(♪) >> will you accept the jury outcome, their verdicts, no matter what it is? >> yes. >> have you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. >> no one is above the law. i said i would abide by the jury decision. >> no one is above the law. >> president biden doing something he swore he would never do, issuing a full and unconditional pardon of his son, hunter, covering any crime you have committed from january 2014 to december 2024. that is where we are at the top of the new hour, almost. welcome back as "america reports" rose and dress like an hour. i'm sandra smith. mike, good heavy today. >> mike: great to be working with you as always. i'm mike emanuel in for john roberts. "the new york post" cover reading hunter gets away with it.

a decision his family seems to blindly support. >> mike: donald trump has promised to present the weaponization of government as he taps kash patel. >> sandra: bill malaysian has more on trump's transition into the oval office martha maccallum is on deck to the stunning pardon. but first a david spunt from washington for us. how are people responding the president's new pick of cash mattel? >> it's a mixed bag. it depends who you ask for a president-elect trump promised a shake-up at the fbi. allies and critics agree that choosing cash mattel to lead the agency is a shake-up. watch. >> and encourage president trump to bring cash mattel to the table for precisely this reason. he represents the type of change we need to see in the fbi.

>> christopher wray has not said whether he will step down or wait to be fired and go out on his own terms before trump takes office. he is in year seven of the 10-year term. the trump hired him after firing james comey. the fbi telling fox news, following the patel announcement come every day the men and women of the fbi continue to work to protect americans from a growing array of threats. director raise focus remains on the men and women of the fbi, the people we do the work with and a people we do the work for. he must get confirmed, republicans will run the show in the senate in january in just a few weeks. democrats are expected to unify with a "no" vote. >> his only qualification is because he agrees with donald trump that the department of justice should serve to punish, lock up, and intimidate donald trump's political opponents. the cost to the american public is pretty simple. >> here's naman himself last sunday not even a week before he was announced as speeds fbi

director nominees. >> leading counterterrorism missions, serving as a deputy director of national intelligence, and as chief of staff. >> going through his resume, he would serve a 10-year term is confirmed unless he is pushed out early in the future. >> mike: continuing coverage on president-elect trump's transition into the white house as justin trudeau visits mar-a-lago. just days after he vowed to enact a 25% tariff on all products coming into the u.s. from canada into mexico. bill melugin has more from west palm beach, florida. >> the threat of tariffs clearly got his attention very quickly because he hopped on a plane and chill out to palm beach, went over to mar-a-lago, and had dinner with the incoming president and had a face-to-face

meeting with him. take a look at this picture. justin trudeau posted himself showing that he and trump were all smiles at mar-a-lago during this meeting. it happened just days after trump threatened to hit canada with tariffs if they didn't secure the border with the united states. the northern border. to begin the first world leader to meet with trump face-to-face in person since election day and his allies say you can expect to see more of that. >> i think you're seeing very quickly where leaders come to the table. you obviously saw the prime minister of canada fly down to mar-a-lago, the president of mexico respond very quickly to the president's treat the other day about the issue of tariffs and cracking down on cartels. >> to that point, last week trump and newly elected mexican president claudia sheinbaum held the phone call after trump threatened to hit mexico with tariffs if they didn't stop illegal immigration into the u.s. he described that call as "a

wonderful conversation" and said she agreed to crack down on migration through mexico and effectively close the border with the u.s. claudia sheinbaum has denied saying she said that. democrats say trump's threats will do more harm than good. >> donald trump engages in thoughtless insane tariff policy that ends in prices going up but jobs not being created in the united states. donald trump is going to talk about tariffs because he doesn't want you to know about the primary centerpiece of his economic agenda, which is a tax cut for billionaires and millionaires and corporations. >> some may wonder, why would trump threaten canada over illegal immigration? there's a border patrol sector on our northern border that oversees vermont, new hampshire, and part of new york, called the swanton sector. just last year that sector alone saw more than 19,000 illegal crossings of migrants from 97

different countries. that number is higher than the last 17 years combined. it's become a big problem that they are on the northern border. we will send it back to you. >> important context from our colleagues spent a lot of time at the border. many thanks. >> is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son? >> no. i just said no. i just answered. go ahead. >> even asked that question multiple times. our answer stance, which is no. >> it is still a no. it will be no. i don't have anything else to add. will he pardon his son? no. >> sandra: apparently it's a "yes." karine jean-pierre repeatedly denying the present would pardon his son, and that obviously changed. so what exactly was to that? martha is here, anchor and executive editor of "the story." karine jean-pierre was asked about this and double down on, this is a decision the president

has made and they are sticking to it. you can make the case that she sort of made the situation worse in that gaggle. >> a look at those responses from her and i think she should be very angry today. she should go in there and say to president biden and the rest of the leadership, you sent me out there and you made me lie, and that's wrong. she could have been more equivocating and she could've said let's let the system play out and see what happens, he is supposed to be sentenced. just be honest that they were still in the midst of figuring this out. i think that nobody is surprised the president had decided to pardon his son. he's about to be sentenced on the 12th and the 16th of this month. one of the things we are going to talk about, this afternoon on "the story," he posted after he saw it president biden said that it was clear hunter was singled out because he was my son, and they take that very personally,

the whistle-blowers. because they are saying we investigated this case starting in 2018, for several years we were basically cut off at the turn. every time we got close to figuring out who is involved here, and it president biden was cognizant of some of these tax evasion and business dealings. they got cut off at the knees by david weiss, they claim. so they are going to have them on today and get their reaction, because they feel personally maligned by what the president had to say to them. and they put themselves really out on a limb as whistle-blowers. it's not easy, what they did, and there have been ramifications in their lives because of that. >> sandra: that will be a fascinating interview to watch. meanwhile, more from karine jean-pierre responding to questions from reporters including, would this have happened if harris had not lost? here's the exchange. >> do you think this would've happened if harris had not lost the election? >> i'm not going to get into the election. it's a no, i can answer that. and what i can say --

>> this would not have happened? the pardon would not have happened if harris hadn't lost the election? >> to where we are today, i can't speak to hypotheticals. >> sandra: interesting question. >> it's another moment where joe biden looks at the situation, probably, and says if you left me in there things would be different. i figure that harris is going to win, and she didn't, and i have to backpedal on something i didn't want to have to do, but now i have to free hunter before he gets sentenced. >> sandra: apparently the left is not happy about this, either. this is colorado governor saying he understands helping his son by pardoning him but i'm disappointed he put his family ahead of the country. that's a bad precedent that could be abused by later presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. and here is the left media

slamming his decision. listen. >> what i think is not disputable is that this is a historic active political nepotism. let's be clear, joe biden lie to us for a long time. >> nobody is above the law. joe biden just made clear his son hunter is above the law. >> the notion that he hadn't committed crimes are that the process was tainted and political i think is deeply unfortunate for president of the united states to say that. at least in this instance, he sounds a good bit like mr. trump. >> sandra: while not shocking, the decision, this is the reaction from the left to it. >> he set up in court and admitted to tax evasion, admitted to these crimes, the gun charge. he has already said that he did these things. i think the more honorable thing to do would be to wait this process out, and for hunter to say let's see what comes my way when i get sentenced. the pardon option was always going to be on the table all the way up to january 20th.

it is early and it's not playing out very well. >> sandra: which leads us to our final bit of sound from karine jean-pierre in the back and forth with reporters today. she was pressed on biden saying that the doj is infected with politics. listen. >> his own justice department is broken. >> he believes in the justice department. he believes -- >> after saying all of that? he believes in the justice department? >> this is his words. he said this. >> you just said he's infected with politics. >> i will not interfere, i kept my word even as i have watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted. >> saw how deep is the rot? how many selective prosecutions are there at the doj? >> i can speak to this particular case. >> sandra: to your earlier point, that's hard to listen to. we've covered a lot of white house press briefings with karine jean-pierre. they fall into these hours often. she was having a tough time answering these questions. of course she was.

>> she would be completely justified at this point to say, this is what the president told me and now he's changed his mind. you have to ask him. obviously changed his mind. everything he told me he is the case any longer, and you can look at his statement, but it is not what he told me. >> sandra: coming up at 3:00 without the promo for you. the irs whistle-blowers will be joining you and that'll be fascinating to hear their reaction and response to this. >> they put their neck out on the line and now, once again, hunter biden is off the hook. >> sandra: i'll be watching. thank you so much. mike? you and sandra, how a foreign government is getting a huge payday from a massive deal t is a new york city hotel to house migrants. all of that at the expense of american taxpayers. paul perez will join us next. >> sandra: looking forward to having it on. plus closing arguments in the daniel penny trial about to get underway any moment now as it picks up after a lunch break. attorneys make our glass and

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>> sandra: breaking just moments ago, president-elect donald trump taking to treat social calling for the reese of all hostages held captive in gaza. he writes in part, "please come if the hostages are not released prior to generate 20th, 2025, the date that i proudly assume office as president of the united states, they will be all hell to pay in the middle east

for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity." his stern warning coming just hours after the idf confirmed the hostage death of an israeli american. israel says omar, who is thought to have been taken hostage by hamas and held in the gaza strip, but was in fact killed on october 7th -- they said hamas was holding his body. that is an update from the president-elect, vowing to hold firm if that does not happen, mike. this hostages released. >> mike: i'm thinking back to the carter administration, when iran was holding american hostages and literally on ronald reagan's inauguration day they were released to american custody. let's hope for the sake of these hostages something like that happens or hopefully even sooner. >> sandra: absolutely, mike. >> mike: closing arguments under day today in the case against marine veteran daniel penny, charged with manslaughter for the choke hold death of jordan neely on the new york city subway. penny says he was just trying to

defend people after neely began acting erratically. let's begin mercedes colwin and mark eiglarsh, both criminal defense attorneys. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> great to see you today. >> mike: i'd like to start with some of the body cam video of witnesses at the scene to get our audience of seal, and i'll let you guys react. >> i heard the young man on the floor saying, i'm willing to die, i'll do anything. i'm willing to die. i go to jail. i don't care. he was saying it so loud that everyone turned around. >> he scared the living daylights out of everyone. >> mike: closing arguments underway in this marine veteran's case. what is your assessment of the trial so far, mercedes? >> well, mike, they really did a good job. the defense really focused on and made sure the juries put themselves back in that train

car. it is so vastly different than what their experiences are day-to-day in that courtroom. they have to be back in the train car. feel the fear, feel the terror, listen to the individuals in that car that were paralyzed with fear. some of them said they'd never been so afraid in their lives. there was a mother trying to protect a toddler strapped in the sea. it was an unbelievable day and that is certainly what the defense needed to do, really focus their attention on what took place there. they did exactly that. the one issue, i must say -- and i'd love to hear what mark has to say about this -- the one critical issue is that jerry probably wanted to hear from daniel penny. i know it is a huge risk as a defense attorney. it's a question you start asking the moment you are retained as a defense attorney. is this person going to take the stand and should they take the stand? granted, they had lots of video of daniel penny talking to law enforcement authorities, but at the end of the day hopefully

it isn't a big question mark in the jurors' mind. why didn't he take the stand? we heard from everyone else. want to know what his thoughts were at the time he was restraining jordan neely. as a big risk. we will have to see what happens at the end. >> mike: our colleague, judge jeanine pirro, who's been in the courtroom, has talked about the power of the body cam video. let's play her clip. >> we are frozen in time here. everyone is describing the fear and the fact that they were on the brink of collapse. they thought they were going to pass out. and they were white and hispanic and black. to make this about race is totally irrelevant, because everyone on that train was afraid. >> mike: presumably all those jurors have been on a new york city at some point, perhaps fearful at times. your thoughts on that and where we are in this case? >> first, i think this is completely political. if you take politics out of it, you have a guy who is a hero.

they recently feared imminent great bodily harm or even death. he not only had illegal right but an obligation to subdue this violent alleged victim. as to mercedes' point, he already spoke without the benefit of having an attorney. he went in and he wei waved his cherished miranda rights and he laid out why he did what he did. at best, the best the prosecution has expressed negligence. and i say perhaps because he is responsible ultimately because he had a minute choke hold. however, we bring criminal charges against people who commit to criminal negligence, where they get to the point where it is a reckless disregard of human life or property. that is not what we have here. i believe that he already told these cops what he did, what he did it. he doesn't need to take the witness stand. i believe are going to acquit him. they should.

>> mike: mercedes, i.e. supervisor at the stage when you consider a lot of crimes go and prosecuted in these blue cities right now? are you surprised? >> this case has divided the city. we are all new yorkers except for mark is in paradise over in florida. this has divided the city. there are those that believe daniel penny is a murderer and then there are others that are so passionate about the fact that really daniel penny risked his own life in taking on the circumstances on the train and that day, including some of these passengers, individuals that testified for the defense or were adamant that danny penny had to step in and do something because everyone was terrified. so there's definitely a groundswell of support for daniel penny. there are a small number of individuals, i'm sure as was reported earlier, that there were these protesters outside of the courtroom chanting "guilty,

guilty, guilty," because they believe that daniel penny should be convicted. ultimately that jerry -- hopefully they didn't hear the sounds. >> this case belongs in civil court, where you are suing somebody and trying to tip the scale to 51%. he is responsible. when you put someone in a choke hold, you are responsible for the outcome. but what really offends me is that there is this constant pressure by prosecutors to bring criminal charges when they shouldn't, and this is that case. >> mike: thanks so much for your time today. fascinating discussion. >> thank you. >> good to be on. >> mike: thanks all of you. parts of north carolina still recovering from hurricane helene this holiday season. we are about to speak to one of the volunteers lifting spirits with a christmas party, plus this. >> have been notified you want to sit down and meet with me. i'm willing to meet with him. i'm willing to meet with anybody

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>> mike: going concern surrounding the cost of america's migrant crisis and where exactly that money is going. new york city is facing new scrutiny over its deal to house migrants at the roosevelt hotel, which sent more than $200 million to a company with ties to pakistan. national border patrol counsel president paul perez is here to discuss, the first, fox business' lydia hu is live with more details. where is that many going? >> we are talking about, this hotel is owned by pakistan international airlines. that is a state-controlled

entity. last year new york city entered a 3-year deal for $220 million to use the roosevelt hotel and it's more than 1,000 hotel rooms as a migrant shelter. now that deal is raising concerns about whether u.s. taxpayer money is going to foreign countries over the weekend. vivek ramaswamy posted this on x. "a taxpayer-funded hotel for illegal migrants is owned by the pakistani government, which means new york city taxpayers are effectively paying a foreign government to house illegals in our own country. this is nuts." vivek ramaswamy as you know will lead the department of government efficiency, or d.o.g.e., along with elon musk. they may very well focus on spending on the migrant crisis. as of 2023, illegal immigration cost taxpayers at least $182 billion a year in state and federal taxes. most of these taxes are borne by

state gostate local governments. mayor eric adams estimates the city will spend more than $10 billion to this coming summer on the border crisis alone. mike, underscoring questions about the spending, a city audit earlier this year found that new york city spent almost $1.7 million on vacant hotel rooms, rooms that were never filled, for migrants over to sit to have been period this year. back to you. >> mike: important reporting, lydia hu. thank you so much. sandra? >> sandra: let's bring in paul perez. thank you very much for joining us. what does the american public think of that? >> they should be outraged. that's absurd. the amount of money they have spent on people that shouldn't be here in the first place, when we have got all kinds of things going on here in the country with veterans that are homeless, there's a lot more and better things they could be spending that money and resources on. instead they are using it for

illegal aliens that have invaded our country and have no business here. >> sandra: you cannot underestimate how significant this report is by "the new york post," that shows an alarming 59,000 migrants with felony records or facing criminal charges. that is the number of people that are just freely roaming around the city, with 670,000 total across the country. put that in perspective for us. how much risk are americans in considering those numbers? >> there at great risk. the thing about it is those are just the ones we know about. there are many gotaways that we don't know who those people are and we don't know whether criminal records are. even the people we have released, they are unvented because countries like venezuela are not sharing their

information with us. so it's very scary. when you have the lady in aurora saying it's only one or two complexes that have been taken over, those are only the ones we know about, because a lot of these people are afraid to report crimes because these criminals have a stronghold. so it is a very insecure -- we need to come in there, clean these cities up, because of what biden and kamala harris have allowed. it's worse than what people think. >> sandra: this was "the new york post" headline, the front page of the weekend. "gang's all here. got them home to kamil migrants. among those numbers, more than a thousand suspected gang members." consider that and consider a city that is already in such jeopardy dealing with all these migrants that it has taken on, and now knowing the statistics. this is tom homan this morning.

the problems that were created were sanctuary cities don't cooperate with i.c.e. let's watch. >> we're not asking you to be immigration officers, we are asking you to assist us in the jails. we can't arrest a bad guy in the jail, and the safety and security of a jail. that means they release them back in the community. they are screaming and yelling, they don't want i.c.e. officers and their neighborhoods. guess what? if you don't want us in the jail you are forcing us into the neighborhood. more officers in the jail means less in the neighborhood. it is simple math. >> sandra: as somebody already spending a lot of time with this and coming team for president-elect trump, what is the plan? how do you ask these blue cities to step in and help? in that case, with the jails. how do you round up these criminals and gang members? >> tom has made it very clear, the president's agenda is to secure america. he wants to take care of all of americans, provide secure cities, bring back law and order. all they have to do is give us

access to the jails so they can go in there and remove these criminals. they are playing politics. they are putting politics over security. the way it's going to work, we know there are many people walked in jails and prisons that have no legal status. so all we need them to do is turn them over to us. when they completed their sentences. or let us go in there and get them before they completed their sentence because they're going to be released on bond, and we can remove them. it's that simple. there's not a lot they have to do. but like tom homan said, if you don't want to do it, get out of the way and let us do it. they cannot put their citizens at risk over politics. that's all it is, just politics. to protect american citizens. >> sandra: you've seen a lot and you've been raising the flags for a long time. thank you for joining us. >> i appreciate it.

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>> sandra: california was dying to resist president-elect trump before his term even began. governor gavin newsom called a special session to trump-proof the golden state table in the special session kicks off there's no indication the legislature will take any meaningful action. we have fox team coverage for you. leo terrell will join us momentarily but let's get to william la jeunesse in l.a. with more on this for us. what should we expect from today's special session, then? >> probably not very much right now. it doesn't mean that, when the session starts, that they're not going to take legal or policy action. you are right, newsome called the special session to immunize california. it was just two days after trump's victory that he vowed to leave dominic lead the progressive left on immigration, environment, evs, transgender r. he declared a policy of legal wwar on trump. >> is not a theoretical exercise.

we know what happened last time donald trump was president. he vandalized our progress, he vandalized our programs, he broke the law. see go now, however, he's backing off a little bit, telling the "l.a. times" yesterday it's not about resistance but reflecting is on a vision nationally as others see voters on taxes and immigration. >> this differently been a shift. the biggest shift probably amongst latinos in california. they are clearly starting to vote more republican. >> harris will knock a popular vote but trump won more counties. last go-round, california filed 140 lawsuits and spent $40 million fighting trump. today sacramento democrats proposed spending $25 million more to protect california values. >> trump has had his say. now it's our turn to respond with decisive action and the full force of law on our side.

>> so the bottom line right now, we may see two gavin newsoms at the moment, but one in ten in l.a. county are here illegally, and you're not going to see these blue cities really backed down. you'll probably see major resistance from them. they pledged $5 million, sandra, to make sure people don't get deported. >> sandra: thank you. mike? >> mike: let's bring in leo travail, fox news contributor and civil rights attorney. leo, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> let me get a reaction to the report about gavin newsom's efforts post-election and what california democrats are trying to do to trump-proof california. >> first of all, gavin newsom's projection to trump-proof california is going to fail. i need to give him a book on the constitution. for example, illegal immigration is a federal responsibility and there is nothing california can do. i would add one other factor.

if i was tom homan, i would go into court. if you're going to harbor criminals who should be deported, you should get an injunction release from the city and those officials. the other issue is crime, mike. prop 36, the anti-crime initiative, 60% of california passed for it. george gascon, the district attorney, he lost by 20 points. the point is very simple. citizens of california want law and order, and gavin newsom, george gascon, and the democratic leadership are in denial. >> mike: "the washington post" editorial board had an interesting take on george gascon's failure in los angeles, writing, "how l.a.'s godfather of progressive prosecution failed. why he failed to secure buy-in from career prosecutors. researching sentencing enhancements made it harder to keep the worst offenders off the streets. mr. gascon directed that juveniles cannot be charged as adults no matter how egregious their crimes. not

he overrode his mandate." what is your reaction to that? >> i would say those five reasons are valid, but more importantly, george gascon took his marching orders from george soros. he did not listen to the citizens of los angeles county. we do not want to live or coexist with criminals. george gascon did not want to put anyone in jail, and those five reasons, sentencing enhancements, not taking gang members off the streets, not seeking the death penalty or life without the possibility of parole, it does not make sense. every civilized society believes in line order except george gascon and the progressive d.a. in california. that's why they lost. >> the incoming ta nathan hochman is talking about taking a hard middle approach, saying the hard middle strikes the proper balance of accountability since it enables prosecutors to make decisions on a case-by-case basis, driven first and foremost

by increasing public safety, pursuing justice for victims, and providing fairness and accountability to offenders. again, he blew that george gascon. is he taking the right approach? >> i'm going to be honest, i know who he is, we are friends. he needs to make it very hard approach. you know i? he's not going to get any cooperation from karen bass, the mayor, a socialist. the l.a. county board of supervisors. we have a police chief in the city of l.a. who said he's not going to cooperate with tom homan. nathan hochman needs to take a hard-line approach because he is surrounded by socialists. >> mike: when you look at the beautiful skyline behind you in sunny los angeles, are people set up with all the migrate crisis and the crime run amok in the great city of los angeles? >> yes. we are sick of it. i haven't told people in the last year, don't come to california. it's not safe, it's not

dangerous. we have lost a great quality of life in this great state. it's a beautiful state, but we have democrats who want to destroy, want to socialize. notwithstanding the trump numbers that increase significantly in california. the democrats are in denial. and not listening to the constituents of california, and as long as they don't listen, we're going to sit still and suffered. gavin newsom is the perfect example example. he is in denial. people want trump policies in california. democrats need to wake up. >> mike: with the prosecutor in los angeles getting blown out, do you think there's any chance karen bass takes a q and moderates a bit >> no. do not going to lie to the fox viewers. karen bass is a socialist. the city of l.a. is the most progressive city in the state next to san francisco. if you ask me if karen bass will get reelected, probably, because the democratic machinery and los angeles city and county is very strong. those counties, if trump

won -- trump support now needs to permit the cities of l.a., san francisco, and san diego. then we can talk. right now bass is still a very powerful mayor. >> mike: leo terrell, always fascinating. thanks for your time. >> thanks for having me. >> mike: sandra? >> sandra: residency north carolina communities still reeling from hurricane helene, but two volunteers of a nonprofit are bringing holiday cheer to the residents of avery county. they will join us speak for. ♪ ♪ ♪ some people just know they can save hundreds on car insurance by checking allstate first. like you know to check your spelling first before taking off your shirts. west virginia! [stadium noise]

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>> sandra: the devastation from hurricane helene and packet may parts of north carolina as sale now, but it was particularly brutal for avery county, one of the last places to get power back and receive aid. the community isn't letting that stop them from having some holiday cheer. our next guests are two volunteers who gave a magical christmas party at their local community center, and we welcome now tina and vanessa, volunteers of "wine to water." i know you've been sending out their bit. thank you for joining us. we are watching and applauding heroes like yourselves for what you're doing to help your community. perhaps you first. what's it been like for everyone there?

>> we really believed to love our neighbors as ourselves, and when we see the town of boone is doing really well, we wanted to reach out in tennessee because they have been devastated worse than we have been. so we wanted to just be with that community and walk with them to this disaster. >> sandra: vanessa, i know this is so important to you. you both organized this beautiful christmas party. we have been showing video of t up on the screen. think leave those kids can enjoy some holiday cheer and open presents. we know how important that is this time of year. what was their reaction? >> oh, they were so excited. each child got a bag personalized for them with their name, and they have been prayed over, so we were just blessed to give them something to lighten their load, to lighten their days, and they have been through a lot. we were excited to be part of

"wine to water," bringing cheer to the family. it's been a blessing to us. >> mike: tina, i'm curious -- s are heading into the christmas season, what kind of satisfaction have you received from helping these folks during this difficult time and they've had their lives tury hurricane helene? >> i can honestly say that my christmas was already made, from being with those families and children, and the hugs. this one little girl ran at me and knocked me over because she is so tough, because these kids' lives way back in the mountains. they aren't privileged with the things we are in the city. we might teach them how to clog. we clogged to end the night with a bang. we did a big hello down and square dance with the children. we had a blast and we are going back. you are not going to forget about them. the family said, don't forget

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