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(31,348 posts) Thu Aug 25, 2016, 09:02 AM Aug 2016

TPP number one issue for Bernie Sanders movement – Larry Cohen

Published on Aug 24, 2016
As supporters of former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders prepare to hold meetings in 2,400 homes across America, President Barack Obama is hard at work trying to implement the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. Larry Cohen, former president of the Communications Workers of America, tells “News with Ed” that the Sanders movement is looking to “take over the [Democratic] party” and fighting against TPP is their “number one issue.”