Into the new year. With border wall funding the big sticking point. This is so ironic that the democrats, like schumer, who said we need Strong Border security, where durbin has said we need to find a bipartisan solution to Border Security. Yet they are not willing to budge, at least at this point in terms of providing funds for physical barriers in that area. Allison barber live at the white house with more on this. Reporter hi, molly. The white house is not backing away for their demand for some physical barrier on the southern border. Nick mulvaney say not only could this shutdown last into the new year, it could continue into the new congress. President trump said he wants something that looks like this at the border. He called it a steel flat barrier. Nick mulvaney said they know this is what twhaeupbt. Mr. Trump was supposed to be in florida but instead he is at the white house writing in one tweet, i am all alone, poor me, waiting for the democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security. Democrats will cost our country more money than the border wall were all talking about. When it comes to the idea of the wall, democrats say the president simply does not understand the situation on the ground. I went down to the border a couple times and i must say when you talk with the border guards, they fill you in on whats happening. President s vision and understanding this, he doesnt get it. The things that are effective, we support. Broader negotiations . Lets have them. Reporter Senior Administration official who briefed the reporters this weekend said if these negotiations are going anywhere, then democrats need to acknowledge and understand that a physical barrier must be part of those discussions. The president is set to meet with his Homeland Security secretary at the white house any minute. Molly . Thank you from the white house. More on this now with politics reporter elijah collins. Thank you for being here. Of course. Great to have you here. Lets start with, gosh, theres so many places we could take this. Lets start with the stock market. The president , in the past year, has crowed as weve seen the market do so well. Most recently weve seen things going the other direction. What does this mean for him politically . The problem for taking credit when things are going well, you have to take credit for when things are going badly. The president is not taking credit for things going badly. He is blaming it on the fed chair. The president is going to war with his own fed chair. Were seeing the markets plunging. We did see administration kind of trying to walk that back, saying the president knows he cannot fire his fed chair. It adds to the chaos over the last couple weeks of whats going on in the government and then investors are feeling uncertain about whats happening. We do have a byte here. We have Nick Mulvaney. It is about potentially firing the head of the Federal Reserve. Does the president believe he has the authority to fire the fed chairman . Oh, no. We should have talked about this beforehand. He put out a tweet saying he does not have the authority. We heard secretary treasury tell us that. Reporter theres a lot when it comes to the stock market beyond even what the president does. Weve seen the trade war in china and things escalating all over the globe. How much does the president own this as weir all seeing the back and forth in washington regarding just getting our own funding where it needs to be in the midst of this partial Government Shutdown . Well, we can discuss who owns what. The truth is the president taking credit for it doing well means hes got to deal with it when its not doing well. There are other factors. The government is shutdown. It is looking more and more likely that it will be shut down until the new year. Nancy pelosi currently the minority leader but soon set to be the speaker of the house. Democrats have no reason to come to the negotiating table until she has that speakers gavel. Both republicans and democrats are acknowledging it. The white house acknowledged that. Its looking like this shutdown will go on for days. That just adds to the turmoil, right . The government cant stay open. The president is criticizing his fed chair even if he says he can fire him. Were seeing foreign policies. And the markets are just uncertain. You talked about both sides digging in their heels and that we may not see action until after the holidays, until pelosi takes over. This is a wall street editorial. They say the phoney shutdown war. Trump and the democrats put political symbolism over policy substance. Mr. Trump scholleding his breath over 3. 4 billion in spending for a piece of political symbolism. Freedom caucus argued the republicans can win if they hold their breath long enough. Perhaps mr. Trump will try that. If it ends with the two sides compromising on Something Like 3 billion in border funding, americans can be forgiven for thinking the whole thing was a pointless political farce. What do you think . Do you think americans are looking at this and saying this is all about politics . Do your job. I think right now it looks like all about politics. You said both sides are digging in their heels and not giving anything. The longer this goes on, you know, once people start not receiving their pay checks, yes, they may end up getting back pay. But not everyone will get back pay. Its the holidays. Its not a good time for the government to be shut down. Its never a good time for the government to be shut down. Once that starts to resonate with the American Public they may get sick of both sides of this. If there is a compromise, americans want to see their government work together. They want to see checks and balances. If they cant come to the middle, they might be able to overlook the shutdown, especially if people are paid retroactive. It is the holidays. People are wrapping presents and buying last minute gifts. Theyll start to Pay Attention to this once the holidays end as we head into the end of the year and new year and things really buckle down. People who are probably thinking about this a lot. Weve been discussing about semanti semantics. This come downs to the wall. As the discussion is going back and forth and the paperwork is going back and forth, youre seeing new semantics come into this. Youre seeing steel slabs and physical barrier and barricades and all these other sorts of words. Is that what its going to come down to, this deftly written document that everyone can claim victory over . It could come down to that. This new steel fencing thing the president has started talking about is confusing to even some republicans. He tweeted a photo of this wall with pointed steel flaps and republicans saying im not sure where that came from, that was never part of the discussion. That might be the president trying to change the wording to convince comes to come on board. They said they are open to Border Security, but not a concrete wall. Theyre saying maybe a steel fence might bring them on board. Both sides are going to want to claim victory and it might come down to semantics. I have been to rallies where theyve chanted build the wall. Maybe they can chant build the steel flaps. Well see what happens. They did chant mexico must pay for it also. Thank you for joining us. Merry christmas. President trump starting the new year with a new defense secretary setting an early departure date for james matt is, Patrick Shanahan will replace james mattis. Weve more on these developments. When did the president make this turn on the president . Reporter its been building for months. Defense secretary mattis was going along with the president until President Trump decided to pull all 2,000 troops out of syria against his defense secretarys wishes. On a call with his turkish counter part yesterday, the president said the pullout from syria will not be quick, a point echoed by his top aides. So now this opportunity to bring our troops home with a slow withdrawal, back to the United States and really focus in on ensuring that it is about keeping our troops safe. We have done our job there. Its time to move forward. That is when the president was forcing him out two months early after a phone call with secretary of state mike pompeo. He hoped to travel to brussels early next year and testify before congress where he was sure to face tense questions about his policy differences with President Trump. In his resignation letter, mattis said he want the president to be respect tpol toward our allies. How did the president respond . Last week President Trump said mattis served with dissin shun. Today a different story. The president tweeting that secretary mattis lost confidence in his defense secretary and fired off this tweet. Quote, were substantially subsidizing the mill tears of many rich countries all over the world while at the same time these countries take total advantage of the u. S. And our taxpayers. On trade, general mattis did not see this as a problem, i do, and it is being fixed. Sunday he named Patrick Shanahan as the new acting defense secretary beginning next week. Shanahan spent more than three decades at boeing and is a point man for the president S Space Force proposal. Today the president defended his decision to pull all diplomats and soldiers out of syria, saying saudi arabia would pay to reconstruct. I will be interested to see what happens next week. Lucas tomlinson, thank you. More devastating waves still a very serious threat as the search and rescue Mission Continues in indonesia following a powerful tsunami. Plus conflicting reports as police try to get to the bottom of several drone sightings that brought the second largest airport to a stand still. Oh oh ozempic® vo people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of onceweekly ozempic®. In a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than seven and maintained it. Oh under seven . vo and you may lose weight. In the same oneyear study, adults lost on average up to 12 pounds. Oh up to 12 pounds . vo a twoyear study showed that ozempic® does not increase the risk of major cardiovascular events like heart attack, stroke, or death. 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You mentioned President Trump going after the Federal Reserve, its chairman. The president saying today on twitter that the only problem the economy has is the Federal Reserve. Now, some investors, at least when it comes to the market would beg to differ and pointing fingers at Steve Mnuchin who, interestingly enough, made a series of phone calls over the weekend which treasury then told us about in the press release, calling up the head honchos of six major banks. Bank ceos and essentially asking them if everything was okay. We were told by treasury officials that the idea here from mnuchin was to be preem preemptive. Wanted to get out ahead of it. Were told the banking ceo then came back and told the treasury secretary everything is okay, we have enough money to lend. Some investors took it the other way saying, boy, if i wasnt worried about the Banking Sector maybe i should be. Because mnuchin was making those calls. We have this break tomorrow for christmas day. Lot of folks will be wrapping and unwrapping in the next 24 48 hours. What do you make of the market . One of the things you see on a day like this, people dont want to take on risk before a holiday. If you have a reason to sell, youre going to sell. The thing in the market is you dont want to be long into an uncertain period like this. You dont have a reason to be owning stocks or being on the hook for buying more stocks ahead of more uncertainty. For all of what is out there, talking to investors about this, in recent weeks they say the administration is probably adding to that uncertainty, whether its the attacks on the Federal Reserve, uncertainty about whats happening with trade policies, the phone calls the treasury secretary made. Investors dont know what to expect. In an environment you dont know what to expect, you dont want to be too aggressive with stocks. Thats some of what we saw today going into the holiday. Well see what happens wednesday, thursday, friday. Thank you very much. All right, molly. British police are insisting that investigate eights into drone sightings around london are on going despite a senior detective saying there may not have been drones after all. The sightings through the uks second largest airport into chaos, forcing it to shut down at the peak of holiday travel. Greg palcott has the latest. Reporter the investigation does continue into that drone chaos that happened last week. The Investigation Continues to search for those responsible. Now, the airport is to give you a little background the eighth biggest in europe. About the size of the International Hub in seattle. After multiple sightings last week, it was shut down over three days, 140,000 passengers. Over the weekend, the police are saying this has ruffled a few feathers here. There could be the possibility that there were no drones or drone. I think theyre probably being careful, molly. There was no confirmed video, no data. But the sheer number of sightings, dozens of dozens seems to nix that possibility. They definitely dont have a suspect. They picked up a couple friday night, released them yesterday. They live near the neighborhood. The husband was a big drone fanatic, but they werent involved and they confirmed that. Theyre still looking door to door. They found a wrecked drone yesterday that might provide clues. Think just came out with a 65,000 reward for information leading to these drone people. Im sure that couple was quite relieved. Law enforcement has been keeping a close eye on drones as theyre being used by the broader public. Is there a broader threat theyre concerned about from drones . Absolutely. What happened last week in london unscores that broader threat for airports in the states and all around the world with the increased use of the drone. All just rising amount of air travel. Now, already there have been some actual drone hits of private planes and near misses with commercial planes. There are hundreds of sightings every year, but this is the first time that an airport of this size has been closed for this duration. Shooting down the drones, possibly possible. Right now, as we speak, u. K. Military is sitting around the fringes of that airport waiting for something el to happen. Technology to track it just confirmed from government minister today so they can deploy tracking devices for every single airport in london. But thats all gonna cost money. There are legal questions. One thing we have to look at, molly, is making sure those 140,000 passengers who were bumped or delayed are at their christmas destinations. Where they want to be. Thank you very much for joining us on Christmas Eve. President trump changing his tune on whos taking the mantle of this holiday shutdown as negotiations continue behind the scenes. 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From this we can i think safely dedeuce that theyre looking for somebody else and that that somebody else, along with the boyfriend, are both possibly facing charges. When theyre looking for someone else, what are they looking for . Are they looking at bank records to see if he perhaps pulled out a large amount of money, 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, emails to see if he contacted anyone . Yes. Bank records, phone records. Email records. Witnesses. Anybody in the neighborhood that saw people coming and going. Any kind of connection to somebody that he wouldnt ordinarily have been communicating with around the time leading up to what they think is the time of the killing. So theres a strong potential that someone else would also be arrested in this case . I think so. The fact that theyre talking about solicitation means they are suspecting that at least one person, probably the boyfriend, asked another person to assist in the killing which means theres at least one other person involved. Which means theyre continuing to look for other people. Under the law the person who solicits and the person who does it, theyre both equally responsible under the law for the death and could both be charged with first degree murder. Last location pinged in idaho, 700 miles from where she lives. When were talking about solicitation being a potential, does that broaden things immensely . Do they have to follow a trail that could go anywhere the email goes, that sort of thing . Thats absolutely correct. Not only does the investigation move from colorado or spread to idaho, but if the email or phone trail leads elsewhere, then the investigation has to go there as well. You can solicit somebody in person, on the phone, via email, by regular mail and any of those things could lead to liability for any of those people that were contacted. Pretty serious charges in colorado. Colorado takes murder very seriously. Whats the penalty that he could potentially face if convicted on these charges . Well, this idea of soliciting murder means necessarily that its premedicated murder which means first degree murder. Colorado is a Death Penalty state. For first degree murder, if thats the charge, that could potentially be anything from serious jail time to life imprisonment up to and including capital punishment. Lot of Unanswered Questions in this case. Thanks for your insights today. Thank you, molly. Merry christmas. Search and rescue teams rushing to help survivors of the latest deadly tsunami in eupbd nina plus a bitter feud boiling over as President Trump and senator corker trade jabs over the border wall and got shutdown and 20. Do you want him to run for reelection in 2020 . It doesnt matter what i want or dont want. Thats something hell have to decide. tand in your garage,son a brand new john deere. Thats not a mirage. With 60 months financing at 0 , say happy holidays to money well spent. 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Just a few hours ago the president offered his latest assessment of the senator in a tweet also criticizing the former u. S. Envoy in the antiisis coalition. The president writes, vote, for all of the sympathizers out there, remember he was the obama appointee who was responsible for loading up airplanes with 1. 8 billion in cash and sending it to iran as part of the horrific Iran Nuclear Deal now terminated. Approved by little bob corker. This latest round began when corker knocked the white house shutdown demands. This is a purposely contrived fight over, at the end of the day, no matter who wins, our borders are still going to be insecure. This is a made up fight so that the president can look like hes fighting. But even if he wins, our borders are going to be insecure. Reporter as to the president s twitter criticism is responsible for the iran deal, the senator responded, quote, yes, just like mexico is paying for the wall. Hash tag, alert the day care staff. Corker opposed the nuclear deal when the Obama Administration finalized it in 2015 and reis retiring at the end of this year. This isnt their first fight . No. Theyve covered this very ground before. In october 2017 corker called the white house an Adult Day Care Center adding someone missed their shift after the president tweeted similar criticism. The president tacted corker after the Tennessee Republican claimed remembering tillerson, defense secretary james mattis and john kelly were separating our country from chaos. All three have left or are leaving the administration, molly. Rich edson, nice to see you. Now to the shutdown standoff as the president blames the democrats tweeting, i am all alone, poor me, in the white house, waiting for the democrats to come back and make a deal on desperately needed Border Security. At some point the democrats will cost our country more money than the border wall were all talking about. Crazy. Joining me now, gop strategist and former spokesman for the mitt romney committee. Thank you for joining me on this Christmas Eve. Lets talk about the timeline. This is what Nick Mulvaney had to say on i think it was fox news sunday. Senate went into recess until at least thursday. Doesnt mean a week before thursday until we hear something back. I dont think things are going to move very quickly here. Hes talking about the next couple days. Do we see things potentially stretch into weeks, potentially seven weeks. Robin, what do you think . You know, i honestly do. Im generally a Glass Half Full kind of guy. I think this is gonna take a while. Weve given part of the way on this deal, but its not anywhere near the 5 billion that President Trump wants. I think were going to have to meet somewhere in the middle. I suspect were going to get a deal on a border fence. The president s most recent language is saying that also and i think that that might appease some democrats. Look, we were for the secure credit act in 2006 on a bipartisan manner. I think we can make progress there, molly. Its interesting you bring that up. Theres been talk about semantics whether they can just slide wall out of the documents they could come to a compromise. What do you think, kevin . Is that the compromise that will have to happen . Once things widen this new year, will things change once nancy pelosi steps in . Were not going to have any real negotiations until shes worn in on january 3rd and she can get the approval of the new members that shes got in her caucus that are very obviously left leaning and are not going to allow her to do any negotiating with the white house on this whatsoever. At some point shes going to have to stand up to her base and say, look, we cant shut the government down indefinitely for what were talking about here is just a few billion dollars. This isnt going to solve the problem of all Border Security but at the end of the day, what are we talking about . Were talking about a few billion dollars. Especially between the 1 and 5. To keep the Government Shutdown forever, its not much. Seems like were talking a lot about wording. Theres a fairly recent statement on the trump shutdown as we talk about branding and which sides to blame. Says Christmas Eve and President Trump is plunging the country into chaos. The stock market tanking and the president waging a personal war on the Federal Reserve after he just fired the secretary of defense. Instead of bringing certainty into peoples lives hes continuing this. Different people from the white house are saying Different Things about what the president would accept or not accept and the trump shutdown. Theyre really billing this as a trump shutdown. Once nancy pelosi steps in and begins to take over, does the blame shift . What will the American People think if this goes on for too long . Honestly, thats a great question because its going to be our problem. We just gained 40 seats in the house. Thats great. But if we dont actually get progress and get work done, were not going to keep those seats headed into 2020. And 2020s going to look not so great for us president ially if we can deliver and get work done. Thats going to require tows work across the aisle and start giving americans these reforms that we want. Thats how trump came into office but a he was the antipolitician. Weve got to get the message through our thick heads as democrats that we aofrb got to work across the aisle to get something done, molly. Heres what one democrat had to say, senator dick durbin. The president just a few days ago said he was proud to authorize a shutdown of his own government that he was elected to be the commander in chief and chief executive. It is in the president s hands to decide. He says its an issue of Border Security. I think we know better. It eason issue of his own political insecurity. Political insecurity. You know, this is something going back and forth that they have often targeted the president as being, calling him a toddler, that sort of language being used. That this is a bone thats being thrown to the right. What do you think, kevin when you see thats the sort of language being used when we work toward what we hope will be a solution . Thats democrat spin. What the border being insecure is a problem that goes back and both parties are to blame for it going back 20 years or more. I think it is a symbolic issue. We are talking about a few billion dollars to start a serious structure at the border, whatever you want to call it. The American People have lost faith in both sides of congress because neither has done anything with it. I would argue there was a real shot in 2005 when democrats were supporting Border Security to get a real compromise done on it and they bailed on. It they took the issue and thought it was politics and broadened it ever since. To some extend theyve continue to win on it until 2016 when then candidate trump brought the issue to the American People and actually won on it when nobody thought it was an issue. Well have to get security at the border. Theres a reason theres 15, 20 Million People here illegally. You need to stop the drugs, the smuggling. The shutdown well be watching in the coming days, potentially into the week following. That border issue well be watching for a much longer time. Kevin sheridan, thanks for joining us. Merry christmas. Indonesia stepping up efforts to save survivors after a tsunami leaves hundreds dead with many more injured or missing in the disaster zone. William . Reporter molly, this volcano remains active. Experts fear the threat is not over in indonesia. While volcanic activity usually precedes an earthquake. It can cause tsunamis. Officials count 370 dead, 120 missing, 1,000 injured. Identification becomes more difficult the stronger this takes. Three waves hit the island the first witnesses say saturday night, 65 feet high destroying or damaging 700 home, hotels and shops. Conditions made worse by high tide. A near full moon and of course tourists filling the resorts celebrating the holidays. The fact that this volcano, just in the middle of the sea only 30 miles to the coast of java, so the wave never had chance to dissipate as it otherwise would. Was there any Warning System in indonesia . Most tsunamis are caused by earthquakes which show up on a seismograph. This eruption caused a land slide which caused the tsunami. Unlike the u. S. Which does maintain a network of buoys that measure wave height, indonesia doesnt have a Warning System. Even so, experts say because the volcano was so close to land, a working system most likely wouldnt give anyone much time. Normally, youd have an earthquake, theres a warning of an earthquake. There was no earthquake of such. There wasnt even the chance until people realized an earthquake would lead to a tsunami. There was little that could have been done. 10,000 displaced. Some were killed by the initial wave. Others were drown and some were pulled out to sea. Kwrerpbgs the threat remains so people are being told to stay off the beaches. William la jeunesse, thank you. The president pushing the pentagon in a different direction. How the military is reacting to his new syria policy. Brads about to find out if his denture can cope with. A steak. Luckily for him, he uses super poligrip. It helps give him 65 more chewing power. Leaving brad to dig in and enjoy. Super poligrip. Why go with anybody else . We know their rates are good, we know that theyre always going to take care of us. 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Or whether hes simply going to move forward and fulfill campaign promise. I think the more important responsibility is to protect this country and our security. Jerry boykin is a former undersecretary of defense for intelligence at the pentagon. Thanks for joining us on Christmas Eve. We appreciate it. Thank you. Merry christmas. Merry christmas to you as well. There is a lot to get into with syria and the mattis resignation. Lot of countries to cover. Lets begin with this. This is a little sound from the white house Senior Adviser talking a little about, in sense, turkey. He had a call with the turkish president on basically this issue. Of basically a slow withdrawal, making sure they have the Logistical Support to ensure they continue to get rid of any of the remains of the calafait in syria. Safety of our troops is a top priority. It is time to bring the troops home. Talking about doing this well. Theyre going to pull out slowly. But the arguments been made that we are leaving the kurds in an lurch. Your thoughts on the pullout . Well, there are people in the president s party on both sides of this. What we dont know is what the president knows. Im a posed to it. I have been very open about that. Im a posed to this pullout, as i see it. Couple things though that we need to keep in mind. Number one, when the russian president comes out and praises the president of the United States for a decision like this, immediately you have to wonder whats in it for him. I think that got my attention and i think that what were doing is seeding that part of the world to not only the russians but the iranians as well. That has long term implications. Second thing is, the kurds have been strong allies and weve abandoned them after the first gulf war. And hussein killed over 30,000 of them. You all have in that same area christian, many of which are muslim converts that have converted to christianity, all of which has settled there because theyve been run out of their villages because they are considered apostates. Then you have our allies. And i think that you have to make the case that we would be abandoning them. There are certainly a lot of vulnerable populations that have ended up there. Erdowan said he is taking a pause before he sends in an operation and goes in. As we look at these different nationing looking at this and being pleased with the withdrawal, from russia to iran, we said our withdrawal will be slow. What happens in that time . Is this a chance for essentially diplomacy to happen or is that something thats beyond the pale of reckoning that we could see there with the leaders in syria . Were in a position with u. S. Troops on the ground to engage in diplomacy. I think that announcement by the president today that saudi arabia wants to put money into help rebuild that area gives the president somewhat of an out in my view to be able to slow this whole thing down. I think he signaled that thats what hes going to do, to let diplomacy work. And overcome what i think would be the negative effects of a very rapid pullout, which is what i understood the original plan was. So i think there is time right now for diplomacy. But once america is out of there, molly, we have no skin in the game. We are not going to help shape the future of that part of the world and what were going to wind up with is iran and a land bridge that many commentators have talked about, but its a serious issue. They can go all the way to the mediterranean, the next thing will be a pipeline. Russians will be selling oil to the europeans and that is a problem when europe becomes totally dependent on russia for their energy needs. Do you think this is a critical pull there in the middle east. So when would be the right time to bring our american troops home from the midst of this civil war . Well, i think we have to do this in a phased way we have to have agreements. Solid agreements from the turks that they are, in fact, are not going to invade that area and go after the kurds. We have to have solid agreements from the kurds that they are not going to continue the kind of operations that for decades theyve run in turkey, which is they are nationalists. Wed have to have agreements that would have to be worked out diplomatically between the two sides. We have to be sure that we have a plan in place to protect those minorities up in the northeast there. I think we can start a phased withdrawal. That said, im not sure that in the near term we can withdraw all u. S. Forces there, simply because, again, we leave that area. We cede it to russia and iran. I think thats a bad scenario. 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Several thousand People Living in and around a new high rise in sydney, australia, evacuated today after residents of the tower reported hearing cracking sounds. Engineers are investigating to see if the 36 Story Building is in danger of collapse, water and gas services have been shut off and the tower was isolated from the power grid. People are on power watch. Residents have been taken to evacuation centers. It is unclear when they will be able to return home. This gathering in bethlehem for Christmas Celebration lining up to see the grotto where jesus is believed to have been born and taking in the festive parade. Christmas eve in bethlehem is a mixture of religious ceremonies and also a place for tourists who have gathered from around the world to mark the occasion of Christmas Eve in the place where jesus was born. Earlier today we did see the latin patriarch travel from jerusalem to bethlehem along star road here in the region. Additionally outside the basillica of the nativity, thousands have gathered here to mark the occasion. Later tonight, palestinian president abbas will be traveling here to bethlehem to celebrate alongside other church goers at a midnight mass. The mass will mark the occasion going into christmas in the west bank. Molly . How are the recent factors into the celebration . There has been an uptick in violence between israeli and the palestinians. In the past month there have been attacks on Israeli Soldiers and another on Israeli Settlers and ultimately, this left one israeli baby dead and two soldiers dead and some violence and there were clashes between palestinians and israelis despite all of the tension, this has not deterred many people from across the world to Come Celebrate here in bethlehem. Hopefully it will be a peaceful evening there. Soccer fans in germany getting into the holiday spirit, and during a match there, santa is ditching a sleigh and riding the waves instead. 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