>> the fed is already wanting to cut rates. we're just looking for data points to give them cover. >> this isn't supposed to happen in new york, stuart. they're suppose to hate him there. if donald trump can go into the belly of the beast and get the love and the crowd that he gets, it's wrecking the lake liberal media's narrative. >> we're now seeing this radicalization of ideas to where you see violent behavior. it's the not peaceful protesting when you barricade yourself or when you destroy property p. >> and families continue to be unable to afford the things that hay need, and and it's direct directly related to biden's economic policies. >> i will say beauty is pain, this is very tight. >> in honor of this being kentucky derby weekend, stuart, i can't think of a jockey right now that could ride the biden horse the victory. ♪ if everywhere around the world, they're coming to america ♪

stuart: all right. america, neil diamond. we're looking at the statue of liberty. a rather nice day in new york city. 1 success eastern time, it is friday -- 11:00 eastern time, friday, may the 3rd. the market holding on to a solid rally, nasdaq up 270, s&p up 44. big tech mostly hire, in fact, on this list we've got all of them op on the upside except for alphabet. apple, meta, microsoft, amazon up. the 10-year treasury yield has been coming down. it was down a lot more earlier. earlier it was below 4.5, now it's bounced back up to 4.552, but it's still down on the day, and the market likes it. now this. here's the latest from campus. pathetic snowflake whining and robust pro-america pushback. finish i'm going to start with the. whining so i can close with something much more positive. the elites at columbia's law review want their exams

canceled. their statement reads in part, and i'm quoting now, the events of last night left us and many of our peers unable to focus and highly emotional during this tumultuous time. the current exam policy raises concerns around equity and academic integrity. many of us are unwell at this time and cannot study or concentrate while our peers are being hauled off to jailment. jail. hold on a minute. you're at an elite law school destined to become society's leaders, but you are emotionally fragile because of the mess you yourself are created? if oh, it's okay to support hamas, a or to have group? really? are you kidding? no thought at all for the jewish students who have been attacked and harassed. i don't hear a them calling for exams to be canceled. compare that whining to this. roll it. >> usa! usa! usa! usa! [cheers and applause] stuart: don't you love it in finally, we're hearing from the rest of america.

these are the people who want an education, not an indoctrination. i think want the fly the stars and stripes, not the palestinian flag. they want free speech. they will not be silenced. this is bad news for biden. he sits in the middle of v.a.slating. 2,000 arrests at colleges in 24 states, and encampments keep popping up. it's going to be a tough her for democrats. third hour of "varney" starts now. ♪ stuart: 210 people under arrest as after police cleared the. campment at ucla. here is our california guy, steve hilton. okay, steve, the people who were arrested, what are they charged with in what are the consequences? if. >> well, that's the assumption here, that we have the make, because this is in line with what we're seeing right across society where you have these

far-left democrats in charge which is no consequences pleasure. we live now in a culture of no consequences for bad behavior all across the board. certainly here in california. and that's why you've seen this explosion of crime in the cities, and you see the same mental i think at work here -- mentality at work here. which is if you do the wrong thing, you're not going to be held accountable. in fact, in many ways you'll be rewarded. that's why it's so outrageouses that on some of these campuses the people in charge are actually negotiating with these protesters who are actually stopping jewish students from getting the education that that they paid for. they're negotiating with them and appeasing them just as biden's been apeegz them. it's a disaster. stuart: are we going to make any one of these students, activists op or common statementers, are they going to pay for the mess they've made? >> again, a great question. of course, they were. as with all these other thing,s it ends dug being the people --

ends up being the people who do the right thing that end up paying. whether that's taxpayers in terms of the clean areup in happening los angeles or the students,, because the piece it is will go with up to pay for all of this -- piece will go up. you've got the culture upside down. instead of the people who do the right thing being rewarded and incentive easeled, it's the people who do the wrong thing or, and it's it's a complete disaster. stuart: governor newsom, what's his response? >> the first response was criticizing the police, right? that was the first response on all of this as it's been growing and growing across campuses. in the november northern part of the state, they've closed the whole thing down for the rest of the semester. finished. because they've occupieded the buildings. no if action there. doesn't get as much coverage, it's to not in a media center like los angeles. it's a cal-p if oly, humboldt campus shut down completely. absolutely outrageous. stuart: i've got to to leave time for this one, steve is,

because you've got an organization called golden together. you've are released a new policy document, how california ended up with the worst business climate in america and what it would take to turn the things around. good to hear that. you tell me, steve, what will it take to turn things around? >> well, this document here that we're publishing which is full of recommendations, 45 recommendations to slash and simplify taxes, slash and simplify bure rock to city, reform labor regulations, environmental regulations so we can be where we should be in california, which is the best place in the world to start and run a business. you ask how it's going to happen, the democrats who are in charge, they don't believe in creating a climate that actually helps business. they are trying to crush business right now, large, medium, small. whatever business you run, they're against you. to turn that around, we've got to change the way we vote california. the only answer is to vote republican to get the change that we need. stuart: okay. i'm going to can ask the same question i've asked you many, many times. in my lifetime --

[laughter] whatever it is the -- [laughter] whatever my if life span is -- >> you've got many more years, stuart. stuart: okay, okay, okay. do you expect to see a republican elected in a statewide election in california? >> i do and sooner than many people think. why? because it's gotten so bad on every level not just the visible end seeps of failure like -- signs of failure, but things like this, the business climate not discussed so much. businesses are leaving the state. it's impossible to afford a home. all these things are piling up. people can see there's only one party to blame, the people who have been in charge. and when you look at the democratics of the state, working class latinos, for example, saying we'ved had enough, we've had must have of the punishment, we want change, i think they're going to vote for it. stuart: we shall see. good stuff, indeed, steve hilltop. have a great weekend. see you next week. >> thanks, stu. stuart: dow up 3000, nasdaq up 270 -- 3 to -- 300.

look at apple, has a 6.6% gain. they've announced a $110 billion stock buyback plan. that's why the stock's up so much. that's the biggest buyback plan in history. jonathan hoenig we me now. wait a minute, jonathan. why are you not a fan of apple's buyback plan? why not? >> well, i'm a fan of apple. i'm a fan of the fruit and the company, stuart, but i'm not taking a bite out of it. in fact, i think the buyback, the largest in history, the size of their buyback is almost the size of the entire market valuation of citigroup's stock. it's an indication of the fact that the company is over the hill. look or, apple's not cheap. it's trading at 26 times earnings. that's more expensive than anytime from 2010-2020. why aren't they using that money to invest inning, oh, i don't know, new innovations? buy new company, create new technologies? to me, stuart, again, wonderful company, but with the fact they're using all this money to basically buy back their own tock says, in effect, they've run out of ideas. and the stock even before today

was down year to date. it isn't where it's at. let apple buy back their own stock, i think there's better places for people to put their money. stuart: it's friday, you're jonathan hoenig, you always bring us an exotic investment, and i want to know what this week's is. >> from 2002-2012, stuart, international stocks, emerging market stocks outperformed u.s. so once again that's where i'm looking. and, in fact, are very quietly this week a lot of these indices hit new 52-week highs. exwx, our small cap emerging market stocks. everyone has an opinion on elon musk and apple. my sense is a lot of people don't are these names in their portfolio,s which is too bad. this one is trading at 12 times earnings, so it's cheap, unloved and doing can well. it's in my book, and i think -- can. [audio difficulty] stuart: thank you, item than. >> thanks, stu. be well. stuart: i want to take a look at

a huge performer on the market this morning, that is amgen. it's up $35, 12%. what's the with that? lauren: dow stock. they have a weight loss drug candidate. very positive commentary in early trial data. they're actively now planning the final testing needed for approval. it would be an injection, and it's one of the reasons why eli lilly and novo nordisk is down -- are down today. if amgen up almost 13%. stuart: how about estee lauder? lauren: down 10% this week, they gave a weak second half outlook, and they got a downgrade today at morgan stanley. they go to neutral. stuart: williams-sonoma a? lauren: upgrade to neutral with a price target of 27. 5 -- stuart: wait a minute, it's at 304 -- lauren: yeah. their commentary was good, will. yams sonoma is the home of picety spatulas, i always go for mid salad tongs.

they're more money, but they work. if you look at the home furnishings category, in general it's improving especially out west. stuart: stock's up 4%, $300 a share. all right, take it. coming up, a new report ea veal ises billions of dollars from mideastern countries have gone towards temperature funding our colleges. is that what's helping fuel the anti-semitech and anti-american protests? we're going to dig into it nor you. trump is hosting a republican donor event in palm beach this weekend. a number of his potential vice presidential picks are are expected to attended. we'll bring you the list. republicans reveal dhs flew over 40000,000 illegal migrants into america, but all of these migrants are reportedly, quote, inadd mess if,. so if we wouldn't let them in legally, why did we do this? sheriff mark daniels responds next. mug if. ♪ ♪

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fine. texas has fortified its border with mexico since that riot, but migrants, well, they've just moved further west to california to enter the country illegally. and by the way, an average of 750 migrants sneak into the country per day on arrange. remarkable. stu. stuart: it sure is. never ends. thank, ash -- thanks, ash. documents obtained by the gop show 400,000 illegal migrants have been flown into u.s. airports since 2023. all of them are, by definition, inadmissible meaning if they tried to enter the country really, they'd be turned away. sheriff mark daniels joins me. sheriff, why would they do this? 400,000 inadd a missables flown in. why? >> well, stu, first of all, if we rook at the facts, we've been talking for three years about the policy failures. and i agree we that. but we need to look at this as an orchestrated plan by administration, parade ifen to -- president biden, to open

up our borders. these are open borders. what i you see is state and locals doing the job of the federal government because we realize if we don't do nothing, we're in trouble on these borders. bringing 400,000 people in our country, a lot of times in darkness, planes, and -- [inaudible] once they're here on our soil, they're here the stay. it's just another avenue to let people into the if country. if you look at a it, stu, they talk about all about humanitarian. they've set aside public safety, national security to do what they're doing. stuart: of sheriff, axios reports that the administration wants to beef up its border team so they're bringing a homeland security official into the white house. is that an admission of failure? >> i think it's more rhetoric than it is failure. they know they've failed. president biden, what, two months ago made a comment hat the border was not secure. finally after a three years he made that comment, but he blames ten years of congressional failures on that instead of his

own. he has no will to secure the border. he won't even meet with national sheriffs, major sheriffs' associations in this country. we have tried, he won't meet with us because he doesn't have the answers to address our communities. so he ignores it, he avoids it. the continuing open border is happening every day. stuart: do you think his objective the long-term change in the nature of the united states? if you've got 10, 12, 15, however many millions it is, they've come into the country, by the time of the next census, they'll be counted as people, and that will change the electoral structure of the states. is that what he's doing, deliberately changing the nature of america? >> i think so. i wouldn't have said that three years ago, iup wouldn't have said that two years ago. i will say it two. i think there's two reasons, stu. number one, vengeance for trump if president trump. second of all, he is changing the electoral, but he's also changing us for politics to enhance the democratic party. and i hate to say that, but there's no doubt this is what

he's doing. stuart: quickly, in georgia they're now required to ask an inmate about their immigration status. is that something that you would like to have in arizona? asking questions, where you're from? >> with i think it's very important. state, local and federal, the key to success, the key to safe communities, we all have to work together. the caveat is the federal government needs to do their part. they've got to match state and locals that are doing their jobs every day. stuart: sheriff, always a pleasure. see us again real soon, please. >> thank you, stu. stuart: yes, sir. one of the border agents falsely accused of whipping migrants on horseback is now being honored. a ashley, that is quite a turn-around, isn't it? ashley: yeah, no kidding. and if you remember three years ago, this unidentified border patrol agent pictured on horseback falsely accused of whipping haitian migrants in del rio, texas. at the time president biden called it outrageous and said, quote, i props you, those people

will -- i promise you, those people will pay. an investigation concluded that none of the haitians were harmed and the agent did not even carry whips or hit anyone with the reins of their horses. even dhs secretary mayorkas walked back criticism of admitting, welsh he didn't actually see the images before making a statement. so now, you're right, stu, the agent in question has been given an award for his intelligence work on smuggling cases, an award from the if same government that had accused him of being a violent racist. that is quite a turn-around stu. [laughter] stuart: let's leave it right there before we get carried away, ashley. thank you very much, indeed. we better check the markets. in business for almost two hours now, the dow a's up 330, nasdaq's up 250. s&p is up 43 points. i want to see the biggest down dow winners of the day so far, and there they are. amgen is up 12%. apple, 6%. microsoft nearly 2%. home depot, 1.5% and goldman, up 1.3.

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stuart: okay. it's worth watching the market all day today. let's see how we close. we're up merely 400 for the dow and -- nearly 4000 for the dow as of now -- 400. lauren, i've not heard of motorola in a decade. lawyer lawyer the stock's at a new annual high. throwback stock -- can. stuart: good lord. where have they been? lauren: they sell software for security systems, walkie-talkies, so governments and businesses order from them. they had a great quoter -- quarter. they beat expectations and raised for the year. stuart: they came out with a universal phone about a 25 years ago. it looked like a brick.

lauren: didn't they make the flip known that was really thin? the raiser. -- razr. stuart: monster energy drinks. lauren: cost is coming down, demand is going up. they have pricing power, and that is shielding them from the cost of aluminum for the cans and sugar. stuart: never had one of them energy drinks. i think it would set me off. now this, the universities witnessing indiana -- anti-israel protest tests are bringing in billions of or dollars in foreign donations. madison alworth is at nyu. which countries have been the biggest donors to our universities? >> reporter: stuart, over the last 12 years the largest foreign government that has donated to u.s. universities is can qatar. in fact, donations from the middle east have increased so much that roughly 1 out of every 4 donations comes from that region. this all a coming at a time when we've seen anti-israel,

pro-palestine protest pop up on campuses across the country. individual donors, they're backing away are from these schools. even our own government considering doing the same. but foreign governments, their wallets are open thanks to section 117 of the higher education act of 1965. finish those donation ins are supposed to be reported twice a year. what open the books has found is over the last 25 years, middle eastern countries have been some of the largest donors to american universities. the reporting of what these grants are used for, that not always sparely clear. entirely clear. >> we often a times keep the language very simple and not very descriptive. so of course they're, the universities themselves know exactly what that restricted gift is for. however, policymakers and taxpayers when wow look at the federal disclosures often find that the description on those restricted grants isn't, doesn't have the details that we with would like.

>> reporter: that influence potentially plague out here at a nyu -- playing out here at nyu where china and the uae are by far the large itself donors. over $160 billion with a b that china and the uae have given. now, these colleges, they've had encampments like nyu behind me. you should see the power washing going on. at 6 a.m. there were tents and posters. all of that now essentially washed away, but the reality is we've already seen protesters start to come back, talk to the media, talk to the police much like e these donations, they're still here. they're not going away. and it's something that the universities have to deal with and reckon with. stuart? stuart: madison, thank you very much, indeed. northwestern university is accused of caving to the demands of the palestinian activists. the school has agreed to take steps towards divesting in israel.

bill bennett is a former education secretary and joins me now. bill, why are we negotiating with anti-semites? i don't get it. >> well, we shouldn't be, and a supposedly distinguished university -- i say that though i was invited my students and canceled by the university, my invitation to speak. never mind that. they shouldn't be negotiating with the students. they're in charge. presumably there's a faculty or a trustee committee on investments. why are they a capitulating? if what we're seeing here whether you're looking at these donations from abroad or these negotiations at campus is the slavish obese sense to the universities of things other than academic freedom, the for suit of -- purr soot of truth and higher education. reforms need to the take place. hopefully if, people are getting a look into the universities, seeing that there are outside

agitators, for sure. there are also what i call, stuart, inside agitators, the faculty, and these ridiculous students who are making these demands, these coddled kids who know nothing about reality. stuart: why didn't president biden yesterday come down forcefully, i mean, really forcefully and make a forceful statement about anti-semitism on college campuses? he seemed to be trying to play both sides, equivocating, vacillating. why is he like this? >> yeah. there was one phrase for anti-semitism and then there was another for islamophobia and anti-arab, etc., or etc. this is because he's very much in touch with and enthralled by those interests. look, the worst thing he's done, i mean, this explains your question, i think, stuart, is he's talking about inviting palestinian students to the u.s. i think you had an earlier guest

who pointed out 922% of pal -- 92% of palestinians voted for hamas. stuart: right. >> what are we talking about here? if i mean, the president's head is not screwed on right. member we can reform the universities. i don't think web reform the president. if. stuart: look, i go back to the 1960s, and the 1960s -- >> yep, me too. stuart: -- generations of students at colleges, we wered radicalized. that was the truth. not an entire generation, but large numbers of people. fast forward to today. is it a similar situation on college campuses? are they radicalized to the same degree as back in the 1960s? >> well, it's worse in two degrees. one, the radicalization that took place meant that the students who were radicalized became the 5:00 allty. that faculty became the faculty that replaced the ones who were there, and now they have been replaced. but, you know, this is a group that chooses itself. and so they choose the same people with the same point of

views. i entered the philosophy department at at boston university, stuart, where i was the only non-marxist, non-marxist. not not liberal, not marxist. so this was back in the '90s. so it's -- in the '70s. so it's worse. miss, you know, one could argue about the vietnam war. i think the war was just and we should have prosecuted it fully, but i had a lot of friends who were anti-war. i don't have any friends who are anti-jew s or in fever of hamas. stuart: exactly -- in favor of hamas. that's why i think the situation is worse, and we need a cleansing of the stables here. stuart: a cleansing of the stables, good idea. would that include ending tenure? for professors? >> yeah, but, you know, you're not going to get there. i think the best weapon we have is the parents' checkbook. stuart: ah. >> and the lawsuit. i hope this thing is loaded with lawsuits. boy, would i like to dust off my

law degree and represent those janitors at columbia. false imprisonment. , kidnapping, everything. and and then, you know, i've talked to parents not long ago who said, what can we do? they're getting all this stuff in their brains. i said don't write the check. maybe we'll see some of that. out it look like applications -- it looks like applications to these places are down. would it shock you to know that jewish families' applications to columbia are down? stuart: no, it would not shock me at all. in fact, i would expect it. >> yeah, yeah. stuart: i would expect it. >> you bet. stuart: i always wish we we had more time because there's so much i'd like to talk to you about. regrettably, the demands of television are such that we're out of time. bill bennett -- >> we need a full academic hour for me to lecture. please. stuart: ooh ooh. [laughter] would that rate? if that is the question, bill bennett. >> no p i won't. i won't, i won't, i won't. [laughter] stuart: we will see you again shortly, i to hope.

thanks, bill. >> thank you. stuart: the protests are not limited to students. we're also seeing a rise in activism in the workplace. ouch. ashley, how is corporate america dealing with with that? ashley: well, you know, businesses are starting to lower their tolerance for activism that is considered, well, too aggressive or disruptive for the workplace. about 50 google employees were fired last week for the taking part in pro-palestinian protests. by the way, in a mote to employees ceo sundar pichai said well placed policies and expectationses are clear. he says this is a business and not a place to act in a way that disrupts coworkers or makes them feel unsafe. fair enough. by the way, in response to that some of those fired employees have now filed a complaint with the national labor relations board claiming unlawful realuation. if even though they broke policies. business advisers say it's important for corporations to have very clear employee conduct policies and be consistent in

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stuart: the rally lives. dow's up 4000, nasdaq is up 300 -- 4000. a rather week employment red carpet report suggests maybe the fed could lower interest rates at some point this or year.

the market likes that, and it's a rally. the 10-year treasury yield is right around 4.51% as of now. show me the biggest winners on the nasdaq, please. there are some huge winners. amgen is up 13, merck -- i don't know what that one is. 10% higher. anyway, apple's up 6% at 184. constellation energy, 5%. booking holdings, 5%. solid gains. now this, the irs ramping up audits on wealthy taxpayers and large corporations. hillary vaughn joins us. how much do you have to make for the irs to. carley: you wealthy in. >> reporter: well, stuart, i guess over $400,000, because anyone making less than that they say are protected from any more audits, and anyone making over that is, i guess, fair game. the irs, though, is really targeting the super rich to make sure they're paying their fair share using billions of taxpayer cash to to turn around and audit millions of americans. the irs releasing their new goals to pep or the wealthy -- pepper the wealthy with audits

including large corporations with over $35250 million in -- 250 million in assets, large partnerships with assets over $10 million 10 times more likely, a 50 increase in audits on wealthy the taxpayers making more than $10 million. janet yellen saying increasing audits won't increase the chance that anyone making under $400,000 is audited, but while the biden administration insists the percentage of people making under $400,000 who get audited will not increase, that's not a sigh of relief when about all -- 900 of all the audits -- 90% of all the audits done on on those making under $400,000. stuart: hillary, thank you very much. donald trump is hinting at when he might announce a running mate. ashley, how much longer is he going to make it -- us wait? ashley: little bit longer. he's been pretty coy about it all, and and he did give perhaps

a hint when he was asked by a reporter. watch this. >> [inaudible] >> for what? >> vice president. >> who's my favorite for vice president? well, elle be making that determination sometime prior to the convention. ashley: there you have it, sometime prior to convention. the republican national cop veption, by the way, will be held in milwaukee july 15th-18th. and we should point out in 2016 trump picked mike pence as his e running mate in the final week before the convention. and, by the way, bloomberg reporting this week that the veep stakes, if you want to call it that, it's been whittled down to north dakota governor doug burgum, republican senators j.d. vance of ohio, marco rubio of florida and, finally, des moines scott of south carolina -- tim scott of texas. -- of south carolina. stuart: only time will tell. [laughter] in louisiana lawmakers are pushing to criminalize possession of abortion pills. why is the biden campaign saying

that's trump's fault? lauren: oh, well, because abortion is the issue that a biden polls highest on, and trump appointed the supreme court justices who helped overturn roe roe v. wade, leaving it to the states. in louisiana there's a near total abortion ban. the state is now proposing adding the abortion pill to a list of controlled substances if you're caught with them, you could face 0 years in -- 10 years in jail. so this proposal criminalizes the abortion pill. i think if donald trump were to come out and take a stance on this, he would say that's overreach. stuart: i think so. lauren: yeah. so they're tying it to trump, but i don't think he'd agree with that. stuart: thanks, lauren. donald trump's speaking out about the possibility of debating robert f. kennedy jr. what's he saying, ash? ashley: in true trump style, the former president brushing aside rfk jr. when asked can, indeed, would he debate the up end dependent presidential candidate -- the independent presidential candidate.

watch this. >> [inaudible] >> rfk, i don't know anything about him. look, rfk is polling very low. he's not a serious candidate. they say he hurts biden. i don't know who he hurts. he might hurt me, i don't know. but he has very low numbers, certainly. not numbers that he can debate with. and and he's got to get his numbers up a lot higher before he's credible. ashley: not a serious candidate. by the way, rf if k jr. responding to trump's digs saying instead of lobbing poisonous bombs from the safety of his bunker, trump should debate him man know a man know in a respectful, congenial dug. stu. stuart: ain't gonna happen. thanks, ash. the dow 30, i use the same expression, we'll get a sense of the market. i said that about 12 years ago, and i've been saying it ever since. there's a lot of buying. the dow's up 400 points, 38,653.

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76-year-old. i have not worked out week, and i just texted my husband if i can take a yoga class tomorrow at a surgeon time to see what he says. stuart: ashley, what's your regimen for exercise? ashley: the only exercise i get, to be honest, is when i walk the dog, and god bless the dog. if i tried yoga, you'd have to call the paramedics immediately. stuart: i'd seize up. by the way, i'd e never -- i've never been in a gym in my life. i do 10,000 temperature steps a day -- more like 6,000. we have responses, two of them, interesting ones, on sharing the road with self-driving trucks. chris writes this: as a career truck driver of more than 30 years, i'm very opposed to having autonomous if trucks on the road. i'm sure the day is coming, but i don't feel the technology is there yet. simply put, it's one with thing to operate the vehicle, but it's quite another to drive the truck. christian says i have zero problem with autonomous trucks. the computer does not take speed or drink coffee to stay awake, a

computer will not nod if off and swerve into my lane or run off the road. bring on the robots. it will be far safer in the long run. what do you say to that, ash? you're moaning there. ashley: i am moaning because, you know, the kid, 13-year-old kid in russia can hack into the pentagon, anyone hacking into these things would create absolute chaos. 8-wheelers -- 18-wheelers, they are enormous. makes me very nervous. stuart: it's going to be a long time before we ever see it on the road. lauren: the truck's ability to ride is only as good as the sensors and laze arers, so if they can't see something, you're a small car on the road, you in trouble. stuart: let's get serious. greg asks what kind of wine do you think -- would with you like to drink? if i think you guys do a great job. how do you like the samples at costco? first of all, i don't take samples at costco. we have varney wine so that's a clear preference. but my son, who runs the wine company, he will not make a

stoven onblanc. i've got you down, lauren, as a chianti drinker? lauren: no p. i do like pinot noir. stuart: ashley, i've got you done as a blanc. ashley: no. pinot noir in the winter, pinot if grigeo in the summer. the drier jr. the better. i can't stand the sweet or buttery -- lauren: i had said you weren't a wean drinker. i pegged ashley as a beer drinker. [laughter] ashley: whatever's in front of me. stuart: this from mark, stu, when you retire, do you ever think ashley or lauren will write a book about you with a teaser subtitle in. [laughter] all right, lauren -- no, no, ashley. what would be the title of the book about me if you wrote it? if.

ashley: stuart dearest, kind of like mommy dearest but after so many years, stu, i've got a lot of great stories, or i'll tell you that. stuart keep them to yourself. [laughter] lauren:, what would be -- >> in the breaks with stuart, what my if book would be about. tooth utah it's the most interesting time, isn't it? lauren: 2-minute breakses, a lot goes on. [laughter] stuart: this is from emily. what's the best advice you've ever gotten, and if who gave it to you? well, the best with advice is always save a portion of your income and never, ever touch your capital. okay. any thoughts? lauren: if you're thinking about the doing something, you should just do it so you have no are regrets. you know when you're hemming and hawing? if just do it. stuart: ash? ashley: my father always a said to me never be late, it's disrespectful. and i hate being late for anything. lauren: how do you feel about people who are late? stuart: love it. good bye. well said. ashley: yeah. stuart: thanks for your feedback. i've got to get this in. this is the friday trivia question.

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stuart: it is irrelevant to daily life but which president had a pet hyena? theater result, james buchanan, benjamin harrison, your first. ashley: teddy roosevelt, number one. stuart: lahren. lauren: james buchanan, number 3. stuart: i will go with rutherford b hayes. it is theodore roosevelt. the emperor of ethiopia, 1904, roosevelt was not fond of hyenas describing them as cowardly animals. at the national zoo, now you know. that is it for "varney and company". 19 seconds before we can move on. thank you so much for the fine week of work. you were brilliant on monday morning.