but tomorrow afternoon republicans are expecting to be here for what will be a celebration, john. >> they will get to celebrate tomorrow. the question is will they be celebrating 11 months from now? any worry inside the white house about fallout in the coming election year. >> that's the central question. we no he this will be the sound track of the you 2018 midterm re-election campaign. the race to define the bill is underway. it centers around the president, will he benefit more than middle class americans? he has not released his tax returns as we know. that's preventing the white house from saying if he is better off personally or not. but the white house hopes to get the increased support number up. we saw the poll a second ago. 5 a% oppose it. 33% support it. they believe with promoting the president plans to travel next year in the early part of january selling the benefits. they believe that comes up. but john, the reality here is some people are going to be

affected by this in negative ways here. it's an open question here. next november by that midterm election time this will be seen as a good thing. or a mistake tonight. >> by the way, i don't think there is any debate about whether or not the president will be better off from this texas plan. he will be. he will make money. >> as a businessman for sure. >> all right. jeff at the white house. thanks. >> sure. >> as we said, the bill had a speed bump late today in the senate. fill mattingly joins with us that and what the change is. even though this is essentially a done deal we're looking at democrat bob casey on the floor tonight. taking it to the mat late in the evening. >> they know the writing is on the wall. you can talk to the democrats and this is the same in the house and senate. there is no stopping this. unlike the health care effort both from the grass roots side and lawmakers side to pull republicans from the rest of the conference to oppose it didn't work out.

they are unified and they are set to pass this. democrats continuing attacks about the merits of the bill and now somewhat personal attacks. listen to what senator brown had to say a short while ago. >> so this tax cut -- follow it simply. this tax cut raises -- cause as hutch deficit to give money to the wealthiest in the country. creates a huge hole in the budget. who is filling that hole? not the lobbyist walking out of senator mcconnell's office they're not paying for it. >> and john, i can tell you senator mcconnell's office didn't appreciate that. one of his top advisers shortly out after the comments. deer senator brown parental decor up escapes you. the republicans are confident. but the frustration from democrats about the parts. process how it played out certainly laid barron the isn't that right floor. >> what happens next

procedurally speaking. >> the senate will pass the bill in a couple of hours likely around 11:30 p.m. gep it's a foregone conclusion in terms of where they are on votes. but as jeff noted procedural issues popped up because of the budget rules republicans are using to pass by simple majority. there will be specific provisions none that attack the core of the bill. but small provisions stripped out because the house passed a different version. that means the senate will send the bill back to the house. the house passes the bill again tomorrow morning. again at this point, it's just add ago couple of hours to where everybody knows this i going to end up. but for republicans celebrating tonight they have a couple more hours to wait. >> fill up at the senate. we want to bring in the money and power panel. weal let you guys decide whose money and whose power. kirstin i'm starting with you. this is the first major piece of legislation the president gets pass. it's a win. they will celebrate. but how long will this celebration last given the

unpopularity of this bill as we sit here tonight? >>. >> well i think the republicans would say it's unpopular because the democrats have demagogued the bill and when people get the paychecks and they have more money they'll be happy with it. but the reality is you know whether your ideological or not there is a lot to be concerned about in this bill. while there will be tax cuts for pretty much everybody in the early days of this you know the only ones that are permanent are the ones for people more well off. over the long-term i think that people are going to sort of see what's really in the bill. they're going to see a disruption in the health care market because the individual mandate is repealed. and i think that people can see that what's going on here which is that you know this is a deficit-busting bill paid for pretty much by the middle class. and so i don't think over the long run they fair well. maybe in the short run they can do okay. but i think over the long-term

this is -- this is not going to be a great idea for them. >> you know, matt lewis, not only is the bill itself unpopular but the president is unpopular. historically unpopular. epically unpopular. 35% approval rating. in the short term do you think this gives him the opportunity to redirect the trajectory of his presidency. >> absolutely in the short term he has points on the board, goes from a horrible year, especially if you talk about tweets and chaos, to having a pretty good year if you look at the metrics, the points he puts on the board. was it contains who said in the long run we're all dead. donald trump needs popularity now. republicans need success in mid-terms. it's not too soon to start thinking about the re-election. and look, anybody -- any time any political party has done anything worth doing certainly in this political environment that's highly partisan, it's going to be unpopular. it's very difficult now -- it

would take tremendous political leadership to do something of this magnitude. look at the obamacare. lee look at the effort of george w. bush to fix social security security. if you want to use the political capital and implement your parties' agenda -- they do believe that tax cuts will stimulate the economy. -- there is going to be a backlash. there is pushback to at a. >> did it did george w. bush and obamacare popularity. >> when have tax cuts have been unpopular. >> paul ryan claimed today the reagan tax cut was unpopular. we have to look at that. but by and large they are wildly popular going through. mark, to you we listened to republicans for years talking about how increasing deficits is a terrible thing. debt is bad. deficits are bad. now the republicans push through this bill which adds anywhere between a trillion to

$1.5 trillion to the debt over years. what about all that talk? is this republicans saying never mind. >> those are the facts that are ignoring this is growing the economy skbloo how do you know that. >> look at history -- if you look at history. >> you look at history that hasn't been the case. >> go back to the reagan tax cuts eight of the next ten years government revenue was higher after the tax cuts than it was the years the taxes were cut. you had millions -- $15 million jobs per capita higher than. >> that was a spending problem. >> that was not a revenue problem. >> it's a money problem. >> we can control the spending if you keep republicans in control you'll control the spending. but this is coming down to the fact that you're going to have americans getting more money in their paychecks in february. they're going to see it. anywhere from 150 to a couple hundred bucks the average family of four starting in february they're going to be able to pend that, put that toward education, take a vacation, whatever it is

thoefl like they need to do for their family. the republicans can run on that. if the democrats say they're raising taxes which is what they're talking about they're losing in 2018 and in the future. >> john. >> go ahead, dill zbloon here is where this tax bill loses credibility and this is why i believe it's so unpopular. there is an extremely sound argument to increase the available pool of money in the private sector whether wealthy families small which ises corporations. understand, money moves down the path of least resistance. the path of least resistance is where the taxes are the lowest and the benefit to the person with the money is highest. if you want to have money flow into the economy you would create a tax benefit for the investment in new business formation, capital expenditures and equipment. hiring. absent a specific inincentive to invest in job, cap and business formation, the path of least resistance in the private secretarier is the bank of those

getting the money. stock buy backs and executive compensation. so where this loses credibility is you're saying i want to raise the taxes on the blue states by reducing the state and local income which reduces budgets for schools, budgets for infrastructure. mark and i talked about that. i'm raising the deficit. the reason i'm willing to tolerate the reduction in the budget for schools and infrastructure, increase the dechz is because there is so much private capital flowing into the economy it's going to create jobs, invested in cap x. invested in new business formation. however, that is not what the policy does. the policy instead enables the path of least resistance for the capital flowing into banks, stock buy backs and executive compensation. if you really wanted something interesting you would actually look at the marginal increase in the amount of private capital available because of the tax reduction and look at the percentage of capital

distributed through buy backs executive comp and the banking system as opposed to that invested in new business formation, cap x and job creation which is the basic conservative thesis i agree with. >> what we have for mork. >> >> hang on mark hang on mark. >> what we have heard from ceo when polled he asked ceos to raise hands if you were doing anything other than reinvest wages in buy backs. and no one is saying this is going back into the economy in terms of wages. >> because it's missing the final piece which is the inincentive to reinvest the money. >> this includes inincentive to write off capital expenditures in the coming years. closes and penalizes executive compensation and abuses of that. there are many factors which aren't getting coverage but that encourage companies to put this

into new equipment that raise wages, and that's why we are confident the council of economic advisers says just the corporate reform is going to increase wages about $4,000 in the coming years. on top of the tax cuts you get increased wages. >> again that remains to be seen. that will have to be proven. >> that's why it's unpopular. people can buy the theory of private capital. they want to know the private capital is driven into hiring and cap x. >> one of the issues that came up was how this affects the president directly. the president said during the campaign and fall when he was selling this i'm a big looser this doesn't help me. that's not the case is it? >> no. it's very clear to the people that are going to do well in this are people with a lot of pony. by all accounts he has a lot of money. i think he is going to do well. look, the problem here is that the economy is doing well already. companies already have -- are sitting on a lot of cash. the argument that we need to

somehow do something for these companies so that they have cash doesn't make sense. and i'm -- just to be clear, i don't have a problem with that. i actually don't have a problem with lowering the correspondent tax rate. i don't have any ideological opposition. i do have a problem with blowing up the deficit in order to help people with cash get more. it doesn't make sense. and they made the tax cuts permanent for the wealthy people but guess whose aren't permanent and expire. it's middle class. it looks like something that's been done. >> when you're a republican coming out in future years. >> and to put us in -- you know bad position in terms of the deficit, which we saw with reagan. you were talking about reagan. we know what happened. he left with a massive amounts of deficit. >> we beat the soviet union that's what happened. >> by tax cuts? did tax cuts. >> the deficit went up. there were tax cuts during the bush administration and the

deficit and debts went up. there were extraneous circumstances there. >> and we had a rezbleegs i want to leave this with you matt lewis. as a conservative and republican you support the idea of tax cuts in general and much of what is in this bill. however, is there a perception problem baked into the cake right now that $9 hup for the middle class if lucky enough to live in california, new york or maryland might change for voters going forward. >> yeah, look, i think what's the old maxim first you win the argument and then you win the vote. are republicans won the vote but not the argument. but once people start seeing personally they'll get extra money back, and once -- if the theory holds true the supply side theory holds true and the economy is stimulated and there is more growth then they win the argument. this is a great test. if republicans are wrong, if this theory of supplyside

economics are wrong. it worked for kennedy and reagan. if it doesn't work they deserve to lose. i'm worried about the deficit. kirstin is right. that's a legitimate concern. but the class warfare, worrying that some guy is getting a bigger tax cut than me that's overwrought. the media has spurred that along. >> if that was true you would say the president is going to save a lot of money. >> of course. >> thanks so much. good discussion. i appreciate it. we follow the developments late into the night on the senate floor we'll speak with a top member of the house intelligence committee who is worried about the efforts to stymy the russia investigation. later breaking news on the deadly train derailment where one key crew member was and wasn't. and safety equipment that could have been there but wasn't. flo: just like magic, progressive gives you options based on your budget. [ gasps, laughs ] you ever feel like... cliché foil characters

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full throated push barker in the russia vegas. attack on mueller and the fbi and rod rosenstein. and now ad the president's eldest son to that list. in west palm beach. the stiehl dossier and slamming what he thinks is a double standard where his father is concerned. >> imagine what would happen if we rolled back the clock to 2008 and a conservative director of the fbi and high up people in

the fiv leading all the investigations wrote an email about an insurance policy, the dossier, in the unlikely event that barack obama was elected president. what do you think would happen? do you think the media would cover that? yeah. do you think it would be brushed under the rug like it's nothing it doesn't mean anything? there would be revolution in the streets. so i'm flad that this is coming out now. because it is good because real people have to see this. you know my father talked about a rigged system throughout the campaign and people said what are you talking about? but it is. and you're seeing it. there is and there are people at the highest levels of government that don't want to let america be america. >> people who don't want to let america be america. joining us now congressman adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman thanks for being with us. what's your reaction to what donald trump jr. just said.

>> well he apparently forgets the fact that in real time what happened last year was the director of the fbi talked about an investigation into hillary clinton, even ten days or less before an election but did not tell the country that there was also an investigation going on of the trump campaign over far more serious matters, whether individuals in the trump campaign had been orned as agents of a foreign power. in cut in donald trump's favor. and that's something that donald trump jr. would rather ignore. >> he says there are people who don't want to let america be america. suggesting there is some kind of conspiracy perhaps to undermine his father's administration. is there any conspiracy like that? >> no. but you have to realize this is i guess a trump family characteristic and that is to

always view themselves as the victim of something, victim of a rigged system, victim of unfair fbi, victim of unfair press coverage. this seems to be a jetrait. but i think the fbi and department of justice have a lot of dedicated public servants whose work is being maliened because there is an effort to tear down the institutions to tear down what bob mueller may found, by discrediting in advance by casting doubt. in the meantime they do enormous damage to the democracy and undermine public confidence in the administration of justice. >> trying to undermine robert mueller's investigation. there are questions you've raised about trying to undermine what's going on in the house intelligence committee. you say you've made progress but you also say republican members

opposed challenges. explain that. >> there are a number of steps which republicans are making which don't make sense from a investigative point of view and departure from how we operated in the past. they've scheduled key interviews out of state including one tomorrow we we have another vote on the tax bill. and we have a vote potentially tomorrow to keep the government open. why would he they be scheduling interviews out of state if they didn't want us to be present during the interviews? these are interviews with witnesses we've been asking them to bring in for months and they've sat on. what is the head long rush to do it now if not to try to end the investigation? and that's my fear. we saw on display in committee. we see in our intelligence committee an effort to bring the congressional investigation to premature conclusion.

that ought to concern all americans. >> is this something the chairman of the committee or mike conway running the investigation, have either said to you that they are trying to shut it done soon. >> well they've been i think fairly vague when i ask which are we scheduling witnesses three a day when it took months for you to schedule some of the witnesses wove asked for a long time ago. why don't we have the witnesses that you're scheduling out of state come before our committee after the holidays? why are we not scheduling any interviews for the new year when there are dozens of interviews to be scheduled. i can't get an answer. that tells me that there may be marching orders from the top that they got to bring this to an end. we have seen steve bannon, the president and others amp up the heat on congress to shut us down. now the republican senators have acknowledged the president weighed in with them to try to get them to shut down the investigation. the house members haven't been

willing to comment about whether they received similar pressure from the wlous. but they seem to be acting like that. >> they're act being like they're being pressured from the white house. i want to play you something from james clapper. obviously the russia investigation at core is a question about whether russia tried to influence the election, were russia has undue influence on the trump campaign and maybe at the beginning stages of trump presidency. this is what former dna. clapper said about phone calls between vladimir putin and president trump over the weekend. >> i think this past weekend is illustrative of what a great case officer vladimir putin is. he knows how to handle an asset. and that's what he is doing with the president. >> do you think president trump is an asset to vladimir putin? he is treating him like an intelligence asset. >> i think the president is allowing himself to be manipulated by putin. putin knows, because the kremlin

does a psychological profile i'm sure of world leaders, what the president's strengths and weaknesses are. and knows because this is sort of in plain sight that flattery gets you just about everything with this president. and so in his year-end comments vladimir putin talks about how great the american economy is. and why are some people in the united states questioning the legitimacy of his election when of course the russians would never interfere in affairs. these are talking points that could have been written bizarre ray huckabee sanders. but the president of russia understand how to get this president to do effectively his bidding. and praise is the way to do it. in that respect it's a bit like the relationship between a case officer and asset. you need to know the motivations of the asset, what gets the asset to do the things you want,

i wouldn't push that analogy too far. but the reality is i think putin is using all of the tactics you would expect him to use, the only surprising thing is how well, they seem to work with the president. >> congressman adam schiff we know you have an unexpected tax vote so we'll loet you get some sleep thanks for being with us. >> speaking of buttons and pushing and presidential psychology. today the president took on the "washington post" with another claim of fake news. the report in question that the president considered putting the neil gorsuch nomination on hold. i'll take this over with maggie haberman next. of unpredictable . crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our turn to take control with stelara® stelara® works differently for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks.

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close to rescinding the nomination of justice gorsuch confirmation is fake news. i nevered wavered and am proud of him. the unnamed sources don't exist. well the "washington post" reported the president was so angry with gorsuch after he criticized the attacks on the judges he considered withdrawing the nomination. the report said he was vening angrily the president was warning that gorsuch with not be loyal. that's the key word. cnn political analyst maggie haberman joins me now. that's the bigger issue here. we know that loyalty is something that is of the utmost importance to the president. >> right. especially to the issue of the tweet that the sources don't exist. i've worked with two of the reporters. i'm confident the sources exist. he often says this that people reinstate real. as you say on it's own we knew at the time he was unhappy with what neil gorsuch had said and

what leaked out. we knew the president was frustrated. this takes it a tick further. but this is how president president views relationships. this is a one-way street about loyalty toward him. it's not that he will be loyal back because he gets rid of people all the time. he expects people to pay sort of unending price if he gives them something. and this is where he conflats himself with the institution he serves. making an appointment for a supreme court justice is certainly something i suspect justices feel gratitude toward the president. but it's not supposed to be something where you have personal fealty. he was preserving the institution neil gorsuch by saying what he said. and the president can't see it this which. we heard the word loyalty come up repeatedly. we heard about it when he was looking for a replacement for james comey. he asked about potential replacements will the person be

lawyer. he clearly viewed jeff sessions recusal as disloyal to him. he described it as unfair to the president in an interview with me and colleagues over the mere. but this is the continuum. >> if jeff sessions is not loyal enough. james comey wasn't and got fired. but rex tillerson reportedly called him a moran. cohen criticized him for the charlottesville speech. those aren't acts of blind loyalty. but they're still around. >> let's get together in february and see if they're still around. in all seriousness, the relationship with tillerson hasn't been good. or at least it was good early on for a limited amount of time. then not good. the relationship with gary cohen has never repaired and did gary get the job he wanted which was the fed chair? he didn't. i think these things have nuance and graduation. it was important to john kelly the chief of staff to keep the

continuum of to be advisers in cabinets positions through the first year. once we are past the first year there will be changes. the president can't get rid of everybody. to be clear he didn't pull back the nomination of neil gorsuch evented about it. events all the time about all manner of things. part of this, the asking people questions about whether he should have done something, sometimes it's venting, sometimes just how he processes something. sometimes he is thinking of undoing what he did. you almost never know. >> which is why you get the rumors going around about robert mueller. >> correct. >> the discussions may be happening. he may not mean going to the full extent oh on them or not. >> right. >> we are at a key point in the presidency almost the end of 2017. he is getting the tax bill through, sign the first major piece of legislation. and one would reasonably ask the question, is this a pivot point? is this a chance for the president to change how he behaves? >> we've had so many pivot

points we've gone in circles. he is not changing how he behaves. we have that -- let me rephrase that. i think it's very, very unlikely he is going to change how he behaves. i can't see this being what gets it done. if anything he takes things that are perceived victories for him as confirmation that his approach worked. i don't see why he would change how he is doing things from this. and this bill -- weaver got to be clear about this -- the main reason this bill got done -- i realize there are a lot of victory laps by people at the white house -- and to be sure the president should feel happy this is major legislation that got through -- whether it's a problem for republicans down the road i don't know -- but republicans on capitol hill acted out of essential fear and self-preservation. they needed something done to go into the mid-terms saying look what we did. that's the reason it got done. >> because the president in some ways is right. they need something independent even though he needs to sign it. one thing we often see a news conference.

it's possible he will answer questions in a public way. this could be interesting. there is a whole lot of russia to ask about. >> right. >> a whole lot of roy moore, sexual harassment stuff to ask about. >> sure. >> i'm curious to see how he handles it. >> if he does did it he will handle it the way we have seen him handle similar lengthy news conferences. remember the one he did early on against his aides advice. >> right. >> he took questions almost an hour. he loved it. it felt like a venting session to him. what he does here depends on where things are with the investigation and how much he is buying into the strategy that his legal advisers have prescribed at this point. >> maggie, great to see you. you said a date. >> february. and not a moment before then that's when we'll do it. >> we'll take a break, maggie thanks for being us. new details on the deadly train derailment. we know how much the train was speeding when it hit the curve. but there are many safety kwis without answers. that's the latest next.

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the cab. the engineer and a conductor who was getting experience and familiarizing himself with the territory. the actual conductor, as there is one on every train, was in the actual passenger section at the time of the accident. >> reporter: it's hard to know what all of this means. we are told by ntsb in the same news conference that the engineer is allowed to control the train. but we did also learn that the engineer, the crew, didn't hit the emergency brakes, john. the emergency brakes were automatically activated. we're still a little more than 24 hours after the accident, still very difficult to know what all of it means as of yet. >> kyung there were also cameras recording inside and outside of the train. what will they be looking for? >> reporter: well, specifically they want to know what was happening in the cab at the controls, what was happening inside between the engineer and this extra conductor that they

just referred to. was there any distraction going on? how do they not know the curve was coming? they were speeding at 80-mile-per-hour, again the emergency brakes weren't activated. did they not know it was coming. why didn't she slow. a lot of questions and the lead up-to-the-derailment. >> i understand two of the three victims were maimed what can you tell bus them. >> reporter: it's very important to remember while we talk about the technology semantics, the investigation, that three lives lost here. a lot of passenger aberd. many injured and today two of the people have faces. one of them, the first is jim hamre. he is is a rail enthusiast. he was aboard the maiden voyage for the amtrak train. joined by someone he is associated with in the rail passenger association, the second man is zack wilhoite. both train advocates. if there is anything awful about

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the wind. how the storm stalled here for 13 hours, spat out dozens of tornadoes and took apart a town devoted to birds, art and the sea. >> the aquarium that doesn't exist, the rock port center for the arts that doesn't exist. >> one of the trucks holds 100 cubic yards of broken lives. there is not a single habitable apartment in town. the schools are two thirds full. and the mayor worries the town could die. >> we had over 1,300 businesses operating in the community. as of last week we had 360 that reopened. >> that's the tax base too. >> yes, it is. >> there is a big fema tent downtown. but the rock port relief camp. >> how you doing this morning. >> i'm good. did you have a good thanksgiving. >> is really just samantha's

backyard. >> this is donated furniture, more donated supplies. >> where she housed fed and supplied dozens of families with only private donations solicited on facebook. >> this is the diaper barn. >> look at this. that's the generosity of strangers there. >> i want to make sure everyone understands we have received no state wg county, national, no government assistance at all. we got denied by fema three times. >> how do you feel about that. >> it pisses me off. >> five minutes away bow and renee couldn't be happier. because they received a three bedroom, three bath home way more than a couple needs but. >> i was shocked. >> it won the fema lottery. >> but i didn't seen up for in. >> meanwhile back at samantha's

relief camp family of six shares a donated rv and a a woman pregnant shares a tent. >> it seems the aid is as fickle as the storm. >> it is. >> if you could talk to the head of >> pull your head out of your ass. >> i identify with samantha's frustrations. when you have lost everything you've worked for, it's a tough situation. >> reporter: brock long knows something about frustration, and baptism by fire, wind, and water. since taking over fema in june, nearly 5 million people have registered for disaster aid. more than katrina, wilma, and sandy combined. >> you have to understand we don't have tens of thousands of manufactured homes and travel trailers, just stored somewhere ready to go. we have to buy these things. >> reporter: one fema trailer from cradle to grave cost s wha?

>> between $200,000 to $300,000. and when it's done, we can't reuse it. we have to dispose of it. >> reporter: and look at this. this is everywhere on big pine key. just mountains of busted appliances and mattresses. look at these trashed jet skis over here. meanwhile, the florida keys are providing another lesson in how fema dollars are spent. >> in fact, key west is close to perfect. >> reporter: while they try to salvage the tourist season in key west, the drive to key west is far from normal. all thanks to messy local politics. even though monroe county had cleanup contracts in place before the storm, florida gave out emergency contracts two days after, when demand for men and machinery was sky high. before the storm, a contractor would have charged $3200 to haul away a wrecked boat like this.

meanwhile, you can't pay your guys overtime. should we be outraged about that? >> fema doesn't do debris. we coordinate the grant funding down to a governor, to the local communities to help them pay for that. i don't think fema should dictate the market rate of the private sector. >> reporter: here in key largo, everything is staying, right? [ cheers ] maybe the best recovery lesson comes from a foul-mouthed bar owner. >> we are not leaving until it's really the shit hits the fan. >> you can't say that. >> reporter: here, mocking the storm with two s-bombs, turned snappers to driftwood. but thanks to decent insurance and devoted regulars who helped him clean up, they were open been days. >> it's a party. >> it was a very positive ride after the hurricane.

and everything is helping each other out. and the government is not doing anything. you should expect the government stands up and the government helps, and only help and only don't be in our way. just do it. make it happen. make it happen. >> reporte >> so bill, fema gives money to the states for cleanup. then it's up to the governor to decide which contractors get the bid. >> it really is. it's really up to the governor of the particular states or puerto rico to use that money wisely. you know, the governor greg abbott in texas is getting high marks for making the head of texas a&m for the rebuild texas project. he's really owning it. it's a bit more controversial in florida, as we saw by the cleanup there. but there's a ton of money needed, and congress now put out that emergency bill. they want to double the amount

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truth is out there after all. so what's going on with this secret program? >> this was a $22 million program, part of the defense department budget that was designed really to investigate these reports of unidentified flying objects. it's known as the advanced aviation threat identification program. now, the pentagon kept this program a secret. it was run by a military intelligence official, who told cnn recently that they found compelling evidence, and i'm quoting him here, that we may not be alone, john. >> so besides that, have they found anything significant? >> one eyewitness saw what he described as an object white in color, resembling the way he described it was a 40-foot long tick tack. that is one of the many encounters they have looked at. in the case of that 40-foot long tick tack, two navy f-18 fighter

pilots chased after it but it sped away. the pilot of one of those aircraft spoke to cnn earlier tonight. >> as we looked out the right side of our airplane, we saw a disturbance in the water, like the braves breaking over the top. and a white object, pointing north, moving left-right, north-south, up-down, all around. i'm in the 8:00 position and the tick tack is at about 2:00. i cut across the middle, and as i got close to it, probably within a mile to half a mile, it rapidly accelerated to the south and disappeared in less than two seconds. it had no wings, so you would think it's a helicopter. when helicopters move side to side, they slow and pick up speed going the other way. this was like a ping-pong ball hitting off the wall, hit and go the other way. the ability to hover over the water and start a climb from

zero to 12,000 feet and then disappear in less than two seconds is something i've never seen in my life. >> he said it's easy to doubt what you can't explain, but he said he's sure he saw something change. all so fascinating. >> randi kaye, thank you very much. thank you all for watching "360." time to hand it over to don lemon. "cnn tonight" starts right now. this is "cnn tonight" i'm don lemon. a classic case of good news, bad news for the white house. a huge accomplishment topped off with a lie. the good news for the president, he's on the verge of signing the signature accomplishment of his first year in office, the republican tax break. the senate voting on the bill tonight, and a couple of technical bumps forcing the house to revote. but the bill is expected to reach the president's desk by tomorrow. and sit a big deal. a lot of people thought it might not happen, but the president and republicans got it done. the bad news, it loo