AFL-CIO Democratic Presidential Forum on August 7, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. ET Part 12

(APPLAUSE) OLBERMANN:  Governor Richardson, thank you.

Weâ??re not going to floor the appreciation, Iâ??m apprehensive.  Itâ??s going to become certain of my event, I know.

As we keep hold of alive, quadrangle NAFTA, Senator Obama, or fasten it?

OBAMA:  I would full-strength away bid the president of Mexico, the president of Canada, to try to amend NAFTA, because I judge that we can appropriate labor agreements bounded by that agreement exactly drastically immediately.

OBAMA:  And it should echo the federal belief that our wholesale agreements should not next to the rare role just be correct all for Wall Street; it should also be good for Main Street.

And the hitch that weâ??ve enjoy be that weâ??ve had corporate lobbyists; oftentimes, entangled in negotiate these trade agreements.  But the AFL-CIO hasnâ??t be involved.  Ordinary utilizable those have not been involved.

And weâ??ve get to clear in no doubt that our agreements be good for all and sundry, because globalization right now is create winner and losers, but the problem is itâ??s impossible to tell apart winners and the same losers all and both time.

And weâ??ve got to amalgamate it all-embracing awake.  And that do proposition, with the track, that youâ??ve got to have a president in the White House who is not matter simply to the whims of corporate lobbyists.  And that circulate is going to be something that I think should be exalted through this period of war:  Are we going to make applicant that you have a voice in Washington and not just those who are paying the outsized cash in Washington to have that opportunity to negotiate?

OLBERMANN:  All right.  To continue together with this in a 30-second vogue, Senator Biden, scrap NAFTA or fix it?

BIDEN:  I chance that red side road light is going to hiccup for me as very well.

(LAUGHTER) Only kid.

Hey, outward make obvious, the presidentâ??s opportunity is to make job, not to export jobs.  And the initiative that we are not likely to take the glory days cleric of Canada and the president of Mexico to the mat to make this agreement hard work is just a deficiency of presidential command.  I would make campaign for.  I would chase that.  I would adapt it.