Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/12/19 - Lori Wallach of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch joins Thom to discuss NAFTA renegotiations and Congressman Mark Pocan answers listener phone questions including the meaning of the bipartisan border deal.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 February 2019
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Summary
Donald Trump's NAFTA renegotiation is creating a backlash among the President's base. After learning of the large carve-outs given to Big Pharma, the white working class is inflamed. Can Democrats use this anger at the president and high drug prescription drug prices to carve out a victory in 2020? Lori Wallach, the executive director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch joins Thom to discuss.
Congressman Mark Pocan, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus answers listener phone calls with Thom on questions including whether and how POTUS accepts the bipartisan border deal and avoids a second government shutdown.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and on the line with us is our old buddy |
| 0:20.4 | Lori Wallach. |
| 0:22.0 | Lori is the executive director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch. |
| 0:26.6 | Tradewatch.org is the website also citizen.org slash trade. |
| 0:30.9 | Lori what's your Twitter handle? |
| 0:32.4 | Lori underscore Wallach. |
| 0:34.0 | There you go, Lori, underscore Wallach. |
| 0:36.2 | And Lori, I read a story here that there is a lobbying group that was put together in the last few days or the last few weeks |
| 0:44.3 | specifically to lobby for Donald Trump's new reinvention of NAFTA and that it's |
| 0:50.4 | being funded by big pharma and big oil among a few other big companies |
| 0:55.1 | no consumer groups or anything like that. What does this tell us about what's |
| 0:59.2 | going on? Well folks it's on. I mean it doesn't get much clearer than having big |
| 1:06.3 | farmer and big oil lobbying not only to try and pass the agreement is, but to get taken out the things that progressives won. |
| 1:18.1 | So this lobby group, which has raised $5 million and says they're trying to raise $20 million is trying to get the |
| 1:25.3 | outrageous corporate investor state tribunal stuffed back into the NAFTA renegotiation. That's one of the things we want. We got that out. They want to get longer |
| 1:38.4 | giveaways for big farmer already as it is the agreement as is |
| 1:43.1 | isn't worth supporting because it would do more damage |
| 1:46.2 | so the mission of progressive |
| 1:48.8 | uh... the progresses in congress |
| 1:50.9 | uh... the union and the consumer groups, environmental groups, family farm and faith groups, |
| 1:55.9 | is to get the things we won delivered, so ISDS out, the mandatory natural resources exports language out that we won that. We want to keep that. |
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