>> going into what would be a mild recession. we ultimately go to the knee jerk you're seeing today and time to own tech and not time to hide. >> they're uncovering and this is an open, very, very open question as to what we discover. >> we know about a third stash, but we don't know the volume where the first stories we hear

from this administration are always wrong. so this is going to, yes, you're correct, going to fold out even more and what we're going to find is that they knew more. >> my goodness, he's making admissions against interest add nausea and he'll more asks for him and his attorneys to dig out of them. stuart: just talking to mike murphy about his diet and i'll proceed with this program and not embarrass my good friend mur much. it's friday, january the 13th. check that market, we open way down and now we're just a little bit up. dow is up 40, nasdaq's down 10 points as we speak. show me big tech, please. it's all over the place and amazon, apple, alphabet, meta,

microsoft all down. the ten year treasury and 345 and slightly higher in the last couple of hours but 345 that is a very low rate. in terms of last couple of years. all right, now this. for two years, president biden has had a cozy relationship with the white house press core with the exception of fox's peter doocy, the questions were soft and generally supportive. that's changed. thursday the president was talking up the economy and when he was done, the press core erupted. they wanted to know about the documents. roll tape. stuart: this is the issue that has turned the media and the white house response to the document revelations hasn't hehelped and heated exchange wih cbs correspondent ed o'keefe.

>> i have to go around. you've asked me about -- >> limit in transparency and public legal transparency. >> i disagree. there's not been a limit of transparency. that is -- that is -- that is -- there's not been a limit of transparency. that i will disagree with you on that. stuart: that was contentious and there's more. christine welker at msnbc has become skeptical of biden's corvette defense and some correspondents at cnn. of course, no one, no one can compare to fox's peter doocy. roll that tape. >> biden materials next to your corvette. what were you thinking? >> let me -- i'm going to get a chance to speak on all this god willing soon. as i said earlier this week -- by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage so it's not like it's sitting in the street. but anyway -- >> it's in a locked garage. >> yes, as well as my corvette.

as i said earlier this week, people know i take classified documents and classified material seriously. stuart: i'm not going to suggest that the rest of the media will be doing their job like peter does it. they're not going to treat biden like they did trump, but clearly there is now an element of hostility and that's going to be a problem for this president? biden's transparency, transparency, that's the right word, and the competence of his press secretary are now being questioned. there's a political price to be paid for that. third hour of varney starts right now. ♪ stuart: steve hilton with me this friday morning and i think the turn around of the media will be a big problem for this president, a political problem for him. what say you? >> well, look, i think it's certainly changing, but they are still covering for him, stuart.

i'll give you exhibit a in that and this massive investigation in the new york times about the biden corruption scandal and repeating all the facts we've known about the influence pedaling operation that biden ran that we've been broadcasting. i first put on my show, two and a half years ago, and even if they're reporting that, they're bending over backwards to defend biden. i think you're completely right that they're very angry with biden and the white house over the handling of this documents scandal because they don't like being treated for fools and the facts that there's documents coming out one day and another day there's another batch and they're not being told the full story and it turns out it was actually discovered before the election, but they didn't tell them. they don't like being treated like that and that's why you're seeing in response but in the end, i think the bias towards defending this administration will be there among the press core. stuart: i got it. you're our california guy. we've been hearing terrible news

out of california for the week of weather and torrential rain wreaked havoc over there. does this mean 8 or 10-inches of rain or something extraordinary. has the drought ended? >> no, as kevin kiley, one of the new members of congress from california put it in congress this week, only in california where the incompetence isn't in mismanagement from the rule of democrats and getting on for 25 years or more, can you have simultaneously catastrophic floods and a drought, and the reason that you can have that is because they have so mismanaged water systems just like they have our energy systems and pretty much everything else. we're not storing enough of the water that comes and the snow that comes then melts because that's a big part of the water system here in california. they go on and on lecturing us endlessly about climate change and emergency and all the plans for banning this, that and the other but they can't seem to get the basics right.

that's the story of their mismanagement. stuart: you know, i was looking at some numbers the other day and california is going from a $100 billion surplus, that was 2022, i believe. now they're projecting a $22 billion deficit. what happened, steve? >> i tell you what happened, you have gavin newsom running around going on about his surplus and how fantastic the economy is and guess what he did with some of that money before the election? handed it out in bribes -- sorry, inflation relief payments, before the election. now after the election suddenly, oh, there's no money. we'll have to make cuts. i mean, it is just another example of their mismanagement, and i tell you the fundamental reason that it's such a mess, the finances of california, is because the tax system is so skewed, you've got an overalliance on the stock markets because basically nearly half the taxes in california are paid by half a percent of the people, the very wealthiest and

so much of their income is based on capital gains and when the stock market goes down, the revenue goes down massively for the state and the other big part of it is that the spending is driven so much of it by the bribes that they give to the public sector unions and the government unions in the form of luxury pensions and healthcare. the costs keep going up and up and up and they're not reforming pensions and they're not reforming taxes and so the whole fiscal state of california is a mess. stuart: this is the first time in a couple of weeks we've gone through an interview with you and you haven't mentioned prince harry so i'll end it right now before you do. we're going to be watching -- >> exactly. stuart: we're going to be watching you on the next revolution, that's steve's show sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern and we'll be watching. thank you, steve. check the markets, please. we'll come back from the minus 200 on the dow to all of 40 point gain. small loss for the nasdaq and small loss for the s&p. mike murphy with me now. bank earnings kicked off this

morning. what did they tell you and us about the economy? >> well, i think, stuart, really the story i saw was things aren't as bad as people think they might be. we heard from jami jamie dimon d predicting for the fourth quarter of 2023 and jamie dimon is a very good barometer for the consumer and saying he's very strong and the earnings, not absolute blowout and showing a 6% growth in profits over the last 12 months. that's not so shabby so i think they're good enough here. stuart: we had on the show earlier this morning, dan ives and following the big tech companies and federal reserve going from 75-basis points, 50-basis points, now down to 25-basis point and maybe they'll end in the spring and at that point the market takes off, especially big tech. what say you? >> i think he could be right. i won't time it that precisely. i wowed say if it's going to --

would say if it's going to turn around in the spring, i might as well get in today but already if you look, stuart, the market -- it's funny how we work in the market and measure companies like year-to-year. last year for big tech it was a down year but so far this year, there's a lot of big tech names in two weeks up double digit gains already so i think when you look at companies like apple, like microsoft, like amazon, these companies are still innovating and they're still increasing their top line, they're still profitable. they're still where we're going to go over the next call it three years out. i want to own those companies. stuart: i'm not going to grind my ax on microsoft but they did put $10 billion into open i, artificial intelligence in the future. i see that as a pretty good move. how about you? >> i do. it goes back to valuation. if they paid -- overpaid for it but remember, they're investing in private companies all the time. some of them work out and work out well. some of them don't, but they're generating enough free cash flow that they can do that and it's a

great movement stuart: they've got a lot of cash. stay there, mike, you're with me for the hour. good man. another name in the crypto industry cutting jobs. ashley, who is it now? ashley: crypto.com says it's going to reduce its work force by about 20%, not sure how many jobs that works out to, but it is the second round of cuts for the singapore-based company in just the last six months. it also comes of course as cryptocurrency exchanging facing industry-wide challenges brought on by the collapse of ftx raising concerns of solvency across the sector and crypto.com says the ftx has "significantly damaged trust in the industry". i would say that's true. stu. stuart: next case. thanks, ash. blackrock also cutting 500 workers and chairman and ceo of blackrock larry fink will be joining liz claman on the "claman countdown" at 3:30 p.m.

on fox business. now this, a woman gets her lost luggage back four years after checking into her flight in chicago. air safety advocates have been warning the faa for years about potential for pilot alert system meltdown. is this a sign it's time to privatize the faa? that's an idea from me and we'll get into it. lisa plea pressoly, the only -- lisa marie presley, the only child of elvis died at the age of 54 and we'll share some of the touching tributes and memories with you next. ♪

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stuart: florida's governor desantis wants to give the bill to the bind add menstruation for the -- biden administration for the rise in cost of migrants. congressman, who will pay for this migrant mess? >> well, unfortunately some of the cost will be born by monroe county, some will be born by the state of florida, and some will be born by the federal government wherein reality the federal government should bear all of the cost, but we've gone through this before with the federal government and they quite never give the local and state governments the money that they actually spent on doing federal government jobs. stuart: is there anything you can do about that?

>> well, you know, we in congress can say, look, that's our responsibility, and it's not the responsibility of a local sheriff or the governor or national guard. that's a national responsibility of custom and border protection and we appreciate the help the local and state governments givetous but in the end, we -- give to us but in the end we need to bear the full cost and both monroe county and the state of florida can get reimbursed. stuart: hope it happens. according to a government official, the software that failed the faa was installed back in 1993. three decades old. should we privatize the faa? i ask the question because the government doesn't do very well with computer systems and that kind of thing, their bureaucratic and it doesn't work. should we privatize? >> that's a possibility. everything should be, you know, up in the air. everything should be on the table. all options should be on the table, not just for the faa but for many other things that the

federal government is involved in, it could be that the private sector can do it better, cheaper, keep up to date. and so there's been talk about that with the faa, that should be on the table. if that system is from 1993, that shows us the failure of the federal government to keep up with the times. obviously that technology is totally antiquated and we saw the results of that last week when we grounded all planes, that's totally unacceptable. we need to investigate why it happened and we need to give the faa at least at this point the resources that it needs in order to upgrade and maintain the systems that are vital to the security of our passengers in the air. stuart: at the moment, it's the airlines that are getting browbeaten for the faa's problem but the real cause of the problem was this breakdown of the faa. it's a government problem, not a private enterprise problem. that's why i'm saying, come on, come on. the government doesn't do this

stuff very well. at least think about using private enterprise. in my opinion, just my opinion, private enterprise handles big gobs of munch better than the government. >> oh, no, that's truth. that's not just opinion. the private sector much more efficient, and they do a much better job with the resources that they have than the federal government. we have all these regulations that we impose on ourselves. we also have contracts that you wouldn't see in the private sector procurement and the procurement, just that in government is four times more expensive than it is in the private sector all because of these rules and regulations that we impose to make sure everything is fair. well, it's not fair to the taxpayer and they're paying four times the amount that they need to for goods and services from the public sector than they do from the private sector. stuart: privatization is my idea and, congressman, i'd like you to present it to congress as

your idea or anybody else. i want -- i'd love to see that happen. congressman, you're all right. >> fair enough. stuart: thanks for joining us. appreciate it. transportation secretary pete buttigieg facing more criticism and avoided phone ca calls and requests while on paternity leave at the height of the flight crisis. ashley, how did we find out about this? ashley: according to documents obtained through the freedom of information act by a group called protect the public's trust and they show buttigieg turned down phone calls, zoom interviews and event appearances as his staffers, based on the e-mails, tried to decide how to respond to all the inquiries and the transportation secretary faced, as you know, a lot of criticism over the timing of his roughly two month leave from august to october of 2021. he was absent as you point out while the u.s. faced a historic

supply chain shortage that threatened the economy and contentious negotiations for infrastructure bill that was largely focused on the transportation department, which he leads. in response to all of this so far, buttigieg says he's always available 24/7. maybe not. stuart: all right, thanks, ash. imagine this, a woman took a business trip to chicago. this was 2018, lost her luggage. four years later she received a call from united airlines claiming they found it in honduras. she says the bag had some wear and tear, but everything was still inside. ever lost luggage? not recently maybe. >> yeah, back 10 or 12 years ago we lost a piece of luggage and had a lot of my wife's expensive belongings in it, never recovered it. what i didn't know, stuart, you can claim that on your homeowner's insurance i didn't do it but people watching, you can if you lose expensive

garments in a suitcase, claim it on your insurance. stuart: i don't check bags, ever. >> that's the smartest thing out there. stuart: if you can do that. >> if you can do it. you can also preship your bag to your destination >> i do that too. stuart: the one time i checked a bag they did lose it. >> why did you check the bag? stuart: i was carrying something that had to be checked. can't remember what it was but i think that's okay. you got me with that one. all right, districts are pouring in -- tributing are pouring in following the passing of lisa marie presley in la. william in la. what happened in >> lisa was having a heart attack when discovered by her housekeeper and they performed cpr and noted a heart beat and later died at the hospital. lisa marie struggled in life including a suicide of a son, four failed marriages, drug addiction and recording career that never approached that of

elvis, who's life she celebrated sunday at the golden globals and two days prior what would have been his 88th birthday at graceland. >> can you imagine lisa marie being the daughter. >> 20 days later she married singer michael jackson and next marriage to actor nicolas cage lasted three months and later had twin daughters but that marriage too ended in divorce. her son's suicide at age 27 devastated lisa marie who wrote in people magazine, grief does to the stop or go away any time

after the loss but something you carry the rest of your life. celebrities paid tribute i didn't do, including singer latoya jackson saying "we miss you, lisa. you'll forever be in our hearts and i'll never forget how much you shared the love you had with my brother and with me". stuart, in some ways she had everything, fame, wealth, and family but happiness can be elusive. she's survived by her mother and three children. stuart: thank you, william and thank you for that report. a new report shows the white house asked social media companies to censor tomi lahren because of her post about the covid vaccine. tomi calls it a badge of honor. tomi is on the show. right now the president is holding -- or is about to hold a meeting with prime minister of japan. we'll monitor it and see if he'll answer any questions about the documents the media is sure to ask. more varney after this.

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stuart: thank you, producers. finally you come up with some music that i truly appreciate in which i actually remember. she loves you, the beatles. their first number one hit in britain by the way. i was a mere lad in those days. what am i now? at least you were where the temperatures is only 37 in new york city. the market, we've got the dow, we're up 51 and nasdaq down a bit, s&p down a little. who knows how we'll close. look at p l, please. apple, please, tim cook will take a pay cut this year, it's voluntary. however, he's tieing his pay to the performance of the stock market so mike murphy with the stock at a low, if it rallies, he makes a lot of money anyway. >> it sure does but remember, stuart, he make as lot of money before the pinata cut, after the pay cut, with his stock. i like what he's doing to say he's kind of in it with the

investors so if you're an investor in the company, as you do well, he does well. i like that. stuart: he's got incentive to get the stock up. that's his job now. >> always, but even before this he had the incentive to keep his job and keep the company moving, which he's done a great job of. stuart: we approve. got it. look who's here now. tommy lawn. ttomi lahren. the white house asked you to take down tomi's tweet about the badge of honor. >> i call it a badge of honor. if the biden white house wants to shut me up that means i'm doing my job correctly but, yes, we got the e-mail uncovered because of a lawsuit that the state of attorney generals put out because of collusion between big government and big tech and big pharma and then it gets interesting but the white house digital director wanted to make sure that tucker carlson and

tomi lahren our content was reduced on facebook and wondering why it was so prominent and people were talking about it and it was not good and facebook was happy to oblige and apologetic and running this down is what they applied in the e-mail and tucker carlson and i were reduced. stuart: are you still mad? >> i'm very mad and here's the thing, they acknowledged the post that it was. it wasn't me saying vaccines aren't safe, vaccines aren't effective. it was me saying i personally won't get one and won't be forced to get one. if you want to get one, get one, two, three, four, five, six. i personally, tomi lahren, won't get one and the white house said that needs reduced and it's problematic. that to me is problematic and maybe someone at the white house needs reduced or even fired. stuart: new surveys finds 53% of gen z workers, 11-53 year-olds, 53% feel burnout at least once a

week. tomi, what is going on and why are they feeling burnout? >> it's the entitlement generation and have to do any amount 06 work for any amount of time they don't feel is fair to their social media schedule they'll feel burnout and this is the generation of quiet quitters and the reason is because there's a worker shortage and employers will hire a warm body no matter if they want to work hard or give a crap or not, they'll hire them and don't have to work too hard. why would they. they want to be on tiktok. stuart: are you mad at gen z as well? >> all millennials. but gen z. there's a lot of millennials and boomers out there too. stuart: i'm a boomer, of a certain age and older people look back at new generation and say these youngsters, tay don't have it. am i doing that? >> we have a point. i'd say cut us a little slack and i'm a millennial and i'm 30 and saying don't cut us slack.

we don't need it. stuart: another one, the kansas city chiefs nadhim indian version of the -- a canadian version of the girl scouts no longer calling them brownies and embers. making it more inclusive after some complained that the term brownies was racist. tomi, my understanding you were a girl scotus in america. what's your comment? >> i was a browny for two weeks because i didn't like being told what to do if anyone can believe that but i'll tell you this, something will offend someone at any time and saying some people found it racist. what it some people or one naggy parent that took issue. the loudest voice in the room and they changed the entire name of an organization. something's going to offend someone and someone's going to be offended by embers and i'm offended because it doesn't make sense and bring back the brownies and keep nem in the united states where they should be brownies. stuart: one more for gen z. bringing back the flip phone, a growing number of youngsters are choosing to carry around the old fashion cell phones because

apparently they don't want to be connected to the internet all the time. some say they don't want to be tempted to log onto social media apps all the time. do you have some children? >> i do. do. stuart: any of them going back to the flip phone? >> this story, i don't know where it came from but bids -- being connected is like brushing their teeth. it's not going back. this is their life now but as tomi was pointing out, a lot it's created soft kids but i tell my kids, it's creating opportunity because the people that want to take charge and who aren't soft will have a lot of opportunities gelfand dataing out in the job force. when they get out in the job force. stuart: we have to get used to technology and technology is moving really quickly. artificial intelligence for example. that'll make a difference to your phone and what's on it. we have to get used to it and incorporate it successfully, agree? >> i agree and like that some young people don't want to be on

social media and maybe just delete tiktok. i'd take it. stuart: we have a variety of subjects covered in a very limited time. well done, tomi, great stuff. latest round of twitter files just dropped and claim democrats push add false narrative about russian bots even after twitter debunked the lies and warned them to stop. deroy murdock has something to say about that and he's next. the white house stone walling reporteers and investigation launched into the president's trench of classified documents and the man leading the probe is a trump-appointed attorney. peter doocy has the latest on that from the white house. that's next too. ♪

stuart: president bind clammed up about the latest trench of classified documents found at his home and the media is in uproar. peter doocy joins me. peter, any indication that the white house will release full details on who had access to the secret files? >> sounds like that'll come from the special council, stu. somebody on the biden team knew there was more than one location where classified documents were being mishandled at the same time they sent the president out with a prepared statement just to talk about one batch of classified materials. and so the white house getting a lot of questions about this. they insist they're doing everything by the book. >> what i can say to you is that the president has been kept informed by his council. i disagree, there's not been a limit of transparency. that is -- that is -- that is -- there's not been a limit of transparency. that i will disagree with you on

that. >> thank you, karine. another one on garage-gate. what is the white house trying to hide? >> nothing. >> this is just the beginning of a much bigger federal investigation and republicans on the hill saying they think the special counsel might find much more. >> this is wreckless, it's dangerous, it's to quote biden himself irresponsible and the reassurance that the president gave his corvette was locked in a garage merely reveals how little he knows about classified document handling. >> when white house officials say that the search for documents at his residents and other places he had access to are complete that means his personal lawyers have gone through everything and they're the ones saying it is complete. it is unclear if the special counsel's office will take their word for it or if they are going to want to go and search the president's homes themselves.

stu. stuart: all right, peter. good stuff at the white house. thank you very much indeed. by the way, i should tell our viewers that the president did not answer any shouted questions during his meeting with japan's prime minister earlier this morning. now, listen to the white house stone wall reporters about those documents and the discovery. roll that, please. >> i would refer you to the department of justice or my colleague in the counsel's office but i'm not going to go beyond what the president said. i'm not going to go beyond what the president said. i'm not going to go beyond what the president said. again, i'm just not going to go into the particulars or specifics of what the department of justice did. there's ongoing process, it's being reviewed, don't have any -- don't have more to share. >> was it because -- >> there's an ongoing process that's occurring. stuart: sure seems to me like the media's relationship with the white house is changing. deroy murdock knows a thing or two about this. am i right, there's a change here? >> well, stu, i'd love to answer your question but there's a special customs and border protection sell so that limits what -- special counsel so that

limits what i can say on the set. this is very handy and they'll be able to hide behind special counsel and not answer questions and this will frustrate the media even more because we're seeing somebody other than peter doocy asking tough questions at the white house briefing. usually it's nice questions about what does the president feel about this or that. with peter doocy asking the tough questions and i asked the briefing yesterday and karine jean-pierre was getting tough question after tough question at her briefing. stuart: the president will clam up and that doesn't stop leaks from the special counsel's office. there's always leaks from any special customs and border protection sell's office and -- counsel's office and that's a real problem for biden going forward. >> there's leaks and joe biden doesn't always have the best message discipline and there's a nice little card with a beautifully written out leaguistic answer and -- legalistic answer and then blurted out about this corvette and the documents being nestled between the brake pads and

fluid. he couldn't control himself and now it's garage-gate and the car vet. stuart: that's the first time i've heard that and not the last. baitest batch of twitter files shows democrats push a false narrative about russian bots even though twitter told them no connection to the kremlin. what's your take on that? >> this is what we've seen all along throughout the entire russia gate scandal, which is that the democrats pushing this idea that donald j. trump was a kremlin agent or working for putin and adam schiff said smoking evidence and irrefutable prove that donald trump was working for putin and i called and said i'd land of opportunity to see this and i -- love to see this information and write about it and never got a call back. i left a voice mail saying if i don't get this evidence i will write it doesn't exist and i never heard back means it's not there. it's part of an ongoing pattern to lie about donald trump and they didn't let the facts get in the way. stuart: adam schiff stays on the

intelligence tee in the house and -- committee in the house even though they've been doing all this. >> finally speaker mccarthy booted them off the intelligence committee and there's a precedence for this. it's unusual for the majority of the speaker to step in across party lines and remove people off committees but nancy pelosi set that precedence so democrats can't moan too loudly because she cross that had line and mccarthy is doing it now. stuart: ilhan omar is off the foreign affairs committee >> yes. stuart: mccarthy called her anti-semitic. >> yes, because she made lots and lots of anti-semitic comments and partially for that reason she's all that committee. stuart: thank you, deroy. thank you, deroy. appreciate it. >> thank you. stuart: this is the time that we show you the dow 30. sense of the market. there's more selling than buying by the looks of it. two-thirds down, one-third up.

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stuart: doesn't that look nice. that is maui and ray davis, perfect music and lovely palm trees. let's get on with it. it's only 53 degrees in maui right now. kind of cold. friday feedback teenager ashley's we many and mike murphy. here we go. this tweet from grant. has any one of you visited all 50 states? i have plus puerto rico. >> i have not. i have a handful to get to,

kentucky, north dakota, tennessee, i'm going to go visit tomi. yeah. stuart: ashley? ashley: i've lived in almost and worked in almost every state but there's some in the middle, kansas, oklahoma, nebraska, and iowa, that's about it. i'm in the 40s and would love to see every state. i've had such a great time. stuart: i have been to every state except montana. i'm ready, eager, and willing to go. i can't make it yet. you lived in montana. you were a news anchor in montana? a i did and love -- ashley: i did and loved it. my first television job. right off the boat. stuart: 50 years ago i was fresh off the boat. this is from gene: if madison alworth wins the megamillions, will she quit her day job? i think she rather likes her job. mike, would you quit? >> short answer yes, but truthfully no. i love what i do so no, i wouldn't. i would keep doing what i'm

doing. stuart: how about you, ash? ashley: absolutely by a couple players for my favorite soccer team and then pursue my dream of a world champion surfer. stuart: i would not. i'd hold out as long as i possibly could. a billion dollars or not. this from jim, with all that harry rejected, abdicated and being stripped of, can he rightfully publish as prince harry? the answer is, yes, he can. he has not yet been stripped of the title of prince, however, there is a petition or, yeah, a big petition in pretty tan that says -- britain that says strip him of everything. we don't like him, we don't want his titles, get rid of it. he's not yet stripped so he can publish. leon, i wonder what the food network thinks of the push to ban gas stoves. i can't imagine watching chopped or chef with electric. nor me. you don't cook, you've got a chef.

>> stuart, of all the things we have to be concerned about, i can't see how gas stoves or not is at the top of the list. stuart: right, i'm with you on that. cooking with gas, ashley? ashley: ab -- well, i like to think i've been cooking with gas. you know what, the government has no right to do this. it's ridiculous, and they're already backing off it by the way so i don't think we'll see it any time soon. stuart: better not. this e-mail from ross. you have many representatives and senators on your show. do they contact you, do you contact them, is there a coordinator who says who's available or are they all just close friends of stu? i don't have any close friends. i don't have any friends quite frankly and to answer your real question, we have two terrific bookers, ari and preston. they coordinate everything, and the idea -- look, i don't put personal friends of mine on the show. no personal friend of mine is a politician and i think that answers it. murphy.

we're friends but not close. we have never broken bread together. same with you, ashley. i've never broken bread with you. ashley: no, we haven't. we e-mail a lot about soccer but that's about it. you don't go out of your house once you finish your day's work. stuart: that's true, i do. this is from kelly. i don't know the answer to this one, why is diesel fuel so much more expensive than gas? here in california, diesel is a dollar more than gas, it's a product of the same refinery process that's used to gasoline so why is it much higher? it's not taxes so what is it? mike, do you know? >> i believe diesel is a heavier fuel so the refining process is actually easier, but just from demand, supply and demand, demand for diesel put the cost higher. i wouldn't take that to the bank but that's my belief. stuart: that's the best answer i could come up with and mike did it for me. thank you, mike. from ed, enough air time for harry and meghan, given a choice, we'd rather hear about

baby yoda. i'm not sure about that. baby yoda is not big in my book. probably better than prince harry. i his we've heard the last or we'll put the last -- the last time you'll hear about harry and meghan was yesterday on this program. ashley: good. stuart: never again, we're done. thanks to everyone, mike, what's your name again? ashley. i'm getting old. ashley: yeah. stuart: thanks to everyone that sent in their feedback. it's time now for the friday trivia question. stick around, mike and ashley. what's that? russo is the capitol of which thgee answer after this.

>> okay, the capital of which country? ashley, you're first. ashley: i'm not sure, number one. stuart: laos? no. >> i'm going to go with four, honduras. stuart: again, wrong. dominica. not the dominican are republic, dominica. haiti, can't remember the other one, honduras. here we go. thanks to everybody. neil, it's yours. neil: you've been doing capitals of countries for days in a row now. yeah. and i noticed that you said something, and i was