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free speech. the guy deserves a medal in my judgment. >> the fed is working, it's tightening and it's slowing the economy. the fed policy really is in a grey area now, which is why for investors i think it's a very uncertain time. >> what we're seeing here is a crescendo of negativity. the most number of people working ever making the most amount of money ever, spending the most amount of money ever. it's an incredibly powerful narrative. what's straight ahead of you is a lot better. >> call it a santa claus rally, i like that. i think we'll have very good retail numbers. i'm looking for a strong rally into the end of the year. ♪ stuart: oh, santa. queue up the christmas music. isn't that a lovely christmas tree, that's right outside fox. lauren: how tall is it? stuart: i don't know. lauren: 50 feet. stuart: is it? lauren: yeah, i believe so. stuart: how do you know that?

lauren: it was trivia maybe when you were out. stuart: no you heard brian kilmeade say it on "fox & friends" this morning. lauren: how many lights are on it? stuart: i don't know that either we've got a show to do. it's 11:00 eastern time, thursday, december 8 and we've got a rally, kind of nice. the dow is up 270, nasdaq is up 140, which is a 1.25% gain for the nasdaq. big tech all of them on the upside, except alphabet which happens to be down 1%. solid gain for amazon. they're up 2% at 90 bucks a share. the 10 year treasury yield, well , it's at 3.45% this morning the important point being that the two year treasury is almost 100 basis points above that. we don't see that very often. it's a sign of recession to come that's the markets. now this. i really can't figure it out. biden's border chaos is a national disgrace, but in the mid-term elections, voters

seem to have ignored it. the democrats went right through it. they were barely scratched by this issue. for two years we've been showing you the migration of central america to north america. that's what's been happening. children dumped in the desert, small towns on the border, overwhelmed. the killer drug fentanyl flooding in. criminal cartels running the show and stretching their influence throughout our country if you watch fox, you know what's going on but if you don't watch fox, you don't know how bad it is because other news outlets have largely ignored the border, or used a couple of migrant stories to attack republicans. reporter what florida governor desantis flew migrants to martha s vineyard and texas governor abbott bussed them to d.c.? the media accused both governors of being inhumane. they didn't spend much time on the mask inhumanity at the border and fentanyl, the media gives you the grim death statistics, but chooses to ignore the role of the cartels

in smuggling it in through our border. it's like the hunter biden scandal. ignored and suppressed, because it's clearly bad news for biden ignore and suppress the border disgrace because it's bad news for biden. the democrats held on to their voters. the media gave them a big assist , that's true, and that's why the president said he had more important things to do than visit the border, which is still open and where the chaos continues. third hour of "varney" starts right now. stuart: joining us this morning, no less than guy benson, sitting right next to me here in new york city. what a pleasure. >> it's great to see you. i was hoping you'd just keep debating the height of the christmas tree. i was riveted. lauren: go out and measure it. stuart: it's just around the corner. >> it is. lauren: count the light bulbs. stuart: why do you think republicans did so badly if you

can say that in the mid-terms. why? >> well i think let's talk about georgia and what just happened this week, and there's a very clear pattern that played out in that state which is a microcosm of our natural politic s that's been one of the ground zero battlegrounds now for a number of cycles. the republicans swept, stuart, every single state-wide office in georgia. all of them except for one which was the senate race, which was of course the runoff and it was a tight loss for herschel walker , and because of the system that they have down there, if it's too close and below 50% for either candidate, it goes to the runoff all of the other republicans avoided a runoff. they all wanted out right with majorities on election night a month ago. by five-to-nine points so we saw success from republicans in the state of georgia. they won nine of the 14 congressional seats in georgia but there was one candidate who was untested, very high name recognition, but with high negatives once he was defined by the democrats who just couldn't

get it done, and couldn't attract independent voters. brian kemp, the governor, won re-election by consolidating republicans behind him and winning over independents. republicans have to figure out moving forward how to select nominees, especially in major races, who will bring the base on board, get them to turn out, but also crucially get voters from the actual people who swing elections and if they can't do that, they will continue to lose winnable races. stuart: i think you're dancing around the issue. the independents did not vote for herschel walker or walked away from herschel walker because he was donald trump's hand-picked candidate. and independents turned off trump. am i right? >> i think you're right and it's not just walker, right? you can go to the new hampshire senate race. you can go to the arizona senate race. you can go to the pennsylvania senate race. there were points left on the board for the republicans. now, there are some folks who want to put it all on donald trump. i don't think that's fair,

because candidates have to go out and win themselves and raise money and do the job, but the more maga the person was in some of these close races, and the democrats, by the way, weren't subtle. they poured money, boosting certain republicans in the primary saying we want to run against this person, who tended to be very sort of fringe , more extreme, looking back at 2020 the democrats said let's run against those guys and in some cases republican voters said okay, we'll give you who you want to run against and it didn't work out for republicans because of those independent voters and i think it's also a mistake to your point, stuart, to discount the trump factor. he's not completely to blame. his name wasn't on the ballot but he was instrumental in getting some of these people nominated and backing them and then they lost and there's a lesson to be learned. stuart: but that gives the republican party a very difficult process. i'm trying to find the right word here. they have a difficult road in

the future because donald trump has declared his run for the presidency and we've not heard yet from other republicans but they have to sort this out one the party and it's not going to be easy. >> it's not and ultimately the party bosses and the establishment and, you know, certain grassroots leaders and people like us on media, we can all say what we want to say. they can make their case. ultimately it comes down to republican voters and republican primaries saying do we want to win because you can't do anything in politics if you can't win. do we want to win and if we want to win, which i hope is the decision republican voters make, how do we get there? how do we maximize our chances of getting there and i think that there are just clear, crystal clear lessons staring us in the face from 2022, who did really well on the republican side and how, who underperformed on the republican side and why. there's a roadmap there and we'll see if the voters internalize that and apply that two years from now. stuart: i think you're right.

good stuff. thanks very up m indeed for joining us. guy benson. >> merry christmas. stuart: you too. get back to the markets. you like this got some green on the screen. the dow is up what 200 points but look at the nasdaq go, up about 1% now. pretty solid gains this thursday morning. gary kaltbaum joining us today. is this a santa claus rally? >> i think it's part of it. stuart, on october 20, i came on the show, i turned away from bearish and i said to you i think we're going to rally for the weeks ahead. i think we've got a lot of the rally so maybe we go higher. i just don't think we have the earnings power to really get going. i think some of the people that are talking new bull and everything is great, i'm not so sure of that so yeah, i think we can go higher. i'm not sure how much and there really is not a lot of leadership in this market that can really take things much higher from here. stuart: so it's a kind of a pause for the market, isn't it, at the end of the year, a pause?

>> let me put it the best way. this week the financial stocks topped out. the oils topped out, but other areas like solars and especially china stocks have come to the floor so it's a mixed bag and i just think you've got to be very careful, very selective. i'm not bearish here, but i'm certainly not bullish. i'm looking selectively as we head into the new year and i think earnings season is going to dictate a lot in january because i'm just not so sure earnings are going to be that great and last quarter, earnings were pretty terrible and i think the market is just rallying because of how far down it went. stuart: wouldn't it be nice if we could get back to the good old days, you know? that four, five, six, 12-year bull run where you just get out there and say yeah, buy that thing and buy that, because it's going up. you can't say that these days. those days are gone for now. >> let me give you a guarantee, stuart. we will get there eventually. every now and then, you've got to go through bear markets.

you've got to go through pauses. we've been through markets that were just back and forth for two or three years at a time, so we've had a bear market. i think a lot of areas are out of the bear market. i just don't think they can really get going. when ibm is the strongest stock in the dow with no earnings growth, i'm not so sure that's going to lead us into the promise land, so better things ahead vent. i don't think eventually is here just yet. stuart: keep your powder dry. gary kaltbaum thank you very much, sir. see you soon. now we've got the movers, this is a regular segment on the show. dexcom is hovering up to the tune of nearly 6%. lauren: leading the market great news. they have a wearable glucose monitoring system called the g-7 that just received fda clearance. you can buy it in the pharmacy for anybody all types of diabetes for over the age of two and early 2023. stuart: just like that? lauren: just like that. they've been working on it for a long time. stuart: they are up 5.8%. how about southwest airlines?

lauren: jefferies brings their price target to 42. jet shortages continues to drive up-tick" prices so basically selling all the seats you have at a high price and a term they use in the industry revenue per available seat mile. they say it's 11% ahead of where it was pre-covid so great news. stuart: that is good news, now bumble. lauren: which one is that? stuart: is this the dating service where the women take the lead? lauren: correct and ubs started them at a neutral so not a buy but the price target 24 basically where it is now. they say match,tinder, which match owns, still is where the customer pays more. that margin, they are impressed by bumble is not going to match that margin but they are expanding internationally and that makes them, that gives them reason to be encouraged. stuart: you have to pay for these dating sites? lauren: for different tiers, yeah, there's all different tier s, and it's recurring revenue when you think about it. stuart: i can see that. prince harry and meghan's highly

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stuart: it's that time. are you lighting up your christmas tree with lots and lots and lots of lights having a big show? well it's going to cost you a lot more money this year than last year. grady trimble, have you got the numbers for me, please? reporter: yes, electricity alone , stu, will cost you about 14% more than it did last year, and let me show you the numbers for decoration inflation. lights, wreaths, holiday-scented candles, those are all going to cost you about 15% more than they did a year ago, so even if your homes display is not as elaborate as this one you're paying quite a bit more. this one by the way, 200,000 lights, the mastermind or the madman behind all of this. i'm hesitant to even ask you your electric bill in the month of december compared to the rest of the year, but what is it? >> usually for the holiday season it's about $1,400 for the

month, opposed to normal ly 300. reporter: you're expecting it to be higher this year because electricity costs are so high. >> oh, yeah, it's probably going to be 16-$1,700 this year. reporter: what about the decorations because you said you spend thousands just to up keep what you currently have, and that's not even adding on what you buy to add to the display. >> yes, correct. every year probably costs us seven, eight, $10,000 just to maintain everything that we have , new paint, no lights to replace what's broken and i imagine that number goes up at least $2,000 this year. reporter: amazing. by the way you own a construction company. people are asking, stu, where does all of this go in the off season for the other 11 months out of the year, gets trailered off and stored off site at the construction company's lot and not to be a complete grinch talking about inflation. the money that he spends is worthwhile because he does donate to a local charity here in the chicago area that helps the homeless so good news with the bad of inflation this year. stu? stuart: we'll take it all.

all right, grady, thanks very much indeed. i want to get back to a major news announcement that came out this morning. the prisoner swap. paul whalen, the american marine in prison in russia for sometime , he says he's disappointed more isn't being done to get him out and bring him home. senator john barrasso is with us this morning. mr. senator, i want to start with this because it's quite dramatic earlier this morning. we have the basketball player, brittney griner, she's on her way home and at the same time, there's a swap with a russian prisoner, an arms dealer whose going back to russia, we believe do you think that's a fair trade , a fair exchange? >> not at all, stuart. i think it's wrong. i think joe biden should have held for different results as a result of this. he's swapping the merchant of death, this arms dealer. this is a russian play right out of their playbook. use american prisoners and then swap for something of incredible

value for them. glad to see that one is coming home, but it's absolutely wrong to leave the marine there. stuart: democracies are always, you know, in a difficult spot in these hostage situations. i do believe that brittney griner is a hostage, and because we're a democracy, you've got to show great force in trying to bring her home, which was done, but it's a difficult thing for democracies to do isn't it? and what do you make of paul whe lan. he's still there. he's disappointed they aren't doing more to get him out. the president did mention him and says he's not been forgotten but we would love to see some way of getting him home, right? >> absolutely, stuart. may not be forgotten but he's still there, and that is the problem as we as a democracy try to deal with this ruthless dictator in vladimir putin and the way he runs things there. we shouldn't stand for it. we're held in this position and i agree with you. more needs to be done to bring home that marine. stuart: a separate subject if i

may. i know that you're a doctor, mr. senator, and i think you probably know this but the fda just approved covid boosters for children under five and as young as six months old. as a doctor, what do you think of that? >> well, you know, stuart, i'm pro-vaccine in the sense that i've gotten all of the vaccines. i'm against the mandates from this administration and we're going to remove in the national defense authorization act the mandate that this president has put in place for our military. that's a good thing. i think what parents and children decide with their doctors is worthwhile. the fact that its been approved is okay, but i am against any kind of mandates specifically with related to schools and our children. i'm here with a couple of kids now who are watching from wheat land, wyoming and we just don't want the president of the united states coming in and telling what has to be done for them. stuart: granted, it's the parent s who should decide whether to vaccinate their

children but it does seem rather young, six months old, to be getting a booster shot like that >> i agree, stuart. i haven't seen the medical proof that there is that value for these young people to do that. i think we're getting better with the therapeutics. i think we know less and less about how effective each additional booster has become. the latest booster i know many people have chosen not to take them, and we just have to see the science in that. obviously we have to be concerned for the health of all americans and with kids right now is that respiratory virus which is a bigger concern. stuart: yes, it is. mr. senator, thanks very much for jumping in today to important issues and please give our best wishes to the youngster s joining you in d.c. from wyoming. always good to see that. >> thanks, stuart. stuart: see you later. the white house just unveiled a new building performance standard. they are trying to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions. federal agencies must cut energy

use and electrified equipment in 30% of their building spaces by the end of this decade. the president wants netzero emissions in all federal buildings by 2045. very green president, mr. biden. we told you about north carolina hit with a targeted attack on power substations. apparently, its happened in other places. ashley? where else did it happen? ashley: well, utilities in the northwest, oregon and washington state, last month, both states reported physical attacks on power grid equipment using hand tools, arson, firearm s, and metal chains. federal authorities say it could be linked to an online call for attacks on critical infrastructure by extremist groups that promote mass violence to help fuel society's collapse . that's the aim. in january, by the way, a report from homeland security also warned that domestic extremists have been developing credible specific plans to attack

electricity infrastructure. so far no arrests have been made but meantime, the lights are finally back on in homes and businesses and moore county, north carolina, after being out for days, after being targeted by gun attacks on local sub stations. authorities are still searching for suspects in that attack. stu? stuart: all right thanks very much, ashley. now this. a chilling new warning from doctors. fentanyl is getting even more powerful, making it harder reverse overdoses. there is a new drug that could replace narcan, and we'll tell you about that it could save more lives. we've been talking about the border crisis for two years but the issue didn't hurt the democrats in the mid-terms, not at all. tom homan will take that on. tom is next. ♪

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me like the beginnings maybe of a year-end rally. a santa claus rally. let's look on the bright side shall we? it is a rally and let's leave it at that probably. i think we've got susan back on the set. yes we do, she's got the movies. gamestop? >> yeah, i'll start with that remember that back when? so losing more money than expected for gamestop. you had sales down. inventory was lower. cash pile is dwindling but costs are coming down that's why the stock is up. you have more layoffs the past week in the crypto blockchain team and the stock is just about 500% higher than it was -- stuart: have we got a microphone problem? >> i have a microphone on but is it not turned on? it's not working? stuart: hold on a second. we'll come back to you i promise let's move on to this. 14 customs and border patrol agents have taken their own lives this year. six agents have been killed in the line of duty. there are growing calls from both sides of the aisle for

president biden, hey, go to the border and see for yourself. peter doocy at the white house. tell me about this bipartisan taps act. does it do anything for our border agents? reporter: we're hearing about this now, not just even though it is bipartisan and can expect bipartisan support, we're actually seeing something very rare, which is democrats and republicans coming out to publicly push for it, like here. >> this has prompted members of congress like we're doing here today to not only put resources but also cbp to get mental health experts ink across nation >> congressman you knew this was inevitable. you knew about the suicides up to 14 this year and now we lose this 28-year-old. >> it's absolutely tragic and we're supposed to be supporting all of our law enforcement joe biden just turned a blind eye. reporter: the president was in arizona earlier this week, and white house officials are defend ing his decision not to visit the border. they say president biden is

focused on real solutions, not political stunts, and if border security is such a top priority for republican officials, voting against president biden's request for record funding for the department of homeland security as representative chip roy did is an odd way to show it so it does not appear that president biden is giving into any pressure from critics to go further south. next time he's in a border state to see what's actually going on and to talk to these border patrol officials instead he's leaving that to the agencies that he overseas, like dhs. stu? stuart: got it, peter thank you very much indeed. look at this. here is a tweet and it's from the border patrol union. pretty strong stuff. joe biden created this massive chaotic mess at our border with his policies. that's a straight up fact and now he refuses to even look at the damage he's done while he hides behind his slick white house propaganda team. this is not leadership. it is cowardess. strong stuff. former acting ice director tom

homan joins me now. tom, we've been talking about this border crisis for two years on this show and you've been with us for two years outlining this disaster at the border and yet, it did not effect the democrats at all in the mid-term elections. can you explain that? >> well i think the republican candidates need to talk more about this being about border security, right? you and i talked about illegal immigrants for a couple years now. illegal immigration is very emotional and a subject that a lot of people disagree with, a lot of people think these people come into the country for a better life and take care of their family so it's very controversial; however, a crisis this big, stuart, has caused a border security issue. it is so historic, the numbers are so high its overwhelmed the border patrol where 80% of agents are now off the line and that's causing massive amounts of fentanyl coming across the border unseized. it's causing historic spike in

female and child sex trafficking we had over 1,400 migrants had died in u.s. soil crossing this border a record, over 100,000 americans have died from fentanyl overdoses that the dea says are coming ink across southwest border so this is more than immigration. this is about border security. it's about national security. it's about public health and public safety. stuart: okay, and an investigation by the heritage foundation found that non- governmental organizations, so-called ngo's, they are helping facilitate the border crisis, so tom, what are these n go's doing and which groups are we actually talking about here? >> look, they are empowering these ngo's and bank rolling them. look, for instance they are releasing a lot of people and ng o's are getting millions of dollars in grants to put them on airplanes at taxpayers expense to the final destination of their choice. if they want to go to chicago they get an airline ticket to

chicago. there's groups for instance that are putting illegal alien in the hotel room at $370 a night when we have i.c.e. beds empty, already paid for by the taxpayer s, sitting empty at 100 bucks a night so this is all about not detaining people, releasing them to ngo's so they get to their final destination and here is why they are doing that. the homeland security lifecycle record which is data over the last 10 years says this. if you're in detention you get removed, you're removed 99% of the time. if you aren't in detention and you get removed, you only leave 3% of the time if you're a child , 6% of the time if you're a family unit, 16% of the time if you're a family unit so this administration knows, let them in, release them, put them on what they call atd, knowing that a vast majority would lose their case up to 90% would lose their case, and get removed but they aren't leaving because you're not in detention. this is a part of the plan this

administration not only to open the border but make it hard to even remove these people after a federal judge orders them removed. stuart: you're exactly right. that's exactly what's going on. tom homan thank you very much for being with us for all these years because you alone, along with bill melugin at the border, you're pointing out what's really going on there and we appreciate that. thank you. >> bill melugin is a rock star. bill melugin is a rock star. he deserves an emmy for what he's done. stuart: well-said, sir. absolutely right. all right, tom. let's get , oh, susan is back. microphone and everything, all ready to go starting with gamestop. >> i think they turned on the mic. yes, okay, so, let's look at gamestop, lost more money than expected. sales were down, inventories were lower, cash pile was dwindling but hey, here is the good part is that the costs were coming down more layoffs this past week in the crypto blockchain team and that means the stock is still 500% higher than it was before the meme stop mania that we couldn't stop covering in january 2021 that's helping lift amc, also express

is higher after a $25 million deal with whp global. i think put up express that stock is up 60%. stuart: that's the clothing store isn't it? big ad in times square i'm told. >> you know that it's up 25 now , only 25. stuart: only 25% all right, a buck 60 on express. who else? >> china reopening stocks leading the s&p and nasdaq today so less covid restrictions means more gamblers in macau the casino stocks on the macau casino index more than doubling in less than six weeks. they hit a 12-year low of course in october china internet stocks leading the best november in 13 years. stuart: i should have seen that coming. >> oh, yeah. stuart: china had to relax. quickly, tesla down again today? >> china demand problems for tesla, shortening shanghai shifts delaying hires according to the latest report also bringing over the tesla china president, tom ju to run austin, also bankers in the twitter deal says they might change the debt to add in more margin loans against his tesla stock.

obviously that's a bit of a pressure there, and twitter's interest payment is about $1.2 billion over the next year. 1.2 billion in interest. stuart: that's a lot of money. thank you, susan all good stuff. mariah carey doesn't want you calling her the "queen of christmas." she thinks that title belongs to someone else. the city of boston handing out free crack pipes to drug addicts local business owners say they are creating an open air drug market in their neighborhood. they don't like it. the report from boston is next. ♪ where the streets have no name ♪

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stronger in just the last year. you've got the story, ash. doesn't this make reversing overdoses that much more difficult? ashley: it really does, but there is a new drug called simhi receiving pretty strong reviews from medical professionals who treat overdose victims. they say it may do a better job of reversing the effects of an overdose. now, doctors and first responders have for years now depended on narcan. we've done lots of stories on it to treat overdose victims, but narcan apparently having a difficult time keeping up with the new strands of fentanyl which have become stronger and much more dangerous if that's possible. doctors say simh i'm acts much like an epipen. the medicine can reverse an overdose as quickly as 15 seconds and does not require multiple doses. we should point out that both narcan and zimhi are now available over-the-counter at many pharmacies but they are quickly running out as the opioid crisis expands. stu?

stuart: dreadful story. all right, thank, ash. here is another one. a story out of boston. the city is defending its decision to handout free crack pipes to drug addicts. molly line is there. molly why is the city doing this and whose paying for it? reporter: well, they say that the state, this is state-funded, the program is state-funded causing an in measurable amount of frustration and threats to local businesses in the area where this is occurring the new market square area of the city. >> they take a brick to them and keep smashing them. reporter: jerry's construction company sits right next to boston's nicknamed methadone mile, australling homeless encampment where addicts openly use drugs. >> why are we giving them pipes are you kidding me? i can give you a hundred needles i pick-up all the time here. reporter: while the city has long-running needle exchange, now harm reduction strategies now include the distribution of free pipes, which can be used to

smoke crack or methamphetamine aiming to transition intravenous drug users away from needles. >> every step that we take has to also be about immediately saving lives. reporter: speaking at a city hall press conference with massachusetts governor-elect, boston's democrat mayor michelle woo defended the state- funded handouts. >> we have seen a big drop and data proven success with the parts, the goals of this program, which are to ensure that there is a stop to diseases that are preventable. reporter: but not all city politicians are behind the controversial plan. with democrat city counselor michael flaherty saying -- >> we should not be enabling those poor souls down there, finding them a bad and pathway to recovery. reporter: and stuart, you asked a question about funding. earlier this year the white house denied any federal funding , whether directly or indirectly is involved in the handing out of crack pipes as part of these mitigation

strategies around the country. stuart? stuart: all right, we hear you molly, thanks very much. show me the dow 30. why not? i think there's going to be a lot of green on that screen and yes there is. we have a rally. the dow is up 200 points, and about three-quarters of the 30 stocks on the dow are on the upside. boeing a big winner 4.3% higher. and then there's this. the new harry and meghan documentary is finally out on netflix. oh, roll that tape. >> i had to do everything i could to protect my family. >> when the stakes were this high doesn't it make more sense to hear our story from us? stuart: royal commentator neil shawn joins us from london with how the brits are reacting. neil is next. ♪

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a surprise visit from santa. and then there's this. the first three episodes of the netflix docuseries harry and meghan out today. here is a clip. >> there was a war against megh an to suit other people's agendas. >> it's about hatred. it's about race. >> it's a dirty game. >> i realized, they're never going to protect you. >> we know the full truth. stuart: sounds wonderful. joining me now is royal watcher neil shawn. neil, as i understand it, the first shot you see in this documentary is a statement from netflix saying the royal family was contacted but declined to comment. you spoke to the palace. was the palace contacted? >> good afternoon, stuart, from london. lovely to see you. now, let me tell you this is the take. the palace is saying they were not contacted but here is the thing. i think this is very clever marketing ploy by netflix, prince harry, meghan markle, because you know it's a bit like

you and me, stuart. leaving a message saying can you pass this on to camilla. unless you contact the right person of which prince harry would know of course without a shadow of a doubt then they can claim well we sent an emajority ill to kensington, windsor, you know, and didn't receive a response. that way they are very clear to make out from the very off of this documentary oh, look they are so nasty they didn't even want to respond back. i totally believe that the palace, if they did receive any e-mails, then it's clearly not gone to the right communications, because everybody knows who works in this job how to get in touch with the palace. it's as simple as that. stuart: so neil, from what you've seen so far and i know you've been watching this, what's the most shocking thing that you've seen? >> truthfully i think the involvement of meghan's teeth if i'm really honest. what's really strange about this , you know, stuart is they build it as an event, a global event and on the trailer that you just showed before we went to the break, you know, doesn't it make more sense to watch our

story when the stakes are this high? what stakes? you know? nothings really told. it's just like a bit of a fest in a lot of ways and i personal ly find it quite amusing because when you are watching it you can see that somebody sat down with this footage and thought, what can we do with this? it's not that exciting, you know and so there's a bit of back and forth, but really, it's a bit of a one-sided story where even if you liked harry and meghan, you are go going to come away and think boy, these people are dull and that's an overriding theme. they seem sort of, you know, totally wrapped up in themselves , and not exactly compassionate and as they like to project. stuart: i'm told that the dutchess of sussex, give her a proper title there, i'm told she said meeting the queen was like going to a medieval times dinner. sounds a little insulting to me. >> very insulting and actually i would say there's a very

telling point there, stuart. when she's mocked, you know, is this all right for you, your majesty, that sort of thing. at that point, prince hard it looks incredibly embarrassed because he would know exactly how insulting that is, to anyone whose actually met a wonderful late monarch, you know, it's just very rude in any level, and also let's not forget this is a woman who claims she didn't know how to courtsey, but watched all of these old films including the little mermaid, endless documentaries and didn't know what a walk-about was. where has this woman been hiding what planet did she live on other than planet meghan, clearly it makes good drama but lies. stuart: i'm dying to see what the britt reaction is. it's a little early at this , but we'll be following it very closely. thanks for joining us, again, neil. we always appreciate it. >> my pleasure. stuart: see you soon. ashley, can you come into this? ashley: yeah. stuart: you're american but a british accent just like me so are you watching this thing?

ashley: no. i couldn't care less to be honest with you and to pick-up on what neil was saying there, you know, it's just another poor us self-in dull genetic exercise and the problem is that they continue to say that we take our privacy very seriously but at the same time, saying hey, could we get a camera in this room because we'll be looking at the sunset. i find it also hypocritical and apparently, the royal family more than anything is just very weary of all of this now. i'm left with a sense of sadness that its come to this and i couldn't agree more. stuart: they should just have no response at all. just walk away from it. ashley: right. stuart: let them twist and dangle in the wind something like that. why not. ash thanks a lot. now thing, singer mariah carey wants fans to stop calling her the self-proclaimed "queen of christmas." roll tape. >> first of all may i say i never called myself the queen of christmas. not to get super-religious but i was like i think if anybody to

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stuart: here we go. how many states were in the u.s. at the end of the civil war. 28, 32, 36, 40, ashley what do you got? ashley: i have no idea i'll go with 36. number three. stuart: actually i would go with 32, number two. all right, you're right, ash. you got it. the answer is 36. got it. ashley: lucky guess. stuart: quickly, don't forget to send in your friday feedback. there you go. send your thoughts to "varney" viewers@fox.com and also send in your fan friday videos. your chance to be on tv. it works, you know. e-mail us at "varney"viewers@fox.com. i'm almost out of time for this thursday, and i'm going to tap dance for the last five seconds and then i'm going to say "12 noon" neil, it's yours. neil: all right, thank you very much for that, stuart. fascinating programmed to. we're following up on what could