. >> in the american heartland, farmers like aaron kate are back at work. just one day a and their vote was finally heard. what's the message people like you sent? >> i sense we've been forgotten in the last eight years. >> so important was middle america to trump his final campaign event was a raucous gathering of 4,000 in grand rapids, michigan. last night, local republicans in this county of city and country celebrated. >> i think we're going to look back in the records, look back at tonight. >> it was the rural vote in the small towns of states like michigan and pennsylvania that helped push trump over the top. with issues like jobs, health care and big government. more white voters in rural michigan, pennsylvania and wisconsin went for trump. than they did for mitt romney four years ago. this coupled with the fact that hillary supporters in certain demographics did not turn out in the same way they did for president obama. >> back into business be. >> smaller government, less regulations, that means more jobs. and more money for the american people to

. >> aaron kate sees himself as helping to feed the country. he says he doesn't need any more baggage from washington. >> that's one thing i do hope, is we can get the government out of our lives and let us do what we do best. >> you think trump will do that? >> i think he's a good start. sleeves. kevin tibbles, nbc news, saranac, michigan. >>> the impact of the american election is reverberating around the world tonight. there are concerns among some foreign leaders about how donald trump might view america's traditional role in world affairs. there are plenty of congratulations being extended to the president-elect. including those of vladimir putin. we get details from our chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. >> there were gasps around the world. headlines, trump ocalypse and disunited states. and echoes of the brexit vote, against the european establishment. but deeper concerns tonight that the world's shining light of democracy has gone dark. >> you cannot look at president trump and call the american president the leader of the fre

aaron, kevin, kate, steve, thanks for joining us today. -- we've got most of the important stuff -- aaron, you have more. >> i think this decline in u6 all the way down to 9.5 % is bi. you've got to ask the question, what are employers doing here when they're hiring all these workers? and they got to be hiring them because they make money. because they produce more output. companies are smart when they're making realtime hiring decisions. as you go down the labor force and you pull in more people, this gets a chance as kate said to really create a sustained consumer rally. and let's view this as optimistic momentum to unleash the american consumer in 2017. >> the one thing i want to throw in is that we were both below consensus. it came in about where we were. and yet the market thinks it's good news. and so it probably is the u6 that you mentioned that's the good news in this. >> it's a bit of a goldilocks thing. how quickly they would have to move start to change. i actually like the reaction we've had in the 10-year. i think a bit of a s