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police assist in mass deportati? >> no, absolutely not. we are not cooperating with those efforts that actively threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear of. >> we are not going to cooperate. we will not ask our police port to serve as i.c.e. agents. >> julie: a border battle ramping up before the second speed trump administration to bolster to fight against president-elect deportation plan as the team reported her late eyes rolled on sanctuary cities who his two complied. good morning, everyone, happy thanksgiving to you all at home and i am julie banderas. >> mike: julie great to be working with you and mike emanuel a special edition of "fox news live" attackers know firsthand the migrant pricing and that is taking on the district she represents that mike tobin live in chicago where the mayor has doubled down on his comments against

president-elect. might, good morning. >> good morning, mike that show down and sanctuary cities like chicago as the trump administration is looking for cooperation to get illegals off of the street. you have incoming orders are, tom homan, funds will be stripped away from those who do not cooperate deportation efforts. like chicago where the mayor cannot raise property taxes ma or brandon johnson will not help with deportations. >> we are not going to cooperate. we will not ask police force to service i.c.e. agents. we will not do that. we are working hard to restore confidence with community and policing. why would we put police officers in a position where the community cannot trust them? we are not cooperating with that. >> reverend cory brooks works in the neighborhoods impacted by the crash of the illegal migrants and homeless shelters overwhelmed and residents

impacted by the rising crime. mayor johnson is so unpopular, he doesn't have the right or ability to speak for what chicagoans want. >> we cannot allow in the city of chicago at the mayor to speak on behalf because he does not speak on the behalf of the people. who he only has 14% approval rating. that means the majority of the people in chicago do not believe with his policies or agree with him. >> chicago stands out as a sanctuary city in this particular fight, but defiant leadership in los angeles, damper, new york city. >> mike: mike tobin starting us off live in chicago, thank you very much. julie. speed to york republican congresswoman nicole malliotakis to talk about this. explained to us how the migrant crime data and migrant crime data request has gone and answered thus far by the nypd.

>> i have been trying to get this information from the administration since october last year. we've had to go to freedom of information request and postpone three times refusing to disclose to the public arrest of migrants at the shelters who committed crimes. we know as of last year, it was 1,200 arrests made and that has certainly skyrocketed because almost every day you read about a crime with a robbery or more heinous crime like rape or even stabbings or murders committed in the city. we want the administration to be transparent and let us know, let the public know the damage you have done by forcing taxpayers to fund the shelters so individuals who are members of gangs and criminals can wreak havoc on the city. >> julie: i want to look at crimes, migrant crime headlines that the people need to read and see to believe. "newsweek," and i quote,

"notorious venezuelan gang targeting kids with recruitment drive in new york city. "new york post" venezuelan migrant with ties to tren de aragua after arrested grands with lewd robbery in new york city protester." can we put that up on the screen with this piece of garbage, put up on the screen. this person is proud he is bidding for system and taking advantage of the system in this system has allowed emigrants like this criminals into this country repeatability. at this point, we are a laughingstock, a joke, an actual joke, we are a joke. what will change under the administration to turn this around? >> first of all the current biden-harris policy that protection to release these individuals into the interior. so many people that have been arrested or, at the border. but biden and his administration for cpp to let them go. so they have lied to americans

when they say these individuals were embedded. number two, president trump has made it clear he will shut down the border and put national security first and no more embedded individuals into the interior and use every tool box he has to make sure the neighboring countries cooperate with us and to go beyond that. we should be using our leverage and trade policy and trade preference policies with other countries who are allowing this type of activity. nicaragua is a perfect example, profiting off of individuals coming through the country to make their way to the southern border by charging them a fee. i commend president trump for saying day one, he started to put the pieces in place to go after the drug cartels, to stop this human trafficking, and then let's find 300,000 children where we don't know where they are most likely some type of sex trafficking or child labor situation. let's try to save them.

first and foremost, we need to secure the border and read our city and country of the people wreaking havoc on our streets. >> julie: absolutely and by the way, obviously illegal immigration has gotten completely out of control but what is also out of control is the messaging from the democratic party that have basically incited these threats that are now happening to these administration picks by president trump and his cabinet where there have been numerous orchestrated threats on their cabinet. this is the very latest. literally, yesterday, i remember more and more names trickling in. everyone here targeted and every one of these people targeted, lee zeldin was targeted, his family threatened. they are all saved, thank god, security is on top of it. but these are not yet -- they are elected but not necessarily nominated but not necessarily serving yet so they don't have the protection that typical, you know, presidential

administration service members have at this point. they are relying on local law enforcement to protect them. what do you say to local law enforcement and also to the democrats who basically incited this kind of violence? >> well, our law enforcement we say thank you, thank you for putting the safety of our community and all of these individuals first. they reality we are in a difficult time in this country and we can never allow the violence, the political violence and the tactics used in other countries where so many immigrants who are here now fled to escape. that can never happen here in the united states. so i have confidence the trump administration will come in and make sure the law enforcement is putting the safety of our government officials first and foremost. more importantly, finding these individuals that are behind these threats and making the arrests to get them off at the street so they can't commit any type of crimes. look, i thank my colleagues for

serving and it is always difficult to have these types of threats. i wish them and their families well. they are willing to put everything at stake to serve this country and make sure it is corrected and put on the right path. >> julie: thank you for the work you do as well, nicole malliotakis, thank you for your time on thanksgiving to talk to us about this important matter. a happy thanksgiving. >> a happy thanksgiving, thank you. >> mike: what is described a massive attack on ukraine's energy system and how it is impacting those caught in the cross fire. plus, a series of mysterious drone sightings over military bases. what could be behind it? >> we need to shoot them down rather than for an adversary collecting on as, which they are in testing a response, which they have and they have been getting away with it.

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♪ ♪ >> julie: the u.s. air force as an unidentified drone spotted over four joint u.s. military bases in england. the mysterious drone's repaid the lady appeared over a week now. stephanie bennett live in london. this is pretty disturbing. what do we know about these drones? >> that is exactly right, julie.

the details are still very limited at this time. the siding started last week november 20th, and they have ranged in size and style. in the amount we have been seeing over the last week or so we'll. senior british official confirmed to fox the u.k. has deployed 60 troops, including counter drone specialist to help determine who is behind this and help defend the airbases amidst peers have a coordinated operation. they are describing the incident as unusual it's a serious set of circumstances. take a look at the map, spread across england and all used by u.s. air force. the drones over lincoln heath, mel den hall, and the civilian place by the administrative defense launched an investigation. so far, no impact to residents or infrastructure and not identified as hostile. ministry of defense said we take

it seriously and robust at defense sites but as of right now, no significant mission impact appeared to the pentagon briefing fox national security correspondent jennifer griffin asked whether the drones appear to be of something more sinister in concerning. >> again it would be premature to draw conclusions. we have to see what these are. it could be hobbyists or some something else. we have to look into it. >> for now the u.s. air force as the investigation is, of course, still ongoing analyze on the skies, julie. is. >> julie: all right, thank you very much, mike. >> mike: and other massive attack on ukraine's energy infrastructure overnight leaving more than 1 million households without power and russia's aerial attack with trump taps keith kellogg special envoy to ukraine and russia. a united states marine join us

now and good morning to both of you. >> thank you for having me. >> good morning, happy thanksgiving periods fee when i would like to show the audience a map of ukraine with a section and read which shows the eastern part of the country that is under russian control. when you look at lieutenant general keith kellogg taking on the special envoy role, chad, what do you expect he will recommend to wrap up this war? >> he will wrap up what president trump has promised to the american people and that is a path to peace. the last three and a half years, we have not seen a path to peace but $200 billion in an industrial complex in the united states where people get richer while the vulnerable people of ukraine are dying. nearly 1 million people have died. we are sending $500 million to

also including intercontinental ballistic missiles that president biden has given the green light for zelenskyy to fire into russia escalating this thing when we have an administration changed january 20th. this is being provoked. president trump has promised american people and ukraine people to bring peace in negotiations between putin in zelenskyy. i believe he can do it. i wrote in my book that i believe president trump can do it. impact, on my show, i just interviewed three commanders just two days ago. coming from ukrainian commanders fighting on the ground and fighting on the ground three years now, this is what they want here to they are tired of the dying and the people dying and they wanted to end. >> mike: kate at the you believe general kellogg will attack the problem, the conflict in ukraine? >> i think trump brings peace

through strength and kept a entire piece through the globe and will bring an end to the war quickly. up on the other side, bringing peace coming to an agreement between these two countries, we have to wonder what we will do to rebuild our own stockpile of weapons? what will we do to shore up military crisis? we are asking ukraine to move your equipment from five down to 18 to essentially use people's cannon fodder while we ourselves do not have a strong enough military and giving our weapons and money. it will be interesting to see what happens $6.5 billion they cannot get from the rest of congress. i would love to see that work towards housing for the homeless veterans of the amp instructor on pace and active military peoe can eat without food stamps. peace through strength will end this war the day that he takes office. >> mike: let me pick up on that point you just made the biden administration doesn't

have enough time to spend $6.5 billion in weapons for ukraine. that has been authorized by congress and there it is on the screen. the administration has $6.5 billion left in what is known as drawdown authority the united states would have to shia day or just shy of 3 billion in december /january to spend the funds in time. does that money, chad give present electrons leveraged to draw the ukrainians to the negotiating table? >> it absolutely does. it gives president trump what he needs to sit down with president zelenskyy in the negotiate peace on his side. president trump also recognize is what president reagan recognized when economically sanctioned gorbachev to lose the soviet union over this. russia has only one exportable commodity and that is a way it will. it is easy for president trump to bring both of these leaders into the negotiating table to

make this happen and he has $6.5 billion to reallocate to our own infrastructure. with the industrial military complex wants to make money, let's rebuild this as kate said, the stockpile of our own arsenal to protect americans. >> mike: kate, does that money help draw ukrainians to the negotiating table and also if you don't want us to send weapons, you better cut a deal? i think when you have on a buyable amount of money to spend the code to it is easy to see how long the war goes on. and for every ukrainian war, something will have to happen. we should do a draw down schedule over a year ago that this gives president trump quantifiable amount of money to do so. i do think that possibly right after he takes office both men will come to the table realizing that this war is sort of over. we will not stand for it i delay by and find you are forever war

because right now there is no reason for either party to stop. ukraine has never been richer so why would they stop the war? when they realized the money is about to dry up, you will see a swift change. >> mike: both sides are running out of troops, thank you so much for your time and analysis to date and for your service to the country. >> happy thanksgiving. >> mike: happy thanksgiving, julie. >> julie: we will turn learn the fate of daniel penny, the marine that are in charge and the choke hold death of a homeless man. what we know about the case in the trial coming up next. plus, coast-to-coast winter storm threatening to complicate holiday travel. we will have the weather forecast straight ahead, stick around for that. a special holiday message from one of our troops. >> this year i'm most thankful to my family that came to juror germany, my wife. a shout out to my family in kansas and a shout out to

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♪ ♪ >> mike: the thanksgiving day storm blessing the northeast and eastern half of the country to see severe weather. the latest forecast, hello, nick. >> happy thanksgiving to you but not so much happy thanksgiving for the folks out trying to enjoy macy's thanksgiving day parade right now. not only is it a little bit rainy, moderate to light rain but fairly persistent and also cold rain. if you are in farmingdale or jfk airport, temperatures in the 50s but consider yourself lucky because closer to midtown, tempers fall into the 40s. it is a cold, wet rain and a little bit miserable out there mech. you get further and len and it is about the snow. the i-95 core door it will be

pretty close to maine in the portions of the northeast going to get dumped on with no through time here to this at 3:00 but the good news for folks from new york south is that the rain takes a break for the second half of the day. put into the new england area code to white white, green mountains, main, upstate new york, the snowfalls with the rain. it is the east coast facing travel issues throughout the day with a bull's-eye being the northeast obviously. that you get south mid-atlantic down to the southeast, there is a slim chance, fairly small chance for some severe weather but it is there. you have to watch out for gusty winds and maybe an isolated tornado. however, everything really west of the mississippi looks great. no major issues there. good news for the shoppers in your family. once we get through today and

into black friday, tomorrow, really no major concerns. they are will still be lingering lake effect snow out there and huge lakes no effect events next week. but you can see things clear up mid-atlantic down to the southeast and, of course, out as, the west coast to the best ghost when it comes to thanksgiving and black friday forecast. >> the weather center, nick, glad you are all over it, thank you so much, julie. >> yes. >> julie: closing arguments of the trial marine veteran daniel penny after thanksgiving day, he is charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide and the choke hold death of jordan neely on the new york city subway. the defense argues jordan neely's death a combination of factors including drugs in his system. lexi is a criminal defense attorney and joins us now. great to see you and thank you

for joining us today. >> thank you, happy thanksgiving. >> julie: in the opening statements "under the law deadly physical force as a choke hold permitted only when absolutely necessary and only for as long as is absolutely necessary." here the defendant went way too far. it is important to note the second-degree manslaughter charge only prosecutors to prove daniel penny acted recklessly, recklessly is the key word and not intentionally according to prosecutors. the defense attorney said daniel penny protecting passengers and responding to jordan neely's unhinged rage. do you believe it is reckless since that is what the prosecution needs to prove to protect the public if you believe people's lives are at risk? >> well, i think the jury is going to have a very hard time coming to a consensus on this. if they are combing the guilty way. i could see this being a hung

jury and acquittal, obviously for mr. penney if that is going to happen but i think it would be hard to find 12 people to get in a room who are everyday new yorkers who take the subway and find his conduct to be reckless in light of the testimony of the people on the train that one person testified she has been on the train for many, many years and that felt different to her that day. she didn't say this but more sinister. and somebody else also participating in holding him down. that is really the question for the jurors if they believe the state's medical examiner that the choke hold caused the death. the real question is if he behaved recklessly. i think that would be hard-pressed to find 12 people that believe he behaved recklessly in light of the circumstances. >> julie: when people ride the subway, they hear where people are attacking people are actually killed on the subway. a lot of times a lot of passerby's do nothing and they sit and watch or watch on their cell phone you do nothing.

when a fire meteorologist, adam klotz, brutally attacked and no one did anything committing to fox. this a huge problems and a subway witness talking to the place and you can hear what the mind-set was like for subway passengers that day who say they were in fear. watch this and then let's react. >> i guess he was upset or something. but i looked at him and he started taking off his sweater. and he told everyone that he don't care what happens today. he doesn't care about going to jail. [inaudible] >> he got up and said he was going to hurt somebody. >> that woman just said didn't care about anybody including somebody's dying. the guy was on here so who knows

what he was capable of. but why wait to find out what he's capable of. daniel penny's attorney said, and i want to quote this is important "this is a man we would want to do for us. it does not make him a hero, but it does not make him a killer." your thoughts. >> it is uniquely terrifying experience with trapped underground with someone going crazy with no police. you can't get out of the situation so for 12 people to actually also experience that is probably in their own mind and have heard the testimony of those people in very diverse group of people all saying this was scary and what he was saying and what he was doing. that is why i believe for 12 people to believe grows to the level of recklessness when reasonable doubt in this case to the causation. that is why am i that, it could be a romp someone will play this back on x. but i don't think so.

the jury has a tough decision, but i hope it is going daniel penny's way. with my child were on the train, i would want him to do the same thing. >> julie: i would thank him and i would never let my kids ride on the subway allow that if one of my kids were on the subway and god forbid they were in the car, i would think this man in my mind he would be a hero. i like that you mentioned it is a diverse jury. the race card should not be played here. the fact that daniel penny is white and the victim was black, that should not play and should all be about the safety and the motive and his intention, which was to protect and not harm. thank you so much for talking to us. that is all the time we have today. lexi, great to see you. >> thanks, julie. >> julie: mike. >> mike: admitted department had to have for heads to the heel and make a pitch to lawmakers, speed 24 appear until the lowest level in two years

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♪ ♪ >> julie: i'm a little jealous of the president because he is standing in tub that we are celebrating his last thanksgiving as commander in chief. that is where lucas tomlinson is. i'm also jealous of you, lucas so i hope you are enjoying it. weather is not cooperating so much. >> that is right and you might love nantucket but the weather or not so. light lands, a small advisory and nantucket and we have neck for the weather reports and we will go back to him later. this is president biden's last visit to nantucket as commander in chief. he comes back next year and has to take the ferry like the rest of us, private jet, julie. years passed, he has c come to e

fire house downtown nantucket but the weather, not sure he will do that. last year he did the polar plunge and actually jumped and nantucket. his granddaughter tweet about the photo. the oldest president in history to the first let's talk about the history of this day, julie. congress -- george washington to proclaim national day of prayer and for thanksgiving designating thursday november 26 has national day of public thanksgiving and prayer. later president abraham lincoln designating as a permanent holiday. and so actually on the stage, julie 1863 at the height of the civil war thanksgiving celebrated as a regular holiday for the first time. lincoln called on americans to set aside thursday of november gratitude to god, urging humility amidst national turmoil. this little nugget in the library of congress and the viewers down south might especially enjoy the story of rebecca the raccoon.

don't cut away, julie, 1926 mississippi supporters of calvin coolidge sent him a raccoon to kill and serve thanksgiving day dinner. instead the first family doctor and now one thing i will say, julie, not popular nantucket, massachusetts, but the first thanksgiving was not in this state but virginia, julie. we will get back to that later. >> julie: lucas tomlinson happy thanksgiving to you. >> thank you. >> julie: mike. >> mike: one week from today you en masse can vivek ramaswamy to capitol hill to meet with republicans on plans to slash government spending. staff writer for the national radio, karoline leavitt, welcome. >> thank you so much for having me. >> mike: happy thanksgiving. your expectations when elon musk and vivek ramaswamy go to to te hill to meet with republican leaders? >> it is great we are having a

conversation about fiscal responsibility, but i would hope elon musk and vivek ramaswamy don't talk how we can cut funding that will underwater basket weaving foreign countries but actually addresses the bulk of the deficit problem which is entitlement. this is something neglected for a long time. but is contributing to great government waste, great government below it and we have to make sure these governments don't grow on auto pilot with consent of the people. i think elon musk has responsibility to take a look at all of the redundancies, of course, low-hanging fruit. but entitlement is one that congress can help a lot with. >> mike: let's pivot to the aftermath 2024 election and a lot of blame game going on here until you have prominent left leader is taking aim at one another on x. you had a member of the former obama administration basically laying out a bunch of guests they would have on the part of,

"save america" podcast and "new york times" writing and adds the importance of media. they went back and forth. is this what happens when your side loses? >> i would say it is more like pod save face. a lot of blame gaming going on right now. this is mia coppola postmortem because they are realizing alternative media was the winner of this election. democratic media is anxious because survival is now uncertain. i think the podcast especially podcasts of america underestimating kamala harris was deeply unlikable and the outlets complicit in the cover-up of biden's age. of course, expedited his ouster at the 11th hour. they were unprepared the consequences what they were encouraging. the other thing, kamala harris' staffer went on "save america" and complained she did not get

the opportunities from podcast the way people thought. that is a little bit silly because she was invited to go on joe rogan, which has an audience 14 million or 15 million people and due to scheduling conflicts. so she intentionally missed the opportunity to court a lot of voters. i think that is part of their postelection analysis. >> mike: okay, i want to play a lead from senior obama advisor and also senior advisor to vice president harris. let's hear his take. >> this political environment sucked, okay? we were dealing with ferocious headwinds. i think people's instinct was to give republicans and even donald trump another chance. we had a complicated proposal put together in terms of the voters. it would take a little bit more independent republicans and we saw in 2020, may be more republican voters for us. >> mike: is the bigger issue that democrats went far left on

social issues when many americans were more concerned about the economy, border, inflation? >> yes. and to discount that is to overestimate these headwinds because it wasn't like there were unforeseen forces that were preventing kamala harris from being a competitive candidate. they intentionally lurched far to the left of where the average american is on so many kitchen table issues. they focused on gender ideology and things not priority when inflation was looming very large and when they couldn't afford to have, you know, successful lives in this country periods of the preoccupation with identity politics is ultimately what caused them. >> mike: karoline leavitt, thank you for your time today. julie. >> we have a programming note for you. we have a special show on fox news sunday the state fai shannon bream interviews former

secretary of state condoleezza rice. here is a sneak peek. >> stand for a long history of leadership here in an academic setting and conversations that they are in that setting with term papers, research, students, professors. how do you manage that part of the equation? >> we are having an interesting but difficult conversation what to do about ai aided learning and production. so, everybody is using chatgpt now for basic functions. but i would like to convince my students that using chat but for learning has its downsides because did you ever actually learned the material? can you go 1 inch deeper than what that essay says? >> julie: other cast virginia senator mark warner and sam altman, ceo of the openai

right here on fox. don't miss it. ♪ ♪ speak of the struggle -- there is pretty hot meals and thanksgg meals being given out. they were still a lot of donations. >> mike: for the folks in north carolina that lost everything when helene hit a warm thanksgiving day mail means everything. big businesses and small volunteers on the ground to make sure these families have something to celebrate. >> hi, how are you doing? my name is stephen wilcox and first up i want to say happy thanksgiving day to their families and my folks back home. i love you. my baby brother. i hope everyone is having a good holiday season. we have so much to be thankful for. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> mike: people in western north carolina are not going to let the devastation of hurricane helene put a damper on holiday spirits. big businesses and small business volunteers to serve up thousands of hot meals to people who have lost everything. madison scarpino has a story. hello. >> hello, mike two months since hurricane helene wrecked northwestern carolina. and now hundreds of volunteers are giving people some sort of normalcy this thanksgiving. to the home improvement store lows handed out 3,000 thanksgiving day meals. now to make all let this happen, lowe's hired restaurant workers who are now out of a job after helene destroyed countless

businesses. when north carolina man says his small idea turned into a massive operation. >> in my mind, i was going to cook a thanksgiving day meal for about 1,200 people or so just come back home and feel good about what i did and call it good. but you know, when god is on your side, god is on your team, his plans are always different than yours. >> david burke says now the plan is to feed 5,000 people. thanks to all of the volunteers who stepped up to help. burke says operation thanksgiving blessing is a mission set by god to feed people impacted by hurricane helene. over 100 volunteers in northwestern north carolina preparing 124-pound turkeys. those in need will get a full thanksgiving day meal, and a second barbecue plate to take home as an extra meal.

this is just a small part of the massive effort going on in a place that got hit so hard by hurricane helene just a few months ago, might. >> mike: beautiful story, madison scarpino, julie. >> julie: home sales following in october to the lowest level in about two years. 610,000 units, new homes, were sold to. down 17.3% from the previous month. let's bring in pierre devos, managing partner of the state law firm. thank you so much for talking to us and i wish we had better news. but i always say remain optimistic and the new year, better things to come here to let's talk about the new home sales which slumped to the lowest level in nearly two years to 17.3%. what do you attribute the swamp to? >> every election year, it creates trepidation with consumer confidence and

especially tumultuous time we are in now. going to election, what sense of urgency do you have to pull the trigger? interest rates although the fed reduced a few times the interest rate has slightly increased. which is counter intuitive. when you look at the two factors, the election and rates, everybody is on the sidelines. i can tell you since november 5th took place, we have seen a handsome uptick in the real estate market. law firm the largest residential practice in the country. this week in particular holiday week, we saw an increase. which is great because when you practice where we will find optimism, this is for phenomenal optimism in 20:25 p.m. until the stock market clearly reacted very positively to the outcome that the election. you will see continued effort by the fed also but the president to continue rate reductions which will at some point

translate to reduction in mortgage rates. >> julie: consumer confidence is key to grow the economy and taking it out of the ditch we are currently in. maybe this is a sign of good things to come, trying to be optimistic. sales have inched up at a third month in a row but what is to thank for the momentum? people say that we are trending the right direction. the economy is doing well in the rates are starting to come down by the fed. they know, fine, if i commit to purchasing now, i will have an opportunity to refinance 16-18 months and the economics will make sense and let me get my foot in the market before pandemonium ensues and potentially 2021 all over again. >> julie: i want to talk about pandemonium the interest rates and mortgage rates. it will be fully disclosed. i have been caught in this mess as well here until they average rate on 30-year mortgage in the u.s. east this week though it

remained 7%. that is astronomical! if you have a mortgage and paying 7% rising in recent weeks, that is a nightmare of. i will tell my personal story and i'm not afraid to admit it, but i'm looking for a loan modification because my loan with wells fargo was 3% with interest on rate that has tripled, tripled since fully amortized about a year ago. what you say to those people who want to buy new homes and can afford to pay the interest rates? >> that is why you so historic low in housing activity the last few years. we were 30-year low in the country but for that reason exactly. who will let the web 28% mark inch to trade up where home prices 50% on average -- that is the issue. >> julie: up against hard break so i have to let you go. divorce, thank you very much. >> happy thanksgiving, thank you. >> mike: president-

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