Thank greg hayes and his team at United Technologies, Bob Mcdonough and the team at carrier. Thank you for renewing your commitment to indiana and renewing your commitment to the people of the United States of america. [applause] i also just want to thank the great carrier team here in indianapolis and in the state of indiana. Your hard work, your resilience, your work ethic even in disappointing times, i know for a fact gave this company the confidence to double down on the future of this company and the future of the people of this state, and so i thank you, the carrier team, for giving them the confidence to do just that. [applause] but lastly, on behalf of all the people of indiana, allow me to thank the man we wouldnt be here without for his efforts, for picking up the phone, for keeping his word. His efforts to bring us to this day of renewed hope and promise not just here in indiana, but really for people that know the strength of this country comes in our ability to make things and to grow things. Its a renewed day for manufacturing inc america. You know, i remember when donald trump was running for president , he said that if he was elected president of the United States, america would start winning again. Well, today america won, and we have donald trump to thank. [applause] and ive got a feeling working beside this extraordinary man this is just the beginning of a lot more good news all across america. So without any further ado, my fellow hoosiers, it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you a man of action, a man of his word and the president elect of the United States of america, donald trump. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you very much. I love that red hat. Thank you, everybody. I want to thank all of the dignitaries that are with us today. We have a whole host; the mayor and governorelect. Great people. Its a big victory for the governorelect. He won very convincingly, so were very proud of him. And, you know, mike has been such a wise decision for me. When people were saying, i dont know, how good is he at decision making, theyd always say, yeah. Thats a good decision. And Everybody Loves mike. Hes become something very special. [applause] i want to thank greg hayes of United Technologies, because when i, when i called him, he was right there. I wish i could have made the call when they were doing their original decision, but it worked out just as well other than i would have liked to have had an answer a year and a half ago. We had a tremendous love affair with the state of indiana. Because if you remember during the primaries, this was going to be the firewall. This was where they were going to stop trump, right . And that didnt work out too well. And it was a firewall for me, it was a firewall. And we won by 16 points. And the election we just won by 20 points, almost 20 points. [applause] and that was some, that was some victory. Thats pretty, thats pretty great. And i just love the people. Incredible people. So i got involved because of the love affair ive had this has been a very special state to us. And ill never forget, about a week ago i was watching the nightly news. I wont say which one, because i dont want to give them credit, because i dont like them much, ill be honest. [laughter] i dont like em. Not even c little bit. But they were doing a story on carrier. And i say, wow, thats manager. I want to see that thats something. I want to see that. And they had a gentleman, worker, great guy, handsome guy. He was on. And it was like he didnt even know they were leaving. He said something to the effect, no, were not leaving. Because donald trump promised us that were not leaving. And i never thought i made that promise. Not with carrier. I made it for everybody else. I didnt make it really for carrier. And i said, whats he saying . Be and he was such a believer. He was such a great guy. He said, ive been with donald trump from the beginning. And he made the statement that carriers not going anywhere, theyre not leaving. And im saying to myself, man. And then they played my statement, and i said carrier will never leave. But that was a euphemism. I was talking about carrier like all other companies from here on to in, because they made the decision a year and a half ago. But he believed that that was and i could understand it. I actually said i didnt want make it, when they played it, i said i did make it, but i didnt mean it quite that way. So now because of him, whoever that guy was is he in the room, by any chance . [inaudible] thats your son, stand up. You did a great job. You did a great job, right . Thats fantastic. And i love your shirt. [inaudible] oh, wow. [laughter] oh, put it on, cameras, go ahead, put it on. [laughter] well, your son is great. Thank you. And he meant that, didnt he . He really meant it. At fist i said i at first i said i wonder if hes being sarcastic, because this ship has said. And then i said it was 6 30 in the evening. And i said, boy, the first thing im going to do is go there. And i say do i call the head of carrier whos a great guy, but ive always learned ive got to call the top. And i heard about greg hayes. Hes a great executive. You know, i dont know if you know, United Technologies is one of the top 50 companies in the United States. And one of the Top Companies anywhere in the world. They make many other things other than air conditioners, believe me. Their list of companies is unbelievable. I called greg hayes. I heard of him, but i never met him. And he picked up the phone, mr. President elect, sir, how are you. Its wonderful to win, you know . Think if i lost, he wouldnt have returned my call. [laughter] i dont know. Where is greg . If i lost and called i dont think you would have called. I would have tried, but i think it would have been tougher, right . Be what do you think, greg . Hes sort of nodding, yes, youre right. [laughter] but i called greg, and i said its really important. We have to do something because you have a lot of people leaving. And you have to understand, we cant allow this to happen anymore with our country. So many jobs are leaving and going to other countries. Not just mexico, many, many countries. And china is making so much of our product that werec closing up a lot of plants. And, i mean, i wrote down some numbers that are incredible. But the numbers of manufacturing jobs that are lost especially in the rust belt, and the rust belt is so incredible, but were losing companies. Its unbelievable, one after another. Just one after another. So i said, greg, youve got to help us out here. Weve got to sit down, weve got to do something. I said, because we just cant let it happen. Anyway, he was incredible. And he said, i understand. And i said i wish i made this call a year and a half ago, it would have been a lot easier call. Only because of your son, okay . Believe me. Your son, whoever the hell your son is, these people owe him a lot. And i just went through hes out in the factory. I thought they were all going to be in this room. This rooms not big enough. [inaudible] yeah. I dont know who arranged that one, because we just visited a thousand people in the factory that are going wild in the plant. But i will tell you that United Technologies and carrier stepped it up, and now theyre keeping, actually, the numbers over 1100 people, which is so great. Which is so great. [applause] and i see the people. I shook hands with a lot of the people. Theyre right behind us working. I guess, what is it, youre making some air conditioners, you didnt even want to have them come off for a half hour. Hes a ruthless boss. Hes ruthless. [laughter] but thats okay. You know, i did say one thing to the carrier folks and the United Technologies folks. I said the gooj deny goodwill that you have engendered, you watch how fast youre going to make it up, because so many people are going to be buying carrier air conditioners. You know, weve had such help here. Bobby knight, nobody in indiana never heard of bobby knight. How great is bobby knight . [applause] lou holtz, we had such incredible support. But ill never forget, a friend of mine called up during the primaries and said, you know, if you could get coach knight concern and i said, you know, coach knight called me a year ago, a year before i decided to run. He said if you ever run, im supporting you. I said, thanks, coach, i just dont know if im going to be doing it. And when he said if you could get coach knight, i tell you, i got coach knight. How good was bobby knight, as far as were concerned, in indiana, right . We got bobby knight. 900 wins. Two championships, right . Two or three championships. Olympic gold medal. Panam games. But and he was unbelievable. He wouldnt stop. He was just going all over. He was the greatest guy. We came into an arena, greg, and we had 16,000 people inside, outside, we had, i think, 10,000 outside. It was and i left, this was three weeks before the primary, and i said how are we going to lose indiana with this . I didnt think we were going to lose, and we didnt. We won big. So i want to thank all of those folks, because they really helped with indiana and with a lot of other places. So United Technologies has stepped up, and i have to say this they did it in such a nice andc such a professional way, d theyre going to spend so much money on renovating this plant. And i said, greg, say that number. You know, he said 16 million. Well, the minimum numbers 16. Its going to be, in my opinion, a lot more than that. He said, well, id rather say the lower number. See, id rather have him say the higher number, so i wont say it. [laughter] its just a difference in philosophy, do you agree . Both are okay. Theyre going to spend a lot of money on the plant. And i said to some of the folks, i said, companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not going to happen. Its not going to happen. [applause] tell you right now. Were losing our, were losing so much. So one of the things were doing to keep them is were going to be lowering our business tax from 35 hopefully down to 15 which would take us from the highest tax nation virtually in the world this is terrible for business to one of the lower tax. Not the lowest yet, but one of the lower tax. The other thing were doing is regulations. The regulations are in fact, if i asked greg and your folks, you would probably say regulations might be worse from you than even the high taxes, which is the Biggest Surprise of the whole political experience. I thought taxes would be number one, regulations would be up there someplace. Believe me, these great leaders of industry and even the Small Business people who are just being crushed, if they had their choice between lower taxes and a major, massive cutting of regulations, they would take the regulations. I dont know how you feel about that, greg. I just noticed i wrote down because i heard it since about six years ago 260 new federal regulations have passed, 53 of which affect this plant. 53 new regulations. Massively expensive and probably none of them amount to anything in terms of safety or the things that youd have regulations for. Six of eight of the airconditioning companies right now are located in mexico. Six of eight. I mean, think of that. And 80 of the supply chain for mexico, 80 , is located in mexico. And were not going to have it anymore. Were not going to have it anymore. And we like mexico. Its wonderful, i was there three months ago with the president of mexico. Terrific guy. But we have to have a fair shake. Were not getting anything. We have nafta, which is a total and complete disaster. [applause] its a total and complete disaster. [applause] its a onelane highway into mexico. Nothing coming our way, everything going their way. And i dont have to mention who signed it anymore, its so nice. I dont have to mention who backed it anymore, right . We dont have to mention that anymore, fortunately. T its a oneway street, and its going to be changed. Its going to be changed. We have to bring our jobs back. And when they expand, one of the things that made me so happy is when greg said that they havec over 10,000 jobs that theyre going to be producing in the very near future, and now hes looking to the United States instead of outside of the United States where almost all of those jobs would have gone. So one of the reasons i wanted to do this particular conference is its so great. So many people in the other that big, big beautiful plant behind us which will be even more beautiful in about seven months from now, theyre so happy. Theyre going to have a great christmas. Thats most important. But also i just want to let all of the other Companies Know that were going to do great things for business. Theres no reason for them to leave anymore, because your taxes are going to be at the very, very low end, and your unnecessary regulations are going to be gone. We need regulations for safety and environment and things, but most of the regulations are nonsense, become a major industry, the writing of regulations. Ask that these companies and that these companies arent going to be leaving anymore. Theyre not going to be taking peoples hearts out. Theyre not going to be announcing like they did at carrier that theyre closing up and theyre moving to mexico. Over 1100 jobs. And by the way, that numbers going to go up very substantially as they expand this area, this plant. So the 1100s going to be a minimum number. So i just want to thank everybody, and specifically i just have to thank the people that i met backstaging. Incredible people backstage. The spirit, the love people are are crying. Theyre all crying. And its taken us a little while, but think of this. I dont think we even announced we were running when this deal was originally announced. And in the end, what happened is because that makes it that much more difficult. Its hard to negotiate when the plant is built. You know what greg said . You know, the plant is almost built, right . I said, greg, i dont care. It doesnt make any difference. Dont worry about it. [laughter] what are we going to do with the plant . Rent it, sell it, knock it down, i dont care. But were going to do and theyre going to do fine with their plant. I dont know if theyre going to be able to do it with an american company, but well figure that out. [applause] but where were starting is from a much easier place. Thats hard a year and a half ago, they make an announcement, and, you know, all of that work is done. Which is why i have such respect i always say great business people, they have flexibility. If youre hard line, well, were not going to move flexibility, thats why its a great company, because they have flexibility. But were not going to need so much flexibility for other companies because we are going to have a situation where theyre going to know, number one, were going to treat them well and, number two, there will be consequences, meaning theyll be taxed very heavily at the border if they want to leave, fire all their people, leave, make product in different companies, in Different Countries and then think theyre going to sell that product be over the border which, by the way, will be a very strong border. Very strong border, believe me. [applause] think companies, were going to build a wall. People are saying, do you think trumps going to build a wall . Were going to build a wall. People are going to come through that wall, were going to have doors in that wall, but theyre going to come through legally. Its going to be done through a legal process. But one thing thats not going to come through is drugs. The drugs are going to sop. The drugs are going to stop. [applause] so i just want to thank all of the people at United Technologies, most particularly you, because you are fantastic, greg. I want to thank, and i want you to tell me how much, how many airconditioning units you sold in the last six months from today, because i want to say i think its going to be a number that even will surprise your folks because of the tremendous goodwill that youve created. I want to thank all of the workers at this plant, all of the carrier workers most importantly,. Importantly [applause] i want to thank my great, great Vice President elect, because ill tell you what, one of the really good decisions, but i want to thank mike. And were going to be doing this. And if i have to tell you, you know, during speeches they say its not president ial to call up these massive leaders of business. I think its very president ial. And if its not president ial, thats okay. [applause] thats okay. Because i actually like doing it. But were going to have a lot of great people that can also do it and do it as well as i do it. But were going to have a lot of phone calls made to companies when they say theyre thinking about leaving this country, because theyre not leaving this country. Theyre not going to leave this country, and the workers are going to keep their jobs. They can leave from state to state, and they can negotiate good deals with the different states and all of that. But leaving the countrys going to be very, very difficult. So i want to thank everybody. We love you folks. I want to really, really thank the people of indiana. We had two massive victories in a very, very short period of time. And all of the workers have a great, great christmas and a fantastic new year. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Liz so imagine that, a president ial election winner making good on a Campaign Promise even before hes inaugurated. It just happened. President elect donald trump saying he went straight to the top to save some 1100 airconditioning jobs in indiana. You just saw him speaking at carrier headquarters. Says he calls the Parent Company of carrier, United Technologies, and asks to speak to the top dog, Ceo Greg Hayes took that call, and today as you just saw he formally announced it, a deal has been struck to keep those jobs that were headed to mexico right here in the United States. And you know what . I dont know if you saw Vice President elect mike pence before that introducing mr. Trump, he said, you know,