concentrat concentrating a georgia business more and tell communications and and drug companies more gave us nafta and the world trade organization. votes that lican helped clinton get those through. something ing about new on the people's side in the of convergence but corruption of both parties with money and other attractions has on for a long time. ost: in 1989 here you are testifying on something that is a constant issue. [video clip] >> ralph nader do you think ongress deserves a 350% salary increa increase? >> not at all they got a $14,500 increase 23 months ago. they have increased it 48% since to the present. they get generous pension and life ive health insurance, $3,000 housing deduction and list of perks the so i think train that they are now in the top 1% of ncome in the u.s., 99% the people get to earn less. the deficit in washington, if you look at the scandals that are not corrected srfling the executive -- involving the executive branch nd all the program cutbacks in head start and health and safety and education and low income housing and the rest, this is the time to raise these

being lining i-35 gives us assets when it comes to nafta as well, and having i-10 just immediately adjacent. we're in the process of enhancing our transportation infrastructure. in san marcos alone we have $78 million of roadway and infrastructure development that we're working on throughout this year. >> i look forward to seeing you in san marcos, mayor, good seeing you. >> thank you very much. >> mayor daniel guerreroer san marcos, texas. >> as these communities grow they're squeezing out the middle class and creating a new economic landscape. that's according to richard florida, the author of "the rise of the middle class" and really one of the foremost experts on cities and what makes them prosperous. richard, good to have you here. >> good to be here. >> we heard a lot of good things about san marcos and a lot of places around texas. there is another side. >> the good news is our economy is recovering at metro which produces 9% of our gdp. if you are yes in a metro area chances are that you have a lower unemployment rate than the national average. but what these numbers mask are the di

in nafta we would use sidebar agreements. that didn't work very well. we needed to get to the core agreement if we were going to have something that wasn't forcible. in colombia we decided to use the labor rights action plan. i offered an amendment that would be part of the agreement to take action if they did not follow up on it that was not incorporated into the colombia agreement. now we have the congressional monitoring group of labor rights questioning whether the columbia colombia is implementing the labor action plan as it was anticipated at the time. my point is this. if we are going to make progress on the environment, on labor, on basic human rights, good governance, etc., it needs to be part of the core agreement to be taken seriously. once it is executed, unless it is part of the enforcement that is executed , it is difficult to get the action we expect. >> we completely agree. i think your description of the history is an important one. now they are central to what we are negotiating. that is an important development because we are able to

in nafta we said we wop use sidebar agreements. that didn't work very well. we needed to get to the core agreement if we were going to have something that wasn't forcible. in colombia we decided to use the labor rights action plan. i offered an amendment that would be part of the agreement to take action if they did not follow up on it that was not incorporated into the colombia agreement. now we have the congressional monitoring group of labor rights questioning whether colombia is the labor action plan as it was anticipated at the time. my point is this. if we are going to make progress on the environment, on labor, on basic human rights, good governance, etc., it there needs to be part of the core agreement to be taken seriously. once it is executed, unless it s part of the enforcement that is difficult to get an action we expect. >> we completely agree. i think your description of the history is an important one. now they are central to what we are negotiating. that is an important development. we are able to take these labor and environment standards tha

hughes and his holy name that the nafta he is able to he knew it sounds and there is not to look at the last days is something new. the longest of the pasta. no let's use the new face of a walker or scissors and let me see policies. i will be a . all that and that's that. and that is not only an eight seed because of the hat the youngest government senior open. our foreign minister to his chisel a the four ps oh and the one had a thirty six in use on the eighth inning. kennedy so for and see who is the sound and he is the key they are. it's at. he's changing the kind of party takes the cake. you mentioned joining you on foreign affairs ms dynamite and use it you'll so sad is that the foreign minister in york in eighteen eighteen on the euro is confronted with an unprecedented crisis in ukraine as you know all moms eight european union agreed to impose asset freezes and visa bans on fifteen more russians and ukrainians although hold that the eu has been softer than the united states but the real test will come when and if europe will have to agree on new economic sanctions and that we're being told that's silly squat reluctance is it true that its duty

nafta and moved on. this is the economics of the relationship between united states and mexico. i'm sure you've seen this relationship evolved. i was wondering if you would give us some indication on how to see it evolving and how to characterize it now. >> thank you, congressman. i think one of the things that is so remarkable is that if you look at the growth in the 20 is, it is a lot of statistics. we did hear, i think it was in chairman rice and chairman that thismarks, tripling and quadrupling in trade has generated in the united states. in other thing we have seen the growth of trade since nafta and since the growth in our economies connection and conductivity as we call it in the north american leaders is -- integrated. if you look at the one that is always used his automobile production. cars are not really american in canada, the united states and mexico. it is true also any aircraft industries. it is increasingly true in many manufacturing sectors. i think there are a lot of ways in which we have seen that north america, with all of its resources, whether they're natural or human, can be a flat form -- a platform for enormous economic competitiveness,

all low 80s on nafta carried a little slow for them it's freeway southbound. the corridor commute to 38 down to 237. if they usedbe slow the additional delays are due to this accident has already been cleared to the shoulder but now 46 minutes to drive time instead of 36 minutes out of bounds for the stretch of the nimitz freeway. let's look at the rest of the ease the bay ride. also crowded here at the walnut creek and the ride out of walnut creek all six cities out of town. 680 to so no 580 livermore to double in bulk look pretty good to read something for which are still doing very well. we have not yet picked up any major delays and we're starting to see some slowing now through marin with a drive time from a bottle down to the golden gate bridge. up 34 minutes and your ride is getting heavier through petaluma and your ride out of sonoma county heading south toward the end of auto narrows and the marin ride. here's your bay bridge which is backed up into the macarthur maze 2690 drive time from highway 24 in the bay bridge is not the only slow spots. fast things are starting to bog down here in the drive time

nafta. we only they'd like four dozen republicans and we can kill these turkeys. >> all right. congressman peter defazio, and larry cohen, great to have you with us tonight. we'll keep the attention on the. it's hard to get the american people excited about trade deals but i think if they understand the dech vil in the details this is, they will -- devil in the details. they'll realize how mammoth this could be to our economy. >>> hillary clinton's lessons on benghazi in her own words. congressman ally za cummings will join me later. >>> the new republican party looks awfully familiar. trenders is next. [ girl ] my mo, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle blows ] she makes trains that are friends with trees. ♪ my mom works at ge. ♪ the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state creating dozens of

us. >> well, i don't agree with that. i think what's happened in america is people want to work. and the good jobs have left america. >> that's because of naft naftathe china trade agreement. all of those jobs, millions of jobs have left america. and i could give you names of companies, one after the other like what wereton steel, talk about mr. coffee, oral b. i could give you 25 names of corporations that have just cold-heartedly closed down, moved their material to mexico and laid people off. >> that's a cold-hearted capitalism we have today. what we've got to do is try to turn that around and bring good jobs back here. and the way to do it is to stop these crazy trade agreements, and we've got to stop that because they are the ones that are letting corporations just move out of this country and they don't care what the con sequences are. >> don't they get rewarded -- don't those corporations get rewarded by their shareholders by cutting costs and their consumers for offering the same product or service for less money than they were when they were being produced in america? conscience. it's exactly the problem. and they can say, i made a few pe

fishing for to and we ended up with dolphin for two and then we signed nafta in the ninety's and mexico are mexican fishermen sued us america said you can't enforce strong laws and all of us you know we no longer have an dollar you some companies are labeling it that way but there's not a we can't have a wall of water anymore or we look at the same kind of thing with with t p p we're definitely worried about that we're already bringing so much in and it's just a question of it's not really that they can send much more i mean we're already getting even percent of our seafood from overseas so it's now a question over eighty percent of what americans eat is imported we actually catch some good stuff here and we export it to countries that will pay more but it's about sending the cheapest product here but this these agreements are about knocking down standards they're not they're not really about increasing the flow as much as they are about making it easier for these companies to just be able to do whatever they want not have any kind of safety standards and in the way incredible alexis in the last minute we have here