archaeologist george stuart. stuart: this is a color facsimile of the dresden codex -- actual size, real colors. it's made on, like the others, on bark paper sized with lime plaster, on which the images were painted with fine hair brushes and pigment in about, oh, five or six different colors. keach: many of these books were discovered by the sixteenth century spanish. they were said to be filled with genealogies, prophesies and religious beliefs. but to the spanish conquerors, they were blasphemous. in 1562, bishop diego de landa ordered them destroyed. "we found a large number of books in these characters, "and as they contained nothing "in which there were not to be seen "superstition and lies of the devil, "we burned them all, "which caused them much affliction." ironically, a book by bishop landa himself proved crucial to the understanding of maya writing. stuart: and in it is everything that he observed in yucatan about the maya, about their ceremonial cycles, their ritual calendars. he even had pictures of

stuart: brian kilmeade is with us, he's got a new book out called george washington's secret six, andr me okay? >> stuart, i hear you great. thank you very much for the slow. stuart: i've got some rapid-fire questions. first of all, how much does the book cost if i buy it on amazon? >> i'm not sure because when it became a best seller, it got decreased by, i believe, $21. barnes and noble, about $31. but if you order from my web site, i'll autograph and send it to you. stuart: okay. how much do you actually get for each copy of this book that is sold? you personally? >> not much. stuart: okay. and for every extra book that we sell through "varney & company", what will be my commission? >> i will put it towards your wardrobe budget. [laughter] and that's what i'm going to do. i'm going to upgrade the personal -- i'm going to give that tailor the tip they need, because stuart varney so big, they show up with a bunch of swatches, and they say, imagine, mr. varney if any of these squares of material could become a suit, and he puts his head up to the sky and imagines stuart varney in a be

stuart: they are? wait, wait, hold on, george.are.gov is extremely competent technically? how come it's such a mess? >> so i can't really speak to the political side of things because that's not our area of expertise we're just programmers, but given the sort of the people involved in creating healthcare.gov, any missteps and issues i imagine are policy choices rather than say technological shortcomings. stuart: how much did you spend-- i know it's a limited site different from healthcare.gov. how much did you spend to set this i think this up? >> so the original version of the site taking data from healthcare.gov and posting it in the search format took about three days to pull together and cost a couple hundred dollars. stuart: that's it? that's it? >> yes, again, by keeping the scope narrowly focused just where are you and here are the plans available to you, we were able to keep the cost very low. stuart: what you've done then, if i go on to health sherpa.com and go there and punch in my zip code you could tell me quickly and

george w. bush -- stuart: what about the beautiful land sketch? >> interesting you bring that up.cene. stuart: a civil war scene. what about a lovely river and a sunset or some beauty and rapture? >> those come into a premium but don't have any in sales this year. stuart: depression and anxiety and war, that is what you paid $22 million for. i wish you well with the sale. it is on december 5th at christie's, $22 million to $20 million for this edward hopper painting. good luck. thank you very much indeed. of big effort to get it down here and show it but we appreciate it. your take on the 50th anniversary of jfk's assassination is next. on, did yt e toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with n fedex one rate, i could ll a box and ship it r one flat rate. so i kn untilt was full. you'd be crazy n to. is tt nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. stuart: we are remembering the 50th anniversary of the assassination of jfk. i told you where i was and what i was doing that they. here are your responses. eric said y

>> stuart -- [inaudible] george washington university. i think the -- [inaudible] but you were mentioning the navy, the army, the marines. is there any tension between the various branches and services in terms of who's in charge? >> well, the special operations command is a joint command, and the sof community is a joint community, so it means all four military services participate in it. they trace their roots, though, back to the osf of world war ii. so the cia, you know, and sof trace their lineage back to the same parent organization, and there are cases where operators are she cunded to work at the agency. so there is crossover, but these guys wear uniforms, and they're in the military. they're not in the cia. so that, i think, is important to be very clear, that they are part of the military. now, what i think is, you know, we had goldwater/nichols, and there were forms that tried to enforce jointness, but there's always service parochialism. but i have a couple of chapters on the evolution of special operations command out in afgh

and the last time i checked, stuart, i don't think george clooney has a degree in atmospheric scienceical society has given him a seal of approval. so i think it's irresponsible for him to open his mouth without being educated. it is very irresponsible to name one storm which, by the way, we are saying it's one of the strongest typhoons in history, but we still have not got the qualified wind speeds. it is based on satellite presentation only. we still don't have the verified wind speeds from the ground as this typhoon was making landfall. so, you know, to blame this one event on climate change, global warming is really quite silly. and if you go back to 1969 when we had hurricane camille making landfall in mississippi and louisiana, that was a category five with verified wind speeds of 190 miles per hour, and back then were we blaming that on climate change? this event does happen. category five storms do occur. and because, obviously, this was a catastrophic event, it's gotten a lot of attention. but for an actor like george clooney or anyone, for that matter, to go on and put it on

stuart: you know, close to $38 a share, that's a nice rally, i'm sure that george soros had something, fine with me. nicole: i can't see from here, it's down. stuart: just a little bit. nicole: what rally, for the year? >> it's close to 38 and that's a whole lot better than 28 where it's been languishing for several years. nicole: yes. stuart: thank you. stay there, nicole. two more big names, first up mcdonald's admits it introduced too many new menu items too quickly. the president of the mcdonald's usa says the pace of introduction was too fast, he says. mcdonald's stock is up 10% this year, dead flat this morning. warren buffett's berkshire hathaway revealed a $3 billion stake in exxon. berkshire bought 40 million shares and exxon is the world's largest publicly traded oil company and it had been up 7% and now it's up another 1 is% this morning. now let's get to capitol hill where marsha blackburn is with us from tennessee. the fred upton bill goes up for vote today. can you give me an estimate of how many democrats would vote for it? we heard rich edson say 35, which adds up to a

stuart: that was president george w. bush last night. he says eight years is 20.t one on monday, several times in recent months. it is 9.50 now. you say once a crossed 9.35, up it goes, so it is going up further. up 9%. charles: we will hold on. i want to take this moment, it was down $0.10 and he was panicking. a lot of people are anxious about the market being driven by extremes. extreme fear and extreme greed. on twitte twitter people asked t three stocks. these stocks have made vacant it moves, told people to take profits on this show and i told him to take profits on solar city. if you are up 58%, you don't take profits or at least to consider taking profits, the same people who are captured by extreme greed are captured by extreme fears. so the big winners can become big losers. people have to control that. stuart: these viewers are just exasperating, aren't they? charles: don't panic if it is down $0.10. stuart: i could have panicked millions of times if microsoft was down $0.10. first, sears, then walmart. kmart. and now our retail vigilante has brought hi

george washington is watching them. i put the book on the shelf. >> elf on the shelf knocked me off the list. >> from elf on the shelf to stu on the couch. stuarte it is thanksgiving week you've got the five biggest thanksgiving turkeys. >> financial turkeys. start with number five. my opinion, the california bullet train. supposed to cost $68 billion. nonsense. that thing is going to cost $100 billion. it will never be built. it's not been built so far. it is delayed. that's a train wreck. a genuine train wreck. number four, ready for it? j.c. penney. j.c. penney was raided by an outside investor who insisted on wholesale management changes. it totally failed. y.c. penny is worth $2.8 billion lock stock and barrel. that's a turkey. >> once upon a time the blackberry, everybody had to have one. now it's almost a joke. >> that is my number three. blackberry crashed in 2013. six years ago before the iphone appeared, blackberry was worth $67 billion. today it's worth $3 billion. >> very curious to see if someone is going to try to revive it or just kill it. >> they'll try to revive it. it's a losing cause. >> i like it better than the iphone. i mi