we ve been apart from each other for a good while until now. scatter family and friends. create new memories. let s make a special time of every moment we have. get ready. it s about to be a fun time. where everybody s in the same room. it s gonna be a great christmas day. ready, it s about to be a fun time. oh, yeah. [ applause ] bravo. beautifully done. that was jakailin carr singing great christmas as part of the all american christmas concert series. thank you so much for being beinghere this morning. thank you so much. she will performing oh, holy night coming up. rachel: can t wait for that. we never miss a reason for a concert series. christmas certainly qualifies. rachel: oh, holy night qualifies for sure. i love oh, holy night. rachel: me too. moving to some other topics this morning, starting with this. you may have seen this late yesterday, but the president of the university of pennsylvania has resigned, as has the board, the ch
that. she didn t have a lot of money, but gave me a gift that was priceless. mike: i think a lot of people probably their most important christmas gift ought to be the book. how to debt proof your christmas by mary hunt and it may be the one gift that may save them from heart break and pain. and good news, all the members of our audience are going to get a copy of mary hunt s book debt pof your christmas , this audience will be well armed and prepared. thank you. [applause] coming up, our house band the little rockers and diane macedo from fox business network. together for one of my favorite christmas songs. stay with us. [applause].
performed on the show. i ve got to tell you, we re ready to rock and we re a bunch of people with other jobs in the fox family and all of us wish we could make music all the time and no christmas season would be complete without a performance for the little rockers. leading the band is diane macedo, lauren greene, on the keyboard. and guitar, rob. and producer, and sandra, singing backup, on the sleigh bells and writer bob, and on the drums, our friend zaro. [applause] and diane, you re going to do a song for us today. it s one of my favorite christmas songs by mariah carey. this is all i want for christmas is you i think everybody will recognize it and i hope they enjoy. i bet they will.
less than one year ago on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s friday, december 23rd. i m deb feyerick an with alina cho on this american morning. good morning to all of you out in. so glad you re with us. up first, an early christmas present for 160 million americans. the house is expected to vote today on extending the payroll tax cut that divided washington for weeks. house republicans caved yesterday after a lot of arm-twisting by president obama who stead was the disgust of the american people that broke the log jam. boehner saying his side still wants a one-year extension but saw the political reality. we have fought the good fight. i talked to a number of members over the past 24 hours who believe that, hey, we don t like this two-month extension, we don t like this reporting problem in the senate bill, and if you can get this fixed, why not why not do the right thing for the american people, even though it s not e