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her because she's an election denier. >> it's clear our government and fed really don't care about fighting inflation because if they did, they wouldn't be pumping this much liquidity into the system. >> there's a supply of folks that have a desire to come here. if we call on the phones that come here and cross the border illegally, we're going to get more. >> that's a 950-foot ship, and i think a lot of people are seeing this on the news don't realize how big these ships really are. >> this left wing da manhattan psycho will try to boot strap the thing into a city case against trump. stuart: the lord made me hard to handle. lauren: just for you, stuart. stuart: oh, please. it is 11:00 eastern time. it is wednesday, march 27. we're going to start with the markets. the dow is up a strong 218

points, not so much for the nasdaq. up a mere 3 and s&p up 14. big tech, they were all up earlier and now not all are up. microsoft, alphabet, meta down. apple -- actually, up a couple bucks at 172. the yield on 10-year treasury, still below 4.25%? yes, 4.21%. another look, please, at trump media. it continues its surge, day one yesterday up 16%, day two today up 13% so far. $65 a share. now this, ronna mcdaniel lasted four days on nbc. welcomed on friday and gone by tuesday. they didn't tell her face-to-face, she learned she'd been let go from media reports. how nice. she was fired after a revolt but nbc sanu news stars that objected toerer association with donald trump. that's -- to her association with donald trump. that's it. her one voice at nbc is

considered a threat to democracy. that's their line, tram subpoena a threat to democracy. his position cannot be allowed on the air and can only be treated with contempt. college campuses where student dictate which opinions are allowed. at nbc the so called journalists dictate to management. the chair of nbc universal hired mcdaniel to "provide our audience with a widely diverse set of viewpoints". chuck todd and all the on air talent were not having any of that with someone associated with donald trump. perhaps they should take a slowser look at own -- closer look at trump coverage years. the russia hoax, they push that had hard. horrified by the border wall but have no problem with migrants attacking border guards now. nbc's dilemma may spread. if the management of media outlets wants to hire protrump people, will their employees let them?

the new york times remember, opinion editor was forced out after other time staffers objected to a opinion piece he published. meanwhile, ronna mcdaniel is set to be lawyering up and why not. she could surely win a breech of contract suit and ripped morning and night on nbc, she can sue for emotional distress too, surely. trump hatred can be very expensive. third hour of varney starts right now. stuart: perfect day to have martha mccal lum. who better than martha mc maccam to be sitting with me here on the show. what kind of message are they send something >> cancel culture is alive and well at nbc. they made it clear. they caved so quickly to the individuals. i'm not sure where a lot of these people would go if nbc

brass turned around and said no, this is a decision we made as an editorial decision. it's also weird what's revealed here is that the nbc news operation operates very separately from the msnbc operation. the msnbc leadership said don't worry, she's not going to be on our air at all and only on nbc. it is absolutely proport roush and look back at -- p preposters and hillary clinton said donald trump knows he was an illegitimate president and knows he was not duly elected essentially; right. all the statements during the russia hoax, that left so much egg on their faces and i also thought that christian walker did a very good job of pinning down ronna mcdaniel on a number of issues on meet the press. that was a opportunity to air it out. go ahead, ask her tough questions about the things she said in the republican up to january 6 and then move on.

she's got a ton of experience and knows a lot about what's going on in the republican party. she could be a very strong contributor to those conversations. they need not be so afraid of people that think differently. stuart: the audience deprived of a valid voice on nbc. >> they have mike pence and have some people that are contributors but, you know, ronna mcdaniel is very well connected. they said cohesive and aligned. we can't succeed unless we're cohesive and aligned. that means you better get in line. if you have a voice that's going to provoke genuine and interesting debates on your sets, forget it. forget it. stuart: out. >> and out also with the, we're looking at very tight election. out also with half of america. stuart: let's talk royal family because you're an emerging royal family specialist. lauren: really? >> i've been covering them for a lot of years. that i will admit. stuart: you have.

it is reported that prince harry wants to go back to the royal family but only if the royal family apologizes to him. do you think they want him back? >> i don't know. you know, i can hear meghan's voice in that, okay. all right, we'll go back but only if they apologize. it's easy to imagine that scenario. i cannot put words in her mouth but given what we know, it's easy to imagine a scenario like that. i think if anyone deserves an apology, it is harry apologizing to his family for calling them racist. he called his family racist. stuart: yes. >> he went on oprah winfrey with his wife and said his father didn't know how to show love to his children basically. he took very deep -- i think people forget quickly how deep the digs were that he said to his father. he said william basically married kate because it was like

a -- good for the brand basically, not because he loved her. i mean, insinuating it wasn't because he loved her. these are deep, okay. you can have stuff going on within families but they did this so publicly and so painfully. i think -- i would have guessed if anything works, the apology has to go in the opposite direction. stuart: you're right again. you're our royal expert. >> coming from the man with the british accent. stuart: i'm american. we'll be watching you on the story, 3:00 p.m. eastern on fox news. martha, thanks for being with us. >> thank you, stuart. stuart: back to the market, the dow on a strong performance and up 230 points and nasdaq down 6 at this point. lou basenese with me for the hour and sitting next to me now. djt up another 13%. at 16% yesterday. that's trump's media company, okay. are you in it? >> hell no. is that too strong? am i mincing words? this is not trump hatred but

fundamental investing versus gambling. the social media stocks and meme stocks like amc, game stop, they're motivated and driven by intense loyalty to the brand and not business. the fundamental of all the stocks including ipo and reddit stink. they're not there. trump's company is trading at over 2,000 times revenue and that's insane. stuart: it's a gambling chip. >> it is, it's 100% speculation. i'm not a speculator and i'm an investor and like fundamental investing. lauren: where else do you put your money? ai plays come up fast and this might be a spot. >> hand me your money if you're ready to gamble and i'll invest your money. lauren: investors looking for a quake way to make money. stuart: a lot of people showing support for trump and buying that stock. >> if that's your motivation and know that going in, you can't be upset if you lose money and volatile in price. i don't like to gamble with my

money and know when you're buying a stock, you're buying future profits of the company, i don't see the path to profitability for trump's media company or reddit. they've been in business for 19 years and has never turned a profit. lauren: what if trump wins in november and that's his mouthpiece and companies and people have to sign up through social to get access. >> won't happen. social media doesn't scale when it's an echo chamber and right now trump himself only has 7 million followers on his own social media platform and 87 million on x want doesn't scale. stuart: stay with me for the hour. >> love to. stuart: lauren, back in. look at movers. marvel technology. lauren: speaking of ai, ai day is april 11 and folks at citi opened a 30-day catalyst watch and want to and expect to be wowed by announcements of ai and marvel does the ai era. stuart: special day? lauren: ai event, marvel

technology is holding a special day. data infrastructures and more monetize ai. stuart: my idea. netflix because somebody thinks they're going higher. lauren: web bush raised price target to 725, which is a nice gain from here. but they have removed them from their best ideas list. they say, look, companies great, obviously they're raising price target, but it's going to be so much harder for netflix to continue to impress investors because they've done so much. stuart: the chinese ev maker that i follow is nio, n-i-o. look at them go down. lauren: even in china cutting forecast for the first quarter and expecting to deliver 30,000 vehicles instead of 31-33,000. stuart: got it. down 4%. coming up, president biden and the democrats are ditching the term bidenomics. in fact, in all of march, they

only said it once. we have that story. a new poll shows just three in ten adults regularly attend religious services. why such a small number? we'll dig into it. a new report reveals cartels had a major gun trafficking operation on the border and they were being armed with military-grade weapons. border patrol guy chris cabrera telling us if the cartels control the border and mexico, that's next.

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lauren: imuation is the number one issue facing the country. 36% say that's the top issue for them and it's also the issue that joe biden polls lowest on with just a 36% approval rating. now joe biden is facing not only emboldened migrants if you ask me that keep coming and pushing down fences and trampling national guard members, but their leaders are calling the shots. the president of mexico says the united states should commit $20 billion a year to latin america with sop other things and legalize the mexicans that have been living here and paying taxes for years. this is how americans feel about this ultimatum. >> we shouldn't pay their demands because it's our issue they're coming over, but it's their issue for letting them come over. whatever we need to do to stop it. >> whether we got to pay or complete the wall. it's dangerous.

>> biden's weak. bottom line. lauren: weak and open to diplomatic blackmail. those voters and americans seemed really depressed and dejected by what's going on at the border; right. what else can you say about it because nothing is getting done and won't till after the election. stuart: it's trump's issue and winning on this one big time. thanks, lauren. five men accused of illegally buying military grade guns in mexico and smuggling them to the u.s.. i'm join joined by chris cabrera, the border guy. is this a big issue? >> yes, the cartels make their money moving drugs north and they have unlimited funds to buy whatever they want from whoever they want, whether it's in the united states or from their own military. stuart: what kind of weaponry are they buying? >> what kind of weapon aren't they buying. we've seen 50 caliber sniper

rifles, we've seen automatic, fully automatic machine guns. you name t they have it. they up armor their own vehicles and using ieds against each other in mexico. it's just a matt ore of time before it spreads over to this side. stuart: would you say that the cartels essentially run not only the border but mexico itself? >> most definitely. most definitely. the government of mexico looks the other way while the cartels bring drugs into the united states. yet the cartels are making that money to do whatever they want to whoever they want, and they run this show over there in mexico and just allow that president to exist. stuart: next one, 200 tactical border force soldiers just arrived in texas and specifically deployed after that group of migrants stormed a border fence last week. chris, what is exactly a tactical soldier? a tactical border force soldier?

do they have special weapons? >> you know, i believe they're military-style weapons. it's unfortunate that it's gotten to this. we've let it go so far downhill that it's happened here and if they're serious about this instead of paying mexico more money to stop this, they should just cut off all aid completely and say, hey, either you're going to play ball or get nothing at all. stuart: that's not going to happen, is it? this president is not going to do that. >> unfortunately under this president, he won't do that. stuart: in the future, we have this military operation on our border? >> well, unfortunately it at some point florida boil over and going to resort to the violence and people get hurt on both ends and hopefully doesn't get there, but at some point the federal government needs to stand up and do their job and secure this border. stuart: talking about cartels buying 50 caliber weapons, that's a heavy duty weapon. have you seen that kind of weapon deployed inside the

united states and used in america by the cartels? >> not inside the united states but we have had shots come across the border from the medical examiner con into the u.s. side. stuart: that's the situation. chris cabrera, thank you for joining us and telling us all about the arming of the cartels. >> thank you. stuart: ro ro romainen mobsterse taking advantage of the boarder and what are they doing? ashley: cloning your debit cards and victim's credit cards and happening in california and members of the romania mafia crossing the southern border and setting up debit card skimming scheme on self-check out and use the debit card till they can't anymore. debit card skimme skimmers weavd

about them at gas stationings and atms and network of foreign crooks is branching out. how it works is the suspects sit outside a wal-mart or a target looking like they're panhandling, actually what they're doing is using bluetooth technology that's connected to the skimmers inside the stores. they're just downloading your information. authorities say they've already busted dozens of suspects, as many as 48, most of them with ties to organized crime in romania but thanks to that wide open border, there's just a conveyer belt of new crime members to take their place, crazy. stu. stuart: what do you do. just shake your head at this stuff. that's the only reaction. ashley: i know. stuart: ash, thank you. back to the markets. still got that split situation here. nasdaq down 7 and dow is up 125 points. 225 points. in the last block, is there going to be an ai day nationally we were talking about. i didn't think there was. in fact, there's an ai

appreciation day and that's jul. lauren: do we appreciate ai? stuart: not yet. i can't quite understand it yet, but i will appreciate it on july the 16th. coming up, donald trump is selling bibles ahead of easter. we'll tell you which country star he's partnering with. american business leader meeting with at the top level xi jinping. former state department christian whiten telling us where they're there and what they want. we'll be back. (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪)

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it's about 1.5 million market cap leading the way in the new type of cancer therapy and ceo at helm they brought in about 6-7 months ago and it was the leader of cegen that pfizer acquired and he did a great job executing and getting acquired by big pharma and health set himself up to do the same thing here. stuart: that's what you're looking for? >> no, but the cancer therapies is a platform for developing multiple cangser therapies and that's appealing and strong ip and you have great leadership. you got to invest in the horse and the jockey at the same time. stuart: you've been following this for a long time. >> i have. it's an interesting name to follow and off the lows about $4 up to 25, $26 and do your own research though. stuart: next is i shares russell 2,000etf. >> yeah, it's a way to play small caps. they've been lagging large caps, but what we've seen in a defined bull market off the october lows and small caps narrowed the gaps on par up about 25% and last

time we saw small caps lead was coming out of dot com days and went onto lead for the next 12 years and instead of individual small cap, buy etf that gives you hundreds at one type. stuart: okay, thank you, lou. china's xi jinping just met with u.s. executives in beijing. top level deal. edward lawrence joins me now. okay, what was the meeting all about, do we know? reporter: yeah, it was about getting u.s. direct investment from u.s. companies into china, helping their economy there. according to state media in china, the black stone ceo steven schwartzman and qualcomm ceo among the heavy hitters involved in the meeting talking to xi and they'd like to see him push for actions, actual actions from the chinese showing they're willing to change behavior. now, china does not legally protect intellectual property and has a lot of market barriers and president xi told ceos and business leader that china u.s. relationship had setbacks in the last couple of years, but that

china is planning to perform secretary of state mike pompeo is skeptical, listen. >> we encourage them to go for 40 years but we should not be naive. he's allowing the companies to operate inside of china because it's in his best interest in the short run. there'll come a day that won't be true and much like many of the other american companies he's kicked out and stolen intellectual property and attempted to destroy, he'll do that to each when the time is right. reporter: but american ceo see short term dollar signs in china and amway ceo during the development for china on why his company invests there? focus on long term and stability and and capital income does

poseable 6% is off the confidence to continue to invest in innovate in china. reporter: long term the chinese haven't changed the way they do business and stealing technology is among the tom of things they do. stuart: edward lawrence, thank you very much. i want to bring in christian whiten, former state deny official. should american capital be going to china at this point, christian? >> no, it shouldn't. all the signs, you wonder if these executives have read a newspaper in the last ten years. next door in hong kong, that's part of china, there's jimmy lye locked up and he was a magnet tycoon guilty of run ago pro democracy newspaper and so many of the companies are dependent on china. tim cook not at this final confabwith xi jinping but cut a video of how much he loves china and apple lost 25% of market share and produces more than 95% of iphones, max, i pads, et cetera in china. you have people here who are

really naive about the last ten years and naive about tariffs if donald trump comes back to the white house. stuart: i wonder if american executives in china, not the high level people there now, but come down the food chain a bit and you're a american, executive in china, are you safe? >> you're not. the chinese government both in hong kong and on the mainland recently has basically committed shakedowns basically of places that you're doing financial reporting and financial intelligence on our economy, we may not like and may need to take a look at sources and what you're up to. no one puts out a press release when they close down or reduce size of office in beijing or hong kong and move the people to singapore. that's happening on a very big scale. look at real estate and financial activity in singapore and that's the chief alternative of course to hong kong or china.

stuart: thank you, christian. the president used the word bidenomics for the first time in two months. is that accurate? lauren: yep, he did, in north carolina yesterday when he was there campaigning and pitching healthcare and where he engaged with the pro palestinian protesters for the first time when he's been visiting the swing states. and he mention it had. he mentioned bidenomics. axios crunched numbers and counted the time he said it, one time this month, near the end of march. didn't use it at all last month. last summer, 29 times, 21 times. it's a nod perhaps by the administration, the campaign that the messaging wasn't working. he wanted to do what obama did for obama care. turn a potential liability into an asset but unfortunately i think a lot of voters say it's still a liability no matt hear you call it. stuart: do you think biden was right to ditch the word

bidenomics? >> we talked a complete the catch it before. confuses more than it clarifies. no one know what is it means. reagan tapped into this in the 80s, are you better off today than you were four years ago put ago finger on the fact that voters vote based upon the economic conditions. are they good, favorable for you? you'll vote for that candidate. stuart: earlier we ran a sound byte from kjp and said grocery prices had gone down before she hung up with a reporter. said they've gone down. lauren: cherry pick the items and maybe one item on one month or one year ago comparison but front and center. >> eggs up 50%. stuart: they haven't come down and stayed at those levels and that's it and that's what people understand. bidenomics didn't do it right. next case, china just filed a complaint with the world trade organization over president biden's electric vehicle plans hawaii is the problem, ashley? ashley: well, china says it's

contesting discriminatory subsidies over the u.s. inflation reduction act claiming it has led to the exclusion of goods from china and other wto countries. the wide ranging law is part of biden's goal to decarbonize industries and provides billions in tax credits to help consumers buy electric vehicles even though they don't want to. companies to produce renewable energy, but china says the u.s. is using the climate change campaign to only buy and use goods from the united states or import goods from certain particular regions in the world. beijing will challenge the u.s. to safeguard the legitimate interest of u.s. and maintain a fair and level playing field because we know china never uses government subsidies to give companies an advantage but i digress.

stuart: artificial intelligence coming up to accelerate developments in the car virgin islands how it's helping. francis kay bridge collapse was a real shock but fundamental flaws in the bridge's design. former president of american society of civil engineers, he's going to tell us if other bridges could be at risk. that's next.

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stuart: car makers using ai to make big changes in the industry. ashley, this is yours, how is ai being applied to the auto industry? ashley: well, it's playing a big part in self-driving technology, but goes way beyond that including design and engineering of automobiles along with a significant improvement in processing time, but the true impact of ai is only just being explored we're told. kia, for instance, auto maker encouraging its engineers to use

ai to spark creativity and nissan built a research center to use ai to solve challenging from engineers and designers and mercedes benz is testing chatgpt in the digital production and testing ai in the paint shop to create significant cost savings and engineers are saying consumers will see a steady progression of ai in vehicles with the primary focus on voice assistance, personalized recommendations and root planning. in some cases, ai providing a highly personalized experience by understanding the driver's routines, preferences and oh, yes, the driver's mood. which probably on a monday morning is not great. stuart: that could be tricky, you know. lou, how much is ai being a gambler changer in the auto industry. >> it's not artificial

intelligence, it's accelerated innovation. we're talking about in auto industry is allowing things to progress more rapidly and quickly. ai is only as good as data you have on the front side. bad data leads to bad outcomes, like statistics and better we get with data and understanding, development, automation, the better the outcomes will be. you're going to see accelerated development and see actually more ergonomic designs, a car company like tesla could have come to market even faster with ai. stuart: that's nating. thank you very much, lou. now the auto makers, they're forced to reroute shipments because of the baltimore bridge collapse. madison alworth at new york auto show. take us through the challenges that are posed by this bridge collapse. reporter: stuart, absolutely. i mean, this was something immediately thought of yesterday because the port of baltimore, that is the number one port when it comes to rolloff inventory. so trucks and cars and things like that. we've reached out to every auto makerring and almost all of them are working on contingency plans

because of that . the focus at auto show is getting the cars in front of the consumer. cars like this one. this is the ci silverado ev. chevy's first silverado ev. it's not yet available but we're getting a sneak peak at the atoe show. when it cops to electric vehicles, consumers, they're slowly getting on board. especially with trucks, that's a component that's a little less interest but chevy feels like once you get to test drive like i am with dave, i'll buckle up so we can go. they'll change their mind. at this point when it comes to consumers, 10% interested potentially in the truck, which we'll go ahead and do. >> let's go. reporter: awe soap. ev sales in general are up this year and anticipating 8% increase over 2024 in terms of those buying and it's slower of increase but auto makers are still pushing for that. they think that these types of vehicles are the future. there's obviously a lot of incentive from the government

and cool things like pickup, which you'll experience now. this is a work truck but can go from 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds and dave will gun it so experience that. let's do it. oh my god. okay. huge pick up but this is a sturdy work truck and can push out on the consumer not yet available and also going to come at a hefty price. this bad boy starts at $66,900. right now just available for fleet but in the future, you could be driving electric truck, stu. back to you. stuart: i like the acceleration this, i could see you're pinned to the back of your seat, that was good stuff, thanks, madison. see you again real soon. take care. baltimore bridge collapse all six people missing are now presumed dead. lauren, i guess it's no longer rescue, it's now a recovery accident right? lauren: yeah. the officials are calling in recovery their top priority and governor of maryland promising the families of those that fell into the water yesterday that

they'd use every asset, land, air, water to find their family members, the victims. you've got bad weather today in baltimore that could complicate the search. i think divers have to go underwater, it's cold, with the bad weather and all the debris from the bridge; right. the national transportation safety board recovered the data recorder from the ship. that's important. it could help officials determine the time line and what happened prior to that may day call and the subsequent bridge collapse in seconds. stuart: i understand that there were some cars that came off the bridge when it collapsed. lauren: yep. stuart: nobody was in there because they belonged to the workers working on the bridge at that time. lauren: that is the assumption. and the hero able to make that may day call and stop the cars so quickly from entering the bridge that hopefully the fatality rate stays where it is now. stuart: yes, that was fine. lauren: eight in the water, two recovered. stuart: let's move on.

what do we have here? we have our guest. okay. telling me in my ear we have our guest. we have him. joining me now, andy herman, former president of american society of civil engineers. andy, welcome to the program. some experts say there were fundamental design flaws in that bridge. what say you? >> i don't see why they're say there's fundamental flaws. it was designed back -- it was put into service in 1977. it was designed to the code at the time. i don't see where they're saying there's fundamental flaws. it was a continuous can lever truss that was the design that's used in the united states. that was the second largest in the united states. stuart: i guess this could happen anywhere, couldn't it, because the size of the cargo ship, it's so huge if it just brushes against a bridge, it takes the bridge down. this could be anywhere, couldn't it?

>> it didn't just brush against the bridge. it hit the main supporting column and took it out and that's why the structure came down. we're talking pier detection. this was open to service in 1977. in 1980. we had the sunshine skyway bridge come down because it was hit with a freighter. three years after this one was opened. there's been a bunch of studies done and they actually have come out with guide specifications for vessel collisions on bridges in the '90s and it's been incorporate intoed the design code in the 2000s. this was designed before that information was being readily used. today, they would either make a very hardened pier that could resist that or they'd put a fender system in with dolphins and things that slow down and redirect the vessel or in sunshine skyway, they put an

island in front of the pier to ground the freighter before it hit. stuart: they could do that. andy, thank you very much for joining us this morning and sheet shedding expert light on this situation. thank you for being here. >> okay, thank you. stuart: easter is this sunday. church attendance is on the decline. what can be done about that. resident theologian jonathan morris is here next. ♪ we got the house! you did! pods handles the driving. pack at your pace. store your things until you're ready. then we deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your personal moving and storage team. everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. they want that hollywood white smile. new sensodyne clinical white

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stuart: this is of course the sooner is teaming up with donald trump. lauren: to sell bibles, patriotic bibles, $60. includes pledge of allegiance, constitution, declaration of independence. trump says we need to make america pray again. stuart: that's donald trump. lauren: holy week selling bibles. stuart: just so happens that we have our resident theologian

non-than morris with us this morning. what do you make of a $60 bible? you approve? >> listen, in types of the past, the church did that, it's called similarny, which is when you sell religious favors. that's not this. i'm glad that the constitution is thrown in there and a few other things. it's like i'm all in favor of people reading the bible however they get it. only donald trump can get away with selling the bible. stuart: that's true. very true. >> he knows that and okay with that. together with the shoes. stuart: you saw the gallop poll that shows church attendance really in sharp decline. only 3 in 10 adults attend religious services frequently. is that a holdover from the pandemic or is america just becoming more secular? >> let's look at data. so three out of ten today, 20 years ago, it was 45% about attended church regularly, which was either every week or almost every week.

that's a big percentage decline in 20 years because what's going to happen 20 years from now. if we continue. this is a total change in the face of spirituality in the united states. stuart: why? >> because i can say look at other countries that are not as prosperous for the united states and all of asia and all of africa together. there's a boom in spirituality and religion. parts of latin america as well. when we get comfortable, when there's prosperity, not the process fertilizerties is a bad thing, when we get comfortable, we start thinking we're pretty self-reliant. but the fact is when you suffer and think about our own lives, we're more likely to go and pray. we get self-reliant, it's easy to think everything is enough, what we have is enough. stuart: war in ukraine and war in israel and hamas. what's your easter message? >> it's amazing. we can think about the negative

that exists in the world today. things were a lot darker according to christian theology in the moments leading up to the moments leading up to the resurrection. darkness covered the earth. darkness covering the earth and god himself in the form of jesus christ died. he allowed himself to be crucified by human beings. that's pretty dark. that's when all hope seems to be lost. in the message of easter is very simple. god is bigger than our deepest, deepest despair and things look light and bigger than our darkness. stuart: jonathan morris indeed a resident theologian. >> it's the story told to us and passed on and we're in danger of losing that story if we don't pass on the narrative. stuart: thank you. jonathan. it's time for the wednesday trivia question, yes, it is

related to easter. how much is each american expected to spend on average on easter? 177, 181, 197, 218. we'll give you the correct answer after this. stevens dribbles up the court... he stops! ...for the championship! nice shot, marcus! sweet, turn simulation off. tssk, tssk, not so fast. what, why? did you forget marcus? .. t? your chem exam? uggh? flashcard time! the atomic weight of boron. the future isn't scary, not investing in it is. 100 innovative companies, one etf. before investing, carefully read and consider fund investment objectives, risks, charges expenses and more in prospectus at invesco.com.

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asked how much is each american expected to spend on average on easter, 177? you see the numbers on screen. what is your guess? ashley: the trump bible i would go with number 4, number 2 is 191 and a penny. lauren: 200 $0.10. lou? lou:i will go with 100. stuart: i'm going with $216. [buzzing] stuart: according to the national retail federation consumers will spend $22 billion this year the most of it spent on food and candy. we still have easter eggs? thanks for being on the show, coast-to-coast starts now. neil: how di