profoundly dishonest when it came to the president's cognitive abilities. overall, under donald trump, you will see a press that will be far more accessible because we saw the president-elect, donald trump, last week take questions for more than an hour at mar-a-lago. he didn't have to call on a hand picked reporters that are handed to him with a list that he has to stick by. overall, trump and his final year in office, 35 solo press conferences. joe biden's final year in office, carley, he has held zero solo press conferencessage. >> the theme of the trump many e administration. a secretary who had no business being a press secretary in karine jean-pierre. >> carley: at lot of changes to come come january. joe, thank you for joining us. merry christmas to you and your family. have a wonderful day. >> ho ho ho. >> carley: "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ joy to the world

♪ the lord is come ♪ joy to the world ♪ the lord is come ♪ joy to the rld ♪ the lord is come ♪ joy to the world the lord is come ♪ let earth ♪ receive her kinging receive her king ♪ let every heart prepare him room ♪ let every heart prepare him

room ♪ let every heart prepare him room ♪ and heaven and angels sing ♪ and heaven and nature sing ♪ and heaven and nature sing ♪ joy to the world ♪ the lord. >> brian: there you go. what a way to start the show. this is christmas eve and that is the james hall choir and safe to say, are guys, they can sing in the morning. right? a lot of the big bands and big groups, choirs can't sing in the mornings. you guys came to play you could do this every day i imagine if you wanted to. >> todd: do you want to, 6:00 a.m. every morning? they are down. >> brian: all right. thank you so much for being here. we will hear from you all throughout the show. all right. so it's great to see everybody. >> todd: likewise, brian. >> brian: here we are christmas

eve, kind of dressed in the scheme of things. >> todd: we didn't coordinate green, white, red. >> brian: a little thin in retrospect. i think i should have worn this two years ago. >> brian: ties get gradually fatter and thinner don't consult. >> nicole: that's why you have to keep them everything comes back. >> todd: brian wants consultation over tie size. make it happen. >> brian: right now small is better. glad you are hear. nothing slow me down because it's christmas eve. what are your family's christmas eve traditions email us at friends@foxnews.com. we will go over it in real time and use your name. i can in nic we will talk about some of our traditions too what we do. >> brian: i don't know that auto biographical. >> nicole: honest about it. >> todd: do you watch sports, play with the dogs? so many options.

>> brian: i like to interact with people. >> nicole: really? >> brian: i do like to interact with people. friends and family christmas eve is the big thing at my house and we are getting it all ready time to take everything that is downstairs and out of place and put it upstairs and pretend the house always looks like that. >> nicole: put it back downstairs again which is my least favorite part. >> brian: you don't do any of that todd, you use your man servant. >> todd: it's a servant not just any servant it's a man servant. remember that. >> brian: that's what you prefer. rand paul is at it again. he put out his festivus which is for the rest of us. >> todd: a lot of feats by the senator. a trillion dollars of waste includes such things as $20 million for a sesame street show in iraq. that is spent by u.s.a.,

$12 million. even though doocy might like this. pickleball complex in vegas spent by doi, department of the interior, i'm sure the rest of you do not want that. don't forget about $10.8 million on cat experiments pittsburgh under the department of defense. >> nicole: i actually -- i'm wondering where the democrats are at with this outrage. a.p. put out a poll after the election showing democrats were more likely to be cat owners and republicans were more likely to be dog owners. they should be up in arms right now. >> brian: cats live longer, dogs are more expensive. >> nicole: if you actually read some of this it wasn't life-saving things for cats. cat constipation. >> like, is that really? >> todd: you are the doctor, is cat constipation a major issue facing society? >> brian: do they complain? >> nicole: i take care of humans not necessarily the animals. some humans like my children could be considered animals

sometimes. >> brian: chris could you find out on? [cat scream] >> brian: that was a little bit more than scary. climate action in umbrella. stop cutting it down. >> nicole: $2.1 million on the paraguay border security meanwhile the southern border of the united states seemed to have been lacking funding this year. >> brian: all right. they found out that the drag show on the ice nea awarded $10,000. it will not make the budget. it will not destroy the budget. it will not fix the budget. it is a problem with the budget. part of doge going to attack. all of this is just headlines. if we really want to get serious about what we are putting into the deficit on a daily basis, that's not going to solve it. >> todd: that's the point. if it stuff is in there, imagine what else we don't know. and those are the things that have a few more zeros behind them to your point, brian that, we need to get rid of. that's what the american people

voted for. for all the people who say elon musk is now the president. no, no. donald trump is the president. evidence put elon musk in charge along with vivek ramaswamy of trimming the fat out of this budget. otherwise, our $36 trillion in debt is not sustainable. we cannot go on as a country like that. as the some point you need to pull off the band-aid. 2025 is that year. >> nicole: doge posted on x. unless addressed the u.s. government will add over $6.4 billion in debt every day for the next 10 years. borrowing over 268 million every hour. 4.5 million every minute and 74,401 every second. total debt stands at $36.2 trillion like you said, todd, and this year, interest payments exceeded $1 trillion. so, i get the rand paul, festivus, it's a play on words. it's funny but not funny, actually. it is really upsetting

especially how people have been living the last year. you see. so money. drag show on ice to support climate change? why is that getting taxpayer dollars? >> brian: yeah. we have to get ahold of the entire budget. what they just did there with what you just read is so important. you have to explain to people what you're doing. you got to get people involved and invested in getting our budget in order. you got to continue to explain it. and dare i say we could use some of the bells and whistles that everyone is used to seeing online and on social media. do this on a regular basis. i don't mind hearing from elon musk and vivek ramaswamy and his team and katie porter -- katy miller has just joined, stephen miller's wife on a regular basis. we are not looking to hurt anybody. looking to get our budget in line. what we are looking to do with the departments. >> we will have to move some of these personnel out of here. got to put them elsewhere or give them a package to leave and start getting some of that private sector mentality into civil service. >> nicole: will be quite a

departure what we have been used to the last four years. with the incoming trump administration they are already being more transparent in the last month than the biden administration was in the last four years. >> brian: one thing that todd is doing that i think is helpful is as an example, you are exposing your own budget and your own spending habits. >> todd: all the time. >> brian: if you could do that then why can't america? >> todd: i lay out my ledger for america to see. if you just saw "f "fox & friens first." the guy owes the mentalist told the nation my pin code. let's go to an atm and rob todd blind that will chip away some of it. at the end of the day, i still come back to we voted for this. do it. get it done. i know you said oh, you know, he is showing transparency before he is president. that's because we really don't have anybody taking the mantel of the white house right now. is he on a beach and commuting and pardoning which is obviously we a topic we are going to get to multiple times today. we need step up no time like the present for the president-elect to step up.

>> nicole: bring back more mean tweets or x posts. >> brian: whatever we want to call them. 9 minutes after the top of the hour. this story started capturing america's attention at 7:30. when word got out illegal immigrant face murder and arson charges after he was accused of setting a woman on fire and watching her burn to death on a new york city subway. how do we know that? you could see him sitting there watching her burn. >> nicole: we are now learning more details about how he entered the country illegally. >> todd: just horrible. alexandria hoff has the details. >> good morning to you. crimes like this become more horrific because of the season. police say this woman appeared to be sleeping when the suspect took a lighter to her clothes that fire engulfed her into a ball of flames in a matter of seconds. again with that suspect sitting down to watch briefly. the suspect, 33-year-old spat

recognized his want the photo. investigators describe the attack as random. pthe deprivate of this horrific crime is beyond comprehension. my office is committed to bringing the perpetrator to. against a vulnerable woman met with the most consequences. consequences something this man may not be concerned with. he ferris crossed the border in 2018 illegally and deported under the trump administration. here is how ice described thinks journey. sebastiansebastian interpret th. without border in arizona encountered zepghtd june 1st, served him with an order of expedited removal. enforcement he unlawfully

reentered the united states on unknown date and location. according to reporting by "the new york post." zent khalil told police he was too drunk to remember the incident. guys, send it back to you. >> brian: i'm not sure that's an effective defense. thanks so much you see this in real time. kathy hochul so proud she put cameras. the governor of new york wanted to take a bow for that it gives us an idea of what exactly took place. the thing that stood out, guys. you saw a couple of nypd officers just walk by and you see a lot of people taking pictures or ignoring a woman on fire. >> nicole: i have a lot more questions than answers right now. first of all, that's the biggest thing that came to my attention to. who went to help her? we have a lot of video. kathy hochul's videos and videos from by standers, that mean that people saw a woman was on fire and they did nothing to help her on the subway. they are mandated to have fire

extinguishers, why wasn't one of those used? i saw the still as well that it looked like a police officer walking by. >> brian: walking right by. >> nicole: did they see the woman on fire. not normal to have active fire on subway station. still don't have the identification of the woman yet. sleeping on the subway. it's possible she was homeless. still a lot of unanswered questions. >> todd: is there protocol for when you encounter a person on fire on a subway. something we never thought about before. so maybe there is protocol for the nypd. you have to ask why is an officer just walking by and not paying any attention? there is also the fact of why nobody in this day and age never does anything anymore. the answer is what happened to daniel penny part and parcel. the guardian angels founder see him on the program a lot nobody came to her aid. there is no doubt that people don't want to get involved. it is the damage penny factor. it's frozen people. they are saying to themselves i

don't want to get jammed up like penny. people should have been running over to the woman on fire. they did nothing. they said nothing. and on this very show -- i have heard it come out of kilmeade's mouth. ainsley mouth, lawrence, and steve. you all said right when daniel penny got arrested. you said people are going to be hesitant on the new york city subways throughout this city and quite frankly across the country to step in when stepping in is needed to protect their fellow man or woman. we see it. here. this is the function of what happens. when you have a da alvin bragg thinking is he going to lead restorative justice to the world. soft on criminals to rehabilitate them. what you have a situation where criminals feel like they can act however they want. and then you have a guy like daniel penny doing the right thing, gets jammed up to use the words of curtis. and the whole system is reversed. i'm hoping we can reverse it again but i don't know. >> nicole: what about the fact it took three high school students on entirely different train to spot this guy despite

the fact that we have all of these cameras everywhere and we have all of these identification means. high school students find him on the subway. >> brian: i like you do take all hands on deck approach and they called 911. so this guy, after he put this woman on fire sits there, stares, cop turns around and says i need you out of here. leaves. hops back on the train gets back on at harold square two stops away arrested right there in probably the most crowded section of all of new york city in the middle of the holidays. that's where the drunk guy, who was thrown out in 2018 snuck back into the country. we don't know what other crimes he committed in the interim. that's where he was actually arrested. so, you know, is it the daniel penny effect? i'm not sure. to me i'm not asking anybody to be a hero. just grab a blanket. grab a jacket. do something. >> nicole: don't need to video it being burned alive. >> brian: is he going to run to mayor again. i don't think anybody knows more

about this city than him crime and punishment and in terms of the republican ticket. i bet you he gets the nomination again. don't tell me mayor adams is going to have a glide path. he might end up in jail by the time the re-election comes. >> nicole: that's only one of our headlines this morning. carley is here with many more. >> carley: more news to get. to say starting with a fox news alert. former president bill clinton has been hospitalized in washington after developing a fever yesterday afternoon. clinton's deputy chief of staff posting on x last night saying he is undergoing testing and observation and that, quote: row remines in good spirits and deeply appreciates the excellent care he is receiving. one person is dead and five are hurt after a small boat explode at a marine in florida yesterday. wow. three victims are also seriously hurt. divers found the dead victim in the water near the boat. the explosion caused another boat and a dock to go up in flames. took firefighters around two

hours to put out the fire. the cause of the explosion is under investigation. police in california releasing in video of three suspected shoplifters who stole more than $650 worth of merchandise from ulta beauty and $1,000 from kohl's. after being arrested they were shocked to find out that stealing in the state is now a felony thanks to the new prop 36 that went into effect on wednesday. watch this. >> it's a felony? [bleep] new law. stealing is a felony. [inaudible] >> carley: you see those light bulbs going off in real time. three facing grand theft, conspiracy to commit a crime and resisting arrest. and we all love our christmas movie classics. so how about spending christmas eve at the house featured in the 17983 holiday classic, a christmas story.

spending the night at ralphy parker's house $2,500 plus an extra $10,000 for the bunny suit from this famous scene. ♪ santa claus is coming. >> immediately my feet began to sweat as two fluffy bunnies with the brew but ton eyes stared sappily at me. >> isn't that cute? that's the most precious thing i have seen in my life. [laughter] >> the house is booked for tonight and christmas day. and those are your headlines. i got both of those numbers wrong. $10. i think i said 10,000. >> todd: close. >> that's expensive bunny suit. $2,500, not 25,000. what's wrong with me. >> brian: take a seat. because we are doing something about christmas as we should. >> todd: emails coming in when it comes to america's most popular christmas movies. >> brian: did studies and ranked the top five.

>> todd: studies were done by really serious people. i have to agree with my esteemed colleague to my left, brian kilmeade screen right. >> brian: because? >> todd: "fox & friends" viewers love fred claus. roll it. >> that naughty-nice list that you got? there is no naughty kids, nick. they are all good kids. some of them are scared and some of them don't feel listened to. some of them had some pretty tough breaks, too. but every kid deserves a present on christmas. >> todd: as carley just said santa looks rough around the edges there. the reason is until that point in the movie he has some stuff in his life that i won't. >> carley: so touching we are in tears? got it. >> brian: yesterday when we did the study they asked me and i believe fred claus belongs in the top five list. most people wrote me and said i have never seen it. and that certainly changed a short time ago.

when people began to scurry to their tv. and shopping was complete. they divided to look at fred claus. here is some of the reaction. >> email from mark and ann. brian, my husband and i watched "fox & friends" news every morning while drinking our coffee. sometimes we are dressed and sometimes we are sober. today you mentioned favorite christmas movie fred claus never seen seen it before and decided to rent it on prime video. you are right. we try so hard not to say that around here. it was a funny movie with a great message of christmas. we should have omitted you were right. >> brian: it doesn't stop there, does it, carley? >> carley: i'm with brian, my absolute favorite movie is fred claus. >> todd: can i take sylvia? >> nicole: yeah. >> todd: it's not christmas without fred claus and elf. i think we can agree with that. >> brian: hallmark people jotted that down and in a clawed next

year. >> todd: can i support brian on this? >> brian: you were an early supporter. >> todd: i met you in 2017. >> brian: and? >> todd: my first christmas at "fox & friends." i went up have you seen this fred claus? first thing i said to him he is like you and i we are kindred spirits when it comes to convince vaughan and the entire class of the snow globe scene makes you cry. >> and group therapy with famous siblings. bottom line the premise is vince vaughn is the brother of santa claus. how do you get attention if your brother is santa claus or in steven baldwin if your brother is alec baldwin or frank stallone if your zone sly stallone. they are in group therapy together. this is some of the premises that brings families together on christmas. >> todd: kathy bates is in it too. we are going to go through the entire data base. >> brian: thank you so much great producing staffer for collecting some of the feedback. >> carley: thank you sylvia and ann and all the people who wrote

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>> nicole: millions are under winter weather alerts sleet freezing rain and snow expected across the northeast and midwest today. some people may wake up to a white christmas. i can't wait. let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. hey, adam, please tell me white christmas for new jersey? >> adam: so snow coming down there right now. perfect timing right as we are looking at christmas eve. snow moving across portions of the northeast. there are going to be a couple problems as far as travel goes if you are still waiting to hit the roads because of this system. winter weather advisories pretty much across interior england at this point. closer to the coast line a little less snow in some cases actually going to be ice that

folks are dealing with here is where the snow currently is really along that i-the 95 corridor. no snow yet. expected to knock on the door. expect that in the next hour or so depending on where you live. if you are a little further south. not a huge ice concern certainly will be ice from d.c., baltimore, philadelphia, that obviously could slow down travel and then if you are still waiting to do some of that air travel, this is actually one of our bigger concerns. everything here in the red would be major delays today. any folks doing that last minute travel do know you might slow down. otherwise, here's your forecast for christmas eve. couple of weather systems, one in the middle of the country, one out west. lots of places looking really clear as well. those are the weather headlines for now, todd, throw it over to you. >> todd: thank you. will on monday president biden commuted death sentences of 37 death row inmates two days before the families of their victims gather for christmas. biden defending his move explaining, quote: i condemn these murdererrers and grieve for the victims of their despicable acts but, guided by

my conscience and my experience, i am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty. joining us now are heather turner, katy jenkins and danny major, the daughter and husband of donna major 2017 bank robber criminal whose sentence was commuted by president biden. i'm sorry to be talking to all three of you under these circumstances. i cannot even put myself in your position to know how difficult this would be any week but especially christmas week. heather, what was your reaction when you heard the news? >> anger. absolute anger. we were told from our prosecution team on sunday afternoon -- i was gathered with me in-laws for our family christmas, my sister was gathered with her in-laws and we got the call. and i was angry. i'm still angry. i am upset that this is even happening. that one man can make this

decision without even talking to the victims, without any regard for what we have been through, what we are going through. i'm completely hurt, frustrated and angry. >> todd: heather, nobody gave you a heads up this was coming from the white house? >> in may we heard this was a possibility. and at that point we began writing letters to the pardon attorney. i reached out, requesting an in person meeting in d.c. and we were refused. they denied our right to have our voices heard. that we're victims of -- my mother was murdered at the hands of brandon. they should have heard our story and all we got was a 10-minute virtual conference, and clearly that fell on deaf ears. they did not want to hear our stories. >> todd: danny, joe biden who ever made this decision it is entire unclear whether this came from him directly or his people. is he showing mercy to your

wife's killer. was your wife shown any mercy? >> she was shown no mercy at all. this man walked into the bank. never said two words to her. shot her three times in total. went and shot her co-worker, katy skeen as well. totally defenseless and unaware anything was happening it's just beyond me that -- i can't even believe this is actually happening commuting of sentences like this of 37 victims, all but three, which were certainly a political scheme that no undoubtedly joe biden was also told by the pope that he should stop these executions what the pope has to do with anybody in this country i don't know. he is a senile old man, i wouldn't think he could tie his shoes if you could see him in

person. it's absolutely gusting. >> todd: continuing his mo of the past four years he bent to the far left. far left pope which many catholics have said about this pope or members of his own party. he has bent the knee to the left wing of the democrats. and that includes squad member congresswoman ayanna pressley who said this to the news. listen. >> the death penalty has been -- has not been proven to be a deterrent of crime. state sanctioned murder is not justice. and today what president biden did demonstrated moral leadership, compassionate leadership informed by his own faith. it has had a dispirit impact on low income people, black people and other marginalized persons. >> todd: katy, when ayanna pressley refers to compassion. what is your response to the congresswoman? >> compassion? i don't think that that's compassion. the fact that he didn't talk to any of us, the victims of this

crime, you know, we trusted the judicial system. we sat through court. i watched my mother be murdered. i watched her body lying on the ground. he doesn't have compassion. for who? a criminal? a criminal? no. i don't agree with that i don't agree with that at all. >> todd: he heather, off the top, you mentioned christmas celebrations that you have already tried to have. how do you get through christmas following news like this when you have to put on a brave face for kids, for whom we really do celebrate this holiday to watch the joy and the magic and the excitement in their eyes? how do you get through this, heather? >> jesus is the reason for the season. i mean we wouldn't be celebrating christmas if it wasn't for christ and his birth. is he what has gone us through this entire thing. we have leaned in to jesus.

he has provided strength and a peace that is beyond all understanding. because he is the son of peace. and i'm just so thankful for the lord and for my faith and for my family. i have three small children. my sister has one baby. he is a year old. my brother had two children. my mom had six grandchildren. only three of which she met. our job is to make christmas as special and as mak magical as wn and we are going to do that. >> todd: danny, same basic question to you how do you get through christmas as a grandpa knowing you lost the love of your life she is never coming back. but this killer has been spared the death penalty? >> well, probably the worst thing for me through this whole thing, since day one was watching my three children, doug, heather and katy suffer through this. iit if it was just me i would be okay with that i know donna is with her savior right now not

because she was a good person but because she trusted in him as lord and savior, as far as the grandchildren go, the few that were here with us, they probably don't have a whole lot of memory of her but that was a great loss in that, just knowing that they will never get to see her and be loved by her. touch her or hug her. >> he does a great job of filling in for. >> todd: i'm sure he does. >> he is incredible. >> todd: katie, final question to you. the exact phrase in the white house in their phrase releasing these pardons and commutations. joe biden is committed to a fair and effective justice system. katie, what about this is fair to your family? none of it. we didn't commit that crime. brandon council did, he made that choice that day. a crime punishable by the death

penalty. 12 jurors. that is what was fair and biden took that away from us, senile old, incompetent man took that away from our family. justice. just like that? nothing. this is not fair. >> todd: heather, katie and danielle, may the lord show mercy upon your entire family the way the killer and the current white house has not. we wish you the very best. >> thank you. >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> todd: more "fox & friends" after this. ♪ he

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if you are years in your liferi. christian in syria how well you do know this region now. how would you be approaching this christmas? with. >> a great deal of caution. we don't know really what this new regime is going to do. we know their history and it's not a good one. they say many wonderful things how they are going to change. we heard all that before. let's hope it's true. let's who he they really decided they are going to be civilized people and not agents of al-qaeda. but the people who live there have to be concerned that this may be like a song from the who meet the new boss same as the old boss. bine brian the new boss does not have good relations with the russians or iranians which is great news. we have an opportunity to kick them out of that area and stop the weapons-flow as a land bridge right through that country. israel has not stopped trying to

take out the weaponry of syria during this transition. what's their objective as you understand it? >> well, they understand very clearly that they have to eradicate the forces that would do the kind of things that they did on october the 7th. and that have rained down rockets and missiles on top of their civilian population. these aren't just military actions. these are the actions of an evil, corrupt, and disgusting group of terrorists. these aren't a people from forming government. these are people who would murder the most innocent among the population and do an t. intentionally. this isn't collateral damage. this is intentional damage. there is a big difference. and we also have to never forget that where this comes from is from the iranian regime. so, it is imperative that systematically and methodically israel dismantled those forces that are set to take them down. >> brian: they pushed forward in

the golan heights because it's ungovernable area. and they cannot let that area be pushed forward with this new regime whose leader we had a $10 million bounty on his head which i understand we are removing. and we did have a meeting on the state department official did have a meeting with him and he said he is somewhat pragmatic. let's see what that means. just so everybody knows, there was 1.4 million christians in 2011 in syria. now they are down to 300,000. i don't have to tell you, as a pastor, that christmas and hanukkah fall on the same time this year. it's very rare. the spiritual significance of that for christians and jews celebrating this holiday at the same time. >> i think it's a wonderful opportunity. in fact, in little rock, i'm going to be lighting the first candle of hanukkah on christmas evening. i'm very honored to be able to do that obviously, my family and i will be celebrating christmas, mostly today and of course tomorrow. but also celebrating with my jewish friends. the incredible holiday of

hanukkah. and it's going to be a delightful experience. especially in light of where god willing and the u.s. senate confirming, i will be heading to the middle of the jewish state some time in early 2025. >> brian: governor, we have had our hopes up before, but there is a sense with hamas suffering such devastating losses and with gaza in tatters, that they might be ready to save themselves and give up the hostages. even though you are not there yet, your sources are impeccable. your thought about how much hope people should have today? >> i think they should have far more hope than they have had for the 400 plus days that this has gone on. way too long. for the first time, when president trump made the comment and he said if those hostages aren't released by the time is he gnawing rated on january 20th. hamas will have hell to pay. and i think they understand he means business. as i have said several times,

we're trading barney fyffe with one bullet in his pocket for wyatt earp. i think hamas understands a new sheriff is coming to town and he means business and they better let those hostages go. it's way past time. seven of them are americans, brian. this is what is so frightening and sad. those need to be let go. all of them need to be let go. >> brian: you are getting an extremely important position. you know that you will sail through confirmation. that's understood. i look forward to seeing your great work over there and another great challenge for mike huckabee. i'm sure you will bring your guitar. >> you bet. >> brian: governor, great to see you. have a fantastic christmas and congratulations on the demonstration. >> thank you, brian and merry christmas to you and your family. >> brian: you got it. meanwhile straight ahead, santa has begun his journey around the world. this has been confirmed by two separate sources first here is the james hall choir performing the king has come exclamation point.

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♪ >> todd: it is christmas eve and we are following santa's journey around the world right now. breaking news. he is over new zealand. >> brian: he is using the waze act. the north american air defense command known as norad tracking saint nick for over 70 years.

>> nicole: norad commander gregory gio is here with the latest on santa's flight. we track santa every year. todd, do you do it with your kiddos? >> todd: they are a little young but i think we are going to do it this year. that begs the question we are over new zealand. where are we going to next, general? >> we never actually know where is he going to go. he doesn't file a flight plan with us. use satellites, fighter jets to track him to make sure he has a safe route. continue west toward asia next. >> brian: when did this whole tradition start? it started in the 1950s when we got the technology, correct? >> nicole: also kind of by accident, right? >> exactly right for both. 155 it was a wrong phone number that called the norad operation center with a child asking to speak to santa. and an improvising colonel told

him that the child, there is nothing to worry about. everything is good with santa and we have been doing it every year since. this is the 6 #th year. >> nicole: i absolutely love that general, as a resident of new jersey, i have a really big question for you. we have been having some drone issues. i'm not sure you are aware of them. since you know everything about, you know, aerospace warning, stan is going to be okay with all these drones, right? >> santa will be just fine. of course we are concerned about drones and anything else in the air and a lot of other agencies that are helping us with that. but i don't foresee any difficulty at all with drones for santa this year. >> todd: general, what's your message to the children who may be watching who may have decided they are going to be tricky this year, they are going to be smart and try to catch santa in the act? what is your message to them? >> brian: big mistake. >> that's exactly right. big, big mistake. santa will not stop if the children are awake. and so my message is, get to bed before #:00.

and your chances for presents go up quite a bit. don't be awake. he will pass you by. >> brian: general, just amazing. >> nicole: sees you when you are sleeping. >> brian: that's been confirmed. general, amazing. most people file their journeys with you. you admit you can't control santa, so you just track him. are you okay with this relationship? >> i am. because he has shown great skill and proficiency over the years as an aviator. great navigation system with the reindeer and rudolph. so we are happy just to flight follow -- fly in formation with him. but we don't have any concerns about safety or his navigation. he is a pro. >> brian: are you surprised his hat never flies off? >> that's a good question. i haven't thought about it. but he does so many things that are ma magical. keeping his hat on is right up there with the rest of them. >> my household is a huge fan we will be tracking along with you all day and night.

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