now, john. >> there is so much need. everyone step up, if you can. thanks so much for that report tonight. appreciate it. happy thanksgiving. don't miss full circle, anderson's digital new show. you can scratch it streaming on cnn.com/fullcircle or on the cnn app at any time on demand. the news continues so hand it over to chris for prime time. >> happy thanksgiving, you turkey. i gave you that tie and it still looks better on you. >> you did. >> all the best to you and the family. happy thanks, githanksgiving, b. let's talk turkey. very few, if any, have it easy right now. too many are sick, starving. the reality should make this thanksgiving more profound for those that have avoided that kind of covert born crisis. our tables and turkeys may be smaller. but be thankful if you are not one of the 50 million going

hundr hungry. i keep telling you this because our congress keeps not doing anything about it. now, as for me, i have more to be thankful for than ever, certainly more than most. i had covid, as you know. worst illness of my life. but i was lucky. and while i'm not all i was before i got sick, i'm more than fine. and that brings profound gratitude because i have talked to too many families whose loved ones were nowhere near as lucky. my prayer is that the loved ones of the more than 260 million stolen by this sickness not only find strength in family but they also find solace. if we were able to find solidarity in fighting covid, then maybe we will get to see others spared their pain. now, our president-elect agrees with that and says he'll lead the way. >> we need to remember we're at war with a virus, not with one

another. not with each other. this is the moment where we need to steel our spines, redouble our efforts and recommit ourselves to the fight. i commit to you i will use all of those powers to lead a national coordinated response. but -- but the federal government can't do this alone. none of these steps we're asking people to take are political statements. every one of them is based on science, real science. hang on. don't let yourselves surrender to the fatigue, which i understand it is real fatigue. i know we can and we will beat this virus. america is not going to lose this war. >> well, look, his urgency is aided by the reality. this today has been the deadliest day of this pandemic since may. we now have the most people hospitalized ever. ironically, this virus is raging most now in parts of the country

that were won by president trump, who lost in large part because he all but ignored the pandemic. yeah, times are screwy. they're confusing. but if you needed proof beyond the rejection of a record 80 million plus voters rejecting trump, just look at how he's spending his time while still president. he talks about the record dow and not about the record deaths. he talks up lies about the election as he ignores the pain of the pandemic. he hasn't even given you guidance on the right way to handle this holiday. why would a president leave that to others. he encouraging people to crowd into places of worship this weekend and thank god. let me tell you what you should already know. you crowd into places of worship, and you will have to pray for all the people you may get sick or get sickened by. j jesus never asked anyone to show their faith by hurting others. how is trump fighting for all of

you who voted for him by ignoring covid case exposure? by ignoring the need for relief. instead of spending time on that, wasting time trying to get trumpers in the pennsylvania legislature to steal the election. >> this election has to be turned around because we won pennsylvania by a lot and we won all of these twinge states by a lot. all you have to do is take a look at the numbers at 10:00 in the evening when everybody thought the election was virtually over. and then very weird things happened. this election was lost by the democrats. they cheated. it was a fraudulent election. you have to turn the election over because there is no doubt we have all the evidence. we have all the affidavits. we have everything. all we need is to have some judge listen to it properly without having a political opinion or having another kind of a problem because we have everything. by the way, the evidence is

pouring in now as we speak. >> last time i heard a voice like that with a screen that was lit up like that it was poltergeist. this is just as scary. all that evidence that's pouring in, he would be right if he was talking about the evidence that covid is killing us. he thinks a vaccine that is months away for the many is more than enough to do on his watch. as for all that evidence of mass voter fraud, they're nodding their heads, yes, yes, yes. then why don't they offer some? at least 30 cases lost since election day, all for the same reason, conservative judges, liberal judges, conservative states, liberal states. no proof. today more nothing. unsworn witnesses making claims of fraud that they suspected or largely heard about. all those trumpers in power, think about it, all those different electives in states he lost, swing states, yet none of them came forward with anything real. what does that tell you?

you know who knows the answer? rudy giuliani. he stopped sweating long enough to make the perfect point. >> i know crooks really well. you give them an inch and they take a mile and you give them a mile and they take your whole country. >> says the man in the shadows. he is describing what he and the trumpers are trying to do, claw their way into chaos, that maybe they can continue trump's reign of error. biden on the other hand, is taking a different path. now, look, he has a lot to prove in coming weeks and months. but one thing that we already know is he's not going to spend his time tearing down the very institutions that we depend on. >> let's be thankful for democracy itself. in the middle of a pandemic, more people voted this year than have ever voted in the history of the united states of america. our democracy was tested this

year. and what we learned is this. the people of this nation are up to the task. in america we have full and fair and free elections. and then we honor the results. the people of this nation and the laws of the land won't stand for anything else. >> contrast that with the reality that he's coming into. we have never had a president act more like a russian agent causing discord and division than trump. again, i don't know what biden is going to be able to do, but i for one am thankful to hear that at least he will try to be better. >> i believe that this grim season of demonization will give way to a year of light and immunity. why do i think so? america is a nation of

neighbors, not of limitations but of possibilities. not of dreams deferred but of dreams realized. this is our moment. ours together. a newer, more compassionate chapter in the life of the nation. the work ahead is not going to be easy. it will not be quick. you want solutions, not shouting. reason not hyper partisanship. light not heat. you want us to hear one another again. see one another again. respect one another again. you want democrats and republicans and independents to come together and work together. and that, my friends, is what i'm determined to do. >> he's determined. but it takes two to tan go. what about the retrumplicans? the republicants?

we isn't seen it in a very long time. let's take the state of play to the professor, ron brownstein and anthony scaramucci. you are hearing the same thing i am, that trump was being told, hey, what you are doing here is starting to be bad for the brand. how do you square that he's worried about being bad for his brand? i would argue this is his brand but with what they did today coming out of the shadows saying what they said today having proof of none of it. >> he's pushing back on all those people. it's bad for their brand, but for president trump it's not bad in his mind for his brand because he thinks he's got 25 to 75 million people that will follow him around the country after he leaves the white house. and that's why he's doubling and tripling down on this nonsense, chris. they like it. it's a dura frame lock for conspiracies and he's a dura flame lock. >> that's the best you got, he's

a duraflame lock? >> i got more. i was waiting until i spoke again before i said happy thanksgiving to you. i got more in my powder keg. let me just go to ron for a second so you can gather your thoughts. a ball of wax. >> wpixu log. >> remember that? that thing never stops burning. >> ron, it burns forever. that's the point. >> i think scaramucci was one of those guys -- he's not helping. he called in and goes picks, picks, picks, picks. >> i was a met fan. i was watching channel 9. >> let's talk demographics for a second. the irony here is that the people who are being hit hardest economically and in terms of

health with covid are places that voted more for trump. now, what does that mean/mean for biden's ability to actually do something for them and expand his own reach? >> right. the mold in terms of public perception of this was set at the beginning when it was concentrated most heavily in blue cities and places with greater density. but it spread all over the country now and it is ravaging what we call trump county. it does give a chance to deliver in a way the president is ignoring. the challenge is going to get even republicans which represent places that are being hard hit to participate in the solution. i was thinking, chris, you know, this is the greatest domestic challenge we have faced in america, i believe, since pearl harbor. can you imagine if on say december 8th or december 9th, 1941 that the republican leader in the senate at the time got up and said, my principal goal in

responding to this is to ensure the republicans win back the congress in 1942 and franklin roosevelt is defeated in 1944. mitch mcconnell has been such a craven partisan that we give him a pass on refusing to even acknowledge that the election has been decided and giving no signal he's going to work with president-elect biden on this challenge. but the fact is history will be looking at him and can he rise above his partisan past to acknowledge we are facing a true crisis as a country and it requires all hands on deck to respond. >> dumpster fire is what you should have gone with. you should have said dumpster fire. what do you think of ron's point? >> everybody uses dumpster fire. >> that's because dura flame sucks. >> all right. i was testing it to see if people liked it in my focus group. >> nobody liked it. let's talk to the wife. >> i do like what ron is saying. i like the point of what he's

saying. i'm not exactly sure what senator mcconnell is doing behind the scenes. i want to -- i want to hope and pray that they're going to return to some level of operation in the government. if he pulls the obama stunt where he only wants him to serve for four years that will be a catastrophe for the company. i guess the problem for mitch mcconnell is he's worried about those 74 million people, guys, that voted for president trump. he's not exactly sure what to do with those people and how he should handle those people in the aftermath of trump's departure. >> i mean, look, the scary signal to me, ron, what is your take on this, is that you have got these republicants. these guys that are saying we have to let this play out. they know there is no proof. that does not bode well for what will happen. >> no, it won't. >> because it is an ugly pivot for them if they try to become

straight. >> and not only that, chris, but by allowing and abetting the president -- president trump's baseless claims of fraud and allowing it to seep in among the republican party, 75%, 80% believe the election was stolen which is a striking commentary of where we are in this country, by allowing that to happen, they are insuring he remains the dominant force in the party. he will be able to leave office and most republicans will believe he didn't lose. he actually won. and it was -- he's only leading because it was stolen from him. that ensuring that they will remain under his shadow, under his thumb and by refusing to confront him now. you don't get to the kind of egregious chewing up of the rule of law like we saw today. it only happens because each step of the way republicans have refused to confront him, have instead abetted him and they are

basically guaranteeing more of this, more of him looming over them by their refusal to confront him now as he pedals this stab in the back theory that he will be nursing. >> anthony, do you think we will get more of the same? >> i will take the other side of ron on this one. i actually think on january 21st, they're going to slice his throat metaphorically and they're going to push him out to pasture as hard as possible because you have all these young republicans that want to run for president and mitch mcconnell knows that once he's out of power he has to dispatch them very quickly. by the way, chris, you know the president's personality. i know it very well. the minute he leaves that stage and it is no longer about him, he's not campaigning for other people. he's not going to go to diminishing crowd sized rallies for himself. and the bloom will be off the rose and he'll be 75 years old. so i see this thing ending way more abruptly than other people do, so i'm going to take the

other side. >> campaigning against. trying to intimidate republicans any time they try to set a different direction. by allowing his hold on the party to remain so strong, i think they are increasing their risk of that. >> but, remember, he's not going to be able to run until 2024. trust me. i know the guy. it's got to be 100% about him, 100% of the time. in the next few years it really won't be and he'll lose interest. that's the nature of his personality. >> so you don't think he runs in 2024? >> 0.0% chance he runs in 2024. he will have no standing in the party. the revision is history. five states flipped as a result of his incompetence and he's not going to have a chance to run. and all of these new players will be entering this base. once he's weakened and out of office, chris, they will

undermine and demolish him. >> very few horror movies don't have a sequel. >> he is the freddie krueger of american politics. >> how do you push a guy out to pasture once you cut his throat? go ahead, ron. last word to you. >> ron, be careful. he's like an english teacher on the show now. >> i think it would be hard for him to run in the end, but i do think he's going to dangle that personality. i think he will try to intimidate republicans. everybody has been assuming so many republicans are going along with him on this ridiculous fraud claim post election because they are afraid of him. you have to allow the possibility that a number of them will be perfectly okay if they were okay with stealing the election. that is an ominous signal. >> always grateful. thankful for you. best to you and the family. >> happy holidays. >> anthony, you are as handsome as you are helpful.

thank you very much. all love to you and the family. appreciate you guys. >> happy thanksgiving, guys. >> i'm thankful for you both. what do we see with what trump is doing right now. those were two good points of political analyses by people who know the game. i see what trump is doing now is just running rough over the rule of law. that's what he's doing. that's what he does. he's not about law and order. his law is that he gets to order what reality is going to be. when it doesn't happen, he kills everybody. if you shut your mouth and act out a feelty, you might get something out of it. michael flynn today got a complete pardon. why? he fought it. he shut his mouth. he never said anything about trump. now i want to bring in a man who oversaw the russia investigation. he knows the flynn case.

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the very first trumper fired for shady behavior was michael flynn. trump said he was fired for lying about contacts with russia. now almost four years later, flynn is getting rewarded for doing exactly that, getting a, quote, full pardon. the crime was lying about contacts with russia. flynn pleaded guilty, didn't want to plead guilty. he wanted to work with mueller. he didn't want to work with mueller. it was confusing. that's why we have someone who knows the case intimately, former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. the best to you and your family for thanksgiving. i am thankful for you. i'm assuming you can't hear me. otherwise, he is cold-blooded.

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andrew mccabe, welcome back. i thanked you. i thought you were icing me, but now we're passed it. what is the significance of this pardon of michael flynn? >> you know, it's incredibly significant, chris. i think, first and foremost, this is the president's latest attempt to cut the left out from underneath the special counsel investigation. look, he rightfully believes that all of the conclusions of our investigation and the special counsel investigation undermine the legitimacy of his win in 2016, so he has done

everything he possibly can to eliminate and eradicate the successes and achievements of that investigation. so i think that's the most important thing that's happening here. >> why flynn when he says he fired flynn for lying about russia when flynn cooperated with mueller? >> because flynn walked away from his cooperation with mueller, right? so he walked away from cooperating with mueller and essentially walked back to the open arms of the president of the united states. it's also important to note that flynn never, never pointed the finger at the president or any of his close associates in a significant way. i think the mueller team probably expected at some point that they would be able to connect those conversations that flynn was having with russian ambassador sergei kislyak with having been directed by the president or others at mar-a-lago. there are telephone records that

substantiate connections between them at that time. but what we learned from the special counsel report was that those connections were never substantiated. flynn didn't provide them with that information. and it's likely the president feels somewhat, you know, he's appreciative of that. >> well, those two different versions make a material difference. if they couldn't be substantiated, fine, then, you know, he had nothing to offer. if flynn just didn't s substantiate them, then doesn't the pardon come under a bit of different scrutiny, which is is he getting pardoned as a bribe? >> i think that's a perfectly reasonable question. it is not one that we can answer here on television tonight. >> will he be investigated or no? do you think biden doesn't want it so forget it? >> i'm not sure biden wants to go down the same path that essentially trump went down, investigating political rivals

and that sort of thing. but there is one thing i would get to you, chris. had general flynn actually sat down with those fbi agents and told the truth and simply come clean and said, yeah, i talked to sergei kislyak. i was doing preemptive efficiency before i was in the seat, what's the big deal? it is possible that the special down cell investigation would never have even taken place had flynn told the truth, it's likely that the case against him would be closed, which means that trump would never have had to ask jim comey to close the case, which would have eliminated one of the significant motivations that we were acting on when we decided it was time to open a case against trump himself. so if trump wants to see people who are individually personally responsible for many of his problems, he should look no

further than michael flynn. >> counter argument, flynn was set up. guys came in, posed as his buddy and they were looking to frame him the whole time. had he known that, he would have acted completely differently. that's because you guys were out to get trump any you could. it could have never been avoided. and really flynn is a casualty of over zealous investigation by political rivals. >> absurd. absolutely absurd. unfounded and a complete lie that's been per pet chew waited against me personally and many of my colleagues. the fact is we were investigating russia, what the russians had done with possibly coordinating with the trump campaign. we looked at flynn that had historical connections with russia at a very high level. and all of a sudden we found that flynn was, in fact, in contact with the russians, was asking them for favors, which they were granting. and then we learned that he was lying to the vice president, to

the president's chief of staff, to the white house counsel about those interactions with russia. so that is the -- that's the triple crown of counter intelligence concerns, and that's what we were investigating. flynn had the opportunity to take the wind out of all of those sails had he simply told the truth. he didn't do that. >> why do you think he lied to them about the conversations he was having if they were conversations for them? >> you know, i have asked myself that question a thousand times. and i don't have a good answer for it. there was absolutely no reason for him to hide what he was engaged in. the agents actually prompted him in the interview with his own words, trying to get him to acknowledge the fact, to think what he had said and done and he clearly disassembled and avoided that. so i don't know. i think that's a question that only flynn can answer. >> andrew, the best to you and your family on thanksgiving.

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the president summoned pennsylvania state lawmakers, republicans really, to the white house tonight, only there is nothing they can do for him. it's the same way trumpers like congressman mike kelly are celebrating a legal victory in pennsylvania. but is it a victory? the so-called win delays the congressman's re-election. does it mean anything for the presidential race? the governor already appointed the state's electors to joe biden. so let's try to make some sense

of who is celebrating and why in pennsylvania. we have attorney general josh shapiro. >> good to be with you, chris. >> thank you very much. best to you and the family for thanksgiving. appreciate you taking the opportunities on this show. help me, brother. what happened here? kelly is saying we won. we're stopping the certification. did you lose? >> chris, i think you did your homework again, as you always do, and that is, you know, congressman kelly is doing nothing more than celebrating really a delay in his own election certification because what the judge expressly stated today was that any elections that had yet to be certified in pennsylvania would effectively be put on hold until she would have a hearing. well, the presidential election has already been certified. joe biden was certified the winner yesterday. and, in fact, the governor has already appointed the 20

electors from pennsylvania who will cast their votes for joe biden. the cases that have yet to be certified like congressman mike kelly's i guess will be delayed now until this is heard. now late today, that same judge actually delayed the hearing because we appealed to the pennsylvania supreme court and said, look, review this and hopefully overturn it because it was wrongly decided. and, so, that's where things stand. mike kelly can celebrate and suck up to the president all he wants, but he will not alter the will of the people here. the election has been certified and the electors will vote for joe biden. >> if that's true, then why was that back lit bunch in the pennsylvania legislator's hearing today trying to convince them to overturn the election and pick their own electors. >> man, that was just sad. and, you know, it was sad that the president and rudy came to

say credit ground here in pennsylvania and disrespected our democracy. i would point out that it was not a hearing. no one was under oath. and rudy knows that if he has something to say that is truthful, he needs to say it in court. but he doesn't have anything to say and he can't lie in court when he's under oath. and so he comes to this sham hearing, this sham gathering and speaks to a group of people who seem to only want to be able to please the president. ironically, by the way, a group of people that voted for this law that rudy and president trump now are attacking. >> you know, many people have been asking online why didn't rudy say the same things in court that he's been saying in the other places? you just outlined the difference. if you say those kinds of things

and he can't back them up in court. did he put anything out to substantiate the president's claim that the proof is pouring in right now? >> absolutely not. i have heard the president and rudy say that the proof is coming. the proof is pouring in. look, chris, they have filed 30-some odd lawsuits and not one of them have they won because they have introduced no evidence of fraud, no proof of any wrongdoing. this was a safe and secure election. and the will of the people was respected when the vote was certified yesterday and the electors appointed. this is nothing -- >> go ahead. finish your point, please. >> i was just going to say this is nothing more than a sad last chapter for both rudy and the trump administration. it is sad the way they are attacking our democracy and it is sad the way, frankly, people are trying to follow them

through this. >> and, you know, look, pivoting from sad to salient, you know, there is a bassakwart moment here. if proof was pouring in that was malignant in pennsylvania, it would be you. and it would be those republican lawmakers. it should be in reverse. the republican lawmakers should have been coming to the president and said, look at what happened in our state. look at all this proof. this democrat governor won't do anything about it. look at this. they didn't have anything. wouldn't you guys know better than rudy? >> no. they had no proof. and they came and attacked a law that those lawmakers voted for. and the process, by the way, that helped them get re-elected. further more, i take election fraud very seriously. i prosecuted people for election fraud. there has been no evidence of any type of widespread election

fraud here in pennsylvania, any type of election fraud that would alter the outcome of this election. >> and, josh, the ag is referring to something there. just you have to remember how bizarre what trump is alleging, that he got screwed. but down ballot in pennsylvania, congress and in the state seats, they did very well on the republican side. so only trump got worked. and now they're complaining to the legislatures who are helped on the ballot that they want thrown out, it is just complete asinine, but three-quarters of his party believe the election was rigged. that's why i have to keep having you on, to keep re-informing the people of the facts. last word to you. >> yeah, look. i think that's the saturday thing here, that the sitting president of the united states came to gettysburg and continued his assault on our democracy and that people are listening to that, that it's undermining faith in our institutions.

that says to all of us that we have work to do to rebuild and prepare the damage he's inflicted on this country. i take my role in that very seriously, to tell the truth. i think everyone has to do their part to make sure that we rebuild from the destruction that he's brought to this democracy of ours. >> as momma always says, i'll start healing once you stop stabbing me in the back. attorney general josh shapiro. the best to you and your family for thanksgiving. i'm thankful for making your case here on our show. >> thank you, chris. the best to you and yours. >> thank you. you know why i'm talking turkey, because it's thanksgiving. and perspective on where we are right now, okay? a lot of people, millions and millions, have made their way to different destinations. yes, we have been warned by the cdc not to travel. and, yes, i understand why it's really hard/frustrating for people to follow it and many are not going to. we have seen long lines of

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we'll talk cases and then we'll talk common sense. 200,000 new cases each day. oh, after november 3rd, i bet you covid goes away. yeah. where are the trumpers now with that? hospitalizations at a record new high, nearly 90,000. we should've never played politics with the pandemic. it is killing us. the death toll is strierlpirali. we're turning circle by circle into hell. today was the deadliest day in this pandemic since may. more than 200,000 lives lost before the holidays. despite this, i know millions of you can't take it anymore and you want to see family because you want the solace. i get it.

i know i'm not supposed to say that. we've been given guides not to do it. i'm not seeing my mom. we'll have a smaller table. we're going to have to make something out of something that's not what we want it to be and it's not easy. i know you know what to do. i know you know about masking, quarantining, testing. but there is more to why the cdc is so freaked out about family gatherings and small gatherings in particular, more than they are about restaurants or anything else. to give that instruction, i want to talk to you with somebody who did it the right way, okay? now, the event was huge. the 99th birthday last month for his father. how many of us are blessed to have one of those in our family? i want to bring in larry gold sticker of plano, texas. congratulations to you, father.

thank you for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> when you say we tried to do it the right way, what did you do, so people conditioned what boxes you checked. >> so his birthday is in october. we started talking this summer and even had the conversation do we go or not and we decided we were going to go. everybody quarantined for two weeks beforehand. my brother, who's in san francisco, and his wife got tested beforehand. i drove instead of flying, ten-hour drive instead of flying to be safe. everybody wore masks and we did everything we thought we were supposed to do until we got there. once we got there, we stayed together, the 12 of us either at my dad's house or my brother's house. the only time we went out, saturday night for his birthday dinner, 12 of us in a private room, just us, waiters coming in and out. monday everybody started showing

symptoms of covid. >> how many of you got sick? >> 12 that were there plus i infected my wife who was not able to join us when i got back here, so 13. >> you did everything that you could think of other than canceling the party and literally all of you got sick. now, most importantly, dad, 99, he got it. is he okay? >> he is doing okay. he lost some weight. all his strength is not back, but i'd say he's probably at 90%. so we're happy. >> some people have had some different things. you were talking long haul where you got better but you're starting to have what you call phantom sensations where you smell things that you're not supposed to. you know, that's not phantom. the sense of smell, the olfactory connection, i'll put you in touch with doctors that are studying this. it doesn't come back. i've seen it with my wife.

you just don't taste and smell the right way because of the blood vessels. i'll take you through that privately. but what do you want people to know about what you learned the hard way? thank god not that hard. >> so i think my message is it's not worth the risk. it's not just about you. when we're talking this summer, the conversation was do we want to be the sons who killed their father? obviously not. if you're young and you're in college, it's not about you, it's about your parents, about your grandparents. you just don't know where it is. so just be safe. thanksgiving will come around next year, christmas will come around next year . if we had to do it over again, i wouldn't do it, bottom line. >> people will hear this story, larry, and say, no, no, no, they got lucky. they had the birthday party, people got sick, but they're okay. you're saying you got lucky and god forbid it had gone another way, you would never forgive

yourself. >> absolutely. we got lucky, but i had one brother who had to spend a night in the hospital. i have this imaginary smell. my dad, you know, again, 99, you don't get your strength back right away. so we do have side effects. ongoing. >> it is not easy even when you get when you think is a light case. i will privately talk to you more about what i understand about long haul and give you an expert to get in touch with. but thank you for putting this message out. >> my pleasure. >> a lot of people have a lot of good reasons to get together and it's important to understand the risk from somebody who did it very conscientiously but still did it wrong. >> thank you. just be safe and healthy, everybody. >> have a good thanksgiving. you have plenty to be thankful for. the best to your pop, 99 years young. god bless. larry goldsticker, thank you. >> thank you very much. bye. gratitude in your attitude? it's easy for me. i'm thankful for all of you, truly.

i've never been given the gift that you guys have given me and my team to report for you. we do it knowing always that we report for you and to you. and i know this is a tough year for too many reasons. i have some words for you right now that i hope speak to you as they did to me. thanksgiving indeed for all that we need, and for all that we didn't that missed us, whether it be death, disease, or destitute, if avoided, that means grace kissed us. for those of us broke, beaten down, or under medical care, the fact that you're alive means it could all be worse. time may heal, and the chance is real to grind for future glory. but never faster will grace reward us than if we add a new part to our story. together as ever as one. that is the way for us to fight.

to better days and better ways if we're together, morning, moon, and night. that is my wish for all of you, that you understand even in a hard time that there's something to be grateful for and that we can give ourselves more opportunities to be happy if we do it together. but from the bottom of my heart, and i know i speak for the team, thank you. what a wild ride we have had together this year, and we are far from over. a very happy, safe, if incomplete thanksgiving to everyone. another reason for us all to be thankful, the big show, "cnn tonight" with its big star, d. lemon. there he is. i must say this as part of your introduction, okay? i have to say this. who is the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? shaft! >> oh, you got it wrong. ♪ it's all about shaft >> when there's danger all

about, shaft. right on. >> yeah, but you did it wrong. >> of course i did. i'm a white guy from queens. >> yeah. right on. can you dig it? >> you see this cat shaft? he's a bad mother. >> shut yo mouth. >> shut yo mouth. >> how are you doing, you turkey? >> it's thanksgiving. i was going to say the biggest turkey i know until you gave that nice, warm greeting. and then you came and you talked smack about -- i used to wear turtle necks all the time on the tv. it's thanksgiving eve. what's wrong with my turtleneck? >> you're a good-looking man and you dress well. >> you were calling me shaft. >> because that's how he dressed and you know it. you know that's why you did it. >> he had a much bigger afro.

do you have a minute? >> my time is your time. >> i was so happy that you came back and you talked about what happened, this farce that went down in pennsylvania today. there was a reason why it didn't happen in a court of law under oath because if they do it in a court of law and under oath, as you well stated, and so did mr. mccabe -- i'm sorry, mr. shapewear, what does that mean? they pay consistent for lying. >> contempt of court. can't lie in a court of law. >> so why are people believing this? you know how many people -- if you believe that this was all conspiracy theory, which it is, if you believe this conspiracy theory to be real, i should say, do you know how many people that you would have to get together all at one time, not to go out and give up the jig, right? oh, my gosh. you know, everybody working in concert together and then no

one, mean thousands of the people were working in concert and not one person shared it with anybody? we elected that guy, here's what we did with those machines. nobody has said that. what does that tell you? it didn't happen because you can't get people to do that. >> you're exactly right. i'll make it more simple, double "o" don. this is what would be happening. the pennsylvania legislatures who are republicans and trumpers would be coming out with the proof of their own problems. here's how crazy it is. trump has gone to the pennsylvania legislature to complain about the law that they voted to pass that helped them win. they did well on the republican side in state in pennsylvania and on the congress side on the republican party side. so he's the only one who's complaining. so this conspiracy was only against him and at the same time designed toel