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president biden has a real love-hate relationship with the media. he's relied on the cross to promote his leftist policies. he combat the mic becomes becomes combative even though he has not been as available as his predecessors. he is old 19 news conferences and that is half as trump or obama in their presidencies. when he is available, incentive answers, this is what the media gets. >> president biden: i'm not supposed to be answering all of these questions. i'm going to get in trouble with my staff. go ahead but pretend i didn't answer you. i will take your questions and as usual, they gave me a folks. they gave me a list here. i'm not much to take questions, but go ahead.

>> there have not been many candidates campaigning with you. >> president biden: there have been 15. count. >> that was uncomfortable. i would like to bring michele end. he mocks them, dismisses them, or has those really awkward moments. >> michele: every present has a relationship with the press that is unique. if you are old enough to remember reagan and san donaldson, they had a relationship. jim acosta from cnn had a interesting relationship with his or trump. but heard anyone say about peter doocy what a stupid sop. that was something. this is uncomfortable to me. it's not very open, it is not very honest. when he says things like they

are the only press corps in the world that yells questions like this, he should be proud that the constitution of the united states allows our press to shout out questions and hold politicians feet to the fire and hold them to account. i think that is a point of pride in our country. >> lauren: but it does not always happen. "the daily caller" pressed the white house on why the president has this list of what reporters he's going to and what determines which ones get on the list. this is the white house's response. i don't have anything to share on that. on that list is hardly ever fox news or "the wall street journal" and this might be why. check out the headlights piglets let start with "the new york times." they write glowing headlines like this. president biden is back after covid. vacation and legislative victories and so are his shades. "the boston globe" calls him a bit of a superhero. you can't always get those glowing headlines. is that what he does not always come to the media who might not be as forgiving or favorable

question marks before absolutel. this is another example of the biden administration trying to control the flow of information to americans. from something as simple as who to call on, the list of the preapproved that he has to something as big as pushing tech companies to tamp down on sensor information and police the speech of americans. we know that mark zuckerberg admitted on joe rogan show that the fbi pushed him to censor the hunter biden laptop story. do you just secretary mayorkas has talked about the disinformation board. jen psaki, press secretary, admitted it. working to do just that. they want to control the flow of information. that is not american. >> lauren: they can say it is misinformation or put it under the guise of misinformation when it is not the narrative that they want to hear. we saw that with covid. we set up the covid narrative and now you will hear dr. anthoy

need to be deposed. >> dr. siegel: at the divisiveness us that the administration has encouraged your way to make my way or the highway, i'm right, you're wron. but i was thinking with the president, this is only a little bit of speculation. i don't know if this is true. he seems to want to control things because maybe he is threatened by spontaneity. he is not up to going off script. maybe he does not trust peter doocy because he will fiery question at him that he is not ready for. even on the teleprompter, he was making mistakes now. he doesn't like shouting across the room. that might be related to something that we set for a while now which is what's going on with this president? where is he right now? >> lauren: is it energy or age? is it both? what is going on? speak to all of the above. all of us, our personalities change. cognitive decline can occur for some people as well.

as you get older, especially with the president, you need to be more cognizant of what you are saying. you were supposed to be a leader and a role model for millions of americans. we see him mocking and berating disparaging reporters. some of our own reporters and that's not good optics. especially if you have an approval rating in the 40s. the lowest since harry truman in early 1950s. especially if you plan on rolling for reelection in 2024. you want to work with the media not against them. >> lauren: he didn't have to do that the first time because he was in the basement. now, success in the midterm elections and he has to get out again and face the fire or not. >> michele: maybe they will find another covert emergency to keep them home. but now we are talking about health emergencies. i don't know how he's going to function. personally, everyone keeps saying he's going to run and he's going to run again.

i don't know how that is possible. i don't know how he can carry and contort himself through another campaign. i don't. he is barely functioning in front of us. >> lauren: just turn 80. >> michele: god bless him! >> dr. siegel: it is not the age. it has to do with our their cognitive issues? we need to know. where is the yearly physical question work we deserve to know. we need transparency. >> lauren: there are several members in congress who are older than president biden. one senator is -- just filed for reelection in 2028 and he would be 101 years old. at the end of the term! is this okay? >> dr. nesheiwat: we have age limits when it comes to running for president. you need to be at least 35. why not have age limits for congress? age limit for senate or presidency? we do deteriorate. that's part of life.

our bodies break down and you have decreased muscle mass. your hormones change and your inking changes. it something to take into consideration because we are up against china, iran, the middle east. we want to make sure we have the sharpest leaders on the sharpest minds in the white house protecting us and taking care of us. >> lauren: president trump, a firebrand, lots of energy. he has running in 2024. who do you think would match him when it comes to energy on either side? >> kara: i don't think there is anyone at all. i can't match the man. it's impressive, frankly. but if you look at what is working when it comes to cognitive decline, when it comes to a lack of aptitude, the basement strategy has been working in elections for democrats. look at senator elect federman. they had him as well and he gets in there. i wish that mattered to the american people, but it does not seem to matter all that much especially to democrats. >> dr. siegel: just checking a

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easy this thanksgiving peer president biden pardoning them n monday so they don't end up on your plate. what does it is costing you a whole lot more this year and you can thank biden's inflation for that. your holiday meal will be the most expensive in history. the price of stuffing mix is up nearly 70% from last year. turkey, the star of the show, up more than 20%. dinner rolls and pumpkin pie also jumped by roughly the same amount. not only that, getting to the dinner table is going to cost you more thanks to the rising gas prices in the sky high cost of airline tickets. lauren, on another network, an anchor named joy rita tried to convince everyone that inflation is a word that we are being taught. why does she think so little of the viewership? we don't know what inflation is. we are feeling it every day. >> lauren: i hate to say that we are getting used to it because it has been around for quite some time now. at least the past two years have been defined by inflation.

today, when you are spending 20% more for your thanksgiving meal, we are changing some traditions. a lot of people said we are going to order pizza on thanksgiving because it is cheaper or, can you imagine this although it does sound attractive so you don't need to do dishes come out let's go out to eat for thanksgiving meal. restaurants are very expensive, absolutely, but the increased price of food away from home is rising at a slower pace than food at home. and you don't have to clean up. today, that's a lot of parents and families are doing because inflation has gotten so bad and we are learning how to adapt whether we like it or not. >> michele: that scares me. we are like the frog in the pot of boiling water. i want to remind you about this. new york democrat sean maloney, he may have ruined his election with this line. he said that spirit i will let him say the rest.

>> i grew up in a family where if the gas price went out, the food budget went down. this point we would be eating chef boyardee. that's what families have to do. >> michele: is can foster the answer? >> dr. siegel: no! we have such a divisiveness in our society. one holiday that we can agree on is thanksgiving. apologies to vegetarians out there, but the turkey is what we focus on. we have to have turkey. maybe that you turkeys he pardon should go back on the plate. two additional things. two additional things about this. number one, there is a highly pathogenic avian influenza out there. a bird flu that i have written about that has attacked the turkey flocks and eggs. chickens. that's a big reason why we have a supply shortage. the other thing that is the big elephant in the room here, and i think lauren will be interested in this, not only anyone has

said this. we sent hundreds of billions of dollars fighting the pandemic and it did not decrease economic also it was supposed to. because people ended up in the hospital anyway and people ended up sick anyway. we did not decrease the cost. of course there's tremendous inflation just from the money that the government poured out on vaccines, on all of the mitigating strategies. never got it back. we are in trouble economically just from the pandemic. >> michele: that we knew. there are some in hollywood that would like to cancel thanksgiving. they trample on this holiday. i love this holiday. but this is a holiday where so many charitable organizations get together and help other people and give out meals and give out turkeys. that is part of the thanksgiving tradition that i would never want cancel. >> dr. nesheiwat: it's like they are the christmas grinch of inks giving. it is at once a year. the turkey represents tran tradn

and thanks and camaraderie amongst one another. but sadly, we are at a 40 year high inflation and there will be families that cannot enjoy a thanksgiving dinner today like we are blessed to do. all of the gas and inflation, groceries, paying your utilities in your heating bill, it comes down to the high rates of inflation. all of this is a big driver because of energy costs. some people do not realize that we use oil and petroleum for most everything that we do. to have everything -- our plastics, jewelry, medical supplies, band-aids, contact lenses, heart valves. oil and petroleum is what we need to have all of these resources in our everyday lives. because of inflation and because of the rising cost, we cannot appreciate those and there are so many families that cannot have the basic necessities because of what we are seeing with this global war on fossil fuels affecting and impacting all americans. >> michele: we will speak to

that because inflation is not going anywhere. even after the midterm spirit as much as joe biden wants to tell us that the price of gas is dropping like a stone, we know that is not the case. >> kara: exactly. we did an analysis and we found that $7400 was lost due to inflation. when you are tightening your belts today, you feel that. that is why you are tightening the belts. does anyone remember when the biden administration tweeted out that the fourth of july barbecue in 2021, eight you were saving $0.16. where's the tweet today? >> lauren: you are saying going $140 based on march high prices of gasoline. they always pick the worst comparison points. >> michele: we are still spending more. >> dr. siegel: i would like to emphasize that point. my daughter worked in tacoma,

washington, and she had a food kitchen. on thanksgiving was the most important day. the gift of poor people. to give a sense of caring and sharing and not divisiveness. that is what we have to preserve. the turkey is the symbol in that. >> michele: it is. it is such an american holiday and we absolutely cherish it. coming up, on the heels of covid, two viruses, rsp and the flu are causing a new health crisis and overwhelming children's hospitals. we will ask the good doctors what you need to know to keep your family safe this holiday season. that is next ♪ ♪ 's life's most precious commodity, especially when you have metastatic breast cancer. when your time is threatened, it's hard to invest in your future. until now. younger women are living longer with kisqali when taken with an aromatase inhibitor in hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer. kisqali is a pill that's proven to delay disease progression. kisqali can cause lung problems, or an abnormal heartbeat, which can lead to death.

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>> michele: president biden may have declared the covid pandemic over, but now there is a new health crisis. children's hospitals are overwhelmed with cases of rsv and the seasonal flu. the american academy of pediatrics once the president to take action in writing, "we need emergency funding support and

flexibilities along the same lines of what was provided to respond to covert searches." the nation is now facing a shortage of amoxicillin which is tied to the increase in demand because of all of the sick kids and some of those kids are headed back to school too soon. "the wall street journal" writing, "some parents are sending children to school stick or returning them to quickly after illness. school knows to say it citing an inability to take time off of work and a weariness of dealing with so much illness during the covid-19 pandemic." i'm interested in the shortage of amoxicillin. if we did not learn anything from covid, how did we not learn about shortages? >> dr. siegel: we didn't learn anything from covid, but we did not learn about supply chains. we did not learn that over 90% of our antibiotics in 95% of our drugs come from ingredients from china. china has had all of these lockdowns and shutdowns and

closures and that has impacted manufacturing. we did not learn, and dr. jeanette is at the same thing, we did not learn that we need to make our own antibiotics here. the second thing we did not learn, and this is an age-old problem, that pediatricians over prescribe antibiotics when kids are sick with viruses. if that is clear, it's probably virus. if you are clogged, it's probably rsv. it does not help them to give amoxicillin for a virus. i don't want to get gross, but if the mucus is green, it is probably bacteria. there's a way that doctors can tell the difference. too many have panicked parents and they have a knee-jerk prescription. >> michele: i can see you chomping at the bit. >> dr. nesheiwat: to that point, it's not just amoxicillin that these raw materials and make gradients are in china and india. it's all of the other ingredients. these are critical life-saving medications that we need.

china has monopolized the pharmaceutical industry. fortunately, jackson health care has open up an antibiotic plant in bristol, tennessee, and they are trying to manufacture amoxicillin and antibiotics, but we need it now. we can't wait to weeks, three weeks. just yesterday, i do 7-year-old girl who had a really bad case of strep and i had to put her on antibiotics, amoxicillin. pharmacies were out. i was on the phone calling different pharmacies pleading and begging i need this for my patient. she needs it because she is sick and she has a fever. after three different pharmacies, i was able to find it for her. we have a shortage of baby formula and now this. never in a million years would i have thought. >> lauren: this is america. why are we in a more terms of creating the chemicals here at home question work i don't get it. >> dr. siegel: the answer is it's cheaper. it's a labor is cheaper overseas. we went through it over and over. farming out labor overseas and we call ingredients.

maybe a pharmaceutical puts it together for the final process here. it's not across the board. if you look at amoxicillin again, we may have one form for adults, but we don't have the powder to make into liquid for kids or for people that cannot take it. that can't take a pill. we have to bring it home domestically and what you said is really important. we need to do more and more and more of that. that will help our economy. if we ramp up production of pharmaceuticals here while getting rid of the middleman, the profit-seeking pharmacy benefits that are only there to suck a profit out of the situation and jack up the pr prices. >> michele: i don't know about you, but i don't want to be dependent on a country like china that does not like us very much for life-saving drugs. >> kara: they are our adversary and we should be very clear about that. i am a new mother. i have a 3-month-old at home. you talk about panicked parents. i don't want to rely on supply chains emanating from china to make sure that my child can get

better if she becomes sick. dr. bed. i found out i was pregnant during the formula shortage. i'm looking at the biden administration right now and it is characterized by negligence and mismanagement. when will they learn? i don't understand why we are not learning lessons from the past. it's hurting people at home. frankly, i'm going home to her in today and we will celebrate thanksgiving and thank god she is healthy. this does not bode well for americans and those with infants. >> michele: lauren, can you explain to us why this is so compelling and what needs to be done and also is it not okay for kids to get sick? isn't this how they develop immunities? >> dr. siegel: respiratory virus is something that all kids are exposed by the age of 2. the problem with all the lockdowns and shutdowns of school closures, this virus was not around. we usually don't see this virus

this early in the year. we usually see it in december and january. now kids are getting exposed to it when they are not supposed to and they don't have the immunity for it because the immune system itself is asleep. it takes it a day or two to wake up and by the time it wakes up, you get pretty sick. another point, and this is to you, pregnant women are not exposed to this virus. we don't get antibodies traveling across to the infant and when a child is under six months of age, they do not have a lot of immunities. that's what we are seeing so many young children hospitalized. >> michele: you're a working mom. what are your concerns? >> lauren: last year was tough. when you had a kid with sniffly nose, what do you do? put them in school because they are in a mask and no one can see it. but the school said if they had two symptoms, you have to stay home. just tell a 6-year-old picked two symptoms.

when a kid feels sick, it's my stomach, it's my head. i don't feel good. i'm coughing. no no. just pick two symptoms so you can actually go to school. then you have to write it down in an email or phone call to the school are in theirs you get a phone call right away. they kept less on the health of every child. parents are traumatized by this. you want to send the kids back to school because we know they don't have covid. it is just the flu and we can deal with it. you brought this up at the top of the segment with "the wall street journal." now, nurses and doctors are saying parents, hold up, keep the kids home. that's fine and dandy. >> kara: there's not enough child care! >> michele: what are the tips and tricks to keep people healthy? >> dr. nesheiwat: hand washing. especially for the flu and rsv, making sure they get enough sleep, a well-balanced diet, staying away from smoke.

smoke exposure can cause inflammation in the airways. but if they have a cough, a sniffle, it's okay that they go to school. if they have a fever and they are lethargic and coughing and respiratory distress, keep them home. it's not just a matter of them spreading disease to other students, we don't want them to get worse. we don't want their symptoms to deteriorate. common sense. if you aren't sure, call your pediatrician, but we need to keep kids in school at all costs. >> michele: anything to add? >> dr. siegel: i agree. very nuanced. we want kids home when they are sick, but we don't want a panic over reaction like we saw with closures. the other point that you should make is that spirit one more thing to add. who around you is sick? for the two or three days before a child gets sick, they may be already infectious. map out your house. i would like to talk about symptoms for a second. covid, i and seeing a lot of sore throat and headache rsv,

respiratory congestion. and a change in behavior. for the flu, you get hit by a ton of bricks and suddenly you are fatigued and you're out and you get body aches and muscle aches. they are different and there is a way to tell. if you are questioning, call your pediatrician. >> michele: whenever we talk about getting sick, i feel symptoms coming on and i know they are real. coming up, president biden's loan bailout may be in jeopardy and some borrowers have that money spent. you may be surprised or unsurprised to learn where it is going. that is coming up next ♪ ♪ i've pricked my finger 3,000 times. my a1c was still over 9. (man) then i got the dexcom g6. i just glance at my phone and... ...there's my glucose number. no fingersticks. none. yes! yay! my diabetes is no longer a mystery. you see a spike after eating raisins. but dark chocolate? no spike. that's a huge victory. my a1c's dropped over two points.

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borrowers confused. some are refusing to pay up while others are making plans for when their debts are wiped out. watch this. >> recipients of printemps and biden's student debt forgiveness blankets either payments drop. but 72% say that they plan to spend the extra cash on traveling dining out. >> rather than worrying about the future, one financial close telling abc.com that you should not use the loan forgiveness only for long-term goals. your short-term self make it frustrated. >> lauren: kara, that feels very selfish. >> kara: i don't know about you guys, but i went to public school and then i ate yogurt and i went to a combat zone to pay off all of my own demonic loans. people are understandably frustrated at this.

the working class in the middle class is subsidizing the gender studies grad who is buying their $10 latte still working six-figure jobs and getting their $10 latte. i have no words at this point. it is a trick to buy votes and it seemed to work in the midterms. gen z, over 60% of those from 18-34 voted for democrats and it seems to be working. patronage and politics. >> lauren: as many americans and many borrowers are starting to get the email and saying your application for student debt forgiveness was approved but it is stuck in legal challenges. what does that mean to a borrower who thinks they might have this $300 a month extra but they might not have it. how do you plan for your financial future if you were going to do something besides dining out or going on vacation? >> dr. nesheiwat: you act

responsibly and you make your payments or you are going to impact your credit score and if you ruin your credit, you will be able to get a car, you won't be able to get a house, you will have high interest rates on your mortgage and high interest rates and whatever loans you take. it is your duty and responsibility to pay your debt. under obama, they removed the basic assessment and evaluation of a student's ability to pay debt so you take that out of the equation and now, essentially, you are creating a blank check for 18-year-olds to do as they please. what lesson are we teaching our young children? when i was in high school, i worked a full-time job, my mom was a widow, i had five brothers and sisters. not only did i work full-time, but i worked hard to keep my grades up and earn scholarships for college. i took out loans for medical school with the intent of paying them back and that is what all of these students should do versus living off of the backs of other hardworking americans that did not go to college but are working hard to pay their own bills and other expenses. >> dr. siegel: when everyone

was talking about how my father on an engineer's salary paid my ivy league tuition. i was thinking about how in medical school, i had a loan forgiveness thing and i paid it back myself by working at bellevue hospital. i also think that what ken langone started at the medical center where i work, it was the private sector. philanthropist got together and said let's see if we can give medical students a free ri ride. billionaires donating millions of dollars. that's how the economy works. now the government. the government does not belong in this at all. >> lauren: that is a good point, but there is the idea of being above the law. president biden is asking the supreme court to let the program proceed as the lawsuits play out. >> michele: that's wrong. >> lauren: it is above the l law. >> michele: it's about the law. it's outrageous. my mind has not changed. i'm going to read you at the from miriam webster of loan. money lent at interest.

took out a loan to pay for the new car. something meant for the borrower's temporary use. meaning you pay it back! this is what you signed up for. now you are voting for president or his party because they said we will give you some of that money back. reasonable people can agree, and i don't know if every 18-21-year-old is super reasonable because their brains are not super developed yet. you take out a loan and you sign your name on a loan application, you were saying i'm going to pay this back. that's i'm going to do. my dad was an engineer. these are the values that we are reinforcing to young people in america. this is awful. i really think that this is just more part of the deterioration. i hate to get so down on it, but my dad was an engineer too my mom was a schoolteacher and they put four of us through college. i put myself through graduate school and i've worked every day since i was 12 years old. i have always had a job. i don't understand.

these are not kids were struggling. these are people who are making $125,000 a year. >> lauren: capable. i think we all agree on this point. enough is enough. be thankful for your education and i'll pay it back. coming up, it was inevitable. politics coming up during the holiday gatherings. up next, how to agree to disagree at the thanksgiving dinner table. this is impossible! ♪ ♪

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thanksgiving dinner. many americans say that the increasing divide between the political left and right has had consequences in their personal lives. foul taken before the midterms find that one in 519% of voters say disagreements over politics have heard a friendship or a family relationship. in my family, i tell you, there is discussion all day long. it is endless. i have family with a variety of backgrounds and a highly opinionated teenagers, but the key is knowing what to say and what not to say. i think that is based on the person you're dealing with and based on their maturity level and, more importantly, their sanity level. we all have one person in our lives that they are stubborn and no matter what you say, there is no reasoning with them. what do you think question what does that ring a bell? no sports in your household. >> michele: we are having a

very small thanksgiving later on today, but i will tell you that i am one of those 19% or 20% who have had some fractures and the relationships. i dug into the research on it and one of the articles we received said you do not have to disown your parents for their views. gee, thanks. but if you don't confront them in some way, you are complicit. think about that! i wonder if it goes the other way around. i would ask is the reverse to? parents don't have to disown their kids for their views, but if they don't confront them in some way, are the parents complicit? this author was saying if you don't challenge her parents and get them to think like you, you are complicit in their ignorance. it is an awful way to approach things. i would say, talk sports. that's what i would say. >> dr. nesheiwat: it speaks to a broader issue in our culture which is the increasing secularization of everything.

where previously we would look to faith and to god to fill the area in our lives, now politics is filling the god shaped hole. that is where all of the identity issues and people not knowing what gender they are, et cetera, et cetera, we have lost god. we are looking for something else. another religion to fill it in politics is taken that place. it's filling the vacuum. >> dr. nesheiwat: can't we agree to disagree? you won't have the g.o.p. or nancy pelosi thanking you for donations when you are on your deathbed. but what about you? some people were brought up with the philosophy of no politics and no religion and no money talk in the household. especially around holidays. do you think that as a rule of thumb or should it be old-school ideology? >> dr. siegel: i like what you have and i have the same thing in my house. everybody is polite and they represent different parts of things. my wife is from moscow so she talks about ukraine and she talks about that. we learn from each other.

different perspectives. but i would like to add additional thing. think about what thanksgiving is. we are celebrating today the pilgrims coming to plymouth rock in the idea of this country. i think this country was formed not just on freedom and liberty, but on debate. honest debate. we are strong because we can tolerate disagreements. what has happened to that? we are using terms like misinformation and marginalizing people and ridiculing people. that is un-american. >> dr. nesheiwat: i couldn't agree with you more. iin the same poll, they found that nearly half of voters said that knowing another person's political affiliation helps them to decide whether they were a good person or not. throw your character, throw your contributions to society. now it is a metal of your political party that defines. >> lauren: i love when people disagree with me. i want you to explain to me. it educates me and helps me for my own opinions. that's what everyone should be doing. not just dismiss someone or ridicule them or look down on

them because their views are letter a and yours are b. but maybe this is the way to find the solution. and maybe if not the best solution, but an agreed solution which helps everyone in the end but we get stuck in corners and we attack people if their viewpoints are not what we think they should be. >> dr. nesheiwat: do not fight over politics, fight over the last piece of pumpkin pie. >> lauren: except having a different point of view. split having the pumpkin pie. >> kara: i don't like pumpkin pie. >> dr. siegel: my son is allergic to not make so we need to be very careful. >> lauren: more "outnumbered" in a moment. ♪ ♪

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>> lauren: last but not least, thanksgiving of course is a great time to do just that. give thanks. but there's a new study and it suggests that it is good to do it more often. and it might be the key to happiness. researchers are finding 65% of people who say they are very happy on a daily basis are also more likely to express gratitude. maybe don't hold back on saying thank you and take a moment to appreciate all that you have and all that we have. let's take it to the couch. kara, let's start with you. what are you think of our? >> kara: i'm grateful that elon musk spent $44 billion to give us a platform for free speech may be. in all seriousness, it is my first thanksgiving with my newborn daughter so i'm so grateful she has healthy. rsv notwithstanding and we can start our own traditions and have a wonderful family of three for the first time. >> lauren: that is exciting. that's beautiful.

>> dr. nesheiwat: i am so grateful for family and for friends and to serve as a doctor. i think it is a privilege and a blessing to care for others. it's great to be with you guys come up what i'm most grateful for it is our military and/or troops who sacrifice their timed their lives for us to be here today to enjoy. >> lauren: you always say you are thankful for things and you are always happy. >> dr. nesheiwat: i have in my heart. >> lauren: you prove the poll correct. >> dr. siegel: i can't say better than that. our troops, we have to honor them. this couch is been amazing today. kindness is the key word. we need kindness in our hearts to fight the bitterness we have had. the way the country has become so divided. kindness is contagious more than anything. but i'm really enjoying this day. let's spread kindness. >> lauren: kindness is

contagious. >> michele: i love the alliteration. i am grateful for my parents. it starts with them. two kids who grew up during the depression who were not supposed to get married because my dad was a latino and my mom was not. they did it anyway and they raised four kids. they set the values for us and they set the foundation for my life. i'm super grateful for my husbands parents because they did the same for him. and now we are trying to raise our kids with those same values and they start rooted and how lucky we are to be born in the greatest country on the planet. >> lauren: amen. i will take it home. i'm thankful to not be hosting this thanksgiving. i'm joking. >> michele: you don't have to cook! 's anybody hosting today later? >> lauren: i'm cooking lasagna, but that's in addition to turkey. that's one of the things that we do along with middle eastern baklava. >> dr. siegel: my parents in

their 90s are healthy and will go celebrate with them. god bless them. >> lauren: so much to be thankful for. and of course, we thank everyone for joining us today including all of you at home and we wish you all a very wonderful thanksgiving day. ♪ ♪ >> i am private justin hughes and i am from wisconsin and i am thankful for my parents in the ab