Stuffing and Everything Else going. Good morning emily and jason. Emily good Morning Griff and jason. Happy thanksgiving for you both. Im so thankful to be here filling in for ainsley and happy to be here with you two. We have a great morning in store for you. Jason this is fun. I love turkey day. I dont know if you think i delayed my start to turkey day. I have already had a little stuffing and the cranberries. I dont wait until 5 00 in the afternoon. You dont get a belly like mine by waiting for, you know, the starting bell. You sneak into the kitchen and grab what you can, especially at 2 15 in the morning my wife was just going to bed. I was just getting up and, you know,. Griff fair point, jason, i bought four pies for my family and at least one of them is half gone. I think you win that conversation. Send us your by the way, send us your what you are doing. Jason has already got things started. Emily, you have got to tell us what you have already done its friends foxnews. Com. We will show what you are doing to get ready for the big day. Jason its going to be a big day. I will tell you what, there is a big story we are following this morning. You may have heard about it last night. We want to give you at details. Michael flynn and his Family Feeling extra thankful this morning after President Trump pardons the former National Security adviser. Lauren bran charred joins us live from washington with more and the president s announcement. Lauren . Good morning, jason, emily, griff. President trump tweeted last night at least one person having, quote, a truly fantastic thanksgiving is former National Security adviser Michael Flynn granted a president ial pardon. General flynn is now safe from the possibility of jail time despite two guilty pleas for lying to the fbi. The judge in flynns case was expected to rule any day on flynns case to throw out the case. Flynns family said in a statement after the Pardon Announcement they are grateful to the president and, quote, let our nation never allow this violation of an American Civil Rights under the law happen again. But not feeling thankful for the pardon top democrats. Especially those who led the russia investigation. They called it an act of Grave Corruption. Congressman adam schiff Writing Trump has once again abused the pardon power to award Michael Flynn chose little to trump over little to his country. Says these are abuse of power and undermine the law. Waiting for more possible pardons before President Trump leaves office. On the list his 2016 Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort sentenced to 7 and a half years and roger stone granted clemency a few months ago. Emily, griff, jason . Griff all right. Laura, thank you very much. We want to bring in Jonathan Turley, Fox News Contributor and legal scholar George Washington university. Good morning, professor, thanks for joining us, happy thanksgiving to you. Happy thanksgiving. Griff no one, perhaps, happier than general flynn. For our viewers, just to go back to remember. This is a person whose case dragged on for years. The Trump Department of justice sought to throw the case out. A judge Emmet Sullivan kept it going. And, yet, if you look at the history, general flynn, of course, was found by the doj to have not committed any criminal behavior. They tried to end the investigation but, yet, james comey the fbi director second two agents to view him. Here w interview him it. Ends like this. What are your thoughts this morning. This pardon would not have been necessary if the judge in the case, judge sullivan had simply issued a final decision. This is a bizarre case. Because the Justice Department sought to drop the charges. Decided that he was improperly charged because of what has come out recently. What the judge did is refuse to issue that order. He was ultimately taken up on appeal. A panel ruled against him and ordered him to dismiss the case. That was then later reversed by the full court, which said that we have to give judge sullivan a chance to do the right thing, to finish the case and then we will review it. Went back in a third sentencing hearing, sullivan again refused to issue a final decision, said that he had still questions about the case. Even asked the lawyers in the case what would happen if he just waits for a biden Justice Department, whether that would change things. And so many of us were highly critical of judge sullivans handling of the case. And thats why this is a rather unique situation. I do not feel comfortable with the president pardoning associates. I dont feel comfortable with any president pardoning political associates. But this is not your normal case. This case should have been dismissed a long time ago. And, also, he should not have been criminally investigated. General flynns investigation for criminal conduct fell apart in December Of 2016 by january of 2017, the Justice Department was asking to get to end that investigation. It was stopped by peter strzok. One of the figures that has featured so prominently publicly. He prevented them from closing that investigation. And then james roamy went as described by sally yates, rogue. And sent in these investigators to see if they could get him to trip a wire, which he did. But this has been a really outrageous and in my view abusive case from the beginning. Its important to note that those investigators that he was charged with lying to said they didnt think he intentionally lied to him. When the interview began. He said well, you all have the transcript with my conversation with the diplomat. And they did. And they said that they didnt think he intentionally lied. But, he fought the charges. And what muellers people did. First of all, there werent any charges. Mueller came in and they resuscitated the charges. They pummeled this guy, drained him of his money and threatened his son with prosecution. And he finally pled guilty to end it. So its just been an outrageous case from the beginning. Emily professor, to your point about judge sullivan. This is a judge that sat on uncontested motion to dismiss from the Department Of Justice for almost seven months and yet now we are hearing that this pardon, without which it wouldnt be necessary, is somehow a perversion of justice. How is that Activist Judge not the one sir couple navigating justice . If you will just bear with me for a moment, i will read to you some quotes from democratic lawmakers which cant help but melt down at this. So we have senator Richard Blume thai that you will saying as rotten as unsurprising. Representative adam schiff saying its no surprise that trump would go out just as he came in crooked to the end. And representative jerry nadler saying one more stain on President Trumps rapidly diminishing legacy. Your thousand, professor . Well, i practiced in front of judge sullivan for years. I actually have respect for him. I have been very critical of his handling of this case. Im baffled by it. I honestly cant imagine how you can justify what has happened in this case. These Sentencing Hearings have really border derderian oed on. Accuse him of doing things he didnt do such as treason and then having to come band and apologize for it. I want to note something adam schiff said. There is no one in this case that has said that President Trump withheld evidence against President Trump. Weighs convicted for making these statements that were viewed as false about his conversations with diplomats. There was nothing criminal in those conversations with russian diplomats. There is notes released later that suggest that comey told president obama and then Vice President joe biden that the calls appeared, quote, legit. And they were. There was nothing untoward or even uncommon in an National Security adviser weeks before the entry of an administration to reach out to diplomats and that come from countries like russia. Nothing uncommon or illegal in those communications. Jason professor. We want to switch to another topic and get your input because overnight the Supreme Court blocked Governor Cuomos capacity to put caps on Houses Of Worship. With Justice Barrett playing a key role in the ruling, this from Justice Neil Gorsuch, it is time, past time to make claim while the pandemic poses many grave challenges there is no world in which the Constitution Toler Rates Color CodedExecutive Edigits that reopen Liquor Stores and bike shops but shutter churches, synagogues and mosques. What else your reaction to what the Supreme Court did and the action to put down what what Governor Cuomo trying to do . It was a fascinating case. You had the five justices that ruled against new york in this case. It might have been six because chief Justice Roberts said that he was not saying that the restrictions imposed by Governor Cuomo were constitutional. He just didnt feel that there was a need at this time for the court to step in. But, that was really swatted back by Justice Kavanaugh who said look the Second Circuit can rule on this but we want to make sure that these churches and synagogues know that they can continue in these Houses Of Worship. Its a major case. Because we have seen across the country these challenges. Not just with religious organizations, but also we saw that very interesting challenge recently in kentucky with regard to schools. Now, with that you, they are arguing science. They are saying the science is not supporting these bans, particularly for young children. In these cases they are saying this is a violation of the free exercise of religion. So these are very interesting cases. And last night was a major step for the challengers across the country. Griff all right. Professor Jonathan Turley, we just received a phone call from your family that says you have to get home and Start Cooking the turkey. Two turkeys, yes. Griff two. Are you deep trying one of them . No. We are doing one smoked. One oven. But the smoked one looks like i dragged it behind my car but its always the first to go. Griff yum, sounds good. Happy thanksgiving and thanks for taking time with us today. Thank you. Griff thank you very much. Thinking of gatherings we are going to turn and talk a little bit about the mayor of denver, colorado. Michael hancock who decided to take off to his native mississippi but it was obviously after he had first sent out the same warnings we have seen coast to coast from Government Officials saying do not do anything, cancel your plans. Now, here is what he tweeted on wednesday. This is his tweet pass the potatoes not covid. Stay home as much as you can especially if you are sick. Host virtual gatherings, instead of inperson dinners. Avoid travel puck. If you can. Orderly your holiday meal from a local eatery. Shop online with a Small Business for black friday. He was heading for mississippi involved gathering and flying. He tweet i fully acknowledge that i urged everybody to stay home and avoid unnecessary travel. I shared our our plans canceled plans for multihousehold celebration. What i did not share went to mississippi where my daughter recently took a job. I realize my decision disappointed many who believe it would have been better to spend thanksgiving alone. I apologize to the residents of denver who see my decision as conflicting for guidance to stay at home for all but essential travel. I made my decision as a father and husband. For those disappointed i hum bling ask you to forgive decisions that are borne of my heart and not my head. Here we are again another Government Official doin tellins to do one thing and doing another. Emily unfortunately unsurprising this is a pattern that we have seen going on now quite some time with these largely democratic governors and mayors who issue these edigits and issue these Override Orders and then file comply. The rules dont apply to those lawmakers. And the problem that i see with it as well in addition to the blatant hypocrisy is the fact they only apologize when they got caught. Remember governor gavin newsom was caught at French Laundry flanked by medical officials and lobbyists. He issued his apology a week later. This is while 500,000 californians under his watch remains jobless and 100 Small Businesses remains shuttered are you jays jace this is why they call it hypocrisy. Unbelievable often this keeps happening and coast to coast. Literally put out a tweet and decided to get on an airplane i was being a dad. What about the rest of america . My goodness. Anyway. Its quite a story with the mayor of denver. But there is a lot of other things happening in the world and we are about to have Jillian Share The Headlines with us. Jillian . Jillian good morning happy thanksgiving to you and to you at home as well. In just hours annual macys thanksgiving day parade will get underway. The Holiday Tradition will look a lot different. There wont be the thousands of people standing on the new york city streets you are used to seeing and the parade route will only span one block. Giant balloons will fly but wont have Hundreds Of Handlers on the ground. Parts of the parade have been pretaped to discourage crowds. The Ravens Steelers Game Slated for tonight has been pushed to sunday. The nfl says its out of an abundance of caution after baltimore reported multiple covid19 tests. This afternoon you can catch the cowboys hosting washington. Tune in for that Nfc East Divisional Match up only on fox. American families have their own thanksgiving tradition, right . But one florida family takes it to a whole new level. Check this out. Yes, folks. We thaw our turkey in the pool. Thats how you do it when you live in florida, right . Jillian The Clearwater Man Tossing his turkey right into the pool to help the frozen bird thaw out. Its a strange year. Whatever works, right, guys . Send it back to you. Griff all right. Thanks, jillian. Look, i found my washington football hat i expect for washington to go down to dallas and absolutely disseminate the cowboys on this thanksgiving which will be a nice followup to my turkey full dinner. We will have to see what happens. Jillian regardless the nfc east is still terrible. Griff Washington Team in dallas playing for first place in the nfc. Jason hey. I just want you to know that chlorine tainted turkey thats something i havent tried. I havent tried that. Emily i have to say, you guys, at the commercial break i might be slimg out and putting on my raiders jersey. I know it isnt part of the conversation today we are in the wild card. Jillian i have eagles gear upstairs. Dont tempt me. Griff why will give it to you. From nancy pelosi being busted maskless at the salon to the cuomo brothers. We are counting down the top political turkeys of 2020 how do you like me now remember the time coughing hi susan honey . Yeah . I respect that. But that cough looks pretty bad. Try this new robitussin honey severe. The real honey you love. Plus, the powerful cough relief you need. Mind if i root through your trash . New robitussin honey severe. Strong relief for your severe symptoms. 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