it's one way that ceo ed bastian is working to transform the company. in major renovations at california's larks and laguardia's l.a. export. under its watch they expanded its retime bag tracking. >> fortune called bastian's response a template for a well reasoned business leadership in fragmented world. ed bastian joins us at the table. hello, mr. world's greatest leader. there's so many things to talk about but we just heard the j.d. power story where alaska is number one, delta is number two. it's the old commercial with avis and hertz. avis says, we're number two but we work harder. >> we think we're number one and we continue to prove it. we're a global airport. alaska is a great airline too. we give them kudos. we're really close and we're going to catch them one of these days. >> the average age of delta planes is 17 years. that's older than others. what does that mean? >> it's not the age of the plane that matters. if you look at the statistics, we're leading the large industry across every dimension. what we're doing is buying new planes. we've

employees in a position to win. >> ed bastian, ceo of delta airlines joining us on "power lunch" on a big day, guys, where they're pumping $1.9 billion into their terminals at l.a.x. back to you. >> phil, thank you phil lebeau with ed bastian, ceo of delta >>> check out shares of madrigal pharmaceuticals. that stock is soaring, up $159, or 146%. with a gain like that, you know there has to be good news. meg joins us to explain. >> the company is developing a drug to treat a disease called nash, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. it's a liver disease associated with obesity and diabetes and it affects as many as 3% to 12% of adults in the u.s. and there are no approved drugs to treat it. so madrigal released results of a clinical trial showing 27% of patients saw resolution of the disease compared with 6% of patients taking placebo. the company is making plans for a larger confirmatory trial before it applies for regulatory approval the results led madrigal shares to double giving the company a market valuation of $3 billion other companies from gilead to allergan and smaller companies lik

vacant prime minister's post came after more than two weeks of massive protests demanding that nicole bastian yeah they selected thousands of opposition supporters have been demonstrating in the center of the capital since the morning while watching the parliamentary session on special screens. question young failed to be elected he called to block major roads railways and airports while supporters pledged to continue protesting until he is quote victorious and earlier on tuesday he warned of a political tsunami if he doesn't win if a candidate is rejected by parliament by a median or a fresh vote must be held in the chamber within seven days and if a prime minister is not confirmed for a second time parliament's dismissed and fresh national elections are held the muscle position protests started almost three weeks ago and forced the previous prime minister. to resign. but not quite a resignation moments ago very short break half an hour then a return of the latest news headlines. join me every first week on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business

so joining us here at post nine in a cnbc exclusive is bastian lehmann the founder and ceo of on demandcompany postmates. thank you for joining us today. >> thanks for having me. >> you partner with walmart on some deliveries here in the u.s. looking at this deal i realize it's an international deal but what's your take >> it's a great deal for walmart. we like flipkart very innovative. india is an extremely important market for the global economy. and i think walmart did a good job here either securing a very large stake or buying the company. we don't know this right now so well. >> and walmart just recently announced it's going to be ending its partnership with [ inaudible ]. is that a business you're looking to take over in the u.s. >> we started working with walmart and we're happy with the program so far they utilize our network there is 160,000 postmateses that do deliveries in the u.s. and walmart realized they can offer on demand delivery and we're happy to partner with them. >> we talked to the head of a competitor door dash, raised half a billion dollars, you have raised abou

the paul weiss law firm in new york, a notable bastian of democrats, they did the legal engineering forhe j.p. stevens company when they figured out how to fight unions. >> is this the harshness of darwinism, okay, it became survival of the smartest and survival of the hardest working. >> still is 0 today. >> right. the door was opened for many people. >> exactly right. >> what about the people left behind? are they not capable of doing it? >> what we usually have had in this country, and what any country needs in order to be balanced and to survive, is a balance where there are guardrails that are put on all of the overachievers so they can't do too much in terms of the legal rights they assert, the financial rights they assert. and that got lost in this country because these people were so smart that they ran all over that stuff. >> there is another aspect of this you talk about, sort of the changing definition of the first amendment. and you actually essentially make the connection, if ralph nader got us citizens united, which right now he's watching and going you're blaming me for c

bastian ¿cÓmo estaÁs?.uela hiciste un regalito para tu mamÁ. >>> mami te amo. este es el regalo tuyo. >>> ¿te gusta esa foto? y estas son tus manos. >>> sÍ. >>> mami te amo mucho >>> que guapo frmt (aplausos). >>> gracias, que lindo gracias. >>> que guapo tu hijo. >>> yo traje el regalito que te mandÓ. >>> cosita hermosa dios mÍo. que mucho a crecido. su mano. todavÍa tengo el pie cuando lo saquÉ del hospital y crecen muy rÁpido es una bendiciÓn maravillosa. gracias por esto que lindo. >>> y tus papis y tu mamÁ que me ayudÓ con esto. de tu familia y el amor que te tiene tu hijo es muy bonito felicidades. >>> es un privilegio una gran bendiciÓn ser madre. yo doy gracias todos los dÍas porque sebastiÁn me convirtiÓ en mamÁ y me siento tan orgullosa de ser la mamita de sebastiÁn josÉ. y le doy gracias a mi mamÁ, porque todas las cosas que he hecho, definitiva definitivamente lo aprendÍ a travÉs de los aÑos viÉndola. como mujer trabajadora. nos llevaba la escuela iba, trabajaba, regresaba, cocinaba se acostaba

hace algunos dÍas, corriÓ la noticia que la casa de joan bastian fue baleada.antÓ por allÁ, que se llama "dÍ quÉ sientes tÚ". estÁn listas vamos a verlo. ♪ atar los cabos de mi alma ♪ a la esquina de tu espalda y hasta el borde de la cama ♪ ♪ no, no, no ♪ quÉ va ♪ ♪ se me hace agua el corazÓn ♪ ♪ se me escapa la razÓn ♪ ♪ dÍ que sientes tÚ ♪ ♪ cuando rozo tu mirada ♪ cuando te he entregado el alma ♪ ♪ cuando te respiro boca a boca ♪ ♪ dÍ que sientes tÚ ♪ ♪ por un loco enamorado ♪ y subes o ma dru gado ♪ amor quÉ sientes tÚ ♪ ♪ amor dÍ quÉ sientes tÚ ♪ ♪ tu uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu! ♪ di quÉ sientes tÚ ♪ ♪ a quÉ se debe la tardanza ♪ ♪ y con tanta adivinanza solo habla corazÓn ♪ ♪ no, no, no ♪ que va ♪ se me hace agua el corazÓn ♪ ♪ y se me escapa la razÓn♪. >>> bueno, ahÍ estÁ, lo prometido es deuda. y gracias chayanne por volver a nuestra casa, a un nuevo dÍa telemundo, para el estreno de este video en mi familia perfecta, por cierto, marisol tendrÍa que adaptarse a su nueva casa hogar. pero lo que no podrÁ sera estar lejos. y tendremos un adelanto. >>> mi querido ma