and i would like to say i appreciate them. >> we are grateful for them as well. i'm brooke baldwin. it's thanksgiving. thank you so much for being with me. happy thanksgiving to you. and in the holiday spirit here, the president is giving thanks to americans who deserve it most, like the men you just saw there. our u.s. military overseas. he talked earlier to video -- to troops via video conference in iraq and turkey, afghanistan, the persian gulf and the arabian peninsula and those assisting in syria, and he also visited a coast guard station there in florida where he spotlighted the 16,000 lives the coast guard saved after hurricane harvey. think about that for a second. and as the president heaped a lot of praise, of course, to those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, he also hailed his own achievements. >> we opened it up. we said, go ahead, we're going to fight to win. we're not fighting anymore to just walk around. we're fighting to win. and you people are really -- you've turned it around over the last three to four months like nobody's seen. and they are talking about it. so thank you very much. >> we're being talked about again as an armed forces. we're really winning. we know how to win. but we have to let you win. they weren't letting you win before. they were letting you play even. we're letting you win. >> the stock market on friday hit the all-time high. the highest it has ever been, ever. in your whole long life, the stock market is higher than it has ever been. that means your 401(k)s and all of the things you have, you know, whether it's -- even if you're in the military, you have a country that is really starting to turn. you know, we want to have a strong country. we want to have a country where i can buy a new coast guard cutters and not have to worry about it. >> so let's start there. joining me now cnn military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hurtling and cnn diplomatic and military analyst john kirby. my favorite general and admiral on the same screen on thanksgiving day. i feel like a lucky gal. thank you both so much. happy thanksgiving and thanks for everything that you've done for this country. general, you're up first. just your response, i mean, just to the president speaking to troops today. >> well, first of all, happy thanksgiving, brooke. >> thank you. >> i can speak for john and say both of us are thankful for you and all of your team at cnn for what you do, especially your connection with the army and the navy. thanks for what you've done this year on that. >> thank you. >> in terms of the president, i'm thankful for the fact that he did take time out of his schedule and talk to the forces that are stationed around the world, that he went to a coast guard station, a small coast guard station near mar-a-lago. and talked to those young sailors. that's terrific. i'm a little bit concerned about some of the things he said. he -- i would really caution the president about using the phrase "winning now," because, truthfully, i think that's not heard in the right way by soldiers, airmen and marines that have been fighting in this conflict for the last 17 years who have always been attempting to win. and truthfully, think john would back me up on this and say there is not a whole lot of difference between what's going on more than ten months ago and what's been happening in the last ten months. >> john kirby, i want to hear from you, but we also want to talk to you, too, the previous administration. you heard the president sort of hit his predecessors, again, the quote, we have let you win. they, meaning previous administrations, presumably, weren't letting you win before. >> yeah, i take exception to that having been at the state department and the pentagon in the previous administration and seeing firsthand how hard our troops and our diplomat as round the world have been trying to counter threats like isis and al qaeda in some pretty difficult places. i think that was an unfair swipe at the previous administration. he didn't need to do that. i agree with the general. it was nice he made the outreach. it was nice he said those things. i was glad to see he brought the families into that conversation and really noted the service and the sacrifice of the families waiting back home this thanksgiving. he didn't need to go there. first of all, it's not factually accurate. one of the reasons why isis is so diminished now is because the obama administration in concert, oh, by the way, with 658 other nations put such great pressure on them in iraq and syria. >> let me move on from that, and, admiral, let me ask you about this story out of argentina. this argentine missing submarine is just awful for these families. the 44 crew members on board. it's believed they're on their last couple of hours of oxygen. we're learning there is this noise consistent with potentially an underwater explosion detected around its last known location. obviously you're not working this case specifically. you don't know the ins and outs, but what does your gut tell you? >> well, it doesn't look good, i have to be honest. the news that the hydro acoustic sensors picked up this -- what they considered violent and nonnatural sounds in keeping of that with an explosion on the last day we had contact with a sub. it's not a good sign. it doesn't mean anything and have to be careful not to jump to conclusions, but it's certainly not a good sign. secondly, as you mentioned there, brooke, we're going into a week now as we lost contact and they estimated they has seven or eight days of provisions in oxygen, assuming they couldn't make oxygen. that means we're racing against the clock here. and the arlg tiny navy in concert with three or four other navies are still working hard to find this boat and crew. they are still considering this a rescue operation. they haven't given up all hope and our thoughts and prayers need to be not only with the families but all the crewmen out there looking for them. >> you are 100% correct. before i let both of you go, just sort of on a lighter note, general, to you. you and i were e-mailing earlier today. i wanted to just talk military and thanksgivings past and i wanted to ask you, sir, about your beer and twinkie delivery in northern iraq. >> yeah, well, i had this great command sergeant major when i commanded the first army division by the name of roger blackwood. he was big into ensuring our soldiers got twinkies. when we were commanding together as a team in northern iraq, we had a pretty big area of operations and we made a vow we would go out on thanksgiving day and the day after and visit every one of our forward operating bases. we had 79 of them. for two days we were flying different places. i would bring the beer and he would bring the twinkies he got from home, literally cases of twinkies to supplement the cans of turkey and sweet potatoes we were given as soldiers. brooke, i've got to tell you, for as many times as you say you really miss your families and you do when you're deployed. the bonding and the comradery among soldiers who are accomplishing a mission is phenomenal. and i just remember one night in a small fob at about midnight one of the last places we hit on thanksgiving day, there were a bunch of soldiering coming back from patrol. they not only got the cold turkey and the cold coffee, but they got some twinkies and beer. sitting with those guys and talking about their mission and what they missed. all of them were happy to be together but also desperately missing their families. i think that speaks to the over quarter of a million soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines we have deployed today in combat and in deployment situations. not only those folks that are coming together in those kinds of situations but their families as well. >> yeah. >> so my thanks go to not only all of the military forces who are deployed, and i know john joins me in this, but more importantly, the family that are missing their soldiers. >> yes. >> and sailors, airmen and marines. >> we'll let that thought bubble percolate. whether it's twinkies after your turkey today or pumpkin pie, we're going to keep that near and dear to our hearts. gentlemen, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you got it. new questions today surrounding congressman joe barton have nude photos of the texas republican were circulated this week on social media by this anonymous twitter account. now, the congressman has apologized for it but is also now raising the pocket that he is the victim of revenge porn. which, by the way, in texas is a criminal act. since then, an unnamed woman has come forward to the "washington post" sharing a secretly recorded phone call from 2015 and it's that call, according to "the post," where barton warned her against using the explicit images he had sent her. page pate is with me, cnn legal analyst. page pate, thank you for being with me. happy thanksgiving. >> happy thanksgiving. >> before we get your take on this, i don't want to assume that people watching know exactly what revenge porn means. can you explain that for us? >> sure, absolutely, brooke. i mean, i think a lot of people perceive that there was a problem with a -- say an ex-lover, an ex-girlfriend, boyfriend having a picture of some sort of sexual image. it could be a selfie of the intimate parts of one partner sent to the other and after they break up or right before they break up, maybe there is a fight, maybe there is a threat that if you leave me i'm going to do something with this picture that you sent me and then they took the picture and posted it to facebook or sent it to one of these, you know, almost -- there were many of them, revenge porn sites that were set up exclusively to get this material and then post it where everyone could see it. so we have about i think half the states now enacted criminal statutes to prohibit that type of conduct. if you get an image from someone you're in a relationship with, and age is not important here, it doesn't matter if it's an adult or a child. if it's a child, there is a wholly different type of statute to deal with that. >> sure. >> if it's a consensual relationship, the image is taken, it's sent to someone else. unless you have that person's consent you can't post it to any social media site or it's a crime. >> all right. we get it. does this congressman case, do you think this sounds like revenge porn to you? >> i think it could be, brooke. clearly this statute, i don't think anyone thought it would be intended to protect a middle aged congressman from having his images posted on facebook. >> it goes both ways. >> absolutely. what's good for the goose is good for the gander. the stature doesn't distinguish here male, female or otherwise. if this image was taken and is it included the intimate body parts. it did. some of us have seen it. the image qualifies as revenge porn. he clearly did not give his consent for it to be posted or used in any way and she did it nonetheless. it has harmed him. we know the identity of the person, not just because his team admitted to it, but also that's what she told the "washington post" and perhaps other media outlets. all of the elements are ticked off in this case. >> we're going to follow that but let me ask you about a separate story out today. the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions has ordered a thorough review of the fbi background check system and it was revealed that the gunman who carried out that mass shooting in sutherland springs, texas, earlier this month apparently wasn't registered. and this comes amid this alarming discovery that tens of thousands of names have now been purged from the system all because of how the fbi is now defining what a fugitive is. >> right. >> what are the indirect consequences of this? >> well, let's start with the fugitive issue first. and i do think the obama administration was the first to try to address this problem, and i can see the point of people thinking that the way that it was being enforced was going too far because a fugitive was not just somebody who was on the run from law enforcement, but say you missed a court date for a traffic ticket and there was a bench warrant out for you. even though you may not have left your home, you could fall under the classification of a fugitive from justice and be prohibited from buying a firearm. before sessions was the attorney general the atf and the fbi said let's tweak that a little bit. have this fugitive portion apply only to be who are really on the run. they did that to try to remove people who may not be that dangerous from not being age to get a firearm, from coming off that list. the other issue i think is long overdue. we know that this particular individual who was involved in that mass shooting had the type of criminal past that should have prevented him from being able to legally buy a firearm. >> right. >> but these -- we've got to talk to one another. the defense department has to talk to atf, they have to talk to fbi, they have to share the information that's going to be relevant. if you have any type of domestic violence conviction, you are prohibited from possessing and purchasing a firearm. but how perfect can that system ever be? i mean, if we're really going to prevent people from getting assault weapons and things of that nature, there is nothing in that situation or in the future to prevent someone from having say a girlfriend, a friend to go in and purchase that firearm and give it to that individual. >> right. >> that happens all the time. it's a crime but it happens all the time. >> right. it's imperfect but there are certainly things that can be done to make it more difficult. >> absolutely. >> page, thank you. >> thank you, brooke. >> page pate. coming up next, you could know soon if you were targeted by russian propaganda during the 2016 election. what facebook is now doing to be more transparent with its users. also, president trump's former ghost writer says the president is, quote, odd and frightened by black people. so we'll debate whether his attacks on the father of that ucla basketball player and the nfl have anything to do with race. and later, the trump organization is walking away from a massive hotel project in new york city. we're going to explain to you what went so wrong. and the wolf huffed and puffed... like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. it can be hard to get air out, which can make it hard to get air in. so i talked to my doctor. she said... symbicort could help you breathe better, starting within 5 minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. symbicort helps provide significant improvement of your lung function. symbicort is for copd, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like 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shp shimon prokupecz, keep digging, my friend. thank you so much. coming up next, a stunning comment from the man who co-wrote "the art of the deal" with donald trump. he says the president is, quote, frightened by black people. we'll debate what that even means and how it might tie into his tweets. it's the ultimate sleep number week on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? right now save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed. ends monday. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. and we're back on this thanksgiving thursday. happy thanksgiving to you. i'm brooke baldwin. president trump's recent back and forth with the father of a ucla basketball player has revived questions about the president and race. the president was outraged that this father lavar ball refused to thank him for helping free his son liangelo ball from custody, one of three athletes arrested for shoplifting. the president called lavar ball, quote, an ungrateful fool and the poor man's version of don king without hair all over twitter who could have spent, quote, the next five to ten years during thanksgiving with your son in china but no nba contract to support you. so adding to that today, the ghost writer to the president's best-seller "art of the deal" is saying this about why the president crossed the line to cut down lavar ball. >> i think trump is half aud and half frightened by black people and his only way of dealing with them is to attack them. and on the other hand, i think he has a zero tolerance for any criticism of any kind. >> let's start there. cnn political commentators paris dennard and sally kohn are with me. happy thanksgiving to you. paris, you heard tony schwartz say the president is have awed and half frightened by black people. what do you think that means and would you like to comment on that? >> i mean, first of all, happy thanksgiving. i think tony is ridiculous in his statements. i find it interesting that after this man becomes the president of the united states is when he decides to really become so negative, rude and political, but the fact that president trump is awed by african-american people is not a bad thing. i think a lot of people are awed by successful groups of people, people who are accomplished. i think the president likes and is awed by a lot of people who are successful, who are -- who are the best at their game, who strive and overcome obstacles and become number one, who are winners. >> do we think that's how tony schwartz meant it? >> i don't know if that's how tony schwartz meant it. i doubt it. but that's how the president is. i've interacted with him many, many times. i've seen him with large groups of black people and that is not a man who is by any means frightened by african-americans. think that notion is absurd and i think it's highly offensive to have him equate this to that man. if you are a racist, you don't appoint or put the first african-american woman to be the -- your press secretary to the campaign. for you are a racist or afraid of black people, you don't invite the largest number of hbcu presidents and chance loras into your office to meet with them in you're afraid of black people or a racist. this is not something that someone who is a racist or afraid of black people does. think these comments reenforce a false narrative about this president because we were all surprised to see the president did so well with the african-american community. he has a long positive history with the black community for many, many years, many decades and it is continuing now with his agenda, especially when you look at the tax cut plan that will impact small business owners and middle class americans, which is a lot of african-americans just like myself. so this is something that is unfortunate and i don't know why tony is doing it, but i guess it's just for him to get more publicity off the back of the president of the united states. >> okay. paris, that's how you see it. sally kohn, how do you see it? >> i'm glad paris brought up a false narrative. i agree there is a false narrative here. the false narrative is about how we see racism in america today. so let's be really clear about something, thomas jefferson when he wrote that all men should be created equal owned hundreds of african-american slaves. so we have always literally from our founding fathers and our founding documents, we have always embodied the exact tensions paris is talking about. you can have black friends, you can have black coworkers and you can still participate in the unconscious or conscious belief of white racial superiority and that is our founding -- that is our founding sin. i mean, here we are, we're talking about thanksgiving day, right, where we are literally celebrating the holiday by which white forebearers in this country came and kicked native american off of their land and slaughtered and pill ajjaged th. let's face facts. the fact is that donald trump has a pattern of treating white supremacists with kid gloves and going after black people and black athletes with outrageous terms. you didn't like what the guy said? all right, fine, attack him. that's a little weird you're so sensitive. you're supposed to be the grown-up, you're the president. you've got to call him don king. >> who is also black and his friend for a very, very long time and supported him as a republican. >> that's not, like -- that's just weird and, like, go after the white supremacist maybe four times harder than you go after black athletes exercising their first amendment rights. i don't know. it's a disturbing pattern. it can be a disturbing pattern at the same time i'm sure the guy has very nice black friends. we all have to start to confront how we perpetuate racial difference and racial discrimination and racial inequality in our country. >> so, okay, i'm listening to both of you very carefully. i was just talking to a trump supporter yesterday on tv saying to me, hang on a second, you know, think president trump is an equal opportunity offender. his point was, you know, it doesn't matter what creed, color, race, sexuality, whatever, he says he's going to offend and he's not discriminatory. but here is my question for you, paris, on that point. when you look at sports, you know, sports is different with the president. you know, he's attacked nfl players, he's attacked the nfl, he's attacked nba players. he's attacked these ucla basketball players. but when you look at these two coaches, greg popovich and steve kerr who have said -- called him a soulless coward, you know, the truth is we all struggle with the idea of spending time with a man who has offended us from kerr. it doesn't -- it feels different in that regard. >> well, let's unpack a few things that you said. number one, the president isn't attacking anybody, he's responding to people coming for him. >> responding? >> so there is a difference. number two, he did not attack the nba -- sorry, the ucla students, he actually intervened to help them get out of a chinese jail, which was a good thing which we all should be thankful for, especially them spending thanksgiving with their families and not in jail. that's what the president did. he didn't attack those three students. the other point is this, the president cannot help the fact that the nfl is -- when you look at the players, the majority are african-american. but his response to the nfl players was namely a response to one player in particular and the other players who were taking a knee to something that he found and a lot of americans found offensive to our country, to our soldiers and to our history. that is what he was responding to. when he responded to the nfl in general, he was talking about those owners, the owners are majority white. the head of the nfl, goodell, who is the commissioner, is white. when he was attacking the nfl as we put it, those are majority white owned individuals that are males, many of which were supportive of him and gave him millions of dollars towards his campaign. it's inaccurate to come out and say the president goes out of his way to attack black athletes or attack black people. that's not the case and it's factually untrue. >> but it actually does seem that way, you understand? and when you have for instance a group of people marching down the street with tiki torches chanting about white power, the president pressed and pressed and pressed, asked to comment on that, says, well, there are good people on both sides. it seems as though -- paris, it seems as though he goes out of his way to say nice things about them. whereas nobody is asking them to comment on the nfl. nobody was asking him, you know, to go -- right -- to go -- he's doing this on his own. he's apparently not governing the country. he's just watching cnn from what we can tell. thank you for that. >> that's a good thing. >> he's going after black athletes and their parents who, you know, he's going out of his way to do that. let's be clear, again, the point i do think is that we can agree across the board this president's skin is too thin. i mean, really, we've got more important things to do. whatever your ideology, you'd like the guy to be focussing on jobs, or, i don't know, maybe write a tax bill that doesn't just help millionaires and billionaires and raises taxes on the middle class, which is what he seems to want to do. instead, he's got thin skin. let's be clear, it's thin white skin and it keeps getting pricked. he keeps going after black people. it's crazy. >> paris and sally, we're going to end it there. i'm going to end it on a positive note wishing you a very, very happy thanksgiving. on this thanksgiving thursday, thank you both. >> happy thanksgiving. coming up next, a flagship development for the trump organization. so much so that the trump soho hotel was announced on "the apprentice." the trump international hotel and tower in soho is the site of my latest development. this 50-story building will be the first condominium hotel in the city with world-class accommodations. >> so why is the trump organization walking away from this world-class accommodation? 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only eggland's best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. looked in the center of manhattan, chic artist enclave, the trump international hotel in soho is the site of my latest development. this 50-story building will be the first condominium in the city with world-class accommodations and views oh lower manhattan and the hudson river. when completed in 2008, this beautiful $370 million work of art will be an awe-inspiring masterpiece. >> that was the voice of donald trump praising his trump soho hotel project on "the apprentice," that was back in 2007, but now the current owner of the luxury condo hotel is parting ways with the trump organization. this is where nba superstar lebron james refused to say. insiders say the hotel has struggled to stay afloat since trump became president. jeremy diamond is with me, our cnn white house reporter. jeremy diamond, why are they cutting ties now? >> well, this property has struggled financially for some years now, but especially in the last year. so the trump organization and cim group, which actually owns this building, have decided to part ways. meaning you'll see those five letters that spell "trump" off that soho building in just a few months and also the trump organization will no longer manage the building day-to-day. and a restaurant has closed in the last year. there have been -- they've struggled to fill the hotel and to sell the condominiums actually in that building. and a lawyer for the restaurant that closed in this last year said -- attributed it to the election, attributed it to the trump brand that he says has taken a turn for the worst since president trump's election and in light of his divisive presidency as many see it. of course, the trump soho hotel is not the first and not the only property that has struggled during the trump presidency. we've also seen trump international hotel in toronto, they also stripped the trump name from that building. and even at mar-a-lago where the president is right now, according to the "washington post," 19 charities that had scheduled balls or events for this coming year cancelled those events and a lot of that appears to be attributed to the trump brand. however, on the flip side of that, you have certain properties like trump hotel in washington and even mar-a-lago that have started to see an influx from cash from conservative groups, even republican members of congress who have hosted events at that hotel in washington. so it's unclear as of now what the impact is, but certainly the president's politics, the way his presidency has been going have had an effect on his brand for better or worse, brooke? >> okay. jeremy diamond, thank you. enjoy your turkey with your family there in new york. >> thanks, you, too. thank you. coming up next, a tribute to our men and women serving overseas this thanksgiving. you will hear from a military family i spoke with recently stationed in south korea as the nuclear texts rise with their neighbor to the north. >> i don't worry about myself or my unit because it's ready. it's trained. it will -- we can do our job. that part doesn't worry me. the only part that worries me is just -- >> your family? >> sure. and getting them out in a timely manner. remember how the economic crash was supposed to be a wake up call for our government? people all across the country lost their savings, their pensions and their jobs. i'm tom steyer and it turned out that the system that had benefited people like me who are well off, was, in fact, stacked against everyone else. it's why i left my investment firm and resolved to use my savings for the public good. but here we are nine years later and this president and the republican congress are making a bad situation even worse. they won't tell you that their so called "tax reform" plan is really for the wealthy and big corporations, while hurting the middle class. it blows up the deficit and that means fewer investments in education, health care and job creation. it's up to all of us to stand up to this president. not just for impeachable offenses, but also to demand a country where everyone has a real chance to succeed. join us. your voice matters. how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? 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>> right, in a words matter kind of way. here in case and i'm in what's called area one. they have south korea divided into areas based on how far away you are from north korea. so this is as close as you can get. and area two encompasses seoul, and they live in the base right there in the center of seoul. >> reporter: when did he have a conversation with you, honey, we're moving to seoul? >> we knew we were finding out soon. we knew he was getting a command. we were so happy about that. he called and he was like, okay, we know. so i knew it was one of those i'm going to ease into it kind of things, you know? so he told me south korea and i was like, whoa! we have one big missile. >> how much of your day is consumed by thinking about north korea? >> quite a bit of it, just trying to think one step ahead. a step ahead of the enemy. >> do you worry? >> in terms of worry, i don't worry about myself or my unit because it's ready. it's trained. we can do our job. that part doesn't worry me. the only part that worries me is just -- >> your family? >> getting them out in a timely manner. >> we know as a family of four, you know, i would know his job would take him one way and i would be responsible for me and the girls and the we would have things that whatever you want to take with you. then you go through a process of they would fly you here, there and eventually you would be. >> how would you describe a typical day? south korea? >> pretty normal. >> pretty normal? >> we go to school for seven hours, come back, do homework on the weekends. you can go out. there's little karaoke things i do with my friends, little korean barbecue dinner. >> not only sometimes we have sleepovers with our friends. >> right there, we go there a lot. >> what's it like when you're waiting for your dad to come home on a friday? >> it's kind of like, is he home yet? >> they want the ticker tape parade. every friday. it just started to wear on both of us. >> it was like a welcome home pae party every friday. i asked on a friday night just to give us a minute to connect again, ease back in to being around each other. then on saturday mornings we try to have our moment because then on sunday morning s that's his time with the girls with pancakes. i stay out of it. it's all them and daddy. i usually don't even have any. >> they're delicious though. >> we see what we have. a lot of times we want simplicity. >> we cover so much of the heated up rhetoric, right, between washington and pyongyang. can you feel that day to day over here? >> a little. the south korean people are very -- you know, it's just another day. they have seen worse. it's infectious to us. we know what to do if it does happen. >> what's the "it" happen? what's the it? >> just, you know -- full-on war. we know, my soldiers know, we know exactly what to do. >> if and when that call came in to you and you're ready to roll -- >> mm-hmm. >> -- what does the call look like between you and your wife? >> i don't want to think about that. i guess a phone call. hey, see you later. >> get out? >> yeah. >> is that tough to think about? >> yes, it is. that part's hard. >> why? >> uh -- because i'm -- i'm the protect protector. >> that's your job to protect your family? >> and i can't. they have to go. i have to protect these guys. it's hard. to think about that part is hard. >> what does your dad mean to you? >> a lot. he's a great father. i'm glad that he's around with us. he's an amazing person to have in our lives. >> he works and makes sure that we're safe and we're good. >> tell me about your mom. >> she helps a lot. she has to put up with so much like taking care of us during the week when daddy's not here. >> since we move so much, family is the thing that keeps constant. like we always have mom and dad, we always have each other. >> family. while i was also just recently in south korea, i interviewed a number of sailors on the u.s.s. ronald reagan and shared with them messages for loved ones this thanksgiving. here's a look. >> happy thanksgiving to my daughter in tennessee and my parents kathy and george in panama city beach, florida. i love you and miss you. >> happy thanksgiving to my family in sanford, florida. i'm thankful for you all. you're keeping me here. thank you. she's nationally recognized for her compassion and care. he spent decades fighting to give families a second chance. but to help others, they first had to protect themselves. i have afib. even for a nurse, it's complicated... and it puts me at higher risk of stroke. that would be devastating. i had to learn all i could to help protect myself. once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®... to help keep me protected. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner... ...significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. it has similar effectiveness to warfarin. xarelto® works differently. warfarin interferes with at least 6 blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor interacting with less of your body's natural blood-clotting function. for afib patients well-managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto® compares in reducing the risk of stroke. don't stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase risk of stroke. while taking, you may bruise more easily, or take longer for bleeding to stop. it may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. xarelto® can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. get help right away for unexpected bleeding, unusual bruising, or tingling. if you've had spinal anesthesia, watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle-related signs or symptoms. do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures... ...and before starting xarelto®-about any conditions, such as kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. it's important to learn all you can... ...to help protect yourself from a stroke. talk to your doctor about xarelto®. there's more to know™. anyone who calls it a hobby doesn't understand. we know that a person's passion is what drives them. 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