mhm Yeah. Mhm. Yeah, mm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mhm Yeah. Warm I see. There we go for about 10 seconds. 10 seconds. Stand by everyone please welcome Emmy and Tony award winning singer and actress, performing at christmas time holiday. Classic Kristin Chenowith, mm hmm. Mhm Mr Kringle is soon gonna jingle the bells, that'll tingle on your troubles away. Everybody is waiting for the man with a bag. This christmas is coming again, The slave girl, he's not gonna staple, he's got stuck to drop, never stop one away. Everybody is waiting for a man with a bag christmases, you again. What a bright time. It's the right time to drop the matter way to go bed time. So well, time to go gliding in a one horse sleigh. He'll make this december. The one you'll remember the best americans do everything how everybody's waiting and that little bag, it's christmas is here again. Mm hmm. No, he has a stable, it's not from his name, he's got stuff rocking at every stop way everybody's waiting for the man by this crisis raises again the engine to the grave, you make the with your track. So if you don't want everything, you should extra special here, it's december. The one you'll remember the best. Yes you ever did. Mm Wait where? Wait boy. Mhm Yeah, watch out, Come to the 99 now christmas tree lighting to you by the national park service and the National Park Foundation featuring Billy porter, chris Stapleton. Yeah, one is Kev mo Kristen Chenowith Maren Morris Patti Labelle and now ladies and gentlemen, your host for the national christmas tree lighting the hit cbs drama N. C. I S Los Angeles and iconic grammy winning rapper and Kennedy center honoree and a recent inductee into the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Cool j Hello the holidays well two in D. C. For the national lighting 21 draws to a close. We are gathered together here just in front of the people's house at presidents park in our nation's capital to light up the most famous christmas tree in the entire world. Now President Park is part of the american national park system and tonight this tree is an actual living tree planted right here. Uh this is our 99th tree lighting in every American president since Calvin Coolidge has taken part in this tradition. So tonight it's my pleasure to be joining millions of Americans as we come together to celebrate the spirit of this holiday season with great music, new memories and the lighting of America's Christmas tree. Yeah, okay. And as we do so let me give a special shout out and welcome to all of our men and women in uniform who are serving our great country and places around the world this holiday season, let's make sure they hear us wherever they are. Thank you. And now it is my tremendous honor to welcome our literal host, the actual host for this very american celebration. President biden and first lady dr Jill biden, mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. I think. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. Okay. All right. Good vibes. Good vibes. All right. So, mm hmm. We want we want to do it again. Not not the whole thing. You know, you're good. You all stood up. Very patriotic. That's wonderful. Yes. You're respecting the office. You're supposed to sit down again one more time. All right. You know? Yeah, just it'll be fun. Nothing's gonna go well, okay, follow the money. Lot of applause and now it's my tremendous honor to welcome. Our real hosts are literal hosts for this very american celebration. President biden and First Lady dr Jill biden. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mm. Yes, yes, yes. Mhm. Mhm. So welcome dr biden and a very warm welcome to you. Mr President for our safety. I'm gonna stay over here in social distance. I don't want to cough on you or anything like that. But everybody please take your seats. Take your seats. Thank you very much. It's a wonderful being here with you Mr President. First lady biden. Pleasure. I speak from here. Yes, sir. Movies. Okay. All right. Is everybody having a good time so far? Let's kick off the evening by lighting up the star of the show. The national christmas tree, everybody ready? Let's count down 55, yeah. 32 one merry christmas, mm hmm, mm hmm. Yeah. Okay. But okay. Okay, mm. Okay, mm hmm. Okay. Mhm Yeah. Mm how's everybody feeling? Good vibes? Warm vibes. Good energy, positive energy. It's nice to be outside again, isn't it? Feels good, feels good. Yeah. Mhm wow. Mhm Oh hey everybody, Hi chris mm how here we go. Everyone, everyone 32 and now to continue our night of celebration and make this christmas even more mary, please welcome a multiple, You know what? Let's do it again one more time. Who is that? Do it again. It's fun. Yeah. Alright, you'll be alright live. Hi. Yeah, one more time when you luxury it's like all right, let's go and abroad. And now to continue our night of celebration and make this christmas even more mary. Please welcome a multiple Emmy award winning actor, singer star both And screen. The one the only. Mhm, mm hmm, mm mhm Yeah. Yeah. Mhm Yeah. Mhm Now, true. Mhm Us married this? Yes. Uh huh, mm Hard. It's yeah, isn't it? Please Golden Friends. Mhm Smoke through the as we all will states. Mhm Yeah chris mm mm. Mhm. Have your merry little christmas make the yuletide. Okay. Mhm From now Golden free ideas. Mhm Oh yeah. Okay. Mhm Yeah. Mm Yeah, mm. Just getting started in America, we're coming right back with even more performances including our very own U. S. Army band downrange make some noise for them. We'll see you right back here for more holiday season fund at the 99th. National Christmas. Thanks only bs mhm. We're almost ready to go. Right you? Yes, wow! Well and that I'm happy to be standing, who helped possible national park service ranger. Millie Jimenez, Oh well, I'm truly honored to be here and with you, like I said that out loud, Yeah, yeah, you're learning, you're learning. And for anyone who hasn't been here, two Presidents Park, it's a national Park, right? It actually is is 1, 423 national parks and I understand you went from growing up in new york, specifically the Bronx uhh, to becoming a ranger. Yes, yes, so I was actually in a national park and there was a ranger who said to me, park rangers protect people's hearts and that might be in a national park or their backyard and from that moment on I decided I want to protect um folks hearts and help young people find their heart on their land. That's beautiful, That's giving a round of applause and clearly that park ranger had a positive impact on your life and through you on so many other. That's right, right, yeah, thank you and what better place to do that than in beautiful national parks, I've had the great honor of working in parks like Yellowstone national park, grand Teton and then right here in President's Park, that's beautifully said and in a beautiful park and since you're already doing so much to help. How about you? Help me welcome our next superstar performance so I can totally do that. Yeah, let's do it. Domus de caballeros? S con nuestro gusto que les presento Iguanas can tendo last christmas. Thanks billy for that in you do. And my own host translation Please welcome 24 time Latin Grammy Winner, musician and singer songwriter in the holiday classic last christmas. Oneness Yes. Mhm. You say one stashed. Yeah, stress said you just my stash. Mhm Yeah, I see. Yes, yes johnson these Uh huh You'll be safe. Yeah, I see there. Wait this Yeah swiss Yes yes. Mhm Someone smashed. Mhm stress Yes. Wild special market. Mm Yeah Jack. No man, mm get it. Yeah, Schepens say stress. Yes. World smashed. Right. This is a stache. Yeah, february. I'm still good. Excellent. Yeah. Love you too. Mhm Yeah. Yeah. All right. Here we go. Everyone standby. We're ready to continue and five seconds stand by applause applause applause handsome noise and some noise to be together with others at the holiday season is something I treasure now, maybe more than ever before. And this is the time of the year to be shared with our family and friends whenever possible. So it's perfect that tonight's event is a way to reunite our larger american family at the end of this year. Right, would you agree with that? Mr President? Yes sir. Yes sir. And it's also perfect that tonight's tree lighting is bringing together all kinds of people from all over the map. Musically and otherwise. And our next performer is one of the leading stars in country music who's used her powerful voice to encourage diversity and understanding with her tremendous musical talents. She's crossed all kinds of musical boundaries. And tonight I'm happy to say this is going to have us all rocking around the christmas tree. Please make some noise for the wonderful mary Morris christmas, christmas, christmas christmas, the christmas tree. Oh, mhm. Yeah, Yeah. Stay right here. Our national christmas tree lighting continues with more fantastic music performances. This is cbs Okay. Yeah. Okay. We're making a few adjustments. Everyone stand by when you continue to show momentarily. Mhm. Mhm. No. For you B one and now please give a warm welcome to five time Grammy winner and renowned blues artist. Fabulous kemo everyone Service and from mhm mm. Mm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Really ring back man. Good. Yes. Mhm. No, let's go. Yeah. Hello friend. Yeah. Once again. Okay. Quiet see sign at night christmas room. Okay. Mhm. Home for christmas. I'm old this by New Year's. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mm. Insanity. Yeah. No, as the state. Mm me With the one you love. Mm. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Mm. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. You never All right Philbin sorrow. No greek no plan be happy. Mhm. What? Yeah, No dreams. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mm. Mhm or sure. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. It was like, oh yeah. Mhm. Yeah. All right ladies and gentlemen, we're very close to stand by. Yeah. Why? Mhm. Okay. Everyone stand by, we're ready to continue to show. Here we go. So the National christmas tree lighting on CBS is made possible thanks to the support of the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation and I'm backstage with some american royalty, truly musical queen, the one and only Patti Labelle merry christmas, merry christmas, everybody christmas and we're also joined by Will Shafroth from the National Park Foundation. That right now it's amazing. Great show. Will thank you so much. It's a great show, there's a lot more austin performances including from the Queen herself. Look forward to that. That's gonna be amazing and nobody brings more. Come and enjoy the Patti Labelle, that voice. Right, It's amazing. So well can you enlighten the Queen and I on you know what's going on out there, everybody watching what they can expect what the National Park Foundation is about. You bet people love our National parks, but it's Grand Canyon or somebody almost done or the only King Memorial right here. So the Park Foundation is all about making sure that these places are preserved for future generations and then we connect people from all over America for the wonder of these places. So the National Park Foundation is not the National Park Service. It's a great question patty, the National Park Foundation's role is to bring donations from hundreds of thousands of americans from all over the country to support the park Service and make the parks even better for all of us to enjoy. Thank you and everyone at the National Park Foundation for doing what you do, you better appreciate that. And listen, you know, there are 423 National Parks sites, that's a lot of places and there's one probably closer to your home. So get out there and go to our website. National Parks are trying to figure out where the park closer to you see you in the parks, absolutely gonna be amazing. Yeah, absolutely. Let's hear it for cooperation. Thanks for making this a truly special day in the park for us and thank all of you for being here and now it's time for a performance that brings together two of America's most amazing and acclaimed authors. They here to treat us all to one of the most moving holiday classics ever, first made famous by the late great Donny Hathaway right here to blend their great american voices and bring us a very special version of this christmas, country music, singer songwriter and superstar chris Stapleton and Grammy and Academy award winning singer songwriter and sensation. Her and as I look on your eyes are shining town as well, carol men. Mhm there is much greater account with the national christmas tree lighting when we return amazing music and an incredible performance by one of our nation's most iconic singers. Patti bible performing with the melodic voices of the Howard Gospel choir right here on cbs, we stay here for your favorite. I'm wearing my glasses because I can't see the big Okay, yeah, yeah, okay. Mhm Thank you. Works at a guy up there but not for anything else. Yeah, yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm Yeah, yeah, this is particularly, yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yes, mm, mm hmm. No one, a lot of noise when we come back, Welcome back. Mhm. The social season and that's one reason it's so okay, carrots, yeah. All right, this is a very soulful season and that's one reason it's so fitting that we are joined by a great american artist who has been lighting up audiences, venues and christmas trees all around the world. She's a good friend, beautiful person and one of the greatest singers of the most wonder the year with the world renowned howard Gospel choir. Put your hands again, the phenomenon Labelle. Uh huh, mm One thing mhm Yeah, yeah with it's jingle bells and everyone B A thanks all. She's a yeah, with day greetings, hey, happy friends come to. Mm. Yeah, yeah, mm around there, it's okay. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. She, we've got much more holiday music, fun coming your way, the national christmas tree lighting will continue in a moment. Right here on CBS yeah, I mean holidays, everyone President and the vice President, my God, they're taking us in a to a great, great place, God bless them. No, it's mhm. Mhm. And yeah. Yes. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. All right. Yeah. Stand by hold. Yeah. Just wanted to make sure you know, you know, give applause All right. Like that part. You want what what national christmas tree lighting? Well, going to put those hands together chris and kept mo as they hit us with a sultry smoother and I want to christmas classics, merry chris mary. Just they Sure, okay, what? Thanks? Yeah. Three. Yeah, bought me that right. Yeah, no, you know, mm balance I musical mm Okay, yes, be settled. Mhm. Say sam three my yeah, yeah. Thing for you. It's great. She wants kiss you. Yeah, yeah, he's not 11 almonds. You have drink a scene. Yeah wow. Uh huh. A charisma. Yeah. Okay, mm hmm, mm. Right. You want ah ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Good evening, I'm grateful to join you on the ancestral homelands of the anna costin and piscataway people for the 99th lighting of the national christmas tree 1923. A letter from students to the White House inspired the first tree lighting today. Hundreds of students including for the first time students from the Department of Defense Education activity and Bureau of indian education schools share their creativity through the ornaments that adorn the trees around us because this is a national park. Anyone who visits our nation's capital can enjoy their artistic talents. It's a beautiful reminder that public lands are places that bring us together. My heartfelt thanks to Interior department employees who helped plan this holiday tradition. I also extend my gratitude to our first responders and frontline workers. It's an honor to be with so many of you this evening. Your dedication to the well being of others embodies the holiday spirit, whatever your family's traditions. I wish everyone a happy holiday season. I now have the great privilege of introducing President joe biden and First Lady Jill biden. Mhm. Right. Mhm. Well, my name is joe biden. I'm Jill Biden's husband on behalf of Jill and come on doug welcome to the national christmas tree lighting. Thanks to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for that introduction and her leadership. She has made me look awful good in my judgments and it's wonderful to join you here on your birthday madam Secretary, Happy birthday Yeah. And also thanks the National Park Service and the foundation that takes such great care of our national parks and the 1300 students around the country who created the ornaments that decorate the trees representing our states and our territories and a special thanks tonight shows l l Cool, J. I'll tell you what man he looks like he can still play and I'm not talking about instruments, I'm talking about football or something. It managed anyway. I'll tell you what but Tonight's world renowned performers were just wonderful to sit there and listen to you and hear you and and watch you. Over the course of the past 99 years, presidents have continued this great American tradition of lighting the National Christmas tree through war and peace struggling progress. You know, for the evergreen tree reminds us that even in the coldest, darkest days of winter that life and abundance will return. It's a bright beacon of hope. That reminds us of the promise we find in scripture of finding light in darkness, which is also a very american thing to do. Perhaps the most american of things to find light. And it's important to continue traditions like this one, to remember that simple truth today for all those lost during the pandemic. We have also seen how much there is the game, the appreciation and gratitude of the gift of time and the light of goodwill that we share as we look out for one another. Jill and I are especially grateful to our service members and their families and for their sacrifices to our nation. We also, we also keep in our hearts, those who lost loved ones because of this virus or any other cruel twist of fate or accident. We pray for them to find strength from sorrow, purpose from pain And uh as we look out across the country with the promise of a new year ahead. We know this. We are a great nation because of you, the american people, You are good people and because of you we will never be more optimistic about the future. You've made me so optimistic. I can't I tell you what we're so much ahead of us as we enter the holiday season and my catholic faith I think there's a prayer tribute to saint Francis. He says where there is hatred let there be so love where there is discord union where there is doubt faith and where there is darkness, light and that's what we do. That's who we are. That's what the United States of America is all about. So merry christmas America May God bless you all and may God protect our troops. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Never. Mhm. Mhm. When we return we close out this great night of holiday magic with one american classic as performed by another american classic. The one and only billy porter at the national christmas tree lighting right here on cbs
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