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>> reporter: vice president elect pence will be joining trump on stage tonight. and erin what is so interesting about these rallies is when you talk to voters they are starting to get a sense of where his campaign promises end and where the real governing begins. all the promises to drain the swamp, some people dont believe he necessarily has. so these rallies are soon becoming a reality check for the trump administration. >> all right jeff. thank you very much. martin savage is "outfront" in ...

Pick tonight. he may also once again attack union leader chuck jones who represents the carrier workers whose jobs trump pledged to save. after jones said this week that trump lied about how many jobs would actually be saved in his deal with carrier, trump tweeted, "chuck jones, who is president of united steelworkers 1999 has done a terrible job representing workers. no wonder companies flee country." joining me now is chuck jones, president of united steelworkers local 1999 which represents ca...

To d.c.? >> thats a question you should be asking of ivanka. >> reporter: of course, trump said time and time again that his business is not important to him anymore, that he has a much bigger job now as president of the united states. so we have to wait and see what he says when he explains his new role with his company at his first press conference since winning the election on december 15th. >> stay tuned. ryan nobles, thank you. the local union boss representing thousands of carrier worker...

Really between the president, in this case the president-elect, and those people who were so closely involved, hallie. >> thank you, chris. after that private event, a very public one out in iowa as the president-elect continues on the third leg of his thank-you tour in des moines. chris jansing in columbus, kasie hunt, kristen welker, appreciate it. coming up, well talk more about president-elect trump taking to twitter to attack chuck jones, president of the local steelworkers union represen...

Thin-skinned and vindictive. stop this. >> donald trump, who last week presented himself as the hero of the workers at a carrier plant in indiana is now attacking those very same workers, and blaming them for carrier moving their jobs to mexico. donald trump has congratulated himself repeatedly for saving over a thousand jobs at carrier from moving to mexico. he praised carrier for not moving those jobs to mexico, even though carrier told donald trump they still intend to move 1300 jobs at least...

Their jobs to mexico. donald trump has congratulated himself repeatedly for saving over a thousand jobs at carrier from moving to mexico. he praised carrier for not moving those jobs to mexico, even though carrier told donald trump they still intend to move 1300 jobs at least to mexico. so in that trump deal, more jobs would be sent to mexico than kept in indiana. yesterday chuck jones, the president of the united steel workers local that represents the carrier workers said that donald trump, qu...

By inflating the number of jobs he saved at carrier. chuck jones, who represents the carrier workers, talk about it on tv last night. >> i appreciate mr. trump getting involved and saving as many peoples livelihood as he did. so i dont think that can go without being said. i just wish that hed have had the numbe down. we had a lot of our members when the word was coming out of 1100, they thought that they would have a job. then they find out the next day that most likely they werent. 550 were st...

Mexico. 1,100 jobs. and we will work to make america a better environment for workers and businesses. those days are over where those companies are going to leave. >> on his victory/thank you tour, donald trump has been touting the deal he was facilitating to keep carrier factory jobs from moving to mexico. an early political win for the president-elect, the deal is extremely popular. according to a new poll, 60% of registered voters say it gave him a more favorable view of trump. but the united...

>> i believe in free trade but i dont believe in stupid trade, and stupid trade is when our companies all move out of our country, fire their workers and then come back in, matt, and sell their product back in with no retribution. im saying very simply if they want to fire their workers, move to mexico or some other country and sell their product into our country, they will be paying a tax. >> so of course, we now know donald trump claimed his first job-saving victory here, in indianapolis, at t...

Touting the deal he was facilitating to keep carrier ctory jobs from moving to mexico. an early political win for the president-elect, the deal is extremely popular. according to a new poll, 60% of registered voters say it gave him a more favorable view of trump. but the united steelworkers union that represents those carrier workers, the actual people whose jobs were at stake in the deal, they were not a party to the negotiations and they just found out from the company how many factory jobs ar...