much time going back to the late 1990s, 2000s. i was friends with them since 1980. i cannot tell you the distress in that family with all the issues, legal fees, banks refusing to give them a mortgage. people go through tough financial times. remember, hillary s mother, she was abandoned. that s why hillary s always been a fighter, the child needs someone to be a guardian for them. she came up in a middle class family. look at her background look at her today, obviously, years later, but her growing up. middle class roots. her own mother was abandoned. you never forget that. that s why hillary is out every day talking to voters about how can i make your life better? let the republicans spend their time attacking her. that s fine. you need a positive agenda how you move folks forward. you mentioned nice approval ratings in virginia, why? i m doing exactly what i said i would do. people are sick and tired of the dysfunction of politicians not
virginia. there are a few things i m curious. bill de blasio was on the show last week and talked about the reason he wasn t ready to endorse her, he wants to see a more progressive vision which some people would say is to the left. can that play in virginia? if you look at the agenda i ran on, i think i was the first statewide candidate in the south. i ran on marriage equality when i ran for governor. i told women i would be a brick wall to protect their rights, and i ve done that as governor. to make virginia open and welcoming. what i tried to do is get virginia in line with 90% of the fortune 500 companies. i m all about creating economic activity. those candidates that lay out an agenda and when i talk about jobs, i talk about careers. building the future. when i talk to my education system, don t talk about a degree, talk about a skill set. all these hillary championed about pre-k, reforming our transportation system. we ve done that in virginia. her message fits perfectly wh
i was one of the most traveled governors, went to china, korea, japan, europe. we brought back so much business from around the globe. which means you can t carry the state of virginia if you re a protectionist. we want a trade deal that makes markets open. nobody can compete with us, chuck. nobody in america. we ve got to have fair rules. we ve got to have the same playing field as everybody else. you give us the same rules, there is not a country in the globe that can compete with america. i ll tell you this, virginia, our economy is roaring. nobody can compete with virginia. low taxes, business-friendly environment, great educational institutions. a lot of military assets, largest naval base in the world and deepest port in the east coast. we have it all. you give me a level playing field, nobody can beat us. that s hillary s message. how do you build the economy of tomorrow, not yesterday. how do you help families? how do you provide pre-k so every child has access to early chi
side of this. how do you look fresh when you have a name from the past? i think it comes down to the issues. what voters want is someone who is going to lay out an agenda how you move the country forward. you showed republican candidates spending time attack hillary. that s great. let them do it. every second they are not talking about how we move this great nation forward is great for hillary clinton. let her lay out her positive agenda. it s what i did when i ran for governor of the commonwealth of virginia in 2013. we had a historic win. we broke a 38-year trend. talked about issues and how do you move the economy forward, how do we make virginia open and welcoming. today you look at a virginia today, less a year in office, our economy is booming, lowest unemployment rate in many years. $6.5 billion investment. we brought people together in a bipartisan way around ideas. that s what hillary can do for this country and will do. if she s going to be president of the united states,
we need to go in virginia. you say her message, but we don t know what her message is. you wrote in your book, nafta was among president clinton s greatest accomplishments. she was a champion of nafta. she was a champion of some of these trade agreements, one being debated now called the tpp having to do with asian countries. now she is trying to walk a line here because many in the base of the democratic party don t trust anybody to negotiate a trade agreement, let alone a democratic republican or republican. the devil s in the details. that s what we have to see in the trade agreement. you are a free trader. you probably want to see this tpp go. i want a trade deal that opens up markets to america, creates jobs for americans, protect their wages and benefits. that s what i want. in virginia, i just announced we are up 14% on agriculture exports, $3.35 billion. i travel the globe.