reporter: as the president road-tested his state of the union threat to bypass congress if republicans won t work with him, a split was opening in the democratic party on trade. at a speech outside milwaukee, mr. obama repeated his vow not to be a lame duck his remaining three years in office. i want to work with them, but i can t wait for them. we ve got too much work to do out there. reporter: but with control of the senate up for grabs in the fall, majority leader harry reid doesn t want democrats to take politically tough votes on two trade agreements. i m against fast track. reporter: fast track authority enables the administration to craft an agreement that congress can only vote up or down but cannot amend, and the administration is right now negotiating two such air agreements, one with asian pacific nations and another with european countries. in his state of the union address mr. obama called for bipartisan cooperation to pass both. when 98% of our exporters are s