By the way, it's my birthday today and they can actually sign birthday to me.

I just want you know it's difficult turning 60.

Difficult. This is the 76th anniversary of this event.

And I want you know I wasn't there in the first one.

I was too young to make it up.

These birds have a new appreciation of the word, let freedom ring.

President Biden with some jokes during the turkey pardon at the White House yesterday.

Meanwhile, his campaign is facing calls from fellow Democrats to become more active and aggressive

against Donald Trump.

Speaking of the former president, we'll explain what happened yesterday in the gag order

hearing for his federal election interference case.

And also ahead, we'll bring you the latest on the hostage negotiations between

Hamas and Israel, which appeared to be centered on a pause in the fighting in Gaza.

Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Tuesday, November 21st. I'm Jonathan Lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. We've got a lot to get to this morning.

And we'll begin with new polling that shows Americans overwhelmingly supporting boosting security at the southern border,

while they're less enthusiastic about helping countries embroiled in foreign conflicts.

In the latest NBC News survey, 74% of registered voters say they are in favor of the United States spending more money on border security,

while 22% say they oppose doing so.

The next most popular action the country could take is providing humanitarian aid to Gaza, which 58% are in favor of, and 36 opposed, that in favor number

falls to 55% when asked about providing more funding and military aid to Israel and Ukraine,

and an even lower number, 53% when it's to support providing more funding and military aid to Taiwan.

But we should note all of those have the support of the majority of Americans surveyed.

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