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Trade is a major talking point for both Democrats and Republicans this campaign season -- with candidates arguing that too many jobs have been lost overseas. But did trade agreements such as NAFTA directly lead to the loss of manufacturing we've seen today? And how have those job losses led to the current state of politics? 

MPR News host Kerri Miller spoke with Washington Post Economic Policy Correspondent 

'What Republicans did 15 years ago to help create Donald Trump today'

 from the Economic Policy Institute also joined the conversation.

Reporter Jim Tankersley argues that a crucial vote on trade in 2000 led to the rise of Donald Trump today.

Journalist Jim Tankersley's piece in the Washington Post argued that a vote by Republicans to increase free trade has inadvertently paved the way for a Donald Trump candidacy. MPR News host Kerri Miller talked with Jim and economist Robert Scott about the way the US job market has been impacted by trade agreements and specifically trade with China. 3/28/16

How trade made Trump

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