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the way iran has been arming proxies like those in yes, ma'am and of course like hezbollah in the southern part of lemore anne non-. lebanon. >> once they go back, what does this president do and secretary of defense do militarily? >> you have to have specific standards and due process and everyone is entitled to that including donald trump. >> o woman defending her husband would remove him from a environment that not only is damaging his reputation and legacy, but damaging the company he's working for or the country that he's leading. stuart: oh this, is the new beatles song, now and then. i love it. i'm a big beatles fan and i really, really like this one. i'm inclined to let the music

play for a while. lauren: it's pretty scenic skyline of new york. stuart: beautiful day and beautiful beatles music. what a show. what a show. i'm telling you. it's 11:00 eastern time, friday january 12, and the markets, they've got red ink but not that much. dow down 200 and nasdaq down 17 and s&p down a mere six points. remember, it is a three day market weekend. you might be having some reluctance to own stock in a time of war. when you've got a three daybreak for the markets. now, show me big tech, please. mostly lower i believe. not quite true. meta, microsoft, alphabet, apple up and amazon and meta down. we're at 3.95 bernards healthcares so the yield is down. that's not helping the nasdaq much. now this. this is no time for crisis of confidence, but that's exactly what we have. from the top down, there's real

anxiety about the competence and frankly the honesty of our government. it is unfortunate that just as the mis missiles nigh, the prest is at the center of multimillion dollar scan doll and joe says he has nothing to do with hunter biden's business dealings but the phone logs and business meetings say otherwise. question about his ability to do the job due to frailty. vice president kamala harris does not inspire confidence and 81-year-old president and harper lanes race is a hard beat away from the oval office. homeland security mayorkas repeatedly said the border is under control. no, it's not. how do you have confidence in border security when it's clearly wide open. defense secretary is hospitalized and been there since january 1. he took days to tell the commander in chief and reportedly okayed the strikes in yemen from his bed but confidence in the leadership of the military has been shaken. pete buttigieg hasn't done much for the airline delays and we're way short of air traffic

controllers. my point is we're in a war that may expand. it's aipivotal point for the administration and need to be confident our government is up for the job. the election in november will turn into a no confidence in joe biden vote it appears. stated differently, the vote may be a test of our confidence in donald trump. third hour of varney starts now. former state department official momorgan ortagus joins us now. >> it was fantastic. stuart: i wasn't being too harsh? >> no, interesting i just read a poll this week that foreign policy moved to no. 2 concern for voters in this election. i can say as a person that loves a national security and foreign policy, we do not normally lead what voters care about and the fact we do just shows how devastating the past three year

haves been. think about it, every year of the biden administration resulted in a war or mar joy catastrophe. first the fall of kabul to the taliban in 2001. second the biggest war in europe that we've seen since world war ii when russia invades ukraine. that's 2022 and then last year in 2023 you have october 7, hamas attacking. that is a major war catastrophe in every year of the biden administration. and god only know what is will happen in 2024. stuart: i want to talk about the joint strikes by the u.s. and uk hitting dozens of targets in yemen after several attacks on ships in the red sea. you got back from saudi arabia where you met -- >> and israel. stuart:-- where you met with mbs, mohammad bin solomon. was there any idea this might be coming and att attacks from the houthis and air attacks on them? >> no advanced knowledge we'll attack back and plainly obvious to anybody looking and observing the region we'd have to strike

at some point. in fact. while the strikes were good, we let this fester for three weeks, at least, if not more. nothing happens in a is vacuum in foreign policies. the saudi and crowned prince know yemen quite well because it's on their boarder and the houthis were years were attacking civilian infrastructure in saudi airports, oil fields and those sorts of things. what were they supplied by in iranians of course. the saudis were going after the houthis in a continue versus frequency y'all war in yemen. controversial war in yes, ma'am and three years ago on january 11, we designated the houthis as a terrorist organization. exactly three year tots day, january 11, 2024, la what happe? biden conducted the strikes and a few weeks into the administration. he ruca moved that designation and i talked about it for years

and he gave a speech in february of 2021 where president biden said no more weapons to saudi. we have to end the war in yemen. just by refusing to fight terrorists don't mean the terrorists decide to give up. they took three years to be armed, trained, and a abetted by the terrorist groups that are armed with ballistic missiles shooting at u.s. ships and u.s. personnel and this is exactly what we warned could happen to terror groups of 9/11 if we didn't take them seriousically it's happened over three years. i'm tough on the biden administration on this but their years of capitulation to iran and billions of dollars they received from us not enforcing the sanctions allowed hamas, hezbollah, the hou houthis and a militias and all they've done is make them stronger. like what the hell did you think was going to happen? stuart: should we attack iranian assets directly if the

houthis -- if the situation continues? that's a key question. should we attack them directly? >> it's a incredibly tough one to answer. in the trump administration after president trump repeatedly warned them to stop what they're doing and not attack americans, we finally took out qasem soleimani and you can't attack the americans and we did with qasem soleimani and if you're going to strike iran, you can't strike the king and miss. stuart: that's hard stuff, morgan ortagus. >> that's what impact on hearing mad of. stuart: oh, love it. come back soon. >> thank you. stuart: look who's here, dow down 170 and nasdaq up a bit. look who's here. this guy, every friday morning, i've got o different question, he usually brings an exotic investment with him. but first, i want to start with this, does this war change your

investment strategy in any way? >> well, stuart, my thoughts and prayers really are certainly with the american soldiers, the western soldiers, israeli soldiers and citizens who are at risk here because of that latest islamic threat and increases uncertainty and increases risk. there's a few ideas i think that can prosper even in this environment. i think you can own israeli stocks here and boat, b-o-a-t, that's an etf we stocked about that tracks shipping stocks. it's a human tragedy what's going on in the middle southeast think of the soldiers whose lilives are at risk. stuart: well said. did you bring a single exotic investment? >> great example of how the right ideas can prosper any economy, even greece, stuart. ten years ago, greece was the basket case of europe. now it's growing as one of the fastest growing economies in europe because of os terrificty. they cut -- austerity and cut debt and red tape and business

friendly government and more conservative if you will. the economy has prospered and greek, g-r-e-k is an etf you can hold for the long term. i mean, stuart, it's up 40% in the last year, and it's still trading below where it was in 2011. it's all grek to me and we own this at capitalist pig. stuart: jonathan hoenig scours the world for exotic investments that pay off. come up with the greks. hope to see you again next week. >> you will. stuart: thank you. lauren is looking at movers and tesla is down. lauren: down almost 3% and trouble on three continue nets, in the u.s., hertz sell ago third of ev fleet including teslas in europe and the german factory stopping production for two weeks because of disruptions in the red sea and in china, tesla cuts ev prices. that hits their margins. stuart: what on wells fargo because it's a bank that's down this morning. lauren: yeah, net interest income will fall more than expected between 7 and 9% this

year. all of 2024 this is a cumulative rise in interest rates and held longer than we think before being cut. stuart: united health, reporting stronger earnings but they're down, yes, they are down. lauren: they're a dow stock down 4%. medical costs were running higher than analysts expected and they expected also. rival insurers like humana are also down. stuart: serious losses, 4 and 3%. lauren: tough support. stuart: coming up, texas national guard members seize control of a public park in texas and not even letting border patrol into the park. they want direct control to crack down on the southern border. how about that. look at this, it's a piece from the new york post and bipartisan in congress wants to defund colleges over legacy admissions and it's about time. why are getting rid of legacy admissions so important? rikki schlott wrote the story and we'll explain. president biden has not been seen in public since monday and

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stuart: here's what we've got, an escalation overseas with the houthis. a defense secretary in the hospital, and president biden hasn't been seen in public since monday. jacqui heinrich is with us, actually at the white house. what is the white houssaying about all this, jacqui? reporter: stuart, we got a forceful statement from the white house about the u.s.-led

coalition strikes on houthi targets in yes, ma'am and vowing to take more action against the iranen-backed proxy group if necessary. the president has not spoken on it yet and might hear him say a few words leaving the white house about an hour from now heading to pennsylvania talking about bidenomics today and the white house does tell us the president has been busy even though he's out of view. >> everyone saying they saw less of the president, he was out there in a couple states in three days. met with paul waylon's sister, elizabeth waylon. this is a commitment coming to the american hostages bringing them home. he met with the national security team as he does regularly. he did that. he had lunch with the vice president yesterday. reporter: there's a new report that the president will soon be making fewer big speeches wearing the suit and tie and stopping at diners showing people he's still got it.

he's ditching the speech in favor of a series of stops at smaller venues and engaging more organically with voters and we can plan to hear biden wave trump into everything he says including today about the economy. >> when does it crash? i hope it's going to be during this next 12 months because i don't want to be herbert hoover. the one president i just don't want to be herbert hoover. >> he's acknowledging my economy is doing pretty darn well. he's already herbert above. he's the only other -- herbert hoover and only other president that lost jobs during his tenure. trump ahead of biden in quinnipiac poll and trump leading biden by four points nationally, stuart. stuart: thank you, jacqui. leo terrell joining me now. biden is coming back in public and he's going to push bidenomics again. why is he doing that when it doesn't appear to be working,

leo? >> it's not working at all but i'll tell you right now, he's got nowhere else to go. the person public is hurting inflation wise, the economy. i don't understand it. the numbers don't indicate, there's not one indicator when looking at polls, stu, that the person public bought into bidenomics. it's a failure and it's been resulted in the polls. stuart: yeah, but he's still pushing it as you say. he's going to be attacking trump vigorously. i suppose that's the only place he can go along with that's where he can go, isn't it? >> well, had i attacks trump alleging that trump-appointed divides this country. the american public has a record to look at with president trump. americans were better off under the trump administration versus the biden administration. trump has a record to run on and i'll submit this to you, stu, if trump wasn't popular enough, he wouldn't be leading the polls. he is leading the polls because the american public would prefer

to go back to trump than to biden. stuart: new york times opportunistic ed saying biden's effort to win over black voters is failing and needs an overhaul. this is the new york times calling out biden. he's got to be in serious trouble, leo, if the new york times is going after him. >> i want to be very clear, biden gave a pandering speech in a church in south carolina he gave a 1965 speech. stu, there's no systemic racism. the deputy haves basically tricked black americans to believing that, oh, you need us to protect you. black americans saying, no, we don't need you or the government. guess what's happening right now in democratic cities. the democratic party know the black population is leaving the party so they're replacing them. look at chicago, look at new york. you have illegal immigrants. that's the new democratic block because black voters are leaving the democratic party and they're going to vote for trump. that's what the democrats are now doing. they're looking for a new

replacement vote because black americans are leaving. black americans honestly can't enjoy any part of this country. education, economics, this is not 1965. stuart: can you -- can president biden win reelection in he does not get at least 90% of the black vote? >> that's a very good question. let me think about that, absolutely not! he needs 90+% in order to win. if he doesn't get it, game over. the democratic party doesn't exist without the black vote. look at demographic, black males such as leo terrell are voting for donald trump and that's what's happening. i think about 25% of black voters have no confidence in joe biden. the democratic party is in trouble and you see this illegal migration into the country and democratic cities. they're replacing black voters

with this new illegal immigrants who are now fluttering the cities of chicago, new york, los angeles. stuart: got it. leo terrell, thank you for being on the show and have a great weekend. see you later. the texas national guard seized control of a public park in eagle pass. right there on the border. ashley, come in, do we know why they've taken over the park? ashley: yeah, stuart, part of an effort to stop the surge of illegal migration into texas, shelby park it's called in eagle pass. it's been at the scepter of the migrant -- center of the migrant crisis now razor wire and fences are blocking off that whole area and texas national guard now in control and border patrol by the way prevented from entering the area. interesting situation. sals the latest move as tensions increase between texas governor greg abbott and the federal government and the union is

praising governor abbott for taking matter into his own hands saying it allows agents now to focus on trouble spots with high numbers of got aways. just ramping up the tensions down on the border. stuart: that is the truth. thanks, ashley. going to check the markets for you. i keep saying this, got to remember it's a three day weekend coming up for the market. it's martin luther king day on monday and the market is closed. if you're buying something today, you're going to have to carry it for three days and you don't know what's going to happen in the mideast. dow is down 170 but the nasdaq is up 16 and a one point gain for s&p. quickly take a look at citi group and just announced they'll cut 20,000 jobs by the end of 2026. that'll be about 10% of the work force. they're slowing down, folks. there's the stock, not responding well to the staff cuts. $51 a share down almost 1%. coming up, fox sound the alarm about president biden's poor

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stuart: now, this day in history, american built. on january 12, 1968, at&t designated 9-1-1 to be used as emergency phone number throughout the country. now you know. watch american built at 8:00 p.m. eastern on fox business prime. check the markets, please. i see red ink especially for the dow industrials and down 160 but there's a modest gain up 24 points for the nasdaq and s&p up 3. big tech all over the place today and mostly higher. we have meta, microsoft,

alphabet, apple up and am zone down all of -- amazon down five-cents. treasury falling well below 4%. 394 as we speak. a look at defense stocks and expansion of the war in the mideast and they're all doing well. lockheed, general dynamics and all defense stocks and all up, folks. young americans fleeing democrat-run states and gen z folks left states like new jersey, california, illinois and new york. millennials are flocking to, is it -- are we talking gen z people that are millennials. millennials flocking to states like texas, georgia and florida. rookie slot is with me this morning -- rikki schlott is with me this morning. why are gen z folks leaving? >> a lot of us pay taxes and we're starting. stuart: 11-26 year-olds don't pay much in tax. >> no, but the older ones are moving.

the 11 year-olds aren't picking up and u-hauling to the next state living with their parents. for young professionals, they actively vote against republicans but seem to like some of the benefits that would be a lower cost of living, perhaps more safety and crime concerns are less rampant than in blue states and blue cities but most of all it's taxes and ability as a young person starting your career today start somewhere else and might go to a city and have better job opportunities and be more remote. stuart: it's a long running trend and not going to stop in the near future. >> yeah, but i would say such young people going to urban centers is unique. just because you can post up on zoom from a red state and be happier. >> not a return to rural america and smaller urban centers from

new york and la and a lot of friends that have otherwise come to new york and we're able to take jobs and live somewhere else and cost of live asking considerably different. stuart: you live in new york city? >> i do indeed. i'm trapped. stuart: you have a new piece. i'm going to read for the audience. bipartisan congress wants to defund colleges over legacy admissions and it's about time. rikki wrote that and with us this morning. you don't like legacy admissions, what's wrong? >> i don't. it would tie federal funding requires that schools don't have legacy admissions and especially in the fake of the affirmative action case in the supreme court, we should be worried about talking towards me meritocracy and restoring faith in the fact of a diploma from ob institution doesn't mean there's a special interest of immuneable characteristic beyond your control and level the playing field and a legacy should be

able to be admitted but earn it without that status being known by admissions officers. inquiry tier ya at all? >> it shouldn't be a criteria at all and way up to school. stuart: why are you so angry about it? >> i'm not a legacy. stuart: are you going to columbia? >> i'm taking one course in columbia. stuart: you got in? >> i did. not legacy admissions but if i had a parent that went there, i wouldn't want to be walking around thinking maybe i wouldn't be here otherwise. that self-doubt whether it's nonwhite students on campuses and parents who donated or have a last name on a building, no one should be walking around thinking that anything other than their hard work and dedicate is the reason they're at an elite school. stuart: you want to make them feel guilty?

>> hope they feel comfortable and confident and having earned their spots on campus and wouldn't have gotten in otherwise. stuart: clearly annoyed about legacies and come and make the point again any time you'd like. >> thank you. stuart: thank you very much indeed. good stuff. house education committee chair wants to lower the cost of college. ash, how's that going to work. ashley: yeah, republican virginia foxx produced the college customer cost reduction act and making it more affordable to students and forcing colleges that give out degrees that don't produce good returns on investment to become financially responsible for it. they're going to love that. and to shift funding for universities based on their student outcomes. the bill would also force the federal government to create standard financial aid off of programs that outlines all the costs of attending the school and would place a student loan

limit of $50,000 on undergraduate students and $100,000 for graduate students and for paying back loans, would create two plans, one an income-driven repayment plan and the other is a 10-year mortgage style plan. have to get out of a 10 year mortgage to go to school, it's expensive. stuart: jewish students at harvard are suing the university. on what grounds, ash? ashley: for rampant anti-jewish hatred and harassment and the harvard jewish group claiming the university violated title 6 and selective i enforced policies to avoid protecting jewish students from harassment and hiring professors who support anti-jewish violence. students are seeking the termination of deans and professors among others and suspension and expulsion of some students and required anti-semitism training for harvard community members and payment for damages for lost or diminished educational

opportunities. now the department of education is also launched as we know an investigation into harvard over alleged incidents of discrimination. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, chris christie dropped out of the republican primary race, but does that mean he's giving up on his presidential aspirations? could a third party run be in the cards? we'll bring you the latest on that. there's a blizzard warning in iowa and the caucuses are days away, freezing temperatures and nasty weather playing a major role in determine which will go republican wins the state a report from the hawkeye state is next. ♪

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stuart: remember, please, it's a three-day weekend. for the markets at least so there'll be some unwillingness

to invest in stocks on a friday when you can't get your money out till the tuesday morning. so bear that in mind, dow's down 200, nas dock's down 20. nasdaq's down 20. vox is a left leaning publication and sounding the alarm that biden, the president, is losing support among young voters. ashley, are these voters switching their support to trump? irk argument those sewer -- ashley: according to these surveys, it suggests that trump could do better than any younger republican candidate in the modern era and voters under 30 supported trump over biden by 37-33% margin. last month a new york times sienna college poll showed registered voters between ages of 18-29 faired trump over biden 49 to 43%. the numbers are creating angst among democrats hoping the polls are inaccurate or biased in some

way and republicans don't want the majority of the youth vote -- won the majority of youth vote in the era since ronald reagan. the polls seem to be favoring mr. trump among the youngsters. stuart: they really do. remarkable. thanks, ash. iowa caucuses are on monday. the state's being hit with another big snowstorm. grady trimble is in des moines. grady, is this storm going to discourage voters? reporter: maybe not this storm, stu, but the plunging temperatures on sunday and monday. on caucus day, temperatures could drop to 14 degrees below zero. what caucus goers told us when we asked whether the weather might deter them. >> we'll be inside. i do not go outside in this. >> it's going to hurt the caucus. that cold, it'll hurt it, yes. >> die hard trump supporter is going to come out under any

circumstance. >> there might be be a few but that won't stop us. >> we're iowans, we'll come out in it. >> we're passionate and i'll be here to caucus regardless of weather. stuart: obviously this is not the kind of weather that candidates wanted to deal with as they try to reach as many caucus goers in the days leading up to monday. and it is throwing a wrench in their plans and former south carolina governor nikki haley moved some events that will be in person town halls to tele town halls and florida governor ron desantis postponed a couple of events this morning and vivek ramaswamy is still out on the campaign trail but because of the snowy conditions, his bus had to stay put. we did have a chance, our teams did to catch up with desantis yesterday to ask about those falling temperatures come caucus day and some pollsters think it benefits trump because his loyal supporter wills show up no matter the weather. here is the florida governor's

take on this cold caucus. >> i think it may affect turnout from some more casual voters, especially if you're more of a casual voter who's polling for trump now, he's saying that he's got all the votes he needs he doesn't need your vote. reporter: former president trump is telling caucus goers not to be complaisant and show up for hip. the chair of the iowa gop said there's no contingency plans in place because of how cold it'll get on caucus day and compared to a football game and takes place whether it's snowing or well below zero. it's going to go on no matter what he says. stu. stuart: the folks in iowa are tough. thanasiss very much, grady. now, we know that chris christie has dropped out of the presidential race but joe llieberman wants christie to jon

the no label ticket. ashley: he's calling him refreshingly independent and christie dismissed the group for bipartisan third party ticket saying there's no chance of succeeding labeling it a fool's errand but lieberman said the world may look different and the third party will give him another platform and lieberman shooting back at critics saying the group does not want to play spooler or help elect donald trump but restore bipartisanship and national interest. as we look to say, good luck with that. stuart: thanks, ash. time to show all 30 of the dow stocks. see where we're going here. about one-third up and two-thirds down and up 200 points. we're reading your friday feedback next. ♪

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♪ stuart: that is centerville, iowa, it's 23 degrees, and it's snowing. how about that? there's a caucus being held right there on monday. here we go, friday feedback, lauren, ashley, let's start moving with this from maggie. stuart, why don't you ever finish the oscar wilde quote: saratoga ca sarcasm is te lowest form of wit with highest form of intelligence. ashley: i can on occasion be car assistant ad ick and you -- sarcastic and you always jump in but it's effective nevertheless. stuart: it is and you use it well. often very funny. this is from rick, stuart, i've watched all week and we still don't have the answer to last week's ultimate question and how did lauren shake hands with fidel castro in 2001? inquiring minds want to know. lauren, the stage is your s? lauren: i was part of a large

group of students traveling around the world and one spot was cuba and some students on the ship wrote a let tore fidel castro asking if we could go into the country and meet him. he said yes. it was featured in the new york times. he spoke to us for hours -- i wish i knew about this. i could have brought in photos. we had translators on our ears and we wore them when he was speaking and sleeping. we were at presidential palace and shook hands with him. stuart: did you sign the letter? lauren: i did not write a letter, no. stuart: you've got a good excuse there. this is from debbie. good morning, i heard you mention the cautina and the car tina and wonder how many knew about it. i was 18 and purchased 1969cortina and have found memories in the old car. what was everyone's first car? lauren? lauren: a very old bmw and it was gold. stuart: gold. okay.

ash? ashley: nothing quite so grand. it was a bright orange dotson b210 that weighed about 5 million pounds and the brakes went out every other week, but i loved it. stuart: we've got -- what was yours again? lauren: it was old, a bmw. stuart: bmw anded toson and mine was an olds mobile delta 88. lauren: what color? stuart: brown. it was a rocket and weighed about 2 tons but had enormous power in this thing. only two door. how about that? it was a tank. we call it had the yank tank. lauren: my car was very little. stuart: i loved that oldsmobile. extremely fast. next one from gary, stuart, your comment concerning rolling stones satisfaction, spot on. if you're going to play the stones, play the stones, not some matchup with bruce springsteen. gary, i like your style. what do you say to that, ashley? lauren: oh, ashley's first. ashley: i think some of the

classics should never be messed with, and that is one example. occasionally a collaboration can sound okay but don't mess with perfection. stuart: what do you have, lauren? lauren: ashley, you don't like bruce springsteen? ashley: yeah, but not spinning rolling stones songs. lauren: got you. apparently bruce springsteen songs are play when had stuart is not in and you are, ashley. ashley: david bowie, yes. stuart: stuart is off and ashley is substituting, the pricers play springsteen music. invite him in the farm but don't let him in the house. ashley: springsteen or me? stuart: you get springsteen and i get the rolling stones. a lot of beats, please. what music i lauren? lauren: dance music. stuart: dance music? lauren: l lots of elvis. stuart: you don't dance to elvis. lauren: i know but it's another genera and all i hear in the house is taylor swift.

i'm not against her but a little bit over it. stuart: listen to this one from jean, you a indicationally show a computer bullpen with a number of people -- lauren: control room. stuart: how about occasionally one of you venture into the bullpen. it's called a control room. introduce us to one or more of the workers and let them introduce themselves and them what they do. is that a good idea, ashley? ashley: why not? could be fine. time is of the most important. there you government they're all like come on in, talk to us. as long as we can do it in a minute or under. stuart: lauren? lauren: go right to the front where you saw all the screens and point at all the feeds and say this is what's happening and that's what's happening and this is the big board from here from the new york stock exchange. through your whole segment. stuart: i want to say one thing, i love those people in the control room, all of them are youngsters. i don't know whether they're millennials or gen z but they're young and work like the devil. they've got a terrific work ethic. we start work at 5:00 in the

morning on this show, and all these youngsters are bright eyed and bushy tailed every single day. my hat's off to the folks in the bullpen as you call it. ashley: yeah. stuart: this is from richard. hello, stuart. enjoy your show very much especially opinion pieces and tell us a bit about tree farming. how do you make money if it takes 30 years to grow a tree? that's a pretty good question. actually, you have no capital input because you just let the trees grow themselves. you don't have to waste a lot of money on labor and planting and all that kind of thing. you just let them grow, pick a good time to chop them down and then you chop them down. lauren: don't have to water them or do anything special? stuart: no, don't do that. thin the tree as bit and have good specimens and thin around them so they can grow tall and straight. are you with me on this? okay. ashley, any side gigs? ashley: side gigs? no, this takes all my time. back in the day i used to work in a bank and then as a bartender. it was like seven day as week.

used to be a bartender on a boat and worked at a bank monday through friday. stuart: lauren. lauren: ashley, i learn something about you every day. a bartender on a boat. no, god bless. i don't think i have any special talents or hobbies. stuart: aside from shaking hands with fidel castro all those years. lauren: yesterday i took a class and had to balance on my head for three minutes and go on one finger, preferably index. stuart: you can't balance on your head for three minutes. lauren: no, i fell. stuart: the friday trivia question now, what is the either especially circumference, 23, 24, 25, 26,000? lauren: really? who thought that was a good idea? stuart: i don't know but the answer when we return. ♪

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stuart: i don't think it's much more than 23,000. the answer is 24,000. that means the earth rotates at 1000 mph. 24,000, 1000 miles an hour. that was a good question. we learned something. we were talking about the weekend. stuart: where we going for the weekend. lauren: i will try to go skiing? you live in florida. ashley: going to the beach. neil: we will all be back on monday, time to get ready for coast-to-coast which starts now.