Welcome to power lunch. Weve got the s p and the nasdaq just above the flat line here in the green. The dow is down by. 1 of a percent. Brent crude back above 50 bucks a barrel. Wti crude up close to 11 over the past week. Both are in bull market territory right now. Take a look at oil stock, a fresh 2016 high. Heres what else is happening at this hour. Twitter suspending 235,000 terrorlinked accounts since february. Twitter says daily suspensions are up 80 since last year. Shares are down over 4 right now. Walmart beating expectations last quarter, thanks in part to groceries. Walmart shares also higher at this hour. Team usa continues to lead the medal count to the rio games. 94 in total. And 31 of those gold. Welcome, everybody. Theres a lot to get to today. We begin with the big breaking news on americas jails. The Justice Department planning to stop using private prisons. That is sending stocks lower, down more than 40 . Scott cohn joining us now by phone. Scott, what do you make
In the community, are you seeing more registration on that end that maybe you as ncla, and the community from those kind of groups and would those increases be happening there . And can you be more specific when you talk about weaker investment . Are we talking how much money dont you have . How much money isnt the Community Getting now that was getting before . How many millions is not there . And is that did that money evaporate or go to other groups and are they in the community . Provocative questions for the end. All right. The Koch Brothers. So, look, its a free world. Right . Folks should be courting the Latino Community itch think theres been investments on that end and libra is trying to educate latino busy a conservative agenda, and thats fine. In terms of how many Voter Registration is theyve done issue dont know because i dont know what their numbers are. But to me, its we are not afraid about having a debate over ideas. Thats fine. And we have had libra at our conference a
To rescue americans being held by isis. Pentagon officials saying forces stormed a terrorist compound only to find the host aemgs werent there. Were going to have a live report from our nbc colleagues covering this in just a bit. Carl icahn is at it again. The activist investors revealing a nearly 89 stake in hertz, the rental car company. Icahn says he will pressure the company over pricing issues and operational failure and he may even seek a board seat. Shares of hertz plummeted over the last few days after the company withdrew its full year forecast. They are up slightly in after hours trading. As of yesterday, some hedge funds talked about potentially trying to replace current ceo mark viscora, as well. But this seems to be bit of a low hang fruit at this point. As of the last quarter. Late 2013 is when he originally took that stake. We know hertz and we like mark. But it is low hanging free fruit, i guess. The high on the tock is 31. 61, its alltime high. And its at 30. 33 and th
Numbers that might be interesting, contributions from people, and he said see if there are particularly any from castro and cuba from mcgovern, but they were looking for anything obrien might have used to embarrass him. Heres one of the interesting things about watergate. So much credence is given to the fact that how could they be so stupid and foolish . Well, they were just that stupid and foolish. And they cant believe it z s ieekognu but 5 2 it was apparent, readily apparent, within you know, immediately. First you look at what necessary did at the ellsburg breakin. It was stupid and bungled as what happened at the watergate. It was james bond stuff, where they thought how could you walk in with an army of people to do what cat burglars normally do if youre working for a Foreign Espionage operation . When you discussed with mcgruder before his before his grand jury testimony, you talked to him. Some people used the word coached him. Did he tell you what happened . Absolutely. Absol
Israel, everyone loves israel. Why wouldnt anyone love israel . But everyone loves peace. That is the main force here. We want peace. I have a grandson in tennessee that has a wonderful friend who was a Football Player on the local High School Team who went to war in iraq and came home minus three limbs. For hussein, for a lie . I do not think so. Host mr. Dubowitz . We want peace. Guest we all agree we want peace. I oppose military strikes against iran. I have been working on almost 12 years on trying to find a way to provide the United States with a nonmilitary solution to this. A nonmilitary solution to this through diplomacy and using sanctions as an instrument of pressure. And it is to try to get the iranians to come clean with the past military dimensions of their program. Hillary would have you believe that iran is complying with all of the obligations, but the iaea actually disagrees. They have fundamental problems with the ron because iran refuses to acknowledge that they have