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>> good morning, everyone. it's 11:00 on the east coast and monday, february 20th and it's president's day and if you didn't know by now, president biden made a surprise visit to ukraine overnight and met with president soft an zelensky. more on that in a moment. it's president's day and the future markets are open but not doing very much. the dow off about 100 points in the paints but the crypto market is open 24/7. that's the way it is, and bitcoin is very close to $25,000 per coin. that's a rally in bitcoin this morning. now this. tax the rich sounds simple. a@ of wonderful government programs that need paying for but not enough money to pay for them. tax the rich. it doesn't always work as california is now finding out.

there are 40 million people in california and just 150,000 pay 40% of all the taxes collected in the state. california very heavily dependent on the rich and unfortunately they're leaving the state and taking their money with them. whether it's doing remote work from tax friendly location and moving to texas or florida, the rich are jumping ship. it's not just income tax revenue that's down, the state is taking in much less from corporate and capital gains taxes. so california has gone from $100 billion surplus, thanks to federal handouts, to a $20 billion deficit that's growing by the month. think of the politics of this. governor newsom, he wants to be president. how on effort can he win a national campaign when his own state is suffering so badly and its people are leaving in droves? newsom is in new york city speaking at a pro police rally.

it is wildly believes he's laying the ground work for presidential campaign. why not? people are flocking to his state attracted by zero state income tax and education reform and law and order. it's a frequent theme on this program. fading california, booming florida. struggling newsom, surging desantis. tax the rich, welcome the rich. at this point, florida is winning, hands down. third hour of varney starts right now. stu: david webb joining me on this monday, february 20. does it come down to desantis? >> i'm not sure.

desantis is in staten island and last borough of new york city of the five boroughs and the point of tax the rich and where they're going is really important for the presidential campaigns for other states, whoever those -- whoever is running. look at california where there are more criminals left and more illegals left than the rich that newsom wants to tax for the criminals and illegals, no bail laws and baker that was murdered and dragged bay vehicle and her family still says no incourse ration if they happen to be black. california has gone down a dark path and the fact is the people left will pay the price while the rich who can afford the move go to states like florida, go to states like texas, arizona, they're even crossing into nevada, anything to get out. stu: how on earth can gavin newsom win a national vote when

people are leaving his state in droves? if newsom is nominated and the democrat nominee, i don't think he wince. i don't care who his opponent is. what do you say? >> i agree with you first of all. in order to win a national election, you have to have a broad appeal, and he's got a very narrow appeal to the progressive left of the party. you look at newsom and kamala harris that says she's behind joe biden 100%. maybe she's propping him up but she's not even doing a good job of propping herself up. democrat haves a very weak bench. the republicans have stronger opportunities, desantis or not we'll see who develops, does tim scott announce and nikki hali announced and -- haily announce -- nikki haley announced and the failure of bad leadership by pete buttigieg and others and the biden administration is failing americans while the big guy dos to ukraine so he can do what?

show up and mumble? stu: okay. i happen to support his visit to ukraine but that's another story entirely. >> i support the visit and idea, but what about the issues here in america? freedom is important. we're not differing on that. what about f freedom in america? did he stop in ohio at any point in time? stu: point taken, david. vice president harris questioned on unpopularly among democrats. here's what she said to that, roll it. >> dozens of democratic leaders are saying that they not only don't think that he's the strongest candidate, you know, considering the larger field and given his age and what do you think about that? >> i think it's very important to focus on the needs of the american people and not

political chatter out of washington dc. stu: david, she's focusing on the needs of the american people. your response? >> well, she says the political chatter out of washington dc but, stew, this is re--- is it true, this is re--- stu, this is reflected across america and look at economy and loss in value, the average american spending thousands more a year for less whether at the grocery store, gas pump, work every day. look at manufacturing companies that have decided not to hire and therefore more americans are not entering the work force and college students that cannot get their lives started the way they should to build a better path so no matter what kamala harris and the democrats say. this isn't political chatter, it's economic chatter and something you talk about every day. the realities of the economy today. look at expenditures by americans and cost and loss in values of 401ks and end

retirement structures and look at those on fixed incomes that can't afford their existence. it's just not political chatter. it's economic reality. stu: i think you got that right. david, thank you for being with us. we'll see you again soon. thank you. >> absolutely. stu: the market is closed today, it's president's day, but jason katz is our market watcher of the morning and falls to him to comment on the market, which is closed. jason, good to have you with us. let me put it like this, you're a market guy. if there's a slow reduction of inflation, what does that mean for the stock market? >> stuart, mean as whole lot of nada. what it really means is the fed is higher for longer and in turn increase recession risk and in turn results in a sideways market but last week we absorbed what was otherwise pretty challenging news. but we've all seen the handwriting on the wall. nothing is new here.

inflation moving in the right direction albeit with fits and the fed will go 25 if not 50, but the consumer is hanging in there. look at retail sales last week. look at earnings, earnings have been a bit more resilient. to answer your question, the bottom line is that the markets are looking through the fed and inflation to not 2023, but 2024. stu: that's when we might get some kind of nice rally not till 2024 when the fed is sorted out and inflation is sorted out and it's a long-term prospect; right? >> well, depends on your horizon. stocks go up either from multiple expansion, people willing to pay more or earnings growth and we're not getting either. stocks go down when they're not priced for unknown and outside geopolitics and they're unknown and markets pull forward in the first few weeks o f this jeer and all that we expect for the calendar year and they're

absorbing those gains now people like me earn their keep with patience. stu: when the market opens tomorrow, will president biden's trip to ukraine and his meetings over there and the chai these rattling their lethal aid idea, will that have a positive or negative reaction on wall street tomorrow? with our stance of china, don't let politics confuse investments because i think china's market will do far better than ours in the next 8-12 months. stu: we see it. thank you, jason, for being with us on president's day. we always appreciate it. >> of course.

stu: hong kong pushing ahead towards the goal of becoming a crypto hub. hey, ashley. what are they doing to achieve to be a crypto hub? ashley: we've seen this coming a little bit, stu. at the end of october, hong kong pivoted to a pro crypto stance to restore the city's credentials as financial center and regulators are formulating a plan to let retail investors trade digital tokens like bitcoin and ether on exchanges on the futures commission providing safeguard like knowledge tests, risk profiles and reasonable limits on exposure. now a consultation period will end at the end of march, march 31st and the plan is to allow retail trading in the new licensing regime for crypto exchanges on june 1. hohong kong's new approach could open a path to mainland chinese investment if beijing loses the

ban on the crypto market. don't hold your breath. hong kong trying to reinvest itself a little bit. stu: don't hold your breath, we use that expression a lot on this program. ashley: we do. stu: it's valid too because it's quite accurate. ash, thanks a lot. now this, a business owner in ohio says he can't get back into his office after the train derailment and his building was a half mile from the blast and the smell is too much to handle. he's here to tell his story. one school district just enlist add black lives matter task force to teach middle schoolers that they are implicitly biased. the president made a surprise visit to ukraine ahead of the one year anniversary of russian invasion. roll tape. okay. more on the president's war zon, that's what he did. we'll have more on that next. ♪

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♪ stu: only in america. there is the white house on this president's day. 53 degrees in washington dc at the moment. just about right for late february. corey deangelis joins me now. he's a senior fellow at the american federation for children. corey, you're a school choice advocate, is your goal to break the teacher's hold on the public teacher's union? that's my goal, can you do it? >> yes, and we already are and we're freeing the clutches once and for all and it's glory yous

and not a -- glorious and not a dang thing they can do and we're in the middle of a school choice revolution and it's their fault. stu: spreading from one state to another and several states opened up things completely; right? >> yeah, if you look at arizona last year. governor doug doocy put into play and every single family in arizona can take their children's state-funded education dollars, about $7,000 per student, so the education provider of their choosing. public, private, charter or otherwise. if you like your public school, you can keep your public school, but for real this time unlike with the whole doctor thing. iowa has also gone all in this year, utah, west virginia went all in, and red states are engaging in friendly competition right now. in 2023, this is shaping top be another record -- up to be another record-breaking year for school choice and the dominoes are falling and not a dang thing that randi wiengarten and the

teacher's union can do about it. stu: you're a warrior. good stuff. black lives matter is teaching seventh graders, in the anaheim union high school district, they're teaching the students how the students are implicitly biased and daily effects of white privilege. what's going on here, corey? >> this is why we're seeing so much victory when it comes to school choice. the teacher's union overplayed their hands and pushed to keep the schools closed for as long as possible to extort funding from the taxpayers in covid relief and families got to see what was happening in the classrooms like in california today. it's not only in california, this is happening in texas too. the largest teacher's union here just the other week tweeted out promotional materials for black lives matter at school week and some of the materials had included in it medicare for all, police free schools, defunding the police, getting rid of factories. all these ridiculous things. parents just want their kids in schools that focus on a good

education, not indoctrination and that's why school choice is spreading all across the nation. >> could it be that education reform is a key issue in the 2024 presidential election? >> it is in elections right now. during the midterms we saw 76% of the candidates win on the issue of school choice that were supported by my organization. there wasn't a red wave or blue wave, but there was a school choice wave and now you're seeing presidential candidates position themselves as supporters of parental rights in education. it's a political winner. look, for far too long in k-12 education, the only special interest represented the employees, the adults in the system. but now thankfully the kids have a union of their own and they're called parents, and they push back at the school board meetings, but aalso push back at the ballot box too and politicians will be wise to listen to the parents. stu: last one, corey, and forgive me if i'm wrong here but i understand it it was the very

early 1960s and president kennedy, who first issued an executive order that allowed the unionization of public schools in america. if that's accurate, then presumably an executive action from the president could de-unionize the schools. i know this is way out stuff, but it's possible, isn't it? >> yeah, look, one we should abolish the department of education and should have never been born in 1979. things haven't gotten any better and poured over $1 trillion in federal funding into k-12 education but look, yeah, let's de-unionize the schools as well and a better step that's more politically feasible is school choice. if the unions push for bad policies and you have choice, at least there's an incentive to change and up their game in response to competition. stu: cory deangeles, we like your -- corey deangeles, we like your style and work. thank you, sir. a high school in california eliminated honors classes.

ashley, can you explain why? ashley: i'll try. not sure you'll understand it. culver city high school in california ditching its honors classes because it says the courses are failing to enroll enough black and latino students. other california schools are made the same move saying it increases equity but upset parents say they were never consulted. listen to this. >> we got an e-mail saying that the school was going to align the english curriculum with districts equity plan and that was the first i've ever heard of this. then of course looking into the school's equity plan, right away i was troubled by it. ashley: the school districts on average say black and latino students enroll less in excel rated classes before dropping and the culver city school board said students not in honors felt

less successful and motivated. stu. stu: a new report reveals dozens of high schools in illinois didn't have a single student that could do math at their grade level. covid school closures, is that what's that blame, ash? ashley: no, not entirely. chicago's public schools say they're in line believe it or not with other big urban districts, but this absolutely shocking report by a nonprofit group called wire points claims in one chicago school, not a single one of its 88 kids can read at grade level and the same for math. zero kids are proficient. listen. >> child abuse is what's going on in the public schools and these intercities. it's a tragedy. under capitalism, what would normally happen is you'd shut down the schools and say you're not working and you're out of business and we'll find something new for these kids. ashley: yeah, well a rep for the chicago public school system responded to fox news digital

saying in part "as 2022 academic scores were reported last fall, chicago public schools saw that by in large our scores were consist with other large urban districts. we have reminded our community these scores are a direct reflection of the pandemic challenges, not a reflection of the extraordinary talent and potential of students and staff ]. the school district claims that the majority of schools listed in the report are schools which serve students who re-enrolled after dropping out and cater to some of the most volunteers and initial students that face higher -- vulnerable students that face higher rates of challenges. it is frightening, some of the stats, stu. stu: horrible. tell me about chicago's mayor lori lightfoot. i know she's up for reelection, but she might not win; right? ashley: yeah. even the major herself is the first to -- mayor herself is the first to admit her bid is not

smooth by any means and less than two weeks till the election and faces credible threats by three opponents in a nine-person race. her unfavorable ratings have soared as we know, and we've documented this, shires tent-like structures are just fed up with -- chicago residents are fed up with gun violence and poor schooling and she's failed to break into the top two of the nine in recent polling and all of that adds up to the perhaps stunning prospect that a sitting big city mayor could be eliminated from reelection contention in the very first round of voting. stu. stu: ouch. all right, thanks, ash. now this, some classic children's books are being rewritten with more of what is called inclusive language in those books. references to fat characters for example will be deleted. we've got this story for you and we're going to cover it. a senator from ohio blames corporate greed for the train derailment. roll it. >> this is the same old story.

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stu: federal help is arriving in east palestine, ohio, and lucas tomlinson is in the disaster zone. what is the fed doing to help right now, lucas? reporter: stuart, fema is on the ground after initially saying they weren't coming here and it's notable that norfolk ceo allen shaw was here and did not meet with a press conference. we managed to get a piece of sound. >> i'm here to support the community and if you'll excuse me, that's where i'm headed to meet with community members. reporter: like i said, stuart, very brew. norfolk southern has been handing out $1,000 checks but only to people in the east palestine zip code and others in the town south of here say they're being forgotten. here's kayla miller. >> so we're not getting any of

the help and honestly it's not even the financial part of it, that's not going to fix this. but it's just kind of the principle of it. some of us have closer addresses them some of them with the same zip code. reporter: not everyone in east palestine is scared, stuart, or even feeling sick. we spoke to head of the youth basketball program here, matt warner, and he said he had to cancel a hoops tournament over the weekend robbing kids of a chance to compete and kids have been back in school now, i in-person, for a week. >> our sports program in east palestine had a series of cancellations that drastically affected the sports program and a series of programs that affected the revenue. about $40,000 and it was canceled because of the hysteria around the whole event because no teams wanted to come to east palestine. reporter: now president biden's transportation secretary pete buttigieg has written a letter to the norfolk southern ceo asking him to live up to his

commitments and former president donald trump comes here wednesday. stu: yes, he does. lucas, thank you very much. dj yoki own as broadcasting company a half mile from the train derailment site. dj, thank you for coming on the show. have you been able to get back in your office yet? >> we haven't yet. it's testings for one of the toxins going into the office, and we don't feel comfortable bringing people with compromised immune systems or families inside our business at this time. stu: i understand there's a dreadful smell; is that correct? >> yeah, it's hard to describe what it is. i mean, they ex-played to me when if -- explained to me when the epa and everyone was in there but it's like nail polish and it's sweet and you can almost taste it. it's frustrating because they're telling us it's safe, but they don't want to come into our buildings and they won't tell us what's wrong with it. stu: who do you blame for this?

>> i guess there's a lot of finger pointing going on. you know, for us we just want to know that we're going to be okay. as business owners, some people are -- like myself we're able to run at a smaller capacity, about 50% capacity to stay in business, but some people may never recover from this, and they've closed their doors for covid and just got them back open and now this happens. you know, i said before and i'll say it again, we have a lot of people that started businesses because it's the american dream and now they're living the american nightmare. stu: president trump -- former president trump visits east palestine i believe on wednesday of this week. if you had chance to talk to him, what would you say? >> ask him for his help and advice. this is a $56 billion business that came in and up ended a small town in america that could have been anywhere. we need to rebuild as a business. we need to know that our kids are safe, which we feel and they're telling us that they

are. like matt said, we want people to come feel their safe, plant their flag in our town and stand with us and next to us and stand up for what is the red, white, and blue. this is a community that has veterans in it, that fought for our country. stu: dj, you're not seeing that from the administration? am i reading that correctly? >> you're absolutely right. the curtain of administration federally is afraid to come to town and my message to them is if you're scared, get a dog. stu: djyokley telling us how he sees it. we wish you the best of luck and getting back on your feet and getting the business full tilting. >> god bless. stu: you too, sir. president biden just made a surprise visit to ukraine and he met with president zelensky. ashley, headlines, please. ashley: yes. the white house says the president made the unannounced trip to meet with ukrainian

president zelensky as a display of western solidarity. biden says ukraine is still fighting what he called a brutal and unjust war just days of course before the one year anniversary of russia's invasion into ukraine. biden spent more than five hours in the ukrainian capitol consulting with zelensky on next steps and also honoring the country's fallen soldiers and meeting with u.s. embassy staff in that war-torn country and the white house would not go into specifics and national security advisers and interesting jake sullivan said moscow was notified of biden's visit to kyiv shortly before his departure from washington for de-confliction purposes in an effort effort to avoid any miscalculations. air raid sirens went off at one point as nay visit add local cathedral and both carried on unaffected and biden told reporters it was critical there not be any doubt, none

whatsoever about u.s. support for ukraine in the war. that trip today set that in deed. stu: me too. thank you, ash. a new study finds the dirtiest cities in the country all have one thing in common and we of course are going to tell you what that is. ever gone to a diner? out to dinner and witnessed something like this, roll tape? >> r you rotten people should be locked in cages. >> you can't talk to them like that. >> screw you, pal. i can talk about anybody however i want. stu: well, a restaurant in new jersey is now banning young children to prevent that kind of scene. of course it's very controversial so we of course sent madison alworth to report. madison is next. ♪

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stu: popular children's books like charlie and the chocolate facfactory, they're being rewrin to be more inclusive. ashley, is this the publisher making the change? ashley: it is and it's all about removing language that is now deemed offensive. puffen, the publisher of dole's classic works hired sensitivity readers to make changes to certain portions of the author's wording in the uk editions. for instance, augustis gloop was the child in the charlie and chocolate factory and was described as enormous and not fat and twit was described as beastly and now ugly and

beastly. the oompa loompas described as small men and now small people. publishers defending the decision saying it's not unusual to review the language used in works of the past that were then the changes were small and carefully considered. what's next i ask myself? i don't really want to know the answer to that. stu: i don't want to answer you either. thanks, ash. ashley, you've got to listen to this one, a restaurant in new jersey is banning all children under the age of 10. the restaurant said these children are loud, messy, and they could be a liability. madison alworth is outside the restaurant called netty spa getty, the house of spaghetti. are parents pushing back? reporter: stuart, we pivoted and rather than be in front of there we wanted to be inside the a

applebyy's and they're offering free meals to kids and originated from netty's, that's a restaurant down the road and they made that decision to ban children under the age of 10. the restaurant saying they didn't mean to offend anyone with their choice, but this is what they thought was for the best. meanwhile back here at applebee's they've decided if you come in with a adult, kids eat free and one dad and son came in to enjoy an earl i lunch and spoke -- early lunch and spoke to a very well spoken 10-year-old to get his take on all this. take a listen. >> i don't think it's fair. everyone should be allowed to eat at restaurants. reporter: the restaurant feels like a 10-year-old can't proport themselves with class and elegance. do you think you're a good dine fertilizer a restaurant? >> kids aren't bad and don't cause any mayhem.

reporter: i can confirm there was no mayhem and he was very respectful and finished his meal. this applebee's we've heard from the general manager and started yesterday and sales popped and families coming in and taking advantage of this, especially during a holiday week you can expect more to come in. they opened a little while ago and for now i'm eating all of this, but we're expecting more families to come through this afternoon. stu. stu: seriously, madison, i would have thought this was bad news and bad business for nettie's house of spaghetti because people like to eat with their kids and if you chucking them all out, you're pushing business away. reporter: yeah, the reality is there's consumers for both sides and fox 5 station talked to diners and some said they get it and others said we won't go here anymore because we want to be with our kids. people go to all inclusive reports that are adults only. maybe if you're a cup couple and don't have kids and want to go

and not deal with kids screaming, they do this in japan a lot, now the jersey shore taking after japan and deciding some kids can eat at their restaurants but the beauty of america, you get to decide where to eat and if you want to go somewhere where kids are welcome, you have that option. stu: this is one of those stories, madison, where everybody has an opinion. everybody's got an opinion on this. reporter: absolutely. stu: that was a great report. madison alworth, thank you very and have see you soon. there's a celebrity chef i know and his name is guy fieri and he helped his teenage son buy a new car but, ashley, you've got to story. he made his son work for the car. what did he have to do to get the car? ashley: it wasn't a new car. let me explain, the celebrity chef that reportedly signed an $80 million deal with the food network in 2021. i throw that in because he wasn't going to buy his son ryder a car until he spent one

year without no tickets or accidents driving the family mini van with 170,000 miles and his son did that and he was rewarded but not until he solved a challenging treasure hunt that included a trek up a mountainside and dip in a freezing cold pool. poor kid. ryder who turns 17 on december 31st, was given his father's truck as a present for good behavior. maybe the celebrity chef trying to teach some value to his kids that just because dad is rich doesn't mean you get whatever you want, which is probably a good idea. stu: very good idea. that's a good story. well done, guy fieri and son. thanks, ash. i'll change the subject completely. addicts in portland, oregon, so desperate to get high they're dumping out water bottles to recycle a water bottle for cash and then use the cash to buy drugs. what a story. we're going to hear from

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stu: at least one police officer hurt and several patrol cars damaged after street races take over an intersection. this is in austin, texas. ashley, why are some people blaming the police for this? ashley: because there's not enough of them, stu. that chaotic scene erupted saturday night where street races took over the intersection pouring into the middle of the street and cop car having to back up and fireworks set off and police were confronted and you say one law enforcement officer was injured and several police cars damaged in the brawl. now questions are being asked about the number of vacancies at the austin police department and ongoing staffing problems at the city's 911 call center. austin city council herein lies the problem, austin city council slashed the police department's budget funding by about a third

during riots in 2020. at the very height of the de-funneled the police movement. that -- defund the police movement and that funding was restored and officers said no thanks, we're not wanted and left the department in droves and when you have a situation like this saturday night, one council member saw this and called 911 and put on hold for 28 minutes and have an issue with not enough cops in austin. stu: another one for you, ashley, on a related story. there's a new study revealing that the dirtiest cities in america have one thing in common and you're going to tell us what it is, ash. ashley: shocking coincidence, stu. all run by a democrat. according to a study among 152 of the biggest cities in the united states, there you can see houston won the number one spot for dirtiest city followed by newark, new jersey; san bernadino, california; detroit and jersey city, new jersey. two jersey cities and each of the five cities measured in

pollution, living conditions, infrastructure and consumer satisfaction. all the percentage of residents find their cities dirty and houston number one and the cleanest city is virginia beach, who's mayor robert dire is a republican. coincidence? i think not. stu. stu: i hear you. thanks very much indeed. yet again i'm going to change the subject to something infinitely more serious. drug addicts in portland, oregon, dumping out water bottles to recycle the bottles and claim the money, cash, and then use it to go buy fentanyl. angela todd post ted that stunng video on social imme media and s with us now. where are they getting the water bottles from? >> we have a program here called the oregon trail card or snap card, and they get about $130 a month on said card.

they spend $2.99 on a 24 pack and then redeem it for ten-cent as bottle so $2 -- actually for them free gets them $2.40. doesn't sound like much but fentanyl pills on our streets are $2 and as low as $1 a piece for your fix. stu: good lord. oregon became the first state in the country to de-criminalize small amounts of hard drugs. heroin, fentanyl and meth. is this the result? >> it is. it's been a colossal failure. our government's plan is to expand services for drug addicts instead of looking at treatment options so here what we do is give them tents, tarps, free needles, access to food cards that can get them money for drugs, and then we wait for them to die on our streets. it's disgusting. stu: what's it like in downtown portland? set the scene for me? it secif we -- if i were to walk

around, would i see people shooting up in the treat, tent cities, and felt all over the place? >> yes, and not just downtown but city wide and particularly the east side and definitely downtown. you drive around and you see people wandering into the streets and we have record fatalities from accidents from people that are high in the streets. we have -- it's very common to see people with needles in their arms, people shooting -- doing fentanyl with aluminum foil, et cetera. having trouble with my words. stu: sorry to interrupt but i would have thought if the situation was that bad, there's be a reaction, a political reaction against it and something would be done. last 30 seconds to you. any signs of something being done? >> well, that's what we're doing at pdx reel and there's a lot of grass roots people getting together and talking about inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of our government and what we can do about it as citizens.

we have to get involved and can't just vote and expect the people to take care of it. we have to make them accountable. stu: angela todd, i think you've shocked us all with the idea of empty out water bottles to get a few cents cash. extraordinary. thank you and we wish you the best of luck. >> thank you. stu: 11:55, time for the monday trivia question. here it is. how many presidents have won the noble peace prize? 4, 7, 10, 13? the answer after this.ind ♪ different how? aren't we all just looking for the hottest stocks? (fisher investments) nope. we use diversified strategies to position our clients' portfolios for their long-term goals. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions for you, right? (fisher investments) no, we don't sell commission products. we're a fiduciary, obligated to act in our client's best interest. (other money manager) so when do you make more money, only when your clients make more money? (fisher investments) yep. we do better when our clients do better. . .

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stuart: here we go. we asked a pretty good question i'd say, how many presidents have won the nobel peace prize? i know that barack obama won but i can't think of many others off the top of my head. so i will go with four. what say you, ashley? >> jimmy carter in 2002. i will go with seven just because it is not four. >> it's four. the answer, teddy roosevelt. >> well-done. stuart: teddy roosevelt, early 1900, woodrow wilson, jimmy carter, barack obama. four. we got that right. well-done, ashley. well-done. i was going to ask you for your opinion on kids in restaurants. we haven't got anytime. we'll discuss it tomorrow maybe. >> next time. stuart: that's it for "varney & company" today. "coast to coast" starts now. ♪. >> i don't care what they say, i