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about to hear from two key players.>
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. But first, Donald Trump made his first
public appearance since he was elected more than three weeks ago, at a
furnace manufacturer in Indiana that had planned to send more than two
thousand jobs to Mexico.>
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SCOTT PELLEY: The President-elect already on the job, with the deal that saved hundreds of them.
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences.
SCOTT PELLEY: Also tonight, the vice president-elect on Donald Trump shifting positions on immigration and prosecuting Hillary Clinton.
Did he just say those things to get elected?
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ANNOUNCER: This is the CBS EVENING NEWS with Scott Pelley.
SCOTT PELLEY: The Trump-Pence administration takes office in fifty days, and we`re about to hear from two key players. We have interviews with Vice President-Elect Mike Pence and the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. But first, Donald Trump made his first public appearance since he was elected more than three weeks ago, at a furnace manufacturer in Indiana that had planned to send more than two thousand jobs to Mexico. Mister Trump`s intervention and tax incentives from the state have persuaded the Carrier Corporation to send only thirteen hundred jobs south of the border, saving eight hundred. Major Garrett has the story.
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PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: They say it`s not presidential to call up these massive leaders of business. I think it`s very presidential.
MAJOR GARRETT (CBS News Chief White House Correspondent): President-Elect Donald Trump called the CEO of Carrier`s parent company, United Technologies, directly to discuss keeping the jobs in Indiana.
PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP: Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences. Not going to happen.
MAJOR GARRETT: During the campaign, Trump threatened to slap import tariffs on companies that sent jobs overseas. But in this case, the state of Indiana provided the company seven million dollars in tax incentives, something states often do to keep or attract businesses. And Mister Trump promised lower corporate taxes and fewer regulations. The publicity bang is larger than the national economic impact of saving one thousand jobs in a labor force of one hundred fifty-nine million. But for Carrier workers like Bryan Dyson, the reaction was emotional and appreciative.
BRYAN DYSON: Crying. Relieved. Christmas coming, you know. everybody`s head`s up.
MAJOR GARRETT: Dawn Kinnard said it was a promise kept.
DAWN KINNARD: I`m very thankful that he did follow through, because he didn`t have to. He could have just said that and walked away. But he really did follow through.
MAJOR GARRETT: All this is a stark contrast to the reaction when Carrier announced in February that jobs were moving to Mexico. Not far from the Carrier plant, manufacturer Rexnord plans to move three hundred jobs to Mexico. Brian Reed is an assembler.
BRIAN REED: Devastated. It just-- I-- I can`t put it in words. I mean the three hundred people I work with, things just went through my mind, and it just-- it was just devastating.
MAJOR GARRETT: Reed said he doesn`t feel left behind.
BRIAN REED: With what Mister Trump did, it does give a sense of hope for the American working class. I-- I don`t know that personally it will affect my factory.
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MAJOR GARRETT: At rallies during the campaign, then-candidate Trump often said he and populous Democrat Bernie Sanders agreed on trade and protecting U.S. manufacturing jobs. But, Scott, Sanders is very critical of this Carrier deal, arguing it will incentivize other corporations to threaten to move jobs overseas to extract tax breaks and other government concessions.
SCOTT PELLEY: Major, there`s word tonight the Trump transition team is getting closer to naming a secretary of defense. What do you know about that?
MAJOR GARRETT: That would be General James Mattis, retired Marine Corps general, formerly head of Central Command. He has two nicknames "Mad Dog" Mattis and Warrior Monk. A confirmed bachelor, sixty-six, Mattis is regarded as probably the most respected Marine of a generation or two. People often call him, not a Marine Corps, a soldier`s soldier. Marines call him a Marine`s Marine. We are told the announcement could come as early as tomorrow. There`s one wrinkle here, Scott, to become a defense secretary, if you`re a retired general, there needs to be seven years between your separation from the military force and that ascension to defense secretary. To waive that, Congress would have to intervene. The Trump transition team has been told by congressional leaders they will do that.
SCOTT PELLEY: Major Garrett reporting for us tonight. Major, thank you.
Well, that deal in Indiana was done with the help of the governor of Indiana, who is also the vice president-elect. We spoke to Mike Pence late today, and we asked him what Mister Trump meant by consequences for companies that move jobs overseas.
MIKE PENCE: The President-elect`s made it very clear that when companies shutter factories and move them out of this country in the hopes of being able to-- to build their products and ship them right back into the United States that-- that-- that-- that we`re going to have the kind of trade deals that have consequences for-- for enterprises like that. We`re going to have the kind of trade that puts American jobs and American workers first.
SCOTT PELLEY: When Mister Trump talks about consequences, are we talking about punitive taxes?
MIKE PENCE: I think-- I think everything is really on the table as we negotiate trade deals going forward, as we renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. I think what the American people can anticipate that the Trump administration is going to roll our sleeves up, and we`re going to drive a hard bargain.
SCOTT PELLEY: Now, Carrier tells us that you have saved eight hundred jobs that were headed to Mexico. How did you do it?
MIKE PENCE: Well, it all began with a phone call by President-Elect Donald Trump, almost about a week to the day after the election. He picked up the phone. He called the chairman of the parent company and just asked them to reconsider their decision to move jobs to Mexico from here in the state of Indiana.
SCOTT PELLEY: But not to put too fine a point on it, Sir, thirteen hundred jobs are still going to Mexico. And I wonder why were you not able to save those?
MIKE PENCE: This change in-- in their business policies was set into motion many months before he even secured the nomination. But, the fact that-- that Carrier was set at this factory to go to zero jobs and now, we have more than eleven hundred good-paying jobs here in the state of Indiana with the opportunity for that to grow, I think, is welcome news.
SCOTT PELLEY: Just since the election, President-Elect Trump has reversed himself on prosecuting Hillary Clinton and on deporting eleven million illegal immigrants in this country. Did he just say those things to get elected? Did he never intend to do them?
MIKE PENCE: I think what the American people know they have in President- Elect Donald Trump is someone who speaks straight from his mind and straight from his heart. And on the-- on the issue of illegal immigration, I promise you, as we were meeting yesterday on Capitol Hill with leaders of the House and Senate, we`re going to go straight to work after this Congress convenes and this administration takes office.
SCOTT PELLEY: The speaker of the House told us today that, when it comes to deporting eleven million illegal immigrants, it`s not going to happen, and he won`t fund it.
MIKE PENCE: Well, I-- I-- I will tell you that the policies that the President-elect outlined in his speech in Arizona will be the policies that we advance. I`m very confident that we`ll have broad-based support in the Congress for what the President-elect outlined in the course of his campaign. And-- and we`re going to work every day to make sure that we-- we advance those policies and end illegal immigration once and for all.
SCOTT PELLEY: Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, also governor of Indiana until January the 20th, we thank you very much for your time. You`ve made a big difference for about eight hundred families in your home state there. Thank you very much again.
MIKE PENCE: Thank you, Scott.
SCOTT PELLEY: And we have more of the Pence interview on cbsnews.com and our streaming service, CBSN.
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