i'm david asman. let's go in focus with steve forbes sabrina shafford and bruce jackson. steve, the president says we're respected again, and you say? >>well michael jackson and barack obama has fantasy land. the russians the chinese, the iranians all believe now the u.s. is a declining power, which is why the chinese are flagrantly hacking the u.s. government files the way they came out last week, and in terms of the american voters. barack obama polls now under george w. bush. there's like for the united states but not respect in terms of global power. >> and we're tryinging to figure out what metric the president is using to make that claim. there was a gl lup poll we think is the poll that shows the approval rating going up a little bit. but the same poll shows the u.s. approval rating going down from 2009 to 2014. so it's confusing here. >> well i think a poll we should all consider is a very low bar that was bush and cheney for starters. they may not always like us but they respect us. they're in on the nuclear talks with iran for us. we have a trade deal going onto

i'm david asman. let's go in focus with steve forbes sabrina shafford and bruce jackson.

. >> all right, thank you for watching countdown, now over to david asman who -- >> there you go. >>s a salesman, there is nothing wrong with his company, a religion, wow. melissa: yeah. >> i like people that stand behind their product, biggest cyberattack, massive data breach, affects 4 million government officials, what is going on with that? hackers from china are believed to be behind it, we're learning they may be same group responsible for other hits on two mayor american companies, >> scary. >> 400 more people entering workforce last month, we have 400,000, with millennials almost nieks96% of that, white castle e richardson with his reaction, and demand for higher america hm wage. >> 9 months since president obama said that america and its italys would destroy -- its allies would destroy isis, we get a update from the pentagon. melissa: as closing bells are getting ready, on wall street. here is the a look at major averages and where we're ending the week, third down week in a row for dowa as we come do close. it off the lows of session, still down, [closing bell ringing] >> n

let me send it over to david asman and france fran on this monday. , liz, we'll take it. melissa: absolutely. u.s. home sales surging to a five 1/2-year high, but prices of homes getting awfully close to record territory. signs of a bubble perhaps? david: a lot of people are suggesting that. remember the all bear architect that called americans stupid. administrator insiders claim they didn't know him but thousands of pages of uncovered emails tell a very different story. melissa: another american arrested trying to support isis. former cia deputy direct john mclaughlin joins us on the lone wolf threat and how he thinks isis could actually win the war. david: guess what? a new prison break, lead dna forensics tell the where the convicts were on father's day. details straight ahead. meanwhile we're looking at record close on several of the indices that we follow very closely here. look at the russell 2000. that is very close, 1293 was the last record. looks like we might be just shy of that. clearly looks like we have a record going on nasdaq. [closing

stick around, "after the bell," david asman and melissa francis have exclusive interview with former governor and presidential candidate mike huckabee after the "countdown." >>> before we get to the story and you're breaking it again here, another story, i want your thoughts on the trade deal as it pertains to business leaders in america? >> most business leaders, and listen, there are a lot of democrats who are business leaders, like lloyd blank of goldman sachs and larry frank of black rock. what they're worried about when they see something like this, the democratic party is hijacked by the far left. there used to be a time when free trade was a given; that we thought for long-term, this was something good, bill clinton embraced it. barack obama has embraced it. republicans obviously embrace it. you have the democratic party, which is now run by the far left, which is in open rebellion against it. liz: almost interesting, certain cases on the social side of it, the republicans have the same problem, the very far right has the thumb on it, but here's a situation, charlie, this coul

extend over to david asman and melissa francis.of bomb threats clearing out the white house and the capitol. what is going on in washington? talk to james rosen, he was the last guy out door at time of the threat. david: the obama administration may have found a way to help taxpayers bail out college loans. you want to hear the details on the story. melissa: the skinny girl herself joins us live to give us the skinny on floating brand. everyone has a great idea about a product. she's going to tell you how to turn your idea into millions. closing bell sounding on wall street, here's a look where the major averages are ending the day. barely in the green as we settle out there. looks like the dow turned negative there. david: this is important, if it goes negative, it will be four days in a row. still settling, down about 5. couple minutes ago up 5. if it settles negative, it will be four days in a row. since march. melissa: that's right. david: here's everything you need to know right now. melissa: tense day for nation's capitol. tw

coming up on "after the bell," david asman and melissa francis talk about the high cost of prescriptionthe express scripts chief medical officer steve miller. 4:00 p.m. eastern, immediately following "countdown." and tell us what you think. which medical innovation do you believe will have the greatest impact on health care over the next decade? i don't know, you can outdo robotics? try me, visit us at facebook, tweet us@liz claman or visit lizclaman.com. multiple ways to reach me. i want to hear from you. absolutely. closing bell nine minute away, the closer. we will ask the experts how they're trading so much out there. turmoil in greece, low volatility, a solid retail sales number. consumer lives again, but also fears of a fed rate hike all happening when we come back. stay tuned. so you're a small business expert from at&t? yeah, give me a problem and i've got the solution. well, we have 30 years of customer records. our cloud can keep them safe and accessible anywhere. my drivers don't have time to fill out forms. tablets. keep them all digital. we're looking to double our deliveri

ashley: i could see david asman shooting down sixth avenue. >> what about me ashley webster.ee me in the car! >> that is sexist. >> it would mess the hair do. >> it's like a helmet. >> i bet melissa knows the difference between that car and the nasdaq car. we're on the story here, a lot of breaking news, including isis in boston, apparently police moved in just in the nick of time, terrorists were planning to behead a policeman today. this is a really active story we're all over it. we've been talking about the irs. the irs chief was pointing fingers at russia, turns out there was someone inside the irs stealing taxpayer refunds. david: unbelievable. melissa: wasn't an inside job. gerri willis is all over the story for us. david: violent crime as a lot of you already know is way up all over the country. all the cop bash something leading to cops pulling back, criminals moving in. the question will businesses move out? let's take a look where the markets are ending the day. [closing bell ringing] the averages are all up. though i can't find that is up over half a percent. usua

and david asman, what they're cooking up here? what do you think?'s about racial discrimination, it's about money. if it was about racial discrimination, you wouldn't have people like spike lee living in the upper side of manhattan in a $34 million town house. it's federal localization of policies, this administration is doing with regard to police with schools and now with regard to zoning. they say it goes against the american government fiber of local communities controlling their own community, rather than the folks inside the beltway doing it for them. neil: what they're saying the local communities try to control their own community with a wink and nod, controlling the types of folks they have in that community and that's racist. what do you think? >> right, so the federal government government, they built the high tower projects and they're blighted and kept people in minorities and low income people and look what they did wrong. we have another plant and take control. we're going to move these people and they're incentivizing people across t

great powers that be, which brings me to this next gentleman, david asman, who has been following onen musk and this idea one of the richest people on the planlet needs any help from the government. we give him five billion bucks in help. >> $4.9 billion. who will quibble about 100 million here or there. he does seem to be drawn into these businesses that require government subsidies. on one hand i admire the hell out of this guy. he came here in 1988 from south africa, with no money. no family. had his brother. no mother and father. 17 years old. managed to get his way into the university of pennsylvania. got his phd in stanford. he didn't finish. was drawn towards business. sold his business in 20s. he is a great dude but -- neil: all of his businesses. all of them does he need them? he almost seems surprised and doesn't need it? >> "the los angeles times" has a terrific piece that details all of the businesses that require government subsidies that he is into. frankly they're going to be ostracized by all liberals in california that buy teslas. one of the crazy things about governm

melissa, catch your show with david asman. they like each other. >> we do! it's amazing. neil: for now. in the meantime, we've got all these lois lerner e-mails. they are better than 6400 of them. so remember when they said we lost them all. they found them all and not going to share a one. something is up with that. the congressman who wants them pronto, which means like now. you premium like clockwork. month after month. year after year. then one night, you hydroplane into a ditch. yeah... surprise... your insurance company tells you to pay up again. why pay for insurance if you have to pay even more for using it? if you have liberty mutual deductible fund™, you could pay no deductible at all. sign up to immediately lower your deductible by $100. and keep lowering it $100 annually, until it's gone. then continue to earn that $100 every year. there's no limit to how much you can earn and this savings applies to every vehicle on your policy. call 1-888-438-9061 to learn more. switch to liberty mutual and you could save up to $423. call liberty mutual for a free quote toda

david asman with some very telling signs. what happened?s a guy who was, could have been the richest man at least on paper in all of china. there are a lot of rich people in china. that is saying a lot. his company called hahn energy, made very thin solar cells. they were thin, which meant they were flexible. that you could mount them temporarily on rental homes. they had a deal with ikea to do a deal with them, to set them up in homes. they had all kinds of things. look how it jumped way, way up. this is happening on the upside -- neil: this is his company,. >> most of this trading was him. he would borrow money against the value of his stock in order to buy more stock. that shot it up. however may 20th the house of cards came down. the stock lost 40% on that one day. they closed trading on the hong kong exchange. lord knows if it was on nyse or one of our exchanges would be down to zero. the value of the company has probably gone down to zero. this is cautionary tale. he was visionary entrepreneur who got a lot of politicians about his id

everybody, this afternoon, former congressman ron paul he's on after the bell with melissa francis and david asmanm. on this network. moving on the taliban five will not be free to travel at least not yet. the government in qatar say more diplomatic talks need to happen first. concerned veterans for america. you think they're going to keep them in check for long? or within a few weeks they'll be out of there and on the battlefield? >> they'll probably get a six month extension and they may get another one after that, but it's indicative of a temporary piecemeal approach. they never had a plan for these guys. taliban five high risk high value taliban leadership traded for a desserter. they wanted it as part of a plan to close guantanamo bay and they said we got them out, locked up for a year and then realized that year is going to expire and their dedication to their cause is not expiring why were we to think they wouldn't try to get out. they are he a -- they are going to. it's patch work. stuart: i'm calling it the victory of politics over security needs. am i going too far? >> i don't think so a