this is the first test, the first example. i hope he cleans his act up and pays for attention to this and puts heat on mcconnell and ryan to do the right thing. we ve got this case where the mine workers in ohio around the country, more than 12,000 mine workers because of one guy, mitch mcconnell we re trying to get trump involved. he won t get involved. and a whole bunch of thousands of workers, retirees and widows are unfortunately going to face christmas with their health care cut off. senator sherrod brown of ohio. thank you very much, appreciate it. thanks very much, chris. joining me now robert reich, former secretary of labor and the author of saving capital and former deputy campaign manager for carly fiorina when she was running for president. i m interested by the tangle of ideological lines that have been created. a line mike pence said about the free market. the free market has been sorting it out for years now and america is losing.
the republican party, what do you guys think about global trade? do you believe in comparative advantage? do you think that capital should flow to where labor is cheapest or do you think the president should make these countries buck up and stay where they are? a fairly simple concept that will be complicated in its very simple implementation. we need to do what s in america s interests, true for trade policy and domestic policy. that s what america stands for wait. this is fascinating. this is fascinating. i want to be clear here, right? robert, this is a new ideological core for a party that has been extremely favorable to trade deals. it s been a bipartisan consensus, let s be clear, whether it s nafta, cafta, peru, jordan, cambodia, all of those deals which i ve covered. this is new all of a sudden that the guiding light should be america s interests. well, chris, if you define america s interests as corporate interests, as american