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easiest choice on the planet. >> if you're the front-runner, focus on two things; lower people's expectations saying, you know what? i'm ahead, but i'm running hard to the end. and then focus on uniting the party. >> if we continue to allow these encampments and shelters to open up in new york city, we will continue to incentivize more people to come other the border. >> we understand that bigotry and hate crimes have got to be stopped and especially with young people. we don't take a stand now and set it in their mind about right and wrong, it will only get worse. ♪ ♪ i got my motor running for a wild weekend ♪ muck it's final friday, i'm out of control. stuart: i really like this song, finally friday, i've got my motor running, i'm all set to go. it's 11:00 on the east coast, friday, december the 1st. check the markets, first of all. dow's up 5, nasdaq's down 57. show me big tech, please. i think it's a mixed bag there.

yes, it is. apple is up, back to 190. amazon, alphabet, meta, microsoft -- especially microsoft, it's down $6, all the way down to $371. check the 10-year treasury yield, please. it is going down at the moment, 4.29%. and now this. fed chair powell is speaking right now. ashley, what has he said so far? ashley: well, the headline that sticks out to me, stu, he says it would be premature to conclude with confidence that we have achieved sufficiently restrictive stance or speculate when policy may ease. he goes on to say with that in mind, we are prepared to tighten policy putt if it becomes appropriate to do so. he says uncertainty about the outlook for the economy is unusually elevated. he goes on to say we are making decisions meeting by meeting based on the totality of the uncoming data.

all of this -- incoming data. all of this pretty hawkish. he says inflation continues to impose a significant hardship on all households, but he does believe the economy is returning to a better balance especially with regard to labor market conditions. he says, and i do this with a little tongue in cheek, he does say that the forcefulness of the fed's response also end helps maintain the fed's hard-won credibility. i have a feeling that gary kaltbaum, scott shellady among others would love to comment on that. he does say conditions in the labor market are very strong, wage growth remains high. but i think the headline out of this is that, look, we are prepared to take action, and, you know, we're suggesting that it's too premature to say their job of monetary tightening is other. stuart: yeah, i think you're right. ashley: dow itself up 16 points but not a huge response. stuart: you're right. but the market did take a little dip when that first comment came

out, he is prepared to tighten further if. we've come back a bit. but the nasdaq is still down. ashley: yeah. stuart: 32. so the market eat come back after that initial -- market's come back after that initial dip on the fed chair's statement. ashley, thank you very much, indeed. now this. donald trump is running away with the race for the republican nomination. the latest harris poll hoes he has 68% support among republicans. he's way out in front of desantis at 9% and and haley at 7%. trump has gained 6 points in that poll just in the last month. in 7 weeks ' time, we have the iowa republican caucuses. in that contest the trump has the biggest lead of any candidate in 50 years. no one has ever lost with a lead like that. and james blair, trump's national field director, says haley and desantis who are attacking each other are, quote, trying to bludgeon themselves for the title of first loser. ouch. trump wants a huge win in iowa

that would cement his hold on the nomination, and it sure looks like he's probably going to get it. and if he gets the nomination, which republican would oppose him? only the most diehard never trumper would suggest a protest vote for widen, and a -- for biden, and a third party candidate would likely siphon off votes from biden. you're boeing to hear more and more about how everything under biden has gone wrong and how trump in his fist term got so much right -- first term got so much right. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: the house has voted to expel congressman george santos. the final vote was 300 yes to take him out of congress, 114 nos and 2 present votes. that just happened, santos out. steve the hilton with us. i'm am i right in saying that

donald trump is running away with the nomination, or am i underestimating his competitors? >> i think you're completely right, and i think that the current, the latest version of the stop-drop strategy that you're seeing from what you might call the establishment republicans which is to put everything, all their chips on nikki haley as it were, it's not going to work because i don't think the people who want to stop trump understand quite how strong the support, the love, actually -- that is a word that you hear all the time from trump supporters for donald trump -- they don't understand how strong that is. they don't want anyone else. they want donald trump the. and even if you do the math and say, well, if desantis drops out, his supporters will go to nikki -- no, that's not how it e works. they love donald trump, the party wants donald trump. i think unless something completely unpredictable happens, you're completely correct that he's got the nomination in the bag. the question then is, will something happen between him getting the nomination and the

presidential election in terms of the legal cases, for example, that might jeopardize his support not amongst the republican base which is very strongly for him, but among those independent voters that may be swayed by, for example, a conviction in one of the cases. stuart: all right, steve, hold on a second. a big debate last night. i'm going to show a short clip from what was happening last night at the debate. watch this, please. >> so i was talking to a fella who had made the move to florida, and he was telling me that florida's much better governed, safer, better budget, lower taxes, all this stuff. and he's really happy with the quality of life. and then he paused and said, oh, by the way, i'm gavin newsom's father-in-law. >> you're trolling folks and trying the find migrants to play political games to get news and attention so you can outtrump trump. and, by the way, how's that going for you, ron? if you're down 41 points in your own home state. >> he has no business running for president and, you know, gavin newsom agrees with that. he won't say that, but that's

why he's running his shadow campaign. >> i will take joe biden at 100 versus ron desantis any day of the week at any age. [laughter] stuart: okay, steve. you're a california guy. what do you think about gavin newsom's performance last night? >> look, i thought it was a great debate, kudos to sean hannity for putting these two together. i thought it was very, very good for the whole country. if we could indulge the audience for a moment, stuart, i'd like to use a reference that you and i will certainly get new maybe not many oh people watching. when we were kids in england, there was a spoof history book called 1066 and all that -- stuart: yes. >> very important date in english history, the norman conquest. and they in a spoof, exceed ific way rattled through this book, the civil war in england between the cavaliers and the roundheads in this book was described the cavaliers were described as right but repulsive -- [laughter] and the roundheads were wrong but romantic. and i'm afraid it was a little

bit like that last night. the facts are all on ron desantis' side. he is right. the facts totally back him up. but just as a he described gavin newsom as being slippery, i'm afraid, i think, he let him slip away, and gavin newsom just has a great or capacity for the kind of political showmanship that i think really helped him last night avoid being pend down on the facts. -- pinned down on the facts. stuart: he's a fine performer. steve, thanks for joining us, see you next week. this guy appears every friday morning with us, his name is jonathan hoenig. first question, is this rally e -- we have seen a rally, nice rally in november -- is it for real? does it have legs? >> i think some of the rallies do, in fact, have legs, stuart. in fact, gold, i think, up near its all-time high, it's got legs. same thing with silver. same thing with a lot of the value-oriented stocks. the dow is at its high for the year. the nasdaq not at its high for the year, in fact, names like

tesla, in fact, ini vid ya -- nvidia are lagging demonstrably. when it released those great earnings, it's below 500. i do think some have legs, that's why i'm focusing on especially some of the foreign stocks. you know, foreign stocks have underperformed 8 out of the last 10 years. i think so many of them are dirt cheap and primed for a great run in 2024. stuart: you brought one with you, your typical friday exotic pick -- [laughter] and today you've to got from one from latin america, i shares nsci chile etf. okay, what's so so good about it? >> well, chile, a lot of people couldn't find it on a map, stuart, but it is dirt cheap compared to so many united states stocks. a pe of 5 in chile, the nasdaq's at a pe of 30. price book, how much you'd get if you sold all the company's tangible assets of 1, it's trading at book value, stuart, so many of the exotic, logical stocks, technology stocks are

trading at a pe of 6. ech is dirt cheap, trading about half of where the stock was 10 years ago ark and we open to it at capitalist pig.com. stuart: all right, jonathan, we will follow it. jonathan hoenig, everyone. see you again soon. >> thank you, sir. be well. stuart: a new report reveals which cities across the world are the most expensive in which to live. three of them are in the united states. we'll tell you which ones they are. dr. anthony fauci has agreed to testify before house republicans about the origins of covid. we'll ask congressman jim jordan what answers he expects from the doctor. former u.s. marine paul whelan has been held in a russian prison since 2018. according to a russian news agency, he was just assaulted in prison by a fellow inmate. paul's brother david will tell us what he's heard, if anything. he's next. ♪ ♪

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♪ stuart: hard saturday and the new york city board of education are facing a federal investigation -- harvard. ashley, i believe this is over anti-semitism? ashley: it is and islamophobia. the investigations coming following a number of incidents, as we know, at universities and school districts. it also comes, by the way, just days before the presidents of harvard, mit and u-penn are scheduled to testify before congress at a hearing on indiana semitism. under the civil rights act, universities and k-12 schools have a responsibility to provide all students with an environment free from discrimination. there have been hundreds of protests and counterprotests on campuses with system of them turning violent.

if -- some of them turning violent. the department of education is planning to make recommendations to the schools, and if they refuse to address the problems identified, they could lose federal funding or be referred to the justice, department of justice for further action. stu. stuart: got it. thanks, ash. the weeklong ceasefire between israel and hamas is over, and israel accuses that a hamas of branding and drugging child hostages and putting female captives in comes. nate foy live on the ground in northern israel, the latest please, nate. >> reporter: well, stuart, it certainly feels like a war zone, and it's been getting more intense throughout the day. we are seeing attacks across israel and, of course, also in gaza. just in the past couple hours, hamas has fired rockets at southern and central israel including a barrage of rockets at tel aviv. all those rockets were intercepted. 2000 terrorist targets -- 200 terrorist targets within gaza

hit by thish s df today, and we're also seeing quite a lot of action on the northern front as just about two hours ago at this point we saw the iron dome intercept two launches coming from lebanon. take a look at that moment. [background sounds] if -- >> reporter: so since this, stuart, we have heard near constant artillery coming from israel going back into lebanon, and israel also confirms through the idf that they have taken out a terrorist cell. you see video of that here. that is just across the mountain from where we are in southern lebanon. these villages where we are evacuated because of the daily threat, and i want to also she you the moment that it became -- show you the moment that it became clear the temporary ceasefire was over in gaza this morning.

take a look here. both israel and hamas accuse each other of violating the terms of that temporary agreement, but israeli jets striking down in gaza including in the south where where you see some of the damage here. the idf is dropping leaflets telling palestinians to move to evacuation zones, but you see that a lot of them did not. there's a -- quite a lot of damage and surely, you recall, a lot of people -- unfortunately, a lot of people injured as well. 130 hostages remain in gaza right now according to the idf including 20 women as the goal of israel is to eradicate hamas, and they are pushing forward in this fight. there's questions, stuart, about why exactly this temporary ceasefire ended. the white house is coming out and supporting israel and saying that hamas is at fault for the end of this ceasefire. the idf had said earlier today that hamas refused to release the final 20 female hostages

that are still being held in gaza. right now qatari as well as american negotiators are working to extend -- or to resume the temporary ceasefire as the fighting is well underway. we'll send it back to you. stuart: i'll take it. nate foy, thanks very much, indeed. now, we have new numbers on how many people actually support a ceasefire in the middle east and in you know. ashley, give -- and in the ukraine. ashley, give me the numbers. ashley: well, a majority on both accounts, at least according to a new poll that found 68% of americans support a ceasefire between russia and ukraine, 65% said they would support a ceasefire between israel and hamas. only 16%, by the way, opposed a ceasefire in gaza. the survey also showed that democrats were more likely than republicans to call for a ceasefire in the israeli-hamas conflict by a 77-58% margin. and, by the way, the results were similar to the ukraine-russia conflict. one last insight, americans were

more divided when asked whether they would support further aid to israel or ukraine. overall, israel garnering more support from republicans while aid to ukraine was more popular among democrats. stu. stuart: thanks, ashley. imprisoned u.s. marine veteran, i should say, paul whelan, has reportedly been assaulted by another inmate in a russian prison. his brother david joins me now. david, these reports are coming out of russia. what have you heard? >> we got a call from paul on tuesday, and he let us know that he had been punched by a new prisoner in the workshop where they do their sewing. is we passed that information on to the state the department. it sounds like paul was trying to get his work done, and the labor camp makes clothing. and so he was trying to get his work done, and this new prisoner was standing in the way of the process. and so after paul had asked him to move out of the way so paul could complete his work, the man

struck him and attempted to strike him a second time, but paul was able to parry that blow. stuart: and what was the reason? was it just an altercation in the prison, or was it some kind of deliberate and politically-inspired assault? do you have any way of knowing which is which? >> it's hard the know. the prison has talked to the prosecutor's office. paul said that some sort of security services showed up, some sort of police for the to investigate investigate, and it seems to be an open and shut case. what i've seen in the russian media is that they had political differents, and our expectation and understanding -- differences, and our understanding from paul is it's because he's american and this particular prisoner had very anti-american views. stuart: very recently your brother did an interview expressing concern about his safety. have you heard from the administration about a getting him out? >> we haven't. we've seen the same things you've seen which is president biden saying recently that they weren't giving up. he's said also that he's not walking away from paul's case. in fact, all we have right now

are words. there hasn't been any if action on paul's case certainly in over a year, and there doesn't seem to be the any real effort to make the kremlin accept a cop session and to allow -- con concession and allow paul to come home. tieu institute do you consider this a hostage situation? >> in the beginning, we were careful about not using that word, in normal speak, a hostage a is someone who's been taken by a group like hamas, you know, a terrorist organization. but i think increasingly when we look at how russia operations, i do consider paul to be a hostage. and i think of russia as just as bad as any terrorist group. stuart: last one, is he he physically well and mentally stable? >> he he seems physically fine. i think it was a relatively minor hit. the biggest concern is that the workshop where they make their clothes, they have sheers -- shears, metal shivs, and so the next time it could be much more dangerous.

i think he's a little more mentally rattled than he is physically hurt. and, of course, there are things like his glasses which are broken that we will have to find frames for him in the states and then somehow get them to him. that's not something that they will provide him. so for some number of months now, he will be without his glasses. stuart: david whelan, he all feel for your brother paul and that's a fact. thanks for joining us. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: the fbi i wants to build its new headquarters in maryland. the inspector general's office is investigating that decision. some lawmakers claim dirty politics influenced the fbi's decision, and we're going to dig into it. democrats trying to defend how the federal government censored speech on social media. they claim the first amendment was not violated. congressman jim jordan disagrees. he's fired up and he's here. he's next. ♪ ♪ if

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modest rally at least for the dow today. big tech still all over the place, i believe. apple at 190. microsoft really selling off, down $6. meta is down $4, and the rest are all in the red, i believe. no, amazon actually up one-third of 1%. the 10-year treasury yield, is it's all over -- again, all over the place today, but this morning at this moment it's down a couple of basis points back to 4.26%. the hearing on the biden administration's role in censoring online speech turned fiery. hillary vaughn on capitol hill. take us through it, please, hillary. >> reporter: good morning, stuart. well, part of what raised this issue of government censorship was the hunter biden laptop story that blew the cover on how the government buddied up with social media companies to black out the story. ultimately, the media blackout or the blackout on social media led to many conspiracy theories that it seems some lawmakers still believe about the laptop today.

>> are you suggesting "the new york post" was in a conspiracy to obstruct the contents of the hunter biden laptop? >> no, sir. the problem is hard drives can be manipulated by with rudy giuliani or russia -- >> what's the ed to -- the ed of finish. >> well, there is actual ed -- you're engaged in a conspiracy. >> i'm glad -- >> reporter: for system members of congress this issue is perm because if they saw their -- personal because they saw their own speech censor ised. congressman thomas massie had one of his tweets censored. true information that the government didn't want out there, so they shut it down. but government -- but democrats say that the government working with social media companies to censor americans is not robbing americans of the right to free speech, it's enforcing their terms of service. >> does the first amendment say the government can -- >> time of the government has expired. >> they're flagging -- [inaudible conversations] >> 35% of the first amendment?

>> it's not the first amendment. it's the term of service, as you said, and they are flagging it for the social media companies to make their own decisions. [laughter] that is not the first amendment, that is the terms of service. >> reporter: and, stuart, i not a chance to catch up with congressman goldman if out here as he left after votes, and he clarified that he doesn't believe that the hunter biden laptop was a russian conspiracy if theory or conspired by russia. instead, he was saying that he thinks the hard drive that the new york post obtained was given to them by rudy giuliani. it may have if changed hands multiple times and been manipulated that way. stuart: that's a conspiracy theory. thanks very much, hillary. house judiciary chair jim jordan with us now. [laughter] you're smiling, you know what's coming. give me the big picture please, jim. what role should the government in policing freeway speech online, if any? >> well, they shouldn't have a role because it's the first amendment. it's the constitution of the united states. in fact, one of our witnesses yesterday, she was so good, she's from canada, and she said

if you don't get a handle on this and stop this, you're going to be like we are in canada and other western nations. she made this fundamental point, the first amendment, the fourth amendment are central, they are foundational to wen civilization. western civilization. i don't think that's overstating it. the ability to speak and to speak in a political fashion or to just speak and project that message is fundamental to mesh. and the government -- to america. and the government shouldn't be telling you what you can't say, what you can see, what the people can see say and can't say. and mr. goldman's point that, oh, 100% of the time when the government's asking social media companies to take something down and social media companies only take down 35% of it, 35% censorship is still censorship. [laughter] that's the fundamental point. so that was one, i think,over of the biggest takeaways from yesterday's hearing. stuart: dr. anthony fauci has agreed to testify before the house republicans. this is a first, i believe. i presume you going to press him

on the origins of covid and his connection to the wuhan lab. >> yeah. stuart: you believe9 that the origins of covid are in that lab and that fauci does have a connection. is that correct? >> well, yeah, because i think anyone with common sense now believes that. finish i think fauci knew that right from the get go. he gets an e-mail at the end of january 2020 which says virus looks engineered, virus not consistent with evolution their theory -- evolutionary theory. he gets that e-mail, and he instantly goes into cover-up mode, organizes a conference the next day where the story changes. so i think he knew from the get go. and never forget, stuart, everything the government told us, this is how it ties in to this censorship issue. almost everything the government told us about covid and americans were questioning, it turns out toive wrong. they said it wasn't our tax money, it wasn't gain of function research being done at that lab. yes, it was.

they said the vaccinated couldn't get it, couldn't transmit it, they told us masks actually worked. so there are six things the government told us that turned out not to be true. and if you questioned that online, this administration, the biden administration, said, oh, we're going to try to censor that speech. true statements, accurate statements they try tried to censor. that's how bad this whole thing us with. stuart: you could get to the truth of what happened in the past, but you can only use that truth to make a change as to what happens in the future. no more cent -- censorship. that's really where you're going with this, isn't it? >> yeah. because, again, it's called the first amendment. stuart: yes. >> i would argue it's the most important right we have. five liberties under the first amendment, right to practice your faith, to assembly, petition your government, free press, free speech. the midwest important is speech because you can't practice your faith if you can't talk, you can't petition your government if you can't talk. that is fundamental, and that's what they went after, and that's what's so scary.

stuart: right now, i believe, you're discussing the formal impeachment of president biden. i take it you are for an impeachment move, correct? >> you want to formalize what the house vote, the impeachment inquiry phase of our oversight duty. this is a sacred duty, a constitutional duty. we think we need that because if there are key people we want to talk to because we think they're going to -- the white house and the biden administration and some of these witnesses are going to challenge us in court. it's not necessary under the constitution, but it sure helps when you go into court to say the house of representatives has had a formal vote and a majority of the house approved an impeachment inquiry. we want you the come sit for this deposition, and we want these the particular documents that we've subpoenaed. that's the beauty of why you go to this step. i hope it happens early, hopefully as soon as possible next week. we'll just have to see. stuart: here's what i'm hearing from some people, the democrats are going to try to put trump in court in the middle of an election season. you are trying to impeach biden in the middle of an election season. like a tit for tat kind of

thing. what do you say? >> that has a nothing to do with it. this is driven by the facts, and the compelling facts we already have is, the speaker said this is the one of the most important powers the house of representatives has, the impeachment power. it should be fact-driven, done according to the law and the constitution. that's how we're operating. but i will tell you this, the facts we've uncovered right now, i think, are pretty darn compelling particularly how joe and hunter biden interacted with this ukrainian energy company and what joe biden did with our tax dollars, the people i represent, their tax money, to get the prosecutor fired who was looking into the executive who ran burisma, the very company hunter biden sat on the board. and joe biden did that at the request of his son, at least that's what it sure looks like based on the testimony we've already received. stuart: jim, i don't know how you keep it all straight. i tend to get somewhat confused with names, places, who did what, who said what, but you've got it all down. jim jordan, have a great

weekend. >> you bet. take care. stuart: have a look at the markets, please. the dow's up 109, nasdaq down a fraction. s&p is up 7. ashley, looking at the movers, what's with starbucks? ashley: well, the coffee chain is reportedly permanently closing all 18 of its locations in morocco by the end of this year. apparently, they have suffered from low demand thanks to a boycott over claims that they send part of their profits to the israeli military. that's the rumor. it's hurt their bottom line, so no macchiatos in marrakech. take a looked at alibaba. this stock slipping today thanks to a downgrade to equal weight from morgan stanley, but they also cut their price target on this stock from $90 all the way down to $20. the reason for the downgrade? the tech giant is pulling back, apparently, on development of cloud technology. the stock today down almost 2.5% stu. stuart: all the way down to 20

#? that's a radical cut, is it not? ash, thank you. do you remember the star trek actor, bill shatner? well, he says we're going to die if we don't take action on the climate. roll tape. >> very quickly, we're going to die, much sooner than we expected we're going to die. and then the tell us how to avoid it. stuart: we'll tell you what else he had to say as a well. a new report says the cia conducted secret missions the recover at least 9 non-human crafts in the last two decades. griff jenkins has the ufo report next. ♪

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all the averages are now in the green as we start trading on this, the first day of december. and then there's this, the office of the inspector general has opened an investigation into the fbi. over what, ash? ashley: potential skullduggery, stu. the office of the inspector general investigating why the gsa chose greenbelt, maryland, to house the fbi headquarters. now, the selection prompted fierce backlash from virginia's congressional delegation which accused the administration of allowing politics to, quote, taint the selection process. even fbi director christopher wray reportedly had concerns about a potential conflict of interest in the decision. the years-long search came down to three finalists, greenbelt along with landover, maryland, and springfield, virginia. if the gsa, by the way, defending its selection of greenbelt saying all proper protocols were followed. well, i guess we'll find out, maybe, from the investigation, stu.

stuart: okay, ashley, listen to this one. a new report claims the cia has recovered at least nine non-human crafts, or ufos, within the last 20 years. griff jenkins joins us. all right, griff, what were these secret ufo missions? >> reporter: the truth is out there, stu, or just like mulder and scully used to say on the "x-files". look, multiple whistleblowers are telling the daily mail a secret cia office has been collecting and resteving crashed evidence for decades including, as you mentioned, nine non-human craft vehicles, but the government won't come clean on it. so a bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding transparency to uncover what they say is a cover-up. >> the cia now has reporteds on it -- reports on it, but the pentagon keeps telling us they don't exist. again, we're spending a heck of a lot of -- stuart: that's matt gaetz in th- >> i am hesitant to make that leap. i can tell you it is of nothing

that i'm aware of having existing in our arsenal of assets. >> reporter: you heard, stu, matt gaetz not going so far as he's seen proof, but he clearly has seen of what a retire tired military commander saw who testified earlier this summer. >> saw a small white object with a longitudinal ax a sis pointing north-south and moving very abruptly over the water like a ping-pong ball. there were no row rotors, no reporter watch or any sign of any control services like wings. -- surfaces like wig withs. >> reporter: what could be unidentified aerial phenomenon like china or russia. east way, they're skeptical we'll ever know the whole truth. and bertrand has an amendment that would force the cia to declassify documents. we'll see where that goes, if anywhere. stu? stuart: thanks, griff.

see you later. [laughter] can't take the smile off my face. [laughter] actor bill shatner blaming, quote, stupid human beings for climate change. that's pretty strong stuff, ash. what else did he have to say? ashley: oh, he had plenty to say. the man who spent years on television as captain kirk exploring new planets says we're all going to die on this one if we don't wake up to the consequences of climate change. shatner appeared on a u.k. morning show urging king charles to use his voice to sound the warning at the climate conference in dubai. watch this. >> there's no time to delay. we've delayed all we can. we've got to point everything that is humanly possible to cleaning the air and putting nature back to what it was. no, he's got to say we're all going to die. that's what he should say. very quickly, we're going to die. much sooner than we expected,

we're going to die. and then tell us how to avoid it. ashley: i think he was trying to put on an english, king accent there. but anyway, the 92-year-old actor got a lot of backlash on social media. some criticizing his 20211 space trip aboard blue origin saying it was nothing but a joyride while others called it hypocrisy at its finest. i wonder what spock would make of all of this. probably illogical. back to you, stu. stuart: you know what i got out of that? bill shatner is 92 years old. i'd love to be in that good of shape if i could make it that far. ash no kidding. stuart: thanks, ash. the economist just released its list of the top ten most expensive cities in which to live. three u.s. cities made the list. new york tied for third, l.a. came in number six, san francisco rounded out the lust at number ten.

now let's is -- list at number ten. now rook at the dow to. -- dow 30. the dow's at the highest of the year, just over 36,000, and at least two-thirds of the dow 30 are in the green. okay, folks, big deal. friday afternoon or late friday morning, ashley and i will answer your friday feedback after this. ♪ you can't buy great conversations or moments that matter, but you can invest in them. at t. rowe price our strategic investing approach can help you build the future you imagine. t. rowe price, invest with confidence. ♪ explore endless design possibilities. to find your personal style. endless hardie® siding colors.

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♪ ♪ oh, we need a little christmas ♪ stuart: right outside our studios on sixth avenue, new york, we're singing we need a little christmas with johnny mathis. great voice. here we go with friday feedback. ash and i are ready, and we start with, the first comes from bill. varney, you missed a chance to wish kristi noem happy birthday. she turned 52 yesterday. she doesn't look it. okay. she was on the show yesterday. and i did not know that it was her birthday. belated happy birthday to the great state of south dakota and

the governor. got it. this is from robert. stuart, you continue to violate haberdashery protocol. you do not wear a striped tie with a pip striped suit. ashley, have i really committed a fashion faux pas? if. ashley: i have absolutely no clue. i mean, i think i do that on a daily basis. but i think you're okay. i think you look very sharp. i do remember someone saying that if you have a pin pinstripe and you have a stripe by tie, make sure the stripes are large and not, like, small so they crash. but who cares, right? stuart: this just comes to my mind. my dad used to mispronounce if all kinds of expressions, and a faux pas to him was a fork's pass. [laughter] anyway, he was a great dad, a great guy. [laughter] this comes from daniel. i rather like this one. i would like to see 81-year-old biden debate the economy with 83 year old art laffer. so would i. how about you, ash?

you'd like that? ashley: oh, my gosh. art would run rings around the president. art is as sharp as a tack. i can't believe he's in his 80s, and we love him. he knows what he's talking about. stuart: yeah. he's a great grandfather, and he's the guy who suggested supply-side economics to ronald reagan. good old days. this is from joe. hey, guys, love this show. if for some reason i can't watch it in the morning, i dvr it and watch it at night. if you could have dinner with three people dead or alive, who would you pick? let me start this one. i say jesus -- margaret thatcher and roger banister. do you remember roger banister? he's the 4-minute mile, the englishment, last true amateur -- englishman. how about you, ash in. ashley: neil armstrong, did you really land on the moon? i'm kidding. or am i? frank sinatra, and mark twain. i always -- or maybe robin

williams. mark train, because he'd be very witty. queen victoria, marilyn monroe, the list goes on. stuart: common rights, everyone knows men act like babies when they're stuck -- sick, duh. i reseven that. how about you, ash? ashley: i think carmen's right, but i don't want to let down the side. i think she may be on to something. stuart: that's our side. it's time for the friday trivia question. up to how many feet have can a kangaroo jump? if 29, 38, 45 or 52? ashley, you may not contact your wife, and i may not contact my son in australia. the correct answer when we come back. [laughter] ♪ ♪

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i bet you didn't know this one. a kangaroo, female kangaroo can get pregnant twice a couple weeks apart and in the womb the different babies get different milk and when they are born they have different quality milk depending on their age. but you didn't know that. ashley: i did not, remarkable. now i know. stuart: this is an incredible show. what you learn, the different kinds of milk, it is incredible. how could you turn this show off? how could you not dvr it every single day. we've got 10 seconds ago. "varney and company" is done for the week. coast-to-coast starts now. neil: thank you for the kangaroo story. i am happy you kept milking get. first trading day of the last months. the truth may be ending israel, rall