first to be successful of replacing the entire board at darden.ith that, what's amazing is that the, the relationship between the matters and team and the board, from the first weeks has been incredible. so in this situation, you know, some people fear when you get involved in a company, if you're replacing a majority or replace the whole thing you might have this issue working with the management team. it's just not true. this relationship with this management team has been incredible. and we continue to perform very, very well, and work well with them. >> yeah. >> you know, when we were doing our ceo search before we chose gene as the ceo, we went out and did a full search. there were some candidates that were nervous about meeting with me as the head of the search committee. at first, based on us running a contest. >> sure. it was a nasty contest. >> right, right. and then what actually happened is both candidates, two times, called people they knew inside of darden, this was within weeks of us getting involved, then they wanted to speak with m

darden: i want justice for my son, but not like this. do not tear up the whole city, man.t is wrong. host: the freddie gray case is a bitter reminder of other racial incidents. michael brown and eric garner are just other african american males who died while in contact with authorities. here is a look back at what happened since obama took power. reporter: three white house representatives at freddie gray's funeral. obama chose broader johnson broderick johnson to represent him. obama drew a lot of attention during his campaign, particularly in the black community. in march, 2008, the candidate gave a striking speech on racial identity. president obama: anger is real it is powerful, and to simply wish away, to condemn it without understanding its roots only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races. reporter: strong words for the future president who did not want to be seen as a symbol of a single community. he spoke of a new, post-racial area in america. but soon enough, racial tensions and blunders were all over the news. in 2012 in flo

who until recently was an investor of burger king and jeff smith which owns a steak in darden. the protesters want $15 an hour pay for lower level workers. >>> an activist investor who attended that conference in new york is targeting qualcomm and that is where we begin tonight's partner focus. potentially spinning off its chip unit from its patented licensing business. barry rosen stein says he sees a lot of value in the company. >> we made our biggest commitment to a company that has tremendous potential and tremendous value opinion this is an opportunity to inve in a market leader high quality company, dominant company, and a fast growing cell phone, mobil smart phone space. >> shares today off slightly to 68.73. >>> the apple watch could spell trouble for fossil and movado. apple could sell more than 20 million apple watches this year which would be nearly half of the market for watches, worth 200 bucks or more that certainty shares of fossil down 4% to 81.89. movado off 2% to 30.73. apple down 2 today. it was down also i should say -- down 25 cents to 126.85. >>> builders

and about how bad darden restaurants are going.n the stock is straight through the moon. not to the degree that the stock has gotten better. ultimately, should you be in the stock before it gets better? >> i'm not prejudiced, they come out with a supersize me swordfish to sandwich, maybe i will get it. [applause] >> i think we were afraid of this. >> i think that we are were going to come in, they were going to replace it with vegetables and fruit. , there trying to bring mcdonald's back into pulp culture. make it a part of pop culture, this idea of this is making it a part of the household name. >> today jack-in-the-box is out since november 2011. sonic, of 330% in the last four years. someone is buying that stuff. >> mcdonald's is clearly trying to compete with them before they go organic. it's just so clear that this is them trying to imitate shake shack or jack-in-the-box. charles: last night i went straight to five guys. it was a big, fat, juicy burger. >> mcdonald's for the same thing with starbucks. >> mcdonald's is now a de

they get when an activist comes calling with walgreen's or darden. board room shakeups that produce terrific results for everybody. pressure can be a good thing. do you know what can propel a stock higher than you haven't thought of? how about panicking short sellers who bet against, sell sell, sell the stocks of companies that you own. then have to go buy those stocks back to extend their losses when events don't pan out negatively and real owners don't feel the need to dump their stocks which would normally send it lower. they are not scare. the owners aren't scared. just like when you buy a stock that then goes down. you sell it because you can't take the pain. >> the house of pain. >> a short seller will sell a stock he doesn't own and then when something positive or not as negative as expected happens, the stock goes higher and higher until he can no longer take the agony and he has to buy it back to close out his position. the mere image of buy high and selling lower. that was on display in a bunch of situations. it can explain some of the bigg

and jeff smith, talking about a lot of his new ideas, not to mention was going on at darden. what they've done pretty well. i listen to you for low gasoline prices. >> sometimes you get the wind at your back. you know what i want to be with dupont? notched down friendly. it's not adhomefhominun, david, the acrimony is too great? >> i think it may be a little late for that. depossibility withdrew its offer of with you nominee, at least. they're a month out, this is important. it's only waged one proxy fight in its history, of course with heinz where it was successful so a lot riding on this for them. not to mention, of course an almost $2 billion position in the stock, though they have already done fairly well which goes to the argument that we've had and we've had talked about, of course it can prove more difficult times when a company is doing well to get shareholders to agree that it could be doing even better. >> i look for a mag nam muss situation. everybody wins get away from this nothing of license, i know the lead director wasn't happy with us. everybody gets in a room

argue have made money historically by investing in fast foot companies, the likes of burger king and darden restaurants that the protesters exploit low income workers and they demand they pay $15 or a higher minimum wage to restaurant workers and they are trying to create prevention by disrupting the conference. >> the panelists looked very uncomfortable. >> always an awkward moment. >> let me tell you. that's it. good to have you back. have a nice week off? >>. >> i did. days on a boat and i am still swaying. good to be back. >> i'm swaying, but not because i was on a boat. >> we will hand it over to you. take it away. >> we are approaching 2:00 on wall street and 11:00 in walla walla, washington. oil is up and sarah eisen is in for melissa. i guarantee it's the best darn show on the network today. we will get more on the macro markets, but two big stock stories, stocks you likely very well. ge is down trading the most volume on the s&p 500. this after friday's rouge restructuring surge. what is an investor to do. you should sell it. a long time ge shareholder is cio of people's united wea

people at home would be saying i guess i've got to sell darden. well, no.'ve got to sell jack-in-the-box. no. i've got to sell dillard, no. >> as you said yesterday on twitter, the economy is not on its last legs when kohl's is leading the s&p. >> it's not working. the s&p, it's -- talking about yesterday the hedge funds making money. that's because what's happening the s&p is no longer trading together. there are -- even within subsectors dramatic differences. unless you realize that look if you're an s&p trader sell's right. but it doesn't advance the ball in our world where sky works, nxpi you know and the incredible corvo merger takes the place of what intel's doing and microsoft. they're going to miss. >> still waiting on intel doing something with altera. >> that's a done deal. i read it in the papers friday night. i go to david on friday trying to do my show i say listen, i'm not going to pick one like "the journal" or anybody says the intel deal's done. i come in month, the deal's not down. david said i wouldn't go out with that. this is reporting.

. >> so my name is jessica darden, i'm a assistant professor at the school of international service at american university here in d.c. and big shout out to my georgetown colleagues. i would just like to speak to this point a little bit about generational shifts and cultural shifts. so dr. mackenzie brought up the israeli defense forces, and they have historically had women integrated into their operations. but even in pushing through some of their removals of gender based combat exclusions, they're having an extremely difficult time. for example, women who operate on manned aerial drones are allowed to employ in theater, but not with infantry units. they're only allowed to stay back with artillery unit. so there is still, even amongst the most advance countries in overcoming these hurdles, hurdles still remain. so i think it's a little bit naive to think all these issues are going to go away immediately. in part because of a lot of these developments are tactically driven. and so i'm very excited that came up as point of a conversation. my own research deals primarily with irregular a