lewis land of narnia a curse christmas can never come. guess what? we made it. it is merry christmas to both of you, nicole? many. nicole: merry christmas, i m so happy to be here. second year spending christmas together and spending christmas with justin as well. fox square is incredibly if he has been. it s been a difficult year. we can still look around and notice there are miracles happening everywhere. being jason. jason: merry christmas to you all. i thought as i was driving hereo the studios, i saw police officers, i saw people in convenience stores. i know there are people working in hospitals and people in hospitals. there are a lot of people working erlgly on christmas morning. it s one of my favorite times of the year and a united states day. i m glad to be joining with the two of you on this christmas morning. griff: glad to be joined by all of our viewers weighing up. find santa did indeed come and we will talk to you in a minute. we want you to send in your chr
bret: i will. thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, the u.s. state department says the number of americans looking to leave haiti is approaching one thousand now as violent gangs increase their chokehold on the country. the u.s. evacuated dozens of americans from the haitian capital over the weekend, days after saying they had no active plans to help remove americans from that country. we had fox team conch tonight. correspondent bryan llenas is in the dominican republic where officials are preparing for a major surge in haitian migrants. but we begin with correspondent gillian turner live at the state department with the latest. good evening, gillian. hi, bret. an about-face from the state department today. officials here are now working to try to get more americans out of haiti. they also say that nearly a thousand americans now contacting the contempt about getting out. dramatic uptick from just a few hundred people last week. this is a fluid sit
going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something
legitimate reasons why people would want to have them. why do you think people need to have ar-15s in this country? you are talking about a constitutional right to keep and bear arms. if we can introduce to them safely, they normally say that thing s not even scary. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. wednesday, june 8, 4:00 a.m. on capitol hill where in the coming hours u.s. lawmakers will hear the testimonies from the families of mass shooting victims reflecting on the lives they have lost. while gun policy, talks on a bipartisan deal, carry on, many believe it is not enough for the families who have lost loved ones to gun violence. on tuesday, the u.s. senate heard from some of those families, they called on congress to take action on gun reform and hate crimes. one man s mother was killed when a shooter opened fire at a grocery store in buffalo, new york last month. he remembered his mother as the heart of the family. what i loved most ab
jong-il pnd and another toddler goes missing. what are they doing to find her? let s go out front. we re waying for the house to waiting for the house to vote on the payroll tax cut bill. the vote too should take place later tonight. you re going to see the house republican leadership come out in a few moments. we anticipate to make a statement. john payner speaker will be there and we will also hear from eric cantor, jeb hensarling. as we count down to that, let s tell where you we stand. the version of the bill under consideration tonight is the senate version. it extends the payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits for two months. now, they re paying for this by having fannie mae and freddie mac charge higher fees on new mortgages, so it is paid for. what s the hold snup the bill only stepds textends the tax br two months. that s a real kick the can down solution and it frustrate as lot of people on both sides of the i ll. but enough so for the gop leadership that they