the other thing that brinker's done, they've remodeled their stores.just raised their dividend 20%. and we think the stock is 45 today, with their earnings growth and outlook, we think it would be a $60 stock in two years. >> ooh. >> gary, loves to buy, eat. thank you very much. let's go a little biller now. mid cap. stocks on the market caps generally between 1, 2 ands 12ds billion. the five doctor star rated mid fund is here. ceo constantly on cnbc. koog snowmobiles and motorcycles. arias corps, a different name moop are they, why do you like them? >> sure. thanks, brian. one of the smaller stocks that we own in the chase mid cap growth fund. very interesting company. makes set top boxes, actually. bought motorolas old set top box business from google. this is a very exciting business. com cast just the other day was talking about how much traction they're getting from a new rollout, new features. when you have a $100 billion company talking how much they like the product that a $3 billion company make, that can be a good thing for the stock. yet it'

he started his career in the private sector working for parsons brinker hoff queen and douglass, working on neuman umerous large transit projects including [speaker not understood] and bart and other cities across the country. and he he also worked for the city of oakland as a traffic engineer. he came to the city back in 1982. this was back when traffic engineering was part of the department of public works. so, he he started in dpw as an engineer. that bureau of traffic engineering and dpw became the department of parking and traffic, lovingly known as dpt in 1990, and bob was there for the first day of operation of dpt. ~ bond he was extremely knowledgeable and professional and well known and respected throughout all of the city's parking and traffic issues, working on litigation matters, on policy matters, on community matters, and developed a significant level of respect throughout the city family not just within dpt and the transportation world, but really across the city for his expertise. he he also was not only working ~ significantly for the benefit of the city's transportation

and more on brinker and chile's strength over there. >> thank you very much. >>> too little, too lates describing the methods that were used by target hackers to help them identify and stop an attack from happening. here to give us his take on tech policy aneesh chopra former u.s. chief technology officer joins us this morning from washington. good to have you back. good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> why in the world are we just getting this now? >> we're in a world where cybersecurity policy is still an open question for the country. the president through executive action has done his part to try to identify best practices and share them with the private sector, but we need action from congress and that action is to make sure that we've got a set of policies that allow companies in the public and private sectors to come together and share those information threats better and to make sure that we've got a stronger cyberdefense. >> how valuable was the information that the government turned in so some of these merchants? >> i haven't read the confidential report. but generally s

. >> i was looking at brinker. i could not believe they put up numbers to surprise me. this red robin may have come down enough that i agree with you. i was talking to my friend, buddy pal stephanie link today, cnbc, and we both felt maybe these restaurants are overdone to the downside. i'm going with you, john, in pennsylvania. can we go to jeff in texas, please? >> hey, jim, how are you? thank you for my call. and this weekend, i just got "getting rich carefully" and looking forward to that. >> thank you. >> caller: mr. jim, i bought white wave before you had the president on there. and i think i had a nice three three-run homer when they took on earthbound. >> right. that was a good one for us. >> caller: and i know you're honest, i know you like diversification. but now what about stkl, sun up inc. because they have the organic snacks. >> i'm liking it. you read "get rich carefully," you know that one of my themes is this healthy, long-lived eating. people feel like if they eat the foods like white wave or your sunopta, they're going to live longer. thatst a prevail

and jakovich is struggling for the finals and two down from brinker and failed to reach the semi ands. and lost the first two sets but threatened to come back winning the third. and he held nerve to claim it 6-1-6-4-6-6-2. more news on the website and check out al jazeera/sport. and nicholas is facing a minimum five match ban of performing a racially aggravated gesture and they celebrated a goal with a salute called the canal which is considered by some to be anti-semantic and he denied that was his intention and has until thursday to respond to the charge. his club sponsor property website zupla decided not to renew the deal following the incident. chili has been fined for wearing anti-israeli shirts and it was founded by palestinian immigrants in 1920 changed number one on the shirt to the map of pal stint before partition in 1947. the chile have ordered them to change the numbers back. and the secretary general says brazil has no choice but be ready for the world cup later this year and touring the 12 host stadiums and six are ready and he was this palo on monday and both missed t

heck am i recommending this stock in a moment when the earnings for most restaurant stocks save for brinkerli's have been tepid across the board? sysco gets 60% from restaurant sales, another 40% from hospitals, colleges, universities. shouldn't we be waiting for the restaurant business to pick up before we buy sysco? head scratcher? no. here's the thing, i'm not recommending the stock because i think business is about to start booming organically. i'm recommending sysco because the company did something smart last month. it embraced what i called the shawshank redemption theorem. comes down to a simple choice. get busy living, or get busy dying. back in early december, sysco made the choice to get busy living. the company announced it's acquiring u.s. foods, the number two domestic food service distributor for $3.5 billion and the assumption of $4.7 billion a day. and i think this is a smart deal for sysco. the market agreed with me at the time, sysco stocks soared on the news. sysco shot up from $34 to open at $43, and magnificent 20% move in hours. then over the course of the trading day

then his son ahmad and ahmad john brinker. five of them got together and negotiated fee. as the talks unfolded, they quickly came to agreement on three of the five. these are three senators who are very prominent before the american civil war. john callahan, in reply. so they agree quickly on the street, the great triumvirate, but then there were not certain about the other two senators. and they decided to choose a leading progressive from the 20th-century and a leading conservative. for the conservative they chose robert taft to have passed away, a stalwart republican senator from ohio. when it came to the progress of there were decisions. kennedy very much wanted to select george norris, a very kind of aggressive, popular senator from nebraska. but the current senator from nebraska had had some run-in's and said, you're not going to select him. in fact he wrote a letter was looks an awful lot like a threat of a filibuster if kennedy actually went forward and suggest to him. and also styles bridges was on the committee. so they ended up doing -- choosing robert from wis

and brinkers 49 bucks, up 3. that's 6% right now.ker unions are allowed to use taxpayer money to automatically deduct union dues and use them to fund political campaigns. there is a push in pennsylvania to end that. we're joined by matthew, the president of the commonwealth foundation. welcome to the program. i want to make sure i've got this right. is it, as of right now, does my money go through government unions to support political activity which i may not approve of, by the way, is that how it's working at the moment? >> well, it's working that way, not only in pennsylvania, but many states and taxpayers don't even know it that they are subsidizing the collection, not only of union dues that are used for political activity, but campaign contributions, stuart, that are used to fund candidates and cause that is really are many times against the taxpayers' interests. stuart: matthew, i just want to spell out the flow of money here. i'm a taxpayer, i pay money to the federal government which then reroutes it. does it reroute it to g

we are looking at brinker and turn national right now.wner of casual restaurant chain including chili's bar and grill -- they looked at some cost cutting measures. pretty much straight up. over the past year. the et up. definitely the user of the day. down 11% right now. the release of the latest playstation and xbox consoles over the holidays really helping increase the overall revenues. it was a forward outlook. chipmaker is why we talk about the xbox is and play stations. it was a forward outlook that really concerned investors. coming up, we had ebay sent to report. look at this volatility over the last year. with as much movement as the stock has seen, it is pretty much flat. right now analysts participating $0.80 a share. analysts pretty much downbeat heading into this earnings after the bell. that is why you are seeing the stock down. 5404 a share. there you have it, the nasdaq, tech heavy nasdaq still holding on. connell: the snow has stopped. it is not gone. we will have an update on that. dagen: back to switzerland. liz claman t

it was started by an iconic man in the industry known as norm brinker. that was almost 48 years ago that steak and ale was created. i cannot believe how strong that emotional connection is, and the stories we've heard basically around the world about how their families join going to steak and ale after church or they met their first boyfriend or that was their first job. i was talking to jim sullivan, who's going to be a keynote at our conference next month, and -- who's an industry guru, and he has a cleaver that he got because he was working at steak and ale all those many years ago. so the nostalgia and the emotional connection runs deep. and it would be -- >> paul, just if i could real -- >> -- bring back those brands to the folks that want it. >> i just want to ask this ultimately about how you can make this restaurant succeed when it failed in the past. operationally, is this about the franchise model? how are you stepping on expenses? what's the difference this time around, briefly, if you could? >> well, it's the 21st century version of it. it's

this period is goes to be starbucks because we've written the consumer off with the essxception of brinker>> you mean -- >> hear me out. you like that? >> yeah, i do. >> we're a consumer spending society and we've all felt that the consumer is tapped out, so when we find out how many people are still buying the triple v vente cappuccino, i think it will be true that the consumer has slowed. >> except they may not have and we made the point while retail has been particularly weak especially mall-based retailers it doesn't necessarily translate that the consumer is weak. look at amazon or many other ways to look at what judges the health of consumers. >> and starbucks the mall traffic. but, look, am i given to hyperbole? >> never, never. i've never known you given to hyperbole. >> such a wallflower. >> indeed. >> never overstate anything. >> we've been bifurcated since the year began, the stocks connected to the consumer, ala coach, it was 5 below this morning, it's not helping the change. but that's been the weakness. if starbucks reports a good number you'll see a short squeeze of magnific

that last quarter brinker was really terrific and one of the reasons why they say they have a partnershipechnology where you can basically finish up your check on a computer. where are you guys right now in terms of technology and through-put for your patrons? >> sure. we had a tremendous focus on our gaming platform and we are rolling out our tablets in our restaurants as we speak. they will be completely rolled out by mid-june. so, not only will you be able to order from the tablet and complete your transaction from the tablet, but you'll also be able to check on news, play games that, you know, are either on the tablet or on one of the many tv screens when there's not a sporting event on. we believe that this tablet will not only be -- allow the guests to take an additional customization of their experience, but provide entertainment options as well. >> sally, as we get closer to super bowl, i'm just thinking you must dread the end of nfl season. what happens in your mind between the time after super bowl sunday and into, i don't know, nba finals, i mean, are we entering the dead zone