General Motors to Close Five Plants in North America
HARLOW: All right. So this morning, nearly 15,000 Americans are beginning the holidays knowing they will soon be out of work. Here's why, General Motors is closing five plants in North America. That means these workers must now come to terms with the sobering reality that the man many of them helped catapult to the White House with promises of more and better auto jobs has made a promise that he cannot keep in some key swing states. Here is one of those promises from President Trump last year in Ohio.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I was looking at some of those big, once incredible job-producing factories. And my wife Melania said what happened? I said those jobs have left Ohio. They're all coming back. They're all coming back.</s>SCIUTTO: Cristina Alesci is outside the plant that is now closing in Ohio. It has to be emotional times there. It's just before the holidays. Just devastating for these communities. What are you hearing on the ground?</s>CRISTINA ALESCI, CNN MONEY AND POLITICS CORRESPONDENT: A huge blow to this community. They're angry, they're frustrated, but to the point about the political shift, the political change here came hard and fast in 2016. This was a Democrat stronghold. In fact, I was in the union leader's office this morning, and pictures line the walls with President Clinton and President Obama. This was a Democrat town until 2016. The community here, the area, voted for Trump on the promise of getting jobs back. And that has not happened. In fact, as Poppy said up in the intro, people are losing their jobs. In this community alone, 1500 jobs directly impacted.