Re: Wyden notes

From:john.podesta@gmail.com To: jake.sullivan@gmail.com CC: ha16@hillaryclinton.com, re47@hillaryclinton.com, jpalmieri@hillaryclinton.com, dschwerin@hillaryclinton.com Date: 2015-04-16 01:39 Subject: Re: Wyden notes

In the last of Huma's points, just for clarification, the must have item is TAA not TPA. JP --Sent from my iPad-- john.podesta@gmail.com For scheduling: eryn.sepp@gmail.com > On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Jake Sullivan <jake.sullivan@gmail.com> wrote: > > Podesta does a wicked Wyden impression. > > Here is latest. Hearing tomorrow at 9 am with Penny, Jack, and Mike on trade. Bill won't have dropped by then. BUT the White House thinks Wyden and Hatch reached a deal tonight and just need some time to clear with leadership. So they intend to drop the bill either late tomorrow or Friday and mark up next week. > > Will let you know what else I hear. > >> On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:06 PM, Huma Abedin <ha16@hillaryclinton.com> wrote: >> >> This is what I got. He asked her not to share details of their conversation and she promised she wouldn't but see readout below: >> Wyden Ready to support and to tell him what she needs and when she needs it. HRC said that it means a lot to her. >> >> HRC would like to set up a call for the next couple weeks to discuss things further, but wanted to give Wyden a chance to get TPA message out there. HRC is going to try to say that she is withholding judgment for as long as she can. >> >> HRC said when she is eventually forced to have to answer, she obviously would like the president to draw the hardest bargain, make the case for trade agreement of America’s interest. >> >> Wyden prefaced by saying he was for HRC under any circumstance. A number of senators that HRC and he like, that are sitting on the fence, but want to be for TPP. >> >> Wyden said most trade opponents have good points, but obviously trying to get agreements and that he is pushing to go a lot further than the President. What Wyden is proposing is the “stuff that labor used to dream about”. Wyden wants to add an early warning alert. Labor has always said enforcement process is a joke and there is no way to do anything. Wyden has a plan for things electronically and is insisting to Orrin Hatch that he wants this early warning system because labor and business want it. >> >> Wyden suggests she keep a window open, even if HRC is skeptical about procedures, to try to wait to see what a final agreement looks like. He mentioned that Patty and Maria feel so strongly about this. Labor people don’t give up oversight role. Got Orrin Hatch for a procedure in TPA where you can turn off fast track. Also there will be a requirement that TPP by law is to be published by 60 days before the President signs it. Wyden said to Trumka that this means we’re going to start having a fair fight, Trumka thought the fight was rigged. Wyden said he is a progressive democrat, basic proposition that trade opponents have a lot of good points. Wyden said that at the end of the day, it’s going to be a fair fight – not just Baucus, Camp, Ryan where it all goes through too easily. Labor will still be opposed but it will look different than what Baucus was talking about. >> >> Only issue outstanding is TPA, which also is a huge issue. It might not drop this afternoon. Dislocations in markets, have to have help for workers, could still blow up over this. So desperate to do this. We’ll probably have 10-12 senate D’s. >> >> Wyden asked HRC when she was likely to say something – HRC responded by saying she would try to postpone saying anything for as long as she could and try to wait for Wyden to make the case. If it doesn’t drop today then HRC will not say anything until it’s out there. HRC mentioned that turning off fast track changes the calculation. HRC just wanted Wyden to know that she was going to have a hard time being positive. >> >> Wyden said the time table is – most likely to get dropped today or tomorrow and most likely to have mark up in a week (end of next week - Thursday) – and suggested that HRC hold off saying anything until after the mark up. As of now, vote is essentially Cantwell, Nelson, Carper, Warner, and possibly Bennet (either 7-5 or 6-6 for Dems on Finance Committee). Better for both of them, to wait to get out of finance before saying anything. Don’t want to be D finance members referendum. As soon as dropping a bill (outside chance could still blow up), every Democrat will walk if don’t have TPA. Wyden will not drop bill without TPA that Dems can vote for. Keep between us, but when get to finance mark, on big issues less secrecy and real enforcement. Wyden calls it smart track, not fast track, people to be able to turn the thing off. A couple people they both know and like against TPA and for TPP - national security people and economics people, largely operating under the same ideas as HRC. Procedures are so stacked, rigged game – HRC agrees. Please don't share details of this call. HRC agreed to keep private. >> >> >> >>