W.H.: Trade Deal ‘Most Progressive Bill Ever Contemplated by Congress’

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JAMES ACOSTA: They feel burned by NAFTA, I don’t know if the president took that into account when he went to Nike and talked about how this is going to create jobs. 

Going after his opponents inside of his own party, suggesting they are being political or dishonest, I don’t think it is a stretch to ask you whether or not the president mishandled the politics of this within his own party. 
EARNEST: "This is the debate we want to have, this is the substance of the debate. The fact is, we’re aware there are people in both parties who have raised concerns about Nike’s previous practices in terms of doing business over seas, what are we going to do about it? 

What we see from progressives is a lot of complaining about it. The president has said let’s go do something about it, where we can raise labor standards and environmental standards, and the result of that will be that companies are going to invest in the U.S. because we have evidence that a company like Nike that had previously done a lot of business overseas, when given the opportunity to work on a level playing field, they’ll create jobs in the U.S.A.

And that is how the president can make the case that advocating the most progressive trade bill ever contemplated by the Congress is entirely consistent with our values as progressives. If we care about business and middle class families and workers, we want to engage the world to create more opportunities for American workers here at home. That is exactly what this will do."