True. Charles this of course follows President Trumps tweet this morning also slamming comey which reads quote despite so many false statements and lies total and complete dedication and wow comey is the leaker. Here to discuss gina loudon in the studio though gavin and joel wash walsh. What do you make of the whole thing . At the list is decisive victory for President Trump at how much more should he cling to it . Charles i agree yesterday was a dog on good day for tron. I wish he would leave us alone. I wish he would move on. I think its a mistake to go after comey. I was so disappointed when i woke up this morning and saw that he tweeted at james comey. I dont want him to leading james comey anymore. Cut my taxes reform the tax code and build the wall. The longer charles said he focuses on this hes going to keep the story out there in the public. He has got to learn to win and move on. Charles i will say today in a press conference when he was asked by reporters he had this key bars
In its life as a Public Company at least and the biggest u. S. Grocer m a deal ever. And for the purposes of our hour, which normally focus on tech, a nice intersection between an old, Old School Business and a new one. Its amazing. Just from a headline perspective and news that affects people, i cant remember a deal this big i mean, maybe aoltime warner, but you cant eat time warner. Its really a way of bringing things together unlike so many people who are this deal is amazing, i see a number of challenges, potential problems with this deal not necessarily getting consummated, but actually making it work. The logistics operation that you need to run a whole foods is way different from one that you need to distribute using ecommerce if i want cheerios and gatorade, whole foods doesnt sell that so how do you blend the whole foods operation for say produce with the stuff that most people eat yeah, i mean, how do you do all that and be successful while still running whole foods in a way
And welcome to power lunch. Im melissa lee. Nasdaq barely holding on up about 2 wi8 points joining the dow and s p 500 which are negative etf that tracks, hitting yet another intraday alltime high and ivb is rally within health care it is on pace for best week of the year esperion, novocure, biggest leaders right now. Thank you we will find out right now which car company has the highest quality of anybody fi phil la boes with that news. Phil the latest survey on initial auto quality, surveying about 80,000 new vehicle buyers. This is what they found. Good news, reliability, quality, people surveyed after owning the vehicle for three months, never higher in all the years theyve been doing this survey 27 of 32 brands improved quality ratings. Top one, kia, for second straight year, ranks as best followed by genesis, which is luxury brand by hundred day and porsche were the top three bad news, people not happy with the Driver Assist sec knotechno are seeing Adaptive Cruise control, lane
Broken the meeting between the younger trump and the lawyer. He met with that lawyer on the pretext that she could provide dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election. And then moments ago Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders off camera reading a statement from President Trump saying his quote his son is a, quote, high quality person, and i applaud his transparency. Blake burman keeping pace with this fastbreaking story. And by the way, we are getting bret baier in the chair in d. C. On the power that one email release had, at least temporarily, over your money and whether theres more to come of that. And weve got the incredible story of the owners of a small texas bridal shop who stood by and watched as the irs seized their business, sold the entire inventory for pennies on the dollar within just hours. You wont believe the governments reason for doing that. The familys attorney joins us. And on wall street, after the donald jr. Or tweet gave stocks a scare, an announcem
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