Tamara Keith

Reiner's son, Nick, has been arrested.

Tamara Keith, NPR News.

President Trump said the attack in Australia on Jewish families celebrating the first night of Hanukkah was terrible.

Trump said the man who was seen on video grabbing a gun from one of the shooters at great risk to himself was a very, very brave person.

Trump said he saved a lot of lives.

The president was speaking at a holiday reception at the White House and offered an addendum to his usual Merry Christmas.

Tamara Keith, NPR News, the White House.

And that was an anti-Semitic attack, obviously.

And I just want to pay my respects to everybody.

Today we can very say loudly we celebrate Hanukkah because that was such a horrible attack.

That was a

purely anti-Semitic attack.

There isn't a cohesive Republican plan or position.

The party is really divided amongst itself.

President Trump isn't engaged in the details and certainly isn't throwing his weight behind getting something passed.

Dueling Republican and Democratic plans failed in the Senate last week.

The House heads home for the holidays on Thursday.

The east wing of the White House was torn down to make way for President Trump's ballroom, and the work continues even as no plans have been submitted to the relevant oversight bodies.

Carol Quillen is president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle says President Trump has full legal authority to beautify the White House, just as his predecessors did.