>> t the sweeping 11 area pardon which to my is basically a validation of all the ideas we had about burisma and trade. >> my message is don't wait. don't put it off. let the market know you're going to getti the ground running in january. >> iran is on notice, china and north korea on notice and they understand this weakness that invites aggression of the biden administration is not tolerated. >> they would think about lemore seizure disorders for the pro-life protesters. >> what he's done with the pardon is more of the lawfare we've seen over the last four years. ♪ ♪ stuart: nice little christmas music. looking out at fox christmas tree. is rivals the rockafeller tree.

moving on, tuesday, december 3. dow is down 100 and virtually no change for s&p and nasdaq up all of seven points. big tech and mixed picture this morning only one loser and that just happened to be microsoft. amazon, apple, nvidia and they're all up and down nine-cents. check the yield on 10-year treasury and still below. it's moved above 420. you're at 421 as we speak. now this. i sometimes wander if california is really part of america. i arrived in san francisco in 1975, nearly 50 years ago. back then the golden state was indeed golden. it was the cultural leader of the country and seemed like everybody wanted to live there. 50 years later it's lost its way. california is now fighting a rear guard action to keep the old failed policies in place.

they can't handle donald trump and gavin newsom established a $25 million legal fund to defend california's values. the fund will pay lawyers to fight trump if he challenges california's extreme pollution rules or if he enforces the deportation of migrant criminals. i wonder how taxpayers feel about fighting the feds when the state is deeply in debt already. these wonderful california values have already saddled the state with the highest poverty rate in the country and some of the highest tax rates. let's not forget the bullet train that newsom pledged to reign in. nowhere near complete and cost of $100 billion. most expensive gas in the country, a crime wave and failure of k through 12 public education and newsom's children go to private school. newsom is leading the developing trump resistance and using it as a platform for his run at the presidency in 2028. four years, that's a long time

in politics and there's no telling how things will develop in the second trump presidency. i just can't imagine california leading the culture again. i can't imagine the rest of the country wanting to look like california. at the moment, newsom is all the resistance has and that ain't much. third hour of varney starts now. stuart: jimmy failla with me now and newsomand does america want to look like california? >> no, if you take a state, states are like restaurants. if there's a line to get n you've got a good restaurant. california has a line to get out. it costs more money to buy a u-haul you have to reserve months in advance because they are literally becoming the hotel california. you can check out any time you want, but you can't leave because they don't have any u-hauls for you.

he's grossly mismanaged the state, and people's opinion of california values is widely reflected by the results of the past general election. trump won the popular vote and made significant in roads in states like california that liberal values have failed. to your point, this is all about positioning for the next go round and the governorship will end and he wants to get ahead of the fundraising curve and saw the polls that kamala acting like she'll run and gavin wants to run and position himself now as that vocal face, as you said, some type of resistance, i don't think people will buy this vocal face. no matter how much work is done. stuart: i want to talk about barstool sports dave portnoy. you want to see this. he blasted biden for pardoning his son hunter. watch this. >> now, this is the point-over the rant. they think they're morally superior to everybody else. the democratic party, the people, the talking heads that sit there and call republicans

trash and we're stupid and no strong women around trump. this is why you got obliterated in the election because you guys are all [bleep] liars so stop pretending you're this moral righteous authority and you're so true and virtuous. you guys are [bleep] scum bag liars and prove it time and again. stuart: he didn't hold back, jimmy. >> he's fired up and he's a michigan fan and his team won on saturday and riding high and a couple extra bucks from the bookie in his pocket, not that he needs them. the biden pardon is what we reveal to be true. the biden family wanted us to believe the trump family for the entire time of trump's public life and wanted us to believe trump was a morally bankrupt criminal who was going to use political power to avoid accountability for his crimes, which is what the bidens did. they pardon the guy back to 2014 and not only pardon hi son, he pardoned him for other things, okay, which definitely has a

whiff of corruption. i'm pro portnoy on this one. stuart: the oxford dictionary says it's word of the year is brain rot. meaning the supposed deterioration of a person's mental or intellectual state of over consumption of trivial material. brain rot? >> i like that you left out the part where they showed a picture of kamala harris. that was a nice gesture by you being holidays and all. it's an apropos word and we've been eaten by phones and not doing the critical thinking to function as adults and brain rot is a symptom of that. get out and live in the real world, there's a lot of shared values and a lot of good momentum in the country and america is coming back. you feel it on the street. stuart: i do. >> we even got hulk hogan back. it's really like 1985 around here. stuart: by the way, you're hosting fox nation's first ever night of comedy? >> yes, night of comedy decembed

university. stuart: tickets on sale? >> on sale right now and it'll be a rowdy show. we're defunding the joke police. stuart: get tickets at foxnation.com/nightofcomedy. thank you, jimmy. >> you're the best. stuart: big jobs number on friday and maybe that's a factor here. the dow is off 130 and very small gain for the nasdaq, which actually earlier this morning hit a new all time high. all right. mike, this was a very good month's november for stocks. now, you were always in the market so do you believe we'll carry on through december and next year with a solid -- what are you smiling? this is a buildup. >> following jimmy failla, i have to smile. november was a strong month and 2024 was a strong jeer and sitting here we're up give or take 27% on s&p 500 year-to-date.

a year going back 11 month asks a lot of people told the -- experts told you be cautious. you have to stay out of the market or invest in this or rotate out of that. and what's worked again is staying long in the market. now as we sit here, what happened? that's the past. what happens in the next month? what happens over the course of 2025. i think we have a strong rally for december. i think we have the potential to close the year north of 30% to the upside. so that's only another 3% from here. i think it's very doable. and the reason is you talk to -- jimmy talked about usa is back. we have an economy that is back or pushing higher because of incoming trump presidency. stuart: how did tariffs help the economy? >> okay, the one thing they don't do is hurt the economy. what president trump is saying, people want experts that want to tell you this is inflationary, this will hurt the american people. it's really not. it's going to do the exact opposite, help the american people by making goods made in

america more affordable for american consumers. it's going to prevent companies from going to mexico or china or anywhere else and developing products there, and then having them sold at a cheaper price within the united states than what u.s. companies can do. just like you did last time around, i think it'll be a boost for the u.s. economy and a lot of people are discounting that right now. stuart: got it, mike. stay there for me, please, for the hour. a delaware judge just blocked elon musk's $56 billion tesla pay package. lydia hu with us this morning. what happens now? >> well, stuart, as you point out always seems like the lawyers win because tesla says they're going to appeal and more work for the law lawyers and tea posted this on x after that decision "the court's decision is wrong and we're going to appeal the ruling if not overturn meaning that judges and plaintiffs lawyers run delaware companies rather than their rightful owners, the shareholders".

stuart, this is the second time the delaware judge decided to strike down elon musk compensation package. tesla shareholders approve that package for musk six years ago. at that time, the company was worth around $60 billion and shareholders wanted mussing to focus on growth and they -- musk to focus on growth and decided to tie compensation to performance and stock options only if tesla hit a market cap of $650 billion. at that time, no one really expected him to do it, but he did and did it sooner than what was expected and 2.6 billion and value spiked to around $56 billion by the time it was canceled in january and the judge decided then that musk had too much influence over the tesla board, she said, and the process for adopting this package to pay musk was not transport. the shareholders in june res responded and got together and voted to approve the package again. tesla lawyers argue that had the

shareholders are fully aware of details and the judge's concerns, took it back to court. the judge rejects it again. big concerns coming from some heavyweights in the business community. you know who this is, cathy wood. she called the judge "activist judge at its worst and assault on investor rights". wood is confident the judge will overturn it. i was reporting on this in january, the first time the judge rejected it. vivek ramaswamy was commenting on our network about this saying this is a real damage to capitalism. it's so interesting that musk and vivek are working together now in the next administration. stuart: it's not absolutely over? >> it's not over. stuart: total forever rejection of the pay package. stuart: it's not over and they're going to appeal and before anyone gets worried about musk, he's still the wealthiest man in the world, even without the pay package, which sin credible. stuart: 360 billion. incredible. lydia, thank you indeed. coming up, the u.s. has nearly 1,000 troops in syria. the government says they're not picking sides after rebels

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stuart: the new head of texas department of public safety vows under his watch the state will not give up one square inch to the cartels. brook taylor joins me from austin. brooke, what's his plan? reporter: stuart, the director is going to be in charge of operation lone star response from dps side of things, something that many democrats have said is a waste of money and that troopers shouldn't be patrolling their own border. we'll show you what happened this weekend, we saw in full effect another devastating video here of a young 5-year-old girl caught on camera thanksgiving weekend in a smuggler's hands running across the border. she was loaded into his car and driven to a hotel. dps troopers caught this happening and followed, recovered the young girl and arrested the smuggler. dps said the girl's mom found the smuggler on the internet and

paid $8,000 for him to smuggle her little girl across the border. governor abbott takes over the one that retire #-d after 15 years and we spoke to him about the pressing issue of unaccompanied minors at the border. >> getting the kids over in the process and they leave. we have no idea what happens and it weighs on police. reporter: will the new administration make your job easier now? >> absolutely. reporter: the majority of the activity happening in the del rio sector right now according to data we got from border patrol. this was on sunday, a group of 176 illegal immigrants including unaccompanied children in maverick county. 15 of the migrants from cuba, brazil, venezuela, and columbia. stuart. stuart: brooke, thank you very much indeed. trump's pick for the next border czar, tom homan, say the cartels

are changing strategy ahead of the next trump term. watch this. >> i think the cartels are breaking up into smaller groups and that way the president of mexico can say i've stopped these caravans and working with the cartels to put them in smaller groups across the border. this will not stop. stuart: ron vitiello joining me. ron, there'll be no change at the board eric till january 20th. still using catch and release and using the app to fly them in. have i got that right? >> that's right. they've moved illegal traffic to the air and air travel for people coming from overseas directly into the united states and they're just as illegal and have the same status as people crossing the river illegally down in texas. so we have an administration that has lied to us about what's happening on the border for about four years and had

unprecedented surge in illegal entries in the border and going in the boarder and the biden harris administration and it'll continue till trump takes the oath and is back in the oval office. giving the department of homeland security and the tools they need to secure the border. stuart: everything changes after taken the oath on january 20th. reverse of the situation, is that right -- immediately, is that right? >> yes, i agree with you. it'll all change and you see the inklings of the change. the prime minister of canada flew to mar-a-lago to talk to the president about his statements on the border and tariffs and the mexican president said interesting things about the president's call about tariffs in mexico about controlling the border and working on fentanyl and working on demand for drugs in the united states and each has a opportunity to work with our new president, who already knows how to control this boarder and knows what policies works, and

will re-instate them on day one. stuart: i'm sure you've seen this but new york times reports that mexican car cartels are recruiting on college campuses and want chemistry students to help them create stronger strains of fentanyl. how will trump go after the cartels and talk of using special forces and talk of seizing their money? how will it work? what will he do to the cartels? >> we have a full court press for north america in the region or the world and best way forward for mexico to ascend to doing very specific things in country to combat the power and viciousness of the cartels. whether that special forces or military, whether they designate them as terrorist organizations and all of those things should be on the table in the discussions within the u.s. government starting on january 20th but also with our international partners with mexico and in the region because these cartels have way too much

influence over the lives in the united states and look u how many people have died of fentanyl poisoning in our country. and way too much influence in mexico. stuart: something will be done. ron vitiello, thank you for joining us. we'll see you soon, i do hope. thank you, sir. the mayor of frederick, maryland, he's fighting trump and border czar tom homan's plan for a mass deportation. ashley, come back in again, please. what's he doing? ashley: yeah, well, the mayor announced he's going to set up a taxpayer funded legal advocacy fund. why? to help defend immigrants from trump's deportation plans. listen to this. >> i'll be asking the city council to support a legal advocacy fund for the upcoming fiscal if you find. it'll provide resources to community partners for frederick residents that are harmed by policies from the new administration and ensuring they have the legal support they need to stand strong and remain in this community they've chosen to

call home. >> plenty of reaction and federal -- frederick county judge responded calling the plan a very bad idea. >> i thought it was totally inappropriate and i don't think he has a right to make that decision unilaterally. i think he's going to anger the taxpayers, and there's already a number offe advocacy groups to provide legal council for people in removal proceedings. he's invited more problems by potentially saying we're going to protect you in frederick city and not going to cooperate. that could invite other criminal elements including criminal gangs that may think they're safe here. ashley: adding that the veteran doesn't need the blessing to conduct federal operations. stu. stuart: thanks, ashley. take a look at micro strategy and they continue to buy more bitcoin. let's see where the market

thinks of that. they're up a couple of bucks, 0.65% and still buying more bitcoin and they've got a huge stock of -- 400,000 bitcoin or something like that. stock at 382. by the way, tomorrow, micro-strategy executive chair, michael say la joining charles payne on making money and charles will have an exclusive interview with sam altman, chief executive of openai. catch it all tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on fox business. coming up, do you remember this, members of the lick rale media praising president biden for nog president biden for not giving a pardon. >> the president of the united states has so much respect for the law hyde not pardon his son. >> joe biden's character of public servant is what drove him to show the law applies to everyone. stuart: sometime haves to laugh and the media scrambling on how to respond. we're all over this story, believe me. trump issues a stark warning and says there'll be hell to pay if the hostages in gaza are not

freed before his inauguration. will this help get them out? a new york post jon levine responds. jon is next. ♪

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stuart: cdc announced that the owe koenen lie outbreak linked to onions served at mcdonalds is over. mike murphy has stock picks for us. netflix. >> we've talked about netflix for awhile. 600, 700, 800 and now 900 basically now and going to continue to move. what you're seeing from netflix with the live sports and you stayed up to watch tyson against jake paul, the fight. stuart: are you kidding me? >> netflix on christmas day will have the two football games on, nfl games. you'll be able to watch them only on netflix. they've addressed password issues and putting out more content and stock has a bit more room to run from here. stuart: you also like snap chat and you've mention that had one before : >> you know, it's huge with the seens and the younger generation, the 20 somethings.

they use snap chat religiously and they haven't figured out yet how to monetize all the users they have. they continue to lose money but when they turn that around, similar to what uber did. when they turn that around, the stock is off to the races. stuart: got it. thank you, mike. now this, the u.s. is calling for a deescalation in syria after a rebel group seized control of aleppo. jennifer, we have trooped stationed in syria. i believe there's 900 there. what are they doing? reporter: that's right, stuart. they're there for counter lightning mission but the second largest city, aleppo, by the syrian opposition force is the greatest threat to the regime since 2011. the u.s. is not involved but did have to resort to using a special de-confliction hot line with their russian counter parts given potential danger from misunderstandings as russia air force carrying out the strikes

to protect the assad regime and they struck the city west of aleppo trying to slow the advance of the rebel fighters. >> this commander has used the hot line with russia to ensure there's opalines of communication given the fact that we do have forces operating in officially close proximity as it row lates geographically to syria. i want the group captured four new towns on tuesday and near the in-n-outer largest city and president assad's military are pulling out and the pentagon and state department are pulling back about disinformation spread about the kremlin that the u.s. military is involved and the u.s. designated the group leading the assault as terrorist organization in 2012 after it declared allegiance to al-qaida. >> we want to see deescalation

of the situation. the terrorist organization designated as such by the united states and we certainly do not support that organization in any way shape or form. form. reporter: as you mentioned, stu, 900 troops remain stationed and if the courage regarding the camps where 45,000 isis affiliated refugees are held in eastern syria guarded by the kurdish force ifs they decide to leave the resurgence of isis. stuart: jennifer griffin, thank you very much. president trump threatened there'll be "hell to pay if the has tajikistaned are not freed -- hostages are not freed before election day". is trump going to get the hostages back? >> i think so. for a year we've been waiting for president bide ton show even

10% of this energy and initiative. americans this reminds me of 1979 and had hostages held in iran and jimmy carter was negotiating and nothing came of it. we were being mocked on the world stage and president reagan came in and released by inauguration day. stuart: they're responding to trump and >> they know what's coming. stuart: they stabbed a man in time square on sunday in the middle of new york city and happened because the victim refused to take their picture for heaven's sake, jon. we have 60,000 criminal migrants in the city and how do you go

about cleaning that up. you have to take out the trash, stake out the city and trash. paid for by the city and coming to new york, you'll pay more and migrants taken up a quarter of the housing and hotel stock is crazy. one good thing is mai mayor adams is trying to get federal clemency from president trump and he kind of has him over a barrel. i think there will be a lot of opportunities for cooperation between mayor adams and incoming administration for the deportations because clemency is like that over his head. >> when he had a city councilman and said city ask state officials could face federal indictments and we've learned over many years, nobody is above the law, stu. and people who break the law need to be held accountable.

>> hunter biden. see what happens. stuart: it'll be a battle. >> certainly a battle. >> scary time for new york city. i've never seen it this bad where it could really break and we need some common sense to get it back. >> maybe less of a battle than you think. i think especially with mayor adams, might be a lot more cooperation than people realize. stuart: saying this but only time will tell. >> time will tell. stuart: jon, you're all right. thank you, jon. this just coming at us, the judge in hunter biden's delaware case has terminated further proceedings but did not outright dismiss the case. that means his delaware gun case is over but it's not erased from the record as hunter's legal team was hoping. now we'll await judge mark in los angeles to see how he ends that case. coming up, did you know it's giving tuesday? we're expected to donate billions to charities today but with higher prices creating

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reporter: well, the past two years, stuart, it was $3.1 billion worldwide today. and they're worried that that number has plateaued. there are five fewer days between thanks giving and christmas this year, which means the salvation army is worry that had with the five fewer days that donation cans decline. >> we have a potential drop of alaska $13.5 million because of the five fewer days so we're encouraging everyone like these folks to come out and have fun with the ketanji and will raise money and make a big difference. reporter: the little red kettles with the bell ringer outside of wal-mart, target, local food store, they bring in, what, $80-$100 per hour? $100 million at the red kettle this holiday season plus another 100 million digitally. now, stuart, they're accepting bitcoin and ethereum. make a donation, one in three

families are living -- struggling to make bills. >> one in three adults admit to struggling financially. we've had a double digit percentage increase in number of homeless and folks out there are in need and people can make a difference in their neighbor's lives. reporter: in the meantime, you've got a flash mob in the heart of new york city, stuart. merry christmas. happy hanukkah. stuart: you're a good sport, lauren. dancing with the salvation army in the heart of new york city. now this, this thursday, fox nation's sixth annual patriot's award honoring every day heros across the country. i have shane henderson with me. he's the president of metal art of wisconsin. he made the patriot awards and actual award. see it right in front of us here. what's so special about this? >> we did the 2022 patriot awords and that was some of our best work. we'll have a hard time beating it. stuart: you've been there.

what's special? >> well, this is a 1.5-inch thick piece of hard maple with a normalized quilted maple union blue from jeff o'conner. stuart: what does normalized mean? >> they pull a vacuum and sucks in all the blue die and wounded combat veteran out of virginia, jeff o'conner at o'conner's wood working did this for us. this steel here, commemorative stripe is steel donated to us from tunnel to towers that is from the world trade center. stuart: is it really? now, if i were to cut this in half, i'm not going to but if i were to cut this in half, the color would be all the way through the wood? >> correct. the sa slam vacuum sucks this de through to make it blue throughout. stuart: did you make that flag there too? >> this is the same as award from 2022. stuart: is that wood in >> hard maple. stuart: all the way through? >> yep.

stuart: how did you get into that business? >> my son was 10 in 2013 and made a flag and put it on instagram and went viral, like stupid viral. had no employees and chased american dream and 11 years later, it's a pretty large company. stuart: doing okay? >> we've shipped 60,000 products and all involve around patriotism and all flags that open up, flags that turn into a bar on the wall, and we have a brand new invention we did, a refrigerated flag called a chill daddy and big 4-foot flag that hangs on the wall and folds down and refrigerator come pressoer in it. compressor in it. stuart: you're a discovery. truly beautiful. >> thank you. stuart: tickets for the patriot awards, completely sold out baa watch it at home, 8:00 p.m. eastern this thursday exclusively on foxnation.com. i want to get back to the breaking numbers from the national retail federation. 197 million people shopped over the weekend. that's a very big number, yes,

it is. it's actually slightly less than last year. what do you make of that, murph? >> it's a good number, and i think people nationwide really just if you look around, people walk the streets of new york and it's packed. the sidewalks are packed. try getting into a restaurant right now, packed. lines to get into stores. that's here but nationwide, people are feel ago bit better. people have hope and believing in the american dream, which regardless of what was spent give or take a couple hundred million here or there and over the holidays, it's setting up really strong for the u.s. academy and the u.s. consumer. stuart: martin scorsese the saints available on fox nation and the newest episode about saint sebastian. >> you are a defender of rome. >> we must reestablish order.

>> i speak in the name of the one true god. stuart: catch new episodes every sunday through december 8 on fox nation. it's that time where we go back to the markets and check out the dow 306789 the split of winners and losers and a few more losers than winners and lot more red than green and dow is down 200 points almost exactly. seattle hosting annual christmas tree lighting. the mayor couldn't help himself. he just had to politicize the event. watch. >> social justice for all. we'll continue fighting for hands down and going for all games. stuart: jason rantz is fired up about this and he's next. ♪

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stuart: repeat this and the judge in hunter biden's delaware case has terminated further proceedings but did not outright dismiss the case. that means his delaware gun case is over but it's not erased from

the records as hunter's legal team was hoping. now we're waiting for the judge in los angeles to see how he ends the tax case against hunter. we're waiting. before president biden pardoned hunter, members of liberal media prized him for re--- praised him for refusing to intervene. >> joe biden said he'd not pardon his son or change his sentence. how stark is this? >> president biden's words are striking not just because he's speaking about doj prosecution of his own son, but because of how those words so completely contrast with what his opponent, a current president of the united states has -- >> he has so much respect for the law and would not pardon his son. >> joe biden's character of public servant drove him to make clear that the law applies to everyone. stuart: almost laughable. look at this headline, joe biden pardon of son hunter.

again reviewers what's wrong with the media. jay con rantz wrote it and he's here now. jason, the media never admits it's wrong, do they? >> no, they don't. that's the problem here. we're talking about analysts and that's different. that's different. we expect that from msnbc analyst but looking at journalists, they're not supposed to be stenographers for the democrats and the framing was no different than the msnbc partisans and that's pr not journalism. know they've been shown to be complete fools for just simply accepting the word of joe biden that no reasonable person, no reasonable person believed that they're framing in equally disingenuous way and framing it titled biden isn't the first person to pardon a relative. okay? biden pardoned son to defend off more attacks. that's silly and he lied and decided there are in fact some

people above the law and this should be very easy for the media to call it out, but they simply refuse. stuart: yeah, they're invested in it. you went to the seattle christmas tree lighting. i know the mayor gave a speech, but seemed completely political. why did he feel the need to politicize a holiday event? something in the air in seattle? >> i mean, that's usually the case. it's almost always fentanyl or weed frankly, but the reason why he did it is the same reason we're getting in from democrat leaders, mostly on the west coast and basically saying we're going to trump proof the cities, counties and states and feels like every opportunity to get in front of a crowd the folks will take the opportunity to use it to get political and there was a moment in the speech where he said something along the license of this is not just a tree lighting ceremony and gets into some of the politics and with respect, this is per happen as controversial take. it is just a tree lighting ceremony. that's all it's supposed to be. there's a whole bunch of people

there that don't need to be lectured about the fight against, you know, restrictions on abortion or tax against lgbtqia2++. stop and enjoy the holiday season presence. all unit around the holiday christmas tree. stuart: seems like times have really changed very recently? last word to you. state to maximize >> yeah, absolutely. trump broke a whole lot of people and they're not willing to look in the mirror and say to themselves, they're the problem. it's not donald trump. stuart: it's not. jason rantz, good stuff. thank you for joining us. see you again soon. >> thank you. stuart: the tuesday trivia question. i have no clue about this but murph thinks he has it right. french polynesia has how much islands, 88, 106, 118 or 126? the answer momentarily.

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stuart: we did ask french polynesia is made of how many islands? one hundred 9? one hundred 18? you have the privilege of going

first. ashley: it is a privilege and knowing our sneaky producers it is either the lowest number or the highest number, go big or go home, number 4, one hundred 18. stuart: mike murphy always claims to get the trivia question right. what your answer? >> i will go with number one. 88. stuart: i will go with number 2, ninety six. i don't know why. the answer is one hundred 89 first settled by natives in 200 bc, later colonized by the french in 1880, all those islands in french polynesia. you've got it right. kudos to you. ashley: it is embarrassing. stuart: thanks for being with us. see you again tomorrow. my time is up. three seconds, neil cavuto. neil: i never would ha