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Have a trade deficit of nearly $500 billion. president obama stopped negotiating or cutting any new trade agreemenagreementagreemen. what countries do you think the united states should begin renegotiating or negotiating trade agreements with. >> first of all i think we want the widest possible markets. we want to change american law so we can compete. if you look in ohio for example 80 percent of the electricity comes from coal burning electric plants. the environmental protection agency anti coal position kills manufacturing in ohio. now if you are going to have open markets you better have ...

That has two meanings. number one, making it, getting your objectives, but number two, making it in america, manufacturing it in america, growing it in america, and selling it both here and around the world. the president wants to double exports in the next five years. in order to do that, you've got to make things that people want to buy overseas. in order to do that, you have to expand manufacturing capability. and you have to have a policy to accomplish that end. we democrats have been talking about the make it in america agenda for over a year now. very frankly, i was disappointed that the...

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Your objectives, but number two, making it in america, manufacturing it in america, growing it in america, and selling it both here and around the world. the president wants to double exports in the next five years. in order to do that, you've got to make things that people want to buy overseas. in order to do that, you have to expand manufacturing capability. and you have to have a policy to accomplish that end. we democrats have been talking about the make it in america agenda for over a year now. very frankly, i was disappointed that the president didn't use that particular phrase in his sp...

Reindustrialize our country so we have more manufacturing capability and don't become more and more a service economy. it may not have an impact in any six-month-period. but it will have an impact over a five year period. >> greta: what about our deficit? does the deficit have any bearing on our strength vis-a-vis trying to get countries to help us with iran? take china out. in terms of our international stature? >> no, i don't think the deficit is the primary element in -- on the iran question. the problem with respect to the iran question is that a number of countries china, russia, have bee...