Sen. Ted Cruz Discusses TPA & TPP on the Kuhner Report

thank you so much for coming on the corner report I know you're very busy we really appreciate it good

morning Jeff it's great it's great to be with the it's always great to be with you %HESITATION okay so senator let me just sort of cut to the chase %HESITATION

the house is about to vote today on fast track authority they are a lot of conservatives out there are very angry they don't want to give this president TP

would Ted Cruz a staunch Obama critic give Obama almost complete power to

complete negotiations over the TPP and then reduce the threshold for a vote on the TPP from

sixty seven votes to sixty votes to fifty votes plus one why would you trust this president honestly

senator I wouldn't trust them to clean my toilet if it was clogged if you came in with a plunger why

would you trust them with the national interest well yeah thank you for that question there's a lot of substance there so so let's let's

take the different pieces one at a time %HESITATION but but let's start with with the first premise are

that we should be fighting Obama and and I think it is fair to say there has been nobody in the United States Congress who

is still up and fought president Obama more than I had more consistently over and over again this is not a lawless president who's abused his power and

at every turn whether it is leading the fight to stop obamacare weather is leading the fight to stop the debt ceiling from being raised without meaningful reforms whether it is leading the fight to

stop president Obama's amnesty when most of the Republicans we're not in the fight I

number one now let's talk about TP a and TPP because unfortunately there so many acronyms that

this gets confusing and and it's getting a lot of people because we naturally distrust this president a lot of people are very very concerned and don't understand the

multiple pieces that are here TPI on TPP are two things that are very very different TP

a its trade promotion authority it's also known as fast track fast track is the process by

eighty years I threw TP a what happens is that the front end Congress sets out specific negotiating parameters for

is subject to an up or down vote a straight up or down vote with no amendments now history has demonstrated the

for eighty years presidents and both parties have had fast track anytime fast track is lapsed trade agreements don't get negotiated and

the reason for that is that foreign countries are unwilling to negotiate an agreement if on the backend in Congress a whole bunch of amendments can be stuck on the on the end so

what Congress is voting on right now is PPA is the process for negotiating free trade agreements now

there is a second thing called TPP and a lot of the discussion has focused on TPP TPP

is one specific trade agreement that's currently being negotiated TPP stands for the transpacific partnership I

still being negotiated the different countries are gone back and forth the administration is going back and forth what