MSNBC "The Ed Show"- Transcript: Trans Pacific Partnership

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Joining me tonight is Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut.
Congresswoman, great to have you with us tonight. I appreciate your time.

What`s your response to the President saying that China might want to play
a ball when it comes to trade if we do the TPP?

ROSA DELAURO, (D) CONNECTICUT: Well, first of all Ed, it`s a delight to be
back with you again and I think what the president`s comments just
reinforced is what the serious complaints that all of us have with the
Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. And that you reinforce it with what
the steel companies have said in filing against China.

This is an agreement that will loss jobs and depress wages. We have been
saying that all along. And I think what the President has walked into here
is say that in fact this is the case and this is what will happen. In
addition to which because it is also job-related, Ed, is that China
practices currency manipulation.

SCHULTZ: Sure, it did.

DELAURO: And there is nothing in the agreement, and the President says he
would veto an agreement that had a currency chapter in it. But well-renown
people have said that currency manipulation has caused the loss of between
1 million and 5 million jobs in the United States.

SCHULTZ: OK.

DELAURO: So, none only will you have Japan that does this, Malaysia, and
you will also have China. The President has just they contradicted his own
arguments about this...

SCHULTZ: In a big way.

DELAURO... in a very, very big way.

SCHULTZ: In a big way.

DELAURO: Very pretty extraordinary.

SCHULTZ: Congresswoman, I got to ask you. There was comment made earlier
today by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. Do you know where she stands on
this?

DELAURO: I think our leader will make up her mind in where she wants to be
at the end of this. She has always had interest in jobs and making sure
that people had jobs and good wages and.

SCHULTZ: But it`s been reported she doesn`t want to embarrass the
President. It`s been reported that she doesn`t want to embarrass the
President. What do you make of that?

DELAURO: Well, I think as I said, I believe that Leader Pelosi will be
true to where she is and the issues that she care deeply...

SCHULTZ: OK.

DELAURO: ... about and that`s what`s going and the economic lives of
American workers today.

SCHULTZ: So, she`s leading no.

DELAURO: I would just say to you I have to imagine that she will be true
to where, you know, her core values are in terms of American working men
and women.

SCHULTZ: All right. We`ll find out. Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman. I
appreciate your time tonight. Thank you.

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