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Thank you jamie foxx for mentioning everything that happened this year from hurricane harvey to mass shootings, thanks to shouting out to first responders. another twitter user saying very classy, mucho approve. rob: surprising too, really, and the climate right now. i thought it was wonderful. carley: very little to talk about in terms of politics at the amas. rob: i had no idea. they always pardon the turkeys, i didnt know they were putting them up -- carley: the president is about to partake ...

Pardoning a turkey. its a tradition that goes back decades in the white house. thats this weeks "state of the cartoonion." >> its president trumps first thanksgiving at the white house. >> lets eat the food we have in here. >> but before the brig meig mea president has a big job, pardonen the presidential turkey. this week president donald trump gets to save two plump birds from minnesota, turkeys are generally bi generally picked for the honor due to their appearance. this will not be president...

Two ago where new hampshire voters had been concerned with the economy. now its terrorism and foreign policy. thats where ben carson has struggled. and the latest trip is a photo op. its good for him, in a sense. his struggles, really, are in articulating a foreign policy view. i dont know a day-long trip to jordan fixes that. >> but a good answer in a debate could help. >> i think dans point hes soft spoken in contrast to trump being out there and sure of everything. whether you agree or not. h...

Government favors the big, the powerful, the wealthy the well conne connected. its called crony capitalism. if you level the playing field by simplifying then you help the small and the powerless, and the middle class. >> finally and were running out of time here, president obama got a fair amount of criticism this week -- or rather attention this week, not criticism, for pardoning a turkey. it turns out you did the same thing. take a look. >> we are pardoning a turkey so that you go on to find ...

Its thanksgiving day, thursday, november 26th. right now on "first look," almost 50 million of us are traveling for this truly all-american holiday, as president obama reassures that security is at the forefront of his agenda. meanwhile french president hollande continues meeting with world leaders to shore up security in the fight against isis. new revelations surrounding the death of frank gifford. plus it looks like jason kidd is about to get slapped with a hefty fine. a warning for drivers...

[ applause ] it is hard to believe that this is my seventh year of pardoning a turkey. time flies. even if turkeys dont. >> thats good. that was good. >> i thought it was pretty good. i -- you think its funny, too, dont you? i know some folks think this tradition is a little silly. i do not disagree. ive got to listen to my critics say im often too soft on turkeys. and im sure the press is digging into whether or not the turkeys i have pardoned have really rededicated their lives to being good t...

Having gone way too far that even if the russian jet crossed briefly into turkey, it wouldnt warrant this kind of response, a nato country hasnt shot down a russian jet or a soviet jet for that matter since the 1950s. so, many people are saying that turkey had an ulterior motive. the russian foreign minister today accused turkey directly of planning this mission, planning to shoot down a russian plane and that it was just simply waiting for the right time to do it. so turkey says it was defendin...

Whether or not this will escalate, i tend to believe it probably wont in the short term. we are hearing fu read through the lines of all the statements were hearing from the russian foreign minister and his counterpart in turkey, theyre saying we dont want to escalate this. theyre taking symbol -- making symbolic moves to punish turkey by saying to russians, dont go on vacation there. there are 3 million russians who vacation in turkey every year. it will sting economically. but do they want ope...

On isis targets in syria. we have spoken to rebels in the area. turkey says that it supports the rebels in the area and both turkey and the rebels in the area say there is no isis presence in that particular part of the country. there is al nusra front and other groups but not particularly isis. so, that is really at the heart of this matter that you have turkey and russia disagreeing over which targets should be attacked inside syria with russia saying its fighting terrorists with turkey saying...

Of the week and then here with president obama and now angela merkel there and then moving on to moscow with the russian president vladimir putin. talk about, though, the relationship, the importance of having angela merkel at his side on this diplomatic round-up. >> reporter: well, hey there, thomas. as you mentioned in the last hour, both leaders making their show of support very evident showing up here to the plaza de la republique to pay respects to the victims of the paris attacks, a moment...