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and on his final thanksgiving as commander in chief the president has some advice for his successor, plus a kentucky man with a lot to be thankful for. >> he woke up in a hospital minutes before doctors were set to remove his organs. yep, you heard that right we are following all these stories and many more, all coming in right here on the cnn news central thank you so much for spending your thanksgiving alongside us. >> we hope it's been a good one so far. and boris sanchez alongside alex marquardt, our colleague brianna keilar has the day off today mexico's president is giving a starkly different account of her call with president-elect trump after he pledged to slap hefty tariffs on mexico over the issue of immigration trump posted on social media that president claudia sheinbaum, quote, agreed to stop migration through mexico and into the united states, effectively

closing our southern border and then in a second post, trump said, quote mexico will stop people from going to our southern border effective immediately. >> this will go a long way, he says, towards stopping the illegal invasion of the usa thank you. three exclamation points. let's get straight to cnn's steve contorno, who is in west palm beach near the president's mar-a-lago former president's mar-a-lago resort. so, steve, what is mexico's president sheinbaum now saying about this call a very different description of the phone call. >> alex, let me read for you her comments earlier today. she said, quote everyone has their own way of communicating, but i can assure you i give you the certainty that we would never and we would be incapable of it to propose that we would close the border. it has never been our approach. and of course, we don't agree with that. now i will point out, as you said, trump said, that mexico had agreed to quote effectively close the southern border. so

perhaps that word effectively is doing a lot of heavy lifting for president trump in that statement. it does show that there is, though, this chasm between the president elect and the mexican president over these the future of trade between these two countries and how these these 25% tariff threats that he has put in place, or he is threatening to put in place, would potentially play out it is an early sign, too, of just how donald trump intends to conduct his trade policy via threats on social media, direct phone calls, very transactional approach where it's hard to pin down exactly what is hyperbole, what is a direct threat what exactly would be effective and what a victory even looks like because after that conversation and after those posts on social media where trump seemed to claim victory, it's not even clear what policies he has won, and also whether he intends to

take away that threat of a 25% tariff. and i've asked his transition team if that is the case and is 25% tariff, would go away, and i have yet to get a response. >> steve we've been discussing over the last few weeks since the election this set of meetings that trump has been having at mar-a-lago, sort of a parade of folks trying to get the president elect's ear. and we heard yesterday, meta confirmed that mark zuckerberg, the facebook founder met with trump yesterday. what are you hearing about that meeting yeah just the latest in a warming between donald trump and silicon valley valley. >> we've seen a number of people involved in the tech industry increasingly siding with donald trump, getting close to him. obviously, elon musk is one of those individuals. it's kind of ironic that mark zuckerberg is now one of it. remember zuckerberg and musk at one point had threatened to get into a cage match with each other. but but here we are

where they are. two sides are now behind donald trump and meta spoke with our hadas gold yesterday and provided this statement saying, quote it's an important time for the future of american innovation. mark was grateful for the invitation to join president trump for dinner and the opportunity to meet with members of his team about the incoming administration. it's also an interesting development, given just what trump had to say about musk only months ago. in a book he released, he accused zuckerberg of quote plotting against him and even threatened to to serve him with a life sentence if zuckerberg got involved in the 2024 election in any sort of way. but now they are having dinner together, just a complete reversal from just a few months ago. guys yeah, got to wonder if if zuckerberg brought up that very, very significant threat to throw him in prison for the rest of his life. >> steve contorno in west palm beach. thanks. so much. today, president joe biden says he is

thankful for a peaceful transfer of power as his successor prepares to return to the white house. >> but president biden isn't just giving thanks today. he's also offering advice and a warning to the president elect. cnn's arlette saenz is live for us in nantucket, massachusetts, where the first family is spending their holiday. arlette, take us through what president biden said well, boris and alex, president biden weighed in for the first time on president-elect trump's tariff threats towards mexico and canada, saying that he thinks the president elect should rethink those threats warning that it could jeopardize u.s. >> relations with some of our closest allies. now these are significant comments from president biden, who really has refrained from criticizing trump and his policy proposals since the november 5th election. but they serve as a reminder that biden and trump hold very different views on how to approach the economy, trade and also relations with u.s. allies. here is how president

biden provided his advice to trump as he spoke to reporters earlier today. >> i hope he rethinks it. i think it's a counterproductive thing to do. you know, look, one of the things you've heard me say before that we have an unusual situation in america we're surrounded by the pacific ocean, the atlantic ocean and two allies, mexico and canada. and the last thing we need to do is begin to screw up those relationships now, the president made these comments as he was visiting a firehouse here in nantucket massachusetts, delivering some desserts to the first responders. >> and it comes as president biden is currently celebrating his final thanksgiving as commander in chief. he placed a round of phone calls to members of the military, speaking to people from each military branch. he talked to troops who were stationed around the globe in places like guam, bahrain, as well as bases in saudi arabia. the president really trying to thank those first responders for their service and also working during his

time abroad away from their families. on this thanksgiving holiday. the president told reporters as he was at that firehouse today, that he is thankful for a number of things, including a peaceful transfer of power, the power of diplomacy, and also saying that he hopes that they could try to work towards a greater peace in the middle east, as he is trying to really focus in in his final weeks on the presidency, on trying to secure that ceasefire and hostage release deal in gaza arlette saenz live for us in nantucket, traveling with president biden thank you so much. >> let's discuss the politics with pete seib, former white house spokesperson under president george w bush. he's also vice president of hbo's public affairs group and also joining us nomiki konst democratic activist and 2016 delegate for bernie sanders. thank you both for being with us. pete, starting with you these very different accounts of the call between claudia sheinbaum and donald trump. where do you think this discrepancy originates well, first off, happy thanksgiving, boris. >> alex and everyone watching. i think this is less he said

she said, and more lost in translation. the mexican government has been patting themselves on the back for months, saying that they are doing enough to stem the flow of migrants potential illegal immigrants into the united states of america. they have highway checkpoints and and they're rounding up folks on busses and trains. but they're not doing enough. donald trump knows they're not doing enough. and the voters who voted for donald trump know that they are not doing enough. so i think there is some lost in translation. there but give donald trump a lot of credit. he is moving fast on this issue, which was a priority for him on the campaign trail and has been consistently among the top two issues that voters care most about because they want to protect their communities. and our economy. >> noemi, to to you lost in translation. what do you think what do you make of trump and some of his allies really claiming victory after this phone call with the mexican

president? >> i think it's par for the course for donald trump to have his own version of events. and obviously put that out on truth social, his own social media platform that he's making money off of as he goes into the next presidency. but with that being said you know, yes, the top two issues pulled up until the election were, of course, inflation. the economy and migration. but what's fascinating about this proposal this this tariff proposal to basically dismantle the usmca if mexico does not abide by what donald trump says, even though that migration is down over 40% in the last five months, is that the burden is actually going to be put on the united states, the people of the united states. we know that the usmca is critical for globally, it provides the framework for national and international investment, the costs of goods, of course, are going to go up for the american people. so if you think inflation is bad now, wait until dismantles the usmca and puts tariffs on china we import 40% of our goods from china and canada so he's using a pretty

much it's not completely resolved. of course but an improved migration situation at the border as a tool, as a weapon to actually hurt the american people. and that is the brilliance of donald trump. i will give him that. he runs as a populist, but he operates as as a capitalist who wants to deregulate, dismantle and basically destabilize the world by using very popular tactics as weapons. >> we just played that sound a moment ago. pete, of president biden publicly criticizing trump for his tariff plan against mexico and canada it's quite notable because frankly, since the election, a couple of weeks ago, president biden has really refrained from going after former president trump in any way what do you make of of what he said? does it have any merit, do you think because of what naomi just pointed out, the potential for prices to to skyrocket here in the u.s.? >> i think president biden knows what a lot of americans

know, and that is we've seen a version of this movie before. then president donald trump in 2018 used very similar tariff threats against mexico to get the then president of mexico to negotiate stronger security measures to stop migrants from going across the border. so we've got two months until he's president. there's only one president at a time. we'll see if he actually uses the power of his sharpie to sign executive orders, or if this is just donald trump being donald trump and using the power of his speech to get others to bend to his will. >> naomi, i want to get your reaction to something i heard from republican congressman derrick van orden of wisconsin yesterday i asked him how he and republicans plans to mass deport so many agricultural workers might disrupt the nation's food supply. something like half of all agricultural workers, according to the fda in the united states or the usda and the united

states are undocumented. here was his response and if it means that i have to pay more for guacamole but fentanyl poison does not come across the canadian and mexican border. >> and our mothers and sisters and brothers and daughters aren't poisoned to death by this chemical that's coming across the border. i'm willing to pay more for guacamole, as is the rest of the united states of america isn't the conventional wisdom that voters elected donald trump because they were dissatisfied with inflation and high prices for everyday goods? >> exactly. i mean, you said it yourself. he's again weaponizing a border conflict, which i am not convinced. and i think now that the numbers are much more clear that the voters that voted for donald trump were voting on immigration. it was a great rhetorical, rhetorical weapon. just as trans athletes were. and some of the manosphere blog issues were. but it really came down

to the economy. and if he cares about the american people, and if he cares about the people that voted for him and if he wants to have the house of representatives in two years, donald trump cannot do this. this will not only hurt and destabilize. uh you know, the workforce in this country. it will also disrupt the global economy. it will disrupt, obviously, how we how much we pay for our goods and what goods that we are purchasing. it's bad economics, which is why every economist doesn't agree with this it's bad foreign policy. it's bad for america. it's bad for you know, the stability, stability of the globe and it's everything that he ran against. frankly, i mean, if you want to be the populist that you are you have to act like one. you know, the rest of his picks for the transition through the transition team, for the cabinet right now are representative that i don't think this is just rhetoric he is choosing people that do not take things seriously, like covid. they don't take public health seriously. they don't take the the the global alliances that we have seriously. they don't take the fact that russia and ukraine are at a serious standstill

right now, and we need to be strong allies. seriously, they don't take nato seriously. i mean, you go through one by one, his picks this man is not acting. this is not just rhetoric. this is about destabilizing this country. and the world order nomiki konst pete seat. >> we have to leave the conversation there appreciate you both. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. >> still to come, the cease fire between israel and hezbollah appears to be holding for now. despite accusations of violations from both sides. and now israeli prime minister netanyahu says that conditions have improved for a potential ceasefire deal with hamas that could release israeli hostages from gaza. we have reaction from one family straight ahead. >> and then later, a kentucky man is wheeled into surgery to have his organs harvested. weeks later, he left the hospital alive. that and much more. coming up on cnn news central cnn heroes, an all star tribute meet and celebrate the

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this withdrawal from the israeli military is taking place over the course of the next 60 days. >> and that means that, at least for the time being, you still have the israeli military in southern lebanon including in areas where lebanese civilians are trying to return to. >> in addition to that, the israeli military is also taking up a role here, they say, of enforcing this cease fire agreement by going after hezbollah militants who they say are returning to this area. the lebanese army has said that israel has violated this agreement multiple times over the past two days, saying that they did this through the quote through the quote targeting of lebanese territory with various weapons. the israeli military is indeed admitting to carrying out attacks in southern lebanon, but it says it did so because hezbollah militants were violating this deal. >> the israeli military today actually carried out two airstrikes in southern lebanon in one of those cases, they say they identified, quote, terrorist activity at a

hezbollah rocket storage facility. they also say that they struck, quote, two terrorists arriving at a known terrorist infrastructure site that they say had been used to fire on israel. the israeli prime minister, for his part is actually touting these actions by the israeli military. he did so in an interview tonight we enforced it already on the first day. >> you saw yesterday we killed five hezbollah operatives. >> we captured four. today we striked more. there is no trickery with us we enforce it forcefully but if necessary, i have given directive to the idf. if this framework this ceasefire is violated, it will lead to an intense war and the israeli prime minister is not the only one in the israeli political establishment to be touting this ability, as they have claimed it by israel, to enforce this cease fire unilaterally by carrying out

attacks against hezbollah and that's because much of the opposition in israel, both from the right wing in the israeli government, but also from residents of northern israel, has been about this notion that they don't trust the cease fire agreement, they don't trust that hezbollah will abide by it. >> and they also don't trust that the israeli government will actually enforce it. and so that is why netanyahu is going out and making that point. but certainly it raises serious questions about whether or not the cease fire can be abided to, especially as the israeli military has already, and makes clear that it will continue to take these military actions as they say, to enforce this cease fire. alex. >> yeah, many there don't think that israel went far enough against hezbollah. jeremy diamond in tel aviv, thanks so much for that report. >> the agreement between israel and hezbollah is renewing hope for gaza and efforts to end the fighting. there and bring the hostages home. today, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that conditions to reach a deal to secure the release of captives have

improved. but, he adds a lot still needs to happen and a lot is still being done to get there. i want to bring in moshe levy to discuss with us his brother in law, omri maran, was abducted on october 7th after being held captive with his wife and two daughters, who survived and were rescued. moshe, thank you so much for being with us. i wonder what your reaction is to hearing netanyahu say that there may be an opening for some kind of deal thank you boris, for having me um, you know, we spoke exactly a year ago on thanksgiving last year um, as the ceasefire and agreement hostage release agreement, temporary ceasefire. >> uh collapsed between israel and and hamas. and since then, a lot has changed. but to be honest, not much changed for us families of hostages. i do not trust the words of the prime minister that the situation improved.

uh, for the mere fact that we've been told those messages since may and july and especially july but the entire security apparatus that, um conditions have ripened. and yet the hostages are still held captive. hostages were murdered since then others may have lost their lives. and of course, all of them were still alive under duress and torture by hamas and their accomplices in gaza. if he really thinks the conditions improved, he should enact and be bold, be courageous and call for their release by signing the. the only viable way to bring them home, which is a deal. >> and what was your reaction to this deal between israel and hezbollah? and now the accusations of both hezbollah and israel accusing each other of breaches of the ceasefire on one hand, i think that the agreement with hezbollah and the government of lebanon is is

problematic. >> we are returning to the patterns we saw on the eve of october seventh, when the israeli government is tolerating a terrorist organization that is threatening to keep attacking it. um, and is trying to silence it temporarily only to have a much greater escalation in the future. so i'm very concerned by that. but on the other hand, what the agreement brought is the fact that hamas is more is isolated more than ever at moment. they have no their closest ally. um, that joined their fight on october eighth have left the scene at the moment and perhaps that will push whoever left in hamas leadership in gaza to understand that they need to stop sacrificing the life of their own people sacrificing the future of the gaza strip and seal a deal, depart the gaza strip themselves as a leadership and bring allowing israel to bring home the

hostages and bring the humanitarian need and alleviate the humanitarian need of the gazans. >> i do wonder, given that we've spoken to experts who believe that netanyahu agreed to this ceasefire, deal with hezbollah, in part because he wanted to make president-elect donald trump happy. how you feel about the chances of a deal under an incoming trump administration? how they might handle netanyahu and the region first and foremost, i will say that like many other families of hostages, i'm thankful for the efforts of the biden administration. >> since october 7th to secure the release to prioritize the hostage crisis above other objective that needs to be achieved in the conflict with hamas, both in the short term and of course, long term. um on the other hand, the biden administration failed. they failed, um, with when it comes to hamas and their and their sponsors like qatar, turkey

iran, they kept emboldening them, kept harboring them kept funneling money, possibly to them. over the past year on the other hand, they were not able to push the israeli prime minister and the israeli government to understand that we managed to dismantle hamas militarily and in the short term, we need to achieve the other objective of this war, which is returning home the hostages. so the biden administration failed on both those fronts. i hope the trump administration will be able to force the prime minister to understand that we need to prioritize the return of the hostages. we need to prioritize a larger kind of vision for this future between us, the palestinians and the wider region. saudi arabia of course, and other actors in the region. and perhaps we can return to what was the the peace plan that trump administration proposed at the time and the abraham accords. but you know, the first step will be signing an agreement, bringing home the

hostages and provide humanitarian care for the gazans sadly, the trump associates were informed in the past few weeks, but by unknown israelis or those close to the israeli government that most of the hostages are dead, but actually we know from the israeli intelligence that more than half of them are still alive and i hope trump's people are listening to this interview and will keep listening to the families of hostages who are asking them, we need to act now in the transition period so that they'll be home by your inauguration on january 20th. >> moshe, have you gotten any update on your brother in law on his condition the last time we we saw marie, uh was when hamas released a psychological warfare video of him in late april. >> um his conditions were it seems like he lost a lot of weight, lost his spark in his eye, and and and the joy that is really what omri is. he's a

really joyful. um and caring and kind human being. um. and we haven't heard or saw him since. um, we do get updates from from the idf. um, like many other families. about what they believe are the current, um the current assessment of the hostages including omri. we have no reason to believe he is not alive. we believe he is alive. and we will keep advocating with the administration here in the u.s., with our own government on the streets because they breached the trust and are trying to silence the dissent from the people and of course, when we go to the parliament in israel and the knesset, we keep advocate with the with publics worldwide and this is and decision makers worldwide because there are still more than half of the hostages, more than half of the 101 hostages that we can still save, we can still save their life, reunite them with their families. and i don't want to meet you again in next thanksgiving. i don't know if you remember. we talked

about the odyssey last thanksgiving. um, and sadly, this odyssey continues and our odysseus, in this case, omri continues to suffer. well li qiang my sister. um suffering in other ways, waiting for him to return and advocating for his return. >> and moshe, it is disappointing that it's been a year since we had that conversation, and not much has changed for omri and for the other hostages. we do appreciate you coming on to share his story with us and with the world as well. and our hearts go out to you and your family. moshe levy, thank you so much for the time. >> thank you. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. stay with cnn. we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back for 30 years i've been saying publicly what people are saying to themselves, i have enough money. >> i could just shut up i just i can't carp. >> now streaming on max.

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family and they were trying to kill me. we had made the decision to remove him from life support because we were told you know, he was brain dead what you are watching is the honor walk. >> it's one of the most revered traditions in a hospital. it's when family, friends and staff all pay their respects. >> as someone is wheeled off to give the ultimate gift donation of their organs it's okay, but it's really and sometimes they just want somebody blessings except this man, t.j. hoover, was still very much alive so out of respect for moore and for the patients to see if we can stop recording at this point i think organ donation is a beautiful, life saving gift when it's done ethically. >> i was just scrolling through

tiktok about different kind of donation stories, and there was a little search bar across the bottom that said he woke up during his honor walk. so i watched it, and the people looked familiar. the hospital looked familiar, and i said that's this is our donor nothing makes me more sad or off. i don't know it's a very emotional thing for me because nobody should have to go through that and i just feel like there were so many opportunities for someone to step in and say, we're not doing the right thing. >> nikki martin worked for kentucky organ donor affiliates or coda. it's known as an organ procurement organization responsible for recovering organs from deceased donors. nikki was so disturbed by what happened to tj that she penned a letter to congress trying to bring more attention to cases like his. >> i believe in organ donation and have devoted much of my life to it. however, in too many parts of the country like kentucky, it's unsafe and i'm pleading with the government to

change that do you remember when you were driving to the hospital that day? >> what did you hear that sort of triggered the alarm bells? >> the tracking with his eyes and moving around trying to pull his tube out. trying to move his hands away. just all of the reflexes that he had normally are dcd donors don't have those kinds of reflexes, and they're not awake and they're not you know, conscious of what's going on. so it was kind of really shocking for all of us to know that cody's admin was pushing to continue is this money i mean, is that the incentive fundamentally, i think, for for cody. it is for any oppo. you know, they're they're paid for the organs. >> you think of organs as being a gift of life but what you're describing is a big money making operation. and that's really you think what sort of incentivized that push? yes. >> in a statement to cnn, network of hope said that cody does not, quote, receive

financial incentives based on the number of organs recovered and that its focus is on compassion not on pressure. baptist health hospital wrote to cnn that they work closely with our patients and their families to ensure patients wishes for organ donation are followed, and coda said it reviewed the case and remains confident that accepted dcd practices and approved protocols were followed when asked about the specific accusations by nikki, coda said she was not present in the hospital and added this case has been inaccurately represented by individuals never involved in the case. so we did track down someone who was in the operating room that day and did see what happened firsthand. >> her name is natasha miller. she's a transplant perfusionist and i'm driving to see her now. from what i understand, he was mouthing the word no and pushing hands away and things like that. >> he was very aware of the pronouncing physician comes in, and when she comes in, she

walks back out and she says, i'm not doing this i'm not doing this case. i don't feel comfortable. the organ coordinator that was there, she steps out to call the supervisor at the time to tell him that the pronouncing physician was refusing to do the case she said that he was yelling at her, telling her she needed to find another physician to come and she's like, there is no one. there's no one else to come do this case. >> is there any part of this that makes sense to you? is any part of this defensible? >> no because it seemed like at first they were saying, well, family family consented, family consented, family consented. and i get that. but again, it seems like family wasn't made fully aware of his actual state none of it makes sense. we should have never went to or about an hour. >> an hour and 15 minutes later the doctor came out and got us and told us to pull up a chair. she said he's not he woke up army humvee

on brian harman gurney it's going to be a good dancer. >> that's right. that's tj, who is now home. >> i just want to check your strength here. can you pull your hand towards your face i want to try and touch your nose that's pretty strong. good. how about with this? this hand? can you do it here? i know you told me that this first thing that he really remembers is being in the operating room and having all these people around him but have you been able to explain to him everything that happened the same way you explained it to me? i am. how does he react? >> why did they want to kill me of course, he remembers he was an organ donor and he has survivor's guilt. he's like all of these people thought they were going to get to live lyft run lyft. i was a registered organ donor, and i'm not anymore really? >> because you don't trust the system. >> i don't trust the system. >> what does tj's life like

now? >> he wasn't supposed to make it a year if he made it. hold your head up for tj. >> it's not just about being alive, but living and getting to be a part of these moments like walking his sister down the aisle and meeting nikki for the very first time. >> tj do you know how special you are no you don't you're pretty special, bud well so many reasons. >> you survived. bud. >> you're my hero. tj. >> doctor sanjay gupta, cnn, richmond kentucky our thanks to doctor sanjay gupta for that touching report. >> we'll be right back i've been worn by celebrities, athletes and world leaders, but

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