u.s. farm policy, i think, they are fairly modest. >> did you reach out in advance of the leak? >> i did. >> on don't ask/don't tell, you said now is the time to do this largely because of the threat of legal action. if that legal action was not looming, how much do you think that this is the right thing to do now? how hard do you intend to lobby those on the hill? >> i do not spend much time thinking about the world as i wish it were. the reality is the court issue is out there. in my view, it does lend urgency to this. the question has been raised that maybe the courts would give us time, to which my answer is maybe or maybe not. we just do not know. but the one path we know gives us the time and the flexibility to do this which is the legislative path. i do not know how fast the courts will move on this. but what we have seen seems to be more and more action in the courts in the last year or two. that is what gives me a sense of urgency. my greatest fear is what almost happened to us in october. that is being told to implement a change of policy overnight. >> senator mccain i

u.s. farm policy, i think, they are fairly modest. >> did you reach out in advance of the leak? >> i did. >> on don't ask/don't tell, you said now is the time to do this largely because of the threat of legal action. if that legal action was not looming, how much do you think that this is the right thing to do now? how hard do you intend to lobby those on the hill? >> i do not spend much time thinking about the world as i wish it were. the reality is the court issue is out there. in my view, it does lend urgency to this. the question has been raised that maybe the courts would give us time, to which my answer is maybe or maybe not. we just do not know. but the one path we know gives us the time and the flexibility to do this which is the legislative path. i do not know how fast the courts will move on this. but what we have seen seems to be more and more action in the courts in the last year or two. that is what gives me a sense of urgency. my greatest fear is what almost happened to us in october. that is being told to implement a change of policy overnight. >> senator mccain i

policy. it showed how many mexican workers who had been displaced by nafta -- perhaps 3 million mexican farmers came to the u.s. after losing their farmsa in 1996. the bottom was today. it showed americans trekking over to mexico because there is more investment by chinese firms and manufacturing on the mexican side of the border. it showed nafta and immigration going the other way -- americans who could not find jobs here looking for a job in mexico. it is not funny. the issue you are raising has to do with what we're going to do in our country to make sure there is a good family supporting middle-class job. the korean people are not happy about this agreement. from their perspective, including the manufacturing workers -- they see that this crazy rule that allows the agreement to have only 35% of domestic content means that, only -- even for their cars, there will have more chinese, vietnamese, taiwanese parts. even they are against the agreement. it will lose jobs under these rules. it will not be making parts -- 65% of the value will be made more cheaply somewhere else. , it is not as critical for us. it is critical for people in a