bad. for nice i'm going to go with sarah sanders. i saw her at the white house meeting this week. thank you for sending your holiday with us. i wish you could spend more. you back here tomorrow. merry christmas to all and to all a good night. ♪ >> there could be a major job opening at the fbi with reported deputy director indra mugabe is planning to retire as growing allegations of political bias have made him a lightning rod for criticism. hello, welcome to america's news headquarters. i mike emanuel. >> nice to be with you again. i'm leah gabriel. president trump slamming the agency's number two official over reports that he will hold on to his current position until

it becomes fully eligible for pension benefits. the present meeting fbi deputy director andrew mccabe is racing the clock to return with full benefits 90 days to go. the president also suggested that he had a conflict of interest and that's because of the clinton ally can give money to wife's campaign when she iran for office in virginia two years ago. one white house official saying that integrity and federal law is an absolute must. >> we put all of our faith and confidence in the apartment of justice and the fbi knowing there should be no bias there. he's making the point that we need to make sure there is no bias. i think there are serious concerns about whether there was or was not. lea: ellison barber is live in washington with more. >> present is in dc but he is talking about he is eligible for retirement in march. almost immediately president trump fired off a number of

attacking mccabe. the white house as you just heard defending the tweet on "fox news sunday". >> is that helpful for the president to repeatedly attacked top officials of the fbi. >> chris, i think the president believes the american people have a right to know what happened in that investigation. i think people need to remember this that the governor of virginia is perhaps the closest political friend. >> mccabe spent two days importing hours testify last week and the democrat close word meeting were not meant to find a fact but in their view they were meant to discredit the special counsel's russia investigation. >> what is going on behind those closed doors? it's not a search for the truth but a search to undermine the legitimacy of muller's investigation. >> i think it's critically important that we respect the independence of the department of justice and the fbi. no one is above the law and that

mr. moeller should do his investigation without interference from the president. >> all of this is fox news reports that james baker was removed from a prominent position on the general counsel. the council is read in on all of the investigation handled by the fbi. sources tell fox news speaker is not fired but reassigned. his reassignment may somehow be tied to a separate leak investigation. washington post says sources tell them this is a normal part of the new director coming into the bureau. political reported on friday that baker is tied to a mother jones journalist who first reported on the existence of the trump dossier that journalist says a bigger was not his source. fired director james comey fired defended him unclear saying he's now being attacked for political

gain and someone who has honorably served the country for 25 years. lea: hopefully will get more clarity on that in the future. ellison, thank you for your reporting this morning. merry christmas to you. mike: for more on this of spring and kelly: a reporter for the washington examiner. kelly, nice to see. good to see you. merry christmas. mike: present trump is irritated that he is expected to serve

>> way is to a recycling and will see a little more changes but the calls from republicans they been getting they have added more fuel to the fire especially with the text messages you mentioned before this. the text messages republicans will keep at this and the inspector general is investigating the case in that report is to come out sometime this spring. i think this will still happen and you have until march mccabe. mike: things are so politicized there is there an objective way to assess if they if their senior leaders are motivated? >> as more of them continue to testify we saw a deputy attorney rod rosenstein testified about special councils not paid by us and i think they will continue to be on capitol hill and we will see more senior fbi officials on capitol hill testifying behind closed doors. hopefully we will get some information out of those but i

think we'll just have to trust that when those top fbi officials say they are unbiased that they are unbiased five kelly, the president also continues to vent his frustration with jeff sessions. he asks why jeff sessions did replace mccabe and what about sessions future? >> i think sessions is driving as attorney general. he's curing out campaign promises that came from trump back when he was campaigning for president so he enjoys the job and he will stay at the justice department for a little bit longer. mike: with all this political back and forth what about morale at the fbi? we live in a dangerous world we need them to be on top of the game. any concerns about morale at the stage. >> you have to look at what ray told capitol hill a few weeks ago. he said these are great people who work fbi and the great people and working hard to keep our country safe and he's a leader of the fbi and was approved by congress and we have to take him at his word that fbi is still keeping faith and doing .-dot. mike: kelly, the lot.

lea: president trump praising us soldiers overseas and appreciation was the scene of the christmas eve videoconference of military leaders just hours ago. in the meantime, i west the federal judge in seattle has lifted parts of the trump administration ban on certain refugees. steve harrigan is covering this live in west palm beach, florida, near the president's mar-a-lago estate. reporter: lea, good evening. this is a partial listing of that band by seattle federal judge, the band of course affected 11 different nations, mostly muslim nations, and now the visa application for immigration by people with family members in the us will be forced to be processed. that means for attorneys for the government they have disagreed with that decision they are considering now their next steps. in the meantime here in florida the president play golf for a second day in the row before and after he had the links used on terrible times he was criticizing the mainstream media.

in the morning he criticized mainstream media for underestimating the strength of president trump space again in the afternoon he said the media underestimates trumps popularity in polls support time attacking the big news media. finally, a christmas tradition the president and the first lady both taking part in phone conversations with norad and children were calling norad to find out the progress of santa claus. some of them were passed through to president trump including casper from virginia. >> i always liked building blocks. i always loved building blocks. now they make them bigger and better. i picked that santa claus will bring you put the box. reporter: casper told the president he hoped for building blocks for christmas and that obviously excited the president. he seems to have found a kindred spirit and young casper. lea, back to you. lea: and we know one other kid was hoping his grandma would be out of the hospital.

steve harrigan, thank you americans missed you. >> you, to. mike: more than 100 million americans are traveling this christmas holiday. according to aaa. it reports that the majority of americans are taking road trips to reach their destinations. david lee is live in new york city with more. reporter: mike, aaa is expect this to be a record-breaking year end travel season. 107.3 million travelers will be headed somewhere if they haven't done so already. most will be doing so on the road despite the fact that gasoline prices are on average about 28 cents higher than a year ago at $2.47 a gallon. out west travel is attorney normal after a blizzard hit the region in colorado and other snowstorms will be making a driving hazardous in the midwest and in new england and more people are flying compared to a year ago. an airline tree group credits the improving economy and today

and december 30th are expected to be the least congested days for air travel this holiday season. here in new york there are expected to be that 6 million visitors during the holidays. there's increased security president at churches from midnight mass through christmas day. in fact, there more security forces deployed throughout the entire city including the nypd. the state police and the national guard. there's also an increased surveillance of bridges, tunnels, translation, airports, radiation detection equipment, dogs will be on the streets to new york governor andrew cuomo says there is no specific threat but it's best to play it safe. >> i want to make sure that when the public sees this activity that they are not alarmed. we don't have any information that has caused us to increase security. this is just out of an abundance of caution. there's nothing wrong. there is nothing to get alarmed about but it's just a proactive

effort to increase security. reporter: there is also heightened security throughout europe. please remain on high alert in italy, rome, london and paris. officials say nearly 100,000 security personnel are going to be on duty now and new year's eve. mike. mike: david lee muller, who will give you a full report on holiday travel as i had to a local airport after this progr program. lea: i know your family and kids want to see you. thank you to all our love officials here in new york city. they are protecting us because you see them on the subways and on the streets they are working on holiday to keep us safe and i want to say thank you to all of you for the work you are doing. speaking of crowds. crowds are gathering investment in this christmas eve for the celebration they are a bit different this year. president trump has a lot to do with that. a report from jerusalem is next.

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lea: five people are dead following a small plane crash in central florida. assessment taking off early the 20 from an airport about 45 miles east of tampa and route to key west. authorities say the pilot, two of his daughters, son-in-law and a family friend are among the dead. they also say fog likely contributed to the crash. >> one of our helicopter pilots was in the hangar, heard the plane starting to take off and thought to himself my gosh, i can't believe someone is trying to take off in the other. he said it was seconds later that he heard the change in the pitch of the blades and the impact at the north end of the airport, not very far from our hangar. lea: the nts and the faa are to

sending teams to the side of the crash to investigate. mike: crowds peaceful in bethlehem on christmas eve. it is the birthplace of jesus, according to the bible and those gathering there a bit more subdued than usual. due to the fallout from president trump historic declaration of jerusalem as the capital of israel. connor powell with more from our jerusalem bureau. reporter: mike, this is always a festive time in bethlehem but this christmas season has been marred by weeks of violent protests. palestinian, muslims and christians following president trump's decision to declare jerusalem the capital of israel. today with christmas even celebrations well under way bethlehem has been peaceful but the mood is much different than past years. with president trump's decision runs in the center. signs all over the place reading jerusalem is the capital of palestine and palestinian president issued a christmas message calling on the

international christian community to quote listen to the indigenous christians from the holy lands and reject president trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. with the top roman catholic priest in the holy land has been vocal in his criticism of president trump decision making a very public display by crossing through and is really military checkpoint to enter bethlehem from jerusalem. despite today's call protests against the us decision are expected to continue. mike. mike: connor powell in the holy land. thank you. lea: some holiday shoppers are screaming about humbug to inflated prices. grinches in the form of buying the hottest seasons faster than any human can. they didn't then sell the toys that huge market prices leaving some parents in the lurch if they don't have the cash. molly has the rest of the story.

>> high-tech software is the new threat to holiday joy making it tougher than ever for mom or dad to find that must-have toy at its regular retail price. >> we're having sales the pop-up of major retailers that are then sold out in seconds. >> cyber scalpers resell the goods and get the game. >> i've deftly had readers on a google tech .com that have told me they have had their fingerling in their cards and then when they've gone to check out it's been gone. >> the pint-size critter should cost about $18 but sold out and moist sisters and now selling online for as much as $1000. another target, the super nintendo nes classic additions. out of stock on the sites but available on ebay for double the money. many retailers try to block the thoughts,.

>> how do you know the difference between a grandma with 14 grandkids who all get the same holiday gift and someone who is a bad actor and trying to resell this merchandise somewhere else? >> it's very difficult. >> tom udall is working to expand a law to that already prevents spots for the use of mass purchasing theater tickets for concert tickets. but it will be too late for this christmas. laura oliver suggested instead of paying the markup that scalpers markup online any satisfaction to consider writing an iou. in boston, molly, fox news five it's looking like a white christmas in parts of the nation. in ohio the national weather service issuing a winter weather advisory for tomorrow morning. this is the scene in cleveland with snow in the forecast there for the next few days. there is more snow in virginia with some last-minute choppers getting drenched with downpours and strong winds in the dc suburbs and in upstate new york people are seeing 4 inches of snow making for tough conditions on the road. forecasters picking more

snowfall tonight in a christmas day tomorrow. what do you think? lea: i think you should get your wrinkles in dc. my take is this. if it's going to be a really cold i wanted to be a white christmas but otherwise i'd rather be in a place like florida where president trump is right now. speaking of president trump, did you hear that he's anger untrained a green moscow by helping ukraine bite the separateness. his move and the follow-up. plus, the protests against the 1%. will anything changed since occupy wall street went global? and the california governor jerry brown once again butting heads the trump administration over immigration. will tell you how.

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five california governor once again at odds with president trump over the issue of immigration. the governor announcing he granted 132 pardons this holiday season. two of them immigrants awaiting deportation for committing crimes in the us. will car is live with los angeles report. will. reporter: it is no secret that governor jerry brown has pushed back hard on the administrations immigration policies and this decision appears to only be escalating that situation. brown decided to use a christmas tradition of granting pardons to, in his words, pistole asked a mercy on the men. were talking about two men from cambodia living in northern california. one was convicted in 2003 for felony joy writing and the other convicted in 1995 on a felony weapons charge that was linked to gangs and a misdemeanor receiving stolen property. both were picked up by federal authorities this past october

aninimmigration rates and was sd to be deported on christmas but a federal george issued a temporary restraining order and one-man has already been released from custody and is back with his family. the other is still in custody but in his part in the governor several individuals wrote in support of him describing him as kind and generous and that a role model to those who faced insurmountable challenges in their life. governor brown also but it had the trump administration in october when he signed century state legislation which placed limitations on state and local authorities ability to help federal immigration agencies enforce immigration laws and it is important to know that just because the men were part in doesn't necessarily mean they were not supported at some point. at some point immigration court to reopen her cases. mike: will car, live in los angeles. merry christmas, will. lea: david schwartz and john,

defense attorney, nice to see you both. i want to start with you, david. what you think of this? >> the governor has the absolute power to party. that is clear here so no matter what the reason to pardon whether it's the immigration issue or other reason he is the absolute right to do that in the felony would have been an absolute deportation and now it has to go to immigration court. lea: john, from my understanding these two people were brought here when they were children and essentially refugees so they were here legally but if the felonies that they were being deported for. >> that is correct. this goes back to 1990 law the person clinton signed which basically said that if you get convicted of a state or federal crime as a green card holder you get deported automatically. now, what has happened over time is quite simply this. for someone who has committed a

violent crime or drug offense than a pardon is probably not going to help them. they will get deported anyway by the board of immigration. for nonviolent offenders then you have a fighting chance to remain in the united states. what has happened now as a result of these pardons is that there is an unequal immigration system in the united states where noncitizens in california are being treated differently than noncitizens in florida. it's a system that is a mess. lea: david, do you agree that these were essentially nonviolent that is unlikely that they will be deported? >> no, i don't think they will be deported. certainly for the nonviolent crimes it really gives them a good fighting chance and look, every state is different. every estate and the criminal statutes in every state are different. one crime could be treated differently in one state as opposed to another state so the

fact that california is taking the lead on this and governor brown is taking the lead should be held against california or the government. lea: so john, david mentioned that the governor can pardon whoever he wants to. what you think of his decision to choose these people to pardon instead of focusing on people who are citizens here and people who who are essentially american citizens? >> well he has pardon people who are citizens as well but he's making a political statement which in his view is very important. the immigration process in the united states really needs to be universal everyone is treated equally. this in this case those individuals that escaped the catastrophe set took place many years ago so there's a sympathy and i believe that was one of the reasons he pardon them. lea: david, these colonies did happen quite a long time ago. were talking about 2003, 1995, one had a felony was convicted

of felony weapons charges that were gang-related and also still stolen property valued at less than $400. that was in 95 and the other one convicted in zero three and i think the question is are we making too much of this because they've not commit a crime since then? >> gets bar overreaching and the knowledge that in his decision. he did not make this decision in a vacuum. your one crime those 14 years ago and you got another crime that was 17 years ago and they lived very clean lives ever sense and certainly the fact that they lived the clean life they were given a second chance that played a role in the governor's decision to issue this parted. the fact that they went 17 years and then all of a sudden the government is going to crackdown now and support these individuals there's a certain amount of unfairness there and i

think the governor the knowledge that. lea: do agree with david? are there certain requirements for granting pardons? >> i do, absolutely. david is right. governor has a very rigorous system where he examines each case individually and in both instances they had a receive a certificate of rehabilitation which indicated that by all accounts they are living lawful lives in the united states so there's a very simply and a lot of merit to the pardon. lea: can you help us understand the legal pathway now for each of these individuals? they were supposed to be deported from what i understand on monday and now they are not being deported so what would be the next step legally? >> for these two cases you're talking about the cases now have to be reopened in the immigration court and it's not a slamdunk that they will be able to stay here the fact of the matter is the idea that the felony is now gone and it's now not an automatic deportation, now the court will weigh all the factors in deciding whether or

not they should be deported or not. lea: john, to take it a step further and talking about california in general what you think about california in terms of -- is a becoming too soft when it looks at felonies? in 2014 prop 47 was a voter approved ballot measure that allowed some felonies to be reclassified as misdemeanors. >> i think it reflects the politics of california. frankly, we live in a federal system where each state has the right to and passes the laws and make policy in this area in california certainly expressing itself. lea: david, final thought. is this governor brown being combative on immigration or is this just a completely separate issue? >> no, i don't think he's being combative. i think he's been compassionate. again he's analyzing cases, he's being compassionate is giving people a second chance. people that have lived in this country, a legal, law-abiding life for the last 17 years and 14 years.

lea: thank you both for your insight. david schwartz and john, merry christmas. mike: it started as a grassroots movement against so-called economic inequality and corporate greed by the 1%. for months occupy wall street demonstrators marched and camped out in city squares across the country sometimes getting into violent clashes with police. but did it accomplish anything? rick leventhal takes a look back six years later. >> street? reporter: it began in new york city just a few blocks from the financial capital of the world. inspired in part by arab spring protests overseas. occupy wall street was a social movement against corporate greed, and influence of big business and politics.

almost overnight the diverse group of demonstrators through to tens of thousands spreading to hundreds of cities across america in more than 80 countries worldwide. patients among city leaders and law enforcement within and authorities began arresting protesters in clearing their encampments in roughly two months after it launched, the occupy movement faded into winter. >> occupy wall street. >> i called it a constructive failure. reporter: michael white helped launch occupy wall street with a single tweet. he envisioned it as a leaderless movement, revolution for the people by the people. >> obviously i think it did a lot of good things and i think it change the discourse about

income inequality but did we give new power to the 99% and did we change democracy function in america. reporter: the crowd that fueled this helped ultimately lead to its demise. you had all these people saying streets, our streets, and yet they were getting in the way of people for people who also own the streets. >> protests is one of those things necessary for the progress of democracy but you can have protest without people getting upset and getting disrupted in that kind of stuff. >> occupy wall street involved in something else, i would say, it morphed into something else. reporter: michael went to the park nearly every day for two months, not as a protester but as a social scientist. now an adult professor at nyu he says the occupy movement energized a generation. >> i think it did change the conversation and change the political equation. it brought something into american politics that had been missing for a long time which i

think is the voices of ordinary people. reporter: he cites black lies matter and the surprising success of bernie sanders campaign as examples of the occupy carried on. >> i think it was a turning point in the political conversation and it will be remembered as such. reporter: white was book is called the end of protest says he may never see anything like occupy again. >> i think the ultimate form of protest is when you do this alone at a certain point there's nowhere else to go. occupy was the biggest, the loudest and after a certain point you can't go bigger or louder. reporter: white says the only way activists can truly succeed is to win elections. in new york, rick leventhal, boxes. lea: from cell phones to delivery drones and van technology has made our lives easier. it's also helping in his

business across industries as companies invest in robots. but how many people to those machines put out of work? claudia breaks down the rise of the robots. >> need robles stove, a 6-ton robot that lifts products 24 feet up onto a robotic drive unit that shuttles items around amazon massive storage warehouse in northern california until another robot collects it for shipment. >> robotics within our amazon settlement center makes our jobs more efficient allowing our employees to use their skills for more others to get a tasks. >> it makes my job easier. reporter: maybe so but a recent study found that up to a third of the american work force as many as 54 million people will have to switch occupations by 2030 to find work. thanks in large part to rapid advances being made in automation and robotic technology. martin ford is author of the rise of the robots, technology and the threat of a jobless future. >> there's huge numbers of jobs

out there and maybe half the jobs that are going to be susceptible to this. reporter: 260,000 robots work in restaurants, hotels, factories and hospitals. they perform tasks that are routine applicable soon experts say they will achieve a level of dexterity in visual perception only humans have had in the past. >> we need to start thinking about what that means for the employment situation and for our whole economy and for our society. reporter: back at amazon filament center hundreds of jobs are saved for now as hundreds of people work alongside dozens of robots but one day those numbers may slip. some jobs will disappear and others will be created and no question the rise of the robot will be a game changer. in san francisco, claudia, boxes. mike: a deadly storm slams the philippine triggering floods and mudslides. death toll is already in the 100. plus, north korea up its rhetoric with the un sanctions. the ominous defined words and

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act of war. those sanctions in response to the road hundred robe regime missile test late last month. the secondary medicine taking north korea's threat seriously warning our trips they must be at the top of their game and ready to go. joining us now judith muller, a pulitzer prize winning author and journalist and fox news trader. nice to see you. >> nice to see you, mike. mike: what you make of him making saying to me to be at the top of their game encases military conflict? >> i think this is a precaution that any secretary of defense would give to troops is traveling overseas and i thank you have seen an example of secretary matus upping the rhetoric while president trump actually lowers the tone of his tweet. if you noticed after the north korean said that the un sanctions were an act of war donald trump treated that the united states that the world wanted peace and not war and

that is very different from his earlier rhetoric firing theory, threats to totally destroy north korea so you have america's military people warning north korea that such threats will only put us on alert and even more firmly on alert but at the same time you have secretary tillerson and secretary of state when negotiations were still an option. look, north korea doesn't have any good options in terms of war the united states doesn't either. most of what is going on now is a war of rhetoric aimed at getting everyone back to the negotiating table even though that, too, has never produced any results of the past. mike: is there a disconnect president trump and secretary of

state rex tillerson or the doing good cop, bad cop routine? >> well, i think they're doing a good cop, bad cop routine. look, the president and secretary matus, secretary tillerson are all aware of the ground reality in south korea. we have 33000 troops there on alert. we have 230,000 civilians and i was there a couple of months ago we were actually practicing the extrication, evacuation of american civilians there. no one wants shooting more in the peninsula. china does not want it. russia does not want to. the united states does not want it but here is where i think the opening and the potential for progress lies, and that is with china. even though we have now sanctioned north korea until it is hard to imagine how we can do more than cut off 90% of their energy which is what these

latest sanctions have done we have yet to really put the economic squeeze on china. we have only sanctioned a couple of smaller banks. i think that the chinese understand that the alternative to negotiation and the alternative to a peaceful solution is military action they may be willing to do more because even though they sided with us on the sanctions resolution they did not go as far as the trump administration wanted to go. the united states wanted a total freezing of assets and the chinese and the russians wouldn't go along with it. we compromised. mike: any sign of beijing coming around or will it take more arm testing and can they be trusted on the north korean issue. >> look, i think for china this is a crucial issue. north korea is they say it on their border they don't want to see a collapse of this regime. it's very clear that there has

been tension between the north koreans and the chinese. the north koreans have gone out of their way, kim jong-un has gone out of his way, to annoy the chinese there is a difference when it comes to understanding where china's strategic vital assets are and they are -- they've already made it clear to the united states china does not want american troops in the peninsula. that gives us some leverage. how much, we still do not know but we have seen a ratcheting up of the pressure. every single month the pump and ministration has done something to increase the price the north korea's pain for its continued ballistic missile test. remember north korea can do things too. the one a cry cyber attack to the north korean attack on hospitals, banks, companies all over the world and remember to the north koreans are still holding three more americans hostage in their presence and we saw what happened to auto, the

22 -year-old university of virginia was released in june after a lot of negotiations he died a week later. both nations understand what is going on here. it's a very potentially dangerous in honestly game. mike: i like to get you to weigh in on another foreign-policy. let's talk about the decision to to sell its weapons to ukraine. >> i talked to secretary tillerson earlier this week. i support the administration's decision to provide these types of defensive weapons for the ukrainians. it's a clear message to the russia that will not allow them to continue to compromise the sovereignty of ukraine. mike: judy, briefly your take on the ukraine issue. >> i agree with that. i go to ukraine at least once a year to see what is going on. in the past month the russians have begun to escalate their military activity again. i think the decision to sell

defensive weapons to ukraine is long overdue. president obama considered and considered and nothing happened and now it has and president trump has responded to his legitimate needs to be able to protect his own country. mike: judy muller, thank you for your sharing your time and expertise is. >> thank you and happy holidays mike. lea: santos journey around the world is well underway so where is he headed next? were hoping to track the path. >> it starts with our radars that are on the northern canada border as well as alaska and of course we have our santa camle that are strategically placed around the world so we can watch santa anywhere he goes. any lon. so i talked to my doctor

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mike: pope francisella burning christmas eve mass at the vatican. the pontiff telling the faithful gathered in the silica that christmas is a time for turning the power of fear into the power of charity. the pope is set to deliver his christmas day message from st. peter's square tomorrow afternoon. he usually touches on world events and trouble spots all aiming to stripe a hopeful note as the year winds down. lea: santa claus is coming to town. for anyone interested in tracking his journey you can watch as he travels the world. it's been done for more than 60 years. the north american aerospace the or norad is using its high-tech resources to follow saint nick's slave as it had sport us airspace. here is an important reminder from one norad commander. you'll want to listen. >> they also need to know that

need to be in bed and not just in bed but they have to be sleeping. sometimes we find out that santa might pass of the house or two in the neighborhood and that's because the kids are not asleep yet and so, he will come back to drop presence at the house as long as the kids are asleep. lea: the president and first lady getting involved with the santa tracker program today answering children's phone calls. >> what would you like? what? building blocks. that's what i always liked to i love building blocks. now they make them even better. does casper love building things? well, that is great. i picked that santa will bring you building blocks. so many you won't be able to use them all. lea: norad watched it santa tracker in 1965 and you can watch santa in real time on norad website. norad santa .org.

can you imagine being a little kid and calling norad tracker about santa getting president up on the phone? mike: and its market asking for building blocks of the president is a famous builder in new york. lea: that is a good point. maybe he will get special building box. president trump, maybe you should send some if you're lucky. he also mentioned the president that he should come visit the white house which would be an exciting thing five how cool is that. lea: did you know that norad tracker and santa claus knows that if kids aren't sleeping that he will pass by the house? mike: i tell my kids all the time. lea: this is upsetting for little kids who want to stay up and try to track santa but norad also did say that he will come back by once they are asleep so if they are good boys and girls,

and the go to sleep, they'll get the president and present five could big changes coming to the fbi? president from taking aim at reported intermediate is planning to retire. this is the agency pieces accusations of political bias. more on all of this ahead. [inaudible][inaudible] . . . . . .

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>> it might seem hard to believe but american troops have been celebrating christmas in afghanistan for 16 years. today they lit candles and sang songs. one soldier making the best of it with his family on his mind. >> uso has me dressed up like a snowman. people came out and it's great, want to wish a rob is up

next with the fox report. merry christmas everyone. >> there could be a major shakeup at the fbi. deputy director is reclaiming to retire as the barrel faces growing allegations. >> the washington post reported -- republican critics have honed in on mccabe grilling him for hours behind closed doors on his involvement in the clinton e-mail investigation and about the advisors who are caught sending anti- tron text messages. president trump suggesting he had a conflict of