indiana ever heard of bobby knight. we had such incredible support. i will never forget that a friend of mine said during the primaries, you know if you can get coach knight, your coach, called me a year ago. if you ever run, i am supporting you. i said thanks, coach, i don t know if i am going to be doing it. if you can get coach knight, how good was bobby knight as far as we are concerned in indiana. we got 900 wins, three championships and olympic and gold medals. he was unbelievable. he would not stop. he was the greatest guy. we came into the arena and we had 16,000 people inside and outside, i think we had 10,000 outside. and i left three weeks before
the primary and i said how are we going to lose indiana. we won big. i want to thank all of those folks. united technologies stepped up. they did it in a nice and professional way. they are going to spend so much money on renovating this plant gregg, say that number. $16 million. the minimum number is a lot more than that. well, i rather say the lower number. i rather him say the higher number so i won t say it. it is just difference in philosophy but they are going to spend more than 16, they re going to spend a lot of money in the plant. companies are not going to leave the united states anymore without consequences. not going to happen. it is not going to happen.
the carrier folks that are going to be keeping their jobs. the $7 million over the ten years for the state of indiana, it is important to be vigilant with taxpayers. i i think it is important to recognize with this great news, of the huntington plant and the good workers out in kokomo that s going to lose their jobs and it is welcome news and i am going to be grateful to thank the taxpayers of the state of indiana who are going to be able to help move this forward. for the rest of the community, there is pause for what s next. for people who don t live in indiana, huntington, a carrier plant right down the street, i think we have some video of people standing outside today with signs saying, what about my
u.s. he was clear and firm on this point. the question mark is what kind of consequences are there and how are they enforceable. penalties, for example, certainly. what is he going to do specifically to follow through some of those pledges. that s something that needs to be flushed out. we are ready for a campaign rally. i am listening to that speech in indiana. this feels a lot like you know maybe september or august, lets say, or during the campaign when he we we we are covering the president-elect trump. he will likely thank some of the ohio folks that have come out and here and supporting zhi and did support him. he will talk about what he plans to do on january 20th and talk a little bit of what he heard and talk about how he got to where he is now going through some of his primary victories perhaps of
is with us today. the carrier plant where you are watching is in your district. it is nice to have you with us, representative, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. you just listened to president-elect trump talking about thousands of jobs. your first reaction when you first heard it. keeping good jobs in the community and state of nand was a re was indiana of the real win, i was interested to hear of the details. we learned and nbc news verified with the state s negotiations with united technology that is the deal gives $7 million in financial incentive to that company over ten years in exchange where the company will invest $16 million into its indiana operations and keeping those thousands of jobs in place. what do you details? this is very good news for