who've been lobbying and possibly participating in the drafting of the t.p. . with us we'll have a little tape issue there we go and it also good it takes a while so the names that we have pfizer yahoo the u.s. chamber of commerce the m.p.a. dow chemical and rupert murdoch's news corp which could explain why fox news really talks about this right then that we have target this need biogen idec and taylor xerox hewlett packard eighteen t. the biotechnology industry organization and sony gotta catch my breath here then we still have general motors chevre on prudential financial chrysler cargill general electric visa tyson foods campbell soup and intel corp and that's just to name a few of the list goes on and on but if you want to check out the rest of the clients that have been lobbying on the t.v. we're going to post a link to the list on our facebook and twitter accounts and we have to give obviously a special thanks to the center for responsive politics for their service to transparency here if you search trans-pacific partnership under lobbying issues on open

tax and they say what's t.p. then you say you haven't heard right to me immediately when you get back to washington i want the tax this will work this is worked in the past but we should mention that congress is also concerned about the confidentiality and in the fact that this is so secret but even even congress is having a hard time squeezing information out of what is going on there. it's a matter of critical mass that's why i'm advising everybody to get their member of congress involved there have been some members of congress increasingly members of congress last week one hundred thirty three of them wrote a letter to gather democrats very senior democrats to the obama administration saying this is no way to proceed substantively you're heading in the wrong direction from what we know the secrecy is totally intolerable you must release the tax if we get enough members of congress and the public screaming about this they will have to release the tax and once we can see it we can decide top to bottom that some

the border tax was so you could have a debate about high border taxes lower taxes it was about trade t.p. is the ultimate corporate power tool so it's chapters for instance cover every element of domestic policy that you me your listeners readers viewers around the country think we're deciding with our state local and federal legislators so just for instance the whole fight about soap and internet freedom we have a graphic number three here on this we can pull those. as the son of so congress just you know public whatnots what do you mean i could have a ten thousand dollar fine because my computer makes a temporary buffer copy when i open up a video and i'm going to be fine for copying or for looking for looking to go i send my mother a recipe one time to my mom noncommercial small scale i took it out of a cookbook side i paid for by send it to her and i get a funny he's crazy over the top basically money grabs congress said no went down public went nuts congress said no so all of those kinds of crazy rules are revived in the copyright chapter of the t p p so this is the billion dollars

one issue that we've been discussing on the show lately is the trans-pacific partnership or the t.p. for short it's a free trade agreement it's being negotiated behind closed doors by the united states and eight other countries and just yesterday the latest round of talks ended in san diego with negotiators reporting significant progress but of course this is all of this may of public interest advocates they've argued that the t.p. be like other free trade agreements would undermine democracy specifically critics have pointed to an investor state dispute resolution procedure basically found that a leak that would allow foreign companies to challenge regulations before a tribunal of private sector lawyers so laws to protect workers consumers the environment they could all potentially be challenged before an obscure panel if the t.p.s. ratified by congress was really enraged observers even more is the fact that this deal can expand without much oversight after it's passed and of course the real kicker is the current go she asians are being held with very little transparency the public

your program we just heard from somebody who's concerned about internet freedoms well blocking the t.p. or stopping the t.v. people should be something at the front lines of that because if these negotiations in san diego this week go through it's the final round and the obama administration would like to sign this before he goes into office you know before the election season now some are call are going as far as calling bass one aft on steroids i would you do think that's a fair comparison. well it's one way of describing it i mean i think you know all of these. trade negotiations of the last really two and a half decades that have been pushing for these continued liberalization of markets continue what they call free markets but really has become about just pushing whatever regulations will help corporations help the big corporations this isn't about helping everybody do business around the world this is about helping the biggest corporations make bigger profits it's really just to another way of privatizing public space and public services that we said led to that congress is also

. >>> a woman nearly killed after her crashed in the back of a trunk carrying t.p. poles made a miraculous recovery. lee stole has the story. >> i was chewing on glass. >> reporter: she has one memory. >> what do you think? >> how thankful i am to be alive and have survived such a serious accident. >> reporter: the 36-year-old mother of four has prominent scars to remind her how serious her crash was. >> i had a depressed skull, was having seizures and a concussion. >> reporter: doctors removed bone from her hip to fill the hole. they were camping in montana and rushed back when they got word. >> i broke down into sobs. i was scared to death. >> she said, hi, mom. i don't think you should interrupt the vacation. i think you're just fine. one week later, still no memory of the crash that almost killed her. >> i didn't understand why they were so concerned and wanting to come to the hospital and be with me. i really thought i just had a laceration on my head. >> state patrol say they're citing for following two closely behind the truck. she expected that decision. >>>

now all this week there have been secretive negotiations going on in san diego that's over the t.p. p. which is the trans-pacific partnership agreement it could be the biggest trade agreement in u.s. history and also leaves room for expansion now so far the countries included are the u.s. australia brunei chile malaysia new zealand peru singapore vietnam mexico and canada but the problem is that we know very little about it as we've discussed before on the show the obama administration has resisted transparency in these negotiations even to the point where senator ron wyden the chair of the senate trade committee where he was denied access to a draft of the twenty six chapter treaty and what we do know has come out and leaks and so far the growing list of voices in opposition they say it they see it as a threat to american workers and a win for multinational corporations so let's find out more joining me to discuss this is josh eidelson a contributing writer at salon josh thanks for joining us tonight and i guess let's first start with just what we've already learned from the leaks