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To all six of you this morning, merry christmas. >> thank you. >> gretchen: we need more stories out of awful tragedy, but it brought happiness to these people. >> god wants your soul, not your body. it's very easy when you think of it like that and how many other people we can save. >> gretchen: thank you so much. let's go over to steve. >> steve: all right, thank you very much. coming up, as you just saw, americans have big hearts and want to give. but if you're giving to charity, there are some things you should know. dave ramsey here next with donation dos and don'ts. plus, how this goat i...

Bizarre. 'tis the season for giving, but how do you decide how to slice up your charitable pie this christmas? joining us now from nashville is personal financial expert dave hamsy. >> merry christmas. >> steve: some people do it out of the goodness of their heart and the fact that the end of the tax year is coming prompts many to open up their wallets in particular. you say that folks during the season of giving should give to causes you believe in, right? >> absolutely. there's a lot of different, great causes out there and there is no possible person that has enough money to give to everyth...

0 neurologucal issues as well >> gretchen: where do we go from here? it is one of the big questions that we are grappling with for many days and mongs and years to come. president obama aim to scrap the assault weapon's ban. this was in affect from 1994 and 204 and now the president want to revive that expired ban and joe bidep will over sea the efforts. and it is it interesting, joe manchin who is from west virginia and showed an adof shooting a he is reexamining positions michigan governor who talked in the news with regard to unions . he now is going to veto a gun bill that originally he wa...

0 was fortunate to live through it and still was traumatized. that family dealing with that. obviously has sparked a debate about gun control, mayor michael bloomberg on some of the talk shows pressing obama to take action. you remember on friday, in his remarks at the white house, president hinted at that saying he thinks there should be meaningful action that both parties can come together in the days ahead. i'm told to not expect the president to gun control at the high school here in newtown. he believes it's not the time and place to do that. to focus on prayer and remembrance. no doubt, ...

from the trial of ahsan after demanding the army major shave. did the order show bias? >> ♪ >> welcome to the journal, he editorial report. little progress this week in evidence to avoid january's looming tax and spending cuts commonly known as the fiscal cliff. despite a call between president obama and john boehner, the two sides appear to be no closer to a compromise. are republicans working on the scenes on a plan b? wall street journal columnist, dan henninger and kim strassel. you have bean working the phones, is there something going on between speaker boehner and the presid...