>> in terms of actual protests, i think we may have seen the peak already. a lot of these people protesting are young people, and youth

unemployment is near 20%. >> i think investors are going to try and push this maybe starting tomorrow. we could get a substantial santa claus rally. >> the one thing that we need to see for a santa rally is we need to see this inflation data tomorrow, job data the on friday. and then on the 13th is the biggest date because we get cpi. if we do get the value ally, i would be selling into those to. >> you just had sentiment numbers come out, and those numbers are at recession levels. and so, you know, that's concerning. what goes up, ultimately does come down, and we've got some cooling off going on. ♪ thunder struck, thunder struck. ♪ yeah, yeah, yeah, thunder struck ♪ ashley: there you go. scream it out, ac/dc. you're looking at a wet sixth avenue in midtown mat hand --

manhattan, 11 a.m. on wednesday, november 30th. we're almost into december, yikes. i'm ashley webster many for stuart varney. the dow off nearly 200 points, the s&p down a quarter, the nasdaq slightly higher, investors waiting to hear from the fed chair, jay powell, early this afternoon. see what he has to say about the economy. you're looking at the big tech the names mostly in the green, only amazon trailing. apple essentially flat. al a pa bet, microsoft and meta moving higher. the 10-year treasury holding steady right around 3.77%. all right, now to this story is. today the house is set to vote on legislation to avert a rail strike. however, four of the twelve labor unions involved have objected to the legislation. guess what? martha maccallum joins me now. great to see you, martha. is is this a good move by union

joe biden to avoid the strike? >> well, it's a tricky move for him. obviously, he has always considered himself to be in strong alliance with the unions. he said i don't like pushing them to the point where we're going to have to make sure that this is averted or delayed, this strike, but he's very concerned about what could happen to the economy. the "wall street journal" has a piece this morning saying they think he's doing the right thing in pushing to congress. however, other observers say he wants it off of his plate. he took credited before the midterms for fixing this problem, and now they're back to the table, and he's pushing it off onto congress' plate and getting them to handle it. but he's going to have stiff opposition from bernie bernie sanders and jamaal bowman in the senate and the house who are very concerned about the sick days aspect of this deal with the railroad unions, and hair pushing to make -- they're the pushing to make sure that's in there. they may be no votes on this.

ashley: the impact estimates at $2 billion a day on the u.s. economy. it's the last thing that president biden wants on his plate. i'm going to move on to this story, martha. it's been three weeks now since election day, and we have yet to call two critical house races in california and colorado. what the heck is the holdup? >> exactly. we keep looking at these numbers with three races sill outsanding, and you just scratch your head, what could possibly take this long, right? california 13 is one of the races still undecided, 600 votes apart. there's no mandatory process for a recount in california, so they're waiting to see the outcome of that one as they continue to go through these votes. you can basically mail many youn ballots, obviously. you can mail them in, they have to be the postmarked by november 8th, but they're still counting. and lauren boebert's race in colorado remains too close to

call, raising questions about whether or not we need to have some sort of deadline for, perhaps maybe election day would be a good deadline to make sure that you start counting especially mail-in votes, even prior to that in florida they don't have these problems. it's shocking we're still waiting for some of these to come in. ashley: shock ising, is the right word. the georgia senate race less than a week away now, and this could have big implications, could it not? if it was 50-50, the seat goes, stays with raphael warnock, it does change things a little, does it not? >> you know, it would obviously be a big loss for republicans, and it'd be the second time that they saw this fall away from hair favor in georgia. so they're going to have to do a lot of recalculation and looking at this midterm race to figure out what happened if, indeed, they lose georgia twice. this was always thought of as a red state. obviously, if this outcome goes

to warnock, that will have changed. they need to an his this closely and figure out why they can't seem to win senate races in the state of georgia. it will change the environment if it's 51-50 in favor of democrats. you not only have the high- tie-breaking vote, but also implications for committee leadership are on the senate side which will fall away from the favor of republicans many that environment as well. so it's important and we're already seeing an effort on the part of republicans to try to look at the midterms because they painted a very different picture of what was likely to happen. there was a time not too long ago when rick scott as the head of the effort for republicans said he was going to win all a of these senate seats, and they may be in an environment where they didn't win any of them. ashley: you know, and rick scott when he was challenging mitch mcconnell, he looked at him and said, you know what?

we need to push the reset button if we're going the move forward and be successful in 2024. he was not successful in his challenge to mitch mcconnell. but do you think he had a valid point in. >> you know, i just think that the so much falls on the results of this last election. and mitch mcconnell early on said he was concerned about candidate quality. can and it appears that he was right about those concerns. so these guys have been sort of at loggerheads for quite some time, they have a different approach. but you have to look at wins and losses and who's producing results and who isn't. i i think that's a pretty important measure. ashley: it very much is. great stuff, as always. thank you so much, martha, for joining us. always appreciate it. >> thank you. ashley: thank you. and, of course, we'll be watching you on "the story" with at 3 p.m. eastern time on fox news. don't miss it. all right, let's check these markets, if we can. the dow's treading water is the

expression we like to use a lot right now. investors, of course, waiting for jay powell, we have inflation data the tomorrow, the jobs report on friday. so many things to chew on. mark tepper is here for the whole hour. great to see you mark. >> likewise, ashley. ashley: yeah, thank you. we got the jolts report earlier, shows 10.3 million job openings. only 6 plus million looking finish. >> yeah. ashley: so, you know, it's a very tight labor market, and that hasn't changed. >> yeah. so, yeah k as you mentioned, there's almost two jobs for every pun person -- one person looking right now. when you look at the household jabs data, the number of people working multiple jobs right now is at an all-time high which is incredible, when you think about it. when you think about the fed's plan, what the fed is trying to do with hiking rates and curbing inflation, they're going to destroy job openings before they start to impact the labor

market. and when you kind of go through history and you look at what's happened to the unemployment rate, during these hiking cycles the unemployment rate typically doesn't tick up until all of the the tightening is over and done with, all the hiking is over and done with. so we're not quite there. we know the labor market or is starting to slightly get a little weak everybody. -- weaker. i still hi we're a good six months or so away from starting to see some problems in the jobs data. ashley: which brings up a good point, mark. i mean, does the economy -- it's very hard to read all of this data to get a true sense looking under the hood of the economy, does the economy appear to be better than it really is? are we heading down that slide, to your point? >> yes. i believe we're in the rob peter to pay paul point in this economic cycle. and we're at that point where the economic data is a bit cloudy because you're really not

seeing everything that's happening unless you look at some derivative the data. if you think about what's going on right now, consumers, the personal savings rate is near historical lows, consumers are starting to spend on credit cards again, credit card default and delinquency rates are going up. and when all those things are happening, you can look at a consumer confidence number or jobs number and think the economy is on solid ground, but at the end of the day it's a little shakier than a lot of people see. ashley: we've asked a number of analysts over the last several days, what about a santa claus rally? some say no, but others say, yeah, you could. what do you think? >> we've had a good rally over the course of the last month or so, i would expect we give back a little bit of that rally. i don't expect a major selloff, but i think a santa claus rally this year, unfortunately, bah humbugger u it's -- that humbug,

it's out of the cards. ashley: what do you expect from jay powell this afternoon? more hawkishness? >> yeah, everyone seems to be more hawkish than investors are expecting so, yes, i expect jay powell to say the course. he's going to remain hawkish, and the markets might get a little upset over it. ashley: okay, we'll see. again, mark, you're going to be with us for the hour. we do appreciate that. going to bring lauren back in. you have some of the movers, let's begin with door dash. lauren: yes, up 4.5% still. so investors are cheering that they're cutting about 1,250 jobs. like most tech companies they're trying to rein in costs. take a look at alibaba, jd.com, the government-run media in china. they're emphasizing covid

restrictions being so muchenned, being -- softened. i'm not trying to be pollyanna, but there's a little bit of a loosening of some of the restrictions as they are dealing with these rare and huge protests across their country. carnival cruise lines, fun ship, right? ash will i -- ashley, starting tomorrow you can buy a bottle of alcohol from your stateroom, only one -- ashley: whoo hoo. lauren: yeah, people get rowdy. i think there's a cap of 15 drinks per person, so they have to monitor safety onboard. you only get one bottle. ashley: that's it. you like it or lump it. very good, lauren, thank you very much. what do you think of this story now? dwayne "the rock" johnson just bought every snickers bar at a 7/eleven in hawaii, but you know what? he's got a good reason for it, and we'll explain. he's explaining right there.

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♪ ashley: early voter turnout is breaking records in georgia ahead of next week's senate runoff. jonathan serrie is in atlanta this morning. good morning to you, jonathan. break it down for us. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you, ashley. more than 800,000 georgians have already cast early ballots. political scientists caution, though, against trying to read too much into which party is favored because since the pandemic, voting habits have changed. >> a lot of your high propensity voters, regardless of when elections are held, are the ones who are participating in a race. this isn't a race about persuasion. >> reporter: yeah. in other words, people have already made up their minds who they're going to vote for,st just a question of whether they actually get to the polls to vote. this is a contest of which party can best get out the vote.

former president obama is scheduled to rally with senator raphael warnock this week, and former president trump plans to hold a virtual rally for challenger herschel walker. mr. trump will not be visiting the peach state in person before the december 6th runoff. a citizens complaint is urging state investigators to determine whether walk orer voted illegally in georgia while claiming a homestead exemption on a residence in texas. but in a race full of accusations from both sides,es it may not have much of an impact on walker's prospects. >> he's on the ballot, people are casting votes right now. the one thing i will say about residency, it's really squishy. it's kind of like what's your state of mind. if you intend to be here as a resident, we treat you as a resident. >> reporter: and early voting in georgia continues through friday. ashley? ashley: all right. interesting stuff. jon that longer thank you very much. jonathan, thank you very much. dr. ben carson, let's bring him

in now. you've been accusing the left of trying to divide the black community through racial attacks on herschel walker. can you give us an example of that? >> well, you know, this is nothing new. there's been attempts to divide the black community for centuries in this country. started out in slavery telling a house servant that they were better than the yard servant, that they were better than the field servant. you know, the light-skinned ones are better than the medium-skinned ones, you're better than the dark-skinned ones. and now you have both conservative and liberal blacks working toward same kinds of goals of improving people's lives with education, but you have a media that will try and paint anyone who is conservative as a race traitor, as a hater of your race, all these ridiculous things rather than looking at what's being done. and it's simply a way of being

able to keep people under control just like they were trying to do centuries ago. and nothing has really changed. except that i think a lot of people, particularly in the black community, are starting to open their eyes and see what's going on. and we've had a chance to juxtapose two different philosophies, the previous administration and this administration. and people can ask themselves, which one is working better for you? ashley: exactly. you know what's interesting too, dr. carson, donald trump -- who has a long history with herschel walker -- is not going to campaign for him in person. is that the right move? what do you think on that? >> well, you know, i suspect that it's a calculated move. is it going to help him or hurt him when you have so many people who have such a negative impression of president trump. who is hated by people on both

side. he's not a person who really wanted to join the swamp, and that made him enemy number one. but also, you know, some of the things he's done have perhaps been inflammatory as well, so that's not helpful easterly -- either. ashley: let's change subjects. the detroit school district is renaming a school that was named in your honor. one school board member claims they received several requests to change benjamin carson high school based on, quote, many of the disparaging remarks he made from the administration if that he clings to. dr. carson, this is clearly just purely political, to me. how do you react to that? >> well, as you know, i don't make disparaging remarks about anybody, so that's pretty silly. but, you know, the sad thing is, you know, this is not about me. this is about a question of what's important. at a time when reading scores and math scores have declined

more so than they have in decades because of unreasonable lockdowns of our schools, you're thinking that the the most important thing some political attack? you know? if what message is that sending to your children? we want to tell the children that you can do anything, you can be anything that you want to be. but, you know, you are the person that's most responsible for your education. and get involved with that rather than to get involved with silly political arguments that really have no significance. ashley: well said. you're always very restraint strain -- restrained. i know you don't disparage anyone, and you're not in this case too. dr. ben carson, thank you so much for taking to some time to talk with us. >> always a pleasure. thank you so much, ashley. ashley: thank you. thank you, it is a pleasure. now this: san francisco wants to roll out killer robots in their police force.

[laughter] i'm not kidding. lauren, what's the reaction been to killer robots? lauren: negative. it's getting mocked. what could go wrong with giving military-style robots license to kill, integration into the san francisco police department in certain circumstances? some people are wall -- calling that laughable. ashley, i consider it laughable that lawmakers have gut canned the san francisco police department -- gunpointed the san francisco police department and handcuffed the abilities of those police officers to do their jobs with crime, with drug use, with homelessness. i consider that a more laughable than using a killer robot but, yeah, sure, both are laughable. ashley: and i've just forgotten how creepy the video is of those robots, the dogs with four legs. it's very disturbing. lauren: it's disturbing, but if you're in a situation where it's very dangerous to either the

police officer or the victim, maybe send in the -- i'm not totally against this. i'm sure people will tell me i'm wrong. ashley: we've got to move on, the rock has returned to a 7/eleven store he used to visit in hawaii. lauren: it's the same store that he robbed daily for a year. >> when i was 14 years old, every day i used to stop here at this 7/eleven and steal a king-sized snicker bar because i don't afford to buy one. i'm going to leave these here. if someone looks like they're stealing snickers, give them these -- lauren: is he looking for a pr deal from mars, which owns snickers, ash? ashley: maybe, but i kind of like the gesture. what do you think about this, mark? the rock is trying to make good on something he did when he was a young boy. >> yeah. look at that moustache that he was sporting there. [laughter] that was pretty ridiculous. look, i think this is mostly a

pr stunt, i mean, to be honest. the owners he was stealing from are probably not the inner -- owners of that 7/eleven, and i would think he's never eaten a snicker bar in his entire life. lauren: protein! ashley: i don't know, i think he's got a big heart. we'll leave it at that. anyway, let's move on. now this, top republicans attacked ap -- attacking apple for reportedly threatening to kick twitter out of the app store. plus, the u.s. builds iran to -- beats iran, we'll explain next. ♪ ♪ ♪

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a murky late november day in new york. what do you expect? 55 degrees, it could be a whole lot colder. take that. let's take a look at the markets for you. it's all very hoe hum, isn't it? the dow off about 135 points, the nasdaq slightly higher, the s&p essentially flat. let's bring in susan li, you've been watching the movers today. what's going on with our always-interesting company, apple? susan: it is the heavyweight, most valuable company on the planet and probably the most influential single stock in 40 years on the s&p 500. and baird is reiterating apple as an outperform. the china disruption ares might result in 8 million lost iphones, web bush predicted around 10% in production losses is so maybe 9 million iphones that could be wiped out, maybe a 20% hit, but the entire list of

analyst calls, 80% still call it a buy worth 178 on average. mean tile -- meantime, xpeng, my goodness, this stock was up 37%, and that's because they're calling bottom in falling deliveries over those china's strict covid lockdown,. -- lockdowns. they're saying that the worst is over, that's really boosting the entire electric car sector today including tesla which, by the way, the largest electric car seller in china, it has a factory in shanghai. so far no mention from musk on twitter or anywhere else on the protests in china. stocks have been rallying this week despite ongoing disruptions there. earnings have been up and up which may, again, sound weird, but when chinese citizens are stuck at home, they're buying more stuff online, and that's

helping out the china internet stocks and they're buying more stuff, and that helps chipmaker nvidia as well. ashley: that's ooh true. all right, susan, thank you very much. now this: top republicans going to bat for elon musk as the white house and apple e reportedly are weighing taking action against twitter. roll the tape. >> if apple responds to that by nuking them from the app store, you know, i think that that would be a huge, huge mistake, and it would be a really raw exercise of monopolistic power that i think would merit a response from the united states congress. >> the american public have spoken on this. i think our first amendment stands up, and i think they should stop picking on elon musk. ashley: it's big brother, is it not? guess who joins us now? jimmy failla joining us. great to see you. >> you too. ashley: the white house says, yeah, look, we're keeping a

close eye on twitter under elon musk. come on. what about free speech, right? >> i gotta tell you, that sounds awfully men macing, to me. -- menacing to me. it sounds like the mafia stopping by, hey, this is a nice buzz, it'd be a shame inning something happened to it. [laughter] i mean, everything you need to know can be deduced from who is standing up for elon and who is letting him twist in the wind. republicans are standing up for him because they're in favor of free speech, and they know the censorship on twitter has always gone one way, okay? and you and i both know this, if the white house was really concerned about the safety of the american people, they would be shutting down tiktok. apple would be shutting down tiktok which is stealing all of our information. and if you wanted to take it a step further on safety, i don't know, we have watched people get killed on facebook live. don't get me wong, i've wanted to kill myself from reading some

people's tweets, but we've never actually seen the violence. ashley: we'll move on, but the point is well made, jimmy. [laughter] gotta get to this, the u.s. beat iran to advance in the world cup yesterday. fascinating, iranians actually celebrating the u.s. victory back in their home country. what does that tell you? >> well, it definitely tells you they're far braver people than us, because they're facing real oppression -- ashley: yes. >> -- when they stand up up to your government. if you protest our government, you get a sneaker deal; their government, a firing squad. congratulations to the american team on winning. but, man, oh, boy, oh, man, i hope america got some perspectives because that's real oppression, and they're standing up to it. i'll applaud it. ashley: i love it, i love it. how far can they go, jimmy? the u.s. team? some. >> listen, i'm a super patriot, i love this country, but i'm

tired of pretending to care about soccer. [laughter] we're all doing this dance, i don't have another two weeks in me. i'm going to root for america but when it's over, a lot of us are going to be the like, hey, thank gosh. lauren: ashley, he doesn't know about your history of soccer. >> i know, i'm aware. i didn't mean to fend your sensibility -- ashley: that's okay. [laughter] >> listen, if you knew most of the things i was into, there's no way that you could endorse them at least not on the air, no way. ashley: jimmy, we'll leave it there. great stuff, as always. you're wrong about soccer, football, whatever you want to call it, but we'll move on. [laughter] tiger woods backingly mcilroy's call for greg norman to step the down. without that they don't think peace talks can take place with the pga. roll it. >> do you think these organizations can coexist? >> right now as it is, not right

now, not with their leadership. not with greg there and his animosity towards the tour itself. i don't see that happening. ashley: wow. all right, mark, what's your take on this? does greg norman need to step down for liv and the pga to make peace? >> i don't think so. there's nothing wrong with decompetition, you know? i -- with competition. i'm a free markets guy, and with these golfers going after the big bucks, i can't fault them for all. the pga tour is extremely difficult for golfers. they're 1099, they've got to pay their travel expenses, so the liv tournament offers them an opportunity that didn't exist on the pga side. and one of the things that tiger brought up is he kind of implied when he was talking that the pga tour had some football issues, and -- financial issues, and they had to take on a loan in order for them to meet their obligation. and phil mickelson actually

fired back with a tweet of his own, and he said from the irs 990 form in 2018 on the nonprofit side of the pga tour, they had over $3 billion in assets, and they had even more on the for profit side. so they're not hurting. ashley: right. >> and i think the whole reason you have liv right now is because the pga tour's been a tad bit too greedy over the last several years. ashley: well, we haven't herald the last of this fight, that's for sure. mark, thank you very much. we're going to move on. now this, mcdonald's is giving away a chance to win free food for life, how about that? they'll even pay the taxes on your meals. we'll explain. today prince william and kate middleton will i arrive in the u.s. for the first time in eight years. they're headed to boston to celebrate environmental innovators alongside a-list celebrities. you can bet that's true. the report from boston is next. ♪ ♪

♪ to all of the queens who are fighting alone -- ♪ baby, not dancing on your own ♪ ashley: you are taking a look at boston. that's where prince william and kate middleton are headed right now. cloudy, gray skies. they'll feel right at home. they're going to be in town, by the i way, for the next three days for the earth shop prize awards, apparently. molly line, is this visit all about saving the planet? >> reporter: absolutely. the late queen elizabeth came here in 1976, today it is her grand son -- her grandson and his wife, prince and princess of wales will be making their stop here in boston and the surrounding area. it is all part of the festivities leading up to the

earth shot prize. founded by prince william in 2020 and focused on environmental solutions to, in his words, repair, restore and rejuvenate the planet in this current decade, the earth shot prize is named for president kennedy's famous speech in 1962 challenging america to land astronauts on the moon. the kennedy library foundation, headed by ambassador caroline kennedy, is cohosting year's awards which will culminate with a ceremony pretty evening where five winners will be announced, each receiving $1.2 million toward their programs. but a royal visit especially to the states is complicated by the reported tension between prince william and his los angeles-based brotherly harry and his wife meghan, the duke and duchess of sussex. not to be outdone, kerry kennedy, president of the foundation named for her father, announced it will honor harry

and meghan next week in new york city with its annual ripple of hope award. kennedy praised the company saying they went to the oldest institution in u.k. history and told them, quote, they couldn't have structural racism. and in just a few hours, the prince and princess will be welcomed to boston by mayor michelle el wu before they go on a couple of days of tours in the surrounding area looking at green companies as well as nonprofits and then big awarder is ceremony friday night. ashley? ashley: molly, thank you very much. and sticking with the royals, by the way, meghan markle is addressing rumors about a reality tv show. what east she saying, lauren? lauren: not here. the only real life you're going to see is my netflix show dropping next weekment. >> i'm, like, she ain't joining the beverly hills housewives, everybody. [laughter] >> i never heard that. >> she's meghan markle. >> yes, you mean really that

this is my audition for housewives of montecito? is this the moment? there will be no reality show, but i think it's so funny. >> i know. lauren: their the life does seem like a reality show. we might find out more about it because harry's memoir, the tell off-all, "spare," is due in january, ashley. ashley: i cannot wait. i'm sure stu already has his order in. lauren: he would never buy it. ashley: that's true. show me the dow 30 stocks, if you can, it's all been very flat so far as investors wait to hear from jay powell this afternoon. the dow off 140 points, down under just half a percent. some of the leaders on the dow, microsoft, apple, visa. they are leading the way, but again, the exchange itself down 140 points. now this story, whole foods will stop selling maine lobster

ises in order to protect a rare type of whale. but fishermen in maine say they've never had an issue with that whale before. the president of the maine lobstermen association joins me next. ♪ ♪

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call today to request your free bond guide. 1-800-217-3217. that's 1-800-217-3217. ashley: whole foods will no longer sell maine lobsters in their the hundreds of stores across the country. they claim it's to protect right whales from harmful fishing equipment but this, of course, could be a huge blow. lobsters brought in more than $724 million to the state last year. let's bring in kristin porter, president of the maine lobster association. kristin, how much money do you stand to lose from whole foods' decision? >> well, whole foods isn't a huge market for us, but just that negative message out will that lobster isn't sustainable and that we're actually harming

the whales, that's the bad message. whole foods is not a huge part of our market, but it's that message that's gonna hurt. ashley: i mean, does lobster fishing put these types of whales at risk? >> it doesn't. as a matter of fact, we haven't had a known entanglement in wright whales since 2004 attributed to the maine fishery, and we've never killed a wright whale. so this is just, this is just politics, basically. ashley: yeah, it's interesting, i mean, what can the association do? you know, can you fight whole foods? they're their own company, they can do what they want. it seems like they're kind of bowing to pressure on them by environmental groups. what is your recourse? do you have any? >> yeah, so we -- the reason that whole foods has dropped us is because they rely on

eco-label, msc, marine stewardship council. and marine stewardship council dropped maine lobster because of a technicality in an ongoing court case which we are a part of. and we have been fighting very hard. we've been raising money to fight back against the environmentalists and against national marine fishery services. so all of this is because of a technicality in a statement made by a judge in one of his rulings. but the facts are is we are very sustainable, and we don't harm wright whales. and, you know, this is just hurting a family, fishing families. ashley: right. >> as you probably don't know, maine lobster fishery is owner-operator. there's no corporate boats. each boat is its own independent small business. so it's there's about 4,000 of those. so that just hurts fishing families like mine and my

friends, when people come out and say we're not sustainable and it causes markets to drop and our price to drop. ashley: well, we'll have to leave it right there, but i appreciate you taking the time to come on and give us your side of the story here. we wish you much success. i mean, there's not much better than maine lobster, that is for sure. thank you so much for taking the time to chat with us. >> thank you for having me, ashley. ashley: all right, my pleasure. okay, from lobster to mcdonald's, they're changing away -- giving away, not changing, the chance to win free food for life. that a will get your attention. [laughter] tell me, lauren, how exactly does this work? lauren: did you ever hear of the mcgold card? it's legendary. it's given to celebrities like rob lowe, bill gates, they reportedly have them. you basically get free food, perk for life. so now's the chance. mcdonald's is giving to three people four cards each, that's

twelve cards. all you have to do is make a purchase on the app to enter a chance to win a mcgold card. you know, look, food's expensive, and this is the equivalent of two peels a week for -- meals a week for 50 years, that's how they describe it. i think a lot of people would be interested in that legendary status, that freebie. ashley: the celebrities get them, but for the res of us -- who does not like mcdonald's fries? i know i shouldn't be eating them, but -- lauren: they're the best. ashley: yes, they are. mark, are you going to try and win this? >> i love mcdonald's. you cannot name a better breakfast sandwich than the sausage egg mcmuffin. the double cheeseburger is very underrated, it's a very simple sandwich, but it's delicious, the fries are amazing. but bill gates has one of these gold cards, and if you eat too much, you might end up looking like him.

few remember the pregnant man emoji that elon tweeted at him maybe six months ago -- ashley: brutal. >> yes. you've got a limited amount of mcdonald's, you know? lauren: i wasn't expecting -- ashley: all right, we'll have to leave it there. i wasn't either. well done, mark tepper? is you went out on the edge there. let's get to this now, the wednesday trivia question. we often show you the all-american christmas tree right outside our fox studios. the question is, how tall is it? is it 40 feet? 45? 50? 55 feet? if you have timing lauren, get out there with a measuring tape and get back in the studio. we'll v.a. the -- we'll have the answer right after this. . .

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