microsoft comes in and as it continues, think barnes & noble needs to pull out. davidhe life of barnes & noble without the nook? they will have to focus on their internet business, they'll have to go head-to-head with amazon. nobody's lowballed products like amazon. sometimes investors are worried about that, but they can't compete on price with amazon, can they? >> it is hard, but you can compete on service. it is the only national bookstore that continues. if you want to sell a book. it is still a dog and pony show. one that you can do that with. liz: does this put barnes & noble on death watch? >> i would say apple has done well in stores, best buy has come back, all the large companies are figuring out how do you use a brick-and-mortar store to compliment your online store? if you can get the consumer to come in and buy a computer, you buy it online if you can go to the store and fix it. if you can use the barnes & noble store in that kind of way to come clement for online strategy, it is a home run. david: there was talk of the chairman wanted to buy up the stars,

david: peter barnes has been following this story and he has got some late-breaking news on it. torney general eric holder out today confirming that he recused himself from this case because he felt it would be a conflict of interest for him because he was interviewed for this case last year he announced today. he is going to get some more heat this tomorrow from congress. the attorney general is headed to testify at the house judiciary committee. he is likely to get tough questions from both parties on all of this about why the department secretly subpoenaed two months worth of ap phone records. >> i'm not familiar with all that went into the formulation of the subpoena. i was recused from that matter but i'm confident that the people who are involved in this investigation who i know for a great many years and i worked with for a great many years followed all of the appropriate justice department regulations and did things according to doj rules. >> now when he recused himself last year holder turned the case over to his deputy, james cole. in a letter to the associated press to

david: okay. peter barnes. it is keeping them up at night.eps him up at night should keep us up at night as well. peter, thank you very much. >> okay. liz: robust earnings and hefty yields have all pushed demand for real estate investment trusts or reits to a decade-high. this as a new slew of reit ipos hits the market. we'll tell you how to get in on this booming market. david: there is still time. the fight for dell just took a dramatic new turn as carl icahn made a new bid for the struggling pc-maker that some are calling extortion. you don't want to miss latest details on his latest offer, reaction from carl icahn himself straight ahead here on fb. -- fbn. everybody has different investment objectives, ideas, goals, appetite for risk. you can't say 'one size fits all'. it doesn't. that's crazy. we're all totally different. ishares core. etf building blocks for your personalized portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professional investors choose ishares for their etfs. ishares by blackrock. call 1-800-ishares for a prospectus, which in

hitting all-time high today, 21% gain for barnes & noble today. davidight about gap. gap following through, another huge move in that stock. >> yeah the retail sector did well today. gap was one of the huge winners. their april same-store sales better than expected. they guided higher as you said. this stock also hitting an annual high today up more than 5%. liz: one sector is just really having a great day, the online travel sites all rallying. expedia, orbitz. priceline had good numbers. is that what is lifting all of these boats? >> priceline did have sfwrat numbers of at closing bell yesterday. orbitz reported yesterday. many stocks in the space are up at least 3%. many are hitting annual highs once again. >> as liz mentioned, tesla, traders are saying straight up to 100 from here. but another big gain today. double digit gain. >> over the past two days, this stock is up 307%. [closing bell rings] wow! have to shout over the ding from the markets here as we close. liz: this is a surprise because the market struggled earlier today. as you see on the

david lee. despite that troublesome ankle curry averaged a team, high 25 points during the playoff. and equally excites wag harrison barnes, draymond green, and has left the team hungry for more. >> i learned so much this year. a lot of positive things. i mean, we had two rookies starting the first 50 games or so, and we're 50 games off .500. there's a lot of things, a lot of experiences we can build on for next year. >> rick: at the byron nelson classic, bradley is trying to become the tournament's first wire to wire winner since 1983. check out this shot. from 162 yards out. a couple of bounces and rolls in for eagle. bradley started the day with a three-shot lead. the 68 has him on top by one. >>> tom gillis, just two off the lead. and the giants are playing at colorado. if we have highlights we'll show them to you at 6:00. >> ama: next, an extremely up >> ama: on abc7 at 6:00, the special honor for the golden state warriors, apple cofounder steve wozniak steps up to the microphone at berkeley. and the controversy and protests over a new book released in san francisco. join us at 6:00. >>> a grizzly bear caught on tape

david lee. despite the ankle, curry averaged a team high 23 points during the lay playoffs, and equally exciting, harrison barnes, draymond green, having gotten a taste of the powe season has left them hungry for more. >> i learned so much this year. there are lot of positive things. we had two rookies starting the first 50 games or so we're 13 games off .500. we had -- there's a lot of experiences we had this year we can build on for next year. like like at the byron nelson classic, bradley trying to become the first wire to wire winner since 1980. it was perfect perfect day in texas. check out this shot. second on a par-4 14th from 162 yards. it bounces a couple of times before going in for eagle. tied for fifth. uh-huh. brad lee -- bradley started with a the shot lead. a 68 has him on top by one into the final round. tom gillis two from the lead thanks to shots like this one. >>> before the giants took on the rockies, manager bruce bow the called a rare team meeting. the subject? mental mistakes. san francisco has made nine errors while losing three of its last fours. let's good out to coors field. a rocky mo

david lee. despite the ankle, curry averaged a team high 23 points during the lay playoffs, and equally exciting, harrison barnes, draymond green, having gotten a taste of the powe season has left them hungry for more. >> i learned so much this year. there are lot of positive things. we had two rookies starting the first 50 games or so we're 13 games off .500. we had -- there's a lot of experiences we had this year we can build on for next year. like like at the byron nelson classic, bradley trying to become the first wire to wire winner since 1980. it was perfect perfect day in texas. check out this shot. second on a par-4 14th from 162 yards. it bounces a couple of times before going in for eagle. tied for fifth. uh-huh. brad lee -- bradley started with a the shot lead. a 68 has him on top by one into the final round. tom gillis two from the lead thanks to shots like this one. >>> before the giants took on the rockies, manager bruce bow the called a rare team meeting. the subject? mental mistakes. san francisco has made nine errors while losing three of its last fours. let's good out to coors field. a rocky mo

, we're left with the mush where susan rice says almost nothing and then david petraeus' e-mail, all the stuff about the cia barnngs and then writing no mention of the cable to cairo either? frankly, i just as soon not use this, this is about the talking points. but it's in s.s.'s call, that's national security's staff, regardless, thanks for the great work. i'm not quite sure what the great work was there. but bottom line is there's no indication of partisan political motive for scrubbing this because of the election. there is plenty of evidence of this bureaucratic tussle between the state department and the cia, and that's, at the end of the day, what we're left with. >> what i realized is all of my fantasies built up from all of my years watching spy movies and reading spy novels about how exciting it must be working as a top-level spy, i don't want that at all, sounds like bureaucratic nonsense. >> you don't want to be a part of this e-mail chain. >> michael isikoff, nbc news investigative correspondent, thank you very much. really appreciate your take on this. >> thank you, rachel. >>> when the president c

david lay with the very serious injury, surgery at the end of the year played 12 minutes and hit three shots. # points. harrison barnsints. harrison barns. rookie all rookie team. this is san antonio's night. tony parker to green. green had 16 points. spurs up 11 in the third. jared jack, you know, at least this stage wasn't too big for him. he wasn't afraid. number of turn oversut 20 points. thompson and curry combined for six of 22 from the field for only 13 points. warriors did have 14 turn overs. 14 in the third and in the fourth quarter, just all said, antonio, here comes parker one more time. he had 250 and mark janson -- he had 25 and mark johnson won't be giving any quotes tonight. 109-91 spurs up 3-2. >> just talking about the challenge getting this one over with thursday. you'd make a bad coach. nobody talks about getting this thing over with like you got a rash or that kind of thing. you've got to take a pill or put cream on it and it's going to be gone, you know, this is a war. they have a class team. they bust their at both sides of the floor and it's not about getting rid of anything. it's about going a

a plate all performance the to have to go back to the great david robinson in 191916 points and six rebounds to find the equal of what barnesthere harrison? >> from about to 3000 which is a great turnout. >> gary: you kind of tiptoe a round of veteran until the playoffs you did not want to force occurred bounds early? >> i would not say that. i was able to get into a good rhythm. >> gary: you know of a san you when you first begin to the early you do not want to do a lot of talk me or take more shots because you are a rookie kurt? >> i learned a lot of things before l.a. came into the leak to be comfortable. >> reporter: >> gary: the best time out speeches of any coach in a leak what is your in the league >> best motivator that i have ever been on round. he motivates everyone and make you play hard. and play for each other as well. >> gary: you take five of them to lunch, which come up in december. where does this parent of bowsher committing come from? >> i've always wanted to something with the boys and girls club. if they did well in school but i would take them to lunch or something. helen to help kids that have done a

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barnes, "wall street journal," thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: and to the analysis of shields and brooks, syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. so, gentlemen, it's only been one week but three giant headaches for the obama administration, for the president. david david, let's take them one by one. the i.r.s., this hearing today. two completely different points of view on what happened. whom are we to believe? >> well, i think we just don't know. one of the things we don't know is who +*eupbs dated this. was there lobbying from capitol hill on instigating this? second, who knew it when? the treasury department did they know it? did anybody in the white house know it? how up in the i.r.s. did they know it? did they give maybe not completely false testimony but non-forthcoming testimony. and then the final thing-- which we may know a little bit more about after today and after the report-- is what it political thuggery or obliviousness. i think the evidence on the latter issue is probably it was a little more toward oblivious. you had a group of technocrats who had become so abstracted and removed from political reality

barnes & noble. a potential deal to sell the nook. microsoft may be interested here? nicole: right, and that is what we saw. -have not seen since 2011. even microsoft moved higher but pulled back. davidesterday, groupon. some days you have to talk about the green, today it is all about the green. nicole: talking about groupon, going up 11%. unfortunately we're stepping five days. some days you have to take a breath and relax a little. a whole bunch of stocks outperforming today, hitting all-time highs in some cases. you have to keep in mind some stocks really blew through these ratings, these earnings and all the expectations, but the dow jones and in the day down 22, 23 points. s&p down less than half a percent, the nasdaq down also, the russell 2000. keep in mind this may be a breather. liz: we had other earnings movers as well.