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. >> sherrod brown, keith ellison, and others are among the speakers at the campaign for america's teacher new populism conference. the topics included job creation and trade policy. we begin with congressman ellison. this is over one hour. >> we are going to start this conference. good morning. come on, we are a bunch of populists. let's have that again. that morning. that's better. my name is roger hickey, and i'm codirector of the campaign for america's future. i want to welcome you to this new populism conference. new populism unites the growing majority of americans who know that the economic game is rigged against them. they know who rigged it, and we are using the political systemd to make the economy work for all americans. i also want to welcome all the people who are now watching across the country on c-span, at ourfuture.org, streaming video at thenation.com. welcome. you are all part of this growing new populist movement. if one of those media goes down, just switch over to the other one. my campaign for america's future partner will welcome you in a few minutes in a more thoug

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ohio senator sherrod brown. coming up on the next "washington journal," retired marine sergeant jesse jane duff discusses the allegations of mismanagement at va hospital's. a look at immigration policy and eight transfer legislation this year. -- a chance for legislation this year. later, gerrymandered congressional districts. journal" is live every morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> tonight, 2014 commencement with governorting bobby jindal and liberty university. speaker at the university of mississippi law school. see it here on c-span. includes new book christopher hitchens talking about his lifestyle. >> there is a risk in the bohemian lifestyle and i decided to take it because, whether it is an illusion are not, i don't think it is, it helped my concentration, it stopped me being bored, and stop other people being boring -- to some extent. it would keep me awake. to enhance the moment. againas asked, what do it , the answer is probably yes. easy for

sherrod brown in ohio, your article said for a glimpse of what a republican-controlled congress would do, look to the state. senator brown says if you want to know what a wholly republican congress would do is look at what they've already done in state capitals, like in ohio. gone after voters rights, workers rights, women rights. so true. voter suppression nationwide. >> that would be a big one. >> they could stop black people from voting, they would have a real advantage. that would be the name of their game. >> women's issues, i think they would really clamp down on that. this is an example of something the house passed in 2013 that said no abortions after 20 weeks nationwide. virtually -- life of the mother was the only exception. would the senate pass that? would they want to pass that? trying to reach out to women voters. >> and if they follow their instincts on that, they might just pass it and the courts, even the court we have now might just accept it. thank you. scary times. i've said this before, only losing five seats is a good night for the democrats this november. up nex

>> i think sherrod brown was super. i think we have a new chairman.nator baucus who's now the ambassador to china. but i think frankly a lot of the battle is going to be in the house. and leader pelosi is critical. and i think we have to all say, progressives across the country, not labor, but all of us, greens, consumers, all of us together, that if that caucus doesn't support tpp, there's no fast track, and there's no tpp. that's the rallying cry for our big rallying and lobbying day next week. >> they throw out this export growth to countries with no northern trade agreements as being 30% faster than countries with agreements over the past decade. froman claims that trade packs have led the united states to trade surpluses. why won't he admit that he's wrong on this? >> because then the whole deal is done. they'll talk about more auto tales to korea, without measuring the more exports from kia to the u.s. when the exports is under 10,000 cars for the whole year and a half they're talking about, every auto worker knows it's a joke. the rest of us ne

let me bring in senator sherrod brown from ohio. senator, good to have you with us.his is front and center, your issue, the jobs, the focus on all of this. how can anyone make the case, senator, that the tpp is good for american jobs? >> i'm particularly amazed when i hear somebody like speaker boehner from my state talk about job growth when he connects it to trade agreements. he's been in the congress a long time. he remembers nafta. he voted for nafta. he remembers what happened with lost jobs from nafta. and underminding environmental and worker and food protections and food safety, he should travel to the other end of the state, where you were, ed, low rain lorain, ohio, and look at the job loss. and he can look in his own backyard because he's seen what's happened in hamilton, middletown and cincinnati and dayton because of trade agreements. most countries practice trade according to a national interest. our country practices trade because the elite in washington make it that way according to some 20-year out-of-date textbook it's that the got to change. that's

sherrod brown and i will have significant differences but we got to have those differences in the debate the results in the result rather than talking about across the board in terms of comments. that's my editorial comment. my two big points or questions on this. you mentioned keys in your remarks. 'tis is the important. there are 3.2 million service with jobs in the united states, insurance, financial service, package delivery that depend on goods, goods trade in services agreement with the world. first of all, what kind of progress are we making on a tisa agreement and second of all what goals within our goals as a country effect tpp nt be a in terms of trade services? >> thank you, senator. and thank you very much her involvement and leadership on the africa issues. we look forward to working with you on the agoa. on services, we're making good progress in the tisa talks. we have countries around the table representing about 70% of the global services market. we have defined a text that is being worked out now, and virtually all the parties around the table have table offers and we'r

side of capitol hill, senator's john cornyn, charles schumer and sherrod brown urged us to reconsider any roles but will limit participation. they wrote that bidding restrictions will have the effect of distance in devising this is a concerned about reduced returns. it could result in less spectrum being put back into the market and to use efficiently but also less revenue generated by the auction. others have reached the same conclusion. the medications workers of america have argued that an open competition is the best way to serve the public interest and maximize auction proceeds. the rainbow push coalition urges them to adopt rules that allow for full, under shifted resolution by all interested companies willing to bid for spectrum needed to provide mobile broadband to consumers. the national urban league advocates for roles that maximize patient. the commission today rejects of this council. thee is little doubt that restrictions will substantially reduce the revenues raised by the auction. congress itself recognize when a first authorized it to conduct this createsiting a signif

sherrod brown and i will have significant differences on tpa and taa but we have to have those differencesand debate the result in a result rather than talking about comments. that's just my editorial comment. my two big points or questions on this. you mentioned keys a. there are jobs in our state, insurance, financial service, package delivery that depend on good good trade in services agreement with the world. first of all, what kind of progress are we making on the tisa agreement? second of all what goals with the knuckles of the country affect tpp and taa in terms of trade agreement? >> thank you, senator, and thank you very much for your mom and leadership on the efficacious in particular and we look forward to working with you on the agoa renewal we are currently underway. on services we're making good progress in the tisa talks. we have countries around the table representing about 70% of the global services market. we have defined the text that is being worked out and virtually all the parties around the table, we are working through those offers. we're making good progress and th

sherrod brown and i will have significant differences on tpa, but we ought to have the differences in a debate that results in a result rather than talking about across-the-board comments. my two points are this. you mention in your remarks tisa. there are service related jobs in our state, insurance, financial services, package delivery that depend on good trade in services agreements with the world. what progress are we making on a tisa agreement? what goals would affect t.p.p. in terms of trade services? >> thank you. thank you very much for your involvement and leadership on the africa issues. we look forward to working with you on the review under way. on services, we're making good progress in the talks bravely be of countries around the table representing 70% of the market. we have defined a text that is being worked out now. virtually all the parties around the table have tabled offers. we are working through those offers. we are making good progress. there is a good work program ahead over the course of the next several months. services are vital part of our economy. we have

in the democratic party some of the most attractive leadership in the senate elizabeth warren sherrod brownjeff merkley some of the most attractive leadership in the house the the leaders of the rising american electorate the obama majority the base of the party with organized labor etc all supportive of a more populist position than we get out of this administration and certainly out of the well that's what we're looking at we abandon truthfully abandon populist not just with citizens united i mean citizens united was the icing on the cake but the but the democratic party is very clear there are no longer anything that looks close to a puppy you got some exceptions but they're not even you wouldn't generally call him a populist party you used to but not anymore and bill clinton changed all that when he came to said you know we can and need wall street and whatever wall street wants is the politics of what we're going to become we saw. bomb a ticket even worse than than bill clinton i mean he raised it to a whole new level to where we don't even prosecute wall street because we're afraid th

influence of money on politics to establish that corporations do not have the rights of personhood sherrod brown al franken over one hundred members of the congress have now spoken out in favor we have robert lawrence lessig at harvard common cause move to amend dot org and i would do everything in my power in congress and also as a voice outside of congress to magnify the move towards a constitutional amendment i don't think anything less than that will fundamentally handle the problem and marion you would be representing the district with the highest per capita income in the country now you've spoken at multiple occupy wall street rallies where you've called for tighter financial regulations and higher taxes and those efforts seem like a kind of a tough sell in such a wealthy part of the country are you concerned about how your message will resonate in that district. it's only a tough sell if you assume that people are selfish and we're not you know i say you know at the beginning i was told marianne you go on and on about how among all advanced nations of the world we have the second highest

be keynote in that she can you know it's a lunchtime well i have bernie sanders there will have sherrod brown the extraordinary populous senator from ohio who will have leaders from keith ellison to maya rockeymoore to reverend barber who's been leading the moral monday movement in north carolina it's going to be quite a gathering and it will be the kind of movers and shakers the activists and the organizers of what we believe is going to be a growing movement in america as people really start to reclaim their democracy and refused to allow this entrenched inequality to continue in a funny thought just occurred to me when alec gets together or when the billionaire koch brothers get together invite all the billionaire buddies to get together and plan political activities. americans try to infiltrate to find out what's going on and it you know if if it does leak out it becomes news you know mitt romney talking about the forty seven percent. it doesn't seem like anybody would want to try to infiltrate a conference on populism they want to attend but also have to it's going to be streamed live. o