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his final thanksgiving as president. molly. >> i'm griff jenkins. the president stopping at a local fire station as he spends the holiday inn nantucket, massachusetts, spoke about president-elect trump, the border, and china, we're going to play for you now the remarks in their entirety, listen. >> i'm thankful for my family. i'm thankful for a peaceful transition of the presidency. and i'm thankful for the fact, the grace of god, some luck, we're going to get some progress in the middle east, and i'm really thankful. there is a lot to be thing for four. and look, we are the united states of america. i know have said this a thousand times. but i really believe this, nothing beyond our capacity, there is nothing beyond our capacity.

that's what i'm thankful for. >> have you spoken with the formerly detained americans? >> yes, i have. i spoke with all three of them. one was there only three years but a life sentence. the other a total of 20-something years. long, long years, and i am very happy they are home, i got to them all, reunited with their families. it was a very happy. >> tariffs with canada and mexico that the president-elect was talking about? >> i hope you read thinks it. i think it is a counterproductive thing to do. one of the things, we have unusual situation in america. surrounded by the pacific ocean, atlantic ocean, and two allies, mexico and canada. the last thing we need to do is

screw up those relationships. i think we've got them in a good place. by the way, the cooperation with the outgoing president and the incoming president, border crossings are down considerably what they were back when he was in office. a lot more to do, but i just think, i hope they reconsider. >> president-elect trump tariffs on china, are you worried about that? >> we have reached a relationship regarding china. china is, we have set up a hotline between president xi and myself, a direct line. one thing i'm confident about xi is he doesn't want to make a mistake. i mean it sincerely. i'm not saying he is -- he understands what's at stake.

that's why i've spent so much time getting the situation in the south pacific, as well as the indian ocean. a combination of japan, australia, india, i mean, moving in the right direction, grace of god. one last question. >> mr. president, many americans are worried about this holiday season. what is your message to them? >> my message is to just remember who we are. you all have a very tough job, and i am not being solicitous, really tough job. think about it. i remember a couple weeks ago that survey done, how do people feel about where they are, 62%, 35% but they were doing pretty well, the direction of the country. 35%, only 35% moving in the

right direction. i think there is an explanation for that. i'm not criticizing the press, you know me too well, is you turn on the television, you don't see a lot of good news. even stuff that good news doesn't seem to sell very well. and so you turn on the tv, everything looks bad. and now you have, an exceedingly small number of people watching mainstream television, and reading the newspapers. i forget the number, you would know better than i would. and they are way down. where do you get your news? how do you know, not just what you are looking for as opposed to what is happening. not because of you. not being critical of the press. i talk to too many of you privately, been around a long time, and you've got a hell of a

job. anyway. i don't think -- i want to make sure this transition goes smoothly. i want to make sure it goes smoothly. and all the talk about what he's going to do and not do, i think there may be a little bit of internal reckoning on his part. and the congress across the board. it is going to require what usually happens, compromise. but we will see. we'll see. on thanksgiving, i'm hopeful. >> molly: meantime, president-elect trump cabinet picks faced "violent threats" to their lives this holiday. several members of the trump team say there were threats involving pipe bombs and aimed at their family homes. incoming border czar tom homan

tells fox he's no stranger to death threats, but the events of this week have been thinking twice. >> the attitude lately that if you want something, get something, because i have been through this many, many times, but again, what i have learned today, i'll start taking a little more serious. >> molly: mark meredith is reporting live from west palm beach on this thanksgiving day. mark, to you. >> molly, happy thanksgiving to you. the president-elect's team says multiple swatting attacks will not deter their work but it is interesting, you were just showing how many of trump's team of advisors as well as cabinet picks were threatened by these swatting attacks which are still under investigation. we are hearing from some of those who are outraged house speaker mike johnson who says this is dangerous and unhinged, it is not who we are in america. joe biden and all democratic leaders have an obligation to speak up and condemn this now. trump himself remains at mar-a-lago. he is not holding any on camera events, as we saw

president biden. he spent the week with announcing high-profile cabinet picks and dined with someone you might not expect to see at mar-a-lago, somebody who has repeatedly criticized trump sitting down with facebook founder mark zuckerberg. trump has been a longtime critic of facebook, claiming it sensors conservatives. after the meeting a spokesperson for meta, the company which owns facebook, route, it is an important time for the future of american innovation. mark was grateful for the opportunity to meet with members of the team about the incoming and administration. meantime, we are still trying to decipher how well trump's call went with mexico's president. today, mexico's leaders said tariffs never came up on the call and that the two are still trying to find common ground. trump had said this call was very productive. trump has been bowing to oppose sweeping tariffs, upwards of 25% not only canada but mexico, as well. having some negotiating power to try to beef up border security with those two countries to stop the flow of drugs, as well as

illegal immigration. one of the big questions, of course, you just heard president biden state, what about the impact on the u.s. economy? biden making this by saying he does not thing it is a good idea. >> molly: his first comments since the election loss. mark meredith, happy thanksgiving, thank you. his first comments of length, i should say. spring and republican george or congress buddy carter, a member of the house budget committee. happy thanksgiving, thank you for giving a bit of your time on this very special day, we appreciate you giving your insights. i want to start with really these threats to the families of the trump administration cabinet members. it is not just them and whether household, many cabinet members are fairly young and have young families. your thoughts on this right before the holidays and at all ever in american society? >> first of all, molly, happy thanksgiving to everyone, especially the first congressional district of georgia. but these threats, this is

something that we should not be experiencing here in america and it's unacceptable, and certainly, as we are all surrounded by family on this very special day, we understand just how serious this should be taken. it has no room whatsoever in our society. it is just a shame that this is happening, and i feel for all of those. many of these people, these appointees, i know personally and i know their families personally and i can tell you, it is harrowing and is very unfortunate. >> molly: sadly, in recent years especially, swatting in particular has really gone to a next level. local mayors, prosecutors, judges, just a really terrifying experience for a lot of people in public life. andrew mccabe, former fbi deputy director had this to say about the prevalence of this. >> this has become a very common

aspect of life for really anyone who is in a high profile or even remotely controversial position. it's been going on for years. >> molly: congressman, saying it is going on for years but targeting a swath of people going for very specific positions in a new administration, what is your take on that? >> that is certainly something we should be concerned about but this is going to keep good people from going into public service. we need good people serving our country and this is going to deter them from wanting to go in. who wants to put their family in this kind of situation. i know most of these people, as i said before and they take their family very, very seriously. and for this to happen to them, it is very unfortunate. and it just has no place. i don't care how you feel about a certain subject, this is not the way to express your opinion. this is not the way to get your point across. >> molly: representative

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♪ ♪ >> griff: snow, rain, even possible tornadoes. that's what parts of the country are dealing with this thanksgiving. let's go straight to fox meteorologist michael s today. michael, happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving to you, hope you enjoyed the macy's thanksgiving day parade. if you are one of the millions of folks that relining sixth avenue in new york city, oh, my goodness, it was soaking wet. we picked up upwards of half an inch and all said and done an inch or so of rain. cool and cloudy for sure. griff, this is what you were just talking about, there is an opportunity for stronger storms and parts of southeast georgia, be on the lookout for it. let's talk about the big weather story in the northeast, the i-95 corridor. it has been soaking wet, if you are thinking about doing some post-thanksgiving fun. a lot of families like mine will sometimes do after thanksgiving

football games, you know, personally speaking, that's not going to be a great cause in new york up to boston and even up toward payson places like portland, maine. snow has been a huge issue, over 6-7 inches in spots. picking up on the order of 8 inches of snow with more on the way. here's what the forecast looks like in new york city, the five boroughs. things should begin to clear out later on this afternoon and into this evening. griff, what happens behind all of this is a ton of cold air and that is going to set the stage for lots of lake effect snow. temperatures in minneapolis, stn time for black friday, griff. >> griff: all right, thank you very much. molly? >> molly: thanksgiving getting off to that rainy start, as he mentioned, in new york city, but plenty of people still packing sidewalks for the big parade. corresponded cb cotton braving the rain herself and reporting live from fox square. cb, happy thanksgiving. >> hi molly, happy thanksgiving.

despite the steady rain there have only been smiles out here on fox plaza for today's parade. this is a perfect holiday combo of music, performers, all our favorite characters, larger-than-life, as balloons, you know. i want to bring into special guest, the perfect mother daughter duo from miami, joined by bella and her mother roxana. my first question is what is it like to spend christmas, the holiday season here in new york city? >> it's very, very fun, and i was so excited to see the parade live. >> it's a great experience because you get to experience the true holidays with the cold and the weather, everything. >> do you have a favorite character or balloon in the parade, bella? >> i love the blue we and bingo one because they are me and my brothers favorite. >> mom, what about you? >> i loved everything, the character, the musics, the band. >> everything for for this year? >> i'm thankful for being able

to dance back in miami. and for my health and my family. >> amazing answer. mom? >> i am think before my family and the opportunity to bring her here and see the parade live. >> wonderful. an amazing experience, unforgettable. thank you so much for speaking with us today. just some of the millions who are watching the parade on the city streets, and on a serious note, molly, the nypd tells us for the second year in a row, multiple people were arrested. people protesting the war in gaza, trying to disrupt the parade. police officers quickly moved in and got those protesters out not far from where we are at on 55th and sixth avenue. other than that, molly, the parade has really gone smoothly today has been a whole lot of fun. we saw santa claus as the grand finale. i didn't get to speak with him directly but i just have a feeling i'm on the good list this year, molly. >> molly: oh, are you? don't be presumptuous. [laughter] that family was right lovely. they were ready for the weather,

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>> molly: breaking today, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu reportedly directing his military to prepare for intense fighting to resume in lebanon if hezbollah violates a cease-fire that started less than 48 hours ago. both sides already allege the truce has been broken, with the idf today striking a rocket facility in southern lebanon and firing on what they called suspects driving in that same region. correspondent alex hogan is reporting live for us from tel aviv, israel. alex, happy thanksgiving to you. >> happy thanksgiving to you, molly, and all of our viewers back home. as you imagine, yes, there is a

lot to be watching from the middle east, the idf saying it struck an hezbollah site in southern lebanon, something it reserved the right to do, it was going to defend itself if it saw and had the need to do just that. now all of this playing out at the same time, we are seeing another part of the cease-fire coming to fruition, and that is the u.n. and lebanese army starting to monitor the border. they will need to create a buffer zone as hezbollah moves north and the idf withdraws from the country. those units, as you can see in this footage, are already on the border today. cease-fire celebrations broke out in lebanon, where for another day thousands of people packed roads aiming to return home. this is a look at the cars returning in droves to lebanon from syria. so many cars that it actually took up four lanes but as people try to head back to southern lebanon near the border of israel, the israeli government is urging them to stop. the idf fired on a village in the south part of the country

where it said suspects had approached so the military again will be retreating, molly, in phases. so once again urging civilians not to return to those towns until it is fully safe to do so. we know this is a 60-day cease-fire that, if course, after which, negotiators say this will be drawn up into a much larger peace plan, but of course a lot of focus on whether all of this is happening here tonight. >> molly: some challenges already well ahead of remotely close to 60 days. alex hogan, thank you for bringing us us up-to-date. let's head now, we're going to bring it at moeller who helped negotiate the april accords between israel and arab states during the first trump administration, thanks for joining us on this thanksgiving day. expertise and time on a holiday, greatly appreciate it. when we talk about this deal, less than 48 hours and it seems it has already hit more than a snag, that in essence perhaps it is not holding on, and we already know that israel has struck a number of targets,

actually have a map here to pop up. so soon after the agreement was reached, are you at all surprised that this is happ happening? >> i'm not surprised because what is going to happen right away is hezbollah is going to test it. and i think what's really important about israel did just there is to let them know, you are not going to go back to business as usual. the moment they see it, when they see rockets coming together and people starting to work on it, they are going to take it out. i think in a way preserves the peace, the potential for those people we saw those trucks coming home. >> molly: you know, when the deal was first struck, president biden had some hopes and advertise some hopes this could lead to broader peace in the region, a headline earlier this week, u.s. envoy who helped the cease-fire, biden hopes to parlay lebanon cease-fire into a broader regional peace. however brief it seems that the cease-fire held for the 48 hours and perhaps still kind of in the

works and still going, is this a signal that there is progress being made? >> i think there is real progress being made, and i will tell you the major factor here is the election of our new president trump, and the reason i say it. look at the cease-fire itself. it is a 60-day period. president trump be inaugurated in 53 days. there is no mistake there. it is not like obviously everything just started opening up, so what you saw first is qatar asking hamas to leave right after the election, and now you see the cease-fire, and you see people are reacting to what is going to happen if there is hostility once president trump takes office. >> molly: notably, of course, this was a 60 day deal which is about the time president trump would be taking over. the u.s. envoy who helped broker this deal as it was in the works talked about how they did reach out to the trump team as this was in progress. take a listen.

>> once i believed we were really in the final stages of an agreement, i did check in with president-elect trump's senior national security team to make sure that they knew what we were after here, and i think again if there is an agreement in the interest of israel, in interest of lebanon, than it is clearly in the national security interest of the united states. we felt that way. they did, as well. >> molly: they did, as well. your thoughts on that? >> i think it's great. i think it shows somebody like president trump isn't about partisan politics and an issue as important as that, i think it is very smart for the biden administration to coordinate with our national security advisor mike waltz, who is a friend, who is fantastic, and i think exactly what they should do. i think it is a win for biden, great, because it is not about the win for biden, it is about was going to happen going forward is president trump holds the country together, so i think that is where they coordinate,

exec we what they should do. >> molly: never to be forgotten, certainly on thanksgiving day, there are still american hostages being held in gaza. does this advancing deal that is in the work with hezbollah signal potentially something could finally be done to draw the conflict in gaza to a close? >> the moment president trump was elected i knew there was a possibility, and american hostages -- and thank you for showing the pictures of those hostages and talking about them because we need to bring our people home, and i know it is a top priority of the president, not just in gaza, we have hostages all over the world. i think there is a real possibility to bring our citizens home now. >> molly: adam boehler, happy thanksgiving to you, thank you for your insights. i hope you get the chance to enjoy the day with your family. >> you too, molly. >> molly: griff? >> griff: president-elect trump speaks to

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battle. clearly this is just starting between mexico's president sheinbaum and incoming president-elect trump. but president biden talked about this tariff threat in nantucket just a few hours ago. i want you to listen to what he had to say. >> i hope you read thinks it. i think it is a counterproductive thing to do. we are surrounded by the pacific ocean, the atlantic ocean, and two allies, mexico and canada. and the last thing we need to do is screw up those relationships. illegal crossings are down considerably what they were back when he was in office. a lot more to do, but i just think -- i hope they reconsider it. >> griff: what do you think, jonathan? is this tariff threat going to work? is it a good idea? or should he rethink? >> it's going to work, and i think everyone knows it's going to work. what president biden doesn't to recognize what we've done for the last four years is what's not been working. mexico is going to cooperate. the other things they are going to have to deal with, they don't want to close their southern

border, we are going to implement remaining mexico, all of these migrants claiming asylum are going to stay in mexico and we are not going to let them in. other things president trump has in his arsenal, we could pox up, possibly tax remittance to mexico, sending them back to mexico, which is a boom for their economy, so we tax that, it harms them, and plus -- i think this is short-lived. the president of mexico has to posture a little bit but my guess is by january 20th, they will be in line, the border will be shut down or at least every effort will be made to do so. >> griff: it's interesting because you mentioned remaining mexico. we know reinstating that is one of the earliest decisions. it takes two to tango. i've covered two caravans, the most recent was the sixth caravan coming out of southern mexico since sheinbaum took over in october so she clearly hasn't slowed that flow back under a ml

oh, the first administration, i reported from chopper tule, trump was able to get amlo to put troops on the southern border to stop it. >> just president trump's presence alone as a president is going to deter a lot of people, but i think they will ultimately cooperate and the second step to this is deport the serious criminals which are making every effort to do so which will also be a significant deterrent because a lot of these migrants are paying anywhere from $7,000 to $9,000 to be brought into the country by these coyotes or what they call coyotes, so if they are going to get turned around right away or not make it in, there is really not going to be the market for these smugglers and human traffickers that there was under the biden administration. >> griff: i had an exclusive interview with acting i.c.e. director pj left lightner, and he really spoke about his frustration with sanctuary cities, particularly when they

stopped i.c.e. from going in after violent criminals. listen here. >> let's deal with violent criminal actors peered we can all agree they need to be dealt with, i think so, i don't think there is anywhere that they want someone marching out of state or local custody because they served their time. now they shouldn't be here so let us take them in a safeway an end get them removed appropriate accordance of law. >> griff: so he clearly, this is what the incoming administration wants to do. how do you see the sanctuary jurisdiction battle sizing up? >> you know, it's pretty interesting, and what he said, nobody wants serious kernels to stay, that's really not true because these sanctuary cities when governor of illinois, mayor of boston, as you know from last week, laken riley's trial, her killer was released by the new york sanctuary city, their policies, so this is going to be a battle. it is going to be a tough battle. ultimately most are going to

yield. things that need to be done, withhold funding, maybe there is legislation tied to tax legislation. may be the sold part of the deduction. this needs to end. everyone should agree. unfortunately they don't, or the far left of the democratic party doesn't agree that the most serious criminals should be removed but i think they're going to be battles and i.c.e. is going to step up to the plate to a level they have not seen, and do they want to be exposed for keeping the next killer of laken riley type of situation in the country? i certainly hope not. >> griff: i.c.e. already doing operation athens named an honor of laken riley. jonathan fahey, things are being here, happy thanksgiving. >> thank you. >> i just have to remind you, don't you ever let anybody take your power from you. you have the same power that you did before november 5th.

and you have the same purpose that you did. and you have the same ability to engage and inspire. so don't ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you. >> griff: that was vice president harris' message to supporters after losing the election. her campaign team also doing a very public autopsy of her failed white house bid, at times claiming media coverage, or late entry into the race, and the political environment of the past four years. >> this political environment sucked, okay? we were dealing with ferocious headwinds, and i think people's instinct was to give the republicans and even donald trump another chance. >> griff: let's bring in julia mentioned, international political reporter for the hill, and a former democratic new yeae senator. listen, thank you for being here, guys, happy thanksgiving.

let's dive right in and talk about the mudslinging. david, i will start with you. what went wrong, and what do you make about pretty much clawing each other's eyes out situation we are in now? >> well, i wouldn't go that far. i think everyone is looking for answers, and this is what you have after an election. it is easy to play monday morning quarterback but i think there's a multitude of issues but one of the most severe is that democrats allowed the message to get modeled. many people are asking what is the democratic stand for? what was kamala harris' campaign? yes, i think she ran a disciplined campaign, said the right things, but the image and the message was muddled, and that image in that message is democrats fight for the middle class, and fight for bridging those gaps to the working poor, middle class, and beyond, and we are not talking about those bread and butter issues that

americans care about. trump was able to complain, throw tantrums, and we were trying to explain, and that is where we have to step up going forward, that we are the party of solutions, and donald trump and the republicans are just pointing fingers and blame. we have to point to those solutions. >> griff: you know, julia, david has such a great point. you saw trump increase his base across all demographics, in unlikely places, like with hispanic voters, in massachusetts, really it was quite something, anything to david's point, it had a lot to do with trump's ability to talk to the working working class, to everyday americans, try and reach voting blocs that normally typically wouldn't support him. do you think that there is a postmortem lesson here that will change for how democrats approach the midterms? >> absolutely, griff. i think you are already seeing a lot of democrats talk about

this. for example, you have senator bernie sanders, former presidential candidate, who included economic populism in a lot of his messaging. now it might not exactly match up ideologically with donald trump's sort of populism, but he has been pushing the democratic party to talk more to workers and to prioritize some of those economic issues and get away from the cultural debates that we are seeing on a number of fronts within the party and outside of the party. one thing, though, that i think the democrats weren't able to message -- they weren't able to message properly on the economy, so you had donald trump, for example, i remember he did this press conference in front of mar-a-lago with a number of various goods from the grocery store, talking about the prices of milk, prices of eggs, that really hit home to a lot of americans, but the problem was we saw democrats essentially talking about stock market gains and lowering unemployment, which is absolutely true and a good

sign of the economy, but voters weren't connecting with that. voters weren't feeling that the same way they were feeling the rising prices or the high prices of goods and services, so that is where i think you will see democrats, the trump campaigns messaging on the economy. >> griff: all of the calling trump a fascist, calling trump a dictator, that the voters, generally independent ones, just got tired of that and really wrote that off and it wasn't as effective as democrats thought it was? >> yeah, that's been the extremely difficult thing with donald trump. there's so many issues here, so many things that can be controversial, and i think when democrats are trying to educate voters about that, voters were just tuning out, right? it was just so much, and trump was able to so doubt in terms of these allegations and that was the problem. the democrats were constantly deciding, do we go on the

offense? do we go on the defense? to we talk about kamala harris' positives, or do we focus on donald trump's negatives? and there was so much to do, and i think that speaks to the issue that the message was not crystal-clear. donald trump's campaign was able to do that and on the transgender surgery for inmates, and that was something that i think was able to model that message about wait, what are the democrats priorities? and the democrats have a lot of priorities, but donald trump was able to keep it simple, just blame democrats, i'm going to solve your problems, very murky, not clear on the solutions, and that leaves a big opportunity for democrats going forward. as we move forward into these midterms, donald trump is already talking about these massive tariffs that all economists are saying will actually increase prices for americans, while donald trump was on the campaign trail talking about how he is going to lower prices. so there is huge opportunities all around. if republicans play their cards right, i think they will do

well, but so far, donald trump is leaving the door open for democrats to take that opportunity and show, hey, we are the party of real answers. >> griff: we shall see if they can indeed do that. david carlucci, julia manchester, thank you so much for being with us on this thanksgiving day. >> great to be with you. happy thanksgiving. >> griff: happy thanksgiving. molly? >> molly: a message about restoring the country and good faith this thanksgiving next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ have you always had trouble with your weight? same. discover the power of wegovy®. with wegovy®, i lost 35 pounds. and some lost over 46 pounds. and i'm keeping the weight off. i'm reducing my risk. wegovy® is the only weight-management medicine proven to reduce risk of major cardiovascular events such as death, heart attack, or stroke in adults with known heart disease and obesity. don't use wegovy® with semaglutide or glp-1 medicines, or in children under 12. don't take if you or your family had mtc,

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♪ ♪ >> molly: two months after hurricane helene devastated parts of north carolina, volunteers are helping out with free thanksgiving meals and m more. correspondent madison scarpino reporting live from atlanta for this on us. madison, thank you for pulling this report together for us on a holiday. to you. >> happy thanksgiving, molly. somebody people in western north carolina lost nearly everything, and now hundreds of volunteers are dedicating their thanksgiving to bring some sort of normalcy to people impacted by helene, and the effort is coming from big corporations and everyday people who just want to help. a man named david burke ended up

creating a massive thanksgiving volunteer operation. he says he went to church one sunday, heard a lesson about community service, and knew it was a sign to help. the plan was to cook thanksgiving meals for around 1,000 people in need, but others quickly wanted to help out, and now the goal is to feed 5,000 people today. volunteer organization samaritan's purse has been on the ground in western north carolina since the beginning. there volunteers handed out hundreds of thanksgiving meals so far, and the home improvement store lows handed out 3,000 thanksgiving meals in asheville, one of the hardest-hit areas. lows hired local restaurant owners, who are now out of a job after helene destroyed countless businesses. >> we are barely scratching the surface, there is so many people that need help and this is going to be such a whole process, this community looks to rebuild, to see this many people out here this early just tells us we are making an impact in the community and we still had a

long ways to go but looking to be supported as we going through this. >> today kicks off at will likely be a difficult holiday season for some people in north carolina, and the biggest concern remains some of the colder weather coming in, and some people are still living in tents. molly? >> molly: great point, the housing challenges continued on there, all of the stories in tiny homes down there. thank you, madison scarpino. with a nation divided over politics this thank giving, columnist david martin is writing reminding us president lincoln invented the y to bring us together. lincoln gave us thanksgiving is a time to unite. we owe it to him to try, and david marcus joins me now. thank you, david, for being with us on this thanksgiving, giving us your time, happy thanksgiving to you. we are certainly grateful. why did you write this?

>> so, lincoln came up with this idea, not alone, a woman named sarah jesse but hayes, who had been an advocate for a national day of thanksgiving, and lincoln in 1863 decided the last thursday of november we would have this day and he wasn't saying let's be thankful for a victory at the battle of gettysburg, he wasn't saying let's be thankful the union more is going well, he was looking beyond the war toward a point of reconciliation, and in his proclamation he asks god to help us restore peace, harmony, tranquilly, and union. and it struck me that in 2024, we kind of need those things, too. i'm optimistic about it. >> molly: this proclamation that lincoln put in place, as you mentioned, not months after gettysburg, 50,000 americans killed at gettysburg. here we are in a political

season, coming off an election, there was a lot of name-calling, but it doesn't compare to the civil war. what would you say to american families that can look to lincoln and each other this season? >> i like to think we have turned a corner. look around. this is not 2016. this is not 2020. there aren't a million women in pink hats running around washington, d.c., with water bottles. nobody is storming the capital. i was in pennsylvania about a week or two after the election when bob casey was refusing to concede. i talked to a lot of voters on both sides and the attitude really seems to be, okay, trump won, let's give it a couple years, see what happens, and then we will vote again. i do think we have an opportunity to stop shunning each other. people on the left saying shun your families, people on the right saying those on the left have a woke mind virus, stop, just take a step back. there is a chance now for us to

return to just being americans and treating each other as human beings in good faith. >> molly: you right in this, if all of us made one call, sent one text, or sat down with a family member we disagree with, that could be a massive step to restoring the company in good faith we have lost. there is a few weeks to go before christmas, so i suppose there is time for some of those conversations. your thoughts? >> i hope so. i do think that americans are ready to be done with this constant animosity, and with the idea that we are defined by our political loyalties. i don't think people want that anymore. i've traveled the country a whole lot during this election, and i really do believe that the american people want to work together to make our country better, and that is where most of us are on this thanksgiving, thankfully, and i'm thankful for that. >> molly: david marcus, it's a lovely piece. of course, lincoln such an inspiring figure, one we can always seek inspiration from.

it's on foxnews.com. and happy things getting to you. things for being with us. >> happy thanksgiving. thank you. >> another hour of fox news live coming right after this. ♪ ♪

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