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Which would focus the new administration rather than changing the global order or damaging the global order in trade. just one quick thing i would say, poppy, they do think that the tpp, this transpacific partnership, which is a signature trade deal of president obama's will be dead. the white house is not pushing anymore. it would give the chinese more leverage in asia as far as their own economic muscle. they can write the rules in asia, which they hope goes ahead. >> the president-elect is not a supporter of it and it was obviously put in place in part to keep china in check. as you said, a...

Which is a regional come comprehensive partnership. many people say tpp was designed to keep china in check. as obama would say, it allowed the u.s. to write the trade rules of the 21st century. without that, the fear is that it will be china writing those rules, which means that environmental and labor standards could suffer. and president xi is pushing very hard to get his vision, which is this regional comprehensive economic partnership into operations. so that's why he's down there in peru, pushing that hard. >> ambassador lock, with the perspective that you have serving as ambassador to c...

That came before her, she voted against it. she voted against it, because she's clear about what her tests are for -- >> it kafta. >> what she has said throughout this campaign against senator sanders and donald trump, we have to have tough enforcement of our trade rules. we also need to invest in our small businesses, new high-tech manufacturing, because we have to trade with the rest of the world. 95% of the consumers in the world, live outside the united states. we have to invest in american businesses, help them make the things they can ship to the rest of the world. it's totally consisten...

This great did ivide that's opened up in our country over the last third of a sentry. third of a century. and the trade rules are an example how changes in rules can't have led to an increase in the inequality in the united states with just to give you one number that i just found astounding that since 1980 say to 2012 the bottom 90% of america has seen no growth in their income. all the growth has gone to the top. that's in part a result of that rule, the trade rules, and a combination of lots of other rules that we've implemented and that's the reason for the roosevelt report about rewriting...

You do the math. >> so trade deficit with south korea has also skyrocketed. >> doubled. >> 60,000 jobs lost to south korea just since we signed that agreement. >> let me ask you this. if barack obama had been talking about this on the campaign trail, what would that have done to middle class families? what would that have done to union support? i think we can make the case that had he not had union support, he might not have been re-elected or elected to beat john mccain to start with. would that have changed the equation? >> it would have changed the equation with our members. they felt the s...