all right. if you missed my interview with rand paul, go to facebook.com/thekellyfile. we've posted it for you there. thanks for watching "the kelly file." this is a fox news alert, president obama held his final press conference of the year before jetting off to hawaii for an extended christmas vacation. welcome to "hannity." i'm tucker carlson in tonight for sean. today's press conference came just days after sony decided to pull the plug on the release of "the interview," that followed north korea's cyber attack on the company and after the white house announced its intentions to normalize relations with the castro regime in cuba. standing by at the white house to explain more is fox news's own ed henry. how was it today? >> tucker, good evening. i thought tfts interesting the president had this sort of threat of retaliation against north korea but wouldn't really spell it out, wouldn't say

whether or not u.s. sanctions are on the table, possible military action even on the table. we did get our first hint after the news conference though when top u.s. official told us privately that, look, one of the options under consideration is putting north korea back on the state department's list of state sponsors of terror. many critics say that was a mistake to have been done many years ago to have even taken them off in the first place. also they're suggesting to us that they may be doing things we won't see, that won't be obvious such as waging their own cyber war in retaliation. u.s. cyber attacks directed at north korea behind the scenes though it was also interesting that the president seemed to be blaming the company involved here, sony, which made the movie "the interview," saying they made a mistake by cowing to north korea and suggesting if they'd only reached out to him directly he would have given them advice.

listen. >> i wish they'd spoken to me first. i would have told them, do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these kinds of criminal attacks. >> now, while the president stopped short of calling this an act of war, republicans are calling it just that. and some analysts like former ambassador john bolton are saying that unless the president really steps up the pressure against north korea, given some of the signals the president's been sending recently, we're going to face a lot more of these attacks. listen. >> if you treat this simply as an inconvenience, other countries will conclude that they can attack and get away with it. and particularly with this administration what they've just done with cuba among other things, it's a weak presidency. and i think those that have the cyber capability will use it. >> also interesting the sony ceo michael lytton pushed back today after the president's news conference and said he doesn't believe the company caved.

he said, simply, we had no other alternative to pull back on the mu vae because so many theaters across the united states were saying we can't run this film because of the potential of a terror attack against the actual movie theater. lytton also suggested that they had been in touch with some administration officials about the film. the state department's been pushing back saying while they were consulted a little bit on the film, they didn't exactly give it approval. makes you wonder if those in the white house if the president himself if he's not a busy guy reach out to sony and say you make a decision as a private company, but we've got your back once you make that decision. >> we had the president famously ask questions only of female reporters. he went right past the -- he got some puffy questions. was that striking to you? >> well, i thought it was interesting. look, it appears history was

made in that it was only female reporters. it was a decision i'm told made by the press secretary josh earnest who thought it would be a cool thing to have only female reporters ask questions. i think that's great. you know, i don't think there's a war on men or anything like that, tucker, i want to be clear. so that's fine. there's a lot of great female reporters in the white house press corps. but by not calling on male or female regardless of sex tv reporters, you maybe get some softer questions. i'm not saying this because it was women, i'm saying the tv reporters, john carl, abc, asked a lot of tough questions. he didn't get called on. the president has a list from his press secretary. he calls on who he wants. >> i know you'll make up for it. ed henry for the white house, good to see you. >> thank you. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> the white house has gathered enough information to conclude that north korea was indeed responsible for the hacking of sony. joining us from washington to explain the latest, fox news's

own catherine herridge. catherine, what do you know? >> thank you, tucker. the language in this fbi statement is carefully crafted. and while stating there's enough evidence to blame north korea, it stopped short of saying they actually executed the attacks. the technical analysis of the deleted data does show links to malware north korea has used in the past. there's also significant overlap between several i.p. or internet protocol addresses and north korean entities. the sony hack bears striking similarities to an attack last year against south korean banks that left many customers unable to withdraw money from their atms. in a statement the bureau said "north korea's actions were intended to inflict significant harm on a u.s. business and suppress the right of american citizens to express themselves." and the president went further today stating publicly, when intelligence officials had maintained privately that the u.s. must make it a priority to develop rules and standards for cyber warfare because being on the defensive is a losing strategy. >> more broadly though this

points to the need for us to work with the international community to start setting up some very clear rules of the road in terms of how the internet and cyber operates. right now it's sort of the wild west. >> outside analysts who specialize in north korea say they believe pyongyang had help because of the scope and destruction leveled on sony. >> china wasn't involved in these attacks, they've been working with the north koreans. >> an intelligence source questions why north korea would spend so much of its political capital on a movie and insisted china had some kind of enabling role. the president denied today any outside involvement, tucker. >> catherine herridge live for us in washington. thanks, catherine. >> you're welcome. joining us now to react to all of today's developments, the author of the number one "new york times" best seller, sold more than a million copies, every one well-deserved, the book called "things that matter," the man of course the

incomparable charles krauthammer. >> thank you, tucker. after an intro like that it can only be downhill from here. >> it's totally heartfelt. so the president made a pretty clear statement against censorship saying that sony probably shouldn't have caved to pressure from north korean hackers. he wasn't always against censors movies. am i misremembering or was he one of the people in effect calling for censorship of the movie on which they blamed the benghazi attacks a couple of years ago? >> went beyond the verbal. remember the only guy who ended up in jail for the first year after that incident was the guy who made the video. this is in the home of the brave and land of the free arrested on a pretense of some sort. he ended up in the slammer for a while. look, i think we are so intimidated by ever since the fatwa issued against an author what was it 15, 20 years ago, about mohammad, that we make an

exception for attacks on islam. we don't do that for attacks on christianity, for example. you can do all the satire you want. in fact, you'll get feted in the higher echelons of our society if you do. but i think the larger point is here's the president attacking a private company, and what kicked them over into withdrawing the film was not the cyber attack. it was the threat of a physical attack. not inside the world in the real world. and isn't that why we have a department of homeland security? a bloated expensive homeland security? isn't its job to protect us against physical terrorist attacks? why did the president say he never got a call? the minute that threat was issued he should have mobilized homeland security, he should have called sony. he should have sai and to the owners of the theater we're going to have security, triple quadruple security all over the

country. we're not going to let you be intimidated. if you didn't want to do that, there's one thing that the government can do as was suggested today in a "the wall street journal" editorial, this movie ought to be disseminated around the world to the extent that none in the history of the world ever has. that would be the correct punishment for north korea. kim jong-un didn't want it out because he's embarrassed by it. and the idea to get him back is to make sure everybody sees it. by releasing it on the internet. now, sony's a private company will be scared to do that. why not as the journal had suggested take over the film, ownership would go to the u.s. government, basically representing us as a nation saying that was a company you attacked, but you've attacked america. and the first amendment. and have the u.s. government put it out on the internet, put it out in all of the voice of america, everything that we controlled and make sure it's the most widely seen film in the

history of mankind. probably not deserving so, but as a way to get back at pyongyang. >> first they came for seth rogen. show in every embassy around the world. that's a compelling idea. what did you think of the president's defense of the economy? he came out and said, look, things are demonstratively better than they were. we're on a roll. this was not a sense you were looking at a guy whose party had just been creamed, policies just repudiated last month. do you think he means that? or do you think this is a pose? >> no, i think he means it. i think he was genuinely upbeat. he feels unshackled. he never has to worry about his democrats being slaughtered in an election and blaming him. he can be himself. he can normalize relations with cuba. he can legalize 5 million illegals. and doing it legally. he is now the beneficiary of the collapse of oil prices, which is

essentially a huge tax cut which has stimulated the economy and helped to revive it. of course he had nothing to do with the collapse of oil prices. if anything his epa has been issuing regulations that have inhibited the explosion or boom we're having right now that's all on private or state land. nonetheless he feels now he'll get vindication by the revival of the economy. >> huh. interesting. finally, i couldn't help -- i don't think i'm being paranoid when i say this, but when the president was responding to the question about north korea, he said, you know, the internet is basically the wild west at this point. and what we need is more regulation. he didn't say it quite that way, but perhaps i'm reading into it plans to regulate the internet in the name of internet security. do you think that's worth worrying about? >> tucker, if you ever get paranoid, i'll be the one who

tells you. so don't be worried of that. as of now i don't see signs of it. no, i think that's exactly what he wants to do. i think in general -- this is sort of a new technology in the same way that when old technology -- well, the ones that are now old but new came online after world war ii we had to develop agencies and ways of controlling and regulating. i know no one wants big government, but at some point we're going to have to have a cyber security apparatus because this is like nuclear weapons that doesn't kill people but it kills infrastructure. and that could really hurt the country. so i think in time we're going to have to get that. and that's a place where congress ought to work and sort of reflect the views of ordinary americans. it should not be done unilaterally. that's what i worry about. >> charles krauthammer, smartest guy i know. thanks a lot for coming on

today. >> you're welcome. >> coming up next right here on "hannity". >> we have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in hollywood -- >> that's al sharpton. he now runs sony. how'd that happen? we will tell you. up next, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani sheds some light on that. now that president obama's announced he's normalizing relations with cuba, will this cop killer, currently hiding in cuba, will she be extradited back to the united states to face the penalty for her crimes? that and more as "hannity" continues. i have the worst cold with this runny nose.

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welcome back to "hannity." earlier today the president addressed sony hacking by north korea. but the commander in chief is not the man hollywood is looking to for direction after that embarrassing cyber hack. no, that man is none other than the reverend al sharpton, the key white house adviser. yesterday embattled sony executive amy pascal met privately with the reverend in a bid to fix the fallout from the leak of racially charged e-mails between herself and a producer. after meeting sharpton, sharpton went out on the street and discussed the next steps with the film industry. >> hollywood is an environment that still resembles 1950s america. we have agreed to having a working group deal with the racial bias and lack of diversity in hollywood and in the film industry. so the jury is still out on

where we go with amy. we clearly are willing to deal with an immediate formula to see where we deal with breaking down the walls of inflexible and so far immovable racial exclusion in hollywood. >> uh-huh. that's one of the rev's signature sidewalk press conferences. joining me now with reaction, the new decider in chief in hollywood former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. mr. mayor, thanks for joining us. >> nice to be with you. >> how much do you think he's asking sony for? >> first of all, i don't know how he became the jury. >> yeah, how did that happen? >> he's the jury for our movies. now we have him as the jury for our movies and north korea as the censor for our movies. >> yeah. >> so sharpton and north korea want us to see. how did this ever happen? this is like a comedy. >> well, it happened because people let it happen. i mean, you ran the city for eight years, sharpton was here, i remember, i covered it all. and he would have loved to have been one of your chief advisers

shaking down companies with your blessing. >> i never met with the reverend sharpton. honestly because i never thought he was interested in a legitimate solution to a problem. >> right. >> if you want to deal with a problem of police brutality, police overreaction, which occasionally happens. you also have to deal with the reality of crime. and the crime they're reacting to. and why is it disproportionate in certain communities or others a function of numbers, not function of race. if we can have that conversation, but if you only want to make believe that police actions create crime, of course that's ridiculous. they don't create crime. they react to crime. and they react to it either properly most of the time, inproperly a few times. you want to have the conversation how to improve that, fine. you want to talk about how you're going to save lives, improve education, improve jobs, i never heard anything about that from him. look, i know this gets some people annoyed, but if you look

at the history of new york city, i'm the mayor who saved the most black lives in the history of new york city because i cared about the people. i didn't care about the grand standing politicians and they're slapping me on the back. i cared about i wanted to save lives in harlem, ft. green. >> because the crime rate went down historically. >> how about 75%? >> haven't you seen this movie before in new york city in the '60s and '70s, hustlers and shakedown artists like sharpton were taken seriously. the idea that police cause crime became current. >> it was ridiculous. >> and crime rates went up. >> yeah. >> are we going to see that again? >> police improvement is absolutely valid issue. >> right. >> got to work on it all the time. it's a difficult job. and some people misuse their power. not most, some do. got to work on it. but the level of crime in certain communities is enormously important. it's the same thing, look, when i was u.s. attorney used to be italian-american groups go after me because i was going after the

mafia. i wasn't going to stop going after the mafia just because they said the mafia is italian. you go after the people committing the crimes and then work on the problem. >> of course. what's mind blowing to me is usually leaders are judged by the character of the people they assemble around them. the first person the president called to the white house after the midterm election last month, al sharpton. this is a guy indicted for tax fraud, who was an undercover drug video who's totally discredited, no legitimate person believes him to be legitimate. but the president seems to have taken no blame at all for bringing him into his kitchen cabin cabinet. >> i would imagine this is the reason they call on him to be their arbitrator for some unfortunate comment they made. both of these people have absolutely opposite political persuasion than i've had, but they've donated so much money to obama, they've been involved in the democratic cause for so long, i'm willing to conclude they're not racist. they just made stupid comments. let them apologize. let them just apologize for

saying something stupid, which my god hasn't al sharpton said something stupid? instead he's got to come out with this jury thing and stretch it out. there's a whole calculation to that stretching out. if this woman calls you in and says i'm really sorry that i said this, i didn't mean to say it, i supported black causes all my life, i supported president obama, i'm obviously not a racist. and i'm really sorry for what i said. it was the stupid thing to have said. and i said it privately, not publicly. not like all those rap songs that use horrible words publicly. >> and what about the horrible words that sharpton himself has uttered? attacking people in racially divisive ways -- >> not probably. >> on the sidewalk ripping up race hatred. if someone said to you al sharpton is going to be one of president obama's closest advisers, would you believe that? >> i'd say impossible. >> right. what happened? >> i don't know. i have no idea where the president is going or why he's

going there. i was just in copenhagen for a conference and they asked me if i could describe the president's foreign policy. and i said since he can't describe it, i don't think i can describe it. don't ask me to explain president obama. i don't know what the heck he's doing. cuba, north korea hacking, and his response is i'm going off to hawaii on vacation. this is crazy stuff. >> it's also depressing. rudy giuliani, thanks a lot for joining us. >> thank you. >> we're praying for your city. coming up, there are more questions than answers now that president obama has announced he's normalizing relations with the fascist state of cuba. for example, will this cop killer fugitive, her name is joanne chesimard, will she be extradited back to face conviction? "hannity" continues. it's just ordinary fleece

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welcome back to "hannity." will a normalization of relations with cuba lead to the return of a convicted cop killer and prison escapee hiding in havana? joanne chesimard murdered a state trooper after she and fellow militants were stopped on the new jersey turnpike. she was sentenced to life in prison for the murder and served six years before she escaped and fled to cuba. she's been there for 30 years, since 1984. she's a personal favorite of fidel castro's. according to reports as many as 70 other american fugitives, some of them murderers are believed to be hiding in cuba as well. so what's the future after the cuban-american fall? joining me mark furhman and another former nypd detective,

bo dietl. joe, you were on the force. >> yeah, i was on the force then. i was a new york city detective back then in the 1970s. this is when the bla, the black liberation army, was going around and shooting cops. >> a lot of cops. >> in 1970 i think we had something like 13 cops killed by them and then 11 killed in '71. it was an ongoing effort. and we had the faln, that was the puerto rico group bombing everywhere. it was the weathermen, they were part. the weathermen was involved, but the black liberation army -- these are offshoots of the black panthers, joanne gunned down a new jersey state trooper on the new jersey turnpike, committed cold-blooded murder. she was sentenced to jail. she then subsequently escaped and went to cuba. and then you have the famous bomber for the faln, william morales doing all kinds of bombings where people were killed. these people all jumped over to

cuba. like i said, there's about 70 fugitives there. before we do any diplomatic relations these things should b. that young officer who had a family, who had children, he never was ever able to go home and see his kids. this lady's drinking coconut juice and eating pineapples, whatever they serve in cuba. before we should open any diplomatic relationships we should get them all back here and let it get put back in jail. there's a $2 million reward for her. and i'd like to bring her back myself. maybe mark wants to come with me. >> i would love to cover that. mark, she was not only convicted of one murder of this new jersey state trooper, suspected in a number of other murders as a trigger puller here in new york. she has become a sort of cause on the left, maxine waters supported her. do you think obama will go against his own constituency, the al sharptons in the world and call for her apprehension and return to the u.s.?

>> no, i don't think he will. i don't think he'll make any effort whatsoever. i'm not sure about any of the other people that are fugitives from justice in america, but i will say this, are there no enterprising cuban males down there on that island that could put a bag over her head, throw her in the trunk of their '53 chevy and take her down to guantanamo bay and turn her over? i mean really. >> that's true. there's a $2 million -- >> even when it was $100,000. now it's $2 million. i mean, you're right, bo, let's you and i go down. give me an address? here's the interesting -- tucker, just think about this. we give up -- the media gives up darren wilson's address from ferguson. how about we give up her address, her gps coordinates for the iphones there in cuba and let them bring her back? >> you know the answer to that of course. a great question, but you know

the answer which is in the media there are no enemies on the left. and she is a member in good standing. >> fidel castro, after the trial and all the evidence against joanne chesimard she comes out and says in 2005 that it's all lies against her. and she didn't do anything wrong. we have in american court that found her guilty of murdering that young officer in new jersey. and i say the same thing, i reach out to my cuban friends over there. you want a relationship with america, let's find out where she is. then me and mark will jump on a plane, we'll bring her home sdpl it is what i find striking. the president knows, obviously well in advance he's going to announce this normalization with cuba, wouldn't he go to the police union, to prosecutors, to law enforcement groups, to the family of this murdered new jersey state trooper, the families of others murdered by fugitives in cuba, wouldn't he give them a heads up? he just ignored them.

>> you would certainly want everybody to throw in their hat in this and say this is what we should get if you're going to normalize relations with cuba, this is what we should get from it. but you fwot to remember here obama went into a sovereign country, our ally, with a s.e.a.l. team, got into a fire fight, killed a bunch of citizens, killed ubl and then flew back. and he can't send somebody down to cuba to pick up this woman? i mean, she is the point person for a fugitive in cuba. >> well, but the president as he explained again today in his press conference believes that the real problem with crime in american cities is overreach by the cops. >> that's one point. but we have an attorney general named holder, attorney general holder, i call upon you tonight. now you're the attorney general, put it down that you want them returned, all these fugitives. and if the president doesn't believe that our crime in the united states is caused in a

minority neighborhood, then he must be smoking the same thing that big bird de blasio's smoking. >> okay. on that note -- and i think you're right by the way, mark furhman, bo, thanks for joining us. coming up, it's been a pretty amazing year for president obama. we don't mean that in a good way. we'll examine his overreaching use of executive powers after the break with frank luntz and brian benjamin. stay with us. vo: you get used to pet odors in your car. you think it smells fine, but your passengers smell this... eliminate odors you've gone noseblind to for up to 30 days with the febreze car vent clip. female passenger: wow. smells good in here. vo: so you and your passengers can breathe happy.

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for example, over the past year president obama created 18 individual executive orders that changed the implementation of obamacare. didn't consult congress, he just did it. in may we learned the president ordered a prisoner swap involving five high-valued taliban gitmo detainees in exchange for army deserted bowe bergdahl. and of course last week the president unilaterally gave defactor amnesty to millions of illegal aliens living here in the u.s. and two days ago president obama without consulting congress again ordering diplomatic relations be -- makes 2014 year of the emperor, not in a good way. rich lowry, brian benjamin and pollster frank luntz. welcome to you all. >> thank you. >> frank, the first part of the president's press conference is filled with so many misstatements of fact, i'm just going to pick one. he said, 2014, the strongest year of job growth since the

1990s. he didn't mention that if you just count native born americans, people who are from here, there are fewer working than any time since 2007. this recovery has not worked. has he convinced americans otherwise? >> we did a poll on election night for each american dream and got two findings for you. number one is that more parents believe their kids are going to have a worse quality of life than them than at any time in american history at least since they started polling. there's more pessimism and deeper. second, the number one attribute that the public said they wanted out of congress in 2015 is the ability to work together to get something done. and so why is this president listening to the american people after this election which is the most overwhelming, why is he actually going out on his own and saying to the public the votes don't matter, the election doesn't matter, congress doesn't matter, i'm going to do it my way? >> right. and if he really cared about working people who are

underemployed at best, one out of five american men unemployed, you would never import millions of new low wage workers, that is giving the finger to american workers. why is nobody saying that? >> not importing new people. these people are already here. quite frankly there's 2.65 million jobs created this year, that's more than any year since the 1990s. that's a fact. >> but they didn't go to americans. >> but you would rather have more jobs than less. >> not 28-hour a week jobs, is that fair? >> yes -- >> i get it, right -- can you look me right in the eye and say bringing in millions of new workers, which is the president's intent and he's on the road to doing that is good for people who are unemployed now? high school graduates in the u.s. who don't have jobs, is that good for them? >> that wouldn't be good for them, the only problem is it's happening already -- >> thank you. >> these folks already working

in this country. >> because we don't enforce our laws and once they're here we doept make them go back. not enough people on the right are saying it either. there's a bipartisan consensus among the political elite that no matter how much immigration we have, we need more regardless of the economic consequences especially to the working class and lower income workers. these are people struggling in our economy. and what we're going to say is we're going to flood the low skilled job market to make it even harder to get a job and increase wages. >> isn't organized labor supposed to be the backstop against this? aren't they supposed to be looking out for the little guy? how did the white house convince organized labor to act against their own interest, interest of their own member sns. >> in the end there's a right way to come to this country. and i do believe and the american people believe that immigration done the right way is a positive for the economy and positive for the country. you just can't do things unilaterally. >> but every single poll says people want less immigration. >> that's not true.

>> and there are very few -- >> that's not true. >> yes, it is. you have total levels of immigration -- >> are you a pollster? >> out of 11 million people here now -- >> and we can't do anything about it. right, well, we're totally powerless. i don't know. you don't have to deport, no, you can deport some. let me just ask you this question. >> go ahead. >> the only in a country where the media totally compliant, totally in the tank for the president, would you have an administration able to get away with what the president get away with it, it's unconstitutional and nobody called him on it. >> the president said when congress gets its act together and puts a bill on the table and gets it passed -- >> that's irrelevant. >> when a president says if congress doesn't act i will, he's almost by definition irrigating himself to legislative power. the reason he said that so many

times is the president can't make laws on his own. >> so i wonder why -- i mean, i wonder why he said that. at very least you expect this press conference called on eight separate reporters, slow down for a second. here's what you said, account for why you violated a pledge you just made. no? >> do you think this president is accountable? do you think the president got any message from this election? >> of course he did. >> you realize that there are more republicans occupying the house, the senate, the governships, the legislatures, 69 out of 99 chambers. >> right, but in 2012 when the president won overwhelmingly, the republicans weren't trying to play ball with him, john boehner and everyone looking at the president like, oh -- >> he can do all sorts of things within his constitutional power. what he can't do is rule by fiat. beyond the constitution the way he clearly is with this immigration order and with some other things. >> so here's my question. so the founders were really concerned about this impulse in

human nature to instill a dictator to fight against people's natural impulse. so my deep and sad suspicion is actually the public doesn't care as much as it should about the president acting like an emperor. >> look at how well the turnout was in 2014. look at how divided we are by race, by age, by socioeconomic status. all these things that the president promised us in 2008, all of our respect globally is at its lowest level in modern times. >> i know. >> tucker, this is not about politics. this is about a poison that seems to be injected into the politic. and to watch the american people can't even have a conversation without losing their civility, it is a crisis in this country right now -- >> do you see that? >> the president promised -- >> oh, come on. >> what i'm saying is i agree with you. >> accept responsibility. >> we are more divided than we have been. but that has continued to be the case. what causes it we go to school in different places, live in different places, and come up

with completely different interpretations of the same facts. that's not all put on the president. >> this is true all throughout american history. from the founding on people have looked at the same basic facts and come up with different theories because people have different world views. but what's not permissible is this president i believe on the nuts and bolts of governing, he's not good at it. he's not good at convincing people or establishing relationships with congress or twisting arms, and now he's ruling by fiat. >> wouldn't it be fun to find a single democratic senator currently serving who after three beers will admit to liking president obama. i don't think you'll find one. >> you won't find one after one beer. >> i'm sure dick dermt would agree? >> really? i feel a focus group coming on with beers and democratic congressmen. thank you, guys. coming up, find out how you can help make a child smile. sean recently sat down to talk

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to christmas, the answer to the problems of the world is the prince of peace, jesus christ. politicians aren't going to solve the mess we have. there is not going to be republicans or democrats or tea party, but it's going to be god himself, and his son, jesus christ. >> he's going to find a mess. >> he believes with his heart that jesus is the way the truth, and the life. and no man comes to the father except through him. >> i have the pleasure of traveling with you to the dominican republic. and we did stop by haiti. i went with you to numerous places and helped get these boxes >> you did. >> it's life changing my wife and kids were with me. it's a life changing thing. you do this every year. how many boxes this year? >> 10 million. >> you ask people to pack a box for a boy or girl.

because, i watched these kids off the box, you got a doll. a jump rope is here. i don't know what this is. someone knitted a scarf. a purse. inside of the purse there is stuff. i can feel it. there is candy and a cross. nice. and a hair brush, toothpaste. and i was with you as you gave them. we're in orphanages and poor neighborhoods kids go nuts. this, to them is like getting a bicycle, an xbox and a play station, and an iphone. i'm not overstated the case. >> we want children of the world to know god hasn't forgotten us. and most of kids are overwhelmed by it, sean. >> how did you do this? >> god has done it, sean, i'm

not that smart. we started off with just a few thousand and it's grown we ask everybody to pray. putting a box like that together the people that put this box together they prayed for the child that i don't know, god knows but when we pray, and i know god hears the prayer of the righteous person, but you have 10 million people praying for children. we have had the first this year, sean, a boy from idaho. 14 years ago he sent a box. a little girl got it in the philippines. she wanted to track him down because it changed her life, her father's life. she wrote a letter and never heard from him. and she started to search for his name. came up. they talked on facebook for years. >> don't tell me they got married. >> he had to see what she looked like. it's now 14 years later.

they got married in october. >> did you do the wed something >> no. they asked everybody who packed a box, everybody that came to the reception packed a box. >> so that was the wedding gift? >> yes. >> how do people know, where do they go? >> samaritan.org. thank you, sean. i'm m-a-r-y and i have copd.

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