joining me now is connie mack and steve murphy. are you a left wing birther? >> he was born in canada. we know that. he's a canadian citizen but he's also an american citizen so i think he's eligible to run for president. his problem isn't he's from canada. it's that he's from mars. >> all right. all right. save your cheap left wing political hack attack for later. we'll get to that later. do you see any issue here? it seems to me the left is flirting with birtherism. here's a question. does that mean they are racist against a hispanic? >> you know, first of all, i think it's important to point out that there is one democrat who will not be talking about this issue and that is barack obama. and the left -- this is clearly a media dump. this was clearly an opponent, someone who sees ted cruz as a threat that delivered this information and has stirred it up behind the scenes. i think most people in politics recognize what this is. i enjoy the fact that people out there are highlighting that the republican party is a big tent. we have people from all walks of lif

we have gary smith, tracy burns, jonah, john layfield along with steve murphy. thank you. so, john, should d.c. be heeding these retailers' warnings? >> of course they should be. there's plenty of time since they're all on vacation right now to look at the news. the presidents that have done best lowering taxes have spurred the onomy. look at president coolidge, rornld reagan spurred the economy, when he lowered them, he later raised them, but to get the economy going, he lowered taxes. walmart said they're hurt by lower income sales. a 2% payroll tax increase, the payroll tax cut was put in place. it hurts lower income. if you're in the upper middle class, if you're higher, it doesn't affect you at all. with high gas prices, lowest labor partipation rate since the 1980s and the economy stagnant, it hurts consumers significantly, yes. >> it's not just lower economy because we saw macy's, nordstroms, they have to fire their piano player or something, th is really hitting everyone. >> it's simple, right? you tax me more, there's less money in my paycheck. that's the bottom l

we have gary smith, tracy burns, jonah, john layfield along with steve murphy. thank you.

here with reaction from the center of law and justice and steve murphy.efore we get to the new information can we just get out of the way targeting american citizens or groups because of their political views is not a phony scandal? could we just get that on the table from you? >> well, if that's what happened, sure. if the fec knows about tax exempt money being used on behalf of partisan candidates, they should tell the irs that because it's not legal. >> is that why lois lerner pleaded the fifth? >> there's only one problem with that. that's against the law. >> steve, let him talk. >> go ahead. >> it's not a citizen. it's two governmental agencies. there's specific provisions that prohibit it with groups like the fec. the fec is not exempt. it's not one of them. that's number one. >> so you're defending using tamt exempt dollars. >> you keep cutting me off, but let me give you facts. eric holder said there may be criminal investigations. sean, i'm representing one of the groups. they say they need an exception of time, why, because of criminal investiga

. >> and steve weiss, who made the more compelling argument? >> murphyst have had a good weekend at the tables because he is going for the high multiple stocks. i can't way this valuation for tiffany. it is way above where it should be for a company that hasn't executed. ibm came out with retail report and they said that the consumers go to appliances and jewelry and going away from clothing which explains what we have seen in the market. maybe that will bail murphy out this quarter. i doubt it. >> tell us who you think won the debate. tweet us and use the hashtag bull or bear and we'll give you the results at the end of the show. talk pandora. shares doubled in value this year. sincine since reporting it is dn 11%. a top ranked internet analyst, welcome back to the half. >> good morning, scott. >> what should you do here? >> we like the stock. we liked it going into print. we were wrong on the 11% correction. we like it here. this is still the leading playoff of internet radio and the cost structure starting to really work positively, ie bringing down t

murphy? >> hertz. the stock has had a 10% pullback since a great quarterly report. buy it right here. >> steveng with the short on jv penny. >> reiterating your short. >> with full knowledge that any hint of not terrible news may make it pop. >> all right. that does it for us. have a great rest of the day. "power" starts right now. >>> "halftime" is over. the second half of your trading day begins now. >> a major airline merger grounded by the justice department, at least for now. how will u.s. airways and amr fly forward? the markets, a big story today. the dow deteriorating as you see there. well, deteriorating no more, ladies and gentlemen. look at that. it's come back in just the past few minutes, higher by 44 points, right now at 15,463. we're following, yes, that florida sinkhole. here it is. evidence. how can you tell if your property or the property you want to buy is in danger? we'll elo

murphy said on our show last night the president should come to congress here for a vote. there's hardly, of course, consensus on that point. of course, congress is out of session. today congressman steve cohen suggested president obama wait until congress returns on september 9th. then congressman cohen all but dismissed that idea. >> i think we could wait until september the 9th or thereabouts to take action. in many ways, i defer to the president's prerogative and trust the president to do what's right. >> joining me now, congressman eliot engel, democrat from new york, ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee and has been an advocate of the u.s. intervention in syria. congressman, as best as you can articulate, as someone who i understand supports increased u.s. intervention and military strike here, can you explain to me and our viewers what the concrete mission here, what the concrete goal is of any kind of military action? >> well, i assume the concrete goal, of course, it hasn't been decided to do this. if seems imminent. but i think the goal would be to say to assad and other assads of the world that crimes of this violent nature cannot go unpunished. if we stand

steve weiss, also the best performer in the dow this year. what do you do now? >> if i had to change what i did, i wouldn't have gone against somebody like murphy so due to win a debate part of that up to it. i was wrong on it. they had more gas in the tank. i still believe that the prospects for the company going forward are not good the it's still the same board that made all those mistakes. i would take my strength, and would i sell into it. >> you've got to give meg whitman some credit. >> i do. >> don't you? >> hey, absolutely. i mean, she's done a great job in terms of pushing the right buttons and using the cash flow. >> piloting a plane with one wing. i give her a lot of credit but it's not going to help. >> it was so mismanaged before there was low hanging fruit, a lot more low hanging fruit than i anticipated. >> final trades up next. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receip

steve: you're going to do the sports. stand right here in the official sportsman position. here is ali with the sports. >> thank you. the cubs getting unlikely production from newcomer donny murphycked two homeruns and drove in four as the cubs beat the phillies 5-2. murphy seems to have found his strokes since donning a cubs uniform. he has his three homers in his first three games. he had spent the early part of the season with the cubs' triple a team. >> steve: so far, so good. >> thank you. soccer superstar getting more than he bargained for. last night in miami, a young fan jumped out of the stands and on to the field. so he can get up close and personal with one of the game's greats. the kid goes for the hug and amazingly, the player doesn't result. after a long emabrasion, he calmly delivered him to the top. >>> tiger woods is used to sinking putts, but a sinking house? that's right. a source close to the golfer says woods and current squeeze lindsey vaughn have been noticing deep cracks in the walls. a sure sign the home is drooping. woods has reportedly hired a contractor to shore up his 10,000-foot crib. >> steve: that's the sports, ladies and gentlemen! round of appla