courtside at a dallas mavericks game. it is a way to say thank you. and thank you. i'm eric shawn. >> i'm jaime colby. i swo like to be at that dinner. shannon bream now. i am shan n no bream live from washington and here is what is coming up on america's news headquarters. >> we are making permanent law changes and permanent spending cuts and those savings accrue and compound over time. >> sealing the deal and trying to sell it as well. house budget committee chairman paul ryan makes is case for his bipartisan budget compromise. but some of the senate are told that we will ask tim scott how he plans to vote and why. and taking the president to court. a group of congressmen want to pursue legal action against the president for sidestepping congress. we will talk with the congressman, one of the members behind this effort. and they asked for repeated

plans to obamacare saying there aren't any. he has one and he asked the president for a meeting to talk about it. coming up, we will find out if he has a response. america's news headquarters starts right now. it is crunch time for people who haven't finished christmas shopping and it is down to the wire for those who still need to buy new health insurance too. december 23rd is the deadline for enrolling in obamacare if they want their new plans to take effect at the beginning of the year. it has been a rocky rollout. peter doocy has every twist and turn and how things are going with healthcare.gov. >> and there may be about 15,000 people out there who think they are all set to be covered by january 1st. but they aren't. the critical 834 form that healthcare.gov uses to give insurance companies very basic

information about applicants never made it to the insurance companies. for 15,000 people during the first two months of healthcare.gov, that is not good. hhs now says this. quote, to make sure no consumer falls through the cracks because of earlier pervasive troubles with the site, we are contacting every consumer who has selected a plan through the federal market place to remind them to pay their premium and to connect with their insurer. now, on capitol hill this week there was a big bipartisan budget deal as well. and the top negotiators for each side sat down this morning to describe what they want the immediate future of the affordable care act to look like. >> no one wants to go back to the point of having our insurance companies decide whether or not we get health care or not. i am rooting for us to be able to -- >> understood. we have to replace this law. i believe we can have a system where everybody has access to affordable health care including people with previous

conditions without a costly government takeover and with more freedom. but we didn't yell at each other because we knew we would never agree on this issue. >> the budget bill passed the house this past week. it is scheduled for a senate vote this week. the senate majority dick derbin thinks eight republicans in the senate will need to support it to get it to pass. >> thank you very much. the talk show push was geared at selling his budget compromise. the senate vote is expected to happen this week. you know the plan has cleared the house, but it it has been getting a lot of push back from conservative groups and some senators. while congressman ryan says it is not his ideal plan it is progress. >> i am not trying to over sell this as an enormous budget accomplishment, but it is important that it prevents government shutdowns. >> you can catch chris wallace's fullent view with paul ryan right here at 2:00 and 6:00 eastern.

in the meantime, let's pick the brain of one senator who is from south carolina. he joins us live and good to have you today. >> thank you. good to be on your show. >> have you made a decision on how you will vote on your budget plan. >> i have. i have decided to not support this budget plan. this budget plan takes a step forward. there are positives in it. it also takes two steps back. let me talk about why it takes a step forward. it gives us predict built and uncertainty in the market place. the two-year plan is a monumental achievement for congress. unfortunately how we get there is as important as getting there. and how we get there is we put some of the burden on the backs of the current active duty military and their pensions. 42-year-old who retires and loses more than $70,000 because of the budget deal. if you are an officer you lose sig can'tly more. that's one of the big challenges for me. what i like about it is the

pension reform is real. unfortunately what we are doing is we are going to pay for something over 10 years, but we are going to spend that money over the next two years which means once again in washington we are having something that doesn't seem real to me that the out lying years where we get the pay fors, we never actually get to years 5 through 10 in the budget deals i have seen in the past. we get the benefits now and we pay for it later. later never comes. >> what do you make of the push back against those who have questions about this budget and raise some of the same concerns that you do while there is increased spending for a couple years. this doesn't level out. if it ever does for 10 years the benefits don't show up. there are those who say if you push back against this you are not for cutting the deficit. you are a troublemaker and making things tougher on members of congress who are willing to move forward even if it is a baby step at this point. >> we certainly should celebrate any movement in congress. i get that point.

the fact of the matter is can we continue to spend money we know we do not have and buying and pay are for things we know we cannot afford and putting the burden on the next generation? i say we can't do that. from my perspective, the decision is difficult and easy at the same time. it is difficult because i know we need certainty in the market place. it is easy because if we cannot afford something, we ought not buy it. >> in the house, 332 members were convinced this was at least worth voting yes for. 94 voted no. in the senate dick derbin was talking about they think they need eight republican votes. and on the sunday shows john mccain, a republican, said he will vote yes. he will be one of the yes votes. how close do you think this is? do you think there are other gop members with enough conviction they will say no? >> it is hard to know what is in the mind of anyone especially those of us in the senate. i will say this, however, that

it looks to me the majority of republicans in the senate are poised not to support it. i know there are some i have read in the paper that are looking to support it. some names we have seen surfacing are obvious and other ones are somewhat surprising that will be voting against it. the list on the republican side voting against it is a larger list. it is clear that there will be a very, very tight vote in the senate. there will probably be six or seven senators who will support it and they are coming out today. i think you will hear more tomorrow. that means they still need a couple more votes. this will be a very heavy and interesting week in the senate. >> if they don't get the votes they need to pass this, those who are supporting this budget plan, where does that leave us? we know after the first of the year there is the potential for another government shutdown. we will be talking about the debt ceiling and the budget process on the hill just about everyone would agree is broken at this point. if this doesn't pass, what next?

>> i will tell you this, the one thing we have done better this time around than we did september 30th, being surprised act 1st -- october 1st comes after september 30th, remarkable sperps on calendars -- experience on calendars we set friday december 13th to get something hammered out. what we see today is the making of progress, both sides are talking. that is also a great fact as well. what we have is enough time between now and january 15th to bring something back to the table if this did not pass in order to avoid what could be another shutdown. i have said for a longtime that i think another shutdown is doubtful. i do believe that trying to stay at the table and arguing and discussing other solutions and other opportunities to reduce our spending is incredibly important. if we can't find a way to cut 1% or 2% out of our spending how do we do it if it is more difficult? i don't know if we get there unless we start now. >> it will be an interesting week.

we will watch the rest over there. thank you for your time today. >> thank you, shannon. >> well, the government organization responsible for protecting americans here at home has been under fire for some time. it is over how it conducts domestic surveillance. the white house looked into it and the group it tasked came back with recommendations. steve centanni is here to talk more about what they found. hi, steve. >> hi, shannon. the special review board has reported to the president with recommendations on changing the way the nsa operates. the president has not made the president -- the report public or said what he will do about the recommendations, but according to one report, one recommendation is individual telephone records not in control of the government like it is now with the nsa, but it shifted to the private phone companies. meantime, the nsa is trying to become more transparent and reassure the public that the agency has opened its doors to reporters including a "60 minutes" crew that will air a story tonight on cbs. all of this after former nsa

contractor edward snowden released information on the scope of the nsa surveillance. there are reports the nsa is considering making a deal with snowden to acquire the secret documents he is still holding. meantime some worry all of this has hurt surveillance overseas. >> what i worry about is there is a bit of a retraction in our ability to collect information worldwide. it is being done based on some mythical belief and they are listening to my tone call and reading my e-mails. not true. we are paying a real price for that. >> director of the nsa said today that the nsa's activities are all done according to the separation of powers. >> there is no abuse. i don't see an unlawfulness either. this is done according to the formula. the president authorized and the legislature legislated and the courts over saw.

>> the president is expected to speak publicly about the nsa recommendation sometime in january. shannon? >> thank you very much. the federal government has posted more than 6,000 new regulatory actions on the website regulations .gov. you can track it yourself. at the same time we are learning the white house reportedly delayed the released of numerous controversial federal regulations in the run up to the 2012 presidential election. it is so they wouldn't be highlighted during the cam paper. campaign. they say the delays were coincidental. new details are casting doubt on that explanation. joining us now is campaign manager joe trippy and senior advisor jim pinkerton. this information comes from reporting out of the "washington post." it is heavily sourced. it cites specific examples. can the administration ignore this report? are they going to have to answer why they allegedly did this? >> look, it is not surprising

that they did it. i don't think they will have to explain a whole lot. every administration since i have been around has done this around election time, moved things up that are going to benefit them. it is to get into the dialogue and delay them so they are not part of it. they can say that didn't have anything to do with it, but i don't think that is going to -- it doesn't pass the test here. >> the level of detail in this reporting, it comes from the "washington post" and other reports from the administrative conference from the united states. they on an anonymous basis talk tothe federal agencies who said they were specifically called in for meetings to say they were these mother may i meetings is what they called them. can i released this regulation? no. we are asking you to hold it until after the election. it sounds poignant. >> it does. i worked in two white houses and this is what people do. there is nothing sinister about it. what is interesting is the

bureaucrats who didn't like being pushed around by the politicos are getting their revenge and the "washington post" is helping. they are all doing it after the election. this happened before the election. they wanted to see obama get re-elected. now they can blow the whistle and get revenge for some regulation they wanted to see get implemented. >> and it looks like the top two categories we are talking about are things related to obamacare. the health and human services department has the number one list of regulations and is simply makes sense with a new law and rolling out a lot of explanations and guidance and those kinds of things. the epa is second to that. there are actually democrats who roup set. who are upset about that. they are upset about the impact it could have had. delaying environmental issues for political purposes when the whole purpose is to protect people from toxins and to have clean water, clean air. he says he will hold hearings. >> he holds hearings, but during the iraq war as we went

into the mid-terms there, there are a lot of cases where the bush administration delayed things in iraq. i mean, literally it was in a war zone because not wanting to have bad stories that were going to affect the congressional elections. this is -- administrations do this. it is politics. i don't think there are going to be a lot of people surprised about it. >> well, you know, there have been a lot of questions about the reach of the executive branch which we will talk about later. the fact is there are those calling the regular la you tore agency a fourth range of government. they have become so powerful that they act as a legislative body. another arm of the executive branch. is that a reason that this time it may be different? >> as mr. hayden said there are three branches of government, executive, legislative and judicial. there is a fourth branch. there is anen pho nent amount of alphabet soup regulatories. anybody that, woulded in the white house understood that it is horrible to wake up and see that the epa or the interior of commerce did something

stupid or counterproductive. there has be some leadership in this thing. the question you have to ask is if it was a bad idea before the election and is it a bad idea after the election? >> let's talk about the secretary sebelius. asking questions about the tough rollout of the website and also not just the website, but the policies that are part of the law of the cancellations. she was asked this week about whether she offered a resignation and said she didn't want to talk about private conversations she had with the president. do you think at any point she becomes a sacrificial lamb for trying to clean this up? >> i think it would be crazy for the president to ask for her res resignation. >> would it look worse? >> obviously it would look bad and it would sort of put more gasoline on the fire, so to speak. but the bigger problem is, look, he would have to appoint somebody to replace her. and that appointment -- well, the hearings would be a trial

of obamacare. look, right now, just get in front of everything and try to make obamacare work. why open up a bigger can of worms by going through the process of appointing a new secretary that we just -- i think it would be a disasterous hearing. >> and this week jay carney, the white house press secretary said she has the full confidence of the president. >> that tells you something, doesn't it? the white house has made three major staff changes in the last few days including bringing in a former chief of staff. i think kathleen sebelius' days are numbered. i think she will be gone by 2014. the governors in maryland, oregon and hawaii and democratic governors are getting rid of equally incompetent officials. it makes obama look good -- when the pulitzer prize agency says if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor is the lie of the year for 2013.

he says this is the biggest fiasco he has seen in 40 years in dc and somebody has to take the blame. if obama doesn't get rid of sebelius it is obama's fault. >> i don't disagree she will be gone, but i don't think it will happen now or anytime soon. better to delay it until late in the year. she may go anyway because, look, most secretaries don't last -- don't go the whole two terms. >> it is a tough job to have right now. gentlemen, good to see you both. thanks for coming in. you heard from the politicians and the pundents. regulations were delayed. they were in the run up to the twenty 12 elections. the white house says it is coincidental. the "washington post" reports otherwise. what do you think? tweet us at at hnhqdc or at shannon bream and we will have those later in the show. could they be forced to appear in federal court saying that he went beyond the powers out leaned for him in the constitution? some want legal action. one is joining us to explain

that in the show. and the president says he will lessen to alternatives to owe bay you ma care, but -- to obamacare, but does he mean it? there is a plan with more than 100 members signed on and he asked the president for a meeting. first, another winter storm weekend for the east coast. we will have your forecast next.

the clean up begins for much of the northeast today after a weekend snowstorm dropped several inches of snow. take a look at what the snow did in smithfield, rhode island. check it out. well, is there more in the forecast? let's ask our expert, janice dean in the fox weather center. >> thank if you like the snow we have more on the way. if you don't like the snow, turn the volume down. a foot and a half of snow in vermont. places in maine over a foot. this is the foot club in massachusetts and pennsylvania and maine and vermont. a little more snow on the way for new england a and then we are done with this system. and then we will see a clipper system, a fast-moving storm moving across the upper midwest and the great lakes that is going to bring a little messy weather and yes,

certainly snow. north we think of dc on tuesday. we will have to watch it very carrifully. but we will keep seeing a couple of impulses through the week of? of some snowy weather. dc looks good, still cool though. new york looks like that snow will move in on tuesday and same with boston. we will certainly watch it. it is making it feel very christmasy out, that is for sure. there is your snowfall, jackpot in maine and we will see light snow maybe 1-3 inches over the next couple days, shannon. if you love the snow, you are loving the machine. if not, eems. i'm sorry. >> i say we love you either way. you are only the messenger of the thanks, shannon. >> you got it. secretary of state john kerry returned to the micon delta region since he patrolled the same waters for the u.s. navy for the vietnam

war 50 years ago. this time it was a trade mission vieting clie -- fighting climate change. he said erosion and rising river waters is a bigger threat than the vee yet kong -- the viet-kong he fought in the war. mccain haled anti-government protested calling them an inspiration to the world. protests have been going on for a month since the ukrainian president backed down from a trade agreement in the european union. amid growing claims that president obama is stretching the powers of the executive branch far beyond their constitutional boundaries, tom rice is sponsoring a resolution that could launch legal action against the president and the executive branch if adopted by the full house of representatives. rice and others charge the president has nullified and modified laws without ever going through congress on issues from immigration law to the affordable care act.

so far 29 lawmakers have signed on to rice's resolution. we will talk to tre live a little later in the show. we have breaking news from fox news. legendary actor peter o'toole, you will recognize him. he was known form the film "lawrence of arabia" and many other roles has apparently died after a long illness. he announced last year he was leaving acting dry eyed and grateful. his agent confirms he has passed away at the age of 81. still ahead, tre gouty talks about pushing through the executive branch. will is it work? we will ask him live. and the latest push to get young people enrolled in obamacare has them heading to sneaker stores and late night diners. and a judge sides with a

family fighting for the right of polygamy. now what?

the obamacare sign up deadline is quickly approaching, but some people are having major esh yous trying to get signed up. we will have more on that coming up, and we will talk to a congressman who says he has an alternative plan for the president. first, peter doocy is here with a check of the other headlines making news today. >> south africa has said its final goodbye to nelson mandela. the former south african leader was laid to rest today at his family's gravesite. earlier today a funeral was held in his hometown. the 17-year-old victim of friday's colorado shooting is in critical condition according to authorities. they say claire davis was shot at point blank range.

we are now learning more about the suspect. police say pearson was carrying multiple weapons with him during the attack. a federal judge has thrown out a key part of the utah polygamy law which made national headlines because of the brown family from "sister wives." the judge said the part of the law that prohibits cohabitation violates first amendment rights. they have not decided whether or not to appeal the ruling. and navy continues its winning streak against army in a snowy game in philadelphia. the navy quarterback ran for three touchdowns to put them over the top. yesterday's game was the 114th meeting between army and navy, and those are the top stories right now. shannon, back to you. >> all right. my brother is currently serving on the truman so i have to stick with go navy. thanks, peter.

i have always said i will work with anybody to implement and improve this law effectively. you got good ideas? bring them to me. let's go. >> president obama has already signed six legislative changes to the health care law. he continues to publicly say critics of the law are not offering up any substantive alternatives. our next guest louisiana governor, chair of the republican committee has a hundred co-sponsors in the house and asked the president for the meeting so they can talk about this. he joins us now. welcome and have you gotten a response from the white house? >> shannon, good to be with you. unfortunately no, we haven't got any response back. we sent a letter to the president taking him up on his offer. he said, look, there are no alternatives out there and i will meet with anybody. we have an alternative. it is the american health care reform act. there are a hundred co-sponsors of the bill.

we have medical doctors in congress that helped write this bill. it does a lot to put patients back in charge of health care and to lower costs as we are seeing with the president's approach that is taking people's health care away. it is a good bill that we are proud of and we would love to sit with the president and talk about how we can put patients back in charge and fulfill the promises he has made that have been broken time and time again. >> i hear these conversations all the time and people say this line to the president says all the gop wants to do is repeal the entire bill. he says go back to the status quo before any type of reform. if they have alternatives they have not presented them. a lot of folks believe that. content aside, how do you get traction with this message and how do you get the meeting with the president? >> one of the reasons the credibility is so diminished is it continues to go out and

say things that are not true. if you like what you have you can keep it. of course millions of americans say the promise has been broken. he has broken so many other promises and when he says there are no other alternatives out there he just hasn't actually looked at this bill. it has been out there for months and it was written by a number of others in congress and it is the official bill endorsed by the republican study committee where the largest caucus in all of congress and 118 members of congress that have co-sponsored the bill puts patients back in charge. it focuses on lowering costs. it takes care of patients with preexisting conditions. they would have been good before the health care law and even more important now. >> on that note, please let us know if you hear back from the white house. if you can have some constructive discussions with the white house, i want to ask you as well about the budget which got through the house this week, this bipartisan budget plan. you voted no. why did you decide to vote no

on this particular deal? >> ultimately i would like to see us tackle the bigger issues to get back to a balanced budget and to get certainty so we can have a healthy economy. unfortunately president obama has refused to work on anything that solves our long-term problems. as we continue to have these short-term deals, i commend congressman ryan and the work he did to try to address some of those bigger problems. unfortunately he didn't have a willing partner in the senate or the white house that wanted to tackle the bigger issues. they are about to go bankrupt if they do nothing. i don't think it is acceptable to sit back and do nothing. we have put good sound solutions on the table. i would still love to work on getting them solved and so for now this was a deal that just didn't address the bigger problems. >> it sounds like it will be a tight vote in the senate. democrats say they need eight additional republicans to help them get this over the goal line. we talked to senator tim scott

earlier today. they say he will be in the no column on this. if it fails what happens next? after the first of the year we noah lot of big things are coming. if you can quickly tell us where we go from here. >> well, i am not going to speak for what the senate will do. we will have to see in the next few days, but ultimately it did pass the house. we have always had good solutions on the table that addressed the bigger problems. we in fact passed the house budget with the large number of votes that actually tbets us back to a path to balance in 10 years. it creates the healthy economy that we are looking for. there are a lot of good ideas we have been putting out there. nice to see the senate finally meeting, but they actually need to pass things and addressing the bigger problems. it would be nice to see the president get off the sidelines and put his own solutions on the table as well. >> we will watch the senate vote and wait to hear from you if you get the meeting with the president. congressman, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. >> great being with you, shannon. check out the latest obamacare pr push. dc officials are sending what they call, quote, sisters to

local stores in washington where they know young adults will be waiting in line to buy the new air jordans. these have a captive audience. these sisters are bringing information to brief shoppers on the benefits of signing up for the dc health care exchange. the group targeted two different denny's locations, where youngsters hang out in the dc area, to make the health care push. a national landmark is under threat because some say it violates the constitution. there has been yet another ruling on the veteran memorial. we will fill you in. and as president obama reached reached -- has president obama reached too far? we will talk to one of the lawmakers trying to challenge the obama administration in court for making decisions without consulting congress. stay with us.

you will remember the story we followed all the way to the parties appealing it to the supreme court. it could be headed that way again. a veterans memorial in san diego has been ruled unconstitutional and a federal judge ordered its removal. the mount soledad cross has been a local landmark since the 1950s. the american civil liberties union has been fighting for years to have it taken down. they say it violates separation of government and religion. well, u.s. district judge larry burns was reluctant to issue this ruling but says his hands were tied by the 9th circuit. he stayed his order though to

give the mount soledad veterans memorial association a chance to appeal which i am almost certain they will. we will keep you updated. a group of gop house members say it is time to draw a line in the sand. they say president obama has gone too far when it comes to ignoring laws he doesn't like or simply changing them without consulting congress. they are backing a house resolution that if adopted would authorize a lawsuit against the executive branch. joining us now, one of the co-sponsors who signed on to the resolution. tre gouty, good to see you today. >> yes, ma'am. how are you? >> i am very good. i want to ask you about this though. there is legal precedent out there essentially from 2011 when a group of lawmakers tried to sue over president obama's intervention in libya. and a federal court basically told them members of coming essentially pretty much don't have standing. it is nearly impossible to bring a law against the executive branch. how would this work if it got through the house? >> individual members of

congress have a very difficult time asserting legal standing. what my friend from south carolina's goal is is to try try an insurance -- institutional approach. the case law that says members do not have standing allows for the institution itself under a theory of until pho locations that if they are nullifying the votes of a co equal branch of government we may have standing. the case you referenced was dennis could you -- dennis kussinich, he does not have standing. the institute as a whole, if it is the affordable care act or immigration, courts have signaled that they may say the institution itself has standing and that's what tommy is trying to do with his res -- resolution. >> and they talk about specific things. the fix the president tried to make for canceled plans saying we are telling the insurance commissioners and the insurance companies they have to give those plans back temporarily. the one-year delay in the

employer man -- mandate and the fact that they granted legal status to some illegal immigrants by simply saying we are not going to enforce certain immigration laws. that triggered a lawsuit by ice agents who were told by the administration to essentially disregard the laws passed. we know there are other examples that critics site out there, but what does it take for this to get through the house? is it a simple majority? how many people have to sign on for this to move forward? >> it will be a simple majority. and then the speaker would have to decide whether or not he wants to litigate it. shannon, you gave examples of affirmative and defensive nullification. congress had a chance to provide a pathway to citizenship for children. they refused to do so. so congress refused to act and the president substitutes his judgment for that of congress and it does by executive fiat

what they refused to do. he went to get a finding that it was constitutional. it has been appropriately funded and yet he is still turning off certain provisions. so even if he likes the law and congress doesn't he does it by executive fiat. if congress suggests as we did during the shutdown a remedy to the executive -- to the employer mandate or the individual mandate, he threatens to veto our action and then goes and does it himself. so at some point -- i don't like running to the court. i would rather use any other remedy other than going to the court. but our other remedies have not worked. and the judicial branch is there for a reason. in certain circumstances coming should be able to assert its standing. i just think the pervasiveness has reached a point, we don't have a choice. >> there was a hearing on the house about this a couple weeks ago. and you cited these examples

where the president has done his own thing. and you said could he also with these things in mind could he enforce election laws? what did you mean? >> why not? if you can turn off immigration laws, if you can turn off the mandatory minimums in our drug statute outs and if you can turn off the so-called affordable care act, why not election laws? assume you had to provide two forms of ids to vote, can the president require three forms of id? can the president require one form of id? can he suspend all requirements you show id? if not, why not? if you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the poo you better to turn off all categories of the law? frankly jonathon turley who is no republican i might add and if you watch he is no republican and he agrees with us it has reached an unprecedented level and we have to do something about it. >> congressman we will keep an eye on this resolution.

thank you. >> yes, ma'am. have a good sunday. >> you too. more news after this break.

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actor peter o'toole who rose to fame in the epic film "lawrence of uh rebbe yaw" --

arabia" has died. now a look at the actor's life and career. >> he was born on august 2nd, 1932 in ireland. the son of a book maker he spent his childhood years in the united kingdom and brought up as a roman catholic. as boy he wanted to become a journalist, but discovered the theater. thinking he would have a stage debut. he stayed on the stage at the bristol old vic in england before his film debut you -- in 1960. then he was chosen to play in the masterpiece "lawrence of arabia" it made o'toole an international superstar. it was the number one ranked performance in premiere magazine's 100 greatest performances of all time back in 2006. medical problems threatened to destroy his film career and his life in the 1970s. he gave up alcohol and after serious medical treatment

returned to films with triumphant performances. though o'toole was nominated for eight oscars, more than any other actor, he never won the award for a specific film. when he was named the recipient of the special oscar for lifetime achieve meant in 2003 he originally intended to turn it down. feeling the lifetime award signaled the end of a career. he wrote the academy a letter stating he was, quote, still in the game. he would like more time to win the award out right. he finally did accept the honorary oscar. >> always a bridesmaid and never a bride. >> o'toole also won four golden globes and a bafta and an emmy. he announced his retire meant in 2012. he leaves two daughters from his marriage to actress sean philips as well as a son, lorkin o'toole by model karen

brown. amy kellogg, fox news.

late night tv is having more fun at the president's expense, but we don't know if the white house is laughing over things like this. >> it was a sign language interpreter who clearly had no idea what he was doing. i mean, some folks are bound to be frustrated. but many are -- many more are excited. while i can't say that i have been entirely thrilled with the results. >> you know they had to do it. this week we are focusing on the holiday season. in the spirit of giving all of us here at anhqdc have reached to several charities we wanted to give you some ideas how you

can help. one group that reaches out to children in need is actually in need itself. you can go to a participating post office and pick up a let tore santa written by a child and he actually takes that letter and tries to fulfill the holiday wishes. the anhq's team adopted a little girl named veronica. we were happy to do that. there are many more children's letters waiting. the organization tells us there is a shortage of elves this year. please check it out and see if it is available at your post office if you want to weigh in. our team is also helping to spread some christmas. >> to our servicemen and women serving in afghanistan. we are sending care packages and partnering with girl scouts of the usa to send to troops and girl scout cookies. it is part of their continued community service. we are happy to partner with them and we are learning more about the girl scouts or be an

elf organization just go to our show page fox news.com/anhq or check us out on facebook. we love hearing from you at home. today we were asking you what you think of the reports and the white house displayed regulations until after the 2012 election. a lot of you weighed in. one viewer writes, was this a surprise to anyone? our guests said both administrations have done this. winston adds this, we are in the midst of one of the most corrupt administrations in the world, not surprising at all. thank you for sharing and we always enjoy hearing from you at home. that's it for us here in washington. fox news sunday is up next. chris wallace sits down with the house budget committee chairman paul ryan to talk about this new bipartisan budget deal they just hammered out. this week we will watch closely as it goes to the senate where we know every vote will count as they hang in the balance. we will watch for that this week and keep you updated on

fox news. him shannon bream. thank you for watching fox where more news is always on the way. i'm chris wallace. another school shooting. sandy hook elementary marks one year since a gunman killed 26. >> the students -- the student that entered the high school had a shotgun and he made no effort to hide. it. >> they look for a motive as a student opens fire at a suburban denver high school. and on the other side of the country, new town marks a sad anniversary. >> it is another day without my older sister by my side. >> we will talk with carly whose sister vicky gave her life while shielding her first graders from the shooter. >> and with so little action