we are really needing the help. >> when president trump goes to puerto rico and throws paper towels -- what do you think of that? >> he has been very important. he is highly involved. he calls me directly. he's very engaged. his message to me is help people. and expedite the processes to do so. people are exciting and asking, what about me back here? he picks it up and throws it and the media captured it and they can spin it however they want to, but i was in the room, and he genuinely cares about the americans in puerto rico, texas

and florida. >> we will keep updating you on the situations there. there's a lot of news this morning. what do you say? let's get after it. the train was traveling at 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour track. >> we felt a little jolt and then we were catapulted into the seats in front of us. >> our responders were climbing up and down the hill trying to get to the victims. >> the votes of senator mike lee and susan collins get this across the finish line. >> it was a closed process. >> the overwhelming majority believe the benefits do go to the wealthy. >> a nation that does not protect prosperity at home cannot protest its interests abroad. >> the president did not call out russian's meddling in the 2016 election. >> it raises the question why he

has the incredible aversion to criticizing putin publicly. good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day." president trump is close to celebrating his first legislative major win. the house plans to vote on the gop tax reform bill today and the senate will follow with the measure possibly reaching the president's desk by tomorrow. but a new cnn poll shows the bill is unpopular with most americans. investigators revealing an amtrak passenger train that derailed in washington state was traveling 80 miles per hour in a 30-mile-per-hour zone. that's how fast it was going when it left the tracks. as a result, three people died, more than 100 were injured and that is getting lucky in this situation. the president of amtrak admitting that a system that could have slowed the train down was installed on the tracks but was not active. joining us now is the national

safety board member. we know you and your team are working incredible hours to figure out what happened and take care of people who were hurt. what is the status of the investigation and the numbers involved of human costs? >> thank you for having me, chris. we came here as soon as we could. we have been here since yesterday afternoon and now the full team is here. we have launched a full investigative go team. we will look at every aspect of the accident. we will look at the operations, the mechanics, the human performance, survival factors. anything we can do to find out why this happened so we can prevent more families from suffering the same tragedy? >> look, any life lost in something that should be a safe operation is too many, no question about it. are you surprised that that overhang right over a major highway like that and the cars

hanging prokarasly as they are, that it was not worse. >> i feel so badly for the people who are injured and for the families of those who were killed, but in looking at the scene as i did early, early this morning, you can see all -- it was a 12-passenger train car with a hroebg amotive at the front and back end, and i think it's a miracle the way so many people were saved by the first responders. >> you have a blessing that it was not worse, and you have a curse in stating the obvious to the american people and our leaders. this did not have to happen. if that train were on a track that had positive function control it would not have been able to go that speed, but it was not active and that's why this has happened once again.

i know it's early in the investigation, but isn't that what it looks like? >> yes. we are going to find out exactly weath whether the positive train control attributed to this, it can prevent these exact types of accidents which are over speed derailments, as well as other types of accidents, train to train accidents and work zones, and it's a life-saving tool that should be implemented nationwide. >> i know you have not interviewed the engineer yet, and i know you need to rule out personal failures and i know you have to do all that, but i have been having this conversation and reporting on this and investigating it for about 15 years now and it seems that the

answer to why ptc is not up and running where it needs to be is simply a function of money. is there anything else at play? >> you are right, it is that and it's political will. we recommended ptc for decades, in fact, some form of ptc and it was mandated, but unfortunately the deadline was moved further into the future, and every year we wait to implement ptc to the fullest extent means more people will be killed and injured. >> i know you and your team are busy and the conditions are not great out there, either. i know you are motivated by the people injured and the families that don't have their loved ones, and we are staring at something that could have been avoidable. let us know what information we need to get out to people. >> thank you. we will. alisyn, we were talking

about this, and you said it earlier on talking to somebody that used to be the head of the tnsb. this is shameful. >> terrible. >> they moved the deadline and people died. >> the technology exists. after every train derailment, and you and i have covered several derailments, and we ask why it's not happening and it's still happening. that's remarkable. a growing number of americans oppose the tax bill and the house is set to vote on it today, and the poll shows donald trump's approval ratings at an all-time low.

in november, 45% opposed the tax plan. and this morning, 55% oppose the tax plan. the republicans' thinking is well, when the americans live it or see it, it will grow on them. >> that is their bet. but the tax plan is underwater and it's less popular than tax hikes, which is hard to do in american politics. even if americans don't know the details yet because they are relatively fresh, the way it has been done along party lines it was sold as a tax cut for the middle class and a tax sim l simplification, and it's neither. let me side track you for a second, because i am still upset with the interview with the transportation lady.

>> we know president trump does not view leadership as a role he should play. >> this is about style. he says this is why we need my infrastructure plan, and kwrobg if ptc money is in his infrastructure plan. look at the tweet on the screen with yourself. he doesn't do it when it's guns, though, and he doesn't do it when it's terrorism done by somebody other than a muslim. if it's not okay to talk about gun policy after some mad man or dark-hearted individual decides to massacre a group of us because you have to be sensitive, and what about those families and the ones hurt there, when 100%, i don't care what they find out from the

engineer, it makes a difference in the speed crashes. you can talk about that here, right, but you can't talk about guns? how is that hypocrisy? >> this as pattern for donald trump when the pulse nightclub shooting happened in orlando, he tweeted out a lot of people are congratulating me about being right on islamic terror. the new york city incident, eight people killed. same thing. guns, well, let's let the politics -- when it reinforces his views, and when it proves he was right about something. one other point here, his proposed budget cut transportation funding by 13%, proposed budget. again, they are spending a ton of money on defense, so you have to cut in other places. it's not just the playing of the politics before -- the cart

before the horse, but it's not clear he was saying we need to heavily invest in these sorts of things. >> let's be honest. the problem is bigger than donald trump. this is about mustcle memory an politics. the nra taught us they will go after us and deprive us of money and we will have lobbyist attacking us, and so the problem is bigger than donald trump. but he campaigned on the promise to blow up the old orthodoxes. it should be about things like positive train control and front loading, and comprehensive control but it isn't. >> it's about expressing normal human emotion and condolences. he doesn't do that first. first he exploits it for political purposes so when you see a terrorists attack or terrible accident, he mentioned his policy, and then he

remembers he needs to did a this. what is curious, after you have done this a half dozen times, doesn't somebody say you should lead with the human -- >> yes, this is about donald trump not listening. >> i listen to the poll being waved in his face. >> it's 14 points below where reagan was in 81, who was the previous low, 49%. >> yeah, very unpopular. >> it's not just below. every other president other than reagan and donald trump above 50. he should listen. our poll is not a lone voice in the wilderness. there's lots of data that suggests he's in the low to mid-30s. will he believe it? no, almost absolutely not.

he lives in a world of his own creation. he siurrounded himself with people that affirm his worst instincts, and so should he listen? yes. will he listen? i am confident saying the answer is no. >> this administration at large, they are trying to make sure the government keeps moving in the right direction, but they keep being -- you know, i was going to say derailed, but that's inappropriate, and they are taken off message by the president who tweets. that has a way of blowing up any strategic vision, and that's one of the reasons we saw a document that was hawkish and disconnected with the president's own rhetoric. is the president in the second year

year, if he grows in the office, and is he going to fulfill his promise as president more or be content being the head of a circus. >> he's a savvy guy. to alisyn's point, he had an initiative when they first won and it was called djt-100, and they wanted to make him appeal to everybody. no question, on this issue, i am sure the base, the 30 plus what of the concentrated -- if you don't grow, you die in politics. >> his people, i would remind people, barely -- now, he won, but it's not despite what he will tell you. this was not a massive historic

landslide. there was one historic to it, he lost the popular vote larger than almost 3 million votes. he won it with 80,000 votes in three states. he won it. that's not to take it away from him, but it's to suggest that if he does not grow it's problematic. not only has he not grown, chris, he has shrunk. there's an idea that the base is always going to be for him. true, for a certain amount of base. not true for the entire republican base. look, we have seen -- this is the first year of the presidency. can you imagine if a prominent democratic senator in the first year of barack obama's presidency came out and gave a long speech about how barack obama had fundamentally undermined the president, and it's jeff flake and john mccain and mitt romney, and there are significant cracks in the foundation of people that voted for him. this is not even the governing coalition he won in 2016. it has faded already, and he did

not have a lot to lose. >> the reality check is this was the honeymoon, and it's been ugly and deeply unpopular. what's next? >> thank you for that analogy. >> you are welcome, alisyn. it's the least i could do for you. >> this is supposed to be the year, particularly when you control the house and senate, the revolt we have seen within the republican party, i think, again, because it's trump, it's so different. you have a tendency to gloss over -- >> my point, even if it's not in your heart or natural instinct to lead with human emotion and condole kwrupbs, that is learnable. what i hear people say, even diehard trump people say is we want humanity in the country. >> 15 months ago a republican consultant insured me donald trump would never win, to your

point, because he lacked empathy, and no politician can win without empathy no matter how much people want change, they want somebody when an incident happens like this to unite the country to say we are all one and he's incapable of doing that, and he won anyway. is that catching up with him now? >> yes. >> you can't learn empathy. >> john and chris, thank you very much. with the house taking up the gop tax overhaul today, we will speak with one of those that helped to craft the bill, and is this really sold as a middle class tax cut? next. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. this i can do, easily. i try hard to get a great shape.

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republicans poised to pass a major tax overhaul. the house is taking up the plan today and if it passes both chambers it could be on the president's desk by tomorrow. our guest was on the tax policy sub committee that helped put this together. good morning, congressman. >> thank you for having me on. >> there are new cnn polls out two hours ago and it shows the bill's popularity with americans. let me pull it up for you. those that oppose the gop tax plan have gone up. in other words, the opposition has risen from last month, 45% to 55%.

does it worry you that the majority of americans don't seem to like this? >> no, in fact it creates low expectations and i think this is going to be far more pleasant for people. what they are going to learn is their tax bills are going down. my home state in illinois got hit with a high state income tax last year or earlier this year, and my constituents are looking for tax relief. when it comes down to it they are getting tax relief. polls are snapshots in time and we use them to guide us but you don't want to be tethered to polls, when it comes down to it people will look at it in totality when the dust settles and say that's a good bill. >> you bring up your tax state, and not all states are the tacks going to down and there's a feeling among the blue states this is a poke in the eye such as new york, new jersey, california, connecticut, between property taxes and between state and local taxes, people are going to see their taxes rise in

some blue states. >> well, i was one that fought hard to keep the state and local tax deduction at $10,000 to make sure that it included property taxes. it now has been duel eligible and changes, in other words, the deduction can now include income taxes as well. if you were to only evaluate that proposal, then the criticism would be valid. >> of course -- just so you are clear, for some people in blue states they will see their taxes go up? >> i don't think that's true. if you look at the bill with the changes made in the conference committee, you will see changes in the top tax rate, for example, and that helps blue states. we accepted more of the senate's approach as it relates to individual tax rates throughout. i think we took one good bill that passed out of the house and we took a good bill that passed out of the senate and we looked for the best of both bills and

came up with a winner. >> i understand what you say with the benefits of low expectations, and that makes sense, and the idea that half the country oppose the bill does that say you have not done a good job of selling the merits? >> i can take critique and admonition on how to communicate clearly and better, so i am open to that criticism. if you are going to make policy based on polls, why would you need policymakers? what you want to do is make decisions that you know are solid based on the merits, and make decisions based on a good process, and make decisions based on a solid getting input for a lot of people, and i predict this passes in the senate and will be signed into law. as we look forward next year, my constituents and many other people are going to get tax relief that they really need, and we are going to have a business environment and climate

that is more expansive and more invitational and opportunistic for more people, and you see so much anonymity on the gop side about the bill. >> does what you are saying sound familiar to you about what obamacare was from pelosi, saying you have to pass it to like it. people have come around from what they have read from the media they don't like it? >> i think there's a serious distinction, and i spoke to this last night when i was presenting to the rules committee. distinction with obamacare was not an open process and written in the speaker's office, and they had four days of an open markup, in daylight and not in the middle of the night with a level of participation -- >> is that not what we have heard from democrats. we heard from joe manchin saying

he went to republican colleagues with a wish list of six to ten items, and he said this is what would make it bipartisan, and you all did it in the cover of darkness -- >> no, it was not done in the cover of darkness. saying no to an idea that you don't like is different than just being secret and saying if you are for this we will put it in. what we have done, we created things with two purposes, one is tax relief and one is a positive business environment, and when you net it out in a very complicated institution where it's difficult to get things done and this is an incredible accomplishment that will yield thoetz t those two things. when it comes down to it, we will say that was a pivotal time for good in american life, because now we have a tax code that is built for the season we are in, and we are not going to lose on an international basis, and we will be more prosperous

as a result. >> this adds 1.5 trillion to the deficit. i thought republicans didn't like going into debt? >> well, there are two ways we go into debt, and one is when we borrow money to buy something that is increasing in value. debt is a tool. in this case we are taking on debt and we are getting two things for it. number one, we are getting a tax code that is updated, that we need desperately. the last time this code was updated was 30 years ago and the entire nature of the economy has changed. the second thing is a more robust economy, so is that worth taking debt on? yes, in my view. >> and another perk for real estate developers, they will get a big tax cut. it is a tad unseemly to have people like president trump, his

son-in-law, kushner, being the beneficiaries of something like this? >> this was debunked yesterday by "forbes" magazine, and debunked from senator hatch to senator corker. it's completely not true. these are concepts that have been well litigated -- >> so real estate developers do not get any benefits -- >> what i am speaking to is the news story that you are citing, basically. that has been debunked. >> but do real estate developments -- >> everybody gets a benefit in terms of how we have tried to approach this bill. >> not everybody in the country gets a benefit here. >> what i am saying, from a business point of view. what you are trying to assert is something was air dropped in at the end, and -- >> do real estate developers like president trump get -- >> i am a real estate developer, and we worked hard to make sure

financial and health care and all these other areas benefit. >> okay. one of the president's economic advisers, seems he had a rude awakening at a ceo's conference where the ceo's in the room were asked what they would do with these kinds of tax cuts, because let's remember, businesses are sitting on a record amount of cash right now. there have been record profits. they are not cash strapped, the apples and facebooks, he expected them to say they would hire more people or increase wages or increase capital expenditures for the good of productivity, and they did not say that. here was the moment where they were asked to raise their hands with what they would do. watch this. >> if the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase investment of your companies' investment, capital investment,

just a show of hands if the tax reform goes through? >> why aren't the other hands up? >> that's the president's senior economic adviser, why aren't the other hands up? what they are doing is giving dividends and buybacks? >> it's a cute antidote, and it took place several weeks ago and lot of those folks did not know what was in the tax bill -- >> you think today all those hands would go up? >> no, let me make another point. did you see the news from at&t where they announced yesterday they plan to invest an additional $1 billion in the u.s. economy. the notion of just a loose question out to a group of people, show me a show of hands that is going to be d dispositive -- >> you know it was not just that antidote. the ceos are talking about paying dividends and stock

buybacks, but not saying they are going to hire more people. >> it's either going to spend more money for the government or private sector. my money is on the private sector and its ability to be more wise and more discerning in terms of how to create opportunity. companies have to compete on a global basis. what you are going to see with the change in the international system, for example, is a lowering of the threshold so more money can come back, and most folks say there's between 3 and $4 trillion locked out of the u.s. economy right now and with the passage of the bill that money is unlocked and can begin to come back. that's good for the economy regardless of who raises their hands in a cute meeting. >> thank you for coming on with your perspective. as they say, time will tell. >> thank you. among the tax bill's most vocal critics, you have democratic congressman tim ryan. here's a little taste. >> this economic philosophy

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president bush did this, saying we will cut taxes for the wealthy, and it's going to lead to growth and wages will go up, and we had the most stagnant period of growth since the depression and it ended in a complete economic collapse, and this philosophy stinks and it doesn't work and hammers working class people. >> that's tim ryan making his case on the floor last month, and that has gone viral. let's talk about this with tim ryan himself. thank you for being with us. the best for christmas to you

and your family. >> thank you. >> why are you so angry about a tax cut? people need tax relief and now they are going to get it and this was part of a signature promise? >> some will get crumbs. it's going to be a great christmas for the corporations that are sitting on more crash than ever in their lives and this is the highest time for corpora corporate profits, yet in youngstown they are worried about christmas gifts, and then the other half will be sitting on tax breaks. we are going to china, and after we make payments it's going to be $2.2 trillion that we will give to china to give apple a tax break.

yeah, they may throw a few crumbs at the working class people, but this is a big gaveaway. >> 80% of the benefits you guys argue goes to the top, but they also pay 80% of the taxes. the republicans see that as a wash and they say you are going to give them tax cuts because those are the people paying the taxes, but all the way through the income strata, people double the standard deduction and make it simpler for families, and by helping businesses, they will feed business and that will lead to capital expenditure and increases. >> first, to whom much is given much is required. there's a responsibility that comes with being wealthy in the united states. you have to help the rest of society. look, they have been making a lot of money for 30 years while the wages for average people have been stagnant for 30 years. we have to rebuild our country.

even if we wanted to, i mean, economic philosophy, as i said in my speech, this doesn't even work. president bush tried this, cut taxes for the wealthy and we thought it would lead to increased wages and we had a stagnant decade of growth after the two rounds of bush tax cuts. this is a fantasy we are continuing to push on to the american people. what we need to do is rebuild the country. so that family in youngstown will have about $20,000 more of national debt that will be on their backs for their kids to pay. >> they say they will deal with that when it comes to spending and they come at democrats like you saying you spent us into this situation. we will look at not spending as much and that's how we look at the deficit, you don't tax your way to a better free economy, but you repatriate money and that's how do you it.

>> if that worked that would have worked when we tried it 20 years ago with the bush tax cuts. that doesn't work. need this plan. we have to get out of the argument where it's all government or no government. the reality of it is in 2017 and '18 and beyond, you need a blend of public partnerships, and we need to take down blighted homes and build infrastructure, light rail, high speed rail, those are good paying union jobs with pensions and benefits. >> you say that and the president says he wants to do infrastructure and then you lose three lives and 100 other people because you pushed the deadline on put in positive trail control, so where is the real resolve by any of you guys down there to do the right thing? >> i wouldn't say you guys. the democrats have been pushing for implementation. democrats have been pushing for

reinvestment. we lose thousands and thousands of people on highways every year, and we have to rebuild the country. our airports and roads. we need to be a country that promotes high speed rail and light rail and walkable communities. there's no reason why any american should walk through a blighted community with abandoned factories in 2017 in america. we have to invest in redevelopment and incubate areas like youngstown, and invest in research and development and things like advanced manufacturing and renewable energy like wind and solar. in wind alone there's 8,000 components to manufacture, and that's manufacturing jobs and communities like ours. but here's the deal. if you go to china now and borrow $1.5 trillion and pay them interests payments every year on that, guess what china

is doing? they are going to battery-powered cars -- >> they have been doing that since we have been alive, and we had one gap in it during the tech boom when you had the unprecedented revenue, but other than that tax and spending has been the way no matter who is in power. >> that's not true, chris. if you look at the affordable care act, that was paid for. yes, we asked the wealthiest people who have been very successful to help us pay for that and the congressional budget office said in over two decades, that bill actually brings down the deficit by $1.5 trillion because we are investing in preventtive health care, and not -- >> i remember those projections, and they did not coupling to be made manifest. we will see what happens now. i appreciate you congressman, for making the case here on "new day." always welcome to be tested. the american people need it. >> thank you, and merry christmas. >> the best for christmas for

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facing multiple charges after he allegedly beat up his dad over a dispute over a truck. palin told police her son was freaking out and on some type of medication. president trump's water break is trending on social media this morning. the president reached for a glass of water during his national security speech and twitter took note, it led to comparisons about how the president needs to use two hands, apparently, to drink from a water bottle and he did that during the speech last month and then again, and the water works started with the campaign after he poked fun of marco rubio. this is a smaller glass, and last time you called it the baby grip. >> it's the sippy cup way. i don't get the hands thing and

the glass. i don't know what -- >> you drink out of of a vase. >> i hold it like a man, with one hand, but that's me. i don't think it's a judgment -- certainly not one of our biggest concerns. if you want to hold a cup with your hands, it's up to you. >> that's the sippy cup grip. >> this is my glass. >> that's what you do shots from. >> yes, only when i'm working. the house is set to do tax reform today but a new poll shows, you don't like this bill. why do it? the bottom line, next. benefiber® healthy shape is a clear, taste-free, 100% natural daily fiber... that's clinically proven to help me feel fuller longer. benefiber® healthy shape. this i can do! looking for a hotel that fits... whoooo. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price.

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happy with it. >> it's a big bet. we don't know the answer to that, and what we do know is what is in the latest bill, the american people are buying the democratic party, and it's indeed skewed to the wealthy and not to the middle class as promised by president trump on the campaign trail in 2016. here's what is so significant about that. i don't know if democrats will campaign against vulnerable republicans on this bill alone, but people are buying the argument as it relates to the bill. >> it's not popular. i don't know if it's a democratic argument versus a republican one, but it's about the maybes versus the certainties on the bill, and will it be manifest intime for the midterms? >> that is the big question.

time for the midterms? >> that is the big question. here's what i am highlighting this on, and republicans are feeling better today than at the beginning of the year. they are held together. remember john boehner let the truth slip out in the comment he said, republicans never agreed collectively on what to do with health care. on taxes, that's not the case. this is a delivering of a promise to republicans, to their core voters to check the box and say we have a major initiative done, and we got it to the president's december skp president's desk, and this is what control looks like, and some of those that crossed over to vote for president trump in the key states, this cuts against the grain to the argument he made in 2016. >> poll numbers are at a

historic low, 35% of the president's job, and when this tax bill passes, as early as today, does it stand to reason those numbers go up, a legislative win in that column will help his poll numbers go up? >> potentially, you could see the number among republicans go up and therefore help his overall number up tick a bit. but what that 35% really represents, if you develop a strategy where you spend an entire year playing to your base, that's what you get, your base, you get 35% support and don't grow beyond that. >> he has to hope whatever upside to tax cuts is not met by health care because of what they are getting rid of. >> what is your take on whether or not he scored a win on the national security speech? >> the speech didn't match the

published text. i think when donald trump is able to hit the campaign themes he feels he's on stronger footing. the problem is if you are in a world capital around the world and trying to assess what the united states strategy is, do you look at the document or listen to the president's words? >> david which ien, thank you so much for the bottom line. >> how about a little good stuff, and not just me going on vacation. >> better than that? >> i don't know. >> come on. >> not for you. ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. feel the power of thenew power...smax. ...to fight back theraflu's powerful new formula to defeat 7 cold and flu symptoms... fast. so you can play on. theraflu expressmax. new power.

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