Your family. You can start calling in now. One statistic on how americans are spending this holiday, one major survey found only 20 27 of americans plan to have the traditional thanksgiving meal people outside their household. The New York Times trying to break down that our data. That map shows the share of people eating thanksgiving dinner with people outside their homes. The darker the caller shading on the map, the larger the expected share according to that survey. As the map illustrates and according to the New York Times, there is a regional variation in thanksgiving plans, with people in some parts of the country more likely to gather with others. In vermont, only about 14 of households will be celebrating with people outside their household. In parts of missouri, more than half of the residents plan to. You can find that map at the New York Times. We ask you this morning about thanksgiving 2020. What are you celebrating, what are you thankful for, some responses already. This is what karin writes in this morning. Karen is thankful for the ladies i know who selflessly got behind a sewing machine and cranked out dozens, and often hundreds, of masks to distribute. They truly are lifesavers. Thank you. Dottie said she is thankful that i survived. Stephanie saying, i am thankful for my friends, family, food on the table, roof over my head, and trumps loss. This from william this morning, saying he is thankful that President Trump will be president again in four years. Some of the responses so far on social media this morning. We want to hear from you. Again phone lines split up , regionally. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. We will go right to john in minneapolis. Happy thanksgiving, john. Caller yeah, right. What a thanksgiving. I am thankful for what happened yesterday in gettysburg. I believe this is the end of the fraudulent president elect biden. I believe that in a couple of , weeks, the fraudulent office of the president elect will be no more. Last night i saw a little bit of the slug and slimeball and scumbag seth meyers on nbc. Perfect example of the anticulture at work and i hope very soon someone will wipe the host that was john in minneapolis talking about pennsylvania. A bit of focus yesterday on pennsylvania from the judiciary and also from the legislative branch. The Washington Post with a wrap up. A temporary order blocking further certification of Election Results was stayed yesterday on appeal from state officials who had already formalized joe bidens win in that state. The Washington Post saying it was a setback for the republican effort to invalidate votes in pennsylvania. On wednesday morning a commonwealth judge placed a hold on a certification process in pennsylvania for down ballot races pending a hearing later this week. State officials appealed to the pennsylvania Supreme Court. Later yesterday that triggered an automatic stay. They asked the high court to step in and dismiss the case and that is where this stands. That was happening in pennsylvania. Pennsylvania republicans sought to build reports for claims of fraud with a hearing in gettysburg, pennsylvania. Yesterday, there was reporting early in the day President Trump was going to appear at that event in gettysburg. President trump did not physically appear, but did appear via virtually through the efforts of his lawyers who were at that hearing. Heres a bit of what President Trump said over the phone at that meeting with Pennsylvania Republican legislators. [video clip] i will introduce mr. President. You are connected. [cheering and applause] thank you very much. I saw a couple of other great networks, but i really appreciate being asked to speak. I am in the oval office right now. It is very interesting to see what is going on and this was an election we won easily. [applause] official was on this morning on a important show and said there is no way trump did not win pennsylvania because the Energy Industry was all for him. I saw with my eyes what happened and he told me horror stories. Horror stories. This was a very sad this election was rigged and we cannot let that happen. We cannot let it happen for our country and this election has to be turned around. We won pennsylvania by a lot and we won all of these states by a lot. Host that was President Trump via phone in pennsylvania. Speaking of the president , other news from the desk of the president yesterday and from the twitter page of president. Yesterday afternoon the , president tweeting, Michael Flynn has been granted a full pardon. Congratulations to him and his family. I know you will have a truly fantastic thanksgiving. The president going on to say to his former National Security advisor, have a great life, general flynn. Reaction for members of from members of congress, republicans heralding the pardon saying he is an American Patriot who was shamelessly set up by the Obama Administration against donald trump. Congressman andy biggs saying thank you for pardoning general flynn. The republican from arizona. Bill johnson from ohio saying, a just President Trump pardons Michael Flynn. This served as a clear message to other officials supporting our officials would have unjust consequences. His pardoning ends a four year long ordeal. Nancy pelosi said yesterday, he twice pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his dealings with a foreign adversary is an active grave corruption and abrasion a brazen abuse of power. This from ed markey of massachusetts, Michael Flynn is a criminal. Roger stone is a criminal. Donald trump is a criminal. None of them deserve to be pardoned. This from jerry nadler, chair of the house judiciary saying, Michael Flynn lied to investigators about communicating with a foreign adversary. That is a crime. Trump dangled a pardon in exchange for flynns noncooperation. This pardon is another stain on trumps rapidly diminishing legacy. Some reaction to President Trumps pardon yesterday. That is some of the news that has taken place in the last 24 hours. We are leaving this segment of the washington journal open for you to talk about thanksgiving day 2020. Phone lines split up regionally. If you are in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. If youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Ray in elizabeth city, north carolina. You are next. Caller hello. Thank you for letting me on. I am very thankful for this day and thankful for the blessings and freedoms that we still have. I will be celebrating thanksgiving with my family and i must add i totally agree with what the president said about what happened during the election. Totally agree. There has been hardly any News Coverage of the Dominion Software that was used to change votes. That is a fact that happened. Anyway, this is thanksgiving day. I am very thankful, very thankful, for thanksgiving day. We all can agree to that. Host that was ray. Dave in oceanside, california, thanks for getting up early with us. Caller hey. I would like to know why cspan is not covering all the stories about these people getting knocked off twitter. He just got knocked off twitter because he was talking about election fraud. Anybody talks about election fraud, twitter silences them. You need to go to parler. Cspan needs to get onto parler and give some other people a voice to respond to you that way. A lot of us are getting cut off. I have been cut off twitter two or three different times and had to start new accounts. Facebook cut me off. Anytime you say anything about elections, people cut you off and silence you. Host what did you say about the election the last time you got cut off twitter . I retweeted things either the president said or one of the officials from the election bureau. They would put a warning on it and say this has been disputed. Which is fine. Twitter should say this has been , shown false. That is a different story. If they say it has been shown false it is one thing. , but if it is disputed, that is just free speech. The state senator for pennsylvania that ran the hearing yesterday, he was tweeting about what happened during the hearing and twitter cut him off and knocked his whole speech down. He cannot even go on twitter and say anything about the vote count, about how it came in, how pennsylvania had more votes returned than they sent out. It seems like twitter is really starting to silence what is going on here. Host how much time do you spend on twitter or parler . How big of a part of a your communication is that . Caller sometimes an hour in the morning. I have a company that i get going every day. I do not do it on my phone. I do not have twitter on my phone. I never had facebook on my phone. I would use it. If im getting my stuff ready to go through quickbooks, i would have a second page open and i would breeze it. Im not a social media nut. That is what i am saying. If i am just on there just a little bit and they are knocking me off left and right and it really ticks me off. If somebody comes at me and says, this is fraud, we proved it. Im not going to tweet it again. That is one thing. What if someone says it is disputed, who the hell are these people to say that . Host do you think twitter and facebook are going to have as much influence in the next election as they have had in recent elections . Host if the caller if the senate allows them to. If these politicians allow them to, yes. Im telling you. When flynn was pardoned, all these politicians from the other side, pelosi and all them you just read them on air. They were nasty comments. Hes the devil, he was the traitor, this and that, when flynn just told fbi agent he did not speak to somebody when he did. Come on is that a big deal . , joe biden just did that before he got elected. He spoke to all kinds of foreign officials. If fbi agent walked up and said, did you speak to soandso . Biden isi do not think really with it because he is an old guy. He could make a mistake and say, i did not talk to him and he would be guilty of the same thing that flynn was guilty of. Host that was david in california. This is stephanie, ashburn, virginia. How are you spending thanksgiving . Caller i am spending thanksgiving by myself, but im still going to be zooming. I just wanted to say good morning and im so thankful god answered my prayer for the biden win and for the doctors and nurses that work so hard and are still working. My family and cspan keeps it real. Host that was stephanie. You bring up president elect joe biden. He gave a thanksgiving address yesterday from wilmington part , of his effort to offer his vision for what a Biden Administration will look like. Here is a bit of the president elect. [video clip] here is the america i see. I believe it is the america you see as well. America that faces facts. America that overcomes challenges. An america where we see justice and equality for all people. An america that holds fast to the conviction that out of pain comes possibility, out of frustration comes progress, and out of division, unity. You all know when our finest hours that is who we have always been. That is who we shall be again. I believe that this grim season of division demonization, is anding to give way to light unity. Why do i think so . Because america is a nation out of adversaries, but of neighbors. Not of limitations, but of possibilities. Not of dreams deferred, but of dreams realized. I have said many times that this is a great country. We are a good people. This is the United States of america. There has never been anything we have been unable to do when we have done it together. Think about what we come through as a nation. How many things we have come through. Centuries of human slavery, cataclysmic civil war, exclusion of women from the ballot box, world wars, jim crow, the Twilight Struggle against soviet tyranny that couldve ended not in the fall of the berlin wall, but in nuclear armageddon. I am not naive. I know that history is that history. But to know what came before, what has happened before can arm , us against despair. Knowing that previous generations got to the same universal human challenges we face. The tension between selfishness and generosity, fear and hope, division and unity, and what was it that brought the reality of america into closer alignment with the promise of reality . It sounds corny but it was love. Plain and simple. Love of country, love of one another. We do not talk about love much in politics. The political arena is too loud, too angry, too heated. To love our neighbor as ourselves is a radical act. It is what we are called to do. Host joe biden yesterday in delaware. Taking your phone calls on this thanksgiving morning. Joy is in philadelphia. Good morning. Caller good morning. I want to be thankful for the doctors and nurses that are really changing their holiday to take care of the sick people. I do not think people realize they do not think about those doctors and nurses taking care of everyone. A lot of hospitals do not have the space, they do not have the beds to take care of people. They are telling them not to travel. They are telling them not to travel. I look at the airport and people still are traveling. We have a lot to be thankful for. I am thankful joe biden did win the election and i would hope that the trump voters would just support him because i really think that he is sincere and wants to be a good president. Host on this program yesterday when we were having this , conversation, there were Trump Supporters who said that democrats did not get over 2016. Why should they support joe biden now . Why should they get over the results of 2020 . What would you say to those folks . Caller i would say to them, lets go back to 2016. Russia was involved in the election. The election was very flawed. They really did a job on hilary. They did the job on facebook. I went back and i even got off my facebook. In fact, i never was on facebook. They always tried to get me to sign up, but i saw it here from different people about these bogus stories that facebook had in 2016. They did a job on hilary. That is why flynn and all of them, that is why this is coming up from 2016. People need to go back. After 2016 we lived through four years of basically a showman. I really think we should move on because even in this election if you look, it was other places where trump tried to take the with kanye west, fox news, he had a whole propaganda channel. Host that is joy in pennsylvania this morning. Joy started talking about doctors and nurses and dealing with the ongoing spike in the pandemic. Heres the latest numbers from yesterday. United states yesterday recorded more than 2200 new deaths, the highest single day increase since may 6. The seven day above 1600. A figure comparable to that during the first case spike in cases. On wednesday alone, the u. S. 180 5000 new coronavirus cases, a number that dwarfs the number from may when the high point that the United States recorded was more than 33,000 new cases in a single day. When it comes to hospitalizations, at 7 00 p. M. Yesterday total hospitalization s in this country stood at more than 89,000, that also a record. This is david in the sooner state. Caller good morning, yall. I am thankful for this country. I have a request that yall have a program about respect, if you could. That is a word a lot of people i guess it means a lot of things to a lot of different people. I would like to recite my thanksgiving poem if that would be all right . Host go ahead. Caller it is called god bless america. Do we ever stop and think about our freedom here today . Weve heard the prayers so many so many times, god bless the usa. Do we stop to think about our countrys pioneers . The ones who came across and traveled . They roamed the land, they stood up for freedom, for god they made the stand. They said through him there would always be an abundance in this land. , hunger came they , did not lose their faith. God had brought them over here and would not turn away. Im glad they carried out gods plan. If they would have turned back who would came to this land . Who knows . It might be russia, china, or iran. Thank god we are called america, where the eagle flies free, we dont trust communists but god who lives in me. World, you see. We are free. Americans, please take a look at the world outside and see how our country started. God does bless the usa. That is it. Host thank you for sharing that poem. How long did take you to write that . Caller i wrote that back in 1987 when i lived in fort smith arkansas. , i am a poem writer. I have always been patriotic. My dad was a world war ii veteran and im the only one out of 11 kids that served in the military. I am a veteran. My dad was the only one out of 10 in his family. Something just dug into me. We are all america. Host thank you for sharing that this morning. You talked about respect. I would encourage you to stick around. We are going to have a segment today talking about the political divide in this country, but focused on efforts to heal it, to talk across the divide, talk about respect. That is it 8 45 eastern this morning. We will be joined by dave isay, president and founder of storycorps. We will talk more about his efforts a little later this morning. Hope you stick around for that. Lisa is next in shreveport, louisiana. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. I am thankful for my family and i am thankful for president donald j. Trump. Everybody please get on the internet to find out all your information. This is a coup against our president. Host where on the internet do you get your information . Where would you encourage people to go . Caller go to x22. Com, parler, theyre going to take us off. I have been doing this for three years. I am one of the patriots fighting for trump. You are going to see things youve never seen before. Get ready. This is a revolution. They are trying to take our president and our country down. Please go find out the news. You all are working for the cia. People are going to find out and they are going to be very upset. Host that was lisa in louisiana. Chris i