Hi, it's Michael. This week, the daily has been revisiting favorite episodes of the year,

listening back and then hearing what's happened in the time since the story's first ran.

Today, Shannon.

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the daily.

Today, Shannon Malki's job in an Indiana steel plan was headed to Mexico.

Donald Trump vowed to keep those kinds of jobs inside the United States.

How the promise of America first has collided with the reality of American manufacturing.

It's Wednesday, October 18th.

I'm going to bring jobs back. We're bringing jobs back to our country. We're not going to let

carrier leave. We're going to take numbers. We're going to do numbers. There are consequences.

When you leave and we'll talk about carrier because say what you want in the end, I've been talking

about carrier now for four months, right? Before I even knew that we were going to be coming,

I mean, literally from the day, literally from the day.

Just a mile down the road from the carrier plant in Indianapolis is the Rexner plant,

where steel workers have been manufacturing the Cadillac of steel bearings for nearly 60 years,

strengthening the parts through a process known as heat treating.

I got to say I've never ran scrap the whole time I've been there.

You've never run scrap?

I guess that's kind of shop talks.

Crap is like a bad part, like knowing that it's bad and you send it on through.

Shannon Mulkehi worked at Rexner for almost 18 years.

In heat treat, it's got to be pretty much perfect. We've got different customers that depend

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