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Companies should make those decisions. if he's going to shine a light on this, then he should continue to hold their feet to the fire and make sure they follow through on that. it is true that fox conn has made promises before and those plans did not get billed but this is all being done in the town of janesville and some good news for fox conn there. they are some great employees. because the government has been thinking about this ahead of time, there has been some worker retraining being done. this plant won't open until 2020. that means that there is plenty of time to try to get as many wo...

Wisconsin. but i was just talking to governor scott walker of wisconsin who is here at the white house just a few moments ago. wolf, he said he would like to call this wisconsin valley, like silicon valley. he wants to make this the beginning of high-tech jobs in that state. but, wolf, perhaps one note of caution. a few years ago fox con announced a $30 million plant in pennsylvania. that plant has not yet started being built. wolf? >> all right, stand by. we'll get back to you, jeff zeleny. dana bash, what do you think, this plant in wisconsin going to go forward right now? this is what the...

Applauded for it. we'll see if they get the $3 billion in tax credits through the state legislature, but it seems that there is so much excitement for this, it's hard to see it not happening. >> so you think, rebecca, the iphone, the apple iphone that all of us, a lot of us at least have potentially down the road, a new version could be made in wisconsin as opposed to taiwan? this is a taiwan ese company, fox con. >> that would be an emblem, america first motto. it is something every american can understand. as dana was saying, every american knows what iphone is, if not has an iphone. and, so...

President just a little while ago about this new announcement in wisconsin. >> reporter: we did indeed, wolf. this is a significant announcement. fox con is the name of the company. they've been eyeing spots in michigan as well as wisconsin, but they settled on wisconsin to build what they are saying is a $10 billion plant that could bring some 13,000 jobs to wisconsin. and fox con is the company that makes screens for iphones, for televisions and other things. it's a major supplier of -- for iphones and other pieces of technology, wolf. it is viewed as a big deal. it is also in speaker ryan's...

Some of the more moderates. are you surprised. >> well, you remember, the house had a vote on something similar i guess it was a weeks ago about gender reassignment surgery that about 25 about 25 republican supported this against the wishes of a lot of conservative republicans. you already knew this was not going to be as clean cut as a d versus r liberal issue at the get-go. we thought this was going to be a distraction issue. right now the president is standing with fox con at the white house. if he really wanted to have a good distracting issue, jobs. jobs, jobs, committee. not this. if tha...