Trans-Pacific Partnership - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Index / Policies Trans-Pacific Partnership Transcripts Joe Del Bosque ...was the Trans-Pacific Partnership [ TPP ] treaty. They, among other things... ...administration's efforts to develop the TPP ? I think some of our trade group... Katie Fallon ...gotten there. We were pretty close with TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] too, an... ...more time. We just needed more time for TPP . And then the Democrats—they didn'... ...Promotion Authority so we could get the TPP moving, and all this stuff, thi... Penny Pritzker ...in TPA [Trade Promotion Authority] and TPP , the Trans-Pacific Partnership and th... ...of those agreements are based in TPP . I think that's the positive that cam... ...important. And to do something like TPP , which I think would've covered—... ...been in the countries included in TPP , for us to all have the same rules an... ...why it was so important to pursue TPP . Frankly, I'll just tell you, I thin... ...by the United States not to have passed TPP . Trade is such an interesting issu... Show more... David Simas ...Promotion Authority], the work on TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and som... ...way, right, because something like the TPP and TPA, they were real part... Sharon Block ...TPA [Trade Promotion Authority] and TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], and how i... ...TPA passed. So they started to move to TPP , which was really a turning point... Chris Lu ...is TPA [Trade Promotion Authority] and TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], are thes... ...go. By 2016 we were full-court press on TPP . I never had to be the one—Perez wa... ...the message of the day. You had to push TPP . As I was doing events with members o... ...I would have to make a push for TPP . And I remember—that is not an eas... ...I said, “Hey, I'm supposed to mention TPP .” She goes, “Yes, don't mention TPP.... ...TPP.” She goes, “Yes, don't mention TPP .” And she goes, “This is like an ol... ...I was never sent out to do an event on TPP . I was always sent out to do othe... ...we were there, to insert something on TPP . Most times it was so subtle, becaus... ...about the decision to support TPP , given that the base of the Democrati... ...Korea. I think he really felt like TPP was not just a good way to open market... ...to help move the ball forward on TPP . The morning after Election Day, w... ...it makes no sense for me to go push TPP anymore. This is not happening.” H... Show more... Mitchell Stewart ...over the Trans-Pacific Partnership [ TPP ] . What made you get involved i... ...run. To kind of tie this back to the TPP fight, and the shifts that wer... Lori Wallach ...and then, down the road on TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership], the Obam... ...us into the Obama administration on TPP , because it was a continual arc of th... ...he's just criticizing these agreements, TPP , because he has to. That's not what h... ...was supposed to be a review of the TPP that [George W.] Bush had largel... ...support them, their own president, on a TPP fast track. If they had done it early... ...can spend an enormous amount of time on TPP and then, in the end, it's not gettin... ...road of doubling down. You mentioned TPP , but I wanted to maybe zoom out for ... ...about it. So, if you think about the TPP , what, in your reflection on it, doe... ...get out of the way, so we can do this TPP thing, which, if you know what you wer... ...way, was one of the reasons that the TPP failed and could never get a majorit... ...lot. So the arrogance of promoting the TPP through October of the election, i... ...of Wisconsin trying to get votes for TPP [laughs], in October. And this is ... ...press, and they had them pitching the TPP , in anticipation of a lame-duck vote... ...vote. They were still trying to pass TPP , as compared to reelect anothe... ...the fall of the election year pushing TPP . Which, TPP was seen as toxic to smal... ...the election year pushing TPP. Which, TPP was seen as toxic to small farmers, t... ...is a pretty direct fallout from that TPP passage obsession in the end of th... ...they have—the rules of origin of that TPP , allowed vehicles to have sixty-fiv... ...content and be deemed in the rules of TPP , with no reciprocal requirement fro... ...the other countries are still in TPP . But then, on top of that, th... ...the point that they had initialed the TPP text. It was done. They had finishe... ...where we had a bloodhound that was the TPP tracker. And we had thirty, very senio... ...around the Capitol, looking for the TPP text. And this is after it had bee... Show more... Daniel Russel ...US was going to negotiate entry into TPP , the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Tha... ...of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP . Remember, a lot of the resistance t... ...Remember, a lot of the resistance to TPP on the Hill had nothing to do wit... ...directly in the negotiations over TPP on labor rights and unionization and s... ...broader frame here. I want to ask about TPP . How significant was it that th... ...no question to me that the concept of TPP , the pursuit of TPP, the negotiation... ...that the concept of TPP, the pursuit of TPP , the negotiations of TPP, wer... ...the pursuit of TPP, the negotiations of TPP , were immensely important in strategi... ...of Southeast Asia in particular. The TPP completely upended that, solved tha... ...to the size and the value of the TPP collective. It was tremendousl... ...to the effect of, he'd rather have TPP than another aircraft carrier group... ...of things to come. Now, in my world, TPP was never really about free trade. Tha... ...not the stream that was going to take TPP over the top of the dam of oppositio... ...president and others used to talk about TPP . You know; “If we don't set the rules... ...geostrategic rhetoric associated with TPP for domestic political consumption, bu... ...on the part of nondemocratic TPP members. You know, be candid, brie... ...package. I think the failure to get TPP across the finish line in the U... ...the reaction to Trump pulling out of TPP offers a lot of clues. One of th... ...but to come out flatly opposed to TPP . But I don't know anybody who, even a... ...When Trump, in fact, pulled out of TPP , people in the US political world wh... ...in the US political world who had been TPP skeptics, I think, suddenly showe... Show more... 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