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Another carrier worker is out on medical leave. he was a worker at carrier for 14 years and wrote in bernie sanders in the presidential election. we have susan crawford who had 31 years on the job and voted for donald trump as well and rounding out the group is a single mother who voted for hillary clinton. let me start with you, renee. donald trump came to places like that and said clearly i am not going to let the jobs leave and came here and said i am not going to let carrier leave and they l...

Carrier decided to stay and grow right here in america. >> companies are not going to leave the united states anymore without consequences. >> the deal was largely smoke and mirrors and carrier would have round after round of layoffs, hundreds of jobs did in fact go to mexico where workers make around $3 an hour and workers were left to fend for themselves. >> i thought he was going to protect our jobs. and then, boom. i felt betrayed. >> and joining us here tonight, you have renee elliott in th...

At the situation in charleston. you dont see a lot of folks, even police officers, running to that persons defense. so i think if theres legitimate cases of -- and certainly, there are, then they should be prosecuted fully and in fact, they should be made an example of, because that cant allow -- youre right. it undermines the legitimacy of the police. >> the good thing is, were going to have the opportunity now with the republicans having full control of the federal government to see if we can ...

Plant. tjs one of the people whose job he saved. >> i am a carrier worker and mr. trump came in and able to make this deal. 750 jobs. my question to you is what can we expect from the trump administration with other jobs that we have that are going to mexico and other countries like china. we have a system, a plant about a mile down the street. mr. trump tweeted about it on friday. they had 350 union employees who are losing their jobs to mexico. what can we expect from the trump administration ...

So i think if theres legitimate cases of -- and certainly, there are, then they should be prosecuted fully and in fact, they should be made an example of, because that cant allow -- youre right. it undermines the legitimacy of the police. >> the good thing is, were going to have the opportunity now with the republicans having full control of the federal government to see if we can come up with a better balance here. i dont want to just talk about this, because we have so many other people to tal...

Optically, its a great deal and for the workers that are going to be able to keep their jobs and to keep the ancillary impact, the economic impact. when this was first announced, the state said they were going to lose $100 million in economic impact by the loss of those thousand jobs. that was back in february and the whole trade problem and bad trade deals and the average worker at carrier makes about 24 to $26 an hour and the jobs were going to mexico and they were going to be $23 less than wh...

If he does not do that. hes a pro-business and capital guy. hes talking about business of having a primary purpose of creating good paying jobs. hes trying to do things that cause business to thrive but also to cause that thrive and to flow directory to the benefit of workers. thats where the disconnect was with mitt romney. let me drill down. i want to play some sound. this is a carrier worker who talked to my colleague. >> some people are saying that is christmas miracle here and we get to kee...

Going to be $23 less than what a carrier worker makes in america. >> its interesting, because martin savidge mentioned this, salena. after this deal, can there be backlash? every worker who lose as job overseas wonder why donald trump didnt ride to their rescue? >> theres probably going to be part of that, sort of a natural reaction. i think what trump wants to do and he said a lot in his campaign rhetoric is to ease up regulations for businesses so that, you know, they could have better deals w...

Velchi, indiana is getting $7 million of tax deals. is this a sweet deal? >> yeah. heres the thing. america creates 6,000 jobs a day, 180 jobs a month. most new jobs are created by small and medium sized businesses, so incentives for large businesses are a little more optics than they are dealing with the underlying problem that manufacturing jobs have been leaving this country for 40 years. that is a secular economic problem based on the fact that we have higher wages than other countries that ...

People who have no previous government experience, people who have not been connected to the regular economy in decades and decades and decades on end. the indicator that he will be sensitive to the needs of your average main street american are next to nil. that is something i think everybody should be concerned about. >> wait a minute. i just interviewed a carrier worker who says hes quite comfortable with donald trumps picks. donald trump after all picked up the phone, called the ceo of carri...