Obama sells free trade in interview

While he has no public events scheduled for Monday, President Obama plans to sell his free trade policies to a most interested audience: Wall Street Journal subscribers.

The president sits for an interview with the Journal on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership with Asian nations, and other trade-related issues.

Obama is also asking Congress to approve trade promotion authority, allowing his team to negotiate a final deal that would get an up-or-down from lawmakers, without amendments.

The president's current campaign on behalf of free trade is aimed at his own party as much as Republicans.

Some Democrats say free trade deals send U.S. jobs overseas, and are demanding that U.S. trading partners adopt higher labor and environmental standards.