overseas, far from home and their loved ones. as we pray for peace and spread joy and glad tidings we also look for hope toward the possibility of a better year and to give thanks and to give thanks to, for everything we ve gotten to you, the service, your family and, to give you as much space as you need. mike: meantime parishioners flocking to the st. patrick s cathedral in manhattan to celebrate midnight mass. the church scaling back some of the service for a safety measure with the surge of covid cases in new york city. the faithful descending on the birthplace of jesus to bethlehem. the number of visitors lower than usual for the second straight year as covid once again loomed over the festivities. covid changing how millions across the united states celebrate christmas for the second straight year. charles watson is live in atlanta. hello, charles. reporter: mike, a lot of christmas day traditions being stripped away again this year much to the disappointment of many
track in 2022? let s ask wall street journal columnist and fox news contradict tore karl rove he was senior advisor to president george w. bush. karl, welcome, i guess i would like you to analyze what happened to joe biden to win in office promising unity, promising return to normalcy. and here we are a year later not normalcy. yeah, the guy that we heard from the basement in wilmington, delaware, turned out to not show up in the oval office 2021. we ve seen a number of missteps promising that the covid would be in the back in the rear-view mirror by july 4th. we ve seen overpromising. we have seen foreign policy debacle like afghanistan and most amazing thing is that he s pursued a left agenda. whether it was the american rescue plan, or the build back better, or his executive actions, he s angted not as a traditional democrat we thought he would be and instead as, you know, if not a if not a caring member of the democrat party at least a fellow traveler with them. p