deeper. religion correspondent lauren green looks at the original story. reporter: the bright lights of today s christmas traditions are stark contrast to the dark first christmas, the birth of jesus. in so many ways a study in opposites, ideas about beauty and authority differ from god s. the real authorities in that manger. reporter: in his book the characters of christmas father dan darling takes readers on a journey through the nativity narrative shining a light on the people and places who may not be so well known or understood. example while mary and joseph s journey to bethlehem is part of every childhood nativity play, to under the chain of being pregnant but not properly what is sometimes forgotten and joseph s honorable role as often overlooked. is a very noble character to parent a child that is not his
and share what they really believe or what they don t believe. jillian: the events are traditionally major tourist attractions. children s nativity play take as turn after the sheep steals the baby jesus. watch. lord jesus i ask thee to stay. swipes the baby jesus from the manger before dancing on stage with baby jesus. mary is like i m not having. this so the two start wrestling over the doll before the congregation breaks out in laughter and the adults have to intervene. i love that story. it s one of my favorites. we used to go to a live nativity every year in minnesota. and something always goes wrong. ainsley: you wants something to go wrong. pete: it s fun. steve: meanwhile, we were making fun of kevin mccarthy with r 2 d 2 suit earlier. i think she wins, it s
background check bill passes. and i want to commend the work done by a number of senators, including pat toomey with whom i serve from pennsylvania and joe manchin from west virginia. but we ve got a long way to go, even if it does pass. we ve got more work that we have to do. and i think people of goodwill, if we focus on the children, if we focus on what could have happened, if we took steps years ago, that olivia engel, for example, a 6-year-old no who was going to appear in a nativity play that night as an angel. so if we focus on those children and answer their question that we or the question they would be asking us, have you taken every step possible to make sure that this can t happen again. and that is a that s the question that we ve got to ask ourselves, especially those of us who have a vote. i want to play a quick clip. this is from senator joe manchin today who got emotional when he talked about his meeting some of the families in washington from sandy hook.
what i don t see is that the others get it. well, i think people of good faith can come together on this, piers, in ways that probably weren t passable before. and unfortunately for the families, this tragedy is the one event in recent american history i think that has moved people. but and it will take time. we ve got a ways to go. this debate we ll have in the next couple days won t be the end of it, even if the background check bill passes. and i want to commend the work done by a number of senators, including pat toomey with whom i serve from pennsylvania and joe manchin from west virginia. but we ve got a long way to go, even if it does pass. we ve got more work that we have to do. and i think people of goodwill, if we focus on the children, if we focus on what could have happened, if we took steps years ago, that olivia engel, for example, a 6-year-old who was going to appear in a nativity play that night as an angel. that she would have been able to play that role that night
manchin from west virginia. but we ve got a long way to go, even if it does pass. we ve got more work that we have to do. and i think people of goodwill, if we focus on the children, if we focus on what could have happened, if we took steps years ago, that olivia engel, for example, a 6-year-old who was going to appear in a nativity play that night as an angel. so if we focus on those children and answer their question that we or the question they would be asking us, have you taken every step possible to make sure that this can t happen again. and that is a that s the question that we ve got to ask ourselves, especially those of us who have a vote. i want to play a quick clip. this is from senator joe manchin today who got emotional when he talked about his meeting some of the families in washington from sandy hook. i m a parent. i m a grandparent.