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it's going to be a hard landing whether we like it or not because the fed has made it clear, we have to adjust to the new normal of higher interest rates for next year. >> all of the action by jay powell and all of the other central banks yesterday that all raised rates suggest that they've got to take the fluff out of the system and one of those is the stock market. >> this guy is a scam artist so this guy knew where every dollar was going but suddenly he doesn't know that co-mingling funds, give me a break. >> this man was so well- connected. he had done such a good job of frankly paying off powerful interested people in washington d.c. and elsewhere, and not enough has been done already. ♪ stuart: if that's a christmas song, i suppose it is, i'm not familiar with it. first time i've heard that.

lauren: can't help you. stuart: okay. 11:00 eastern time, it is friday , december 16. the market is still showing quite a lot of red ink as they have for the past couple of days dow is down 340, nasdaq down over 100 points. big tech again taking it on the chin. i do see one winner, meta platforms which is nicely higher up 4.5% but the rest of them are all down again. the yield on the 10 year treasury is at 3.51%. now this. in both parties there's a demand for a new generation of political leaders. donald trump will be 78 at the next presidential election. joe biden will be 82. bernie sanders will be 83. maybe it's time to bring on the 40 or 50-somethings. california governor gavin newsom , all right, well he will be 57 in 2024. he is laying out his case on the democrat side. earlier this week, he actually went to the border, and of

course promptly blamed the republicans for the mess. california is a sanctuary state and its been welcoming illegals for years but now the surge is just somebody else's fault. newsom is also big on reparation s for slavery talking hundreds of thousands of dollars for every descendant of enslav ed africans. he's super-green, banning any and all drilling. he is vigorously pro-union, love s government spending, and has given illegals subsidized healthcare, he's running. for the republicans, florida governor desantis is the front runner. he will be just 46 in 2024. he's not declared his candidacy, but with his state performing so well, he's ideally positioned to make a run. if newsom runs on the performance of his state, that's newsom, he's toast, but desantis has taken on woke school boards, mask mandates, vax mandates. he's embarrassed and infuriated democrats by flying illegals to martha's vineyard.

florida's economy is absolutely booming and to top it all off, desantis bucked the national trend with a landslide republican win in november. if this is the choice, it's a stark choice. newsom and desantis are almost direct opposites, so have at it. let's see if america wants the new generation of politicians to be california or floridian. third hour of "varney" starts right now. the gentleman on the right hand side of the screen is the famous steve hilton, who joins me now. steve? i don't see how newsom could possibly become the president of the united states given california's performance, but then again, i could be wrong. what say you? >> i think you're right and i think you've set it up very well speaking as a californian, for those watching outside of california, basically, the way to think about his performance is take everything that's gone

wrong as a result of the biden policies and multiply it by 10. that's what you've got in california. for those of us in california, we know the outcomes perfectly well in every single issue. the totally in coherent energy policy leading to rising gas prices through the roof, much higher than anywhere else in america and a collapsing energy grid which is less reliable, housing is unaffordable for anyone, you have the homelessness crisis, you've got crime out of control, on and on it goes; however, i think you're right to say that actually it's not necessarily true that results and performance will be the metric certainly in the democratic primary, because what we've seen now in the democratic party is that the main thing that they care about is what we used to call virtue signaling as i often say there's nothing virtuous about it. it's ideology signaling saying i'm with you, i'm far left, i have these positions, these extremist positions on climate and crime and everything else and so that might work for him. the final thing i'd say though

is that in the end these elections often come down not just to policy and performance, but also to character and personality and in that sense, i would recommend to everyone watching an article written, i may have talked to you about this before, by a democrat pundit that looked at the potential of gavin newsom as a presidential candidate. the guys called josh barrow. the headline of the article which kind of tells you everything is "gavin newsom is gross and embarrassing and will never be president." if people want to read that it's a good read. it's good fun. i'll put it out on my twitter @ stevehilton i think everyone will enjoy it. stuart: okay we'll follow that one. next one, steve. take a look at this the los angeles city council streams their public meetings, but now -- >> it's amazing. stuart: it is, isn't it? now they run a warning that viewer discretion is advised for city council meetings. what are they warning about, steve? >> it's a total shambles. this goes back to that terrible story a few weeks ago, before

the elections of the racist remarks, appalling racist remarks that were leaked in a secret recording of some of the members of the l.a. city council where they were talking about gerrymandering the city on racial lines, insulting remarks about other members of the council, disparaging remarks about black people, really despicable. one of those people was not up for re-election and so is gone. the one that was the main culprit, she's stepped down. there's one left, a guy called kevin de leon, still on the city council, and you've got a huge number of activists and protesters not surprisingly really aggressively going after him saying he should step down. he's refusing to do that, so since they've started meeting again, post the elections, you've got this rucus crowd in city council going into city hall, blocking the entrance, blocking the streets, massive protests, screaming at

this guy to the point where he has to cast his votes outside of the chamber because there's so much screaming and cursing but this is the totally shambolic circus that l.a. has been reduced to. it's our second city that's a complete joke. it's one party rule by the democrats and in the elections they went even further left so l.a. city council total mess. stuart: you could always move, steve, but i know you aren't inclined to do that so i'll never repeat that again. hey, steve we'll be watching you on the next rev fusion -- revolution at 9:00 p.m. eastern on fox news. thanks see you again soon. >> thanks. stuart: let's have a look at the cryptos they are always at the same level recently. look at bitcoin, still around 17,000, it's 16, 938 to be precise. jonathan hoenig with us this morning. i remember a year and a half ago you called crypto a ponzi scheme i take it you still feel the same way? >> yeah, the crypto bubble has

burst and it's in the midst of bursting and it's not just ftx. stuart with all due respect to the former president the fact he's released this crypto nft program this has long since jumped the shark and a lot of the stocks are reinforcing that. there's one etf wgmi, stuart it's down 82% year-to-date and coin, that's coinbase, it's at a new 52 week low today so you know we've talked about crypto supposedly being a hedge against everything. it's simply moving like other tech stocks down today and i think this is once again an area that most investors should certainly avoid. stuart: news organizations have sued, they want to know the names of all the account holders at ftx. if those names are released there's a lot of big time investors who could be very seriously embarrassed, certainly reputation will take a hit and some big investment firms may have to disclose currently non- disclosed losses. that could be a big deal. >> and you're going to see a lot of those losses now being taken at the end of the year,

stuart. look, the case of ftx isn't even the problem with crypto. the problem at ftx was just good old fashion fraud. unfortunately that's always existing. it's a part of business. it's not a real part of business it's a small part, but the real problem with crypto, stuart, is that it is pixie dust. there's really no legitimate purpose that we've seen for it, so with most stocks now below their 200 day moving average and their 50 day moving average it's risk-off and certainly risk-off for crypto as well. stuart: why is bitcoin holding at $17,000? why? >> well you know i have to say i've been pretty surprised that it is holding in there, stuart despite a lot of people calling for a collapse, again i looked at the stocks as leading indicators and a few of those g btc, all of the publicly traded stocks are so extraordinarily leaked they have always been good leading indicators for crypto itself, so i just don't see , you know, as the old bible says stuart, to everything there is a season, this is not the season for crypto. it goes lower from here. stuart: okay, there's a

prediction for you, jonathan, thanks very much for being with us we'll see you again soon. >> be well. stuart: lauren simonetti with us how about movers, meta now there's a solid gain 4%. lauren: an upgrade at jpmorgan to overweight and they say the price is going to $150. why? their costs are coming under control, remember they recently announced 13% of their staffers would lose their jobs? and they also say that revenue should start to pick-up. metaverse is betting on the metaverse and a lot of investors aren't convinced they have seen stock go down big time this year. stuart: goldman sachs i hear they are planning more layoffs maybe 4,000? lauren: that's the report that be 8% of their staff. reportedly effecting low performers. the announcement coming in january, or early in the new year, and i think that makes for a very uncomfortable christmas for a lot of employees , but we just did the story on ipo activity down

82% this year. deal making is a big part of their business, and it's drying up. stuart: it has dried up that's very true actually. xpong. okay that's a chinese electric car manufacturer. lauren: correct, and chinese adr 's are rising today in general because the u.s. says for the first time, they will be allowed by beijing to inspect firms, they are auditing practices that trade here. this removes the delisting risk and that's why we see so many of these rise, xpong is one up 6% and there's a report they are planning three new models for the new year. stuart: that helps too. thanks lauren. you might want to take your coffee or take it at home today starbucks workers walking off the job at 100 stores coast to coast and they won't be back for a few more days. we're going to cover that one for you. california pushing ahead with plans for reparations. some activists want the state to give hundreds of thousands of dollars to every eligible person whose paying for this? lawrence jones is putting his

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descendant of a slave and also a business owner, so they are still going through the process, right? this was all started because governor gavin newsom, he started this task force uniquely to look into reparations. they started their deliberations and they are deciding how much it's going to cost, so let's take a listen. >> we serve this country honorably. we need reparations. >> at the end of the day, any amount is too little and every amount is never enough. >> the correct platform is to be on a national level. you've got to get it to that point. reporter: so let's talk about one of the proposals. one activist telling the tasks force that every eligible person should get $350,000 in compensation and then black- owned businesses should get a quarter of a million dollars, you see coming out together and you're talking about half a million. california not the first to consider reparations, in new

york the mayor eric adams also publicly supporting california's initiative calling it "long overdue" and now it's worth not ing that in november, california announced that despite a nearly $100 billion surplus last year, the state was currently looking at a 25 million deficit for next year , so this california task force has until july 1, 2023, to deliver a final report to the state legislature so we'll decide and know by then. stuart: madison, good stuff thanks for joining us today. lawrence jones is here. lawrence: what's up, brother. stuart: good morning to you. lawrence: it's good to be here. look at that. stuart: that's nala, yes, on camera. now, we're going to get to nala, your own dog momentarily. lawrence: seats, seats, wait, wait. stuart: man that was good. you're in control. my first question is do you think we should be paying reparations for slavery? lawrence: well it depends on the case.

it's not just for slavery. if the government was wrong in some way and you can prosecute it or prove your case in civil court that's one thing but if that's not the case then there isn't precedent for it. stuart: but can you go back a couple hundred years? lawrence: it can't be for slavery. it has to do if the government did something wrong, for example , if a government bombed a business like during a black wall street that's one thing, but you just can't have individuals going back. it's kind of hard to trace that, you know, in a court of law. stuart: some activists are warning if reparations are denied there will be consequences. there will be a backlash. lawrence: what's the consequence stuart: dare i say a riot? lawrence: look, i think we went through that during the summer of love and i think society is against that. i think this country has done its role and we continue to get better to makeup for our wrongs, historically, and we should do that, but the notion of bringing this backup for

election time, which is what i think they are doing this for , i don't agree with it if you can prove the government is wrong, there are many cases to prove that you should be able to sue the federal government, the state government, but this back and forth over generation after generation if you can't prove that and who the person was and who was wrong , whose the plaintiff? stuart: okay, i want to get back back to remarkable dog. lawrence: nala. stuart: now she's or own personal dog? lawrence: she's my own personal dog. after she finishes her training in february and we have to train together we'll be going everywhere together. i was doing a story on a special forces operator and his canine is one of the most decorated canines her name is raptor, fought for us during the war on terror and i fell in love with her and i told the operator, he goes like i feel like you want one and i said if you can find me one from her blood line i'll get one and he did, and that's how i got my baby nala.

stuart: what's she being trained for? lawrence: she's trained in bomb detection, searches, protection. she can do it all, but the reason why i started doing this is because this is to help veterans that struggle with pstd the suicide is out of control and through canine they get these dogs that adjust them to civilian life and its been a real blessing. she's been a blessing to me. stuart: when she's fully trained will you give her to someone? lawrence: no, unfortunately, well, fortunately, she's going to stay with me forever. this will be my girl and she's just been a real joy to me. stuart: she has a remarkable degree of control you've got. lawrence: well they teach me. stuart: you spoil her. lawrence: can i tell you something? nala doesn't get treats or toys lauren: i didn't think so because of her training. lawrence: she gets praise from me and the philosophy they think it's lazy to just give your dog a treat when i can praise her and she feels when papa is happy we're happy together and when she's not doing so well then i have to say no, nala.

stuart: i've got to tell you i am it impressed, really impressed. lawrence: thank you. stuart: i've just been presented with something here and they are cookies for your birthday. lawrence: it's my birthday. i'm getting old, stu, i just turned 30. lawrence: give me one. stuart: lawrence jones you're only 30 years old and a wild success. lawrence: thank you, brother. you guys are good to me, the entire team, shawn hannity threw me a birthday party yesterday. stuart: i like this one but i'm not going to take a bite out of it. its got your face on it. wouldn't dream of it. 30 years old, wild success. that's amazing, congratulations. lawrence: and you've been supportive of me day one. i went on air and i was living in texas. i was about 70 pounds heavier and i got on tv and i said hey, good morning, brother at ever since you have invited me on you really got a kick out of that. stuart: don't you ever forget that i made you.

lawrence: here we go. stuart: well congratulations. lawrence: thank you, brother. stuart: i'll be watching you on cross-country, lawrence jones cross-country saturday night 10 p.m. eastern on fox news. next case, employees at city bank will be allowed to work-from-home for the remainder of the year. why are they doing that? lauren: i'm not exactly sure why i guess business slows down at the end of the year, a lot of people are off but i love this story, because it's a treat for workers who are coming into the office four or five days a week. you know what? you've got a lot to do this time of year, your kids are off, spend time with your friends and family. don't try to spin this as the bank reversing their , you know, work-from-home policies and saying that you could stay home again. it's just for the final two weeks and i'm going to put some gender on this. the ceo is a woman jane frazier. she might have more of an understanding of what really happens at the end of the year. go ahead you can hit me for that i don't care. she just brings a different viewpoint. lawrence: i love it.

stuart: i'm not saying nothing. lawrence: i learned a long time ago, just agree with the ladies. lauren: some men buy christmas presents. some men wrap them. some men cook meals for the family. some men entertain the children, yes they do. stuart: you're so right, lauren. ain't that right? she's so right. lawrence: you see , i know what place i have here. lawrence: you guys are making this way too easy. stuart: i've got one more for you see if you get this right. starbucks workers at 100 stores going on strike. what's the problem? lauren: unionization so the labor group organizing is starbucks workers united. they have been doing this for a year. just last month remember they protested for a day. well they are doubling down now. 1,000 baristas walking out starting today for three days. starbucks operates 9,000 stores in the u.s. and so far over 260 have voted to unionize and they want to increase that number, so middle of december, three day walk-out.

stuart: let's see what we got coming up on the show. there are now 30,000 migrants in new york city. the mayor eric adams wants $1 billion in federal support for them. a billion? for 30,000? that's a lot of money. border patrol in texas arrests two migrants with homicide convictions. one of them was convicted of murdering a peace officer in l.a. bill melugin has the border report next. ♪ ♪ i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed me everywhere. so i consolidated it into a low-rate personal loan from sofi. get a personal loan with no fees, low fixed rates,

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stuart: breaking right now, brittney griner was just released from the army medical center in houston, texas. more on this , please. lauren: that's where she's been since she was brought back to the u.s. last week. she is speaking out for the very first time. she thanked her family and friends, credited her faith for surviving her 10 months in kudlow. this is what she posted on instagram. it feels so good to be home. the last 10 months have been a battle at every turn. i dug deep to keep my faith and it was the love from so many of you that helped keep me going from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone for your help. it was a much longer post.

she also posted photos we're going to show them to you now of her stepping off the plane at fort hood, texas. it was the day she returned back to the u.s. and there she is, hugging her wife for the first time in a long time. stuart: good to see. good to hear. thanks, lauren. check those markets, please. we still got red ink all over the place. dow is down 380, nasdaq is down 132, slipping even further south on the nasdaq right there. susan is with us. you've got the movers which are the ev makers. >> let's check in with tesla first of all and it's down 4% accelerating the losses investors becoming very frustrated with elon's lack of attention on his electric car maker, which is now down 55% on the year worthless than half a trillion dollars for the first time in two years and by the way we're looking at the second straight week of declines and you're staring down two year lows. you also have four trading lower today because they just raised the price of their f-150 lightning electric pick-up. you're going to pay four grand more so that's up 40% from the

original starting price they said it be around $40,000, so that means, stu, you missed out on your opportunity to get that all electric aluminum body. stuart: i did at that price anyway. >> yes. stuart: get it for more later. >> so a satellite company that powers google maps sold to a private equity group advent a deal that values maxar at $4 billion which is a 100% premium at $53 a share. i love it when stocks trade above the actual price. stuart: more than double. >> it's a fantastic company, and obviously, the private equity group thinks it has a long runway to go. stuart: we've been following china internet stocks today i think they are all up. >> yeah, they were leading the s&p and the nasdaq in the session so they are up because the hong kong border with china will finally reopen next month for the first time in three years so that's a reopening play and we know that china internet stocks and china

stocks as a whole have been one bull market in the world because they are up 20% from its bottom and it had its best november since 2003 so there's money trickling in. stuart: okay money trickling in, lots of it. >> 12 billion actually in the last week or so. stuart: that is a lot of money. thanks, susan. the border patrol agents arrested two migrants with homicide convictions. this is important because it highlights the concerns over got aways. bill melugin has the border report. what else have the agents found, bill? reporter: good morning to you so yesterday border patrol in the rio grande valley announced their agents arrested two illegal immigrants with murder convictions including one who had a previous conviction for murder of a peace officer in los angeles and that's why it's so important to have agents out on the front lines and not busy processing large groups. large groups like the one we'll show you right now. take a look at this video. as soon as the sun came up here in eagle pass this morning, like it does everyday, we started having mass illegal crossings. this is a group of several

hundred that came across all at the same time most from cuba, colombia, and the dominican republic and this del rio sector getting absolutely hammered just since october 1 they had more than 115,000 illegal crossings here. that is up 56% over the same time last year and last year set the all-time record here. we will take you out to yuma, arizona. look at these photos in the open desert east, border patrol agents on patrol found a backpack in the desert filled with meth. 90 pounds of meth with a street value of over $150,000. obviously, dropped and abandoned by suspected drug smugglers and it just goes to show there are illegal immigrants trying to backpack this stuff into the united states. we'll keep you in arizona out to wilcox, take a look at these images of a human smuggling bus. border patrol stopping a vehicle that circumvented a checkpoint on a local highway. inside the car they find nine illegal immigrants being smuggled, crammed on top of each other, stacked on top of each

other in that small suv. the drivers, two u.s. citizens both arrested and charged with human smuggling, then we'll end in lukeville, arizona. take a look at these images border patrol out there reporting their agents encounter ed four separate groups totaling about 350 people from 12 different countries around the world and nearby yuma, arizona over a group, five different groups. it was 46 different countries, so back out here live, stuart, it just highlights the fact that it's not just the northern triangle countries, not just cuba or venezuela. there are people literally coming in from all around the entire planet to our southern border and they have been for quite sometime now. stuart: yes, indeed. you've been doing excellent reporting on it. bill melugin, we'll be back to you as well. thanks a lot, sir. 30,000 migrants now call new york city home. mayor eric adams asking president biden for a billion dollars in funding for them. joe borelli is the minority leader of the new york city council and joins me now. i've got to say this.

i think adams is right to ask the feds for the money because it's the feds that's opening up the border to let him in in the first place. >> as do i whether you're coming across illegally at the southern border or you're getting your passports stamped at jfk it is the federal government whose responsible or responsibility it is to make sure that only the right people get into this country. the biden administration has abd ocated that responsibility both on the border and they own this checkbook and they have to write the checks. we're hearing it not just from mayor adams but in your broadcast you talked about the mayor of denver who only has 30 or 40 people causing this problem for a smaller american city and we have to just realize how much it actually cost so many of these small municipalities around texas and arizona and elsewhere along the border. stuart: i mean you do the math here, and we're talking enormous amounts of money. if it takes $1 billion for it was originally 17 but now 30,000

migrants in new york city what does it take to cover the 4 million who have come across the border just since joe biden was president? i mean you're talking hundreds of billions. are we going to tolerate that? >> no, but we did, essentially, right? before some of the southern border governors actually started busing these migrants to cities where they can get some press coverage, where they can get political leverage, we just decided that we would let those states absorb that. right now, new york city is facing a $1 billion crisis. that number comes from our independent budget office and non-partisan think tank. this is a real number. to give you a comparison, that's bigger than the entire budget of newark, new jersey right ink across river which is a city that has its own challenges. these numbers are unsustainable and unless biden turns off the spigot we're going to see this problem duplicate and replicate in every mid-size to large american city. stuart: thanks for straightening it out there, joe, we appreciate it. come back soon. >> thank you. stuart: plans for a billion dollar wind farm get approved on one condition.

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stuart: a billion dollar wind farm just got the green light, but there is one condition. the turbines must be shutdown for five months of the year.

this is happening in australia where environmental group is concerned that the wind farm could disrupt the migration of the orange parrot. the company building the wind farm says they now need to reconsider whether to move forward with the project. got it. it was the netflix show that had everybody talking during the covid shutdowns, that will be tiger king. roll tape. >> there are more captive tiger s in the u.s. then there are in the wild throughout the world. >> people are nuts, man. they're all crazy. >> this is my way of living, and nobody is going to tell me any other way. stuart: okay well ashley has carol baskin with him. ashley, carol was one of the stars of the show and she won the private ownership of big cats is over. well done. ashley: yes, well done indeed. hi, stu, we're getting a nice little golf cart ride around the big cat rescue facility outside of tampa and with me is

the aforementioned carol baskin who put this i call it a sanctuary but whatever, it's a rescue facility for big cats. you've been here 30 years, which is remarkable, and throughout that time you've been campaign ing for some federal law that really looks after these big cats and makes sure they don't end up in the kind of places in suburban backyards and things like that. will that end with this new law? >> it absolutely will. when we started there were only three or four states that had any kind of laws regarding big cats. now there's only five states who don't have any laws regarding big cats, but this federal bill impacts everybody, so it'll end the cub petting and phase out private ownership. ashley: how on earth does someone think they can keep a fully grown tiger in the backyard? it maybe cute as a young puppy, you know, a cub, but they grow big and when they get to five years old what can happen? >> by the time they are even two years old they can be 250 pounds, and by the time they are five years old they maybe four or five hundred pounds, usually before they reach five

years old people are getting rid of them. stuart: this is jasmine. >> yes she's enjoying the sun. ashley: costs about $10,000 a year just to feed a fully grown tiger so sometimes you have these places that the have two or three that's 30,000 a year just in food and remarkably there are more captive tigers and lions in the united states than there are in the wild. there's only about 4,000 or a little more than 4,000 left in the wild, so this kind of bill carol has been working on for so long hopefully will take care of these domestic, you can't domesticate a tiger that's for sure, and hopefully, we'll stop this very cruel to keep a tiger in a small cage on the concrete block, at least this is better, really. they should be in the wild, small steps. that's the best thing we can say stu back to you. stuart: agreed, ashley and congratulations all around. ashley and carol. thanks very much.

ashley: yes. stuart: purchasing a puppy from a window in new york city, well that might soon become a thing of the past. tell me more. lauren: starting in 2024 pet stores in new york cannot sell dogs, cats, or rabbits. governor kathy hochul says she wants to end puppy mills and the inhumane treatment of animal s. store owners say well, if you prevent us from selling puppies to kids we're going to go out of business, so the compromise, i suppose here, is that she says the retail stores can charge animal rights groups, rescue groups, rent to use part of their space. we always talk about california and i'm bringing california in here because they often set policy. they did this back in 2017. now new york is doing this , so we're following california's lead. as we do with many things. stuart: but this is not a bad issue. show me the market, please. that's, look at that. all 30 of the dow stocks only one of them is up and that's amgen and it's up a mere $0.40. everybody else is down. look at american express the

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♪ a merry little christmas, make the yuletide gay, next year all our troubles will be miles away stuart: as you can see on the screen that's a clip from the movie "meet me in st. louis" we're showing it to you because rotten tomatoes just named it the best christmas movie of all time. the shop around the corner number two and miracle on 34th street number three. before we go to friday feedback i want some agreement or disagreement here. susan you agree with the rankings? >> disagree. home alone should be in there and also die hard.

stuart: that's a christmas movie >> absolutely. lauren: i love "love actually" i consider that a christmas movie. i don't oppose the rankings. stuart: i like a christmas carol it brings me to tears every single time. lauren: so you oppose. stuart: because i'm like a scrooge. that's the truth. friday feedback here we go. ba-humbug. this comes to us from scott. just wondering if you and your crew, including your background crew, would consider doing a show in ugly christmas or hanukkah sweaters and show everyone wearing them. ashley too. well, ashley is not with us at the moment but i'll answer your question. no. under no circumstances do i wear ugly christmas sweater. lauren: i wouldn't even ask. stuart: you wouldn't do it? lauren: i would do it. stuart: susan wouldn't be caught dead. >> some would say we wear ugly christmas are christmas sweaters everyday. lauren: would you do a segment? stuart: no. everybody has been doing that for years and years let's do something new. this comes to us from greg.

do you go any place special for christmas? yes, florida. how about you, lauren? lauren: my house. new jersey. stuart: susan? >> you know, i travel a lot, so i'll see my mom, of course and my family. stuart: okay that's special. you got it. larry writes to us with this one i think you should do a hot boy walk once a week like dave portnoy does. you can rant about a single subject. it be so entertaining. you find my rants entertaining? it's not me actually and i wouldn't like to walk down the street talking outloud like that. i mean -- >> i thought you were saying you wouldn't want to walk down the street being like that the hot boy walk. stuart: well i don't want that. lauren: you'd have trouble doing it because you walk very fast. i don't think you'd be able to operate your phone at the same time. maybe you could but you walk fast. stuart: i do walk very fast. that is true. >> it's a run. stuart: you can't keep up with me you're left behind that's the way it is. >> it's unbelievable energy at

his age. stuart: well thank you very much indeed. i like this one. it's from jim. listen to this. i was going to watch whining with harry and meghan last week but there was an interesting special on the root canal channel so i watched that instead. are you all watching harry and what's it? harry and meghan. >> because of you, i've been, because you just want to talk about it non-stop and i have to say, it feels like it's more about meghan than harry and i wonder if he realizes what he's doing to his own family that raised him and that gave him the privilege they both enjoy. lauren: he didn't love. >> i can't relate to people that live in castles with helper s. for most people, i think that's already a privilege that you can't really complain about. stuart: helpers? actually servants you know, foot men, butlers and things like that. lauren: i have no interest in watching it but i think i might have to because we're talking about it so much. stuart: i've watched it because it's so bad. >> all six episodes?

stuart: most of them. >> do you think there's a way back by the way between harry and william? stuart: no at this point, no. >> they never take him back, ever? stuart: well ever is a long time but i can't see any reconciliation in the near future. quickly from john. please give a slight warning before announcing information on sporting events some of your viewers like me might have taped and have not yet watched likening england france game but only did you reveal the winner as i was part way through it, you told me how england lost so i mean, i may still watch the rest of the game but i'm not really sure of the point. okay. >> he's right. stuart: if we ever have a world cup on this program again, i promise, not to, i'll give a spoiler alert. i won't do it. >> again? ever? are you saying in four years you won't be here to give a spoiler alert in the world cup? stuart: that's a very good question isn't it? will i still be alive? lauren: john is wrong, because you're in the news business and you have to give the news. so -- >> you really think argentina is going to win? stuart: yeah. >> what are the odds?

stuart: i think france is more likely to win but i want argentina to win. >> okay, you didn't caveat it like that. you made it sound like argentina was definitely going to win on sunday. stuart: did i say that? >> yes. stuart: i can reverse and turn on a dime. >> france is going to beat history, first back to back. stuart: thanks, everyone who sent in the friday feedback stuff, thank you very much indeed. now, it's the friday trivia question. what is the most densely populated city in the world? china, taiwan, south korea, the correct answer will be after this.

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stuart: we asked the following question. what is the most densely populated city in the world? all right, is ashley involved here? ashley what's your guess? oh, no he's not there, lauren what you got? lauren: seoul. stuart: susan? >> stuart: i might go for second tier mumbai. the answer is 76, 790 people packed into every square mile of the city. lauren: i've been there. stuart: times up for me for the entire week. neil it's yours. neil: all right, stuart, thank you very very much. well you've been report inning about this sell-off happening at the corner of wall and broad picking up steam not surprisingly here. the other shoe dropping right now, brokerage firms that make their money off of this are no