and ceo john steinberg. good monday to both of you.e'll get to tech news in a second, but first to dominic chu at headquarters. >> we're watching shares of lumber liquidators, the company halted for trading volatility and reopened, up 5%. it was up about 9%, and this after bloomberg headlines saying that a u.s. judge has accepted a plea agreement with lumber liquidators. right now we don't know exactly what the plea was or what the plea was for in terms of what charges they address. still, the headline was moving the stock, the stock up about 9.5%, right around just 10:54 a.m., halted for volatility, reopened just now about a minute ago, now up by 6.5% on heavier than average volumes, so we will bring you more. right now, trading volatility around lumber liquidators on a bloomberg headline with a u.s. judge. back over to you guys. >> thanks,dom. keep us posted on that. meanwhile, the rest of the markets giving up some of their gains, lower off the lows for the day. twitter shares up sharply. a new report from the information out this m

kayla tauschy back here at post nine and cnbc contributor and former ceo of the daily mail, john steinbergjohn, good morning to you. >> good to be here, guys. >> the market here having a pretty nice monday. dow up 182. stocks essentially in rally mode. oils helping out on a great day for the price of oil, up 7%. of course, you've heard about the pound today and some of these key materials prices getting back to some important levels. in the meantime, apple and ceo tim cook urging the government to withdraw that request to break into the iphone, one of the killers in san bernardino. cook wrote a letter, saying the move would set a dangerous precedent. eamon? >> good morning, carl. that letter to his employees came out early this morning and continued a war of words between the fbi and apple that lasted through the entire weekend. here's what tim cook said in part in his letter this morning. he acknowledged the awkwardness that the company finds itself in now that it is dueling with the fbi. cook writing, apple is a uniquely american company. it does not feel right to be on the opposite side

joining us this morning, our super panel, former daily male ceo, john steinberg and indy go go co founder you want to wait for apple's top lawyer in its case against the government joins us live later on this hour. don't miss it. first up, the oracle of omaha, warren buffett joining "squawk" earlier this morning, had a lot to say about a lot of stocks, namely ibm. take a listen. >> i don't think so, but it could be. i mean, we -- we've owned stocks we lost money in. and sometimes when stocks go down, we're wrong and we sell them. and sometimes we think we're right and we buy more. and sometimes it turns out we are. a stock going down is a good thing, unless the company itself is losing value. and sometimes that's the case and sometimes it isn't. i don't think it's the case with ibm. but i could be wrong. >> all right. so we've talked about this a couple times this morning, guys. but john, i'll start with you. is he looking past some of the shorter-term concerns for this company, because he is so long-term focused? i'm not sure he's wrong and i know that's weird to say, given how much -- i

and ceo john steinberg. good monday to both of you.to tech news in a second, but first to dominic chu at headquarters. >> we're watching shares of lumber liquidators, the company halted for trading volatility and reopened, up 5%. it was up about 9%,

steinberg. he was once one of the top representing some of the biggest names in sports. >> he was the inspiration for maguire. ktvu's johnson causing -- john sasaki sits down with steinberg alcohol. >> reporter: leigh steinberg isn't flashy like the athletes and sports agent has represented some of the biggest names in football. warren moon. >> reporter: he worked many other sports and even tv news. >> they were clients. >> reporter: so successful that he inspired the movie jerry maguire. remember the scene in which he tells cuba gooding, jr., help me, help you. >> helped me help you. >> reporter: that was something the agent actually said. >> i agreed with cameron. i would not talk about what screen. but when my wife saw it, she said, did you have to tell them everything? >> reporter: steinberg's world started to crash down around him. >> my father died a long, horrible death of cancer. and he was my rock, my inspiration. with incipient blindness. >> reporter: he later hit rock- bottom. >> so i turned to alcohol. and -- obviously the worst thing to do. >> reporter: but he had an epiphany that sparked his recovery. >> my dad had two core v

steinberg. he was once one of the top agents in the country representing some of the biggest names in sports. >> he was the inspiration for the tom cruise movie jerry maguire. ktvu's johnson causing -- john sasaki sits down with steinberg after he lost everything to alcohol. >> reporter: leigh steinberg isn't flashy like the athletes he represents but the lawyer and sports agent has represented some of the biggest names in football. >> troy aikman, steve young, warren moon. >> reporter: he worked many other sports and even tv news. >> they were clients. >> reporter: so successful that he inspired the movie jerry maguire. remember the scene in which he tells cuba gooding, jr., help me, help you. >> helped me help you. >> reporter: that was something the agent actually said. >> i agreed with cameron. i would not talk about what stories showed up on the screen. but when my wife saw it, she said, did you have to tell them everything? >> reporter: steinberg's world started to crash down around him. >> my father died a long, horrible death of cancer. and he was my rock, my inspiration. we had a couple kids diagnosed with incipient blindness. >> reporter: he later hit rock- bottom. >> so i turn

in particular, leigh steinberg was at one point one of the top sports agents in the country representing some of the biggest names. >> he was the inspiration for jerry maguire. john sasaki has more. >> reporter: leigh steinberg isn't flashy like the athletes he represents but he has represented some of the biggest names in football. >> troy aikman, steve young, warren moon. >> reporter: he also worked many other sports and even tv news. >> dennis richmond and steve carell were clients. >> reporter: he was so successful, he inspired the film jerry maguire. remember the scene where jerry maguire tells cuba gooding junior to help me to help you. that is something he actually said. >> i agreed with cameron to not talk about the stories that showed up on the screen but when my wife saw it, she said did you have to tell them everything? >> reporter: after 2000, his world started crashing down. >> i father dying a long horrible death of cancer and he was really my rock, my inspiration. we had a couple kids diagnosed with incipient blindness. i turned to alcohol which is obviously the worst thing to do. >> reporter: but he had an epiphany that sparked his recovery. >> my