politico reports hillary clinton s campaign is frightened of sanders. not that he would win the nomination, but that he could damage her with the act of his base by challenging her on core progressive positions in debates and make her look like a centrist or corporatist. the pressure will get worst especially when she gets to iowa to get an answer. her refusal to take a position on the tpp i think will only hurt her position with progressive voters. let me bring in larry cohen, also with us tonight, lori wall wallach, and genevieve woods. we re coming down to the wire. if the house votes on this issue next week and it passes, mr. cohen, does hillary clinton
these conversations. so stay tuned is what i d say. well, you re not short on media interest in iowa i can tell you that. that s true. there s international media. there s international media that s trying to figure out how is this all going to work out. karen, good to have you with us tonight. thanks so much. i appreciate it. let me bring in lanny davis, former special council to the white house, and also genevieve woods. great to have both of you with us tonight. i want to play a clip from hillary s round table today about health care. a lot of people are saying don t run away from health care the way democrats did in the midterms. i happen to be one of those folks. this is her comment on that today. if something were to happen with his job for insurance, or if the affordable care act was repealed, you know i have a preexisting condition. one of the most important features for millions of americans in the affordable care
to do legal services as one of the first things she did at yale law school rather than worrying about classes. it s always about other people. what you re seeing it didn t come across as well in the past. what you re seeing is the real hillary. can i also add one other thing about those percentages that you listed. while the distrust of washington and anybody in politics is high, and you heard that gentleman say that hillary clinton s favorable and distrust numbers, which don t make me very happy are higher than every republican running for president by a large margin. so everybody in politics has the challenge of winning the people s trust, certainly hillary clinton does, but she s doing much better than anybody else. i just wanted to be clear that those numbers are a little bit misleading unless you compare them to the republicans. genevieve, what about that? what about those numbers? well i mean look. washington and politics is not a
countries that end up having problems, not the united states. well it is actually a provision that is in u.s. agreements. but most of those agreements, except for nafta are with capital importing states. so with the tpp and the agreement with europe, those are the expansion of the agreement with capital exporting states. so that means essentially all u.s. companies are being protected but the u.s. hasn t faced the same type of liability. genevieve, i ll give you the last word. i would say folks should know we benefit from foreign investment in the country. that s what the free trade agreements give us. there are about 5 million jobs in this country that are here because of foreign investors. i think it s a good thing for the economy, a good thing for the worker and we haven t seen this be a problem. and american companies would be more free to go into emerging markets where they do not have labor standards and would gut american jobs. so we re at an impasse on this.
now, i don t think i m going to bridge too far. this is serious stuff from the stand standpoint of the secrecy. there s no difference between cooking the books on intelligence to go to war or cooking the booing books and keeping trade negotiations secret and we have to rely on wikileaks instead of the white house to find out what the heck is going on when it comes to american jobs. or maybe that doesn t matter. joining me tonight, lisa johnson, head of the investment law and policy at the columbia center of sustainable investment. and genevieve woods, senior contributor with the daily signal with us tonight. genevieve, how do you defend the secrecy here? your thoughts? well i think this is a trade agreement. there are trade agreements that will eventually come before the congress. respectfully, if you re not going to defend the secrecy, then what would you say about it? what i think we re talking about here is something in most