and politics nation. good evening and welcome to politics nation. it's a week of thanks for most americans. but not everybody is enjoying the spirit and joining in the spirit. while the nation spent the holiday week expressing gratitude president trump flew in the face of government branches and agencies. at times attacking them, from the comfort of his mar-a-lago resort the president berated supreme court chief justice john roberts, disputed the cia assessment of a saudi journalist's murder, and threatened a government shutdown next month if no more money is provided for border security. he even attacked the findings of scientists studying climate

change. seeming to suggest cold weather is a challenge to global warming. the president did take time to express some thanks. but mostly thanked himself for the difference he's made in the country. on top of all of this, the "washington post" is now reporting that the u.s. has reached a deal with mexico to make asylum seekers wait outside the u.s. jing me now is michael single ton abrepublican strategist pb ayesha moodie-mills and democratic strategist and paul butler msnbc legal analyst and former prosecutor. let me go to you michael. the president attacking american institutions and government from attacking the supreme court and getting in a back and forward with the supreme court justice, attacking the intelligence

findings on the prince of saudi arabia and the murder and dismemberment of the authority, jamaal khashoggi, on and on and on. i mean, as a republican, one respected, how does the republican party that basically has been the ones that have demanded, called on and championed people respect american institutions reconcile all of this in the last 72 hours from a republican president? >> well, i think, reverend sharpton database thanks for having me on. republicans by and large for the past two years did a back flip as far as what you're previous positions used to be on a lot of these issues, particularly as it pertains to having norms and respecting ours constitutions. i think mitchell mcconnell is going to have a reality check. because in 2020 there are dozens

of republicans up for re-election. mitch mcconnell has to face the reality do we stand behind donald trump and his craziness or face the reality that we have to steep away from him to save senate seats? and to be honest with you i think you will see republicans slowly distance themselves. otherwise they risk political suicide if they don't. you think november was bad this year, just imagine how worse it will be come 2020. >> isha, as a democratic strategist, you look at the is not races up in 2020. and as sher michael has said. the whole map changes this time because it's tilted where a lot of republicans are up. is this an opportunity for the democrat not only to capture the white house but capture the senate if any don't separate themselves from in president? i mean, to question climate change when his own administration came out yesterday saying the devastating

impact it will have on the midwest, on the west coast, that we are looking at extreme weather all over the country, and it will affect the economy. how does somebody run with someone in the face of facts coming out of his own administration? >> well we know that this guy and his administration doesn't care about fact. from a political stoip, rev, the thing that frustrates me is that political strategy has gotten so far from our values as americans. unfortunately what we will continue to see is that republicans think in order to rile up the base they have to run to the right, to the right, to the right. so while we know that the democrats have a great opportunity, the map is favorable for them they connect with the values generally of the public and that they can run on those, i don't think the republicans are going to get it. i don't necessarily agree with sher michael. i'm hopeful. but i think they are kinning to

run against their best interests because they are rallying a base. who are climate change deniers. they tare care about the flag and institutions been but they cheer lead donald trump and being nasty. i think 2020 is a nasty discourse that plays well for the democrats but not for america. and that's sad. >> now, paul, i've seen a lot of things. and i've known donald trump for decades. and he does not surprise me in many of the things he does because he did them as a businessman in new york. that was distasteful, frankly. though at times he was a democrat or said he was. and was supportive of some things. but to get into in match with the supreme court justice about calling the members of the court, the highest court in the country, and identifying them politically, this is an obama judge, i mean, help me here.

you are the legal expert. is this unprecedented. >> yes. >> for a president in the executive branch to label and politicize sitting supreme court judges. >> we have never seen anything like in. president obama got into trouble just for a mild critique of the supreme court decision in citizen as united at a state of the union. but call judges obama judges, trump judges, making it seems as though the court is political. but, reverend, i'm not sure that trump is crazy to think that. and so we saw in pushback from chief justice roberts. i think the best way for chief justice roberts to actually show the legislate macy of the court is to not vote like a republican in the cases that we see winding their which up. we have affirmative action out of harvard law school. the president wants to discriminate against servicemen and women who have has been to

be transgender. we have voting rights, a bunch of important cases. >> some that will dpeel with the president. >> yes and it's predictable how the conservative justices will vote. and so the skort is legitimate, chief justice roberts needs to walk the walk in addition to talking the talk. he did that. he voted to save obamacare. >> he did. >> if he applies the rule of law and doesn't vote like a republican then the skort will be an institution that americans can have confidence in. >> sher michael, you're a republican. i'm not but we always have had a respectful dialogue. just between us -- i'll cut their mics off if you want. do you think following the train of thought you opened with that in president could possibly face a challenge in 2020 in the republican primaries, a mitt romney or something? will somebody come in and say, i'm the adult that's going to save the party? >> i think john kasich perhaps.

maybe jeff flake. it's possible. i think if an individual were to take that wrout. the end goal would be not to win, not to become the nominee of the party. the end goal would be to pull enough from donald trump so a decent democrat could pit. ross per oat pulled enough votes from hw bush to help bill clinton. you could see a similar dynamic happen in 2020. to be frank it would be in the benefit of the country. i'm not certain, reverend sharpton the country can go another four years of donald trump's chaos. >> well, i don't want tots that's why i respect you, but i do respect what you are saying. let me say -- let me aisha, on the democratic side there seems to be 15 calls a day from people running. can the democrats blow it by

having so many running that somebody marginal can win the nomination and, again, they blow it as a lot of democrats can -- we've always said -- if any way we can mess it up we will. >> look, i'm somebody who cares about democracy. i would never suggest that people sit out of the process. i wouldn't suggest a smaller field is what we need and we need five people a in the democratic party. >> i'm not talking about democracy. i'm talking about democrats sometimes might not -- >> what i admit is democrats do a good job of blowing things because of infighting all in stuff going on on the hill with nancy pelosi. >> that's what i'm referring to. >> i think there is a rich opportunity for debate on the democratic side. i think the democratic candidate is far more progressive than hilt was on a lot of policy issues that are going to have to be -- floored to incite the base. that's a good thing. i don't have a dog in the fight yet because it remains to be seen who -- >> will they have to be more

progressive but at the same time show they can govern and manage and neck be an executive? because isn't the country looking for an alternative to this kind of free styling that donald trump has been doing as an executive. >> i don't know that the country is looking for an alternative to free styling so much as where we are in politics now is that there is a connectedness and humanness that people want. people want someone who is a little less stoic, more accessible, sometimes that may mean they make a little bit of a flub. i think what the democrats see is spee a fighter somebody who stands up to the republican crazy and the republican rhetoric. the democrats want to see passion. i don't think anybody who is bland who is going to be a traditional states person is going to fly in the democratic primary. >> and in his official thanksgiving speech, the president said he was thankful for military personnel and america's first responders. but here is what his first

thought was when a reporter asked him the question. listen. >> what are you thankful for, mr. president. >> for having a frustrate family and having a great difference in the tremendous country. i've made a tremendous difference. the country is so much stronger now than what is when i took office you wouldn't believe it. you see it, so much stronger that people can't believe it. >> paul, i didn't want to quote him. i wanted people to see i wasn't making it up. he is most thankful about what he has done. i mean, this -- you don't even have to repeat it to understand that this man narcissism is probably too polite a term. his thankfulness on thanksgiving was about him. and what he has done. i'm thank chl that i saved y'all, i helped y'all, made y'all better. >> so you know.

>> who toes this. >> the president does. what this has -- we're talking about the president's response to the tragic murder of mr. khashoggi, the willful blindness regarding the climate change is this is a man who does not believe evidence. he does not believe science. he does not understand how the real world works. and i think it's an open question about whether it's ignorance or some kind of single employ to fire up his base. the national intelligence tells him that the russians interfered with the election. he says i don't believe process. scientisting tell him about cloimt change. i don't believe it. the cia tells him who murdered mr. khashoggi. he says i don't believe it. again, whether the single political play or whether it's ignorance, the american people are the losers. >> let me thank aisha moodie-mills and sher mienl single ton. paul stay with us. coming up robert mueller on the verge of getting another trump

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the clock is ticking on house republicans who are looking to make their final days and hours in power count. the house judiciary committee issuing subpoenas to former fbi director james comey and former

attorney general loretta lynch compelling them to testify in a closed session about the 2016 presidential campaign. comey has already publicly stated he will not testify to, quote, any closed door session. to understand this better i'm joined by danny savalaos and georgetown school of law professor paul butler both msnbc legal analysts. danny these are closing days for this house. they're lame duck. why and what were the legal implications of them subpoenaing both comey and former attorney general lynch. >> it may be a lame duck congress. but those subpoenas have equal force as if it were not a lame duck congress. politically speaking, however, once the new house takes control the investigation to whatever

degree it's progressed, if comey and lynch have even testified by then, then it's certain that they will probably drop that investigation or hearings or whatever they have planned. because it will be a new regime. >> because it's very possible they may in the even testify before the january swearing in of a new congress. >> suppose for example a as comey said. comey said didn't say he would defy a subpoena. but le resist. for the most part people challenging subpoenas lose. but if he can mount a legal challenge he might be able to. >> run the clock. >> run the clock. >> what are they looking for, paul, as far as we could tell from comey and lynch on the 2016 election. >> reverend they are looking to make a political point. here is how we know this. the justice department office of inspector general in june issued

a 500-page document that answered any question anybody could have about mr. comey, about attorney general lynch. it said that comey -- he exercised bad judgment. he went against the values of the fbi and made it look bad. but he did not break the law. the inspector general report said that attorney general lynch should not have met with bill clinton on that airport tar mack. but any didn't have any criminal intent. it also said that with regard to the email -- hillary clinton's email, that comey was correct, that it's kind of like with ivanka trump, it's bad judgment but there is no evidence of criminal intent. all those questions answered. >> but couldn't, danny, this back fire? let's say that they do testify. let's say this proceeds in december. couldn't it back fire if comey says things that could be detrimental to the president,

such as, i did not do this in '16. i didn't do that. and because i wouldn't sugar coat it or wouldn't end there is why i was terminated. i mean once somebody is testifying you can't stop them from saying things. you can strike it. but if it's out there which is why they might be don't want a public hearing, you don't know where comey may go on an answer. you don't know where liverpool would go. talking about 2016 they may want to talk about 2006. >> many of the detrimental things comey said about trump we already know through either the book or reporting. >> right. >> but there may be things he hasn't said publicly. very realistic given that he is the former fbi director and someone who has information that should not be revealed. but if under oath he will be forced to reveal it. and he must believe -- comey must believe the information he has is exkulper to to him and possibly inkulper toy to others.

otherwise i won be so bold about insisting on the open hearing. >> as well as paul, there are democrats in the judiciary committee even though not the majority until january. there is nothing stopping them from asking probing questions beyond what the present share of the judiciary committee may want when they get the opportunity to question. in a public forum that could be more expansive, you know, it the old saying, be careful what you wish for. >> that's right. and so the democrats will be able to ask comey and lynch any questions to the extent gnat the republicans try to make it look like things happened that didn't happen, the democrats will be able to correct the record. so comey says that he wants an open hearing. ufrmt that's not miss call. it's the house's call. the rules do say that there is a presumption that there should be open hearings, the work of the house should be transparent.

the exceptions are for national security or if the compromise of sensitive criminal investigations. but at the end of the day until june -- i remember -- until january, the house changes, it's the republican's call. >> danny, when we talk about they want to question former attorney general loretta lynch about a conversation with former president clinton on the plane, would this possibly lead to them to having to also interview former president clinton? how do you interview one side of the conversation. >> it's possible because you have a husband and wife connection and this is the kind of thing that might have been discussed. you could see one of the spouses invoking the spousal privilege. and that would be an interesting thing. >> but does he have privilege upon a discussion with loretta lynch. >> no, absolutely not. he wouldn't have privilege on a discussion with loretta lynch because that is information that

isn't part of the executive privilege he could invoke especially given that these are former -- former holders of public office. so you don't have that kind of opportunity for privilege in in situation. congress can get to the information. it it can get to the conversation. the question is, what do they really want it for. >> and the answer, you're saying, paul, is it's political. because if they were looking at legalities here you would have all coined of things that could blow up in their face and could embarrass them even to their base if if were to go a certain way, which might be why former fbi director comey is saying let's have it wide open >> so they're scared now the mouse will start exercising the constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight of the trump administration, which the republicans have not done. so we already know there is going to be a ton of subpoenas starting with attorney general -- acting attorney

general matt whitaker on from the democrats on the house. we have maxine waters will be study on the case. >> gerald nadler the new head of the house judiciary committee we believe. >> this is a last gasp by the republicans on the house, while they have the majority. it's tit-for-tat, it's not good government it's partisan politics. >> now, when we look at the fact that in this atmosphere -- paul and i were talking earlier -- the president attacking the supreme court, the preside atto until he basically ran him out -- i mean, he is at war all over the whole judicial process in the country whether it be the justice department, the fbi by dismissing comey, all the way to the supreme court. in this climate, are we seeing a defining of the judiciary and the judicial process under this

administration unlike we have seen before? or maybe i should say a redefining? >> when chief justice roberts responded to president trump publicly, he did something very significant. because the judicial branch is unlike the other branches, which are elected or in the executive branch, the head of the executive branch is elected as well. but the judiciary is meant to be independent, impartial at its core. that's why judges are appointed for life. so for the chief justice to feel it necessary to actually publicly respond means we're in a new era, where even the judiciary, which is supposed to be ins latd. it's designed to be immune from the feelings of the time, finally feels the need to come out publicly and go back at that leader of the executive branch. >> paul, i'm out of time. but let me ask you this, what bars former fbi director comey

if he is asked a question about the clinton investigation or what he looked into with clinton from also volunteering that he looked at clinton, looked at trump and volunteering information on both? is there anything barring him from saying that in a testimony before the judiciary committee. >> absolutely not. there is no privilege he could assert. he would have to answer any questions. but he can certainly volunteer any other information he thinks is relevant. >> and there is nothing barring the democrats from asking the questions. >> you're right reverend. >> stay tuned. i might say bring it on. thank you, paul butler and danny savali zbloochlt and ahead. avoiding war zones where men and women are serving america. you're about to have a fire fight on your hands. you can't avoid from me.

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now for my weekly memo to president trump. it's customary for a sitting united states president to visit american troops. it boosts morale and shows gratitude and respect for their

profound sacrifice. but nearly two years into his term as president, donald trump has yet to visit a war zone. let me tell you what i think about all of this. i would have thought that since in president went to mar-a-lago for the holidays, it would have been at least a simple hop on air force one torg to the mexican border, where you, mr. president, have sent over 5,000 troops, 5,000 members of the military to the border waiting on what you call was an invasion that was coming, that everyone in the world told you that that was way out and was not an invasion. you went golfing while people in the military could not share the holiday with their loved ones, while they sat around, waiting

on an hallucination invasion coming across the border. mr. president you and i disagree on many politics. but at least have compassion for the men and women in the military. i'm not even bringing up you got five deferments and never served. i'm not bringing up the fact that you talk loud and never really show action of really standing with the military men and women. but i am going to bring up that the least you could do if you are going to dispatch people to the front line is at least at some point ein all of tooth tim buff you've been in two years visit them and act as though you appreciate in re sacrifice. pretend if you don't really feel it. ♪

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welcome back to "politics nation." . it's been nearly three weeks since the mid-terms and all but one senate seat is filled. in mississippi no candidate received more than 50% on election day. so the state is holding a special election runoff on tuesday coming. pitting republican incumbent cindy hide smith against democrat mike esviyp drawing

more attention after hide smith said of a supporter if he invited me to a public hanging ietd be on the front row. she has since apologized. is that issue front and center for voters now? retires bring in nbc news political reporter vaughn hillyard down in new albany, mississippi. vaughn. >> reporter: good evening, rev. it's on the forefront of voter mind. when you go from the southern part of the state to mu albany up here it's the forefront of the mind, the topic of conversation. i want to play this little bit of sound. we left the second campaign event for cindy hyde smith. she the hadn't been on the campaign trail for days. final le we talked to her since that you could call it it a quasi apology. she said to those at the debate

offended i certainly apologize. i asked the question up in the air particular will african-american voters here on the ground was what she was apologizing for and what it was she was acknowledging the impact of her comments. this is the interaction a fup moments ago. >> some peoplecy seeing your apology they questioned what you were apologizing for could you clarify. >> if i hurt anybody's feelings if i hurt anybody's feeling. we're just staying on the issues on people's mind that is lower taxes, less regulations, you know, second amendment all of those things so you know i've just -- any time i've said anything -- somebody got offended i want to apologize. >> i followed up with the question to her that said what was it that was offensive? and she said tough talk to the voters about that. a and i said i have talked to the voters we've been over the course of the last week talking to voters about the issues. and i went to where the town of glenn doora where emmit till was

killed 60 years ago and individuals have a tough time grappling with the comment and the lack of acknowledgement of what the court public hanging meant but then the post on her facebook panl when she was touring the home of jefferson davis and her facebook she said mississippi history at its best. i've asked the campaign if we could engage in the conversation about race, especially at this moment in our history in 2018. yet that interaction on the bus is the best we get. probably is it the best we get? donald trump is coming to town for two rallies rev and tuesday is the runoff. >> now rb let's turn to ashton pitman. thank you, vaughn. ashton pitman is a state reporter for the jackson free press. the issue of race dominates this campaign. and you're writing about it. i just want to refer to something that you just posted, where not only do we have the candidate that we were just speaking of that had said what

she said about public hangings, cindy hyde smith, and praising in effect jefferson davis saying what she said and vaughn quoted. but you spaaid that she herself went to a segregated private school in the 70s and sent her daughter to a segregated private school. and this is an all-white, segregated academy that was set up to avoid integration after integration became the law of the land in the 60s. she attended it and sent her daughter. explain to our viewers the -- what your article reveals that had not been in my -- to my knowledge public before. >> well, we notice that there just went any public references at least recently to where she went to high school. she mentioned her community college and university but not her high school.

so we went looking. and i had someone send me a tip that they knew someone who went to school with her, and that it was lawrence county academy which shut down if the late '80s. and i was able to get enemy to send me pictures from the year become. one of the pictures she is posing for a group of cheer leaders you see the mascot. the mascot is dressed in a confederate general uniform and holding a confederate flag. >> she is in the picture with the -- with the mascot dressed in a confederate uniform holding a confederate flag. >> she is. >> she is in that picture. >> she is in that picture. >> okay. >> and it just kind of shows you kind of the culture of those schools. and i also talked to her coach who also happens to be formers congressman ronnie couch he was her coach at the few years she played basketball in junior

high. he told me there was only one reason the schools opened. and it was clear. sthe opened in 1970. the brook haven and lawrence county academy opened in 1970 because in 1969 the supreme court says brown v.ed about, 15 years ago. we're past all deliberate paid. you have to do it now. that was in '69. np in '70. the lawrence county academy closed but lart later she sent her daughter to brook haven which does technically admit non-white students. the school has only one black student from 2015 to 2016 only one black student. >> the town is 5 a% black. as of 2014-15 only one black student. and. >> right, 2015-2016. >> 2015-2016, one black student

and the stool are school was founded according to the person you spoke to, a former official, because of the '69 supreme court ruling that they had to integrity so they formed the private schools that would continue in a segregated populism in the student body. >> and i found a publication from 1974, i believe, by the citizens council where they mention that they were helping raise funds for parents in brook haven to send their children to brook haven academy. >> you mean the white citizen's council is what they were called. >> right, the white sin's council. >> now, this is the same lady, now, that talked about a front row at the public hanging. here is a lady who just moments aigt when questioned wouldn't deal with race, just said if anybody was offended. and now we are finding out from your reporting -- going by your

reports -- that she went to a segregated high school, which you might want to say her parents did. but then she sent her daughter to one which you would have stay she had some influence on. am i correct? >> well and that's what a lot of people have said. it wasn't her choice as a kid to go to that skoom. but she sent her daughter to a school founded for the same reason. i will say as far as the public hanging comment goes, another thing her former coach told me and every mississippian i talked to said they never heard the public hanging remark used as a term of endeerment or cloakialism. but her coach told me he does recall hearing that phrase used but a long time ago. >> in what context. >> just i think maybe as kind of a -- as kind of an extreme way of saying, you know if they asked me to go to public hanging i like this person so much i

would go. but the thing is "the new york times" reported a couple weeks ago that they spoke to a southern linguist who said that -- that phrase was used but mostly in the 1800s and had mostly died out by the mid-1900s. we're talking about a term used when lynchings were a widespread thing and not one that should have really been common in anyone's lexicon by the '50s, '70s. >> when you put the public hanging comment with the jefferson davis praising, with the segregated school for her daughter. when you add these things up, it paints a picture that seems to be hard to get around. >> well, that's what -- that's what a lot of people are saying is that, you know, one of these things could be explained, perhaps. but kind of all these things together puts her in a position

where she really has questions she needs to answer. and she kind of -- she kind of is avoiding answering the question directly and really dealing with race. but that's what we're trying to do is we're trying to get to a point where we can talk with our leaders about race and have the serious conversations. but we get a lot of deflexion and not just from here and not just in mississippi. our governor also went to a segregated academy actually founded by the white citizen's council. >> i think we need knows discussions. and the election is tuesday. i hope that she will discuss it. i'm on tomorrow night at 5:00. she is welcome to come on this show. mike esby has done the show. i would welcome the discussion on politics nation if she would like to answer those questions. thank you, ashton pitman. >> thank you. >> up next how one mother's personal tragedy has turned her

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welcome back. quinn carr's life changed forever when her son literally died in the hands of the new york city police department four years ago. in an age when young black men and women document actions with their cell phonefocusing on the treatment of black americans by law enforcement. in her new book, miss carr recounts her role as an activist in the fight for racial equality. thank you for joining me. why was it important for you to write this book and what is the message you wanted to convey in putting this book out? >> well, reverend al, i thought it was important to write the book because i wanted the bring about more awareness about the world we are living in today. and we have to bring to the

forefront what is actually happening out here to our young black and brown brothers and sisters. and we have to try to put a stop to it and the only way to do that is to bring about awareness so we can bring about change in laws. >> now one of the things that struck me as i read the book, i've gotten to no you over the last four years, i remember the night it happened. we talked on the phone. immediately national action network and i got involved as you wrote about, but i learn nd the book things about herk and you that i didn't know ainnd on of the things that's striking is people see those of us that are activists out there, but don't realize these are human beings that have real families, that have different parts of family that is go through the same things in life we all go through. that all of a sudden become a symbol and we lose the sense of

humanity. tell the viewers what kind of son and father and husband the type of person eric was. that was lost that day in the choke hold that a new york city policeman took his life. >> well, eric, he was such a gentle person. he was always willing to help other people. even growing up, he always looked out for the underdog. he would bring children home from school and tell me oh, he's going to eat with us. the kids were picking on him today and i brought him home to have supper with us. when he grew up, he was a lover of christmas. he just loved christmas because i used to instill in him about the family gatherings and how important family was and how important it was to get together and stay with family. and that grew up in him and then

when he became a young man and went away to college, he still had that mentality of everybody was his friend. which i used to tell him, everybody is not your friend. and then he got married. had children. and he used to play santa claus for hem. and he just was just a loving person. everybody who met him loved him even after his death. i ran into people who i never known before and they told me experience that they had with eric. and how good he was. and that made me feel good because some of these things i didn't even know about him. a homeless man told me he fed him every day. >> you know, one of the things, i'm out of time, but i want to put this to you. you've become an activist.

been around the country caring are other families, standing with our families, so have your children and daughter-in-law, what motivates you now to not just move on but that you're there on the front line, mother of the movement, what motivates you? >> because there are other lives that we have to save it's too late for us as mothers of the movement. our children are gone. but there are still other lives out there. we have to think about our grandchildr grandchildren. we have to think about the unborn. and the only way to do that is to get out there and galvanize and show people that we're not going to sit back and just take this and that's why the name of my book is is this stops today. we know the police haven't stopped killing, but we are still going to be b out there and they're dpoipg to kngoing t out there. >> well, the policeman involved in this case was not indicted,

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possess or have. the it's about what you can share with others. on thanksgiving day, i was at national action network all day serving the seniors and eating with those that are homeless that i call houseless and people like quin carr and mark and my daughter, and my unborn grand n grandson, we served all day. because i know how it is growing up in brownsville, to not have family to eat with. or not having the kind of meal that all your friends have. and if you are really grateful, you should share that with others. because the sign of gratitude is not what you have, but what you do for others that may not have what you have. then you'll have a happy thanksgiving. that does it for me. i'll see you back here tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next, deadline white house with my friend,