[cheers] you hear the emotion. You see it. And its big. Everybody gets carried on. The best thing i could get. That was the only thing i wanted for christmas. The curtain go up. This is for real. Im home. Merry christmas. Merry christmas. Its the most wonderful time of the year ding, dong ding, dong with the kids jingle belling. Good morning, Merry Christmas. Merry christmas. Wow, it is good to be here this morning. A lot of folks waking up all across the country today to a Beautiful Day filled with family, friends, presents under the tree. As you open up those presents this morning we are so delighted to be here with you. This is a fun day to be here. We have so many surprises today and a lot of food and a lot of fun, but, mostly were just so thankful to be here on such a special morning and be welcomed into your homes. Griff we have santa as well. Molly we do have santa, thats true. There he is. Merry christmas, everybody. Merry christmas. Griff are you tired, santa . A little bit. A little bit. Its been a long night. Todd one heck of a night. Yeah. Its been a long night. Griff of course, we will with the president in maralago. We saw children laughing with a very trumpian line. More presents than have you ever had before in your life. Griff some Building Blocks, you have too many. Molly griff, molly, and todd. So happy to be here this morning. We are getting pictures from folks at home already. Kids already ripping the gift paper off and Getting Started this Christmas Morning. Griff check out this one from karen. Meet dr. Wayne kilpatrick best minister ever. Mention his fashionable sense. That is strong. Molly he does look fly here. Here is one from marion, ohio a trump supporter who won his familys Christmas Eve tacky tie contest. This is from jennifer, she got the surprise of the a lifetime when her daughter maddy got home from the navy just in time for crazy christmas outfit photo. We will do more of those soldiers and sailors reunited with their families for the holidays. It doesnt get better than that. Molly so grateful for their service wherever they are serving all around the world and First Responders right here at homeworking every day to keep all of us safe. Griff and the whole family serves. If you are deployed overseas, its the wife with the kids thats got to make the christmas magic still happen without their loved one at home. So, thanks to military spouses as well. Todd we arplease send your pictures friends foxnews. Com. We want the crazier the better. We dont want to see them all like manicured. We want to see the real like kids reacting. Molly we know those kids are already dragging you out of bed. Its early. Griff and your memories. What is the most memorable thing. If you have a photo of your most memorable time. Send it to us at friends foxnews. Com. And a snippet what that memory was. Todd speaking of memories, i have a few so i will start. Here we go. These are my daughters with santa now and as kids. There is mal and mackenzie. There is a little bit earlier. Look at that. Pretty happy santa. Very strong. And this is tha mackenzie with first Charlie Brown tree. You get the little one there as you are going through. And lets see whats coming up next . Molly bundles are up for that one. Todd 1980, thats you. Little griff. Thats putting the cheer in there. And there i am about four years old in 1974. Looking at santa and wondering what in the heck is this guy . You notice i have a lollipop in my right hand. This guy is not getting my good one. Molly you look understandably skeptical. This is my brother and i from way back in the day. He was the good one you can see the glimmer in his eye how well behaved he was. Another photo. Todd awesome. Molly that is my baby. Her first christmas last year. Baby maren best gift ever. This will be her second christmas. She is starting to get it now. She can actually pull at the wrapping paper a little bit. Getting more and more fun. We will meet her later in the show and my husband. Griff debut. Molly this is her tv debut. We will do no baking cheesecake four hours. Griff whoever is jing ling the bells has the hottest. Todd this is my wife and i. She will be joining us later on today for a cooking segment. Griff your tree looks good. Todd thats not our tree thats my parents tree. There is another picture of my wife and i. And i believe we have some as a child. There i am. Whats amazing about santa . Santa hasnt aged. Molly he is timeless. Todd my brother on the right. Little fatty as i love to call myself with santa. Molly i like the christmas sweater. Todd my first or second. Bert was awesome. I never rode a horse after this. How many pictures did i send in. Griff what have you got there . Todd use them all. Strangling ra raggedy ann. Molly covering the basis. Griff santa claus up all night long. San tax are you still awake over there. Im still awake. Molly where else we want to be on Christmas Morning than with fox friends. Nothing like new york city new york city on christmas. Griff have you ever gotten stuck in the chimney and, if you did, what did you do . I havent gotten stuck yet. I have come close many a times but i havent gotten stuck yet. Im waiting for that day to actually happen. And hopefully the First Responders will come in the time thats needed. Molly heres one more. Santa, i know you are probably tired today are you really jolly all of the time . I am 24 7, 365 days a year. This is me. Doesnt get any better. Molly the joys exude. Todd i get the journalistic question. Talk to us about the jealousy level that the other reindeer have for rudolph. That only happens on the extreme nights when there is a lot of fog that he needs to lead the pack. The rest of the time they leave him alone. Todd they all want to be the super star that day but they cant. They dont have the red nose. Toughest part is when they bring the red nail polish and try to change their own nose. We know who theyre. Todd make sure you send in your questions for that guy. His name is santa claus. Again, you send the questions to friends foxnews. Com or tweet us. Griff we are keeping santa up all morning. Molly a little chili and rainy in new york. Hopefully folks across the country getting a White Christmas. Adam klotz is joining us on the weather this morning. Adam Merry Christmas, every, very winter like forecast we are talking about. Temperatures frigid across the country as we are talking about dropping down in a lot of cases artic air mass where these numbers are going to be plummeting over the next several hours. This is the last 12 hours your forecast as we being are looking at snow beginning to pile up here in the great lakes into the northeast. Rain here right along the coast. Thats going to continue and we are looking at winter advisories, watches, warnings, stretching all the way up into new england. There are going to be areas where we are talking about as much as 4 feet of snow. When you talk about 4 feet of snow you want to be inside and eating. Im with chef mark bailey we are going to be eating a huge breakfast. Eggnog. Pumpkin waffles. Griff keep going. Were just going to eat. We are prepping all of this stuff for later. Griff or now. Adam are you eating this right now. Im actually going to eat it. Griff this is christmas, man. Apple bacon muffins and dont forget the spread. Literally just want us to eat. That. Was good. A great transition. Molly two second grade they get and they race over there for the food. Todd i dont want to talk with my mouth full so why dont you talk, molly how the president celebrated christmas. Molly he has been down there in florida at maralago taking off after what he felt was a pretty strong december in washington, d. C. Taking a little break to enjoy christmas festivities. He went, of course, to Christmas Eve mass along with the first lady. We have just a few shots here. Griff he is there at bethesda to see the church where he and melania got married at palm beach. What i love about this is president was late to mass. And he is just like all of us. They have us weekly stars like us. The president is just like the rest of us. I always arrive late to mass especially on the holidays im going to get there and there is going to be a seat. There is never a seat. You think in my 39 years. Molly you would think they would save the president a seat. They did. Griff making phone calls. Molly making sure santa is getting from place to place. Griff tweeting biz i dont know Christmas Eve. People are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again. Proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase Merry Christmas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 exclamation points. Molly got Christmas Wish in there for everyone as we would expect. Griff you mentioned the norad calls. Molly of course. Talking with children, answering some calls there and chatting with the kids. So fabulous there. Beautiful pictures. We will be revisiting this throughout the morning. Lets hit a few headlines first. The United Nations is cutting 285 million from next years budget after negotiations with the United States. A golf the Trump Administration has been reducing u. S. Contributions to the organization, which total upwards of 3 billion a year. Ambassador nikki haley praised the move calling it a big step in the right direction. Guatemala now joining the United States, announcing its plan to move its embassy in israel to jerusalem. It is the first country to follow President Trumps lead in making that change. The Central American nation was one of nine to vote against a u. N. Resolution denouncing trumps order. Guatemala also played a key role in the vote to establish the modern state of israel as the first to vote yes back in 1947. And now heroes have to spend christmas away from family today. Running from a nine month tour in the middle east just in time for christmas. Like this is for real. This is im home. Probably one of the happiest moments of my life. Best Christmas Ever. Its been home but im glad he is home. Everybody gets teary. Beautiful to see that nearly 300 soldiers from the armys fifth battalion regiment returning in washington state. Todd thats awesome. Molly do you feel to see that how happy folks are to have their looed ones home. Griff griff still ahead, Christmas Morning returning to mosul for the first time sings isis was wiped out of iraq and all thanks to the Trump Administration. The emotional moments coming up. Todd taking you thrive vatican city where pope francis delivering his christmas message to the world right now. Father john here to react and he is there with santa. Molly hanging out with santa. Most important people you will see. Griff father morris serving santa. Repeat the sounding joy repeat the sounding joy go tell it on the mountain. Thank you for welcoming us into your home each day at noon eastern time from the outnumbered couch to your home. Have a very Merry Christmas. I love you, basement guest bathroom. Your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. I love you, but sometimes you stink. Febreze air effects doesnt just mask, it cleans away odors. Because the things you love the most can stink. And try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. Breathe happy with febreze. Whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. Everybody two seconds dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. 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How do you remind them about that true story. What my parents always did. Im third of seven and we would always stand up on top of the steps and run down in the morning. I will never forget my dad did something very, very simple. Before we were allowed to open the gifts he would make us go down and kneel down before the karesh. It seemed like his prayer was probably half annual hour. It was probably about 10 seconds or 30 seconds. That made a big difference. He was reminding us thats what counts. Griff father morris i went to Saint Patricks 5 30 mass as a new catholic exciting for me to go. I got a seat. Shot a video on senior richy. Is he marching before the mass began. He got the baby jesus out of the nativity scene all the children of the church. Little obstructed there. Children with parents parading. Eangsd marched the entire circumference of Saint Patricks and brought it back and said the message was about christmas and Christmas Morning look at the hope of not just jesus being born but your own children. You know, god could have come down to us in the form of a warrior angel and just scared the heck out of us. And make us say come on, get with thwith it guys. He didnt. He came in this form and thats what is so amazing. There is a loft problems. I was in the taxi on the way here this morning. A guy from afghanistan who left afghanistan many years ago but he said my country has experienced war my entire life. But we think about whats going on in north korea. We think about whats going on in so many parts of this world. That people are suffering deeply, deeply, and imagine god going these are my kids. Why cant they just love each other . But we dont. Sometimes we do but generally we dont as a world. That is gods patience and love to say i could come as a warrior angel. I will come as a baby and maybe you will get it, eventually you will get it. Thats my hope and prayer. I think it is all of ours. Todd its the nature of human condition. Thats why we have religion and we believe in a higher power and today obviously an important day for christians around the world. Todd welcome to the Catholic Team by the way. Glad to have you. Griff we have a new 2 yearly. Message delivering. That love parents feel for baby. Those 2yearolds can be pretty terrible at times, too. We like the little babies more. Griff thank you, father. Todd nothing like watching a christmas classic on Christmas Morning. Which one is your favorite . Movie man kevin mckaty shares his top five there will be battles on the couch this morning. We break it down. More when fox friends returns on your Christmas Morning. Its time for sleep numbers lowest prices of the season on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort your sleep number setting. And snoring . 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The rogue regime calling it quote a pipe dream for america to even think they would stop testing missiles. This after the u. N. Punishing north korea for its latest test. Placing sanctions and blocking nearly 90 of its oil exports. And christians in mosul celebrate their first Christmas Mass since isis was driven out of that iraqi city. They were joined in solidarity by their muslim neighbors in a message to the terror group. Isis took control of mosul in 2014. But left after several crushing defeats by u. S. Backed forces. Molly Christmas Day is the member perfect time to watch some classic movies after those presents are opened. Which ones should you watch today . Kevin mccarthy is a Fox News Contributor and founder of nerd tears. Com. He joins us with a list of the top Christmas Movies of all time. Kevin, kick things off. Where do you start . A lot of films throughout traditional great christmas films. 5 to 1. Some of these you may not agree with im curious audience can tweet along with us as well. Number 5 is definitely love actually. I just rewatched it the other day with my wife. It is a great film to watch on christmas it is not a kids movie by any means. It is an r rated film. Interweave incredible stories together. I love this movie. Molly there is your romance. Other Family Friendly favorites for sure. Definitely, a christmas story is one of the greatest christmas films ever. And become one of those movies where every time it comes on