and make a donation. the tree farmers across the united states. go there and purchase a tree to be donated. they will send it to you at a very low price around make a cash donation. jenna: that is great. marvin, is your tree up because mine is not up. i had to admit that to our viewers. my tree is about 75% complete right now. got work to do. jenna: finishing touches, part of the tradition and certainly great. marvin, again, thank you so much for your service to our country. thank you for sharing the story to us. a great thing to put on the radar especially this time of year. we appreciate it very much. thank you, jenna. happy holidays to you all. jenna: thank you, merry christmas. leland: absolutely fabulous. speaking of christmastime, star wars fans everywhere going crazy with opening of the latest film in the franchise just ahead of the holidays. my next guest says rogue one is most intense star wars movie ever.
first round of what they say will be many charitable donations. the putnam family trusts are giving to veterans that returned from overseas and split a 254 million dollars jackpot and hope their donations will set an example for future lottery winners. wow. well, a bit more christmas spirit to share with you now for the nation s troops and families. the christmas tree farm in new jersey donating trees to military bases around the nation and overseas and they re participating in the trees for troops program. julie banderas has more. reporter: harris, trees for troops is kicking off the 7th year delivering fresh farm grown troops to military families here in the united states and overseas, all made possible be by fed ex, the christmas spirit foundation and tree farmers like care and christmas tree farm in new
and good morning, everybody. this is your wake-up call for monday, december 5th. i m christine romans, carol has the morning off. newt gingrich, the one to watch in the gop race in a new nbc marist pole leading the pack in iowa but mitt romney is still ahead in new hampshire. although his support has dropped from only a month ago, less than 30 days from the first gop nominating contest in january. he s taking some time off. atlanta megachurch pastor eddie long made that announcement yesterday. he says he needs time to work on family issues. long s wife of 21 years vanessa filed for divorce on thursday. last spring long settled a lawsuit piled by four young men who accused him of sexual coercion. the u.s. and pakistan mending diplomatic fences after that nato air strike that killed two dozen pakistani troops. president obama called pakistan s president yesterday making clear the incident was not a deliberate attack on pakistan. both presidents agreed to stay in touch. le
one of the 60 military bases here. i want to show you you video of the trees and the generosity that a lot of these military families certainly appreciate. together with the christmas spirit foundation tree farmers are donating these trees to service members stationed overseas and the christmas tree farm and christmas shop is donating some up to 200 trees for the second year in a row. they have been providing holiday trees and trimmings now for 22 years. debra phillips actually is with fed eck. if you want to come over to talk to us about this and fed ex is is amazing because you guys are traveling hundreds of thousands of miles and hoping to deliver 17,000 trees this year. yes, typically we will deliver 17,000 trees a year all across the country to upwards of 60 military bases and we partner with folks like the tree farmers who generously donate trees. we will do pickups here and
also donate a tree to doreen costa and we encourage her. we back her 100%. sure. yesterday when we had her on the program, we encouraged people who are not happy with this decision to contact the governor of the great state of rhode island. so folks, if you didn t get the phone number yesterday, his phone number is 401-222-2080. you re not going to talk to the governor himself. but you ll talk to a member of his staff. please be nice and just state your opinion. what you think about this idea. all right, john timothy, we thank you very much for joining us today. i appreciate your time also and i encourage everybody to go out and support their local tree farmers and thank you very much. and merry christmas. merry christmas to you. we have a live tree at the doocy house and always have and always will. nothing beats the smell. thank you, john. what do you think about that? e-mail us, friends at foxnews.com. speaking of governors, new