It s terrible what they do to us. european union, take a look at the car situation. they send the mercedes in. we can t send our cars in. look what they do to our farmers. they don t want our farmers that have their farmers. we don t protect ours and they protect theirs. he tweeted from brussels today talking about the farmers. european union was form as a bulwark to american power. they said as a trade block, as a block of countries, we can throw our weight around if we form together. they ve done that with tariffs as well. if we think china is a bigger threat, we can t count on europe to come alongside with us. they fought a war with us. god bless them. but if you re not relevant today, if you re not going to be free market, not going to trade fairly, going to open your borders to migrants and give away your cultural identity,
Paying all this money to protect you and you are throwing up these trade barriers, let s even it out. we are competing against the e.u. we are trying to crack open that trade block because they are very powerful. we have all these industries that are competing for market share in jobs and talents. we are just trying to put america first, like francis trying to put france first. dana: we have food coming up at the end of the show. we need to keep on time. kimberly: [laughs] greg: i would hate to cut into the food segment. here s the thing. allies are always our allies. if someone let s say bickering with canada or france, if someone invades canada or france, what are we going to do? we are going to kill the people who invade france or canada because that s what allies do. this other stuff is just bickering amongst the family. we are bickering over trade which is essentially like
Alternative for it. i think it s going to be extremely difficult because the commonwealth is not like a trade block it s. a group of very diverse countries which have diverse interests so it s going to have three hots for negotiate trade agreements with every single one of them now countries like india don t do fast track trade agreements so they re not going to give any preferential treatment to britain and so the other commonwealth countries i think. access. to immigration control it s going to be an issue that they re going to negotiate hard and if britain doesn t on true events that s going to be very difficult already grima mohan from the global public policy institute here in berlin thanks so much for sharing your analysis thank you . you re watching news still to come on the program africa s mobile museum this bus is on its way to west africa with painters and sculptors on board stay tuned to find out the highs and lows of life on the road in africa for
A trade block from vietnam to chile to japan covering about a third of the world s trade. and nearly 40% of the global economy. folks, this is dangerous for america. it will put u.s. workers, jobs, and businesses at a distinct disadvantage. all of the negotiations have been behind closed doors. and congress has been given limited access to negotiation documents. congressman mark pokan of wisconsin is encouraging congress not to fast track the agreement for approval. he joins us tonight here on the ed show. congressman, you have seen this. i realize because of security issues there s only so much you can tell us, but what are your main concerns about the tpp? well, the transpacific partnership is the biggest and baddest of trade deals yet. it has hit so many countries and
Of economies are still struggling. i think it s one that over the long term can be beneficial. thank you, mr. president. thank you, prime minister gi gillard. i want to double back to the topic of china. it seems there s a bit of schizophrenic activity of this week. china is participating in hawaii and indonesia. but the rest of you are talking about a trade block that excludes china. what is it everyone fears so much from china? and isn t there some risk that you would increase tensions in a