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Reverend michael fauker in. it s great to have you with us. you want a christmas gift from me? i know you re surprised. let s talk about anything that you three want that you believe doesn t, that doesn t get enough attention especially on christmas, okay? i ll start with you reverend. what do you want to talk about? sometimes the harder the christmas message gets lost. the reason for the season. amidst the commercialism and the whole dialogue on the war on christmas. at the heart it s about the eternal invisible god becoming a human being, identifying with the poorest and the most marginalized, the most invisible. i feel like in the war on christmas, what we focus on are the externals of things. what is the war on christmas, reverend, help me. the war on christmas is where everything is materialized about stuff? materials and stuff and the ....
Through some of the biggest news stories across the globe in 2014. first let s listen to an original song by the new york city young people s chorus called i wish. ....
The clock stops and we re invited back for a party, we re not allowed to touch anything. does anybody get up there and push the star back into place? i bet the first lady would. did you enjoy collaborating with her? she s amazing. this year, the vision was really about kids and we talked about bringing stories to life. so we have in the east room these amazing large books with paper pop-outs on the mantles. and we put actual books on the tree. with stories coming out of them. and just, we have trains and we have carousel deer and it all came from the first lady s heart. which i think is amazing. let s talk about the tradition of having the first lady so involved. you ve done this amazing book, it s such an interesting idea, the notion of the first lady. and being the commander-in-chief for christmas. and it dates back probably to jackie o? yeah, it starts with jackie kennedy, who said if we re going to have 100,000 people over for ....
And western journalists and aid workers. then, that motivated the united states and its allies to come in with an air campaign. for the last several months as the year has ended this has been the mode of operation. in iraq and syria, attack from the air for isis. which has somewhat halted its momentum. it won t end the isis threat and the year ends with most people saying isis and the whole situation will not go away unless assad goes away. unless the syrian civil war is resolved. as long as assad is still there, this horror will continue. it has been such a horror this year. and such a troubling story to cover. let s talk about russia and a term that we thought we had retired with the cold war. but it felt as though it was back this year. you re absolutely right. who could have thought this. so many years after the fall of the berlin wall, the fall of the soviet union and an attempt to ....
They let it go parents hate it. dancing around to. let it go john has been stringing lights his whole life and says it takes about three full weekends to finish this bad boy. if you watch closely there s a single cactus dancing along, john making sure there s a hint of texts, tejas means friendly, by the way, holiday spirit. best of the landscaper bob mangan s house in cleveland. that s a house in there somewhere. how would you find the front door? i like american. landscaper by day, griswold by night, man who truly loves christmas. this year 45,000 lights blanketing his home and yard. task he started when? october. wow. now that s the look. an entire storage unit dedicated ....