>> fox news alert, tensions are high as the crisis at our southern border spirals out of control and it's blame game galore with the kept of homeland security now facing off against house minority leader kevin mccarthy. hello everyone and happy thanksgiving. this is a brand new hour of fox news live i'm griff jenkins. hey julie. >> julie: hour three but who's counting. happy thanksgiving griff and to you as well. mccarthy stirring the spot calling for homeland security alejandro mayorkas to resign or

face potential impeachment. mccarthy hoping the move will get him in the backing and give him the backing he needs to win the news house speaker spot come january. but the dhs says mayorkas hathi and i quote, members of congress can do better than point the financinger at someone else. they should come to the table and work on solutions for our broken system and outdated laws. border state republican jody errington weighing in this morning. >> the very facts that are being disseminated out of the department of homeland security are contrary to the claims that secretary mayorkas is making ridiculously enough that the border is secure. it's just more washington diversion and deflection. they're not taking responsibility and they're just going to continue, i believe, to a pease the open border and leave the people vulnerable to the disastrous affects and the

chaos that ensues at the border. >> griff: christian is live with the latest on the crisis. hey christina. >> hi griff, secretary may or cas is not resigning they came saying he inherited a demand lea system and saying quote he is proud to advance the noble mission of this department support its extraordinary work force and serve the american people. the department will continue our work to enforce our laws and secure our our border while building a safe ordinarily and humane immigration system. also, el paso's democratic congresswoman echoed the white house's sentiment that this is a political stunt after a delegation of house republicans visited el paso on tuesday. take a listen. >> republicans are doing what they always do, they parachute in, they throw temper tantrums and offer zero solutions. >> but some republicans counter that argument. they say they have brought forth solutions, including bills to

improve the asylum process and ways to improve deportation efforts. >> you know what else our plan would be? having the state department do its job and establish flight routes with these other countries so that ice can actually put these people on planes and send them back. >> meantime, massive amounts of fentanyl continues to pour over the southern border devastating thousands of families across the u.s. and just about 18 hours ago the chief of the border patrol's tucson sector shared these photos of a vehicle that was stopped with two 16 year old u.s. citizens last week just teen-agers there. they're accused of smuggling six migrants who previously fled from state troopers. kevin mccarthy noted the rampant human smuggling and all the cartel violence at the border as he called for mayorkas to resign. >> we're watching people being strung up, their legs cut off, we're watching children being used as human trafficking.

>> and with title 42 set to expire, those disturbing numbers that we keep talking about at the border continue and are likely to soar. there's been nearly 350,000 border encounters so far this year alone and that's up from just under 300,000 around this time last year. griff? >> griff: lot of people talking about that title 42 going away, christina coleman live for us this morning. thank you. >> julie: actually over a dozen states trying to get that thing to go away. jason chaffetz fox news contributor and former republican congressman of utah joins us now. title 42 was a trump era law that basically was stripped away by the biden administration which helped prevent millions of illegal immigrants crossing into this border. it's no wonder that a lot of these border states, most of them republicans won it back, do you think they'll get it back and should they? >> they should. look, secretary mayorkas continues to testify before congress under oath that the border is safe and secure.

it's not. that's an absolute lie and every single metric is saying that that is not true. what republicans, and i think the public is asking for is just enforce the current laws, mr. secretary. he's not doing that. and that's not just me or somebody else on television. talk to the border patrol. you can't find a single border patrol agent, there are thousands of people that are going to leave their families, today, on thanksgiving, put their lives on the line, go to work and try to secure that border, but they're not able to do their jobs. that's why brandon judd is on fox news constantly talking about mayorkas is not letting the border patrol do their job >> julie: no, he's not and dhs secretary mayorkas as you just said testified, he testified under oath, in fact, you know, just last week that the board is not only secure but he also claims that the border is closed. that is impossibly true. i mean it's just not. look at the numbers, 2.3 million illegal immigrants that crawled into this country in 2022.

that number most likely going up in '23. so either mayorkas is flat-out lying, under oath i should add, or is absolutely clueless about what is actually happening at the border, which is exactly why minority leader kevin mccarthy is calling for not only mayorkas to resign but he also wants to go on the border and start holding news conferences there in order to show democrats what's actually happening. the white house calls it a publicity stunt. it's not a publicity stunt, they're final leadership standing up no for our borders which is what the democrats should have been doing for the last two years. so my question to you the is should mayorkas step down? we just heard from christina that he doesn't plan on it. >> look, i think actually secretary mayorkas is doing exactl law, to power as many people into this country as possible. that's why the white house is standing behind him 100%. they tried to have a few scapegoats out there, the person in charge of the border patrol

this is on mayorkas but really on biden and harris. so i do think when republicans take control they will have field hearings and i want the president to enforce the law. it is against the law for anybody to cross the border, except at a port of entry. every single one of those people could, should, be arrested and be prosecuted for crossing the border where it's not allowed. but they don't do that ever, let alone deport them or secure the border. >> julie: yeah. i spoke with congresswoman camic yesterday who accompanied kevin mccarthy on his latest trip where he said he's going to hold news conferences. she said democrats have literally done nothing. watch. >> coming from an administration that they have done absolutely nothing but facilitate the trafficking of children and drugs across our southern border. their plan is they have no plan, and to criticize republicans who have not only put forward a plan to the commitment of america but have offered legislation time and time again.

it's incredibly disingenuous that democrats are saying, oh, well, i think we can work together on a couple of these issues. we have tried. >> julie: yeah. what do you think of the white house calling this a publicity stunt? we just had a sound bite of a democrat moments ago saying republicans just like to parachute in. listen, the president can president, he can walk, he can plane, whatever. visit the border, because he never has in his lifetime. so how is this a publicity stunt? >> well, you have members of congress that are from the state of texas. you have senators from texas and arizona and other places that are saying that this is a really serious problem. so don't tell me that they're helicoptering in. and by the way, that's something in 50 years of public service joe biden has never done. he's never going to do it again. go talk to the border patrol. there's 20-plus thousand of them. do you think that this administration will actually talk with and have the border patrol tell us what's going on? no way. they didn't hold a single

hearing in the democrat-controlled congress on this topic, and that is just absolutely political malpractice on their part. >> julie: yeah, go talk to the families, especially of the four border patrol agents who commit suicide because the morale is at an all-time low because they have zero support and once they put their lives on the lined and they apprehend and arrest, these migrants are being released. so what's the point of even showing up to your job? i've got to move on, though, as much as i would love to spend more time on this. republicans have laid out their plan for investigations once they take control of the house in january, as you know. that includes investigations into the border, as we just mentioned, the afghanistan withdraw, and covid origins, that's something by the way that's he ever in been addressed, the origin of covid god forbid you ask dr. fauci because you know the slap back yesterday at the press conference about that. but the big focus of course has been on hunter biden. what do you make of the white house complying with these gop

investigations? >> well, they better. look, they enforced subpoenas that were issued when the democrats were there why won't they do that when the republicans are there. they're already foreadd 0ing they won't do it. this is an investigation as comer said of joe biden. hunter biden is one of the people in the biden family but it's about joe biden, the sitting president of of the inside. >> julie: jay city of philadelphia jason shave its happy thanksgiving thank you very much. >> thank you >> griff: a major rail strike is looming and could cause serious damage to our already fragile economy. plus the white house already continued the pause on student loan payments and they say it's nothing more than a political stunt that will wind up costing the taxpayer big time. >> he's using an emergency doctrine from covid-19 to extend these moratoriums. it's outrages. what he's doing is playing politics.

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>> julie: lots of children are spending the thanksgiving holiday in the hospital today as rsv and flu cases are surging across the nation. steve harrigan is live in atlanta, home to the cdc.

hey, steve >> reporter: julie the cdc now has to track multiple respiratory not just covid and the flu but rsv as well and that's affecting many children especially under five one of the biggest challenges is simply to find hospital beds for these children especially in pediatric icu wings many even setting up tents. >> when there is an emergency bedroom open it is full and when there is an in patient open someone is waiting to take that as well >> reporter: last week pediatricians sent a letter to president biden asking him to declare a state of emergency to try and make things more flexible for hospitals trying to deal with younger children. as far as the rate of infection for rsv in the u.s., it's now at 2.9 per 100,000. that is more than double what it was just one year ago. the east and the southeast being hit particularly hard and many

physicians say a real driving force behind this increase in rsv is the covid pandemic. >> i think during the pandemic, you had a lot of people who are social distances, maybe they weren't at school and now people are in a situation where now they're back in school, in closer quarters and things like that. and so some people who have grown up and haven't been exposed to rsv, most children are by the age of two but if they haven't now that they're in close quarters, there is another reason why there's a rise of infection because now there's more people gathering together. >> reporter:. >> covid cases expected to rise in the coming weeks as well, especially for children, those age 5-11 in the us less than one-third fully vaccinated against covid. julie back to you. >> julie: steve harrigan thank you. griff? >> griff: julie, our economy could take another big hit with a rail strike on track just in time for the holidays. white house now has less than two weeks to get all unions on

board for another deal while only four voted against the agreement hammered out right before the midterms, the other unions that backed it will likely honor any possible walkout. >> there's not a real union out there that's going to cross another rail union's picket line if they put them out. the rail are counting on congress to intervene. we could get past the strike deadline and work it out but they're having so much trouble hiring the supply chain isn't healed like it should be. >> griff: they hall about 40% of the flailings's freight each year that means a strike could cost our economy some $2 billion a day not to mention the hundreds of thousands of jobs that could be lost as many who rely on rail roads shut down. there would of to be half a million trucks on the road every day to handle what the rails deliver. jean marx president of the marx

group, gene thank you very much for joining us, happy thanksgiving to you. sorry to bring you on with such bad news for our economy. how significant would this be if they cannot reach a deal? >> it's very significant, griff. you were the one that just mentioned the cost per day of two billion a day, some estimates can go up as high as $91 billion a day just because of the loss of agricultural goods and food spoilage. griff, it's all about inventories, most businesses have two or three days worth of inventory, particularly their raw materials to manufacture products. you have a big disruption in the rail. that impacts businesses from the chemical industry to consumer goods to retailers to the auto industry. it just has an enormous impact among everyone working in those industries as well as people trying to get to work in those industries as well. so it would have a devastating impact in the country if the rail road strike went through. >> griff: those are astounding numbers, short answer gene, do you think they're going to get an agreement?

>> you know, it is, like you had said earlier in the report, you have four unions that are right now, you know, that are contesting it. no other union is going to cross their lines either. so we could have a problem on december 9th. having said that, there is some good news and the good news is this, considering the fact that our freight railroads carry 40% of goods through this country, congress would probably intervene in such a situation. there is a law that dates back to 1926 which gives unions less power in going on strike and, if necessary, congress would jump in and make them adhere to a contract at least while they are negotiating and figuring things out. so that would be my bet. unfortunately, though, congress being what congress is right now, there's no guaranties that that will happen. >> griff: we'll be watching that, december 6th the deadline there. let's move to another topic, the president's move to extend the student loan payment pause drawing more backlash. a new york post-op educate called it profoundly unjust and

cravenly political. the non-partisan committee for a responsible budget slammed it as inflationary and economically unjustified. it estimates it could cost taxpayers another $40 billion the last part a kick, an extra 40 billion? look at that you can see there the extension is going to cost american taxpayers again, gene. >> yeah, it's pretty crazy depravement listen, as a father of three who worked hard to pay for my kids to go through college, and i know many other people in the same situation, it is a very unfair thing to not only delay the loan payments but also delaying it for the wrong reasons. most people understand that during the pandemic delaying these loans were necessary for people to get by. but for the unteamth time we're now having a delay until the supreme court actually looks at the president's, you know, loan forgiveness, you know, proposals to see if it's even constitutional. so now instead of delaying these loan payments to help people pay, we're now delaying these

loan payments to help people not pay their student loans. it is purely political and it's a little frustrating. griff, can i say one thing though? putting aside the student loan stuffs, my company serves small and mid size businesses, one of the pandemic rules that did pass a year or so ago is it does allow employers who want to help their employees with their student loans to get a tax deduction for doing that, up to like $5,200. and that's for principle and interest on a loan. so that's a good thing. regardless of how loan forgiveness goes, we are telling our clients if you're running a business you might want to consider that as a benefit to employees to help them get out from underneath stent loans a great benefit and the government will give you a tax deduction through 2025. >> griff: here's the problem, gene. if your client were a college or a university, what would you be advising them, that the loan repayment plan that the president's doing is a good thing for them. >> oh, my god, please don't get

me started on how our higher education system benefits from all of this t clearly forgiving these loans we're opening it up for the units to continue their tuition spiralling and their bureaucratic practices where people will be getting more loans in the future instead of addressing the systemic issues in the higher education issues which is hugely high overhead structures that are contributing to the high tuitions that most of us, you know, and people wanting to send their kids to college have to pay. so just forgiving the loans doesn't solve the problem it's just basically a favor to the higher education industry and it's going to be a continuing problem for those that want to send their kids to colleges and universities for many years to come. >> griff: sorry, gene i already got you started now you can take it to the thanksgiving dinner table and your guests and family will blame me for getting you all fired up. >> you put me in a bad mood already, griff. >> griff: have a great thanksgiving, my friend. >> you too. take care

>> julie: former president obama heads to georgia to campaign for senator raphael warnock, but president biden seems to be keeping his distance. so was that his choice? or warnock's? plus, the search ramps up for the suspect behind the idaho brutal college murders. why police aren't sharing what they have found with the public. we'll explain.

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on that at this point because we're not going to release why we think that. >> griff: dan springer is live in moscow idaho with the latest. hey, dan. >> reporter:. >> yeah, griff, as you can tell from the police chief, they are well aware here in moscow that the public wants more information than they are providing but they wanted to tell us in that news conference and tell the public that they are making significant progress. this is going to be a lengthy investigation. but they're doing everything that they can to catch the killer of these four college students here over a week ago. for two days in a row now we have seen no activity, no investigative activity at the rental house where the murders took place but we're told there are more than 100 local, state and federal cops working the case. we now have the floor plan of the house. we think the killer entered through the sliding glass doors on the second floor in the back of the house on the left side of the screen there. that goes to the kitchen and it's close to the bedroom where we believe ethan chapin and xana

kernodle were murdered. the killer would have gone up the stairs where there are two more bedrooms and this is where the bodies of kaylee goncalves and martha maccallum were found. the two unhurt roommates were on the first floor. the police are not saying who among the killed were among the primary target. >> first and foremost we have the integrity of the investigation to preserve and we feel that that information is integral to us in how we conduct our investigation. releasing that to the public may or may not flood us with a lot of information that's not relevant or specific to what we're looking at >> reporter: it also came up there was a very similar knife attack of a salem married couple last year unsolved. a man carrying a knife at 3:00 a.m. while they slept. travis was killed in that attack, jamie lynn was stabbed 19 times but survived. moscow police are aware of that case but are not saying if there

could be any connection. >> i think we're looking at every avenue and we have other agencies reaching out to us with other cases and stuff that we are doing follow-up on. we will continue to follow up on those. >> reporter:. >> we have not heard from the salem pd if they have been contacted by moscow reaching out to them. as far as where this investigation is going, it's expanding, a ramping up. we know the state of idaho is pledge ping $1 million to pay for this investigation and even that may not be enough in the end griff >> griff: dan springer live for us in moscow idaho. thank you >> julie: for more bring in former fbi investigator bill daily. bill always wonderful to see you. thank you seven. this is such a frustrating case and a really hard one with so much evidence and so many tips and so many interviews. but still no suspect among all that. no motive so far in this horrific quadruple murder. we do now know that the students were sleeping when they were attacked. they were on the upper floor of

the home while they were sleeping. their sleeping roommates were unharmed downstairs. and thrently were targeted and isolated. that's what police are calling it but they aren't explaining exactly what means. maybe you could try to decipher what you believe they mean by that. >> yeah, surely. and first of all i would just like to commend the police not just the hard work they're doing investing but also how they're handling this from a public relations standpoint. as much as we all would like to have more information, they do have to realize the killer is still out there and, you know, he is listening to this and he is also in a position where, you know, they feel as though the drag net is closing in on him. so i believe that they're handling this in the proper way, this he'll reach out to the public when they need the public's help on the other hand the integrity of the investigation needs to be held close to the vest. i want to say that up front. we're all looking for that treasure trove that ah-ha moment where we have a motive or sus expect but i think they're handling it well from that

perspective. but just from what's going on as far as what the police are saying, first of all, it was certainly impressive at yesterday's news conference just that broad amount of information that gathered, evidence the agencies who are involved and supporting them so people have to feel comfortable in fact this is looking at detailed very professional fashion from the get go. you know, from my perspective and i spoke about this previously, is that, you know, it would appear, because the killings took place on two levels but not on the third level, is that there was some amount of targeting. targeting doesn't mean that, you know, it was someone they met that night. it could be someone further in their distance, further out in their or bit who in some cases they may not even know felt disenfranchised or in any way offput by them and committed this act >> julie: yeah. i want to make reference to the left side of your screen if you're watching now. that's actually a live picture courtesy of our fox flight team

in moscow idaho and this is the house. okay, so notice the sliding glass doors, there's one downstairs at ground level and then there's one on the second floor with that wraparound porch. the front door is apparently locked with some sort of combination code, okay? so in order to get into this house, if you're an intruder, you're going to go through those sliding glass doors. you know, there is some theory out there that perhaps somebody got in through that back sliding glass door. you would need to know it's there. that's another thing that sort of piques my interest or not. we know the college students were drinking that night so who knows if they forgot to lock it. a lot of times i forget to lock my doors when i'm sober. i can't imagine how much evidence they're getting from this. talk about the dna. you have a lot of blood, you know, at this gruesome crime scene which could include blood and dna of the suspect. you have footprints in the blood and then you have footprints in

what looks like a light snowfall outside. so they've got thousands of tips. they've collected 103 pieces of evidence. they've conducted 150 interviews in their search for the person or persons responsible. but they say they need time and i can't imagine how much time but i would say a lot. i mean, this seems like a very complex job to solve. how complex is this case? >> well, i think it is complex. i don't think it necessarily, you know, moves towards the sophistication of the killer. it just may be the circumstances. >> julie: of course. >> you know, that surrounds the murders. as you said, there's probably an abundance of forensic information, whether it's fingerprints or dna as you suggested, whether under the fingernails of the victims or blood the perpetrator may have left behind in the course of the struggle. footprints, et cetera. you know, we have to also put the mindset on here that people realize just because you have dna just because you have fingerprints doesn't mean you're

going to find that person if they don't have a known sample on file some place. this can only help when you get a suspect and you're going to confirm they're at the scene as opposed perhaps leading you directly to that individual. we don't know that for sure but it is a possibility where you don't have a known set of either dna sequencing or fingerprints to compare it to. likewise with shoes and the knife. all those things are very important but in and of themselves may not be that immediate piece of evidence that provides the identity of the individual >> julie: right. and we know nothing about the identity although the cops did suggest that this person did seem to be a younger in age, not an expert in any means, and didn't seem to have much experience in whatever and however they got into the house. that's all we know. i can't imagine. my heart goes out to the families today on this thanksgiving mourning their

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♪ >> griff: less than two weeks left in the georgia senate runoff election and democrats are keen on securing that 51st seat even if it means taking the president out of play. politico play book reporting, quote, the white house let the

campaign know they are willing to do whatever they need to keep the seat blue including stay out of it if need be. their only focus is the win. former president obama is actually already set to help warnock in a runoff bid but warnock dodged when asked if he would welcome biden to do the same. watch. >> you talked a little bit about president obama joining you. would you welcome president biden or are there any plans for him to join you on the campaign trail? >> president obama is tight. i don't control the schedule of the president of the united states. we have a little over two weeks. >> would you welcome him, though, if he did come down? would you welcome him? >> listen i welcome the people of georgia to show up and we'll see over the course of the next few weeks. but it's a big tent and i'm trying to do everything i can to help the people of georgia, to understand the work that i've already done for them and to help them to understand that we

need 51. >> i like the people of georgia get away from me reporter. our panel ashley davis from our white house official and west friends central strategy partner and ari arimesh. happy thanksgiving first to you. ari let me start with you warnock did not seem too ecstatic to the president coming down to the peach state. >> you know what? he should just say that i welcome anyone coming down to georgia to campaign for me. yes, president biden is a first-term president in a midterm where the democrats and the president's party should have lost, you know, 30, 40, 50 seats in the house and probably ten or 12 -- i'm sorry, five to seven seats in the senate because of the poor quality of some of these republican candidates, herschel walker being one of them. or chief amongst them, has shown that, again, even with an

unpopular president, a president that is hardly breaking 45%, 42% in approval ratings and polls, you can still manage to hold the senate and not lose a ton of house seats. and that's exactly what's happening in georgia. so i'm actually happy that my party is being pragmatic. there are no hard feelings or hurt feelings here. if president biden isn't going to do well in georgia so he should stay in dc or somewhere else and let president obama or other democratic leaders who are popular in georgia and who can bring out additional votes, the suburban votes out to get reverend warnock a full term more power to them. this is the nfl, no hard feelings. if president biden ain't going to do well he shouldn't go there. >> we're bringing in the starting quarterback. ashley would a biden visit actually help walker? >> i am not sure at this point. and first of all happy thanksgiving and i missed you at soul cycle this morning in

washington, dc. i definitely think that the president staying out of georgia is probably a really good strategy for the campaign right now, the warnock campaign. i do think that a lot of his policies aren't that popular. former presidents are always very popular. ask president bush who everyone would wish he would be back right now a hundred percent for the republican party. but i don't think that there is anything that would be positive about biden coming down there and if he doesn't have the ego to make sure that he is front and center in this race, then i think it's positive for senator warnock. also, i am sure there's many people on the walker side, as well as advisors to herschel walker, that wishes former president trump would stay away from georgia as well. >> griff: very quickly i want to show you the amount of money. we've been doing this a long time all three of us. you look at the money going into

this race is astounding, gop 14 million, 20 million for democrats. ari, just your thoughts on how much is being spent. >> you know, it's a big race. again this is georgia. it's a big state. we're not talking about the new york or the la media markets so it's not as expensive but you have, you know, big markets like atlanta and savannah and a lot of rural counties you have to reach out to. it's a big race. i think both sides are showing how important it is for them to pick up this seat, even though again the majority of senate has been decided already. it's going to be in democratic hands. but this is a big deal. and, again, going back to what ashley said, former presidents are popular. that's very true. except if your last name is trump. that former president isn't that popular and i think his going down to georgia is going to hurt herschel walker a lot more, the same way he's been hurting the republican party by picking danned dates who should win and states are supposed to win but dr. oz and herschel walker and so on and so forth. can he hurt his party more than

biden can go down and hurt the democrats >> griff: i was waiting ari for you to bring that up. let me switch gears quickly. the white house is serving up some talking points for your thanksgiving dinner. you see it here the president's chief of staff ron klain tweeting out a list of his boss's top accomplishment this year to use when chatting up the family specifically they include tackling inflation and lowering costs. he also says the president took on big pharma and won lowering prescription drug and healthcare costs and he ends with warning that republicans in congress are extreme, gop congressman james comer with this. watch. >> i don't think they're going to find many uncles in america who are very pleased with the policies of the biden white house and their talking points aren't going to go very far unfortunately. we have high energy prices because of the bad policies of the biden administration. this is something that they can take credit for because of their green new deal policies they've

tried to implement through executive order. now we have record high energy prices and unfortunately they're probably going to only get higher. >> griff: now ashley i respectfully disagree with the part that congressman comer says that these talking points aren't going to go very far. i printed out my copy ready to go and i see here towards the very end, one of the last points is you should tell, quote, that uncle that they're taking credit for no taxes on anyone making above 400,000. that's above -- no taxes on anyone making above 400,000? i think that's going to go over well at the indidder table ashley. >> absolutely. well, first of all i think everyone should not talk politics at thanksgiving if they want to survive this day. but i really think this was a strategic move by the president and his administration. obviously they made it a little funny in some parts about talking to your uncle but if you're with your family what you're talking about is the cost of the food you're serving and

the high gas prices it took to get to your family's house and also you're talking about inflation but more importantly you're talking about crime and what's happening in our neighborhoods so i think this was a strategic move for them to come out and have positive talking points that they're controlling. i'm just not sure as you said you printed them out but it's kind of your job. i'm not sure how many people in america are reading them but also not believing them. >> griff: all right ari rhyme for you to have a big heart the white house communications put above 400,000 instead of below 400,000 and got this wrong, should they keep their job? >> yeah, i mean, come on, people make mistakes. this is a small error but about a big policy decision, correct? i'm an uncle in america and i like what president biden has done. and by the way, today, you're right, don't talk politics, either watch football or soccer because now you have both options on thanksgiving day. you have the world cup and a couple of great football games coming up. and happy thanksgiving, y'all

>> griff: that's right, no politics and get out there and do the turkey burn soul cycle as you did. ashley, ari, you guys have a great thanksgiving. thanks for taking time today. and we'll be right back. my most important kitchen tool? my brain. so i choose neuriva plus. unlike some others, neuriva plus is a multitasker supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: think bigger.

>> griff: well we saved the best for last, we have julie outside on the fox square. hey, julie. >> julie: hi, griff. i just want to talk about what we're thankful for. i know, i'm going to let you go first and then i'm going to give my reasons. >> griff: listen, i am thankful for my family, friends, this great nation, the great staff that let us put this three-hour show on. but i want to go out there and hear from your kids, much more interesting than hearing from me. >> julie: yeah. before i get to my kids i just want to say i'm so thankful to our co-workers. that's something that i always want to drill through especially those working with us today because they are like a family to me. i've been at fox since 2005, holy cow. it's amazing, i'm only 25 years old so i've been here my whole life. my co-workers are so special and fox is so special. i had kids whiffs 4. so this is --

>> you're not 25 >> julie: i am not 25. yes, you don't have to call me out on tv. addison 12, harrison six avery. what are you most thankful for harrison. >> food and family. >> how about you? >> turkey. >> turkey. does mommy cook the turkey? >> no. >> does mommy cook at all. >> your specialty is warm up french fries with warm-up chicken nuggets. >> thanks avery. and you're thankful for mommy's cooking, not so much. but thankful for family, right? >> yeah. >> yeah. >> she's my shy one. i don't know. she is not my shy one. >> i'm the shy one. >> you're shy, too, yeah. but not only that, first of all just being out here every single year for the thanksgiving day parade these kids grew up in new york city and as much as new york city has changed and i will say this is one day that is so incredibly special, the police have done such an amazing job keeping our city safe especially on a day like today and it went off without a hitch. the weather was absolutely beautiful and so i'm just really grateful to be able to be here,

even though i missed the parade i did see it out the window and these kids enjoyed. did you like the parade? >> yeah. >> julie: what was your favorite float. >> boss baby. >> mine was pikachu. >> julie: did you have a favorite. >> pikachu on the sled. >> julie: what about baby shark? hello. >> yeah, baby shark. >> julie: you guys want to sing? no. everybody knows the baby shark song so i'm on not going to torture you with it anyfurther. it's great to be here i. ♪ baby shark. >> julie: there you go. >> griff: i know it because of the washington nationals. come on, garrison avery. let me give you a little bit. ♪ baby shark. >> julie: ♪ baby shark do do do do do do, baby shark. there's grandma grandpa shark too but we don't have that kind of time. griff, we always get to spend the holidays together as well even though you're in washington, dc and i'm here in new york city. but how do you plan on spending yours after you get off this

three-hour tour? >> griff: i just got a text enter my 21 year old daughter who's been sent to the grocery store for some last-minute necessities, whatever they may be, perhaps flower or sugar and she said, hey, dad, do you want me to get you some beer? what kind? so i am fortunate that my daughter's looking out for me. my last question here, for harrison, what are you going to do after dinner harrison? >> julie:. >> julie: griff wants to know what you're going to do after dinner? any plans for after thanksgiving dinner? play with your cousins? >> yeah. >> julie: and rub mommy's shoulders. >> no. >> julie: a massage. >> no. >> julie: nothing? no? i'll work on it. happy thanksgiving to all of you at home. happy thanksgiving to you, griff. and thanks to all our viewers and fox viewers, you are family to us.ah i am thankfueal for you as well. >> griff: happy thanksgiving. but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you.

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