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Is booked up as christians from all over the world flock to the town where jesus was born. leland visit earth is there. he joins us live from bethlehem. leland? >> reporter: gregg, merry christmas eve from where it all began. were just a couple of hours away now from midnight mass when the birth of christ is proclaimed by the latin patriarch. i want you to look behind me at manger square. you can see the place is packed, rocking a little bit earlier with christmas carols. theyve got a big christ...

I think the audience is getting better. i do. we have a special christmas show prepared for you tomorrow night. i hope you are enjoying it and by it there is so much hostility for people with lawsuits filed over songs and christmas treese and nativity scenes by those who say they are offended by christmas. i have to think in some ways, this is a good thing. no really, it is it a good thing. open hostility to faith is far better than indifference. people who are anything but indifferent to christ...

I think the audience is getting better. i do. we have a special christmas show prepared for you tomorrow night. i hope you are enjoying it and by it there is so much hostility for people with lawsuits filed over songs and christmas treese and nativity scenes by those who say they are offended by christmas. i have to think in some ways, this is a good thing. no really, it is it a good thing. open hostility to faith is far better than indifference. people who are anything but indifferent to christ...

Merry christmas or happy hanukkah, menorahs, christmas trees on school property. >> i want the teachers to feel free to put up a menorah, a santa claus, a nativity in front of the christmas tree and call it that. >> reporter: he says i got the idea when his son told they decorated the christmas tree in school, but had to call it a holiday tree. >> anyway, i went inside and talked to the administration, and someone whispered under their breath, its christmas, but we cant say that here. >> reporte...

Investigators and a few members of the media. so where the blockade is, people, members of the community have been coming in, putting candles, flowers. its one of the places where a memorial has popped up. even as we speak, there is a mass going on at the local catholic church. and that later on they are going to have their annual live nativity and it is in honor of the victims of this shooting. coming up next, well have some of the stories of the heroes of yesterdays shooting here in newtown. y...

In case you were wonderling. it is 11 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up, we told you about steven krauter getting a nasty response when he was asked about right to work law. >> ep explains what happened when he was attacked outside of michigans capitol building thats next. >> fighting the war, the war on christmas is forced to cancel a live nativity. we are going to check out the gas prices the new national average $3.32 thats down $0.01 from yesterday.

That didnt like having fun. now its the left. they are going after charity concerts. they are going after charlie brown. they are going after the nativity scenes. anything that involves families. i wouldnt call it a war on christmas. so much as a war on fun stuff do you around christmas. >> bill: mcguirk, they are denying on the left, many of them, our pal jon stewart being among them, that there is any war on christmas at all. im making it all up. im fab brie calgt. i actually think im like jef...

Now its the left. they are going after charity concerts. they are going after charlie brown. they are going after the nativity scenes. anything that involves families. i wouldnt call it a war on christmas. so much as a war on fun stuff do you around christmas. >> bill: mcguirk, they are denying on the left, many of them, our pal jon stewart being among them, that there is any war on christmas at all. im making it all up. im fab brie calgt. i actually think im like jeff dunham. im a ventriloquist...

Now its the left. they are going after charity concerts. they are going after charlie brown. they are going after the nativity scenes. anything that involves families. i wouldnt call it a war on christmas. so much as a war on fun stuff do you around christmas. >> bill: mcguirk, they are denying on the left, many of them, our pal jon stewart being among them, that there is any war on christmas at all. im making it all up. im fab brie calgt. i actually think im like jeff dunham. im a ventriloquist...

In nativity has been removed, you can go get a permit and do it and a reminder, president jefferson said, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. we have to be vigilant and persistent in defending our religious rights and freedoms and were doing that. >> gretchen: well said. good luck to the both of you and pastor dull, i hope it works out in altoona. >> thank you very much and like i said, we live in the united states of america, which means everybody ought to have the freedom to express the...