dnc deputy communications director eric walker said the move was a wilted fig leaf to cover up his, quotereport of charitable giving. it has no employees and $1 million in assets. >>> the man who was going to be communications director in the trump white house has changed his mind. jason miller who was named to the post just days ago says he's declining the job to spend more time with his family. miller's wife is due to have the couple's second child next month. miller's joined the trump campaign in june. >>> president-elect donald trump and his wife melania celebrating christmas in palm beach, florida. they're celebrating today but last night as you see the trump's attended a midnight church service. they were greeted by a standing ovation for the congregation. >>> buckingham palace says a bad cold will keep queen elizabeth from attending a church service. she's staying home to help her recovery but will still take part in the royal family christmas celebrations during the day. her grandson prince william went to church on sunday morning with his wife katherine and their children george

dnc deputy communications director eric walker was what he called a wilted fig leaf.has no employees and has about $1 million in assets. >>> the man who was going to be communications director in the trump white house, he's changed his mind. jason miller who was named to the post just days ago says he's declining the job to spend more time with his family. miller's wife is due to have the couple's second child next month. miller joined the trump campaign in june. >>> president-elect donald trump and his wife melania celebrating christmas in palm beach, florida, today. last night the trump's attended a midnight church service. they were greeted with a standing ovation from the congregation. >>> at the vatican pope francis held midnight mass on christmas eve. he told the congregation that more humility is needed, not more gifts. right now the pope is delivering his annual christmas blessing. a live picture from the vatican. >>> buckingham palace says a bad cold will keep queen elizabeth from attending a christmas day service. she's staying home to help her recovery but

dnc deputies communications director eric walker said the move was what he called a wilted figure leafcover up his pitiful record of charitable giving. the trump foundation has no employees and has about $1 million in assets. >>> the man who was going to be communications director in the trump white house has changed his mind. jason miller, who was named to the post just days ago says he's declining the job to spend more time with his family. miller's wife is due to have the couple's second child next month. miller joined the trump campaign in june. >>> president-elect donald trump and his melania celebrating christmas in palm beach, florida, today. last night the trumps attended a midnight church service to celebrate the holiday. the congregation greeted the president-elect with a standing ovation. >> a bad cold kept queen elizabeth from attending christmas day service for the first time in almost 30 years. a statement put out by the palace this morning said she was staying home to help her recovery, but will still take part in the royal family christmas celebrations during the day. a

trump's effort eric walker of the dnc states there trump's foundation is a welted figure leaf to coverp the remaining conflicts of interest and pitiful record of charitable giving. he slams the trump foundation citing how they are using the report as a slush fund, attacking political enemies and ak is a i gccusations of attemp prescribe officials. he said this the foundation has done enormous good works in contributing millions of dollars to countless worthy groups including support can veterans law enforcement officers and children. in the wall street journal richard pahner applauds mr. trump's move and says it's a step in the right direction. >> kelly wright live in our studios this morning. thank you. >>> his last time talking to troops as commander-in-chief. >> i want all of you to know it has been a privilege of my life to serve as your commander-in-chief. >> the president going on to say as a citizen he will remain grateful for them and jokingly reminded them he still has access to the golf course at the hawaiian marine corps base. you can see him less than riveted to the final t

the dnc communications director, eric walker, saying shuttering a charity is no substitute from divestingfor-profit businesses and putting the assets in a blind trust. say even a blind trust wouldn't be enough, especially the way he's thinking about doing it which is by putting his children in charge. he said he would announce a new plan on december 15th. that has been postponed. what is the best course for those more than 300 businesses that he's involved in? >> yeah. easy answer. as people have noted, a blind trust, donald trump still knows what real estate holdings he has. it's not like the stock market where you can sell all your holdings, put it in a blind trust, allow a financial adviser to pick a blend of stocks that you don't know what's in it. it's pretty clear which family business, it's the ones labeled trump. you know, trump hotels, trump golf courses. so it's not all that easy. i think that, you know, we have to do something to try to separate and detangle himself from the business. but, you know, people elected him knowing what he held and it's not going to be so easy to mak

if they continue to harp on this, not only did we see this particular statement but eric walker had at this. is the democratic party hurting itself by harping on something and if they look in the mirror and saying maybe we had unsavory activity, as well. >> no, we're kind of in an environment where during the last administration people were arguing over the cost of the gas for air force one. we're in a kind of a jerry springeresque kind of environment in politics. very shortly, we'll going to get into concrete issues. as far as the democrats, i think we have strong policy issues that we can take vac of. >> that's a whole other panel. garland and sean, thank you so much. it's christmas. i appreciate your time away from your families. >> thank you, merry christmas. >>> right now a story we've been following. russian rescue crews searching for any survivors after a military plane carrying 92 people aboard crashed into the black sea. crews recovered some wreckage and at least one body. plane took off from the resort city of sochi and disappeared from radar two minutes after taking off. it

vetting of people coming in but the wholesale influx of refugees that are coming in as eric had last night governor scott walker on from wisconsi governors basically, they have to inherit whatever is sent their way in terms of refugees. there's a movement amongst the nation's governors to say, wait, we should be able to have a say in that. i think it's understandable given germany's history and its general leftist politics that they keep trying it atone for their past. one of the ways i think that angela merkel thought they could do that -- i'm trying to be sensitive here to say -- it's not that i don't think their heart isn't in it. i think it is because they are trying to atone for the lessons from the past by helping refugees around the world and being a welcoming place. the question is for the world leaders of the western world, can you do both? or do you have to change it? >> it's interesting. because they were the home for probably one of the most -- one of the most merd urderous ideols in history. are they going to make it easier for another murderous ideology, islamism -- extremism is a murderous ideolo