>> a lot of the montages. you'll laugh and you'll cry, until our last daily show, i'll say, to you, from me, and from mark, the word we love most, sayonara. and good evening from new york. 7:00 eastern time. brian williams here with you. chris matthews is off tonight, but we're also coming on the air to bring you live event coverage. we're going to take you out to cincinnati, ohio, where the president-elect is going to hold his first campaign-style rally since becoming president-elect three weeks ago. and also as a practical matter, tonight may be the most we have heard from the president-elect in a non-say-twitter form in quite some time. he's on a kind of "thank you" tour for the folks who put him

into office. ya earlier today, he toured the carrier hvac facility in indiana, a much-touted trip after this deal was put together to save a thousand of the jobs that were going to go to mexico. we're going to talk all about that and more. first to our traveling correspondent, hallie jackson, who's in the arena in cincinnati. hallie, a couple of questions. i understand capacity is around 17500, how big is the crowd, how far out is mr. trump, and what's expected tonight? >> reporter: let's do it in that order, brian. the crowd, when we can expect to hear donald trump, and what we can expect tonight. you just heard the crowd chanting "lock her up," which is the first time i've heard that this evening. the floor is about a half, three quarters filled. a lot of empty seats in the lowered level with the scheduled start time passing about a minute ago. this is a stark dumpbs from what

we saw on october 13th, the last time we were at this arena when it was absolutely jam packed, standing room only on the floor. it seemed like every seat, at least in the lower level was full. that was during the campaign. he's already won the presidency now, so perhaps that accounts for some of that. people have been chanting "drain the swamp," for example, some of these introductory speakers. the vibe is a little bit more subdued. to someone that was here a few weeks ago, that was the rally when the traveling press walked in, there were lusty boos and jeers from the entire arena, essentially, raining down on the press pen where we were located. nothing that even approached that sort of energy here tonight. as for when we expect the president-elect to arrive, we are told he's running a little bit late. he's had a busy day, he was in indiana, then attended some events here in the cincinnati area. he will likely be here, probably within the next 30 minutes, would be my guess, for this sort of big moment for him. the first time that he's gotten in front of a crowd of really any significant size since election night. and as for what we can expect,

it's being called the "thank you tour." i'm sure we can expect president-elect to say thank you to the supporters who have showed up here, many of whom are in the t make america great again hats, chanting "usa no" n. we'll likely hear what we heard about in the campaign, going down memory lane to talk about his wins, maybe even during the primaries like he talked about indiana today. and as somebody who's been on the campaign trail for a while, a lot of similarities. the vendors hawking the swag outside, the same pre-rally sound track going with the rolling stones, with the opera music, the same t-shirts and et cetera that you typically see. the energy's a little bit different, but we'll see what happens when the president-elect arrives. >> and i couldn't help but notice the new iconography on the podium, where before it would either say "make america great again" or "trump/pence,"

this now has the logo of the transition and it now says "usa" on the front, which is slowly the conversion. >> reporter: and i'm sort of trying to step out of the way on the riser ear, so you can see, brian, without stepping in everybody else's shots. it is a different logo. and that logo is one that is on our media badges as well, instead of that trump and trump/pence logo we saw this campaign. so they've got some graphic design here for the thank you tour, for sure. >> and hallie, back to where you left from, and that's new york, presumably, what do we know about cabinet selection? there have been a lot of names kind of in the ether today, once again. >> reporter: yeah, and the biggest one, i think, is general mattis who has been the likeliest pick for secretary of state. but publicly, donald trump's transition team, several members of them are pushing back against the idea that any decision has been made, at least as of right now.

that that position has been neither, they say, extended, offered, nor accepted. so, again, i wouldn't be surprised if he was a name that ended up being the pick, but we don't expect it as far as timeline, after the weekend, if that early, our understanding, from the transition team, this was going to be a time for the thank you tour, for the week and a half, and to come up with some of those big names, as he's still making the decision on the secretary of state selection, says well, and others is like interior, you've heard some names batted around like sarah palin, sources close to her say she's been interested in that position. and housing and urban -- excuse me, housing and urban development, as well, with ben carson being one of the names considering, apparently, that job. >> one of the hardest things to do is to talk when 17,500 of your closest friends are also talking behind you -- >> it's been a while, brian. we haven't had this in weeks. >> it's like muscle memory. hallie jackson, who was fighting

the crowd there, talked about general mattis for secretary of state. if you've been following the story, you know that we meant secretary of defense, general mattis was the subject of flat-out reporting today by some news organizations that he had been chosen to run the pentagon, the retired four-star former head of centcom and a life-long marine. so, we will get a warning when the motorcade is on the road and en route to the venue in time enough to pass it along to you. we want to backtrack a bit to one of the signature events of this day, and that was donald trump and the sitting governor of indiana, mike pence, showing up at the carrier hvac plant in indiana. this goes back to an announcement to carrier employees that they were moving their operations to mexico. cell phone video of that day, that announcement, circulated

wily. and it was absolutely heartbreaking to witness those workers learning that their jobs were going away. that manufacturing was headed south of the border. carrier found its way into donald trump's stump speech, and it became a part of this campaign. it gets a little more complicated after that, but not if you ask the trump/pence team. they arrived today, kind of a victory lap, because they had, after all, saved most of the jobs that had been jeopardized. they, through a collection of incentives, have come up with a package that's going to keep the lion's share of those carrier jobs in the state of indiana. we want to sample some of what the president-elect said there today. >> i said, companies are not going to leave the united states anymore without consequences. not going to happen.

it's not going to happen. >> 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 didn't work out too well. we won by 16 points, and the election, we just won by 20 points. almost 20 points. and that was some -- that was some victory. that's pretty -- that's pretty great. a week ago, i was watching the nightly news, i won't say which one, because i don't want to give them credit, because i don't like them much, i'll be honest. i don't like 'em. not even a little bit. we're going to build a wall. people are saying, do you think trump's going to build a wall? trust me, we're going to build a wall. and we're going to have doors in that wall, but they're going to come through legally. people will come through on worker permits to work the field. a lot of people will come through. >> the post-election donald

trump today, we'll hear presumably more of that tonight at the rally in cincinnati. but for this discussion of all things indiana and carrier, we want to bring in the junior senator from indiana, joe donnelly is a democrat representing that state in the u.s. senate. and senator, if we wanted to be as negative as possible about this for the democrats, we could say the following. you guys were roundly defeated, loss of 63 seats in the house since the obama era. just chose to re-elect your management team in the house. democrats are on the map throughout the country. donald trump and mike pence come into indiana and school you in keeping jobs in this country. it was presumably an option open to the current president of the united states that he passed on. where am i wrong? >> well, brian, they didn't school me. i've been working on this for over nine months, since the day it happened back in india. and i gave a proposal to the

senate finance committee months ago, and it was aimed at trying to put pressure on carrier to keep the jobs here. and i'm glad that president-elect trump has taken up this banner and has worked on it as well, and i'm happy my friends and neighbors that some of them will be able to continue at work. but i also have other friends and neighbors at rexnor a mile away and 300 of their jobs are going away. and i have other friends and neighbors in huntington, where 700 o of their jobs are going away. so we need to keep all of these jobs here. and what i've been working on is trying to make sure that, for instance, federal contracts, which is in carrier's wheelhouse, and united technology's wheelhouse, that they're penalized if they offshore jobs. and that has had an effect. and president-elect trump talked about a 35% tariff. those are the kind of thing that can help change the discussion and i look forward to president-elect trump working with me on this agenda, to keep the jobs right here in america. >> respectfully, i'm going to fight the use of the word

"offshore" as a verb. if it's the death of me and it may be the death of me this week, i hear it being used an awful lot. senator, let's talk about the difference between the carrot and stick here. you said that your proposal was to pressure carrier into staying. it sure looks like they've been rewarded or awarded for staying, and there's a, there's a big difference. we said on our broadcast last night, if i'm the cfo of a fortune 500 company, i said this half-jokingly, i'm going to raise my hand this week and say, yeah, we're thinking about taking our workers to mexico, as well. what do you have for us? >> you know what, i don't think you are. because the same financial incentives were offered to them months ago and they turned it down. the former lieutenant governor of indiana, john muts said, what got carrier's attention was the possible loss of federal contracts. what got their attention was the 35% tariff that president-elect

trump had talked about. and so we want our businesses to know, hey, it's the american promise. when our workers work hard, they want their companies to succeed. they want them to do really, really well. i want carrier to do really, really well. but i want the workers to have a shot, too, to be able to get a decent salary and put a roof over their heads. that's the american dream, and that's what we're trying to accomplish. >> do you have any problem with calling a tim cook into the oval office and say, explain to me why we can't make your stuff here. explain to me why it is you've always answered that the tolerances for tool and dye are different in china, say nothing of the cost of labor, but why can't apple, why can't general electric build their new complex in indiana, in gary, in detroit, michigan, where you have pools of already trained, very anxious and highly motivated works? >> i couldn't agree with you more. i mean, these folks want to

work. and you know what? i'll bet on the hoosiers and the buckeyes and the cornhuskers and the people from delaware and oregon every time. there's no better workers than the american workers, and all we need to have is a chance and to the tim cooking of the world, right here is where you can get it done the best. >> senator, you're one democrat in the majority, but you in the democratic party have some huge choices to make. as these cabinet selections become firmed up, and as they all come to you now for confirmation, you have to pick your targets. i guess you can't -- you can't spray equally against them. and frankly, no two members are going to have the same problems with all the nominees. what are the top 1, 2, 3 that you've already seen emerge that you want to throw down on, especially given the fact that you represent the people of indiana? >> sure. and it really depends on how it affects indiana families.

that's why i've already come out against tom price for health and human services because he's talked so much about privatizing medicare, and i think that's incredibly dangerous for our seniors. on the other hand, i'm on the armed services committee, i've worked with general mattis, i've seen the quality of his work. he's an incredible patriot and i think we'd be fortunate to have him serve as a secretary of defense. >> i'm told i misspoke and referred to it as the majority. i didn't mean the change the math. democrats are in the minority. >> i know the math, brian. >> i understand why you didn't correct me. senator donnelly, thank you very much. we'll be watching this event with you today and tonight, as the president-elect goes on this thank you tour, something of a victory lap, starting in your home state of indiana. senator joe donnelly of indiana. again, democrats in the minority. we're going to take a break. remember, we are coming up on this live event. what may be -- there's hallie

jackson in the foreground, what may be the most we hear from the president-elect since election night at one event, coming up in cincinnati, ohio.

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we are back from new york and points west. this is the scene, we're going to be covering this hour. cincinnati, ohio, the president-elect is expected there in the next few minutes. if it looks like the crowd and

iconography and headwear that we came to know during the trump campaign, that's for a reason. this is basically a trump campaign rally. it just follows his election for president of the united states by about three weeks. he's on something of a thank you tour. the press corps is on something of solid instructions as to where we're headed next, but there's always that element of surprise. we want to talk about today in politics and perhaps what to expect tonight. we are joined for this half hour by republican strategist, john fieri. he served as press secretary to the former house speaker, dennis hastert. joy reid is here. everyone knows joy reid. host of morning "am joy." and yamiche alcindor, everyone knows her, national reporter for "the new york times." welcome to you all. joy, you get the first question, because i'm fascinated by the news. i've been watching a lot of news, and watching a lot of people thread this needle

between, love american workers, so happy for american workers, but then again, what a terrible precedent, because the president can't be making deals right and left. where do you come down? skbli >> i think it's interesting, when president barack obama made that deal to save the auto industry, and this reaction to it was this sort of off-key reaction, how dare the president of the united states step in and choose winners or losers in detroit. i think i remember mitt romney wrote, let detroit go bankrupt, and there was this huge argument particularly look republicans that this was not the place of the president to do. >> free market. >> the free market should win. so i think what you're seeing with donald trump is things that were considered to be off the table and considered to be wrong when they were done by president obama, it's different now. in this particular case, it's also the opposite of what donald trump said. he had some very tough rhetoric during the campaign that if any american company wanted to move out when he was president, eld make them pay a huge tax. they were going to pay a 35% or better tariff and he was going to punish them. what we've seen here instead is

not punishment, it's rather the same thing that happens when a stadium threatens to move out of a city. they essentially said, give us money, and pence, mike pence, because he's sitting governor of indiana, was able to give them tax money. it is a precedent that's you be sustainable. you can't go from city to city and state to state having the governors give millions of dollars of tax incentives for companies to stay in. and in that case, you know, you would hope that the negotiation included all of the jobs that were on the table. the other plant that is now scheduled to go away. and what are the workers giving up? are they getting their full benefits, their full health benefits? there are so many questions, i think it's too early for praise. >> and the employees themselves have said, you know, we don't know anything yet. and to my earlier question to the senator, what do you say to tim cook? what do you ask for from a tim cook? >> well, that's the problem. and i think you're starting to -- this is going to be a real test, especially for tea party republicans, who came out against the idea of interference in the free market and traditional conservatives, who have said, you shouldn't offer tim cook anything. the idea that the united states would essentially, if this were

the precedent, go around paying american companies no t to move. now, again, let's remember, carrier is still moving hundreds and hundreds, maybe thousands of jobs to mexico. that is still happening. they've temporarily paid them to keep 850 jobs or so in indiana, for now, we don't know for how long. this is not a sustainable precedent. because, again, it's the stadium rule. i lived in mooiami for a long time. you have teams who say, we want a stadium or we're leaving. we're going to pick up this team and leave. that sort of extortion model is not something you want to set a precedent for american companies doing, say, give us this set of millions of dollars of tax incentives or we're moving our factories to china. that's not a good precedent. >> and yamiche, at the same time, we can all hear the voice of jimmy stewart, it's the holidays and we're not hard-hearted, and we think of a thousand people keeping their jobs, a thousand families stay in the school system, they need them folks to sell them groceries and cut their hair,

and that means little league teams will remain sponsored by carrier and on and on and on. these things have a ripple, but then there's the other side that joy just went through. >> yeah, and we can talk about the fact that yes, a thousand people can say, you know, donald trump really helped me personally, but the issue is that there are a lot of people who want to do what their grandfathers did, go to college, graduate with a high school diploma and go off to make $22 to $25 an hour and put your kids through college and have a good life, buy a house, live the american dream life. the problem is that that economy is no longer there and the jobs that they're really looking for, a lot of them have been automated. but there are millions of plants that are like this all around the country, and that these companies are going to continue to have places where they're going to say, you know, it's really cheaper to go to mexico. or, by the way, i don't need all these people, because this machine does what your grandfather used to do. it's really not sustainable, not only is this a kind of deal he made not sustainable, but the idea that you can go after having only a high school diploma, go and make a life for

your family, that's getting a lot tougher. getting a college education is becoming key. it's been key for a while, but it's becoming key to really having -- making $40,000 to $60,000. and there are people that obviously, i know there are millions of viewers that are watching this saying, i have a master's degree and i'm sitting in a basement right now. so the idea that you'll be able to make deals or get minimally educated and have these jobs is not sustainable. >> john fieri, this has been a trick for republicans and democrats alike. knowing how to deal with this, what to say on this still new issue of the carrier story. >> let me make a couple observations. first, trump is pretty good at this politics stuff, right? this is great for him. he gets out, he's not even president yet, and he's able to make a big deal out of these thousand jobs in indiana and ting that he's going to get a lot of bang for his buck on this. i think a lot of people will say, hey, listen, he's trying. he's doing something that president obama didn't do the last couple of years. he's sticking up for the working

man and this is good stuff. the second thing is, he's not president yet. he hasn't had a chance to really yield any carrier stick. and if you want to create these jobs and keep these companies in america, you need both. a carrot and a stick. the carrot has to do with tax cuts, keeping the corporate tax rate, which is now at highest, to a more manageable percent. you've got to get rid of a lot of regulations that have been holding companies back. and you've got to do something about the trade laws, so if companies do decide to leave, they feel some pain. and he talked about that and i think he's going to do when he's president. he's not even president yet and he's getting a lot of bang for his buck. >> joy, another way to put it, if he wants a more business-friendly administration, he sure has surrounded himself with the right people so far. >> it's interesting, what john fieri just quoted there was republican boilerplate. so i think that the surprise here is that donald trump ran as some sort of outsider, but what

he's actually selling is the same philosophy going after republicans going back to the 1920s. this is not a lot different than the way that conservatism operated in the 1920s economy, which is to say, give the very, very rich as many tax cuts as you can give to them, give them all the incentives, and in the hands of the rich, the economy will be bigger, because in their largess and good-heartedness, they will take care of -- >> i'm sorry, but you're saying trickle-down economics. that's trickle-down economics. >> you say cut the -- >> that's not -- >> if you cut the corporate rate, corporations will stay in america. >> how is that different than trickle-down economics that republicans have been selling as boilerplate all the way since -- john, how is that different than the trickle-down economics that republicans have been selling since reagan? this is no different. this is the same menu. donald trump is selling the blue plate special. tax cuts for corporation, deregulation, cutting the top income rates. it's exactly the same. and he's surrounded by about $30 billion worth of advisers from

goldman sachs, et cetera. so, i mean, i think this isn't new, it's just packaged with a different face than somebody who is an entertainer rather than, well, i guess in the case of ronald reagan, he was an entertainer as well. it's a different version of the same politics. >> just to jump in there, when i think about the people that elected donald trump and the peep that he sold this to, that then bought and it voted for him, those people, surprisingly, i've talked to them and they don't feel disappointed in the fact he's hiring people from goldman sachs. really, he's recreating a version of the swamp he likes more and that's what his supporters are saying. he's acknowledging that he's taking really established insiders and putting them in these high-profile jobs. but people for some reason are still very much happy with him still, and very much feeling like they're getting what they wanted, mainly because he didn't really set out policies, and they knew they were voting for someone who was a wild card. that's me quoting a supporter saying they were voting for a

wild card. >> those of us with friends and family in the actual parts of this country that we call america have anecdotal evidence that is true. my question to you, is there support, is their blank check limitless? this guy actually did lead a call and response drain the swamp in the closing days and weeks of the campaign. and it's been pointed out, he's brought insiders, millionaires, billionaires into this inner circle. >> well, i think he's actually brought in people from the outside who do have a lot of money, know something about the economy, but steve mnuchin is not someone who's an insider, he's actually an outsider. wilbur ross is kind of an outsider as well. these guyings have ideas on how to fix the economy. keep in mind, we haven't given president trump a chance yet. he hasn't even been sworn in. let's see if his policies work. let's see if he's able to get the policies to work. if we can get corporations to

stay in the united states, get jobs to stay in the united states, if we can get more salaries up, i think his policies are going to work. and i think he is going to have a carrot and stick. joy, i talked about the stick. i think there are going to be sticks for people who decide to leave -- companies that leave the country and try to import the jobs out, export the jobs out and import the products in. i think it's going to be painful for some of these companies. and i think he is going to use the bully pulpit to browbeat some of these companies to stay in america. and i think that's going to be a good thing for american workers. let's give this guy a chance. >> john, back up here. i need a working definition of an insider and an outsider. just to be fair, you mentioned mnuchin and ross. these are two guys who have enjoyed on paper every advantage our country has to give someone. a first-class education, means and then some. in mnuchin's case, he bought a bank at a firesale case. in mnuchin's case, he's been a

financial producer of films like "x-m "x-men" and "avatar." wilbur ross, owning and turning around failing and now successful energy assets, including but not limited to a mining company that was in the news for a bunch of terrible reasons a few years back. how are they respectfully not insiders in the american economy? >> they're certainly not political insiders. they don't have much political experience. i'm talking about insiders in washington who kind of know where the levers are played and know how the game is played. these guys are from the political process outsiders. they haven't been in the political process that often. mnuchin's actually a democrat. so, you know, i don't think that you could say that they are political insiders. they might have had experience on wall street, might have had experience in the business sector, but how can you bring people in to help fix the business sector that have no experience in the business

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we are back with a reminder that we are in quasi-breaking news coverage. that is, we are waiting for donald trump to arrive in this arena in cincinnati, ohio, to give his first post-election campaign-style rally. and as i said earlier, you see the teleprompter is set up there. this may be the most we have heard from the president-elect since election night, as you know, he has limit his access. our panel remains and we're joined by dana milbank of "the washington post" for this portion. dana, first of all, anything new you're hearing on cabinet selections and then i have a

question for you about the democrats. >> well, it's been more of the same. not only did we have goldman sachs coming in at treasury, it sounds like another goldman sachs guy might be running the office of management and budget. so a lot of other names being floated out there, but it's all consistent with this earlier pattern that is, it is very much unlike the sort of administration a lt of us thought donald trump would be running based on what he was talking about out there. and they've jettisoned a lot of the policies already that people were thinking of. there's apparently not going to be any trade war. none of these enormous tariffs, and instead, they're talking about privatizing medicare, privatizing the v.a., doing other very traditional conservative things. >> dandana, would one be forgiv if one were watching the current goings on and thinking that the

democrats have right now no gail? they just re-elected their management team in the house of representatives, which has just been leaking democrats and washing further into the minority like a sieve. >> yeah, brian, i think it was a mistake what the house democrats did. their top three leaders are 76, 77, and 76 years old and they've been doing this for a along time. it seems to be time for a new generation there. it's not just in the house, not just in the senate. the democrats have been devastated in the state legislatures. unions that have been very important part of it are very weak. we see that trump ate away at that. it does seem to be a time where they need some serious rebuilding, both in the infrastructure, but i think even more importantly in finding their populist roots. this is what the democratic party is supposed to be.

>> i heard john heilemann on the air this evening with apologies. he gave this a long wind up and apologized in advance. he called the carrier air-conditioning event today the first event of campaign 2020. and by that he meant that trump was putting -- affixing his stamp on the fact that he had busted through the blue ball. >> i suppose, but again, i sort of compare it to the magnitude of saving detroit. and i have to, you know, with all due respect, besides the breathlessness for which republicans are greeting this, because to them, it sort of sets the framework that donald trump can use his negotiation skills. besides the fact that pence is the one who did it. it was not donald trump who did anything, it's pence who offered these generous tax incentives to carriers. so i'm not sure that this 850 jobs sticks as a 2020 message. if this is the best he's going to do, we're going to have a problem unless he's going to recruit a new vice president from each of the 50 states governors and change them every week and have them each for

millions of dollars. but i do think that democrats, you know, to dana's point, they have to now think about, how do you respond to an event like this. because the way this gets spun is very helpful to donald trump. because to him, this is him checking off a campaign promise and showing that he can get results. democrats need an answer to that that doesn't sound like cruelty to the 850 people who got jobs. and they need to reestablish the sort of prime directive of democrats, which is caring about working people. and i think that donald trump has sort of set them up for success, if they're willing to meet it, which is that he's surrounded himself by the very villains that democrats have been fighting since calvin coolidge's era, which is the billionaires. if people feel more trust in their ceo, in this super-boss than they do in their fellow workers, then the democrats are in real trouble. if people really want to put their faith in the super rich to save them, then maybe democrats can't win. but democrats, i think, do need some experience at the top if terms of the house and the senate, because in a parliamentary sense, they are

now fighting from the rear guard and they've got to have people who know how to do it. >> john, you're still with us in washington, as we're going to go to the vice president-elect. mike pence is in the state of ohio and he is the -- assigned to warm up the crowd for donald trump. let's listen in. >> and i'm here tonight to say thank you. i'm here tonight to say thank you for electing a president who will make america great again! so thank you to the people of ohi ohio. the people of kentucky. and i'll bet there's a few

hoosiers in the room. thank you for doing your part to make donald trump the next president of the united states of america. he did it. and we have you to thank. before i go on, let me just say, from our families to yours, our hearts go out to the victims and families of those who are injured in the horrific attacks that took place earlier this week this columbus, ohio. the victims are in our prayers and we commend the swift and courageous action of law enforcement in that perilous moment.

let's be clear, thanks to all of you, in just 50 days, we will have a president who supports the men and women in law enforcement at every level. we will have a president who will suspend immigration from all countries and territoriy ie compromised by terror. and we will have a commander in chief who will hunt down and destroy isis at its source. [ crowd chant iing: usa ]

and thanks to you, we will have a president who will make the american economy great again. who will repeal obamacare and replace it with american solutions. we're going to cut taxes, roll back regulation, have trade deals that put american workers first and we're going to get this economy moving for every american! and thanks to you right next door in my own home state of indiana, today in indianapolis, because of the bold leadership and vision of president-elect donald trump, a company that announced back in february that they were closing their doors and moving to mexico announced

that now more than 1,100 good-paying jobs will stay right here in america. and the president-elect made it happ happen. make no mistake about it, carrier chose to stay in indiana because america chose to make donald trump the next president of the united states. and thanks to you. thanks to you we are going to enforce the laws of this country for the citizens of this country we're going to build a wall and we're going to end illegal immigration once and for all. [ chanting: build the wall ] oh, we will.

and thanks to you. thanks to you we will have a president who will appoint justices to the supreme court of the united states, who will uphold our second amendment and all the god-given liberties enshrined in our constitution. so we're here to say thanks. but mostly i want to say to you from my heart as a fellow american, thank you for giving america a new president. thank you for giving america a new president whose strength, whose vision, whose leadership will make america great again, faster than you could possibly imagine. so let me say to my friends from

here in ohio, kentucky, indiana, and all of those looking on, it is my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you the president-elect of the united states of america, donald trump! ♪ proud to be an american ♪ where at least i know i'm free ♪ ♪ and i won't forget the men who died ♪ ♪ who gave that right to me ♪ and i gladly stand up ♪ next to you ♪ and defend her still today ♪ cause there ain't no doubt i love this land ♪ >> with the destruction of mike pence and to the strains of lee greenwood, donald trump standing at first in the shad doows heret the president-elect is entering the arena for his first post-election rally. ♪ i'm proud to be an american ♪ where at least i know i'm free ♪ ♪ and i won't forget the men who died ♪ ♪ who gave that right to me

♪ and i gladly stand up ♪ next to you ♪ and defend her still today >> thank you! thank you! [ cheers and applause ] thank you, everybody. wow! so, i didn't know this -- i love you too. look at this place! so i didn't know what came with this position. and i didn't know that they closed down the roads around the stadium for an hour and a half. we got to work out a new deal with our secret service, but we love them, right? thank you. thank you, everybody, for being so patient.

thank you. oh, you're going to be happy. we're all going to be happy. i'm here today for one main reason. to say thank you to ohio. thank you. we won this state by almost ten points! which they say is totally unheard of. in fact, i don't know if you know, but at the beginning, they say you have to win in ohio, you must win ohio, right? you heard them. over and over and over. and we started off sort of even and then we were one up and two up. we didn't have much help at the top levels, you know that, right? and it turned out it didn't matter. but we had help with the people and that's what really did

matter. so i kept hearing, you must win ohio, you cannot win the presidency without ohio. so we started, really, we were about even, right, at the beginning. and then point by point by point, and then we had a couple of little troughs, but with ohio, there was no trough. it just kept getting better and better. just better and better. and the end result is incredible. i love you, ohio. this is a great place, some great people. i have so many friends. thank you. thank you. in a true sense, history called and the people of this great state answered. and you're going to be very happy. we're going to say right now, where are we going to do? we're going to make america great again, you watch. you went out and you pounded the pavement, organized your fellow

citizen, and propelled to victory a grassroots movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before. this is what they [ applause ] today on one of the networks they said maybe andrew jackson. i said when was that? that was in the 1838. and then somebody said well that was great but nothing like what happened here. okay. so it really has been fun and more importantly i heard mike saying about what happened today in indiana. we're going to do that all over the country. we're going to do it all over the country. carrier, thank you, carrier. today we made history and now the real work begins. that is the second reason that i'm here today. i'm going to discuss our action plan to make america great

again. we're going to discuss. [ applause ] although we did have a lot of fun fighting hillary, didn't we? [ applause ] right? [ applause ] and by the way, the people are continuing to pour in so let them come in. we could wait -- we could wait a half hour, an hour, but i don't think we're going to do that. let them pour in. let's blame them for being late. as i said i was in indianapolis to announce that we're saving the jobs at the carrier plant from going to mexico.

1,100 jobs. [ applause ] i'm asking all companies to keep their jobs in america, and we will work to make america a better environment for workers and businesses, and we will crackdown on all foreign trade abuses that undermine your ability and your company's ability to compete. those days are over when those companies are going to leave. [ applause ] we have so many problems to fix in our country, but i know that if we set aside our differences, and we do have differences. we're a very divided nation, but we're not going to be divided for long. i've always brought people together. i know you find that hard to believe. although this group probably doesn't find it hard to believe. but we are going to bring our country together, all of our

country. we're going to find common ground, and we will get the job done properly. we'll get it done properly. and so importantly, america will start winning again big league. we're going to win again. [ applause ] but to succeed, we must enlist the effort of all americans. for too long washington has tried to put us in boxes. they separate us by race, by age, by income, by geography, by place of birth. we spend too much time focusing on what divides us. now is the time to embrace the one thing that truly unites us. you know what that is? america. america. [ applause ] it's america. [ applause ] because when america is unified, nothing can beyond our reach.

i mean that. you're going to see. you're going to see. we're going to have a country that was never so great. you watch. in so many different ways. you hear a lot of talk about how we're becoming a globalized world, but the relationships people value in this country are local. family, city, state, country, they're local. we'll compete in the world. we want to compete in the world, but we're going to compete in the world where it's a two-way road, not a one-way road. the advantages are going to come back to our country, and they haven't for many, many years. there is no global anthem, no global currency, no certificate of global citizenship. we pledge allegiance to one flag

and that flag is the american flag. [ applause ] >> usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! >> from now on, it's going to be america first, okay. america first. [ applause ] we're going to put ourselves first. we seek peace and harmony with the nations of the world, but that means recognizing the right of every country, including our own, to look after its citizens. we would put other countries first. we had people running our country that truly didn't know

what the hell they were doing. okay. didn't know what they were doing. we're going to defend the american worker. look at what's happened right here. they forgot about the american worker. they forgot that it was the american worker who truly built our country. we are not going to forget. believe me. one of the reasons we're so divided today is because our government has failed to protect the interest of the american workers and their families making it too easy for us to see ourselves as distinct groups and not unified as a whole. we're not unified. we're going to be. washington's politicians have spent so long appealing to competing interests they've forgotten how to appeal to the national interest combining the skills and talents of our people

in a common cause, and we have unbelievable talent. but that is all about to change. our goal is to strengthen the bonds of trust between citizens to restore our sense of membership in a shared national community. global is wonderful, but right now we want to focus on our national community. never again will anyone's interest come before the interest of the american people. it's not going to happen again. [ applause ] and over the last two weeks since our victory, i've spoken to many foreign leaders, and i will tell you they have such respect for us. they all tell me how this was amazing. they all tell me how they said in their magnificent rooms in different countries throughout the world -- these are the

leaders. the prime ministers, presidents, all of them, how they sat in their magnificent rooms watching in wonderment and hearing how people came to vote that didn't vote in 20 years. people came to vote that haven't voted before. they had trump shirts on. they had make america great hats on and they this buttons pouring off. and they thought it was amazing. and honestly, one of them told me i truly respect the united states again because of what happened. [ applause ] we're going to seek a truly inclusive society where we support each other, love each other, and look out for each other, and that means that people coming into our country have to be people that have the potential to love us, not to hate us.

[ applause ] we condemn bigotry and prejudice in all of its forms. we denounce all of the hatred, and we forcefully reject the language of exclusion and separation. we're going to come together. we have no choice. we have to. it's better. it's better. we seek a future where every american child is fully included in the american dream. we're going to have our own american dream. we're going to bring back the american dream. the problems that plague our inner cities or that afflict poor, rural communities, and we do have those rural communities, some of them are poor, we're going to help those people. we're going to rebuild those communities. they're not permanent features of american life. they can be fixed and together we're going to fix them. we are going to fix them.

we've spent as of this week according to the latest count, we've spent $6 trillion in the middle east. and the middle east today is far worse than it's ever been. you will see changes very quickly. a shrinking -- you will see it. a shrinking workforce and flat wages are not the new normal. we're not even talking about flat. we're talking about wages where some of you in this audience, hard working, incredible americans, were making more money 20 years ago than you're making today, and today you're older and you're working harder. in many cases, you have two jobs. some of that is because of obamacare and by the way, we're repealing and replacing obamacare. [ applause ]