Bombs. Welcome to the lead. Im jim sciutto in again today for jake tapper. Donald trump sounding triumphant in indiana. He stopped in indianapolis and toured the carrier plant, the one that announced it had struck a deal with the Incoming Administration to save jobs that were about to be shipped off to mexico. President elect says this is proof that his administration is already giving voice to the forgotten workers in the rust belt. He also said that manufacturing jobs wont move overseas, at least not anymore. Not without repercussions. Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not going to happen. Not going to happen. Trump also going to be in ohio later tonight. Another stop and thank you rally. What has the Transition Team told but tonights event . Reporter well, transition Officials Say that this is something that trump himself really wanted to do, that he has really been nearly hold up here in trump tower for the last three weeks since he wo
You tour in cincinnati, ohio, last night. The president resurrected some of the Campaign Themes and language and going off prompter. Here he was. Although we did have a lot of fun fighting hillary, didnt we . [ cheers and applause ]. Right . [ crowd chanting lock her up ] lets begin with Jessica Schneider outside of trump tower in new york. Did trump make policy announcement, jessica . Reporter i think its fair to say, brooke, that donald trump was in his element last night, covering a multitude of topics. After weeks of being holed up in trump tower, he got out into the crowds to hammer home his messages and priorities. The theme of his speech and rallies, putting america first. He talked about a number of different things. He said reaching out to american workers, cutting taxes, securing jobs in the country, preventing them from leaving the country but he went into many of his campaign promises, he talked about cutting back on immigration from countries that have been come mized by t
To mexico. Carrier offering limited details on terms of the deal, receiving unspecified incentives from the state, run by trumps vp mike pence. This as trumps cabinet continues to take shape. The search for secretary of state narrowed down to these four candidates. Close trump adviser Newt Gingrich hammering mitt romney after his highprofile dinner with trump tuesday night. You have never, ever in your career seen a serious adults whos wealthy, independent, has been a president ial nominee, suck up at the rate that mitt romney is sucking up. Reporter trump also facing blistering criticism from the left over his newly appointed Economic Team. Elizabeth warren slamming trumps pick for treasury secretary, former Goldman Sachs executive steve mnuchin, who headed a firm that made big money off the 2008 housing crisis. He promised when he was running for president that he would break the connection between wall street and this congress. And then what does he do . He turns around and picks a
Or four states instead of the 15 states i visited. I would have won more easily and convincingly, but smaller states are forgotten. His comments follow news as the Clinton Campaign is joining with jill stein in pushing for a recount in several states. Senior state of the union, trump adviser Kellyanne Conway blasted the recount effort. He has been gracious and ignamimous to secretary clinton when at a time, in whatever reason, her folks say they the will join in a recount to somehow undo the 70 plus electoral votes he beat her by. I was asked on cnn and elsewhere goodness, a thousand times, will donald trump accept the Election Results . Now youve got the democrats and jill stein saying they do not accept the Election Results . She congratulated him and conceded to him on election night. I was right there. The idea that were going to drag this out now, where the president elect has been incredibly magnamnimous is incredible. I dont know that theyre false claims but that millions of peo
Done, as you said, without any notification from the white house, or the state department. Which is the key thing in with what president elect trump has done. He hasnt contacted the state department or the white house for any of these calls. And thats one of the concerns here, is that usually these kind of briefings are, talk to the officials, talk to the president elect, tell him about the sensitivities involved. Clearly this is will cause a diplomatic uproar with china. We dont really know whether this was a message that he was sending to china, or just as he said in his tweets, taking a con dprat la tory phone call. Thats what he said in the readout. A congratulatory phone call. They talked about strengthening that relationship. But it doesnt matter really what they talked about. The fact that they had this call really is the message here. Choin as contacting now the white house in reaction to this call. Do we know much about that . We dont know that much about that. You can imagine