i'm jim foreman. now back to you. >> jim, thank you.to "hardball." >>> my whole life i've been greedy, greedy, greedy. i grabbed all the money i can get. i'm so greedy. but now i want to be greedy for the united states. i want to grab all that money. i'm going to be greedy for the united states. >> tax reform will protect low income and middle income households. not the wealthy and well connected. they can call me all they want. it's not going to help. i'm doing the right thing. and it's not good for me, believe me. >> in all fairness, this is going to cost me a fortune, believe me. this is not good for me. me, it's not -- have i some very wealthy friends. not so happy with me. but that's okay. >> pt barnum at work. welcome back to "hardball." that's donald trump campaigning as a man of the people. but the tax bill shows he is boosting america's elite. late today the senate locked up enough votes to pass a tax plan that the majority of americans disapprove. the house of representatives is set to vote on the bill tomorrow. the bill will

jim foreman has made his way to the scene. what are you seeing and what can you tell us from your vantage point, jim? >> reporter: well, from here at our vantage point and we'll zoom here so you can see behind me, just to bring you up to speed, this is actually a new stretch of track, not necessarily a new piece of train equipment. it was much heralded, basically cuts ten minutes off of the route between seattle and portland. it's been a very controversial move because of the speeds involved. there is a curve right before that bridge that you see where the train has to slow to about 30 miles per hour according to local folks who know these train tracks and who run them and then something happened as it was crossing over a bridge. now, in terms of where this happened, you can't pick a worse pitch point for north/south traffic through washington between seattle and portland. it is cut off southbound. it will be for some time as you see the train still dangling there. we are told this is still an active recovery -- i'm sorry, resc

jim? >> tom foreman, thank you. i'm jim sciutto. "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening.he president offering a number of excuses for why roy moore lost in alabama, none of them assigning to the president's endorsement of him. the loss is a significant one, of course, for the first time in 25 years alabama, among the reddest of the red states, has elected a democrat, doug jones, the united states senate. alabama overwhelmingly voted for president trump last year. roy moore has not conceded the election, w

jim? >> tom foreman, thank you. i'm jim sciutto. "ac 360" starts right now. >>> good evening. we begin tonight keeping them honest with the president offering a number of excuses for why roy moore lost in alabama, none of them assigning to the president's endorsement of him. the loss is a significant one, of course, for the first time in 25 years alabama, among the reddest of the red states, has elected a democrat, doug jones, the united states senate. alabama overwhelmingly voted for president trump last year. roy moore has not conceded the election, we should point out, he said when the vote is this close, it's not over. the president tweeted this. "congratulations to doug jones on a hard-fought victory. a win is a win. the people of alabama are great and the republicans will another shot in a very short time. it never ends." a very gracious tweet from the president of the united states. and then, "the reason i endorsed luther strange is i is he roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. after st