>> and dan? part of the hitch of the rockefeller christmas tree which has been standing tall giving joy to all who travel from afar to come to see it for 80 years. the first three when up in 1931. i was during the depression when workers at rockefeller center collected funds to rank their own tree is a 20-foot high tree which they decorated with homemade ornaments. christmas is a type of traditions and rockefeller christmas tree is one of the best of them. >> our offices are hereby invoice, everyone comes from around the world remember if you have your own hit or miss be sure to send it to us to er on fnc but that's it for this week show thank you to mike emanuel and all of you for watching. merry christmas. hope to see ri see you right het week. arthel: holiday trouble rushes out for aaa predicting nearly

120 million people will hit the roads in the skies between today and new year's day. but not so fast but winter weather could put a lot of travel plans on ice hour of "fox news live" i am arthel neville hi eric. eric: man oh man today -- mckay mayor sean today the sturdiest sort of the busiest travel season of the whole. so far they say the skies are looking mostly clear, flight alerts got the data mostly flight delays are coming out of new york john f. kennedy airport right now after the clipped by a winter storm of snow overnight. meantime last met holiday shopping, if you could encounter problems if you order on amazon for thousands of employees from international brotherhood of teamsters have staged a nationwide strike. >> we have fox team coverage for you. medicines carpino's tracking holiday travel from one of the nation's busiest airports.

start with foxbusiness correspondent max gordon. the how's it looking? striking amazon delivery workers. there is not the line of vans we saw earlier we have got less folks out here on the picket line. the emphasis was on earlier in the morning when the vans were going on out. workers here that we talk to say they want higher pay as well as better working conditions. >> over the last six years has substantially increased and amazon algorithm has gone nuts. it has gone mad you used to be able to get ahead of your route, come to take the reins of your route and control your businesses, your apartment from your house is about the

algorithm sees to try to do it pushes more on you when you have already done a full day's work. >> thousands of drivers for firms a contract with the job across the country thursday morning. the strike is growing with additional warehouse on staten island joining today but organized by the teamsters union workers say they are demanding a fair contract guarantees wages, health care and safety. it was on says their operations are largely unaffected amid the last minute rush to deliver holiday packages for the save the teamsters are intimidating and bullying workers into joining since the worker striking or not amazon employees, just contractors the company has got no reason to bargain with them. >> our focus is on keeping our employees and her partner safe. making sure they get in and out of our facilities to do the job but most of them want to come to work for them what to do a good job and go home safely without being harassed, without being intimidated by the teamsters or anybody else for that matter for that is where we are really putting our attention.

>> yesterday teamsters president sean o'brien joint workers on the picket line in the city of industry. he says the strike will continue until amazon comes to the bargaining table. he was not specific on what sort of concessions amazon needs to bring order for the strike to end. perchlorate, max gordon thank you, max. eric: looks like a riff and wait for airports coast-to-coast the holiday rush is kicking into high gear. tsa says it expects to screen 40 million travelers this season heard winter storms threaten to offend some of those itineraries. madison scarpino live at hartsville jackson international airport one of the biggest in the country this if you want to go to heaven if you've got to change at atl. [laughter] hate madison. [laughter] >> hi eric the atlanta airport alone expects to welcome more than 4 million people for the holidays. lots of people coming through here this week. it's been pretty smooth so far

there are a good chunk of delays and cancellations nationwide on top of the big influx of people. but, it's the holidays everyone to think positive, listen. >> you have to try to stay patient with family, you don't see them often you want to be thankful for the ones you have sometimes getting there trying to save patients actually appreciative f of the time ahead with them. >> holiday travel will likely break records aaa expects nearly 120 million people to travel 50 miles or more. that's up by more than 3 million holiday travelers compared to last year. most people traveling will drive it. but there could be difficulties because of weather part of the midwest and northeast are facing intense snow. definitely pay attention to the road conditions. with all of this, experts say be prepared. >> not everybody leaves at the same time at the end of the year. that is what makes the year end

travel. a little trickier. it's good to prepare for the worst case scenario. plan ahead for a cancellation. think in advance. while today is very busy at u.s. airports, tomorrow is expected to be much worse but one tsa agent even caved up to us suggested people get to the airport for hours before their flight tomorrow. eric: alright medicine, thanks so much for will have a lot more in the winter storm ahead that's blanketed parts of the northeast in just a few moments pretty got a lot of snow out there and take a look, look at that site it's in the western part of new york state. it is part of the seneca nation of new york. they may get another three -- 6 inches of snow. just today we will have a lot more on the snow when "fox weather" coming up later this hour. arthel. >> it's a day good morning in germany.

including a 9-year-old child they say appears to be a deliberate attack. stephanie event bennett is livn london tracking the very latest developments, stephanie? >> yes authorities had a press conference earlier today. they said out of 200 people who are injured, around 41 of them serious condition. they are fearing the death toll could rise. currently 15 hospitals across germany are helping some of these victims. this happened five days before christmas. during that friday night with family and friends around 7:00 p.m. local five witnesses say a rented black bmws bed three through the crowd. within three minutes police arrested a 50-year-old saudi arabia doctor at gunpoint. police say he moved to germany

in 2006 was st 2006 with staffid the motive remains unclear. they did say the suspect was dissatisfied by the treatment of saudi refugees in germany that may have been a factor. in 2018, 12 people were killed after truck slander christmas market in berlin. earlier this month the police if they pooled a potential terror attack on a christmas market in bavaria. the magdeburg market up their security a few weeks ago. experts say you must always remain vigilant. >> unfortunately, we get a will old into a false sense of security bad things don't happen on a regular basis. if you have to always be ready. especially when you're going to places like this. >> totoday at one or insulate flowers and candles outside of a local church. as a sunset hundreds gathered for a memorial service. world leaders and the pope to president joe biden have extended their condolences. president biden sang in the same quote the united states stands ready to offer all available

resources and assistance if needed. the u.s. wealth and with our allies against violent terror. for now the market will not reopen and flags will be flying at half staff. many christmas markets around the world have also stepped up security as a precaution. arthel: that's too bad h of into the christmas market and berlin beautiful, so beautiful. of course now these attacks are spoiling everything so horrible. stephanie bennett live in london thank you. >> terrific. tren de aragua were arrested in new york city this is the police in aurora, colorado remaking the same gang to a violent kidnapping. cb cotton has the very latest here in new york city. >> news of this bus is another blow to the ranks of tren de aragua have set up in the city according to previous warnings from police. law enforcement source tells me

december 5, 22 suspected tren de aragua gang members were taken into custody between two locations here in the city. one of them, this apartment next to the daycare in the bronx. the alleged gang members were traced to the apartment after federal agents tracked the ankle monitor to the hideout for the outlet says he and others vested in the rate had corrected multiple arrests in separate states after illegally crossing the border over in aurora, colors of the violent venezuelan gangs back in the headlines there to after police said venezuelan couple was abducted on monday night and assaulted for hours spices affected tpa gang members. the work police the husband and wife were targeted after the wife took the video last month of two women fighting at the apartment complex. was posted online the aurora police chief said yesterday during the abduction the suspects took the wife's phone

and destroyed the recording. chief also praised bravely calling and coming borders are tom home and telling fox he believes the trump administration will be successful in getting repatriation agreements with other countries. yet mexico to remain in mexico. we've got el salvador to take the members back you've got the three sets of american countries who have agreed for safe and her commitment he puts america first is going to do it again starting june or 20th. >> aurora police pursuing charges against 11 suspected gang members. eight of which the police chief said the suspects have targeted other venezuelans at the aurora apartment complex knowing victims would not come forward to police out of fear of being deported. yet meanwhile president-elect trump will take office in just 30 days. but it is day one of priorities

is to begin mass deportations as part of his immigration policy. now, his border is art tom homan said chicago will be ground zero for that plan. the windy city migrant crisis began in august of 2022 when 60 people work buster from texas o chicago. since then over 51000 have been brought to chicago from border states the city has spent nearly $613 million caring for them. here's homan's down with the mayor of chicago said he's going to do anything he can to prevent me from being successful. i will meet with anybody because this is about public safety and national security let's meet support let's work together you don't have to be immigration officers. we will do that be cops, beat law enforcement be elected representatives for your community. love your community a little more than you hate trump.

so esteven let's bring in raymod lopez. so first of all six of $13 million spent on what? the amount of money spent on 52000 migrant asylum-seekers is just amazing and ridiculous all the same time. that is chicago taxpayer funds that could have helped our communities. could help the west side comments outside many of the distant vested communities. but we have seen plain ngos and other organizations and businesses profiting by the millions on that banks of this crisis is discussing i'm glad it's finally coming to an end and the city of chicago. arthel: would just certain coming borders are tom homan letter from chicago mayor brandon johnson. >> there is a rhetoric and presentation and then there's doing the work. what we need to do in this moment is have real comprehensive immigration reform policy.

the tensions should be eliminated. there's a difference i want to be very clear though that we are talking about asylum-seekers. >> does there appear to be a miscommunication between homan and mayor johnson? isn't comprehensive immigration reform in the meantime get rid of the bad guys and protect illegal immigrants? >> the ultimate goal quite honestly is to find a solution for that long term un- document who have been failed ever since the obama years being promised daca to dreamers pathway. we also see is johnson and lightfoot have supported changes to her welcoming city ordinance that gave refuge. gives sanctuary to those who choose criminal, whether you ae undocumented or for contempt brief status because of your asylum claim you should not be given sanctuary if you choose to engage in human trafficking,

drug dealing, gun or sex crimes against minors that should be fairly easy for us to get too. i think tom homan is right but he and i had a meeting where we shared the same ideology. you should not put public safety ahead of your partisan politics and national security, securing your communities should be a nonpartisan issue for this to be very easy when and unfortunately mayor brandon johnson is choosing very different path to be perfectly honest the path he is choosing is more dangerous to the undocumented here in the city of chicago because donald trump they know exactly who the criminals are there going to go looking for them whether we hand them over or not. who is going to get caught up in the middle or all of the long-term undocumented folks have been waiting for path forward to legitimize the presence or in the united states. arthel: president-elect trump campaign as we well know on mass deportation. do you have a clear idea what that will look like? how that will be executed?

>> i believe what tom homan was to focus his resources on right now is getting rid of those individuals who are in our country who are committing dangerous criminal acts in our communities. that is priority number one. we have the opportunity at the local level to say when we catch someone endangering and dangerous criminal activity we know is an undocumented individual or enough temporary protected status or in the united states we should be able to turn those individuals over the federal authorities let them adjudicate an expedited manner so they can be returned to wherever they are from. because clearly they do not want to add to the positive fabric of our society that's exactly what thomas to focus on. in the meantime i think donald trump is looking to say he's given dreamers a path forward which is something both biden and obama were not able to accomplish. i think is going to be able to accomplish two things in a way the mix everyone happy. >> are not able to accomplish it because i think that pushback from the other side.

but if president-elect trump is now on board with that perhaps this may be the green light for the docket. for doctor recipients. so let me read this to you a couple of stats fiscal year 2024, of the 271,000 illegal immigrants deported, 32.7 of them had criminal histories. homan also said we know a lot about them because of investigative case files. so it's not a sweep. it's not an uncontrolled operation it's a very targeted operation. so do you have faith this mass deportation will be controlled and not chaotic? quick so i believe that we work together to focus on the criminal elements within our communities that choose to act a certain way once they are in this country, we can control how we manage the situation with the president and with tom homan. that is what we want to do but that's what we should all be working for how do we work together to ensure we are going after those specific people?

but if you have politicians like brendan johnson to throw their hands up and sam not going to talk to you, they're going to try to figure themselves out anew from the federal level it will be more chaotic it will cause more disruption and more fear in our communities if democrats are serious about protecting the undocumented if they are serious about helping bring our national security and address immigration enforcement, this is their moment to shine. sadly i think most are going to fail to meet the moment. arthel: the way i understood mayor johnson, it seems that he does want to have dialogue about this to get something rectified. but listen, you are there in chicago. remit lopez and good luck to you in that situation there that doesn't need to be fixed. thank you very much. eric: you are hired. present electron by announcing a new role for the producer by the hit tv show to put them at the head of the board table on television, he has appointed mark burnett special envoy to

the united kingdom. he was born in britain the creator of the apprentice, which as you know, the president-elect hosted for many years on nbc before he entered politics. the executive producer for hit shows like survivor and shark tank. it's also been very active in helping displaced christians returned to the middle east. in a statement the president-elect says unique blend international recognition and the supportive role. enhanced diplomatic relations focusing on areas, initial interest including trade, investment opportunities and cultural exchanges. republicans are going to have to wait until next year to raise the debt ceiling despite the last-minute push from present electron. he wants to eliminate the debt ceiling altogether. will conservatives you want to cut spending get on board with that? that story much more straight straightahead here on "fox news live."

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pass the legislation. madison rivera's life at the white house with all the details. after remaining largely silent about the spending fight something the white house that d was intentional. president biden released a bill. he said in part this agreement represents a compromise which means neither side got everything it wanted. it projects the accelerated pathway to a tax cut for billionaires saw it ensures the government can continue to operate at full capacity. the final proposal the third attempt by house speaker mike johnson to keep the government open is slimmer than a bipartisan agreement house speaker mike johnson is struck with democrats. it keeps funding at current levels debt limit increase something president-elect trump had demanded. the bill is winds are at the

very least accepting the reality of he government in the last congress and slightly modified by president biden. >> we did what was basic to get us across the finish line. the government until president trump comes in with the republican trifecta. and then we will go through line by line and see how we can reduce spending get our fiscal house in order. >> the spending fight expose the divisions among the house republican conference foreshadowing the challenges that might surface next year as republicans try to implement trump's agenda. house republicans have another small majority next year at munich they likely will rely on democrats once again to get legislation across the finish line. arthel. >> madeline rivera. internet medicine thank you.

the government funding bill is missing a big request by president-elect room. that is to raise the debt limit ceiling for the next four years. the cap set by congress on how much the federal government can borrow. right now the national debt stands take a look at that. the clock never seems to go back it's over $36 trillion. so it moving a one way, always up texas republican congressman pat fallon on why the gop did not tackle this issue, this time around. ask if we are going to really tackle the debt and deficits we have to have people in the room serious about it. my goal next year in the next several years is to reduce the debt to gdp ratio i want to give president trump the runway to come in and not have to immediately worry about funding the government. >> the president ceo of global is. first of the debt ceiling into

the average joe and jane? what is it mean to us? >> he saw that number. we can sit here and go 36 billion by the time we are done with this interview it will probably close to 37 billion. the real issue for most americans is, it's costing us over $1 billion a year just in interest payments. if you think about what that money could be used for, other services providing lunch and breakfast for kids, defend and border protection. that is a one to really excuse me $1 trillion a year in interest payments we could find better use for. eric: the mode assumed not having a debt limit are getting used to it why does the president-elect want to get rid of it? >> first, on come on the debt lt is a political football. it's helped each party gets what they want in negotiation.

they do not agree to medically shut down. from now to deal with the issue fof race got his own agenda including the tax cuts that he instilled are going to expire at the end of 2025. he does not want to deal they debt ceiling limit he wants to protect the board he was going to have spent a lot of money to do that. if he's got the debt limit, no thumping his head against the ceiling he may not get everything you want to negotiation.left has more maneu? looks absolutely if he did not feel the debt ceiling, theoretically the republicans will be able to pass, extend out the tax cuts. it would have basically free hand to spend money in any direction they deemed appropriate. this debt ceiling will force them to negotiate and only with democrats but there's a lot of republicans who got reelected or elected for the first time based on this argument.

we are going to have to put controls on spending. if they have no limit, known to answer to it you can argue they could really go mad. they could go crazy on spending. eric: he talked about the democrats. it's amazing senator elizabeth warren and president-elect seem to agree on this issue republican congressman on that. >> the debt limit, while i understand its purpose the reality is we are one of the only countries in the world that actually has it. it's been used as a political piñata for decades now. i think the president was trying to avoid democrats being able to use that as a weapon. interestingly enough elizabeth warren agrees with him. she believes the debt ceiling should be eliminated altogether. eric: dominic what does this mean in terms of the debt? the incredible amount of debt we are piling up. the conservative argument with

got to cut spending some what we got to trim things. he got elon musk working on t that, where do we go from here? >> it has to start somewhere just like our credit cards appeared at the end of the day up to look at how much income is coming in and how much we get to spend. this year alone we are spending $2 trillion to grow the income side tax revenue, not faster than we are growing the spending side eventually this will turn. today we are 123% above the gross domestic product. if you count everything this country produces, we are 123% in debt above that number. bennett's extraordinary prints unsustainable. something has got to give. some fiscal responsibility has to come into this discussion. it has to come eric. eric: fiscal responsibilities as dominic appeared to have as of

the turn of the new year. always good to see if your advice. arthel: we are tracking a winter storm in the northeast that could disrupt travel this holiday weekend. will have details on that for you. plus the pentagon is sounding the alarm about china's rapidly expanding nuclear arsenal. gordon chang weighs in. he is coming up next.

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>> snowfall of this friday going into saturday morning may have ruined her travel plans for some of you. it dropped the first immeasurable amount of snow we are here in a park remaining on grassy surfaces is melting and a lot of places. take a look early saturday morning. new york city 1.8 inches of snow until the first measurable snow of the season for the city, it's the first measurable snow for the city and december since christmas eve of 2021. other areas of new york and new jersey have snow recorded just under 5 inches. >> i'm happy it's here we need it. i feel it we do not have enough snow in the city the last couple of years this is good for us especially in the holiday season. >> i thought not of it is going to stick from yesterday. and now it's everywhere. it is gorgeous, gorgeous, i love

it. six more inches. >> this caused a lot of havoc. on friday i drove joined those traveling via airplane like many of those where they also got snow my flight was canceled. saturday travel is still tricky. we are seeing a lot of flights delayed and canceled. new york and boston airports still seeing a lot of issues. but today, mostly because of volume. we are seeing some airports still having to deice their blades. the snow event is over for this region. what is next his cold canadian air coming in. sunday is slated to be the coldest day of the season yet. reporting now and brooklyn, i am brittany campbell. back to you. arthel: okay br brenda campbell, thank you. eric: new pentagon report says china a is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal apparently tripling it under the by administration. assistant secretary of defense for indo-pacific security

affairs, sounding the alarm over why china doing this. >> expansion of china's nuclear program raises the question of what release their weapons for? they had not answer that question. >> where are they doing this? beijing's move with also deepening ties to russia. gordon chang is here. it some institute author of the book china is going to war. you think china is preparing to go to war potentially over taiwan we've seen all the preparation's forte. xi jinping cannot stop talking about going to war. he is also engaged in the fast ascent largest military buildup since the end of the second world war. he is stockpiling grain and other commodities. he is trying to sanction improve provehis regime. his firing military officers who were opposed to going to war.

he's mobilizing civilians and he is serving that u.s. nuclear weapon strikes. we have seen all these chinese incursions and attempted incursions into our military bases. for the chinese national twice try to sneak onto the base whether they actually do it cap to kill american so we prepared for this president of the united states the constitutional duty to protect americans and foreign attacks. his number one constitutional duty does not talk to the american people about this. and we have american people who think they are at peace. but yes, we are at peace right now. but we could be on the edge of conflict. eric: how will present like

electronic differ on the current policy? >> i don't know. we are going to find out. we'll see more money for the military. hosting emphasis on war fighting capacity as opposed to other things at the pentagon has been pushing. but we will see how he looks at this. and his first budget is going to tell us quite a lot about it. eric: if you were to advise a president trump what would you say to him as what type of policies the u.s. should follow in order to blunt beijing? >> first thing is he caesar talo the american people. how dangerous the situation is. that's not really his style. the other thing is to do is to say to china we will defend taiwan. and if we do that china will not attack. he is not what the casualties were even thanks he can take the place but again that's not a president trump style.

when asked the question during the campaign he said i'm not going to try with i am going to shoot regard to taiwan. these are questions that remain to be answered. he will speed up arms sales to taiwan. whether that is sufficient i am not sure. >> finally what do you predict? how do we go down this road and at what point does it become untenable and at what point is there a potential clash if there ever is one? >> the problem is the world is falling apart got all these wars around the world china is involved in three proxy wars right now. ukraine, north africa and the middle east. it is threatening to go to war. one thing we know xi jinping made out of made the decision to go to war yet but he's made the decision to risk for he has made the decision to risk war with u.s. treaty alley which is already made the decision he is prepared to attack the united states. we have got to get that message

across to the american public especially to the pentagon who thanks it is at peace time. there's no sense of urgency that's really necessary to meet the chinese challenge right now. >> gordon chang with the chilling morning prepared to attack the united states and kill americans. a major obstacle and challenge for the incoming trump administration. >> thanks eric. >> thank you. meanwhile the biden administration is withdrawing a controversial proposed rule change regarding transgender student athletes. we'll have details for you on that coming up next. (inner monologue) another destination wedding?? why can't they use my backyard!! with empower, we get all of our financial questions answered. so we don't have to worry. empower. what's next. for more than a decade farxiga has been trusted again and again, and again.

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fourth. proceed home and live with the very latest from los angeles. what is this a change in the title ix mean? >> it means it by the administration has decided to throw pending regulation that would have prohibited policies banning transgender athletes from participating in sports teams that match their gender identity of the schools would've still been allowed to enforce some of the restrictions. but, after receiving more than 150,000 public comments, both in support and against the policy over just a 30 day time spent on the matter the department of education said quote, it recognizes there are multiple pending lawsuits related to the application of title ix in the context of gender identity. they go on to say and light of the comments received in the various pending court cases, the department has determined not to regulate on this issue at this time. so now the incoming trump administration chooses to address a controversial issue, they will have to start from

scratch on creating a whole new policy since he biden administration is abandoning the proposed regulation. in response to that a spokesperson for trump accuses the biden administration to make trump government to say quote president trump will not be deterred and will use every level of power to reduce the damage biden is done to implement his american first agenda. also, seventh san jose state volleyball players have opted to transfer from their season that was riddled with controversy over there transgender teammate. >> i think those woman were put through a lot this season proactively support their decision. being a collegiate athlete is ectopic there are so many moving parts for the added pressure was unfathomable. it will be interesting to see how their season goes about next year. i just pray they find a home or wherever the next university is. corquicksand is a fake provided

statement on fox dish on the matter student athletes have the ability to make decisions about their college athletic careers we have the utmost respect for that. again those players that have a lot going on this season a lot of turmoil a lot of national scrutiny, enhanced enhance secud eight four-footed matches. eric: it christina thanks so much, arthel? arthel: present electronic is looking to put his stamp on the u.s. postal service. reportedly considering whether to privatize the agency. foxbusiness correspondent jeff flock explained. >> controversy of the postal service over everything from having to replace those archaic mail delivery trucks you see back there behind me, to the amount of losses. now comes word the incoming trump administration may be again going to try to privatize the postal service appeared reports from the "washington post" says once future president trump has been consulting with this incoming release

perspective incoming commerce secretary about how to privatize the postal service. trump apparently saying the government should no longer subsidize it. the postal service losing almost 10 billion dollars last year. 100 billion since 2007. part of the problem huge infrastructure, declining amount of first-class mail. part 44 billion pieces were sent last year. that sounds like a lot but that's down almost 4% and the lowest since 1968. postmaster general under fire on capitol hill one republican lawmaker saying he is at fault for the postal service's problems. mr. joyce says he's not having it anymore. >> please sure if you cannot get a grade you cannot get yourself perfect. i just did request you cannot on your watch. >> before my wash the same stuff

happens. looks all the ai with all the computer systems your worst. >> are talking to yourself a. >> picked up the mail delivered to most on the road that is you. [laughter] i hope you got that on camera. >> also in camera and under the microscope postal service new next generation delivery veh vehicle. it's made by oshkosh defense ind wisconsin company. "washington post" says about 3000 of them were supposed to be delivered by now. only about 100 have actually been delivered. company pushing back telling foxbusiness we are on track with our contractual obligation and e ramp up to full reproduction in 2025. it will be at full production through 2025. everyone seems to agree the old vehicles or see back there behind me need to be replaced a lot of disagreement about how this should be replaced and when they will as well as whether this whole business goes

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arthel: this something like the joy being home for the holidays especially for families of american service members. yesterday army private surprised his two young daughters and their elementary school in clinton, utah. he had not seen his family and eight months but was able to get a two week leave from his post it fort eisenhower in georgia. he says he is planning to take advantage of every single minute with his family. >> glad to be back with my family, is overwhelming. i know i will not be able to spend a special occasion with my family use every second between me and my family and spend all of the time possible. arthel: i love it. we wish the private all the men and women serving in our armed forces happy holidays. eric: that we do over thank you private and all of those who

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