It didnt take nearly half that long or even half that long to realize this border fight is far from over. The president and first lady spending Christmas Eve at the National Cathedral. Nearly 1,000 miles away from their other home in maralago. Id rather not be doing shutdowns. I love the white house. But i wasnt able to be with my family. I thought it would be wrong for me to be with my family. I just didnt want to go down and be there when other people are hurting. President trump again Christmas Day with calls to troops overseas. Merry christmas, happy new year. Keep doing the job. We are all very proud of you. And a chat with reporters. Mr. Trump cant say when the government partial shutdown will end, but few roads must be paid with money for walls along the southern border. A wall, and fans, whatever they want to call it. I will call it whatever they went. They supported physical barriers in the past. He says its personal. As soon i said i want to build a wall, they were all against it. Im like, take another example. Take mueller. Everybody hated they were calling for his resignation. They were calling for his firing, including schommer. Including nancy pelosi. Until i fired him. And once i fired him, everybody say, oh, why did you fire him . For the hundreds and thousands of federal workers impacted by the shutdown . I think they understand whats happening to her they want Border Security for the people of this country on Border Security. In a quinnipiac poll conducted this month, 54 of American Voters oppose building a wall on the border, and 54 its not necessary to improve Border Security. But 86 of republican support of the wall. 59 said they would support shutting down the government because of it. Democrats strongly opposed it. Independent voters are divided. 60 of American Voters say they were opposed to shutting down the government over differences about funding for a wall. Yesterday, i give out 150 miles worth of wall. 150 miles in texas. Its going to be built, hopefully rapidly. Im going there at the end of january for the start of conduction construction. We are talking to 500, 1500 miles total. Mr. Trump did not say who specifically receive the contract but it was different people. The white house did not tell my provide additional detail despite requests. The president also talked about the economy, the federal reserve. The reporters asked if he had confidence in fed shares jerome powell. They are raising Interest Rates too fast. Thats my opinion. But i think they will stay. They are raising it too fast because they think the economy is so good. Speak reporters also asked the president about his secretarytreasurers steven mnuchin. The president said hes a smart and intelligent guy. He is confident in his secretary of treasury and u. S. Company. Mike many thanks. As ellison mention, the christmas remark started out as a videoconference to members of all five branches of the u. S. Military. But it also included a message for all allies. Lucas tomlinson has a report from the pentagon. On president e, u. S. Trump spoke with u. S. Troops stationed all around the world from guam to the middle east and alaska. You are part of the greatest fighting force in the history of the world, the u. S. Military. Its a great sacrifice for you to be away from your families. Including all branches of the armed forces. I just want to thank you all. Its a great job youve done. I know its a great job you would doing for a long time. Air strikes have continued in syria all around the clock, including this mission to hot spots such as afghanistan, iraq, syria, somalia. Right now, where the policeman of the world and we are paying for it. We can be the policeman of the world, but other countries have to help us. 3,000 u. S. Troops are deployed to the Mexican Border the president did not call any of the 14,000 american troops in afghanistan, nor any of the 5,000 in iraq today, despite defense secretary mattis even with the military planning to cut half the force there. Afghanistan remains a dangerous assignment. A death toll from a Christmas Eve attack on a kindergarten and office for the disable has risen to 43. Not far from where u. S. Troops were celebrating. A recent u. S. Air strike killed 34 taliban fighters in southern afghanistan. It wasnt just the president offering thanks to the troops. Since washington crossed the delaware on christmas in 1776, american ships have missed holidays at home to defend our experiment in democracy. Thanks for keeping the faith. Merry christmas, may god hold you safe. Outgoing defense secretary jim mattis worked out of his office here on Christmas Day. He leaves in just a week. After the president ordered him gone two months early. Mike lucas, thanks a lot. An 8yearold boy from guatemala has died in government custody after crossing the border illegally. According to a statement from customs and border protection, the boy had a cold and favors of agents brought him to a hospital where he was given antibiotics and the painkiller. He and his father were released from the hospital, but later in the day, he got nauseous and his condition started getting worse and was brought back from her medical care. He died shortly after midnight today. The Inspector General has been notified. Earlier this month, a 7yearold girl from guatemala died in custody after showing similar symptoms. President trumps while the north Korean Leader is expected to use a u. S. New year address them by the picture were getting from the state department is a bit more complicated. Rich edison is examining the diplomatic giveandtake tonigh tonight. A federal judge says that Otto Warmbier traveled to when he returned to United States a year and a half later, he was blind, deaf, the brain dead. Died less than a week later. In decision to award warmbier more than half a million dollars, north korea more likely than not barbaric we tortured otto to to extract a confessio, used his lengthy sentenced to further north koreas own Foreign Policy objectives. Since then, the u. S. North korea relationship has changed dramatically, yesterday President Trump fetid tweeted a photo of his north korean team, says he looks forward to another summit with cam in the new year. We are forward to looking to the next age of discussions. Says there is no date or location set for a possible second location for the north korean officials of earlier this month, a stem publication rope young and refuses to dismantle its weapons until the United States eliminates the threat it poses to north korea. It also pushed the u. S. To ease sanctions. It Administration Officials have refused. The world remains united in enforcing end up lamenting United Nations sanctions until the final fully verified the for indications of where north korea stands on this process. As for Otto Warmbiers parents, its unclear if north korea will pay any of the half billion dollars awarded to them. Despite their high level conversations over the past year, the u. S. And north korean government still have no formal diplomatic relationship. Mike . Mike rich edson here in washington. Rich, thank you. Church leaders in the sunda strait. The death toll is rising now to more than 420 people and thousands are homeless. Amy kellogg is monitoring the rescue efforts and the aftermath as well as seismic activity in italy and she joins us now from along. Good evening, amy. High, mike. Italy sits on the fault lines and, yes, there have been a lot of seismic and activity mount etna has erupted and dozens of small earthquakes have been detected, but we are not talking about the discussion theyll make the instruction and casualties indonesia has. In asia is one of the most disaster hit countries in the world, its arc volcanoes that are called the ring of fire. The search for survivors continue and much to do so for a week. That hopes to find people alive are fading fast. More than 420 have died, more than 100 are missing, 16,000 have lost their homes. In some cases, they lost everything. Some still have the homes but are too scared to go back. Indonesia is a muslim majority country, but some Church Leaders marked mass with references for victims and survivors. The volcano that triggered this is still active. There is widespread fear there could be another tsunami at any moment and, like the last, it could come with no warning. There is no sin on the Early Warning because indonesia does not have a tsunami Early Warning system caused by underwater landslides and volcanic eruptions. The process occurs so much that people do not have the opportunity to evacuate. 90 of its nominees are caused by earthquakes, but the efficacy of the tsunami detection system has been called into question. After this, authorities are going to be under immense pressure to vastly improve their detection system. Mike amy kellogg on and then pick master dominic a new budget submitted to his government. Rouhani predicting newer oil sales, hoping to prevent more unrest from irans lagging economy and doubledigit inflation. Security is tight at the vatican as ten and thousands of tourists, pilgrims, and locals to hear a christmas message from pope francis. Police arrested a somali man suspect with ties to isis who had allegedly threatened to bomb italian churches in st. Peters basilica. The popes christmas message for humanity tonight, embrace our differences. Corresponded trey yingst has more on the holy fathers remarks. As the clock struck midnight and time zones around the world, religious ceremonies got underway to celebrate christmas. In vatican city, pope francis held his sixth Midnight Mass before a crowd of 10,000 people. Then, early this morning, the pope addressed another gathering, even taking time to weigh in on Foreign Policy before a crowd of thousands celebrating christmas at the vatican. Made this christmas, rediscover the bonds of fraternities, joining in people. Enable as speak of the remarks from the balcony of st. Peters basilica came with a number of universal messages from the leader of the catholic church. The pope focusing on his words on western consumerism, asking churchgoers how much of the material they buy is actually needed. The popes words come amid heightened tension between israelis and palestinians after multiple attacks in the west bank for multiple months. These attacks did not stop thousands of pilgrims and churchgoers who gathered in the ancient city of bethlehem for their own Midnight Mass in the basilica of the nativity. For this reason, we wish a happy christmas is a wish for paternity, among individuals of every nation and culture pivot unity among people with different ideas capable of respecting and listening to one another. Fraternity among persons of different religions. The with no viable peace plan for the israelis and palestinians, the popes christmas message of unity may be just that. A message. Mike . Mike trey yingst in the holy land tonight. Thank you. Up next, the Trump Administration tried to come up before call for amazon on christmas beer at first, heres what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. Fox 5 in york some shocking findings from a new Jersey Department of Health Examination from a center in saddlebrook. More than 3,000 patients who had procedures at the company between january and december this year may have been exposed to hiv, hepatitis b,as been diah those diseases but out of an abundance of caution, authorities are asking patience to get tested. From fox 46 in charlotte, the nations oldest man and oldest world war ii veteran just got released from the hospital after another bout with minoan l pneumonia. He served three years in the army in the Second World War and hes now in rehab recovering from his on this. And this is a lie look at San Francisco from fox 2. There are reportedly 100 people from bread watch angels patrolling the storied golden gate bridge. Their mission . Saving lives by preventing suicides for the golden gate remains the number one suicide destination in the world according to the volunteer look. A live load from outside the beltway from special report. Well be right back. Well, its a good thing we dont have to worry about Homeowners Insurance. Geico can help with that. We can get Homeowners Insurance help from geico . Well, sure. And they could save us a bunch too. Mmhmm . Im starting to feel better already. Get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and condo insurance. Mike depending on who you ask, all those christmas presents landed under the tree things to santa claus, or in some cases amazon. Prime members have come to expect little to no shipping cost, thats a problem for the u. S. Postal service. What to do about it if you are the Postal Service and the Trump Administration made require a christmas miracle as Gillian Turner reports. And you will record you havent heard about. 2. 5 billion packages shipped worldwide over a period of just a few weeks. Amazon ships hundred and millions of those packages, 60 of which are sent to the u. S. Postal service. Tech insiders tell fox news that amazon has been quietly developing a plan to fight back against President Trump and the new year. Hes been blasting the company for months. The post office is losing billions of dollars and the taxpayers who pay for that money because it delivers packages for amazon at a very below cost. Thats not fair to the United States. Thats not fair to our taxpayer taxpayers. The worstcase scenario for amazon . A price hike for packages, something that can happen if a years worth long review is terminated. Experts predict if usps decides to price its packages appropriately, amazon would lose its competitive advantage. They say the company is working on new alternatives to package delivery, hoping in the future they will be less dependent on usps. They are focused on new cyber technology, specifically digital drone and selfdriving vehicles. They are looking at largescale driver contracts and a series of new Truck Leasing schemes. Asking about a deal in an interview just last month, President Trump said, i think they are getting the bargain of the century. I think thats why they asked for a review. That review is now in full swing. Usps created a special task force to evaluate its deal with amazon and provide recommendation. Now, the postmaster general is warning changes coming. Reforms are necessary to enable the Postal Service to further reduce costs, grow revenue, and compete more effectively. The Postal Service will remain focused on aggressively managing our business. Amazon has done well this christmas season. Its a sales shot up to 50 , and u. S. Shoppers trust amazon more than any other ecommerce out there. They say things can get rocky for the company in the new year. Mike . Mike Gillian Turner here in washington. Thank you. The socalled keep it in the Ground Movement aims to stop the use of oil, coal, and natural as to slow down climate change. William jellineks explains how this population tell my policy is supposed to work. Rather than fight every parliament stop fossil fuel destruction pn before it gets to market. The goal of the keep it in the Ground Movement is to do that, keep fossil fuels in the ground so we dont burn so much that we exceed the amount thats going to lead us to a climate catastrophe. The strategy works. In the report by the u. S. Chamber of commerce says that the keep it in the ground moving 3 quarters of a million jobs by killing or delaying major oil, natural gas, and coal infrastructure projects. We all want clean air, clean water, good use of our lands. But shutting down Energy Production overall is not a solution for this economy or for the world. The report examined 15 projects across the country delayed or killed, including coal and natural gas export terminals in oregon, washington, california, and several pipelines along the east coast. Environmentalists did it by protests, lawsuits, divestment and p. R. Campaigns, and through county and state regulation and legislation. What the keep it in the Ground Movement has found is they are able to contort Good Environmental law, find loopholes, shut down energy projects. We dont need any more oil and Gas Production for the United States. You need to export it based on subsidies paid for by u. S. Taxpayer. It really doesnt make sense. Green peas and others say theyre cold turkey approach is necessary to hold temperatures below 2 degrees centigrade in the fight against global warmin warming. Stopping a project is one thing, but ultimately its about price. The current oversupply of fossil fuels, renewables cant compete without subsidies. This movement can stifle domestic supply and cut off exports in hopes makes wind and solar power and electric cars more affordable. Mike william la jeunesse in los angeles, thank you. Up next, do the roots of christmas predate the birth of jesus . The u. S. Draws up plans for withdrawing troops from syria, or nato ally turkey is sending reinforcements to its border with syria. Turkey says it remains determined to clear kurdish fighters from northeastern syria. Theyve been allies in the fight against isis. Theyve been dealing with kurdish insurgency within its own borders for years. Congo votes for a new president for the first time in years on sunday in an election thats been delayed several times. The opposition is pointing to a potential problem. They claim that new Voting Machines brought in for the election open the door to vote rigging. They want the votes counted manually, not electronically. Former nissan executive greg kelly was released on bail today, breaking the monthlong hold over one of the defendants against former nissan chairman carlos gohn. Underreporting his pay by about 44 million, some of the other stories from beyond our borders tonight. 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While its been the busy news day surprisingly so for a holiday, lets step back before in a new theory of the origins of christmas. Around the world, millions of christians celebrate the birth of jesus and christmas. It begins in bethlehem with a babel swaddled in a manger, but some scholars believe it became long before that with adam and eve in the garden of eden. Biblical scholar dr. Timothy keller says jesus birth is foreshadowed in the book of genesis, the first book of the bible when adam and eve were tempted by a serpent and defied gods edict by eating forbidden fruit. The lord god said to the serpent, because you have done this, i will put enmity between you and the woman, between you and her seed. She shall strike your head, you will strike her heel. He believes his seed refers to that savior will be a human being. A descendant of adam and eve. Scholars have wildly different views of whether or not this is allegory or fact, and while most jewish and christian scholars agree the verse is a prediction of a common saver, believes you cannot understand christmas without the jewish creation. You have to understand him in his context. Those of the jewish religion do not view jesus as messiah, however they are forever linked in their understanding that god has a plan to redeem a world. For christians, this was so filled with the birth of jesus on Christmas Day. In new york, lauren green, fox news. Headlines today poking fun at President Trump are telling a little girl over the phone yesterday, at seven years old, santa has marginal, right . Lets mention has been made of the late night visit to the National Cathedral for Christmas Eve services. Some say the president has had something of a spiritual awakening during his time in office. Others say its about keeping his evangelical base. Lets find out what pastor Robert Jeffress thinks. Hes a fox news contributor. Pastor of First Baptist church in dallas. Merry christmas. Merry christmas, mike. The president of United States goes to christmas on Christmas Eve and Important Message to the American People . I think it is. Look, ive known president s be five or three and a half years. I was privileged to preach the inauguration message on the day of his inauguration to him and his family. I can say, his interest in and respect for spiritual things is neither contrived nor new. In the last three years ive been with him, many times when spontaneously hes asked me to pray, no cameras around, he just wanted to do that. I remember last year, do different times at the White House Christmas parties, he wanted me to come up on the stage after he made his remarks and share about the real meaning of christmas and to lead the group in prayer. Look at, regardless of his motivations, the fact is many christians believe that hes the most faith friendly president in history, because of the policies hes embraced. I was able to share with them to go years ago, the latest Pew Research Poll showed his Approval Rating among conservative christians is 77 . Thats pretty set. Mike stressful head and make of him, removing u. S. Troops from places like syria. Is your advice to him to lean on his faith during these challenging times. I think the president is that anyway. I was able to say to him a couple of weeks ago that there are millions of christians who are praying for him every day. Everywhere i go, people say be sure and tell the president we love him and praying for him. I heard him say before, the five most important words hes heard before he became president is when he hears people say, i am praying for you. Mike faithful people wary of the secular world is trying to take christ out of christmas. A pew poll shows that younger people, millennials, christmas is becoming more of a cultural holiday than a religious holiday. A recent gallup pole on the importance of 60 2 of christians saying its very important but others saying its only fairly important but not very important. How do you avoid losing the reason for the Christmas Holiday . There is no doubt that christmas is becoming more secular, but that cannot diminish the event. 2,000 years ago, the whole world was fixated on another government Funding Crisis but this time it was in rome. As a result on that crisis, the emperor issued an edict to send people back to their hometown to register for taxation. Little did that and paren though, his order would cause a young jewish couple he had never met to travel to a dusty littleo the savior of the world. 2,000 years later, most people cant name that emperor. Octavian. But Everybody Knows the name of that baby born in the stable, jesus. We mark our calendars by his birth. Think about it, every time we write in 2018, we are saying its been 2018 years since the most important event in human history, the birth of jesus christ. Mike in your view, is christmas reserved for only christians or, could perhaps, other people from other faith traditions celebrate this holiday . Look, the shepherd the angel said to the shepherd, this is good news and great joy for all people. I tell people, look, im not africanamerican, but i celebrate the birth of Martin Luther king because this world is a better world because of his influence. Even those who do not accept jesus as messiah and receive the eternal benefits of the forgiveness of sins still benefit in this world. Think about it. The founders of hospitals and orphanages of the worlds greatest philanthropic organizations like the red cost and the salvation army, 92 of the first hundred 38 countries in this college. They were founded by followers of christ who wanted to emulate his example in this world. Thats why this world is a better place. Because of jesus and his influence. Mike Merry Christmas. Thank you for your time. Merry christmas to you. Mike despite the partial government shutdown, President Trump heard from federal workers who want a wall or a better fence as bad as he does for the allstar panel is here after a short break. Minimums and fees. They seem to be the very foundation of your typical bank. Capital one is anything but typical. Thats why we designed capital one cafes. You can get savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. And one of americas best savings rates. To top it off, you can open one from anywhere in 5 minutes. This isnt a typical bank. This is banking reimagined. Whats in your wallet . t easy. 12 hours . 20 dogs . Wheres your belly rubs . After a day of chasing dogs you shouldnt have to chase down payments. vo send invoices and accept payments to get paid twice as fast. danny its time to get yours vo quickbooks. Backing you. I cant tell you when the government is going to be open. I can tell you it will not be open until we have a wall, fence, whatever they like to call it. Yesterday i give out 150 miles worth of wall, 150 miles in texas. Its going to be built, hopefully rapidly. Im going there at the end of january for the start of construction. Thats a big stretch because we are talking about 500550 miles. Its a 2,000mile border, but much of it has mountains and region where you cant get across. That may be the case of an elected champion you can get over the wall, but for the most part you arent able to do it. Very high. Going to be 30 feet. Mike after calling our troops all over the world on Christmas Day, President Trump still has a lot to battle over the border on his mind and the president tweeted a short time ago writing, i hope everyone, including the fake news media, is having a great christmas. We are securing our borders, making great new trade deals, bringing our troops back home. We are finally putting America America first. Merry christmas. Maga. Eli lake, a columnist for bloomberg opinion. Matt ortega joined us of the road in new york city. Charles lane, opinion writer for the Washington Post. Good evening, Merry Christmas. Your thoughts on the battle of the border, charlie . Well, the president , its interesting how this wall it sort of changes shape, length, name. It sometimes called a fence, sometimes called a wall, called money for a port security. I was interested to hear him say that we dont need the wall for all 2,000 miles. What we are seeing is, weve already heard hes modified his ask of the congress on a deal in the shutdown is that notwithstanding all the protestations hes putting out, he is modifying his position on the wall, possibly in the interest of bringing it into this partial shutdown. All along, this has been about posturing on both sides towards those parts of the party that want to see the struggle over this, possibly in between the lines of that statement, you see the beginning of the end of this crisis. It could go well into next year. What you see along this battle for the shutdown . I dont think anythings changed, when people come back from opening the president s from coming down like sand truck the government will neither side is willing to take a loss from this. What we saw with the schumer shutdown where they walked away from the table. The only way out of this is a broader i do not think theyll get a full conference of package, but the president is going to have to put something on the table to get this to move. Once they go into the new congress, as we know, the democrats are going to have even more power as theyll be in control of the house. What im looking for is a long few weeks going into the new year where we are trading a lot of backandforth. The president , can put Something Like that on the table that will make democrats salivate, i think we are going to be at status quo. Mike eli . Whats more important for President Donald Trump and for that matter nancy pelosi is to get a deal or to get the wall, sure youre so dull my core supporters youre willing to shut down the government in order to fight for that wall. The shutdown actually plays to to they arent willing to capitulate in order to get the wall or in case of nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, not willing to capitulate in order to give the wall. Mike you are talking about a quarter of the federal government that shut down right now. President trump today had a message for those of workers. Take a listen to this. I think they understand whats happening. They want Border Security. The people of this country want Border Security. Its not a question of me. Id rather not be doing shutdowns. Many of those workers have said to me, communicated, stale until you get the funding on the wall. They said the workers are on the wall. The only one who doesnt want the wall are the democrats. Mike does any pressure build right now, or are we looking at nancy pelosi being elected speaker and getting serious at that point about reopening the government . I dont know where he gets the idea that the only people who dont want the wall are the democrats because obviously there is a number of republicans who are not big on the wall either, although its true, the Republican Base seems to support it. No, i think eli and i, weve agreed on this point already, but its worth repeating. For the time being, this is about demonstration to your party base that youre willing to have this fight over a big matter of principle which is either wall or not wall. I also agree that if its ever going to be resolved, it would have to be with some sort of bigger solution than just a small amount of money over here or a bigger amount of money over there. These two parties are locked in, you know, a struggle that is both internal, about proving themselves to their bases, and external with each other. Mike morgan, the senate comes back thursday. We start to get some serious talk or much later . I think we are seeing something. Something is going on behind the scenes. We are getting lots of reports we saw Mick Mulvaney say on the of a sunday show that there is a number that the administration has presented that is somewhere in between the 1. 7 1. 7 and the 5 theyve offered. I think what we are seeing as your other panelists have pointed out, we are seeing here a real fight, ideological fight. It strikes me. Five years ago, you probably been able to make a deal over border funding because as republicans have pointed out several times, the key democrat leadership have voted for some sort of wall or fence or whatever you want to call it. What im saying is we go into this 2020 fight, you are seeing mainstream democrats running for the presidency saying things that used to be deemed pretty radical about abolishing i. C. E. And other data calling the wall, you know, very tough names, very tough criticism from the same people who voted for it. As we get closer to other people running for 2020, i expect the Democrat Party run more left of this, not more mainstream. Mike who gets president s, who gets lumps of coal . Theyve got their picks. Stick around cold medicines. Zicam is clinically proven to shorten colds. I am a zifan for zicam. Oral or nasal. During the Bass Pro Shops and cabelas annual clearance sale. With savings of 20 to 50 on select mens and ladies apparel. Nows the perfect time to cash in your Christmas Gift cards Bass Pro Shops and cabelas your adventure starts here. Mike time to figure out who our panelists want to give gifts to and who they want to give lumps of goals delma calls to. Jim mattis. He just resigned, he resigned over differences in policy. Instead of sticking around and undermining the president and tugging at that civilian control of the military, he made it a clean break and i think that is a big win for the constitution. I give him that, i would also say syrian kurds who in 2015 when no one on the ground was capable of going after isis as a partner, syrian kurds were. Unfortunately it looks like theyre about about to be betrayed. In my view, they deserved a gift and hopefully a reversal of the terrible policy decision. For my lumps of coal, the former bus driver now tyrant of venezuela who is presiding over an unthinkable economic collapse in venezuela. Its hard for us to understand this, but at this point the average wage is the minimum wage, which has the purchasing power of around two eggs a day. People who are working a full day cannot afford enough calories for themselves, let alone their families. That is a terrible crime and at some point i hope he faces some sort of justice. My second would be erdogan, the leader of turkey. I put him in the call category because he has hostages, he has turkish nationals who work for the u. S. Who are still detained. Hes waging a terrible war against his own kurds in turkey and is threatening to slaughter the kurds of syria. So i put him in that category as well. Mike that sounds pretty legit. Morgan, lets throw it up to you in new york city. Your gifts and lumps of coal . I have to give gifts to the california firefighters, the fires that hit the west really it disturbed all of us on a level. We saw our fellow americans burned alive in these fires. Here you have american firefighters, california squad of firefighters going in and risking their lives. Once again, they run towards the fire, they run towards the calamity, not away from it. From all the families of the firefighters, people who lost their loved ones in their fires, my hearts are with all of you this christmas. This has got to be a first for special report. Im going to give a president to presents to none other than Kim Kardashian. A celebrity using their power for good, Kim Kardashian worked closely with the president , his team, and many democrats. Democrats get a lot of credit coming to the table to work on criminal justice reform. Thank you, Kim Kardashian, and Merry Christmas. For the people getting call, i have to go with one of my least favorite world leaders, president moon of south korea who i think whos doing more to unify the peninsula in a negative way then kim jong un probably could ever imagine. I think hes been incredibly weak leader of south america korea. He continues to turn the country over to the North Koreans for the benefit im assuming of some set of leverage to china. My other lump of coal is for the crown prince of saudi Arabia Mohammad bin salman, not only the controversy of the Washington Post journalist who was killed this year, but the continued blockade of qatar, the continued war in yemen, the arrest of the lebanese minister. Among other things, i hope this young man can get back to being the reformer he claimed he was going to be, the person that was going to take saudi arabia into the next generation, into this new century. I hope we can get that that the crown prince. So far its a little difficult. Mike morgan, thank you very much. Chuck, your gifts in your lump of coals . There is an implied decision on whos been nice and whos been naughty. As far as nice goes, we all have to tip our hat to the International Team from britain, from the United States, and from the royal pine navy who rescued those young soccer players and their coach, a total of 13 people, from this horrific situation where they were trapped inside a flooding cave that transfixed the world last june and july with a christmas miracle in july bringing it back to mind that the Real Christmas time because it was such an inspirational moment. And my second nice guy who deserves a present in the 80s where everyone is complaining about media getting things wrong and some people, a story last week where one organization, there der speigel a man called Wanda Reynaud who called the whistle on his own institution and pushed to have this reporter exposed so i think he really deserves recognition by everyone who deserves journalist should try to get it right. Mike i do agree i agree with morgan that mohammad bin salman was very naughty in 2018 and really has discredited himself in a way thats probably very lasting. Although i would never put him quite on the same level, im going to hand out a lump of coal to our very own president. I think over the course of 2018, he has continued to be gratuitously disruptive, hes made misstatements, hes insulted people right and left. You know, in november, it didnt really produce the results. He sold a lot of division in this country and still ended up losing for the Republican Party so maybe hell have a better 2019. Mike my gift, Washington Capitals championship went a lot people thought it was not possible. When we come back, a holiday message from bret and their family. All on the set with her unique holiday greeting with their unique holiday greeting. If you have psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. 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Hello, Merry Christmas. We didnt even plan it. Amy . Wishing you a very Merry Christmas from our family to yours and a best 2019. Wishing you and holly, Jolly Christmas and happy new year. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and happy new year. One year older and one year wiser. There you go. Why is there. We want to do it fair, balanced, and unafraid. Last christmas, i gave you my heart very next day mama you gave it away this year to save me from tears ill give it to someone special very christmas to all of you. Thank you for inviting us into your home tonight thats it for christmas Merry Christmas, everyone, and have a good night. Theres a video, telling me what to do and i pulled him out for support. My whole childhood is memories like this. I have an opening up of the world for me. Hi cest hi. Hi. Thats what my dads career is about. A bit of a paradox in that for him, the point of it all is all the things that we do individually. All the passion, all the people that matter to us, the goal is that we pursue in the point of his career was to advance the politics in which everyone could do that. Merry christmas and happy holidays bent im bret baier. Welcome to this fox news