe biden as surging economy with no inflation, we had no inflation. everything was good. great wages and no inflation. now we have inflation at levels

the main culprit, the main suspect, and 19-year-old who is said to have quit his job late july after naftas earlier, pledging allegiance to isis online and told his former employees, look, i'm planning something big. he changed his appearance and then was arrested just in the early hours of thursday that is home where as you say, they found a chemical precursors for bombs, detonator is 21,000 euros and fake cash. and perhaps most disturbingly, a police blue flashing light for a vehicle that authorities think he may he may have been potentially planning to put on his car to enable him to get into the periphery? over the crowds around the taylor swift concert that were meant to be tonight, tomorrow and saturday. now, it's not just 65,000 inside the venue. there were tens of thousands potentially who kind of come along to overhear for a free concert of their own. it's there that they believe they stream police. this man would have blown himself up and use knives to cause as much devastation as he could there's a 17-year-old who they also arrested, who they believe may be involved in the plann

she would try to nafta, federal ban on price gouging among brochures. she talked about housing and the lack of it. she said that 3000000 new homes would be built by the time she and her 1st term as president. and she said that the government would have enough this ambitious plan of getting $25000.00 of down payment assistance to 1st time home buyers. she also talks about tax cuts across the board for middle class americans and giving a $6000.00 tax credit for the parents of newborns. i've got a big applause here among the her supporters. and then she contrast to that to what she says are the, from taxes. that's what she's calling the care of that former president trump has proposed in the past on imports saying that that price would be passed on to consumers. ultimately what she was trying to accomplish here was to draw a contrast between herself and trump. look voters out there. know these are campaign promises. a lot of them do not materialize. however, she was trying to create that relationship, highlighting her own background, being raised in the mi