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President s Economic Vision for the country and reality so Many Americans are facing. President biden has been on the road this week busy promoting his Bidenomics Agenda ahead of the 2024 election and marking oneyear anniversary of the socalled inflation induction act, which didnt reduce inflation. President biden they call my plan bidenomics, but guess what, its working . Kayleigh new fox news polling shows voters arent buying what the president is selling. 70 are dissatisfied with how things a...

Thats five pm on the east coast, and the nations eyes are on washington. On capitol hill. We are a stopgap federal Spending Bill is now in the hands of the senate. After being passed in dramatic fashion by the house, just a couple of hours ago. To fund our government and avoid a shutdown with just seven hours left on the clock to do so. We have a lot to cover on our show tonight, but we start with a possible shutdown at midnight. Nbcs Ali Vitale Is Standing by on capitol hill. Elie, give us the ...

Say we need change. >> kayleigh: kennedy, it reminds me of 2016 issue the same sentiment in the wake of the 2016 election, i flew to indiana and interviewed carrier workers, who lost their jobs. a man said stay competitive, move production from indianapolis to mexico and the video went viral. you see horror on the faces of the employees. one of the only republicans to mention it was donald trump, and on the democratic side, it wasnt hillary clinton, it was bernie sanders, both hitting the same n...

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 go on to have round after round of lay offs. hundreds of jobs did go to mexico. lead off carrier workers who voted for trump like renee elliott were left to fend for themselves. >> i felt like he was going to protect our jobs. we all voted for him, and then boom. i felt betrayed. >> and joining us here tonight we have renee el...

Elizabeth warren sat down for quite a big town hall with msnbcs chris hayes last night. ali vitaly was there at the town hall. what stood out to you? >> the way elizabeth warren generally conducts her events shows why thats so helpful when she goes into a town hall setting like last night where shes able to field questions and manage to put her stump speech in there so she can use a new tv audience to give her message in the same way shed give it at a regular elizabeth warren rally. thats exactl...

>> that last clip was from the presidential transition when trump touted a deal with carrier corporation to keep 1100 jobs in indiana. at the time, my next guest was the president of the union representing the carrier workers. so has president trump lived up to his promises to working americans? for more im joined by chuck jones, former president of the united steel work serious local 1999 out in indianapolis. mr. jones, tell us the whole story. whats it been like? whats happened, whats been the...

Technologies and carrier stepped it up and now theyre keeping -- actually the number is over 1,100 people which is so great. which is so great. >> reporter: carrier got $7 million worth of incentives from the state of indiana. it was a win-win for workers and the negotiator in chief. so what went wrong? in a word, nothing. is this plan the layoffs, is it all working out the way it was supposed to work out? >> yes. >> reporter: robert james is president of the union representing carrier workers. ...

This area, this plant. so the 1100 is going to be a minimum number. >> joining us now, chuck jones, the former president of the united steel workers local 1999 which represents the carrier workers. chuck retired last month after 26 years as president and 48 years as a member. he joins us from his union hall in indianapolis. chuck, these seven months since the president was there, the official word has come to the people being laid off. do all the individual workers who know theyre going to be la...

Im so proud to be a non-smoker. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. many insurance plans cover chantix for a low or $0 copay. over 1100 jobs. and by the way, that number is going to go up very substantially as they expand this area, this plant. so the 1100 is going to be a minimum number. >> joining us now, chuck jones, the former president of the united steel workers local 1999 which represents the carrier workers.

Looking for tax reform. if were seeing the markets reacting saying were not going to get this any time soon what is this going to do for people in states like michigan saying bring those jobs back for me. >> what its going to do for them, is negative things. not good things. its going to make very clear that economic promises donald trump made to the middle class and working class americans were never true, never meant to be true and are falling short clearly. >> but so far what weve seen is tha...