>> i don't know how the democrats get their message out because their messenger is not able to rally the troops.

>> it's not taxing the wellly and bianca rolled the democratic party for people that make more than a couple hundred thousand a year. somehow it's ill gotten gain if you're thefty. >> he needs more than his core maga base to win in november. look, demeaning your opponents and demeaning the other side, that's what joe biden is doing and that's one of the reason people don't like joe biden. stuart: playing breakdown because it's tom petty. tom petty can do no wrong. put him on the show all the time. late great tom petty and very quiet on sixth hour. i say this every hour every day and also 11:00 on the east coast and wednesday, january 24th. the rally started out well, faded a bit and came back. dow is up 100. look at that nasdaq go.

it's up 168 points and that's 1%. 15,594. big tech exploding again. meta up $7, 2%. alphabet nearly 2%. amazon's up, microsoft up 403. that's a record high. apple is 195. 10-year treasury yield coming down and going up and not disturbed the nasdaq, 414 is the frustrate on 10-year treasury. back to new hampshire primary, donald trump is now the first republican candidate to win both iowa and new hampshire since 1976. despite that, nikki haley refuses to drop out of the race. watch this. >> new hampshire is first in the nation, it is not the last in the nation. [ cheering ]. >> this race is far from over and there are dozens of states

left to go. and the next one is my sweet state of south carolina stuart: martha maccallum joining us this morning. you've been in new hampshire and you've just got back. there's a lot of pressure on nikki haley to drop out because it's assumed she cannot win in south carolina, her home state, which is the next big primary. will she? >> well, she's right there's a lot of states to go. i remember being in new hampshire when candidate biden had lost iowa, lost new hampshire, pulled up stakes because he was about to come in fifth and went straight to south carolina where his fortune tu turned around. i think she's still -- obviously she didn't win in either one of those places and the math is very difficult for her.

rhonda mcdaniel came on with bret and i saying she needed to pull out, which is a significant piece of news given throughout the entire process, the chair said we're not supporting any candidate or tell any candidate what to do or not do but now she s. there's a lot of pressure on her. there's an interesting calculus for what she wants her future to be and not getting the nominee and squarely and she's got a few r.n.s and imagine a possibility and maybe doubt get the nomination. anything can happen. this is going to be a wild year. there's going to be a lot going on here. i think you'll have a third party candidate and i think everybody should just take a breath. the former president was spitting angry with her last night. that was quite obvious, and i think, you know, m i can't say

that word that . goes a long way and may not have been his best moment in his campaign. stuart: we've been making a point of this all morning n. his victory speech, he attacked haley and disparaged her and it was a look at old trump instead of the new one with a softer tone. how can he attract independents if he attacks nikki haley like that. >> it's discipline. she said he had a litany of all the faults of donald trump in her speech. came out sounding like she'd won and referred to senior moments that he may be having, and i think that was the last straw. that's when the speech that was expected to be given went into the dust bin, and he unleashed on her. now, he sees that as her attacking him. attacking his mental capability, attacking his capability to lead and win. in all these years of covering him, we know that means he'll

attack, attack, attack, attack until he can crush her. that's the mode he's in right now. it's not, you know, it is what it is. she has also gone after him. he's called her, you know, by her indian first name. this is ugly. this is the ugly phase of how this gets played out. you know, we'll see. we'll see how tough she is and how willing she is to hang in there and willing to observe at this point-blank layups. stuart: martha, you're in the middle of this. >> it's fascinating and interesting. stuart: all the primaries and caucuses and debates and everything else. i envy you because this will be an extraordinary year. >> it'll be a very, interest political year. no doubt about it. stuart: thank you for being with us. we'll watch at 3:00 this afternoon, every weekday, the story on fox news. thank you, martha. now this. uh oh, they're talking wealth tax again. you add up the value of all your stocks, bonds, and real estate then pay the government a percentage of your wealth every year. that's a wealth tax.

doesn't matter if you made a profit, you're sitting on wealth so pay up. it's not a tax on income. it's not a tax on capital gains or profits. it's just as it says, a tax on accumulative wealth and you pay it every year. this is a socialist idea brought to us by the tax justice initiative, which was inspired by senators elizabeth warren and bernie sanders. right now there's not a single state that taxes unrealized capital gains, but there are ten states mostly dominated by democrats, where a wealth tax is now being considered. washington state, california, hey, new york, pennsylvania, nevada, maryland, minnesota, vermont, and connecticut, accumulated wealth is the last chunk of money that democrats don't get their hands on before you die. they want it. they say they need it to finance their spending plans. they'll say you don't need all that money, you're just greedy, hand it over. you don't care about the poor so we're going to take it off you. besides they say, they're only

hitting the very rich. we've heard that before. seizure of wealth is surely unconstitutional. when the government takes by force the accumulated savings of people that work for a living, it's just plain wrong. look who's here to take this on, mark tepeder and put my -- tapper and i need to look at it and strange when it's sticking out. you can't be a fan of the wealth tax, can you? >> i despise it. >> they tax with us when we make the money and capital gains and dividends invested and there's an estate tax in place where they're taking assets from wealthy people; right. so the fact that they now want to tax fund realized capital gains, that's a big issue. somebody has a multimillion dollar business. how do you generate any liquidity from that business to pay the tax? it's possible and what that's going to do and you're essentially going to take the tax from those people and going to take money from those people

and it's been most efficient in using it and the government will allocate it in an inefficient manner and slow economic growth and keep dollars in the hands of the people that are going to invest it wisely. stuart: drives me up the wall. america going down that road, i really hate that. we're going to change the subject, okay. >> more fun. stuart: we've got a big tech rally going on. significant rally. next week they report. they're reporting it's pass passing judgment on ai, isn't it. >> look, trying to find out whether or not you're too late to the party is certainly an issue that a lot of investors have right now and figure out should i buy nvidia up 24% or amd up 20, microsoft up 7. i don't think it's too late. first things first. five year+ horizon and plenty of time for ai. as a trade, there's a few good

quarters and next two to thee very strong for the ai companies. ai companies are making a ton of money. stuart: where else do you go to get profits like that? >> healthcare. i think the healthcare sector is very attractive and the mid tech lay and you have the opportunity for ai to be integral to some of the healthcare plays and healthcare is one of the worst performing sectors last year and third best this year and valuations are attractive and i think when we're talking about growth at a reasonable price, healthcare is the answer. stuart: got it. stay there, tepper. i believe you're with me for the hour. all right, come back in, lauren, please. l another high in the company and crossed $3 trillion in market valuations. for microsoft. stuart: apple above 3 trillion

and retreated. >> around 3.05 right now, ish. stuart: that's a lot of money. lauren: citi says it's going to $340 a share. microsoft is a lyddane artificial intelligence and found out on tuesday and what he's done as ceo pushing further into new areas like gaining and activision blizzard deal. lauren: certainly is. stuart: tell me about nvidia. last time we checked it up up $20. lauren: now 615. mark and i were doing some number crunching and it's above 700 and highest is $1,100 meaning the stock is doubling from the price inside right now. the ceo in jenson, china for the

new year. i don't have much to say about this but for some good will maybe because they get a fifth of their revenue from china and there are export restrictions on ships from there. that's a huge moneymaker for them. stuart: i missed it. lauren: we all did. maybe not you. >> oh, yeah. we had no intentions of turning any time soon either. that means, you know, it's worth holding. stuart: texas instruments. lauren: chip maker and lower profit and lower revenue and guided lower for this quarter and stock down 2 at any time 2% and earl -- 2.2% and early signs of weakness in automote and i have an existing worry of glut of inventory in the industrial markets. stuart: thanks, lauren. coming up, remember the classic holiday film it's a wonderful life. one film maker said he wants to remake it on the focus of black american experience. watch this. >> i think that's, you know, a perfect story to tell for that person of color, black and brown, get into that and our communities have issues and

we're trying to help that community out. stuart: why not just make a new movie instead. that's just a suggestion. oscars accused of snubbing barbie's lead actress and director. critics say it's another case of the patriarchy winning and we'll ask tomi lahren if she agrees with that. biden is accused of actively making the crisis worse. senator mike braun takes it on right after this. ♪ managing your diabetes just got easier. the powerful, new dexcom g7 lets you see your numbers on your watch and phone without fingersticks. and, because you always know which way your glucose is headed, you can make better diabetes decisions. and all those little decisions can lead to big results, like more time in range and lower a1c. manage your diabetes with confidence with dexcom g7. the most accurate cgm.

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stuart: fox use voter amall sis shows immigration was the top issue for voters in new hampshire and same thing in iowa. clearly people want change on the border.

jacjacqui heinrich joining us fm the white house. why are critics accusing biden of throwing gasoline on the border fire? reporter: well, president biden knows that voters care about the boarder and knows enough to have exchanged more than a few words with fox last week admitting the border is not secure and imploring congress to give him the money to fix it. the administration is having a tougher time explaining why they went all the way to the supreme court to have border patrol remove razor wire that texas officials installed to keep migrants out. >> >> the border patrol needed access and that's why we soon so get rid of the razor wire so they can do their jobs. what would also help them do their jobs is more border patrol agents. there's an idea. the answer we keep getting back from house republicans is no, no, no. reporter: republicans predictably calling on irony of

biden administration and using government tools at their disposal so remove razor wire which the union says is helping the core mission of securing the border. >> what kind of message does that send to illegal aliens all across the world? it sends the message that america is open for business. we don't have a border even our own federal government won't enforce the border laws. reporter: the administration is putting a lot of stock in the border laws and hoping it conveys to voters that the administration is taking this issue very seriously and biden is serious about massive change and wants it to happen. former president trump has been urging house republicans not to compromise and it is still unclear if this bill can eventually pass the lower chamber. there are still, we've learned, some final details being worked out in the senate and initially we expect that had bill to come up potentially for a vote this week but now we're hearing from senators they're hoping just for the text to come out so folks can read it and tee it up for a vote next week, stuart.

stuart: next week, thank you, jacqui. senator mike braun from indiana. senator, are your colleagues, senator republicans, who you know thed mind trump and willingly and ebb tuesday i can't sayically? >> it was september when i endorsed the president and he like wise endorsed my gubernatorial pursuit and 15 senators came on board and senator cornyn and fisher just last night. this is a forgone conclusion, stu, over half of americans are disillusioned what happens here in dc including the southern border as when he won back in 16. i get the feeling that so many people think anyone else vs. won't go to the map to get this

stuff done. he's way ahead of where he would have been back in '16. i say get everyone on board, don't let the dems try tothe message and it was working with he was -- to dilute and it was working with he was running the show and look at the mess ons boarder and in the economy. stuart: on the border you wrote this op ed reading joe biden isn't a handshake business partner on the border. are you accusing him of not negotiating in good faith? >> well, no legislation is needed. he dismantled everything that was working. even what you were talking about earlier in terms of wire and getting impediments out of the way. that doesn't make sense. i think they'll do anything to pursue the open boarders and any legislation i'm worried could be a ruse could be something that would have something in there

that keeps the president from getting it back to where he was and the honest answer is you need no legislation. biden undid everything that was working. stuart: got it. i want to take time here because according to your office, medicare loses billions of dollars a year in fraud, errors and abuse. your office made this study. can you give me a number, how much do we lose on medicare fraud? >> $60 billion. and that is not chump change, even for this place. to think that can be, that's from unscrupulous healthcare professionals and oranged crime that take a program like medicare that's inherently going broke on its own merits and robs another $60 billion because you can -- it's called diagnostic medical equipment.

they game this and generate fake sales, pocket the money through medicare and can you imagine $60 billion worth? a few years ago fond out this place in the normal course of busibusiness write as check to e wrong individual or on the wrong amount nearly 3% of what we spend and a lot of stuff has to change. it's terrible. stuart: can you have a efficient and well priced medical system if the government runs it? >> no, if you want to fix healthcare, go for the industry itself with transparency and competition and it's now mostly run by big corporations in the jury was duly sworn arena and hospital arena and i've got a bill out there to fix that. the more you give the government and it's going to cost a lot. obama care never ended up being more effective and less

expensive, and we didn't santa claus rally an option for it. republicans have to be better with coming up with real effective solutions and not more government. stuart: yes, sir, senator braun, thank you for joining us this morning. always appreciate it. >> yes, sir. stuart: back to the border again. record number of migrants given notice to appear in court after entering the country illegally last month. ashley, come back in. these are deportation cases hawaii is a deportation case? ashley: yeah, these are grants that costume into -- migrants that cross into the understand illegally and notice to appear, nta, requiring them to appear in front of immigration court judge and nearly 265,000 deportation cases were filed in u.s. immigration courts last month. that by the way a record high but guess what, those court dates are years in the future and the migrants are often never tracked down. they're gone and disappeared

into the united states. the biden administration by the way used a humanitarian parole program to allow migrants into the country. more than 1 million migrants have been allowed to enter the u.s. under that provision. now republicans accuse biden of abusing the parole law and they want to change it as part of the negotiations with the white house over aid for ukraine. bottom line, the border is absolute chaos and crisis. stu. stuart: tell me something i don't know. thanks, ash. reusable shopping bags meant to reduce the amount of plastic while shopping and con sums to go up. the -- consumption to go up and greens won't like this one. two of biden's top aids are leaving their positions at the white house to join the campaign and run it. this is a signal that biden's team is taking all the bad press and serious criticism? taking it seriously i should say. i'll bring that to tomi lahren

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stuart: it's that time that i look forward to and that would be tepper's stock picks. look at what's going on on wall street, dow up 130 and nasdaq up 144. your first pick on the screen. nike. >> yeah, nike, obviously a good company. iconic brand. they've been in a slum and had a few rough quarters and over the last year, s&p up about 20%. nike's down about 20%. so they're doing some restructuring and turn around things like cutting costs and one of the biggest catalysts, i believe, for nike is it is incredibly profitable when you sell old technology at premium prices and that's exactly what they're doing. my kids, who are 16, 14, and 12 are wearing the same shoes i wore growing up, jordans, air force ones, air max ones, dunks. all those shoes, you don't have to invest in technology. there's no rnd. profitable, i think this company turns itself around.

stuart: bounces in other words? >> yeah, 50% upside in the next two years. stuart: sounds good. japan etf. >> japan is doing the exact opposite of what we're doing here in the u.s.. they're restructuring corporate governance to focus on profits, profitability. that's what we should be doing but instead we're too focused on stake holder capitalism rather than shareholder capitalism. you look at japan and the valuations there are about 30, 35% below where u.s. companies are trading. i think because they're going to focus more on profits that that's going to close the valuation gap, japan should have a nice run from here. stuart: sounds good. thank you very much, mash. back to the new hampshire primary and nikki haley vowing to stay in the race even after losing by double digits to donald trump. brian llenes is in new hampshire. what put him over the edge.

reporter: yeah, 2,000 voters in the new hampshire primary and votedders prefer former president trump over former un ambassador nikki haley on pretty much everything included and thought he was a stronger leader and cared more and had better policies. yeah, that's a lot. and can beat president biden in the general election. this helped with an 11 point win here in the granite state and dig further into the voter analysis and trump won 70% of republican votes in last night's race. the number one issue for voters: immigration followed by the economy and jobs and trump won immigration voters by 47 points. >> you know, i think we called it right. immigration is a big deal. big deal, very big deal and millions and millions of people flowing into the country illegally and we don't know who

the hell they are. take a look at our border, so bad, there's never been a border like this in the world. four yearings ago, we had the safest, best border in the united states. reporter: haley won 62% of unaffiliated or independent voters in new hampshire. that's 26 points above trump, and she argues this makes her the most electable against president biden. perhaps surprisingly, 95% of new hampshire voters said that it's very important that their nominee is mentally fit and haley last night challenged trump who said he would do better than haley on a mental competency test. >> trump claims he'd do better than me in one of those tests. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. but if he thinks that, then he should have no problem standing on a debate stage with me.

reporter: the former governor of south carolina released to new ads in her home state attacking the former president of being too old and reintroducing herself to those in south carolina she was the governor until 2017 and trying to remind them of her accomplishment there is. she's hold ago rally in charleston tonight and polls show, stuart, she's some 30 points down in south carolina compared to trump. stuart: she s. all right, brian, thanks very much indeed. two top biden aids are leaving their posts at the white house. they're going to take on leadership roles in the reelection campaign. tomi lahren joining us this morning. tomi, why this move to put new people in charge of the campaign? do they understand they're getting a lot of criticism? >> i think, stuart, at this point the biden reelection and biden white house are all really in the same bucket. they're scrambling, scratching, they're trying to get air. they know that things are not looking good. they know that every time he

speaks at an event, you really have to have closed captions onto understand him and even then it's a little sketchy. you're seeing the shift because they're doing everything they can to not only con syringes biden but to convince democrat voters that biden will be the nominee. don't worry, guys, we're going to rally around him and make changes and do whatever we can to make this guy seem appealing and electable, but i think everybody if they're honest with themselves know that this is going to soon run out and as i've stated for m many months now over a year, i do not believe joe biden will be the nominee. so now it's just this last ditch effort to make it work. it's not working, stuart. it's not working. stuart: i agree with you on that one. i don't think he will be the actual candidate in november. moving on. president biden was heckled by pro palestinian protesters at his campaign rally last night. watch this. >> this going to go on for

awhile. they've got this planned. exactly, donald trump and maga republicans, including the woman hollering. exactly. stuart: i think he got that wrong. he's calling the pro palestinian demonstrators maga republicans. pro palestinian demonstrators are not maga republicans, are they? >> no, not in any way shape or form no matter how much the democrats want to gaslight that issue. it's obvious it's not. you're going to see the pro palestinian ceasefire folks and see them show up throughout the election season and probably going to see them even beyond that because the left has entertained this. whereas most conservatives and most republicans have said they stand firmly with israel and believe israel has the right and duty to wipe out hamas and you've seen the left coddle these pro palestinian protester and coddle them on college

campuses and it's no wonder they continue to show up. you also see leaders in some of these blue cities who have allowed these protesters to block traffic, to cause real mayhem and real chaos during the travel season and expect this to continue and they've entertained this and deal with ramifications and these people feel elmore boldened and they're going to keep showing up and see we'll see how joe handles himself but it wasn't m aga republicans in the audience doing that. stuart: no, there's un-happen - with the oscars and left says barbie movie was snubbed and neither the film star or female director were not named for award but the movie's leading man ryan gossling was nominated and a slap in the face to the fit. all about female empowerment. i suspect you have something to say about this. have at it. >> i want to tell you i watched the barbie movie and i liked the barbie movie. do i think it's oscar worthy?

snow valley, maybe not. do i think margo robbie was necessarily the most difficult role she could have taken on? probably not, stuart. maybe fits her pretty well. i like the movie and did very well at box office. i think that oscars should be based on box office success, but we know that's not the case. i would also say this, to all those on the left and liberal media and hollywood folks so upset about this, so upset about the patriarchy ruling over and not getting the nominations for greta and margo, apply that same passion to men who compete in women sports because the patriarchy it live there is too, stuart. stuart: i hear you loudly and clearly. tomi lahren, thanks for being with us. appreciate it. see you later. a woke film maker just announced he's coming out with a reimagined version of two classic movies. i'm not sure what this is all about, ashley. one of the movies and why is he remaking them woke? ashley: well, director and writer wants to give a diverse

new look to two of hollywood's greatest movies. we're talking about the wizard of positives it's a wonderful -- wizard of oz and it's a wonderful life. he's the creator of blackish and going to make the classics through a person of color's lens. here's what he told variety. >> having ability to take bigger ips and tell them from a different point of view is a gift i'm hopefully going to keep getting a. guy trying to help out his community and things turning around and i think that's a perfect story to tell throughout person color, black or brown getting into that and our communities have some issues and some are trying to sort of help that community out. ashley: well, i tell you what, as for the wizard of oz, one of the changes he's proposing is having dorothy be a girl that lives in engelwood and ends up in underhood. that's outside of oz. back to you, stu. stuart: thanks issue ash. on day one biden killed the

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♪ stuart: new jersey banned stores from providing plastic bags to customers in 2022. it was meant to reduce plastic waste. ashley, did it work? ashley: yep -- nope. data shows plastic consumption in new jersey nearly tripled sinces ban with residents consuming 53 million pounds of plastic before the ban compared to 151 million pounds following the ban. now, the state implemented a strict ban on single use plastic

shopping bags last year saying that plastic bags are one of the most problematic forms of garbage in landfills. turns out the reusable bags they promoted are much thicker than the typical single use plastic bags and use roughly 15 times the amount of plastic. the bags are built for repeated shopping trips, but most consumers in new jersey only reuse those bags two or three times before they throw them in the bin. new jersey not alone by the way. vermont, oregon, california and many others have their own versions of bans on single use plastic bags but at least in new jersey, it isn't working. stu, stuart: thanks, ash. i have a headline to look at. i had a job on the keystone excel pipeline by biden to satisfy climate extremists. you say biden fired you three years ago. he said, biden said, you're going to get more good paying green jobs when he laid you off.

did you get one? >> no, sir. i don't know how to do no green energy deal. i've been welding for 35 years, and i'm all the way through my career and i ain't going to go try to get a green energy job and plus they don't pay good at all. i've had some guys that i know that's done that, and it ain't even close to what we make on the pipeline. stuart: what have you been doing for the last three years? >> barely getting by, mr. varney. i mean barely getting wyoming you have to go out of the box. punch a few cows, round up a skid of steer and just -- but i have had some little jobs that are getting me by, and that's the only thing that's holding right now. i'm not the only one. there's a whole lot of guys like me. stuart: i'm sure there are. when biden abandoned the keystone pipeline, a lot of work was done and trenches were dug and pipes were in there. if trump wins the election, and

he says let's get back to the pipelines, could you get back to the keystone pipeline easily? could it be built quickly? >> yes, sir. tram's going to come in here. i love what trump says, drill baby drill. if you put a drilling rig up, they hit oil and got to hit a pipeline. what biden has done is knock the permits and drilling is no problem but knocking the permanent and can't lie the pipeline and biden was a big pro union guy. well i am a pro 798 pipeline welder. guess what, he's hamstringed us to where we're we've got -- we're hurting. stuart: lynn allen, we do hear you loudly and clearly. you have delivered your message. thank you very much for being on the show. we appreciate it. thank you very much, sir. >> thank you, mr. varney. glad. thank you. stuart: you got it.

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stuart: washington -- c consider ago new crime bill that would give more power to the police. how about that. ashley, anything else in the bill? ashley: well, 93 page bill is called secure dc. it has nearly 100 measures to tighten the city's crime laws and dc as we know has seen the murder hit 20 year highs and carjackings across the city and often carried out by teenage repeat offenders. the proposed legislation creates new levels of firearm offenses,

changes definitions to things like carjacking to give prosecutors more leeway to actually bring cases of provisvisions and assumption of pretrial detention for violent crimes and new organized retail crime offenses and expanded police powers as you mention and dclu had criticism and dc mayor murial bowser is going to sign it if it gets to her. stuart: thanks issue ash. why no one goes out to eat in dc anymore. they blame a surge in crime and raise in cost. chris owns bars in dc. is it accurate they're saying the number of people eating out in dc is going down, is that happening? >> thanks, stuart, for having me on. it's a big issue as the opportop edtalks about and lesss folks coming to eat in dc.

i'm talk to staff and guests and crime is out of control. you touched on some numbers but across the country, crime is going down and in dc, we're seeing opposite and more murders and carjackings and perhaps the most concerning thing we're down a thousand police officers and have about 3,000 police officers in dc and goal is to have 4,000. we're down 1,000 officers from pre-covid. there's not enough police in the streets to keep folks safe. stuart: how much is business down in dc, in your restaurants and b bars in dc compared to sa, i don't know, pre-covid? >> sure, the last two or three years was interesting between covid and everything else going on. our numbers are down and we've stayed okay and lucky to have huge restaurants or busy neighborhoods and next to stadiums in dc and a lot of small mom and pop restaurants and retail in dc are hurt am i right? and small business is the backbone of america and seeing small restaurants close every week is devastating and keeps getting worse. stuart: how much is your business down over the last 12 months? >> yeah, across it, we're down 10-20% and it's a tough time of

year. dry january, damp january, it's cold, everything else. january is usually a bad time of year but especially bad time of year for restaurants right now. stuart: if it goes on like this, would you have to close restaurants or bar s? >> we'd stay scope we survived covid and things are going strong but we're head in the wrong direction. glad to see city counsel picked up these issues and banning bike lanes and haven't focused on crime and that's one issue across the board and republican democratic moderate and we're all united together to keep the streets safe. stuart: fritz bro began, thank you very much. 11:55 almost and time for the wednesday trivia question and no idea on this one. how long is the great wall of china, 10,000, 11,000, 12,000 or 13,000 miles? no clue. the answer when we come back. ♪

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stuart: the very question of the day. how long is the great wall of china? can a wall be 10,000, eleven thousand, thirteen thousand miles long. the circumference of the earth,

and what is your number. ashley: why will go with 12,870. >> we will go with number 2, 11,000. stuart: i will go with number one, 10,0408000. 13,000 one hundred 70 one, construction on the wall began during the chin dynasty, third century bc, the largest portion of the wall, and i can't believe that. come to the southern border please. coast-to-coast starts in 321 now.