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economy's strong enough, it actually doesn't need many more rate cut ands if they'll still be accommodative if it needs it. >> from what we've seen and read in the house, i agree with the foreign affairs chairman, mike mccaul, that this is likely a china ccp or prc surveillance operation. >> there was a mandate delivered in this election, and it was not for buzz -- business as usual. it was to cut spending as it needs to be cut, to have the government be more efficient. >> his legacy, shredded. remember, he had aspirations of being the next fdr. oh, my word did that fall short. ♪ hark, the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn king ♪ stuart: don't you love it? that's real christmas music p. that's frank she gnat rah, for heaven -- sinatra, it sounds like bing crosby. are you sure you got that right,

producers? >> frank sinatra's a very talented man. [laughter] stuart: i better move on. we are 13 days away from the times square new year's eve celebrations, and can we see it? yes, we can see it. if okay, they're getting ready to announce this. that's the giant 7-feet-tall numerals for 2025. they have arrived at times square with. we thought we'd like to show you. the ball drops at midnight, december 3 isst. it's going to happen right there. to the markets. oh, don't you love the green? the dow industrials up 200. the nasdaq's up nearly 60 to points. big tech, mostly higher but not entirely so. we've got -- oh, i'm wrong. nvidia is up, alphabet is up, but apple, amazon and microsoft are down a little. check the 10-year treasury yield, that's around 4.40. precisely 4.40. all right, now this. i'm a big fan of new york times' columnist bret stephens.

his column today is timed, done with never trump. it is a classic. he el el. wently goes after trump's over the top critics. he writes, time to drop the heavy moralizing and incessant doom saying that tip nice as much of the never trump -- typifies so much of the never trump movement p. throughout the campaign the elites talked down to voters. ah, they were so far above us and trump would take us to ruin. that's to not good politics. ordinary people care about the cost of living and the open border, not so much january the 6th and saving democracy. the never trump people investigated every move by trump's family but conveniently ignored biden's relatives. stephens is not particularly kind to trump, but he understands his appeal. he writes, the elites see trump as crass, but voters saw him as charismatic. to the elite, he is ignorant, but to regular focus he is intuitive. to the elites, he's dishonest, but he comes across as

authentic. name calling doesn't work with a candidate like trump. the extremes of the never trump brigade helped give him the election. here's how stephens ends his column, let's enter the new year by wishing the new administration well, by giving some of trump's cabinet picks the benefit of the doubt, by not sounding paranoid about the ever-looming end of democracy, by hoping for the best. that's in "the new york times," something positive about president-elect donald j. trump. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ ♪ stuart: congressman jason chaffetz is with me now. jason, "the new york times" is the bible of the left. are any democrats going to follow stephens' advice? >> no, absolutely not. [laughter] the reason it's a story and it's on your take is because it's an outlier. but i thought it was fair, it

was very reasonable, it made sense. i don't think these media elites, these coastal media with elites have ever taken time or understand donald trump, and i don't think they understand middle america. and yet donald trump is the most revered politician of our time. he was it was -- it was one of the biggest comebacks ever, and his authenticity won the day, and i think he has a mandate, deserves an opportunity to get his cabinet in place and deliver on what he promised to do. that's what the american people want, and they were loud and clear about that. stuart: trump hating doesn't work. they tried it many times. new york's governor, kathy hochul, he's calling to abolish the electoral college. >> the people of new york state and the united states of america should and must have their votes count equally. and that the popular vote should prevail. this convoluted process also leads candidates for president to spend an inordinate amount of

time in a few swing states. the electoral college does not contribute to the overriding objectives set forth in our great constitution. stuart: i don't get it. jason, hochul is -- i always hi of her as an accidental governor. why is she suddenly calling for a radical change like in this? -- like this? >> well, democrats are desperate to try the figure out how to win elections, and changing the rules is not going to get them there. donald trump thumped them, he dominated no matter huh you slice it. but, look, governor hochul, with all due respect, she's not one of the smartest people out there. i don't think she understands the founding of our country, the idea that it was there, the electoral college, to give some equal weight the smaller states. so it's not just dominated by, in this case, california and new york and texas. you got to have -- you've got to have, it's smaller states like place like a utah or wyoming, even a delaware or rhode island, a hasn't to participate as well.

a chance to participate as well. it's hollow. it's what the democrats are grasping for. they want to change the rules. they want to change the court, they want to change lots of things. why don't they focus on actually creating a winning message and delivering for the american people. maybe that would work better for them. stuart: it sure would. thanks for joining us, jason. merry christmas to you. >> thank you. merry christmas, thank you. stuart: the supreme court announced they will hear arguments in the boitdance bid to -- bytedance bid to to force a pause in the sale of tiktok. two arguments -- two hours of arguments ordered for january the 10th. okay. check those markets, please. nice green, looking at the dow up nearly 200, s&p up 16, nasdaq up 61 points. mark themmer with me for the -- mark tepper with me for the entire hour. when a client reaches out to you and says i'm thinking about jumping into crypto, what do you tell them? >> those are tricky conversations, and i'm having

probably 2 to 3-hour-long conversations with clients every single day right now, and it's always a topic that gets brought up. one of the things is they feel like they should have some exposure, stu, but they're also concerned they're too late. they weren't interested when it was $50,000, all of a sudden they're interested at 0000. so we are arriving at a max target for them. i consider it an alternative the asset class. and for someone who's 60 years old, maybe that's 3% of their investable assets. so in if that situation what we have been doing is buy roughly half of that now and then the other half gets dollar cost averaged in ov the course of the next 12 months, and that is helping them to feel a bit more comfortable about potentially being too late to the party, but still having the opportunity to gain some exposure. stuart: good for you. good idea. >> not bad, thank you! came can up with that one on my own. [laughter] stuart: small busiss optimis

very, very strong. what does that imply for you fo? >> sthat, typically, wheneve you e a ike in small business optimism, small cap stks dvery well. and, youw, throughout the bide biden presincy the nfib, small busine optimism mber, has been below 100. now itumped above aftetrump s elected. and if you think about small businesses, over the course of the last five months, four out of the lt five months according to a, they have cut emplees. so thehave not been experienng the same thing larger companies have because when there's economic uncertainty, small busesses don't have that war est available. they startgo into survival mode instead. small caps, the russell 00 not quite the same, but they share a lot of those similar concerns with economic uncertainty kind of going out the window. those should rally next year. stuart: thanks vy much, mark. more for youater. president biden says he supports banning members of

congress from trading stocks. grady trimble at the white house for us. why is he taking a position on this now? if. >> reporter: maybe to make a splash on his way out, stu, or to send a message to members or a certain member of congress. whatever the reason though, president biden has waited until his final weeks in office to take this position. >> i don know how you look your constituents in the eye and know because of the job they gave you gave you an inside track to make more money. nobody in the congress should be able to the make money in the stock market while they're in the congress. >> reporter: democrats and republicans have come under fire for making money in the stock market in office. perhaps most notably, former house speaker nancy pelosi. in the latest controversy, her husband paul sold half a million months before the federalfew government sued the company and, coincidentally or not, pelosi is

believed to have helped played a behind the scenes role in helping get biden out of the presidential race over the summer. for years, proposals have been made. the latest has support in both chambers of congress but hasn't been taken up for a vote. >> the only people who don't seem to understand why stock trading should be banned are here in the capitol. every american gets it. and they're right to get it. there is no reason why the personal profit of members of congress should come first. it should come last. it shouldn't be a consideration at all. >> reporter: unclear if president biden's support of a stock-trading ban for members of congress will move the needle at all on this issue i, stu. stuart: we'll see. grady trimble, thank you. kamala harris still telling her supporters to stay in the fight. >> many people have come up to me telling me they feel tired. no one can walk away.

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♪ ♪ stuart: the russian secret service has made an arrest in connection with the killing of igor kirillov. who was arrested, greg? >> reporter: stu, if you believe the russians' claim -- and, frankly, it was a bit of a fast arrest -- it sounds like a real mercenary was involved in n general. in custody, a 29-year-old man from uzbekistan. russians say he was recruited by ukraine's secret services and was promised money and entry into a european union country in return. the blast happened when general was reeving his apartment in -- leaving his apartment in central moscow yesterday morning. an explosive planted in a scooter was detonated remotely. ukraine calling him a legitimate target. krill love was in charge of nuclear and biological weapons.

he and/or his troops have been charged with spreading babbed toxic substances -- banned toxic substances by the u.s., the u.k., canada and just this week, ukraine. this incident, however, stu, seemed not to have had much of an impact on the fighting. ukraine says russia overnight fired as many as 91 drones, many were shot down, as well as other missiles and projectiles. analysts say ukraine is slipping in its battle with russia. ukraine will be taken up today at a nato meeting in brussels which zelenskyy will be attending. you've seen foreign forces to keep the peace, if there's any to be found, also to discuss. back to you. stuart: greg palkot, thanks very much. the incoming special envoy to ukraine and russia is lieutenant general keith kellogg, and he joins me now. the killing of this general, is that a setback for peace talks? >> yeah, stuart, thanks for having me. i don't think it's really a

setback, but i would say this, there are rules of warfare. and there are certain things you just don't kind of don't -- kind of don't do. you don't kill wounded soldiers on the battlefield, you're not supposed to kill noncombatants. when you're killing admirals or generals in their hometown, it's kind of like you kind of extended it, and i don't think it's smart to do it. it's just kind of not the rules of war. now, if you're with on the battlefield, you're a legitimate target. but i kind of looked at that and said, ah, that's carrying it too far. hiring a mercenary to do it, not a good idea at all, in my opinion. this is warfare, and warfare's ugly, stu. this is the kind of thing you see in warfare. it's unfortunate. that's the reason why soldiers never want to go to war, because this is what happens. stuart: a u.s. defense official says several hundred north korean troops have been killed or wounded while fighting in ukraine. we're told that russia is losing up to 1200 troops per day.

ukraine has lost around 40% of the land they seized in russia's ruing region. general -- kursk region. sounds like both sides are close to exhaustion. isn't that a pretty good time to talk peace? >> absolutely. i think both sides are ready. think of a cage fight. you've got two fighters, and both want to tap out. you need a referee to kind of separate 'em, and i think president donald j. trump can do that. i think he's got a vision to do that, i think he's got the energy to do that, and i think he's actually got both sides willing to get together eventually and talk. i think he's in a perfect position, and i think he'll execute well with. when you look at the casualties, you know stu, this is where you go back to where the russians fight. there was a great book years ago by andrew birth, and when he said this is how the russians fight, mass warfare, when you use human wave attackses like the north koreans are doing right now, you're going to have a huge casualty level. the casualty levels right now are 5 to 1.

that ice attrition thal warfare, and you never want to get into an attrition fight with the with russians. that's historic create how they fight. that's how they fought in world war ii. they just basically overwhelm you. but then your numbers just go way up. so you go back to what you said earlier, after a thousand days of war with 350 or 400,000 russians dead, with 150,000 ukrainian dead or numbers like that, both sides are saying, okay, maybe this is the time we need to step back. and it's a perfect time. and i really believe that president trump, who made this promise on the campaign trail, will actually execute this, and it'll come to a conclusion, i believe, this year. i think he's got the right ability, liability capability -- right capability and ability to do it, and so i look forward to it. stuart: sorry. you're visiting kyiv in january, just a couple of weeks from now. what's the main goal of that trip? >> well, i don't want to really report on the trip because that's going to have to come off the transition team, what i'm going to be doing.

but here's what i would say about any if trip that steve wycoff makes as well, this shows the energy of the administration, the new administration, and that president trump has put people in place to get stuff done. and it shows that we are executing at a rapid tempo, before the inauguration and post-inauguration. it's kind of an attitude of we're on trump time, and we want to get stuff done in a hurry. i give great credit to president trump and the new administration that he wants to get things done to include ukraine and russia. the intent is when you can't make any policy, frankly, because of the logan act, but what you can do is talk to people, like steve is doing in the middle east as well. any trip that is taken out there will be designed as an information-gathering trip, not as a trip to set policy because you can't do that. but what i like about the whole attitude of everybody with the trump team is let's get stuff done for the american people. stuart: get on with it. >> he made promises on the campaign trail, and we're going

to fulfill those promises. stuart: general keith kellogg, thanks as much for joining us. now this, a top u.n. official is pushing for a nuclear deal with iran. s who is this person and why are they saying time is of the essence? >> the time of the essence piece is because the current deal is set to expire next year. iran is getting dangerously close to nuclear status, and trump is set to return to the white house in january. so taking back the deal that was struck in 2015, under iran agreed to dismantle most of its nuclear program for billions of dollars in sanction relief. the u.s., under trump, pulled out in 2018, and since then iran has moved away from its nuclear-related commitments. trump is set to retake the white house, so officials are hoping to get a restored deal in place before then. and back to the iran piece, they've been dramatically accelerating enrichment of uranium. they're up to 60% purity, that's uncomfortably close to the 90% that's weapons grade. but diplomacy to revive this

deal, it's really been difficult. they've faced a lot of stumbling blocks because of iran's nuclear advancement and because of iran's links to conflicts in ukraine and in gaza. so some of the nations in the agreement that are still actively in it, britain, france, germany, they have told the u.n. security council they're ready to trigger a snapback of sanctions, essentially put sanctions back in place, to prevent iran from acquiring that nuclear weapon, but iran has promised a proportional response if that happens. stuart: so we're still trying to get a nuke deal with iran. amazing, isn't it? thanks very much, madison. coming up, some restaurants in d.c. threatening to refuse service to members of the trump administration? really? some democrats are calling for servers to throw the drinks in their faces. we'll have a report from the capitol. even the media calling out biden for fading into the background of his own presidency. >> trump isn't president yet. a fact that's getting easier and easier to to forget as joe biden seems to be disappearing from

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stuart: show me the automakers, he says. a new analysis predicts that 2025 will be the best year for car sales since 2019. whoever made this forecast says, they credit lower interest rates and more affordable options. okay. i'd like to know who made that forecast. that's very interesting, isn't it? bring back mark tepper. here he is. he's got stock picks. what have you got with dick's sporting goods? >> all right. this is a glp-1 plays a health and wellness play. more people interested in fitness equipment, fitness apparel. obviously, dick's sporting goods, that's ooh big part of their business. but the real interesting thing about this company is, as we know, consumer spending preferences have shifted over the years away from goods

towards services and experiences. so what dick's is doing is they're rolling out these new stores, what are they called, fieldhouse and house of sports. and what a these things do is they have trackman golf simulators and backing tragedies so people come in, they're engaged, they're in the store. they're participating in that experience, and they buy your goods when they're done. super cool concept. stuart: the next one is citigroup. what's with that? >> this one, from a valuation standpoint, it trades at, like, a 17-18% discount to the rest of its banking pierce. it's kind of a restructuring play. they're looking to, number one, exit and enter some new consumer lines. they are really trying to focus on wealth management if which is all recurring revenue, and they're trying to eliminate some of their excessive amount of middle management. it's one of those companies where everyone's a vp, right? so they're trying to eliminate that, and that should lead to more profitability in the stock.

stuart: all right, got it. thank you, mark tepper. robert f. kennedy jr. is back on capitol hill rye thing to drum up support as -- trying to drum up support. aishah hasnie is there. aishah, is rfk making any progress? if. >> reporter: hey, stuart, good morning to you. he would say so, and so would the transition team among some conservative republicans too. her all for him. they are all for him. it doesn't appear that that he has the votes yet, but there are, certainly, some republicans out there who just want to see this process play out, want to see the background with checks for a number of these candidates and then get to a hearing, and then they will commit to a vote. we're not there yet. just waiting for him to pop out and head into a meeting with senator tillis. he's got a busy day ahead. rfk jr. is open to meeting with senate democrats as well. in fact, we've got some video if we can put it on screen of him shaking hands with senator

fetterman told. he was walking into his first meeting of the day when senator fetterman popped out and shook his hand. it was a cordial meeting, so we'll see if he adds fetterman to his very busy schedule this week. he's, again, expressed openness to meeting with democrats. but incoming gop leader john thune says some democrats are not responding to the invitations from trump's cabinet picks, so we will monitor that. publicly, rfk jr. says it's been productive this week with, privately he's having to explain his stances on many things. here's what he told senator tommy tuberville yesterday about his stance on abortion. >> i just asked him, i said, you know, in the past you've been pro-abortion. and he said, well, you know, it's -- [inaudible] president trump has sat down and talked about it, and both of them came to an agreement, hey, roe/is gone, gone back to the states. let the people vote on it.

>> reporter: and, stuart, we'll also see for the first time trump's labor secretary nominee, lori chavez roemer, she makes her debut on the hill this afternoon. stuart? stuart: thank you very much, indeed. the hosts of pod save america roasted president biden for essentially disappearing after trump's win. watch. >> trump isn't president yet. a fact that's getting easier and easier to forget as joe biden seems to be disappearing from the public stage as his term comes to an end. >> i guess what i'm more concerned is less am i seeing joe biden enough, it's more like do i feel confident that joe biden behind the scenes is thinking about every single way he can try to future-proof the white house, and do i think joe biden himself is at, like, command thinking about this? right now, like, i don't. [laughter] stuart: that's kind of left-leaning podcast, i suspect. bill hemmer's here. this is -- we are living now in the live action trump

presidency. >> yeah. stuart: he is the president. >> yeah. i think it's fascinating to watch and see it develop. and i get the impression that a trump really wants to manage it, wants to hit the ground running. i thought the best quote from that was tommy vitor who worked for obama. he said trump generally is very good at using social events to show off the trappings of the presidency. i think better than any president in our lifetime, including obama and certainly are more than biden. i think the runup to january 20th has been fascinating. i think also once you hit january 21st, there's going to be expectations, and, you know, bar is going to be set high for this team that's incoming. stuart: but he wants to hit the ground running, and it looks like he will. >> i agree with you op on that. watching your interview with general kellogg, i think, is very interesting because we're going to see the movements with this war in ukraine. and he mentioned steve witkoff. he's going to be an envoy for the middle east to. we're going the see things

happening. nikki haley was on the program earlier today, and we asked her about syria. she says that's a big opportunity. you know, despite the fact of the terrorist past, group that's now running that country, she sees it as a big opportunity to isolate iran even more. stuart: next one. kamala harris is urging her supporters to stay in the fight. here we go, watch this. >> many people have come up to me telling me that they feel tired, maybe even resigned. let me be very clear, no one can walk away. no one can walk away. we must stay in the fight. and i ask you to remember the context in which you exist. [laughter] yeah, i did that. uh-huh. [laughter] [applause] stuart: i'm not sure i get that but, nonetheless, bill hemmer is still here. [laughter] >> yes, i am.

stuart: let me express an opinion here. i don't think kamala harris can stand for public office again and win. i don't think she was a very good candidate. >> yeah. maybe, you know, some people speculate she'll run for golf in california in -- governor in two years. i don't know about the national ambitions at this point. granted, 2028's a long way away, but i think what you're going to be see -- to be able to see is we're going to see if this second trump presidency is going to be a success. j.d. vance assuming the mantel of leadership within the maga movement if this next four years is successful and if j.d. vance is the point person in the republican party and the democrats are scrambling, there'll be a lot of challenges, and good ones i think too for that nomination. but vance will be the lead horse in the republican party, and donald trump is going to be out there campaigning like he has done for the past eight years which will be, i think, quite powerful. of but that's me looking down

into the crystal ball come future time. stuart: you got it. bill hemmer, thanks for being here. coming up, nearly one million migrants from venezuela entered the u.s. under the biden administering, but if trump wants to deport them, there's no way venezuela will take them back. the owner of a pizza shop in d.c. was harassed online for making a post congratulating trump for his win. the owner of the store is here to tell us exactly what happened and why she is not backing down. that's next. ♪ when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie -- ♪ that's amore ♪ chase really knows how to put the hart

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stuart: we've been following this story for you, some restaurant the workers in d.c. are preparing to resist trump and his administration by denying them service. alexandria hoff in washington.

i am told that some democrats suggest throwing drinks in the face of trump supporters. is that real? >> reporter: well, stuart, some democrats feel that their peers simply will not be able to resist themselves in doing so, so, yes, in some ways they're suggesting it or at least expecting it the happen. the manager at the national democratic club said this: you expect the masses to just ignore rfk eating out on a sunday morning after a few mimosas and not throw a drink in his face. the dip is a d.c. staple, he's the one who said that, but he's remark on how thousands of new republican hires are going to descend upon the city -- there's the quote there. so thousands of new republican hires are going to descend on a city where president-elect trump earned just 7% of the vote, and there's not even space to talk about differences. the short-lived d.c. business political paddies was recently crushed after they dared to include an elephant with the donkey in their logo.

the owner said that the city was, sadly, not ready for a bipartisan bar. and the i ironic part of president-elect trump's promise to require federal workers the return to the office seen as a much-needed boost to the downtown food scene. [no audio] >> reporter: all right. we were hoping for a sound bite there. but that's, yeah, somebody who works in the restaurant saying republicans no or yously good tippers -- notoriously good tippers. st going to mean more business for restaurants and also help the city stay safer with more people around. and there's an opportunity here, stuart. republicans are looking for a place they're welcome. there's no more trump hotel, they're looking for a place they can go, so whoever rises to the occasion could corner the market. stuart. stuart: they give big tips. that is the truth of this. alexandria, you're all right. thank you. pizza shop in d.c. says they were

attacked online after posting on social media congratulations for trump and his win. maria is the owner of mellow mall low pizza, and she joins me now. first of all, what did you post? >> hello. we posted a congratulations to president trump. we said the people have spoken. president trump won the electoral college and the popular vet, congratulations, and -- vote, and we concluded with a question if we can gift the white house an italian pizza oven. and we received a lot of backlash for that. stuart: was it physical threats of intimidation, boycotting your business? >> no. well, a little bit -- mostly on social media. and they are there so people told us how can we as immigrants congratulate the president-elect. then it went on to the tell us to go f ourselves to wishing for our business to shut down because people don't want fascist pizza shops in d.c.

but that was allen on social media. -- all on social media. we received a couple angry e-mails, but we received many more of support, and one lady yelled profanities at my husband on the street. but mostly it was limited to social media. stuart: okay. i guess the problem is that in d.c. 92% of the vote went to kamala harris and not trump. i guess that's the basic problem, isn't it? >> well, i would say not really. d.c. overall has many more tolerant people than intolerant, that's been our experience. because as the tweet started going viral, we received hundreds of messages of support from d.c. residents and the region residents in general. stuart: okay. you'd do it again, wouldn't you? >> oh -- can you hear me? stuart: yes. >> so as the tweet started going viral, we received many more messages of support from d.c. residents and the region resident. so that really showed me that

people here and across the country are longing to unify. red or blue where, it doesn't matter. we are all americans. stuart: maria, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate it. we'll see you again soon, i hope. >> thank you. stuart tooth there's a new trend out about this. there's a new trend at dinner parties, uber eats roulette, and madison will explain what that means. >> yes, i got you as the millennial on this set. essentially, you get together with a group of friends. everyone orders around $30 worth of food on uber eats, and then the as the deliveries come in, you see what everyone orders. it's like a surprise. you don't know what you're going to get. everyone's still fed. it's the new pot luck, according to social media. but stinted of coordinating you make -- instead of coordinating and having one person that brings the appetizer, the main and the dessert, you could end up with a whole dinner of desserts because everyone's

doing it in secret. one of the groups, all of the friends apparently really love mexican food because with without coordinating, every single person ordered from a mexican restaurant. so you can run into that, and if you like mexican food, i guess that's all right. another big difference is you're not making the food yours, right? you're -- yourself, you're paying for someone to make it and order it. this is why it would be good for me, because i do not have very many kitchen skills -- stuart: you have done the uber roulette? >> no, no, i'm also way too cheap. i'm i'd much rather just go to a store and pick up the food myself than pay uber eats to deliver to my door. stuart: i knew i liked you. [laughter] a delayed flight in atlanta suddenly turned into a christmas concert on the tarmac. ♪ jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. ♪ oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open splaying -- sleigh ♪ stuart: that was an army veteran

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♪ stuart: the incoming trump administration wants to expand the use of ankle monitors to track illegal migrants in america. this would be for migrants who are apprehended, given a court date but not in i.c.e. custody. sheriff of chad bianco joins me now. explain to me, take me through this, how exactly would it work? >> well, i believe what they want to do rather than just met them run free within the country with no way of tracking them down or contacting them, this works very well for us when we release people from custody. we don't have to worry about them skipping bail or anything like that and, basically, it's a

gps mop or that anyone that is hooked up to that site, that software can monitor where the people are. we can be alerted when they cut the gps device off. and it's basically a very convenient and easy way to monitor people that we want to monitor. stuart: but you can't find the gotaways, can you? they didn't come across the border with the app or anything else. you don't know where they are. >> so that is exactly right. that's going to be the downside. it's only going to be the people that are -- that you catch now. or that are willingly going to go on to the program. anyone that is already here, anyone that is a gotaway that we don't even know that are here, it would be almost next to impossible to be able to find them, to get them set up with a monitor. stuart: but the thing is, they arrive at the border, they get a court date probably for two or three years away. are they going to have to wear an ankle bracelet for two or

three years waiting for the court date? >> well, that's, that's what it is the sounding like. i'm not saying i'm a, i'm all for it. there are many flaws with this. this is just something that -- it's a way to monitor them. it's a way to know where they are and keep them accountable. it's not the only way, and it may not be the most efficient way, but it certainly is a good way with the technology that we have available now. stuart: according to customs and border protection, nearly one million venezuelan migrants have entered the country since 2021. trump wants to deport these migrants, venezuela won't take 'em back. what are we going to do? >> yeah. well -- [laughter] that's not for me to decide, but just simply, you know, he did this before. he just put them on planes and sent them back. and, you know, once they're there, they're going to have to take them. we didn't want to take them either. stuart: he's threatening economic consequences, dire economic consequences.

he's trying to negotiate hey, take 'em back no matter what. >> we lived through his presidential reign of one time, and it was great. from the law enforcement perspective, from if a border perspective, his policies worked. and the way he handled that, the way he -- the words he used negotiated with them to take them back, it worked. and if those countries are -- they love our money. and if they want our money, they're going to negotiate, and they're going if to do what he wants or what he asks. and we know that from experience. stuart: or what he demands. [laughter] sheriff bianco, that's how it works, thanks for joining us. always a pressure. merry christmas to you. >> absolutely. thank you very much. stuart: here it is, the wednesday trivia question. a seasonal question. good one with. where did eggnog originate? italy, france, germany, britain? the answer when we return. ♪

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put into eggnog. lauren: whiskey. i think whiskey is good or spice wine is also good. >> i would say vodka because vodka does better. stuart: camera guy frank says it has to be brandy. where did it originate? >> i will go with france too. france. >> frank is saying that. the answer is britain. to the thirteenth century. we know old it. totally out of time. sorry about that. is it neil? it is yours. neil: how are you doing? just kidding