possibly the most heartbreaking casualties here in all of this, the dozens of american families, very close to adopting russian children. families who have made numerous trips to russia to bond with these children may now never get a chance to bring them to the united states. gregg? gregg: sort of a sad story. amy kellogg live in london. amy, thanks. patti ann: have plans for the new year? we hope they include fox news s all american new year s eve starting 11:00 p.m. eastern time on new year s eve. megyn kelly and bill hemmer will bring you the event live from times square along with greg gutfeld. and many others. type the letter u, text, all one word, leave a space and type a brief message and send it to 36288. utext, space, your message and 36288. watch your message on new year s eve with megyn and bill. gregg: a close call for a surfer off the coast of
will bring you the big event live from times square in new york city. you can be a part of the broadcast by texting your happy new year s message to the show. it is really simple. you will you have to do is type the letter u, text, all one word, leave a space and type a brief message and send it to 36288. again, utext space, your message to 36288 and watch for your message on new year s eve. it will be fun. heather: it is. senate majority leader harry reid now saying that it appears that the government will miss the deadline for avoiding the fiscal cliff. so what will that mean, and how will america respond come january 1st? gregg: new developments in the investigation into the deadly connecticut school shooting. jenette sises have been asked to study the gunman s dna. what can they learn about it?
only they ll actually be moving and speaking and stuff like that. you can be part of the broadcast by texting your happy new year s message to the show. it s really simple to do, just type the letter u, text that s all one word leave a space, then type a brief message and send it to 36288. again, utext, space, your message to 36288 and then watch for your message on new year s eve. heather: and, hopefully, yeah, the weather will cooperate. gregg: i hope. heather: yeah. we have some snow flurries in new york city. gregg: look at the snow. it s not sticking though. heather: very windy. it seems to be blowing sideways behind you, gregg. gregg: not sticking at all. heather: going to need mittens and a scarf. as the clock winds down on the fiscal cliff, massive spend tax hikes for americans, we ll have an update on how things may change.
bush. another one said sarah palin. i mean, it was shocking. and again, they said there were 51 stars on the flag. there are 52 stars on the flag. another question was what country starts with the letter u? and one said utopia. i mean, it was outrageous! and funny how crazy how sad it is as well. you know, this should not be surprising. i mean, if you ve got america s top schools not teaching the federalist papers and things like that, kyle, that would explain why this administration didn t think that obamacare was unconstitutional because they don t know so much about the constitution. that s right. we are a nation of laws. and that s how we need to remain but instead, when we lose that history, when we lose that perspective, we re turning into a nation of men and we need to be a nation of laws. well played. all right. kyle olson joining us today from michigan. thank you very much, sir. any time. thank you. what do you think about that?
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