Thank you [ chuckling ] thank you very much. Thats very nice. [ wild cheering continues ] thank you. I oughta thank you thats very nice of you. Thank you, for that belching ovation. [ laughter ] you know, you see, you, uh, put a lie to that old show business axiom, that, on thanksgiving day, because of the turkey they say studio audiences are no good. The turkey. But you sound like you are wired, tonight [ wild cheering ] i wish you, uh, probably for the hundredth time, happy thanksgiving, today. And everybody on the staff. Happy thanksgiving. Happy thanksgiving. Um, we commemorate, today, of course, what, uh, happened, that first thanksgiving, when one pilgrim turned to the other and said, wait, a minute. Before you stuff that loaf of bread with turkey, this indian has an interesting idea. [ laughter ] [ chuckling ] i wasnt too sure o that, myself. [ laughter ] you know, you think about it, one thing we have to be thankful for the pilgrims shot a turkey. [ laughter ] suppose theyda go
[ music ] [ applause ] okay. Hello, there. [ cheering ] do you realize that, uh by now, were on, late at night, and everybody in the country has wished everybody a thanksgiving. Thats right. But, for an everybody on the tonight show, you and your family we hope you had a yeah. Lovely holiday, with your friends, relatives. Do you realize this is our 26th thanksgiving weve spent together . Youre kidding. No. I didnt know that. Twentysix years. [ applause ] [ cheering ] and, when i met you, you changed my whole life, about thanksgiving, cause i didnt know the true story. But you told me that wonderful, intimate story about squanto, the indian, that the thats not in any of the history books that ive ever seen. Now, they dont know what youre talking about. I know, but you told me about him, and i never knew about that. [ chuckling ] what was he, one of the gowie tribe . What was he now, ii must tell you hehe was one o the gowies, wasnt he . You have no idea what youre talkin about. Years ag
Senator fires back at male colleagues over alleged Sexual Harassment at the capitol. Tonights, a dramatic escalation of the crisis in ukraine. Nato released these satellite images saying they showed russian combat units on ukrainian soil. It said at least a thousand troops are there. Maybe more. Today, a top prorussian separatist said up to 4,000 russian soldiers have fought in the con forklift. Nat 0 has called an emergency meeting with ukraine. Thats set for tomorrow. In the capitol of kiev, officials are calling russias actions a direct invasion. Ukraines president cancelled a trip totie today to meet with his National Security team, also this announcement from ukraine, a military draft suspended last year is starting up again this fall. Paul brennan reports from mariupol, ukraine. The evidence is mounting and for the first time, the word invasion is being used at the highest political levels. In brussels, nato releases satellite i am re. The Russian Military column on the mull. The
Time ago now. More than six decades now. Its going to have two be with the return based system which doesnt make people furious with it. I think thats quite doable. The current code is loaded with provisions that are both complicated and make no policy since like the alternative minimum tax and the way a lot of tax benefits are subject to phaseouts which function as hidden marginal tax rate increases which nobody understands. For a lot of people the income tax has become kind of a black walks where you put numbers into the 1040 or into the software or you give them to your return preparer and it never comes out. This is your Tax Liability but they have no idea where that came from. I always have trouble saying this but i think its a good laugh if i can get it out. Taxation without comprehension is as an amoco to democracy as taxation without representation. We have got a real democratic problem when people are paying taxes and they have no idea they cant comprehend how those tax liabil
Private philanthropy when partnering with a Government Agency you can do things that you can do by yourselves. Theres something about concrete in the way we fight property in new york. Rockford runs a 90 sites around the city and runs a program called single stop. Single stop rings to bear a free lawyer, free financial counselor free social worker tax preparer and brings this team of people together and anybody who comes and we sit down and figure what the problem is and we help them. One of the things we do is to complete the tax forms of 60,000 a rather large number, 60,000 low income lowpaid new yorkers and on their behalf we cover about 120 million in tax refunds almost entirely from the federal government. My point about raising this is follows. When you put 5000 in tax refunds on the table at the lowpaid new york family, you have added Something Like somewhere between 1 2 to one third of their incomes in the private sector and added to that. That is the amount of money they need