>> first thing this fell off this year was housing and next is manufacturing then housing then earning ands then is the unemployment and hopefully this e session that i believe

isn't -- recession that i hope isn't coming and crush inflation so we can get on with our lives. >> people stopped working because it doesn't pay to work. america is a generous country and help people down on their luck but we don't do it permanently, and i government should not pay more than a typical average median job pays. save america, kill the bill. >> if they pass another $2 trillion in emergency spending and this bill it'll fuel that inflation and it'll fuel joe biden's policies. senate republicans are destroying the republican policy. >> if the philly fed is right, we're in a much dire situation than we think and that unemployment rate will start climbing. this is not looking good any way you look at it. ♪

david: this is new for me. it's 11:00 a.m. on this east coast and five days from christmas. i'm david assmann in for stuart varney. we'll take the green and 130 points to the plus side on the dow and nasdaq is up a solid 20 and take a look at tech. they've been beaten down over the past couple of weeks. today all but apple are in the green and apple's just barely in the red. it's a good day for big tech. the ten-year treasury, it's good that tech is doing well because guess what, yields are up over 3.6, close to 3.7% up nine basis points. now this congress just unveiling their $1.7 trillion, yes, another trillion dollar spending bill, ladies and gentlemen. this is supposedly to keep the government funded through next september. now they have to pass the package by midnight on friday.

it's a 4,100 page package. think they've read it? this in order to avoid a partial government shutdown. katie pavlich joining me now. katie, no one has read this and in two days passing another $2 trillion spending bill, 4,100 pages that nobody has red. is that the height of irresponsibility? >> yeah. this $1.7 trillion spending plan, which as you've rightly pointed out, people are not going to be able to read, it's 4,000 pages, is an abomination. once again washington dc and the politicians who are inside of it want to go home, they're now up against this deadline of christmas and being held hostage because they want to fund the government and the american people are the ones that will pay the ultimate price. there are now a number of republicans in the house who have written a letter to republicans in the senate saying we're going to start holding senators accountable for doing this to the american people, to the voters that sent them to

washington in the first place. pointing out that, look, they weren't elected to continue inflationary spending, which is what this is. they weren't elected to continue the spending that leads to the federal reserve having to raise interest rates to try and tamp down this inflationary spending, which is being caused by the federal government. so spending continues and they never learn their lesson and also for republicans strategically and politically, this plan would also kneecap them when it comes to their new congress, that starts on january little movement when it comes to enacting their agenda, which they were just elected to fund. david: it's a question, how do you enact this agenda with all the fighting between senate republicans and house republicans within the house. we still don't know whether mccarthy will be the speaker; right? >> well, regardless of different perspectives on who is good for leadership and what should be done in the new congress and who should lead the house as

speaker, the bottom line is conservatives and republicans for years have run on the idea they're fiscally conservative and the split within the party right now comes down to whether that is even true anymore. there are a number of republicans -- or a handful i should say that want to stop this bill, 41 republicans in the senate could stop it and yet you're only seeing about five senators coming out and saying they will vote against it up against this hard deadline which again, changes nothing in washington and makes inflation worse for all the americans out there who are getting ready to spend christmas with their families. david: next one, katie, i want to talk about quitter and senator liz warren is -- twitter and senator liz warren sending a letter to shareholders about elon musk and warren writes "mrd unavoidable conflicts of interest. this use of tesla employees raises obvious questions about whether mr. musk is appropriated resources from a publicly traded term, at the scene -- firm,

tesla, to benefit his own private company, twitter". katie, this comes after janet yellen said cifius is looking at twitter and whether there's foreign influence in companies and are democrats trying to take twitter away from elon musk through regulations and other means? >> they've been trying to take it away from him from the very moment he said he may purchase it, even before the deal was done. this has nothing to do we elizabeth warren feigning out rage over allegations that he's misusing resources from one company to another. this is about the democrats losing their monopoly on the social media company twitter, which they used durck the 2020 election -- during the 2020 election with the fbi that could have changed the outcome of the election. it's similar to what they've been trying to do to talk radio for three decades and once again, elizabeth warren, who has no experience in the private

sector and is a academic and bureaucrat and tries to regulate businesses to her liking and more socialist government-run agenda, that's what this is about. it's not about actually holding elon musk accountable. at the end of the day, they're continuing to go after elon musk and it's interesting because they're all in on this electric vehicle push and yet they continue to isolate him and to punish him despite the fact he's the largest electric vehicle producer in the world. i mean, they certainly have a number of conflicting issues here and have a monopoly over free speech on twitter trumps the electric vehicle. david: they want to use regulation as a political pole to beat people they don't like and before sbf and whole thing collapsed and they're not doing what they should and doing the political bidding. katie pavlich, great to see you and have a wonderful christmas

and appreciate you coming in. >> you too. david: check on the markets and they're positive and dow started the day down and so did the nasdaq and s&p and now they're all positive and time to bring in mike murphy, who's a very positive guy, maybe not so much in markets but the question is whether or not we're getting any kind of santa claus rally, do you think? >> hey, david. i thought we would but with the setup, there's not enough push in the market, not enough people around and not enough david: volume is low and a few traders could make a difference. >> the institution that we need for money to pour into the markets and most are away and on vacation and focusing on 2023. i'm not expecting much of a rally in the next two weeks and wait till next year for that. david: what are you focusing on till 2023? >> 2023 will be a year of rebuilding for the u.s. markets and you'll see a lot of private markets and i think capital markets reopen and you'll see great private companies coming public maybe not in q1 but as

the year moves on we'll see that. but there was a time two years ago where the private companies couldn't hire good people. there weren't enough good people out there to help them build their businesses and now there's a lot of people out of work, a lot of people looking for jobs that can really help. so i think you'll start seeing more innovation and start seeing money coming into these companies as they're innovating and making our lives easier. 2022 was a tough year for the public markets but 2023 i think will be led by private markets and public markets will follow. david: even with the regulatory environment we have and talking to katie with twitter and the new esg rules and sec and that takes away capital from companies that could use to expand. >> absolutely. we see this though time and time again where you get overregulation and then it leads to less regulation and some nefarious activities that lead to more overregulation and what's going on with ftx isn't going to help this regulatory regime isn't going to help

investors in the marketplace, but we will get past that. you know, they want -- there's certain things they want to focus on like twitter. like certain things in the crypto space now post-ftx, but i think the capital markets will work their way out. the markets will work their way out and money will go to -- it'll find innovation and find quality private companies, which will lead to very quality public companies. david: while regulations do primarily come from the executive, which is controlled by the biden administration and they are hard nosed about regulations, you have the republican congress, can they push back on that? >> i think they can and hope they can because ultimately that's what our country ask built on. it's bit on innovation and these companies and not built on the last company that the government ran and did a good job with. i don't know. the next one will be the first one. we need private companies. we need innovation and less government in this country because as governments involved and trying to push more and more into the energy space, that's

not good for consumers or business owners or employees or anybody. david: good stuff, mike. come in now, lauren. you had movers for us starting with boeing. lauren: good news for the dow component and tieing to the ominous spending bill and in it is a measure that will extend the december 27 deadline for boeing to install new and modern cockpit alerting systems. david: you've read the 41,000 page bill -- lauren: no, just the summary and the stock is up almost 2%. david: stitchfix. lauren: online personal styling. did you know what that was? david: i heard it before but didn't know the details. lauren: $6 stock but down and they're active client base is shrinking and stitchfix cut ad revenue and ad spending budget by 50%. that's not going to help them draw in more people either. david: elon is in the news usually by twitter but news

about tesla. lauren: down about 5% and shares at 142 now. there's several pieces of news, at least three brokerages cut price target and citing week demand with the -- weak demand and distraction, that is twitter and the poll should there be someone else in charge of twitter and elon musk is actively searching for a new ceo and treasury is delayed till march for the list of evs that qualify for the subsidy inflation act and certain areas and quantities have to be met. if you're in the market for the new ev and want a subsidy, which will you buy? they're delaying that list and not good for any auto makers. david: all right, thank you, lauren. now this, this mariah carey christmas hit has been topping the charts since the 1990s, roll tape.

♪ all i want for christmas is you ♪ david: how much the singer makes off of the song each year, hint it's more than a lot of people make in their lifetime. standard university wants to eliminate "harmful words from the school's websites and computer systems and one is american" and we're not kidding. sam bankman-fried due back in court after reportedly falling asleep on monday and pete hegseth takes that one on next. ♪

david: sam bankman-fried is accused of duping millions who invested in his company and some are asking where was the sec chairman gary gensler during all this. lauren, do you have an answer? lauren: he was there and in a wall street journal opinion piece she said gensler considered woke esg climate rheum as high priority and sec inspector general report she cites from october that said gensler's woke agenda was overwhelming his staff and distracting them from their mission to protect investors. now he's trying to spin this ftx drama as a ponzi scheme and a cautionary tale and not something that happened under his watch. wasn't my fault, you know -- david: woke policies are more important than doing the job you're supposed to be doing. lauren, thank you very much for

that. pete hegseth joining me now. pete, i'm sure you have a opinion on this and regulators spent so much time with the very important woke policies that they led a real -- let a real fraudster slip under the radar. doesn't appear to be doing their job, does it? >> no, and seems similar already to the pentagon and sexual transition training and inclusion and diversity training. you spend -- there's only a finite amount of time for people and if you're focused on trying to remake society through social justice prerogatives, then you lack something else, and that's training time, trigger time, in the military context. in this context, it's who's committing wire fraud and massive wire fraud and where are they sending the money and what are the implications and it's basic looking at indictment of what he was doing and stealing money and using from individuals to fund other options and then using some of that -- we'll find out even more to fund political

campaigns and democrats are giving some of that money back. david: that as well. >> he was trying to be so interconnected in the web he could be above that shield and didn't work. david: the people in the business of monitoring this, like terry duffy head of the chicago merck. he knows exchanging and can see through this guy in a new york second. i mean, he said this guy is a phony and the whole operation set up for disaster, he d. meanwhile just to show you how sharp this guy s he dozed off, sam bankman-fried, during his hearing in the bahamas yesterday, today by the way he's expected to come here to be extradited here. it just shows, you know, all these politicians were calling this guy a genius and he's falling asleep at his own extradition hearing. terry duffy could see through him in a second. shows you how out of this all these politicians and regulators are. >> i hope i'm wrong on this and this is pure speculation, maybe he's counting on favorable -- a

pardon from the biden white house in the future. who knows? i'm just saying, maybe he's not all that worried about it. hope it doesn't happen, but we've seen the american justice system turned upside down. just like the fbi, you know, playing footsy with twitter and should be out there policing real crimes and going off thought crimes. not a lot of seriousness at the top levels of the government right now and that leads to cynicism unfortunately. david: by the way, do you think the republican's congress -- obviously they want to put this on the agenda for the investigation and investigating what happened at ftx and whether or not he used political money as payoffs in order to avoid prosecution. think they'll get to the bottom of it? >> not in this congress, of course, because -- david: no, no, the next one. >> he was arrested the day before he was supposed to appear before the committee. that wasn't coincidental. there's a lot of powerful people that don't want this person speaking and should be to federal investigators to not be

made public. there'll be hearings and how much will we hear from sam bankman-fried? i don't know. depends on how the trial portion goes. david: yeah, all right. pete, you've got a new fox nation special just in time for christmas it's called the life of jesus. take a look. >> 2,000 years ago, jesus christ walked this land fully god and fully man, the most consequential in human history. in this series, we retrace his steps, where he lived, where he healed, where he died and where he rose. the gospel has come alive. david: so, pete, i'm glad you're doing this and i'm wondering, woke environment like the one we were talking about, will anyone say what does jesus have to do with christmas? >> in a lot of woke environments it's been completely deleted and that's the point -- it's under

assault. that's the point of this. remember the reason for the season. take viewers to the very place where these events occurred, that changed human history for the last 2,000 years, a savior came to earth fully god and fully man and if you can't go -- go to israel if you can and see for yourself, it's life changing. if you can't, this film is meant to take you there, renew and restore your faith in the scriptures and with your family. sit around and watch it and say this is why we celebrate christmas. not all of the other stuff that ends up being the focal point. david: it's amazing how much stuff is actually still there. i mean, the physical remnants of jesus are still there. they have been preserved. it's wonderful and i'm looking forward to that, pete. thank you very much and have a wonderful christmas with your family, pete. >> thank you, david. you got it. david: good to see you. a new poll finding that most parents would be lost without technology. come in, lauren, and what type of technology are parents using

and what are they using it for? lauren: learning. 59% of parents 3 to 7 year-olds use technology to supplement reading and learning. math, number blocks, great app. kids learn a lot. kudos to those parents. i do not do this. i give my kids technology to watch some silly youtube video that makes the kids in the youtube video rich and pays for college education because i need them to be quiet for a little bit. david: you got three kids. lauren: yeah, i say kudos to the parents i should not be doing this story. other than for learning, parents say they use technology to teach their kids languages, fine, great. scheduling, that always gets messed up. try doing -- do you and your wife keep like an online family calendar? david: no. lauren: it's difficult to keep. they use for meal planning like you're making the kids lunch, this is what to pack. that confuses me even more. david: next one, stanford

eliminating language that deems harmful and one word they're trying to eliminate and we're not making this up, american. what's wrong with the term americans? lauren: it could be offensive? you didn't know this to many people living in the americas because it's not just americans that live in america. david: my wife is from central america and uses the word americans with no problem. lauren: she should use according to stanford u.s. citizens and that includes people incarcerated, addicts, handicap park asking a no no. it's accessible parking. look, there's just some on the list. took the university 18 months to collaborate with other resources to spend money to come up with this list that they're banning from their school websites and from their computer coding. that's where your tuition dollars are going. david: exactly, that's where the parent's 60 grand a year is going. now this, a woman hits a jackpot at her company christmas party and how she turned a $25 tj maxx

gift card into $175,000 cash and the tunnel to towers foundation raised more than $500 million to pay off the mortgages for families of military members and first responders killed until the line of duty. wall street journal guy bill mcgurn calls it a capital kris christmas carol. bill is with us next. ♪

meaux ♪ david: this is a day in london right now. it's 48 degrees so not a bad time to be in london. a lot of people like to go there for christmas. the bank of england releasing first images of bank notes featuring king charles. they start going into circulation in 2024 after the coronation of course. they will slowly replace bank notes with dear sweet late queen elizabeth.

a kentucky woman won $175,000 lottery jackpot at holiday workplace christmas exchange. in the gift swap game called white elephant, lori james pick add $25 tj maxx gift card that another coworker stole giving larry a chance to -- laurie the chance to pick $25 worth of scratchups and won $125,000. something wrong with that taking stolen money. we're joined now and market movers with me now, susan. looks red right now. susan: meaning climate stocks, meaning those with zero or less correspondent bonn emissions -- carbon emissions and lucid raising $1.5 billion and majority from saudi arabia and quantum scape one of the outperformers and shipped first pprototype lithium battery and

it'll last longer but we're waiting for that and we'll see plug hydrogen power providers and ev much and up as well. profitable and speculative tech up today despite treasury yields going higher on japan's surprise rate rise. these stocks had a rough year so far but they're down on higher interest rates in 2022 and slowing growth, however there might be dip buying here where the santa claus rally might start and streamers, ad tier demand at #% for new sub-- 9% for new subvibers in november and wall street expected first year to drive 7 million according to jp morgan and if you only have 9% of the low number of millions signing up for ad tier, that's a problem. disney, it was bouncing back from its worst year since 1974, avatar 134 million. not that great for avatar

apparently and warner bros one of the worst performers yesterday and cost going up $1 billion more than expected and yellowstone prequel 1923 attracted record breaking 7 million+ in the first episode and driving the audience. we were showing you that london live shot, that's the end of the day and how quickly the sun goes down. you lose light at 3, 4:00 p.m. there. david: very depressing. that's a good point. 4:30. susan, thank you very much. the tunnel to towers foundation raised over $500 million, a half a billion dollars to pay off mortgages and to build mortgage-free homes for wounded veterans and families of military members and first responders killed in the line of duty. chairman and ceo frank siller joined "fox & friends" this morning to talk about their most re-acceptability donations -- recent donations, watch. >> we had a beautiful ceremony there on saturday, the first

house in the village will be 96 homes for the great families that gave everything for the country and fallen or first responders that died for our community and leave young children behind. tuns to towers made a promise to take care of families and because of your sacrifice, she got this house. david: wall street journal columnist bill mcgurn calls the mission "capitalist christmas carol". bill joins me now. frank siller is the anti-scrooge is what you call him and he gives all his credit to his brother killed on 9/11. >> yeah and the volunteers and donors that help him. dave, we're always hearing about how heartless and pitiless american capitalism is, but frank siller relies on something else, generosity and good hearts of the american people.

he built something like 480 -- paid off the mortgages of 480 homes for people killed or injured and build 120 custom smart homes. the government could do it. but not as quickly and they couldn't do it as personally and it's an amazing tribute to private effort and the american people. david: it really -- american charity, you and i spent time in the third world. you in the asian part of the world and me in the latin american part of the world, you just don't see the kind of charity that you see in the united states anywhere else in the world. you just don't. i mean he is the epitome of why that charity is so good i think. >> look, scrooge answered are there no work houses and so many parts of the world, everyone just leaves it to someone else, usually the government. and these guys say what can we

do? what can we do immediately? they can respond faster than any government program. look, if you're a guy wounded, a cop, a firearm, a soldier and you need a wheelchair, you need it now, not a month from now after you have done the paperwork and they're very good at being nimble and answering needs. david: yep, yep, they're not government. the private sector works better whether in business or nonprofit. quickly, it's christmas time and you and i have been talking a lot about a man who i think is a saint, jimmy lye, he's a billionaire and could have left china and gone to anywhere in the world and lived comfortably but instead stood his ground and spend two years in ground and sentenced to another fighting texas. what's his future like, bill? >> his bill trial is coming up on national security charges and

the government has changed all the rules to try and get him and right now they're fighting his choice of lawyer so he doesn't have any power, but he's forcing them to own their lies. he's exposing what they're doing by refusing to go along and plead guilty. he willingly surrendered, decide not to save himself and now he's exposing their -- it's very sad because hong kong -- the rule of law used to be sacrosanct and now it's been trashed. i think that affects its future as a world financial center too david: yeah, full disclosure by the way, you're his god father. he converted to catholicism and he believes deeply in prayer and the folks out there could do a lot worse than just take a minute of your time and pray. he believes in it, you and i believe in it. i think it works and he believes that it could help him out

ovsome of the punish want. >> he's at peace in prison and with his decisions. david: a christmas prayer for jimmy lai is worthwhile. bill, thank you very much. now this, ticket resellers about to have bad blood with the irs if they want to sell taylor swift tickets at high prices, they'll have to give a cut to uncle sam. we're on that one. and a major winter storm threatening to ruin holiday travel plans across the country. some airlines already issuing travel waivers and a report flat nashville next. ♪

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cash. mariah carey's song all i want for christmas is you hits homes way back in 1994 and still top of the charts. lauren: number one for the past ten weeks in a row and it's still going. last year in the u.s. they made $1.36 million for mariah carey and her label sony through audio streams and downloads and looking worldwide and added rollties, $6.2 million. david: she doesn't have to do a thing. just collect the rollties, that -- royalties, that ain't bad. not bad, thank you, lauren. chick the airline stocks. airlines canceling flights and offering waivers bracing for the massive winter storms and nicole is in nashville and is now the time to get out of town? reporter: david, good morning. if it's not today waiting till tomorrow or thursday could prove really complicated and we're

expecting what you might call a weather nightmare. this articblast could not only cripple airports across our nation and potentially turn dangerous if not life threatening in certain areas and blizzard conditions below freezing and in some areas temperatures below zero and we start seeing the potential of the power outages and really dangerous roadways as people try to head home for the holidays and the pacific northwest starting to see the beginning impacts of the winter storm and watch effects in place for seattle metro and heavy snow is already starting to fall but we are learning that airlines are trying to get ahead of the potential problem they anticipate later on this week and airlines including american, jetblue, delta, united and southwest, they're already offering travelers to go ahead and book different flights, likely maybe a day early or even a few hours earlier than what you previously scheduled to try

and still get you home and get you to your destination prior to what we really are expecting to see these impacts we talked about and those below freezing temperatures and it'll move over the northwest into the plains into the northeast by the end of the week there and unfortunately experts say it might be time to not only think about but put that back up plan into place where that's buy ago second ticket, maybe flying to a different airport that may not be seeing as tough of impacts and download the fox weather app and keep monitoring that radar not just where you are and where you're headed but potentially where your airline is based out of to get a good idea of whether the delays and cancellations we're seeing more than 1,000 today and could trickle in and impact your flight, david. david: of all full-times for this -- of all times for this to hit and couldn't come at a worse time. holiday shoppers feeling

generous this year. lauren: for folks in scottsdale for most generous in the nation, the average monthly salary is over $4100 but the holiday budget over $2200 and that means 55% of what you make is going to the christmas gi gifts and hanuh gifts you're buying and all in we're expected to spend this on $300 billion. david: wow wow. lauren, thank you. show me the dow 30 stocks and a turn around of sorts in the green and they were red after going up almost $200 points and there's some caution out and now again, it's light volume and a a few players can make a lot of difference in what happens and twitter files part 7 drop add bomb shell about hunter biden and alleges the doj and fbi work to discredit biden's foreign

business dealings and tom fitton takes that oncoming up next. ♪

well, we fell in love through gaming. but now the internet lags and it throws the whole thing off. when did you first discover this lag? i signed us up for t-mobile home internet. ugh! but, we found other interests. i guess we have. [both] finch! let's go! oh yeah! it's not the same. what could you do to solve the problem? we could get xfinity? that's actually super adult of you to suggest. i can't wait to squad up. i love it when you talk nerdy to me. guy, guys, guys, we're still in session. and i don't know what the heck you're talking about.

david: nice weather and zero taxes. what is stopping us from move to nashville, tennessee. great music and good people. we're playing that song for a reason because taylor swift ticket scalpers could soon have bad blood with the government. lauren, what's the problem? lauren: the american rescue plan lowers the transaction for irs reporting to $600. if you're lucky enough to get one of the two and a half million tickets that went up for sale and looking to sell it, you'll sell for more than $600 because it's a hot show; right? you'll have to pay taxes if you don't report that to the irs and they could audit you if you don't. david: that's why we kneaded 87 -- need the 87,000 more awed dormans.

lauren: that's -- auditors. lauren: that's what heir doing is going after taylor swift ticket scappers. david: trying to censor the hunter biden laptop story and white house refusing to answer questions about it. roll tape. >> latest twitter file shows the intelligence community was actively involved in discrediting the hunter biden laptop story. does it bother the president and those at the white house that a government agency like the fbi was involved in suppressing a legitimate news story. >> i'm going to refer you to the fb and i recollects not going tm here about that. david: we're joined by tom fitten. the extraordinary thing is they're referring the media to the organization that apparently was disseminating misinformation to try to influence a social media company. i mean, why should we go to them for the story when they were providing the media with misinformation before? >> well, yeah, on top of that

the last i checked joe biden was president of the united states. he's responsible for the conduct of the fbi and should be demanding accountability. is this still going on? on top of this effort to interfere with the election at that time, the fbi was working with their former colleague james baker over at twitter who was the former attorney, top attorney for the fbi and moved over to twitter. you had the fbi paying twitter to censor and spy on americans. what else is the -- who else is the fbi paying? paying facebook? paying going and will youtube that owns youtube? the fbi maid paid christopher steele to dig up dirt on donald trump and again the fbi starts paying twitter and the other big social media platforms to spy on americans and it looks like to

suppress information that could have helped trump and hurt biden during the campaign. this is direct election interference and biden administration needs to be held accountable for it. the irony is it occurred during the trump administration and it's interesting, it's one of the few things during the trump administration they don't want to talk about. david: right, what's extraordinary is democrats were leading the charge against the fbi40 years ago during something called the church committee hearings after water gate trying to take politics out of the fbi and intel services that were also playing a role in the coverup. i mean, it's just whatever happened to their concern about civil liberties? >> well, and on top of that, they are doing it now. the twitter files show that the relationships continued until very recently and it's not just the fbi, it's department of homeland security have special relationships with the big tech companies to suppress information and from the white

house podium and from the president you've had direct instructions and con joking of the big tech platforms of the things biden people are sensitive about like covid and other disputes that joe biden thinks you're not allowed to think differently from him on and otherwise you'll be censored from twitter and elsewhere. david: tom, before we go, i want to talk about january 6. we had four criminal referrals from the january 6 committee for donald trump. what happens now? >> i don't think much will happen with those referrals and the more problematic issue is the justice department currently is using january 6 as a pretext to go after those who disputed it looks like in good faith the election in 2020. it was a big controversy, it was a big debate, and there was a big fight about what state, federal, and constitutional laws applied to election disputes. now the biden team wants to jail

those who raised questions about the election process. it's -- to me it's suppression and obviously the target is donald trump who was the likely candidate against biden, which is just further indication that the doj with the help of the house is terribly politicized. david: tom fitton, have a wonderful christmas and new years. the tuesday trivia question, what is the highest grossing christmas film: grinch, polar express, home alone or elf? lauren has the answer rightrt after thisy . ♪

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david: earlier we asked you what is the highest grossing christmas film. here are the choices. the grinch, "polar express," "home alone," "elf." lauren, you need, me,. >> "elf." i think i'm positive. david: you might be right. i love the "polar express." i will go with "elf" as well. what the answer is. the grinch. that was funny, good graphics on that one. $512 million when it was released. well look who is back with us, neil cavuto. >> the grinch. neil: i heard that line. let meri