Next. Tonight, breaking news. Your money, your taxes. President trump declaring republicans are on the verge of a major tax victory tonight, and promises if its passed, americans will save on their taxes by february. Mary bruce tonight with a fact check. Who wins, who loses . Corporate america or middle class americans . Also tonight, the Election Night upset. The deep red state of alabama electing the democrat, sending doug jones to the senate. Roy moore losing. And what the president now says about roy moore after all. Abc news has confirmed tonight, omarosa escorted out of the white house. No longer in the west wing. The fbi In The Hot Seat today. Is there bias in the Russia Investigation . The Text Messages revealed right here. Breaking news tonight. The deadly shooting at a penn state campus. The images coming in late today. The officer handcuffing an
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critics argue the bill disproportionately benefits the wealthy. outgoing fed chair cast doubt on the rosy prediction. it would be challenging to achieve numbers like that. thanks to peter aaron hicks for that reporter. president trump says he is not responsible for roy moore s loss in alabama. washington post reporting trump spread the blame to former chief strategist steve bannon and mitch mcconnell. siting senior white house officials and advisers the post reports trump blames bannon for urging him to support moore and mitch mcconnell for being aggressive in trying to push moore out. also reports trump is eager not to let the loss be seen as a referendum on him and said he would have one alabama again according to senior administration official. mean while called doug jones to congratulate him on his historic win. jones told reporters the call was gracious. it was a very gashs call.
reporter: what do you mean? well, i think this was a good result, paradoxically, it was a good night for republicans. we didn t want roy moore here in the senate. it s we have enough challenges as republicans without being the party of roy moore. reporter: perhaps the second biggest loser of the night, steve bannon, the president s former chief strategist. he helped convince the president to support moore. now, some republicans want bannon banished. he looked like some disheveled drunk that wandered in off the street. i think we should shun him. i think we should cut him off. jon karl with us live from the white house tonight. and jon, we re learning that president trump actually reached out to the senator-elect from alabama, doug jones, today? reporter: the white house has confirmed that the president called doug jones to congratulate him on his victory. jones says the president also invited him to the white house. as for roy moore, he still hasn t conceded, he insists t
find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. the first results out of alabama. polls are about to close in the u.s. senate special election, a contest with considerable risks for the president s party. who will win, democrat doug jones or republican roy moore? the former lightning record former judge embroiled in scandal. allegations of sexual abuse involving teenage girls are testing the limits of gop support on traditionally republican turf, even though moore adamantly denies those allegations. this is a new test for president trump as well after he decided to support moore despite the potential consequences for his party.
the gracious tweet from president trump. i think we may have woken up to something else. yeah, plenty of wednesday morning quarterbacking as you d imagine here at the white house. the president trying to frame this the best possible way after a humiliating defeat after picking the wrong horse in alabama now twice. this morning he wrote the following. he wrote the reason i originally endorsed luther strange, and his numbers went up mightily, he notes, is that i said roy moore will not be able to win the general election. i was right. roy worked hard but the deck was stacked against him. the white house really over the course of the last couple of weeks has tried to present this as if the president s hands were tied, that he had to support moore. but what s incredible is that they find themselves in that position just 12 months after republicans swept the white house and congress. the president s initial tweet that you noted overnight lacked the blame, the anger that we typically see f