deals including the transpacific the ership agreement and transalantic partnership with europe. this is a little more than 20 minutes. >> good morning. i appreciate you joining us, ambassador. there's lots to talk about. massive agreements being negotiated in asia and europe. that in a timeay of political paralysis, the an nistration is taking aggressive tone on trade. >> what we have the most vicious now.e agenda right the transpacific partnership, 12 transalantic creative investment partnership, when two, we'llwith those have free trade with 65% to 0% of the global economy. we have three negotiations going on right now in geneva, on trade facilitation, on the elimination barriers, on the technology products and on services. thehere's a lot going on in trade side. and what we achieve these agreements and get them approved congress, it will position the u.s. very well as being a place where people want to produce products and send the world.ere around >> you sound very confident that you're going to reach these agreements. talk about the asia pac, known as tpp. among 12 negotiat

. >>> transpacific partnership talks are underway in singapore. >> member countries have will really been hoping to have the talks done by year's end. there's quite a few issues where compromise is proving to be pretty elusive. trade ministers of the transpacific partnership member nations are trying to clinch a deal in singapore and narrow their differences, especially on issues about intellectual property. ministers from the 12 participating countries continued on the third day of negotiations on monday. u.s. officials are trying to strengthen intellectual property. they remain wide apart on the issue. the ministers are racing against time to strike a deal before they wrap up the talks on tuesday. earlier in the day, japanese senior vice minister of the cabinet office and u.s. trade representative michael froman unofficially met. details of the meeting have not been made public, but the officials are believed to have failed to reach an agreement on market access and other related issues. singapore's prime minister is urging japan to abolish tariffs on all products being discussed i

. >>> 12 asian and pacific countries have begun ministerial talks to lay down rules for a transpacific partnership free trade pact. the discussions began in singapore on saturday. the negotiators have four days to strike a political deal ahead of the year-end deadline. officials from the 12 countries will take part in bilateral and other talks to try and resolve their conflicts of interest. japan's representative says the talks will be tough but he'll do his best to seek an agreement before the end of the year. he's attending the meeting on behalf of the economic revitalization minister ahmadi, who is undergoing medical treatment. >> translator: i will not give in to what should never be compromised in the talks. >> also on saturday, japan held separate meetings with mexico and new zealand on the abolition of tariffs and other issues. >>> the upper house of japan's diet on saturday unanimously adopted a resolution calling on china to immediate withdraw its recent establishment of an air defense identification zone over the east china sea. the resolution says japan cannot accept the dec

the transpacific partnership treaty if and when agreed upon would establish a free trade zone stretching from vietnam to truly in composting eight hundred million people producing about forty percent of global g.d.p. negotiations are happening behind closed doors in secrecy the treaty will be designed to remove all so-called barriers to trade including regulations such as those protecting agriculture food safety and be their privacy i'm joined by lori wallach public citizens global trade watch thank you so much for coming my pleasure why this secrecy as i understand there are six hundred corporate advisors having access to these negotiations but for some reason not the public why well unfortunately we've actually heard directly from the u.s. trade representative he notes that the last time the u.s. public actually got to see when the disagreements they quickly sign it now it's new green with it so bad that they can't sign it if we see ads and we're the ones going to live with that they shouldn't sign it as i understand the treaty will establish a secret accord where corporations can brin

. -- ttp, the transpacific partnership, has to follow.'t think we can negotiate the final agreement without letting them know we have a fast track to get this done for a yes or no vote. we have to start with the tpa, clan, then wethe can deal with the transpacific partnership. >> max baucus has been the champion of tax reform. that is dead now? >> on trade and taxes, i would make the obvious point that ron wyden is the likely successor as chairman of the committee. i spoke to him about this today. he is interested in the trade agenda. he always has been. he believes in trade. he thinks we need to knock down barriers. on tax reform, he has been very aggressive on that. he has his own tax reform proposal. year, i think if we join forces with ron wyden, it can maybe happen. it is unlikely to happen right after the first of the year. take on ahas to bill first. orrin hatch is very interested in tax reform. i think we have a chance at it. if we do not do it, we are hurting american jobs during our tax code makes it more advantageous to be a fo

has embarked on a bold new trade agenda that includes negotiations for the transpacific partnership with 11 other asian-pacific countries. the transatlantic trade and investment partnership teach it with the european union and the trade in services agreement with some 50 other countries. reason five, to do any of the above, they argue, america needs tpa. tore are four points here -- finalize his agreements, congress must approve tpa. the constitution gives the congress authority to regulate international trade, but it gives the president authority to negotiate with foreign governments. thisuilds on constitutional partnership by requiring the executive branch to insult extensively with congress. during negotiations, while assuring u.s. trading partners that they will receive an up or down vote at the end of the day. the last argument, every president since franklin d roosevelt has had tpa. every president should have it. that is the baseline case answering clearly in the affirmative. it is my pleasure today to turn the microphone over to to distinguished speakers who have another take on

the supersecret transpacific partnership plan in which members of congress who want to read any part of it have to show they have no pen or pencil or pen recording device and then are led into a room. it is 30,000, words. these deals have resulted in every case, in the destruction of american jobs. one way to look at this, i suppose, is the generosity of blue-collar factory workers in america who have been willing to give up their hold on the middle class so that the rural poor of asia can have a better life, is something to be admired. >> i want you to respond to this quotation. you talk about the tpp, representing 40% of the world gdp. this is penny pritzker explaining why she supports the tpp. be a high-meant to quality 20th-century trade agreement. what we know from those agreements -- take for example our agreement with singapore. when we do an agreement of this quality, everyone's economy grows. trade has grown 60% since we completed our free trade agreement. >> david cay johnston. trade, in theory, can make us all better off. i am not arguing against that. the deals we have ma

biden is expected to push for a transpacific trade agreement when he meets with japanese leaders. he will also be trying to defuse tensions between japan and china, biden will also visit china and south korea. >>> eanlt -- antigovernment demonstrations have taken a violent turn. the prime minister says she cannot accept the demands of the protestors. wayne hay reports from bangkok. >>> a battle front is being waged on two fronts. antigovernment protestors, bangkok metropolitan police. a rubbish truck was used to break through a coffin create barrier, it and its up occupants were forced into a quik retreat. some are willing to go to extremes to achieve their goal. they want the government and the priessmentprime minister gone. the prime minister said she's willing to do anything to end the crisis but the idea of an unelected people's council running the country is unacceptable. >> last night we found out he wasn't interested in the resignation of the prime minister nor does he want to dissolving the parliament. he wants to return the power of the government to the people. it doesn'

they're actively campaigning for the transpacific trade agreements.t to slash the big three. a recent op-ed written by third way's two co founders sounds more like it was written by the wall street republicans. the group called senator warren's fight to expand social security part of a populist political and economic fantasy that ignores an undebatable solvency crisis. really? the group's reasoning leaves plenty to doubt. but you know what, it isn't debatable. the polls show americans want to expand, not cut -- expand social security. in fact, almost 70% of respondents it said they would be less likely to support a candidate no backs social security cuts. this isn't just a progressive issue. this is what the majority of americans want. but third way is just a surrogate for large corporations, bankers and wall street executives. they view these social security safety nets as numbers. in a budget. they're not talking about average americans who rely on these programs. they're not looking for solutions. they're just looking to cut. there's a saying. if i

trade negotiator recognizes that more time is needed to reach a high level agreement in the transpacific partnership free trade talks. delegates failed to reach a deal by year end. acting deputy trade representative wendy cutler says the 12 nations are reaching towards an agreement in january. they couldn't overcome differences on issues such as agricultural tariffs and intellectual property rights. >> they reaffirmed the commitment of achieving a high level, comprehensive agreement, even if that meant taking a little more time to achieve such an agreement, and they agreed to meet soon after the new year again. >> cutler said she'll work hard to find common ground in an effort to complete the deal at january talks. south korea has said that it will explore the possibility of joining the tpp discussions, but cutler said it would be very difficult for any country to enter the ongoing negotiations, given the time table. >>> in japan, a high ranking government official is also cautious about the outcome of the tpp talks. senior vice minister attended the discussions in singapore and now says

. >>> negotiators at the transpacific partnership free trade talks say their efforts to strike a deal by year end have failed. >>> protesters in thailand insist the prime minister set down they say the dissolution of parliament is not their goal. >>> and parents in northeastern japan now have a way to check their babies for radiation exposure, as they continue to worry about the fukushima nuclear crisis. >>> the people negotiating a free trade deal for the asia pacific region say they are going to miss an important deadline. ministers from the 12 countries at the talks say there won't be any agreement this year, but they'll push on with discussions in 2014. >> over the course of this meeting, we identified potential landing zones for the majority of key outstanding issues in the text. we will continue to work with flexibility to finalize these text issues, as well as market access issues. >> the ministers released a statement to say they made substantial progress during their four-day meeting in singapore. they'll meet again next month after their negotiators hold several weeks of int

the minister in front of the free trade talks under the transpacific partnership says he will not attend the upcoming meeting. he said a medical examination found an early stage of cancer on his tongue. he had been hospitalized for testing since monday after complaining of poor health. he said his doctors said he can go back to work after two weeks in the hospital for an operation and one or two weeks at home for recuperation. amari says he told prime minister abe he would like to resign, but abe urged him to overcome his illness and continue in his post. >> translator: i realize what i should do now is to recover quickly from my illness and get back to duty as a cabinet minister. >>> in place of amari senior vice minister of the cabinet office will take part in the tpp talks that open saturday in singapore. >>> european equities are a little changed ahead of policy decisions from the european central bank as well as the bank of england. here is how things are looking right now. london is down by just a touch there. frankfurt is gaining over .10% while paris is declining by about .10%. m

the transpacific partnership is part of that. we could take the form to also improve the rules of nafta. -- we could take the forum. we are now lacking imagination. no one imagined what digital commerce would be. in 1994, no one imagined that mexico would open to private investment. ok, things change. we need to reflect the change. i think that imagination needs to run both ways. the private sector needs to turn the workarounds into a policy agenda, which we need to engage the government about. secondly, on the government side, instead of beginning with the rule, begin with the transaction. when you begin with the rules, , you adopt the status quo. my preference is to look at the transaction. let's look at the two parties want to do voluntarily, for mutual benefit. and then we ask what is the government interest in getting involved in the transaction. there are some. then the question becomes, what is the least restrictive way a for that government interest can be maintained and allow the transaction to happen, as they do in mill

. >>> japan's minister for negotiating the transpacific partnership free trade pact has fallen ill. he was driving to seal a deal by year end, but officials say he's likely to stay in hospital for a few days. the economic revitalization minister felt unwell on monday at a crucial juncture for the talks. amari met michael froman on sunday. amari is also in charge of new economic measures. leaders hope to finalize this week. but chief cabinet secretary suga said trade negotiations will stay their course. he said amari will give instructions from hospital. ministers regrouped on saturday for more tpp talks. officials will decide if amari attends pending more information about his condition. >>> let's check on the markets now with data from spain with hurting sentiment in european equity markets. the country's manufacturing activity contracted in november for the first time in four months. here's how major indexes are performing at this hour. london's ftse is down about 0.6%. and paris's cac 40 is also down about 0.4%. and in frankfurt's dax, it hit a record high three days in a row las

>> well, they don't like tpp, the transpacific partnership. and there's no question that obama not going delayed that. the malaysians were very unhappy. the end noorbians were very unhappy that he-- indonesians were very unhappy that he didn't make that trip and the singaporeans asking a lot more from the u.s. are now more balanced between the u.s. and china. i would argue-- let's put it this way. the chinese believe that they've gained from obama not making that trip, absolutely. >> rose: what do you think they want to do in the middle east? >> i think in the middle east, despite the fact that they have some of the largest unconventional reserves in energy in the world, they are well behind the u.s. in exploiting them so they desperately need more energy from the middle east. just two weeks ago they a puns noed they want another 800,000 barrels a day from iraq. massive increases, right. >> rose: are they getting. >> oh, yeah, they're going get it, they've got the money. they're going to become very, very quickly the dominant economic player i

and eleven other three hundred is regarding the transpacific partnership for t p p are taking place in salt lake city throughout the week people have been demonstrating and protest the potentially disastrous effects this trade bill could have effects that include everything from sweeping changes to the internet to limited access to affordable medicine is joining me now to talk more about these latest protests in utah as well as the impact the t.p. could have on the world i'm joined now by former salt lake city mayor rocky anderson.

the transpacific partnership is part of that. we could take the forum to also improve the rules of nafta. we are now lacking imagination. no one imagined what digital commerce would be. in 1994, no one imagined that mexico would open to private investment. ok, things change. we need to reflect the change. i think that imagination needs to run both ways. the private sector needs to turn the workarounds into a policy agenda, which we need to engage the government about. secondly, on the government side, instead of beginning with the rule, begin with the transaction. when you begin with the rule, you adopt the status quo. my preference is to look at the transaction. let's look at the two parties want to do voluntarily, for mutual benefit. and then we ask what is the government interest in getting involved in the transaction. there are some. then the question becomes, what is the least restrictive way for that government interest can be maintained and allow the transaction to happen, as they do in millions of transactions throughout

and eleven other countries regarding the transpacific partnership for t p p are taking place in salt lake city throughout the week people have been demonstrating and pro.

i want to return to the question of the transpacific partnership. i represent michigan communities -- $79 000 autoworkers and people working for the auto industry directly. and now the number is roughly one tenth of that number. we have seen the effect of some trade agreements that are sold on the notion of economic growth. but don't necessarily deliver and in particular communities actually having exacerbated in already difficult problem. for a year now, under the direction of prime minister, japan has taken number of drastic marc economic measures, including setting negative yen interest rate engaging in major quantitative easing measures. including setting negative interest rates. that's been causing it to drop roughly 20% dollar last year severely undermining our competitiveness. i just -- i guess i wouldn't -- i would like to ask without going in to much further detail. what would treasury do ensure it remains affordable and domestic manufacturing jobs are protected as we move forward potentially see tpp enacted in particularly with japan's inv

and eleven other countries regarding the transpacific partnership or t p p are taking place in salt lake city throughout the week people have been demonstrating and protest the potentially disastrous effect this trade bill could have in fact that include everything from sweeping changes to the internet to limiting access to affordable medicine is joining me now to talk more about these latest protests in utah as well as the impact the team b.p. could have on the world i'm joined now by former salt lake city mayor rocky anderson rocky things are so much for joining me on the phone it's great to be with you thank you so rocky you were at the tea party rally yesterday what was the main concern you gauge from the protestors. well there's a huge concern about the complete lack of any transparency these talks of been going on for years behind closed doors and there have been lobbyists for some six hundred multinational corporations including of course halliburton wal-mart monsanto. but the people in the media haven't been provided anything and there is so much at risk for the public health for

people around the world took to the streets to protest against the status quo actions against the transpacific partnership trade deal a new community of activists rising up on behalf of chelsea manning who learned her fate this year for exposing u.s. war crimes so joining me now to discuss how these stories and more impacted two thousand and thirteen are the people who brought you the stories here in washington d.c. correspondent liz wall from new york r.t. course by. an honest turkana and from l.a. r.t. correspondent ramon glinda oh thank you all for being here so i want to start with what has to be the year of the whistleblower thanks in large part to what edward snowden started during the summer revealing the secrets of the n.s.a. and i spoke with the washington post barton gellman this week about the impact snowden has made in such a short amount of time. i've seldom if ever seen a story that has taken hold. so far and so broadly and so deeply and you know if you're a whistleblower who wants attention and. you can't even plausibly aspire to the impact you've had already then of course we'l

negotiations for the transpacific partnership where the t.p. p. have been conducted in total secrecy over the last three years now in case you don't know the t p p is an unprecedented series of negotiations not led by world leaders but by multinational corporations the negotiations are in their final stages right now but there's still very little public awareness about the entire issue of this massive trade bill unfortunately there's also another problem on our hands president obama is counting on a fast track to the tepee that would rush it through without lawmakers having. a chance to review the content so here to talk about the latest and the dangers that poses i'm joined by murder lars organizer of the popular resistance org thank you so much margaret you for having me so the tepees labeled as a free trade agreement but i've heard from many people who actually have and why is what we do know about the tax and i've said that it's simply not true it's not a trade deal what is it well it's a rigged corporate agreement is what it really is i mean

reveal how wide of a division there is between the twelve nations currently participating in the transpacific partnership talks and who is the most to pick the u.s. government pitted against the eleven other nations on a number of issues from intellectual property to corporate empowerment here's a look at some of the biggest disagreements now when it comes to investments only the u.s. and japan support the proposal while the rest express their objections to the proposal but the u.s. has shown no signs of flexibility when dealing with the sanitary and sayto sanitary standards the u.s. has also reopened several disciplines of the chapter in the direction of decreasing its levels of ambition this is concerning because the us is not demonstrating flexibility on financial services the positions are still paralyzed united states shows zero flexibility on agricultural exports subsidies all tepee countries except the us commit to eliminate them now a spokesman for the office of the u.s. trade representative said that he had no idea where these documents came from he also said that they are old versio

people around the world took to the streets to protest against the status quo actions against the transpacific partnership trade deal and a new community of activists rising up on behalf of chelsea manning who learned her fate this year for exposing u.s. war crimes so earlier i spoke with the very people who brought you these stories are tea correspondents alist wall on a saucy turkey to an ramon glinda oh and i first asked liz wahl about her coverage of the chelsea manning trial i want to know what she learned from this story and the impact the trial had on two thousand and thirteen. certainly it was a year of very high profile leaks namely the court martial of chelsea manning formerly known as bradley manning spent a lot of time there covering the trial in fort meade maryland of course he is accused of the largest leak of classified information in military history charged with a very serious charge of aiding the enemy in addition to a slew of other charges and the judge found him not guilty of that most serious charge of aiding the enemy but guilty on most of the other charges he was sentenc

et's table -- transpacific partnership deal. let's table this model. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman's remarks are entered into the record. ms. kaptur: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman for a motion. ms. kaptur: i'd like to now make a motion that the house do now adjourn. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly the house stands >> there's a whole wealth of material here that talks about how ve for dance and deeply she was involved in it. >> watch our program on first lady betty ford at our website, c-span.org/firstladies, or see it saturday on c-span at 7:00 eastern and our series ontinues live on monday. >> as you walk in, there are tables out in front with lots of pamphlets. prior don'tering the gun show. and the pamphlets are all how the government's trying to take away the right to own guns and the government is doing this an

negotiations for the transpacific partnership where the t.p. have been conducted in total secrecy over the last three years now in case you don't know the t.p.t. is an unprecedented series of negotiations not led by world leaders but by multinational corporations. the negotiations are in their final stages right now but there's still very little public awareness about the entire issue of this massive trade bill unfortunately there's also another problem on our hands president obama is counting on a fast track to the tepee that would rush through without lawmakers having a chance to review the content so here to talk about the latest and the dangers that poses i'm joined by murder lars organizer of the popular resistance org thank you so much margaret you for having me so the tepees labeled as a free trade agreement but i've heard from many people who actually have and why is what we do know about the tax and i've said that it's simply not true it's not a trade deal what is it well it's a rigged corporate agreement is what it really is i mean it

it is not clear whether they are sending it in transpacific information on specific individuals or getting wholesale direct access to the information i tend to believe the former rather than the latter. >> why would you do have? because it feels like they're going in with a vacuum cleaner and soakingup whether it's my calls or information and they are saying anything that we may need this lat in mywe hang onto this? why would they say that they are more surgical and i? >> in this case i think they been more surgical because of the overlay to the process of the little but more complicated for them. but it's absolutely clear that they are mining the data and analyzing and setting it and they walked into this with the president. melissa: colonel layton, then i'm whispeng to another with human being in the house. when i'm on the phone, i'm on skype, someone is listening, or is recording it and saving it for later to listen to. >> they can do that. given the way that we mind in data nowadays, it is likely that your data is eing part of this or the internet service provider or by facebook or som

or to saw just succeeded in passing resolutions in support of stopping the fast tracking of the transpacific partnership which you're just talking about in support of single payer health care it's time that we move beyond this whole discussion on whether or not the computer's working or how the affordable care act will work in reality twenty seven million people will be without health care once the. fully implemented so we're pushing at the grassroots level that's the model we use push these resolutions through hold the party accountable from california to tucson about it she says whether it be the robin hood tax getting out of afghanistan redirecting military spending the grassroots are very much with this what's lacking is a political will in washington to move these directions and that's the work of pedia yeah and i mean concord was teaching tea party folks how to take over the republican party and they succeeded i mean that's that was the election two thousand and ten and they did this and absolutely and that's what you guys are doing the democratic party tim to to bring it up to the mom

guest: the transpacific partnership negotiations themselves.here will be a big push to try to conclude those and that is something to look carefully at. and then this whole notion of fast-track of -- authority on capitol hill, whether the administration will get a quick vote on whatever is negotiated, that could come up with a vote in the first quarter. an important indicator of whether the trade agreement will get through, ultimately. coming up, we will look at the topic of cost and benefits of federal regulation. two guest representing two sides will join us for that discussion. we will later take your calls and look at the papers. first, a news update from c-span radio. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> edward snowden wrote an open letter that says, he has been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of thousands of national security agency documents and the culture of indiscriminate global espionage is collapsing. a letter, released online, he com