. >> reporter: critics like former labor secretary robert rice argue the agreement will shift u.s.obs to countries standards. >> in other words, it's a trojan bottom. >> reporter: but supporters say while the deal may cost low paying, low-skilled jobs tearing down trade barriers will get larger jobs. peter institute has advised on the tpp negotiation and seen the draft text. >> when you think about what a trade agreement can do, it is opening up important new export opportunities and those export jobs unbalance generally pay much higher salaries, much higher wages, 18% or so. >> reporter: supporters and critics are also divided on the deal's environmental impact, but opponents argue provisions geared at safeguarding marine and other wildlife and tackling practices like illegal logging can prove toothless. >> free trade agreements have never been tools to lift up environmental standards. >> reporter: she heads the program. >> what we know about the chapter is the rules will really be too weak to have a meaningful meaning on the ground. >> reporter: big corporations to sue private go

robert rice: no president can do it on his or her own. need not only your legislature or your parliaments, but also need the public behind you to push all of this. inpresidents very often say, america and i think prime ministers also say, i cannot do it alone. i cannot do it if the public is not mobilized and organized to help me do it. >> do you think in america, a nation which has huge aspirational value in its culture, do you think people are prepared to give something up to help the greater good? robert reisch: absolutely. we did it between 1901 and 1916, the progressive era. we did in the 1930's after the great depression. we did in the 1960's in terms of civil rights, equal rights. this country has an ability to put ideology aside when they understand the nature of a problem. sleeves andtheir get on with what has to be done. i think we will. the question is one. >> that is a good question. who knows the answer? thanks for joining us. that brings today show to a you can find much more on all of the day's news on our website. to reach

we took a subway ride with him and the former labor secretary and economist robert rice. get from the wealthy part of new york to the poor of congressional districts in the country. >> you wanted to bring me here. why? >> this is an example of the neighborhood, melrose and the bronx, that is really suffering. >> mayor de blasio wanted to take us on the 2 train to the south bronx to show us one of the affordable housing projects his administration has been promoting. >> we went from a neighborhood where the median household income was $179,000 to here in the bronx, $21,000 for a family, below the poverty level is the median income here. >> in 25 minutes. >> correct. to go from one place to another. the tale of two cities. >> to those who say that is too perfect, socialism not perfect. what do you say to them? >> there is no contradiction between a free enterprise system and creating fair regulation and making some of the adjustments we need to people can participate. we don't say there shouldn't be public education. i think we need to create affordable housing. >> where is

. >> reporter: critics like robert rice argument the agreement will shift u.s.obs to countries with lower labor costs and other standards. >> it's a trojan horse in a global race to the bottom. >> reporter: but supporters say while it may cost low-paying jobs, tearing down trade barriers will create higher ones. the peterson institute's jeff shot has advised on the tpp negotiations and seen the draft text. >> when you think about what a trade agreement can do, it's opening up important new export opportunities, and those export jobs on balance, generally pay much higher wages, 18% or so. >> reporter: supporters and critics are also divided on the deal's environmental impact. >> there are enormous n new -- really substantial new provisions that will make the tpp chapter on environment, i think a template for what should be included in trade agreements going forward. >> reporter: but oppose enths argument provisions geared at safeguarding marine and other wildlife could prove toothless. >> they have never been tools to lift up environmental standards. what we know

we took a subway with him and former labor secretary robert rice and we went to the south bronx. from one of the wealthiest parts in new york to one of the poorest congressional districts in the country. >> you wanted to bring me here. why? >> because this is an example of the neighborhood that is really suffering. there are things that can be done to address income inequality. >> mayor deblausio wanted to take us on the 2 train to shoo show us one of the affordable housing projects. >> we went from a neighborhood where the median household income was $179,000 to $21,000 is the median income. >> in 20 minutes. >> that's all it took to go from one world to another. i often talk about the tale of two cities. we try to create more fairness and using the tools of the city government to do it. >> to those who say mr. mayor that sounds too socialist, capitalism not perfect, america not perfect economically but the best example in the world. >> there is no contradiction between a free enterprise system and a very energetic role in government to create fair regulations and making adjustm

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. >> robert rice, the former secretary of labor and author of saving capitalism.ashington bureau chief just a free opportunity. tell us what you make of the spectrum of reaction by our political combatants, if you will. >> it's not surprising. republicans have for many, many years said exactly the same thing. they haven't said stuff happens but they said you can't do anything. some of them have pirated the nra and we have to arm more people. democrats have not been all that courageous, particularly after congressional republicans took over in 1995 because of the assault weapons ban. even the clintons i remember it, i was there in the white house. there was a lot of nervousness about maybe we pushed assault weapons or gun control too hard. and that assault weapons ban and the resulting election loss in 1994 actually did resonate for years. i think it still resonates in the democratic party sflmpt can i think this is a strong issue for hillary clinton. something she is forceful on. something her husband has been forceful on. not necessarily a good issue for bernie s

1963, evan thomas on the life and political career of richard nixon, and former labor secretary robert rice will weigh in on the current state of the economy. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering this upcoming week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> in march of 1911, in a famous be incident that many of you know, 146 young female, mostly immigrant workers died at the triangle shirtwaist factory fire in new york. .. two years later the cost of tha. because it was in downtown new york on the lower east side, famous people saw this happen. wealthy people saw this happen. literally saw the workers who made their close died. because of that they finally begin to identify with these workers and began to file for accountability in this industry, so that leads to a series of reforms on workers, on business safety, fire safety, et cetera. that is a beginning point of the 20th century when americans said we want to stand up to the excesses of american capitalism, but the bad old days of corpora

anyone who is going to leaving who robert rice? that's what i thought.ou're going lee for robert rice, do this through this door, if anyone is sitting to an empty seat, please move towards the people next to you. a lot of people came in could you please. we do want to be able to give those to those people. what i ask that for like five minutes while we get the room kind of full and where we know where we are with standing, everybody stay seated, after that, there are drinks for sale right out of this door so please get you awry freshment and we will get started at 7:30 with robert rice. you can get going now if you're going. [inaudible conversations] >> that was mark smith, if you'd like to get schedule updates follow us on twitter or you can follow us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv. his view on capitalism. but while we wait, here is an intrer view from our recent visit to madison, we talked to author john nichols. >> has changed almost everything about our politics for the worst. not for the better. the truth of the matter is that historically in an

men.f w't but, then they couldn't get a second one or larger one and we really-- i think it was robert rice that said there were 2 trillion-dollar hole in the side of our economy and we patched with ant 800 billion-dollar patch and it was enough. we also didn't change the fundamentals. we did itwh-- we didn't break up the big banks or hold banks accountable for what they did. ndamen we didn't change the derivative markets. we didn't think the more transparent or even stop them altogether. at the time in 2007, just befor. the big crash we had-- there wav in the neighborhood of eight to $900 trillion of derivatives out there. these are kind of magical securities made up out of anon e underlying, they derive theirgi value from an seunderlying asser and it in this case mortgages.ie yet these mortgages and you put a insurance policy on it and then you place a bet on the insurance money and you put your bet on the insurance policy ofn. say a hundred million dollar bet th that that $100 million will goe better than you place a billion dollar bet on it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. the gd

. >> i would recommend people read robert gates and condoleezza rice wrote an op-ed in the "the washington post" today that was spotlight on about stop psycpoanalyzing putin. >> it cost us $500 million, $100 million per fighter. by the way they stopped the program. >> we should of sent in rhonda rousy. >> they asked $600 million for next year for 2016. i would stop sending them money. yesterday josh earnest said the white house thinks president putin is playing checkers. have you seen the air strikes?s going all in. you may have questions where they are going, who they are hitting but they are not playing games and certainly -- we should learn the game of checkers they are playing. as for the putin has, is driving the russian economy into the ground? i don't know where you get that. the russian economy is based solely on the price of oil and minerals. oil price dropped by over $80 a barrel. that's what's driving the russian economy back into the ground. >> is it the cia's fault they can't get them trained? is that what you're suggesting? >> i'm saying they handed over $500 million. they we

. >> i would recommend people read the robert gates and condoleezza rice wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" that i thought was spot-on about stop psychoanalyzing president putin and here's concrete things you can do to try to improve the situation. >> how do we fix it? >> we don't do as we did, as dana points out. we trained five fighters, it cost us $500 million. $100 million per fighter and they stopped the program. >> we should have been defending rhonda rousey, more effective. >> they asked for $600 million for 2016. i would stop sending them money. they can't figure out what they're doing. yesterday josh earn bt says that the white house thinks president puten is playing checkers. have you seen the air strikes? the russian air strikes, they're going all in. they're not playing games and they're not playing -- we should learn the game of checkers they're playing and try that game little bit. as for putin is driving the russian economy into the ground? the russian economy is based solely on the price of oil and minerals. oil prices dropped by over $80 a barrel. that's what's drivin

secretary rice and robert gates both worked there and gates straddled and did the obama administrationorking. there are things that we can do to reacquaisert american wars. >> it's been said that we're going into another cold war. do you buy that? >> no, i hope this. you have to have more imagination than that. the cold war was about communism and the other was terror. there might be similarities but we have to have more imagination on how to fight. it does not just mean military. when i say fight you have to bring your diplomatic game to the table. now it i seems like all that president obama says is that he is sending signals today and that he may have to stay a while. that's unacceptable. >> thanks for coming. >> yeah, thank you. >> also she has a great book by the way. >> and also my dog. >> also her dog. >>> coming up on the show check out if viral videos. dozens of illegal packed inside of a truck. the unbelievable scene. >>> do you always let your kids win? >> a six, five, four, jack, eight. i win. >> what do you mean you win? i had a hand like that before and i did not win. >>

rice. what does she have to say? nick: she was the secretary of state under george w. bush, and she is writing alongside a former defense secretary, robert gates. explaining -- the argument here is that if diplomacy follows the facts on the ground, then the united states must create its own facts by working for no-fly zones, safe harbors, and it must provide robust support for kurdish forces, sunni forces, and iraq special forces. condoleezza rice is stressing d conflict.ital to they had to be no incidents between russia and the united states. she concludes, let's stop pretending we are trying to figure out what vladimir putin is up to. we all know what he is doing. he is trying to secure his own interests in the middle east. molly: there is a piece saying that the west has to pay -- has to play it cool on all of this. >> and nyu professor of global affairs says that vladimir putin one minute is on the ropes, then he is the master of geopolitics. the answer for the west is simply to stop fearing from this perception of him, of even being on the ropes or being the grand master. the argument from this piece that we get is that russia's off

robert ray, al jazeera, atlanta. >>> the mother of a boy shot and killed by cleveland police nearly oyear ago, is talkin calr a special prosecutor to take over the case. arrived on the scene, tamir rice was shot and killed within seconds. releasing reports calling the killing reasonable under current law. his mother: >> i would like the prosecutor to step down and allow an independent prosecutor to take over tamir's case. >> these experts don't have all the information they need in order to formulate an opinion. >> the case has yet to go before a grand jury. the prosecutor has issued a statement saying he has no intention of giving up the case and will continue to search for truth. >>> oklahoma state attorney general's office is investigating why oklahoma used the wrong drugs to execute an inmate in january. will not submit any attempts until the investigation is released to the public. >>> doctors i are insisting the lack of sleep is causing trouble and the life in the dooms city of pompeii. the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging ourselves to improve every aspect of your experience. and this includes our commit