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Like united technologies. about 10% of the revenues come from the pentagon in washington. this is a well-known consumer brand. if it was a company selling business to businesses, it might be harder to press this. >> what about extending jobs overseas? >> its an issue. its certainly a win for those carrier workers and good news for them but its not an industrial policy or manufacturing job policy. the long-term trend has been for manufacturing jobs to leave for different reasons. whats interestin...

Of cuba, right after fidel castro died, and that announcement was made, thats when they had this phone call. we dont know thats what precipitated it, but we do know, at least, in that conversation, they talked about cuba. >> michelle cozkosinski, apprece the reporting. president-elect trump is also talking with executives a to the heating and air-conditioning company, carrier. he talked about this on the campaign trail, his goal is to full ail campaign process and stop carrier from moving jobs t...

When they had this phone call. we dont know thats what precipitated it, but we do know, at least, in that conversation, they talked about cuba. >> michelle kosinski, appreciate the reporting. president-elect trump is also talking with executives a to the heating and air-conditioning company, carrier. he talked about this on the campaign trail, his goal is to full ail campaign process and stop carrier from moving jobs to mexico. they posted, carrier has had discussions with the incoming administr...

An hour. hes with a company whose jobs are going to mexico. there is no deal with trump or with pence. he wants to get trumps ear and essentially make it happen for him and his family as well. so that is the sentiment here. people are happy with what has taken place but again, as bernie sanders said and other critics, it certainly isnt an economic big picture policy. >> suzanne malveaux, thank you. im joined by assistant editor for the atlantic, ron brownstein and washington correspondent for th...

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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 carrier workers in indianapolis. chuck, before we get to what the president-elect said yesterday and every...

And stay true to who we are. >> we must reject the failed approaches of the past. >> we need the wisdom that adhering to the law is not a weakness in the long term, it is our greatest strength. >> there are exactly two major manufacturers of large commercial airliners in the world, and luckily, one of them is here in the united states. boeing. and thats the one that donald trump decided to attack today. hes got no problem with airbus, boeings french-based competition. today was a bad day for boe...

Opposes raising the federal minimum wage, and who has spoken enthusiastically about replacing workers with robots. trump tapping andy puzder, ceo of the fast food company that owns fast food restaurants carls jr. and hardees to lead the labor department. paid more than $4.4 million in 2012 argued strenuously against raising the federal minimum wage which is just $7.25 per hour arguing an increase would be bad for workers because it would force businessowners to cut jobs. earlier this year, he sa...

Thanks to donald trump. also today, the union representing carrier workers revealed that donald trumps deal last week to keep jobs there from moving to mexico saved only 730, not the 1100 jobs that donald trump publicly claimed to save last week. >> united technologies and carrier stepped it up, and now theyre keeping, actually, the numbers over 1100 people, which is so great. >> that, of course, was a lie. and of course the stunning absurdity of that story is that in donald trumps deal with car...