good morning, everyone. it is christmas. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow. thank you for joining us on this special edition of cnn this morning. we hope you are having a wonderful christmas morning. merry, merry christmas. best day of the year i think for our kids. definitely for the kids. little stressful for the parents. this is the point where you start to relax a little bit hopefully. it was a busy night for santa and the kids. we ll go through his naughty and nice list. it was also a big year for women, the year for barbie, taylor swift, beyonce, any way you spin it, powerful women left a remarkable impression on 2023. we ll take a look at that impact. robert kraft has been spearheading an effort to counter hate. we ll speak to kraft and why he says despite a rise in anti-semetic attacks, americans want to do the right thing. the top stories of the day. good morning. merry christmas. i m danny freeman. this morning israeli prime minister benjamin ne
around the video screen for warmth and people regift the cake that dare not speak its name. here s the ten most merry festive, snowy, angelic tales of the holiday. who can forget christmas. are you ready to deck some halls? an entire evening of christmas specials starting with the grinch who stole christmas. the annual christmas specials were an event. when you first see that advertisements like frosty the snowman returns tuesday night. this was on once. if you missed it, you were screwed. mom, mom, can we watch this? mom? can we catch that? on sunday, december 4, burl ives tells the story of rudolph the red nosed reindeer. that was like the pinnacle. love that show. tells the story of rudolph based on the song, rudolph that was kind of an outsider. burl ives as the snowman. hermy the elf. he was the cast-off. i went to be a dentist. it s a lucrative business given that your boss, santa, gets paid in cookies. of course, you have the scary claym
[popper pops] [jase laughs] - merry christmas. - who gave you that, si? - hey, i m fired up, boys, it s christmas time. a savior has been born for this wicked world we live in. - amen. - that was fun. wow. - everybody in the mood? - [jase] i m really not into the pageantry of christmas but- - what do you mean you ain t into the pageantry? i wish i had a sled pulled by reindeer singing jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells - what was your childhood christmas like, si? that s what i want to know. - that was back when we would take hickory nuts and momma always ordered the giant california oranges. - si, you remember the little wooden crates that had the dried raisins in em? - oh yeah. - that was our treat. - i m seeing a pattern here. y all s childhood memories from 110 years ago were fruits and nuts. that was his favorite thing to eat now, the sweets. - but i m serious, it was a grand time though. - jep, do you remember when we were kids? my mom did the same thing ever
the u.s. tricking three facilities used by uranium backed militia in iraq. it comes after another attack on one of our bases and injured three service members and one is in critical condition. you are watching fox and friends first on this tuesday morning, i am carley shimkus and todd has a day off. the secretary lloyd austin said his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured and he said the administration will not hesitate to defend our people and our interest. robert charles is standing by with his analysis on this breaking news, but first david spunt has more from washington, hi, david appeared i mike mccarley one of those critically injured we don t know but we expect to learn more in the hours i had to pure the president with the strikes after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone according to national security sources, has split and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iranian backed militants going for the attack. president biden briefed by
the proxies are raising tension ramping up attacks in the middle east. the pentagon says a u.s. destroyer in the red sea shot down several drones a saturday. all launc want from parts of yen controlled by ironic backed tried eight rebels fo but all appearing to target commercial ships sailing in international waters. no word of injuries that the u.s. called it an escalation of hostilities. hello and welcome to a special edition of fox news live item and ito bobo. arthur nevill and eric shown off this week at hi brian. i m bryan llenas sprayed the lace attacks by around the proxies c, the israeli defense forces push into southern gaza. meanwhile president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu talked by phone saturday about the next steps in the war. biden said he did not bring up a cease-fire. let s start off with trey yingst llive in tel aviv with more. good afternoon for israeli forces continue to go after hamas cells inside gaza. though they are facing f