Elizabeth Warren on Obama's trade deal: "He won't put the facts out there"

[UCmeNdc]

Elizabeth Warren on Obama's trade deal: "He won't put the facts out there"


Barack Obama says critics of the trade deal, TPP, should look at the facts. Elizabeth Warren fired back on The Rachel Maddow Show last night, accusing the White House of keeping those very facts a secret.

Warren's appearance on MSNBC was in response to the president's own MSNBC segment on Tuesday, in which he called Warren's TPP stance "wrong."

"It's the case that the president says he wants the American people to judge this deal based on the facts, but to do that, he's got to make the deal public. Otherwise the American people can't judge it on the facts. He won't put the facts out there," she said. She added that Congress shouldn't "grease the skids" of such a secretive deal by approving fast-track legislation, under which Congress would give the 12 TPP nations' agreed-upon treaty text an up-or-down vote, with no amendments.


http://www.vox.com/2015/4/23/8482851/elizabeth-warren-obama-tpp-secret

[Hoyt]

1. LMAO. Like Warren is telling the truth. The "deal" will be public and she knows it.

Most of it is public right now.

Except for the EW misrepresentations, the article is fairly balanced.

[UCmeNdc]

2. But when will it be public?

Why not let the public discuss the different details now?

[Lil Missy]

3. Very disingenuous of Warren to say that.

Thought I understood that Congress will have 60 days to review it, and several additional months to study and debate it before voting on it - and the details will also be available to the public.

That's not my idea of a "secret" deal.