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>> 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 i'm joined by chuck jones, former president of the united steel work serious local 1999 out in indianapolis. mr. jones, tell us the whole story. what's it been like? what's happened, what's been the effect of the trump presidency economically? >> well, people voted for him based on his commitm...

Technologies and carrier stepped it up and now they're 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. he says trump's deal did save about 800 manufacturing jobs but its had some painful fine print allo...

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 they're going to be laid off now know that and are they now able to plan for that? >> yeah. finally the dates were announ...

I'm 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 we're seeing the markets reacting saying we're 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 it's going to do for them, is negative things. not good things. it's 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 we've seen is that that base is surprisingly resilient. in the times we reported on some of the manufacturing wo...