<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class=""><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">POLITICO </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';" class=""><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 6px;" class=""><b class="">Top Clinton adviser Podesta: No quick fix to TPP</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">07/26/2016 04:22 PM EDT<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Hillary Clinton is opposed to holding a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership later this year and would seek major changes to the pact if elected president, the head of her campaign said Tuesday, the <a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bf1f57e3121b562426ec9d7d87ef8aad66253597bf1835555b38569f8e253264" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">Wall Street Journal</a> reports. <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">"We need a new approach to trade," John Podesta said at a lunch in Philadelphia sponsored by the newspaper, when asked if Clinton would be satisfied with minor changes to the pact. "We're not about renegotiation. We're not kind of interested in that. We're interested in a new approach."<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Podesta insisted both Clinton and her running mate Sen. <a href="http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=bf1f57e3121b562441829ac275b0f79ca73f8f915bada8617eee8d64806f36ed" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">Tim Kaine</a> are strongly opposed to a vote on the agreement at any point this year.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">"They're against it before the election and against it after the election," he said, adding that he met with House Democrats on Monday and drove home the same point to them. "So they know, they well know what our position is."<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">But Podesta acknowledged it was up to President Barack Obama to decide whether to try to seek an vote in the lame duck session after the election.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">"What the president chooses to do, whether he thinks that that's an effective strategy, is up to him, but that is not our strategy," Podesta said, when asked if Clinton would try to block a lame duck vote on the trade deal.<o:p class=""></o:p></p></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>