lady, vice president and first gentleman were in charge of serving the main course, the turkey. later the bidens left washington to massachusetts where they will spend the holiday with their families. it s been a tradition of the bidens since 1975, commemorating the first holiday joe and jill biden spent together. well, meantime, white house press secretary jen psaki spent the afternoon defending the president s decision to leave washington for the holiday as well as the higher cost of turkeys. this year, due, of course, to inflation. sa psaki confirmed they would be spending the holiday together out of town. when it comes to turkeys, psaki said the rise in prices is minimal. have a listen. well, first i would say i don t know if you ve cooked a turkey before, but a 20-pound turkey is a pretty big turkey, i think we can all a glee. they re about $1 more. so not to minimize that, any
announcement as far as sergeant beau bowe bergdahl is concerned. 3:30 p.m. that announcement will be made at ft. bragg. the ceos of lufthansa and germanwings are getting ready to make some statements about what s going on in the investigation. by the way, we ve just learn eded from the state department, jen about, s a psaki saying that another american on that doomed flight. we re getting information on this third american. let s take a quick break. much more on both of these developing stories right after this.
against this administration or in the investigation here. it s one of the reasons they re being so dodgy. it s one of the reasons we re seeing fewer press briefings than ever before. my guess, this one today will be the last one for a while, anderson. jeff zeleny, thanks very much. let s bring in our panel, susan page, matt jennings, and jen psa psaki. does it make sense that the white house can t answer the question whether the president believes that russia was involved? i do think it is true. there are a lot of things presidents don t discuss with their press secretaries. that s been true in every administration. and at some level, what donald trump has to say about it and what sean spicer have to say about it might just be conjecture. we know what the intelligence community thinks and a lot of people believe they did try to meddle in the election. we also know there s an investigation going on. and so, the conjecture of donald trump and sean spicer versus letting the investigat