here indicate very strong support among people for ukraine joining nato. should that be suspended even temporarily, i mean, this puts a chill down my back to say it but it could bring people out on the streets to the same levels as 2013 and 2014 when the then president suspended that european trade deal. so, you know, it is very interesting to watch zelensky. the only way you could say he s consistent, with being inconsistent. wul day he tells the ukrainians don t worry, go out and barbecue and then he said probably the city will be invaded. so it is very frustrating for people here. and kim, it is more than something that people in ukraine support. in 2019 under por shenko, it was added to the constitution so it is part of the foundation of this country. and before the ukrainians walked back that potential appeasement,
ukraine, 30% of the world s food or china in the middle of the pandemics and we are running out of protective equipment, you re not going to get any. it s good to have cheap prices and globalization did it but they went way overboard and it leaves the country entirely dependent on a supply chain or just in time supplies and go look at the port of l.a. tell us if that s one of the wonders of globalism. so we need to protect our national interests by reemphasizing, producing the really elemental stuff that keeps us going, food, shelter, fuel, security, secure borders. laura: and, victor, will there be a place in the future for the old establishment g.o.p. who you know are just itching to have us enter something like t tip, that european trade deal, or a new version of the transpacific partnership?
the pharmaceutical companies get richer than they already are. mr. cohen, we ve seen what s happened in the korean trade deal. what s the tpp going to look like and how many sectors of the economy do you think will be get hit? because there s so many countries that are involved in this deal as opposed to other trade deals we ve done? not only are there 12 that are there now but others will join including the philippines where the philippines government is counting on 500,000 more call center jobs from the u.s. moving there. we ll see more trade deficits. and i think part of this and i congratulate the congressman as a key leader on all fronts. part of this is to get americans to realize trade deficits are real. they re more real than budget deficits because they represent the net effect of imports being greater than exports. and you can call that job loss being greater than job gain.
tpp will create jobs when there s a consistent pattern when it comes to trade agreements that none of them have? well, it will create jobs. just not in america, ed. that s the bottom line. we re going the ask american workers as you heard earlier, 28 cent an hour labor in vietnam with forced child labor and forced political labor in vietnam to compete with workers in is thisiary and people from countries where they re killed if they try to organize labor movements. we had nafta. it had no labor protections in it and they said don t worry. it will come later. later never came. we did colombia. i voted for it. they said we ll build it in but we gave them the deal and then they didn t do the labor protections. in this case, what we say in that letter is, we want to see them produce labor protections. put it in law. and enforce it before we give them any more access to u.s. markets. plain and simple, it s like back
taking a page out of the tear party s playbook and i would be having these useless theatrical, highly-influential failed votes. i would be voting in the senate and house every week to raise the minimum wage as the republicans saw their glatd updaters going every time. it was good theater but real theater creates jobs. the democrats should be going up there and having these doomed to fail votes background checks and minimum wage every week to remind the folks who they re fighting for. as l.b.j. said, make the sob s deny it. great hearing we need more great to have both you gentlemen with us tonight. thanks so much. peace. absolutely. coming up, scott walker ready to cut a deal ending the investigation into his dark money donors. rapid response panel joins me on that. later, congressman elijah cummings wears on eric shinseki s resignation. next, i take your questions,