. >> i would like you to meet michael johnson. he has been in the program for over 8 years. >> nice to me you. what inspired your photography? >> i am inspired everything that i see. the greatest thing about being a photographer is being able to show other people what i see. i have mostly worked in cuba and work that i shot here in san francisco. >> what is it about being a street artist that you particularly like? >> i liked it to the first day that i did it. i like talking to mentum people. talking about art or anything that comes to our minds. there is more visibility than i would see in any store front. this would cost us relatively very little. >> i am so happy to meet you. i wish you all of the best. >> you are the wonderful artist that makes these color coding. >> nice to me to. >> i have been a street artist since 1976. >> how did you decide to be a street artist? >> i was working on union square. on lunch hours, i would be there visiting the artist. it was interesting, exciting, and i have a creative streak in me. it rang

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michael true luck's death is an opportunity. to get parents drinking things like four loko. sherrie johnsonas the latest on the death of this parkville middle school student, also what the school is doing today. >> we have been in touch with baltimore county officials and they plan to have the traumatic team available at parkville to help students with their grief and the loss of michael true luck. as students return to school, parents and the community say it's a teachable moment. it's a time to teach kids about alcohol, and substance abuse. michael died on saturday after he got sick, fell out after moving car and hit by another car. he was drinking four loko, a fixture of caffeine and alcohol. one can is the equivalent of 4 beers. friends and parents gathered at the scene yesterday, still in a state of shock. the drink version was banned in maryland in 2010, but after calf fine was removed, it was put back on the shelf with the same amount of booze. it can end up in the hands of kids looking to party. >> at young anal, they shouldn't have access to the alcohol. you can't blame the parents

. >> michael johnson is on tonight. please. >> this is all about mall ware, you can't get enough of this stuff. >> and range resources also a nice pop. a lot of takeover talk. >> that's what it's all about. >> mistake. >>> for more on these stocks go to sots.cnbc.com for more information. >> can i say my twitter has lit up because people accuse me of saying you don't understand google. look, it's unbelievable technology, great databases, it's phenomenal. i base everything on earnings per share. i'm not a guy who's analyzing technology, i'm analyzing earnings. it doesn't have the momentum i thought it would. >> think of the great google products, talk about android, google docs. if they charged -- i don't know what kind of -- what do you call it when people leave, the opposite of retention. churn. what kind of churn they would have -- >> i've made a fortune trying to analyze earnings per share, and i've lost a forting -- when google pops the earnings, i'm all over it. >> second acts terr very hard to come by. they kin to

and so one of the most important things i think ron johnson and michael francis are doing is startinghe first of will month, they've ended that game. they have three price levels and it's very clear to the customer and i think that's going to really -- customers will respond favorably to that. >> let's move on to lulu. stocks up 40%. >> it's like our long book in reverse. short book also ripped up. and it's a market in which a lot of frothy momentum stuff is really moving and the key thing on the short side is to make sure you're not wrong on the fundamental intrinsic value, but also to size things so you can take the pain when the market just decides to rip frothy stocks up 40%. so we've gone back and we've redone our work on this and it's a fine company and customers are intensely loyal. it's growing rapidly. so why would we be shorted? it's trading at -- i pulled up the newspapers this morning. it has a $9.4 billion market cap, trading at 10.6 times sales. and even if you believe estimates for this year, inherently high margins. it's a retailer. lots of competitors are out there wa

mikey, here ellot sadler gets in the back of jimmie johnson and behind him collected a lot of cars. the ford really got bad damage. >> michael: we weren't even warmed up yet. sitting around a day waiting to race and there a little too close to the push there from elliott to jimmie johnson and winds up in the wrong direction. >> john: look at the aggressive driving by denny hamlin. you said you liked the way he is pushing it. >> michael: he is not afraid to push. the only guy that we have seen take chance after chance. wants to be in the front. >> john: he has a new crew chief who has won one of these with jimmie johnson before. more bad news for hendrick motorsports as jeff gordon's gar blows up. >> michael: watch this impact, john. >> john: unbelievable to see that the safety vehicles are out on the racetrack. juan pablo montoya has something break in the car. he loses control. and a huge fire breaks out afterwards. very scary incident. but glad to say that juan pablo is okay and we hope the driver of the safety truck is oh day. he was helped out of that thing. look at the damage on juan pablo's car. >> michael: under cauti

mikey, here ellot sadler gets in the back of jimmie johnson and behind him collected a lot of cars. the ford really got bad damage. >> michael: we weren't even warmed up yet. sitting around a day waiting to race and there a little too close to the push there from elliott to jimmie johnson and winds up in the wrong direction. >> john: look at the aggressive driving by denny hamlin. you said you liked the way he is pushing it. >> michael: he is not afraid to push. the only guy that we have seen take chance after chance. wants to be in the front. >> john: he has a new crew chief who has won one of these with jimmie johnson before. more bad news for hendrick motorsports as jeff gordon's gar blows up. >> michael: watch this impact, john. >> john: unbelievable to see that the safety vehicles are out on the racetrack. juan pablo montoya has something break in the car. he loses control. and a huge fire breaks out afterwards. very scary incident. but glad to say that juan pablo is okay and we hope the driver of the safety truck is oh day. he was helped out of that thing. look at the damage on juan pablo's car. >> michael: under cauti

elliott sadler quick tap to jimmie johnson and he is in the wall. >> michael: got hit and turned intohe outside wall. watch what danica goes through. trying to squeak through sideways and takes a hit right there and tore up the rear end of her car and put her in the garage. >> john: look at the way denny hamlin was charging to the lead. hooked up with martin truex, jr. and got the lead himself. >> michael: he is the only one we have seen him push, bump draft. only place he has been happy is when is out front. >> john: four time champion jeff gordon blows up. >> michael: he put everything in the race and when it went bad for jeff we thought that is a shane. watch what happens to it juan. transmission. something broke and spun him into the outside wall. excuse me, into the truck. look at that car. it's tore all to pieces. obviously big fire there. what is great, though, is both juan and the guy driving the truck were able to walk away. >> john: that is the road good news. even better news for the race fans that braved this for so many hours now we will go back green flag racing shortly.

elliott sadler quick tap to jimmie johnson and he is in the wall. >> michael: got hit and turned intohe outside wall. watch what danica goes through. trying to squeak through sideways and takes a hit right there and tore up the rear end of her car and put her in the garage. >> john: look at the way denny hamlin was charging to the lead. hooked up with martin truex, jr. and got the lead himself. >> michael: he is the only one we have seen him push, bump draft. only place he has been happy is when is out front. >> john: four time champion jeff gordon blows up. >> michael: he put everything in the race and when it went bad for jeff we thought that is a shane. watch what happens to it juan. transmission. something broke and spun him into the outside wall. excuse me, into the truck. look at that car. it's tore all to pieces. obviously big fire there. what is great, though, is both juan and the guy driving the truck were able to walk away. >> john: that is the road good news. even better news for the race fans that braved this for so many hours now we will go back green flag racing shortly.

barbara johnson joins me by phone and contributor michael smerconish will speak with us about this.hank you so much for your time. >> thank you for having me. >> take me back to when you first realized that the priest had an issue with you being a lesbian. >> the first moment that i realized that the priest had an issue was with me being a lesbian was when i was standing in front of him with my hand out to receive communion. when he said those words that you just spoke and i was shocked. and it took me several seconds before i walked away into disbelief. >> and i would imagine there were others around who maybe perhaps did not hear the priest's words to you but i'm sure saw your reaction to whatever he was saying at the time. >> yes, several people in the front couple of pews did hear what he said, and the entire church save for perhaps a few people in the back rows saw what happened. and i was greeted after leaving the church by several people who embraced me and apologized and were very saddened and then swrup s upset by the event. >> the arnldy sis of washington has a statement t

michael truluck opened the door to a moving car when he got sick and fell out of the car and was hit and killed. abc2 news sherrie johnson tells us more. there's much more to the story. sherrie. >> reporter: yes, we have learned through the teen's mother that the 13-year-old was drinking a powerful combination of caffeine and alcohol. michael truluck's mom says he was drinking four loko before the accident. last night over a hundred teens gathered to remember their friend e died on saturday when baltimore county police say that the car carrying michael was making a turn out of the auto zo parking lot in the 8300 block of harford road when the teen opened the passenger door to throw up and he fell out and was hit and killed by another car. his friends can't believe he is gone. >> were you drinking? >> yeah. this is what happens. >> reporter: now no charges have be filed against the driver who hit michael. he was a student at parkville middle school and will be in touch with the school officials to see if they will have grief counselors on hand. >>> three minutes after five. no testimony today in the case of george huguely

michael truluck fell out of a moving car and was hit and killed. and alcohol played a role in his accident. for more let's go to sherrie johnson with new developments in this and a mother's heart break at the death of her son. >> reporter: it's all very sad. you can't believe this happened. but there's still a lot of unanswered questions like where did michael truluck get the drink since alcohol distributors agreed to stop selling it in 2010. it was also banned in baltimore city. the teen's mother confirmed he was drecking four lo-ko before the accident. that is powerful combination of caffeine and alcohol. last night over 100 teens gathered to remember their friend michael died on saturday when baltimore county police say the car carrying michael was making a turn out of auto zone parking lot in the 8300 block of harford road when the teen opened the passenger door to throw up. he fell out and was hit and killed by another car. his mother has -- has a warning for other kids. >> it's not cool to drink and to get high. accidents happen on the best intention and i lost the only son i am ever going to have because they wanted to

johnson: the american dream." and her pulitzer prize winning work on franklin delano roosevelt. joining me in new york, michael beschloss. he is a historian who has written a number of books including "presidential courage." jim fallows. he served as a speech writer for jimmy carter. he wrote a piece on president obama in the "atlantic" magazine called "obama explained." jon meacham, he is the author of "american lion: andrew jackson in the white house." it earned him a pulitzer prize. he's currently writing on george h.w. bush and thomas jefferson. finally, robert caro, he is a two-time pulitzer prize winning author and has dedicated decades to writing about lyndon johnson. his fourth volume "the passage of power," is set to come out this may. i am pleased to have them here to have this discussion about men and power, the power of the office and how those two things come together. i begin with barack obama. what did you go in search of? >> trying to find out to the extent anyone could what makes obama tick. we know if you support obama or oppose him there's something different about the way he seems as he pre

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michael truluck opened the door of a car he was riding in when he got sick and he fell out and was hit and killed. and sherrie johnsons standing by with much more on the story. that's not sherrie but that's linda let's go to sherrie. >> reporter: that's right. we learned through the teen's mother that the 13-year-old was drinking a powerful combination of caffeine and alcohol. michael truluck's mom said he was drinking four loko before the accident. last night over a hundred teens gathered to remember their friend. michael died on saturday when baltimore county police say the car carrying michael was making a turn out of the auto zone park lot when he opened the passenger door to throw up and fell out and was hit and keeled by another car. his friends -- be killed about i another car. his friends can't believe he is gone. >> we came -- were you drinking? >> yes. we were being stupid and this is what happens when you be stupid. >> it's not cool to drink and to get high. accidents happen on the best intentions and i lost the only son i am ever going to have because they wanted to party. >> reporter: no charges will be

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johnson has the latest. >> reporter: we have learned through the teen's mother the 13-year-old was drinking a powerful combination of caffeine and chog. michael truluck's mother says he was drinking four loko when he fell out of his stepfather'scar. over a hundred teens to remember the friend e died when he leaned out of the car to throw up. police say the car carrying him was making a turn out of the auto zone parking lot in the 8300 block harford road when i opened the door and fell out and was hit and keeled by another car. -- killed by another car. >> he drank one of those energy drinks with alcohol in it that all these kids around here seem to think is okay. and he needed to vomit and he opened up the door and fell out and was run over. >> reporter: no charges will be filed against the driver who hit michael e was a student at -- he was a student at parkville middle school and will be in touch with officials to see if grief counselors will be on hand when the students return to school. >>> the trial of george huguely is on hold because of president's day but jurors are expected to begin deliberation on wednesday. he is accused of killing

michael, you have a $79 price target on the stock. and you have a $45 price target on the stock. gordon johnson put a sell on the stock a day before you did has a $26 target on the stock. that's a huge disconnect. i talked to gordon today and he said why did management the private equity group took them public liquidate close to 100% of holdings over the month. what do you think of the disconnect? >> do you want me to answer that? >> go ahead. >> in fact, if you look at the numbers we put out after this announcement, our numbers for 2011 and '12 did not change at all. so we understand that if at all lg was trying to do something in this regard, it is going to take them some time, in fact, quite a bit of time to catch up in terms of technology and years to start competing with polypore's products. the big concern we have is more on the valuation side. i was looking at the valuation over the first half of 2011. and what we observed given the growth profile this company has had they've enjoyed a 35 p/e multiple in the past. those multiples may be coming down, not just numbers. >> thank you very mu

johnson. and that car still hasn't lost much of its momentum as it goes side over side. and comes to rest. on its roof. >> darrell: michael made a really good point. these cars are so much bigger than the cars were five years ago. with the safety innovations moved into the cars and drivers moved over 6 inches further than ever before. the roll cage is bigger. that really helped jeff gordon in that situation. >> mike: dick berggren? >> dick: jimmie johnson is sitting in his car and it is his opinion that the mechanics should fix the car so he can go back out. the right-front is absolutely torn off the car. there is oil on it. there is a lot of work going on here. but there are so few cars left in running condition johnson wants to continue the race. >> mike: we have completed 75 laps, dick, but the race is not over because of nascar's green/white checker rule. we will have several attempts to get it finished. >> darrell: there is the device they created to turn when a car gets upside down. the buoy and all the stuff to turn it over gently. >> mike: here is the fox superzoom as jeff gordon makes contact with the left-rear c

johnson. and that car still hasn't lost much of its momentum as it goes side over side. and comes to rest. on its roof. >> darrell: michael made a really good point. these cars are so much bigger than the cars were five years ago. with the safety innovations moved into the cars and drivers moved over 6 inches further than ever before. the roll cage is bigger. that really helped jeff gordon in that situation. >> mike: dick berggren? >> dick: jimmie johnson is sitting in his car and it is his opinion that the mechanics should fix the car so he can go back out. the right-front is absolutely torn off the car. there is oil on it. there is a lot of work going on here. but there are so few cars left in running condition johnson wants to continue the race. >> mike: we have completed 75 laps, dick, but the race is not over because of nascar's green/white checker rule. we will have several attempts to get it finished. >> darrell: there is the device they created to turn when a car gets upside down. the buoy and all the stuff to turn it over gently. >> mike: here is the fox superzoom as jeff gordon makes contact with the left-rear c

johnson was wonderful, and it was just screened at momo, which we're proud of. a film about linda cartellini, from "e.r." you'll see a side of her you've never seen. that was moye michaelit is about a woman who returns -- she's a member of the national guard. she returns from either iraq or afghanistan, you don't know where, because that's really not the point. >> doesn't matter. >> she comes home to the midwest, tries to reconnect with her life and -- >> and the way it used to be. >> the way it used to be and it's not. it's not necessarily because everyone around her has changed, although some have, but she has. >> she has. >> internally. she's trying to, you know, bridge that disassociation. and can't. >> a story that hasn't been told about -- i mean, we hear about women going to war, but that's sort of trying to come back and assimilate again, you don't see much of that. >> there's a subtlety. the movies we see are usually based on men who have gone to war and flashbacks, terrible scenes, and you can appreciate why they're troubled. but she says in the movie, friends say what happened there? she says nothing compared to others. i had it easy. that's the experience o

michael farr. give me two stocks in the next 16 seconds. >> in the next 16 seconds, i continue to like cisco, the tech company, and i like johnson & johnsonthere is a good barbell. but the market is up 20%. be careful jumping in here. this is not the time to get aggressive. >> brian kelly, i need a stock. >> u stocks are on the rise. >> you guys are fantastic. thank you very much. we appreciate it. as always. all right, folks. serious stuff. we have breaking news coming into cnbc. a plane has landed on its belly at newark airport. passenger, fortunately have been evacuated. thank god. you're looking at live pictures coming in from our affiliate, nbc. we're going to get a live report and then check out all the latest headlines next. i'm kudlow. please stay with us. thank god this thing is going to be okay. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a tea

michael just said he loved doing this. so that's a certain kind of inner need that muched the times perfectly. >> rose: >> and even after if you're not as overtly needy as lyndon johnson-- because i think he defines overtly needy-- >> it's a worthy need. (laughter) >> as long as it's oh verdic >> rose: worthy a overt. we'll ta both. >> it has nothing do with his southernness at all. (laughter) but jefferson, whom i've spent a lot of time with, has a great motto here. he would have every night during the congressional session 12 to 14 congressmen in to dinner. there was no precedence, it was a round table. he got that idea from you. >> rose: he did. never thanked me. >> but he would not have republans and federalists because he didn't want conflict. so this wasn't about some bucolic bipartisan vision, it was about loyalty to an attachment to him. but he would tell friends "i'll see you in four months. i'm going to be busy dining for the next three or four or five months with the congress." >> rose: one lyndon johnson story that always fascinated me is richard russell and going to baseball games. did johnson not even like baseball? (laughter) but if richard russell want

johnson. he'll be introducing -- jeff lundy, fair weatherman. thank you all for coming. michael?ystery that surrounds phil's prediction and we've been asked over the last couple of years to maybe take a little bit of the mystery away. we're going to leave some in place but take a little bit away. phil's prediction is predicated on what phil tells our president. our president is the only person in the world who is gifted to understand the language of groundhogese. it's not a spoken language. it's a language that's a chirp and a click and a little body language and a wink of an eye and, you know, maybe the cock of the head. so our president has the ability to interpret that. as you know, phil makes two predictions. he predicts six more weeks of winter or he predicts that spring is just around the corner. i as the vice president in charge and preparing two scrolls. one saying winter. one saying spring. i will be instructed by our president after he communicates with punxsutawney phil as to which one to read. i really don't know, none of us know. you will see the decision made when y

johnson, jr. here next with his take. >> gretchen: and mitt romney says newt gingrich is not a true reagan conservative. what does president reagan's own son think? he'll be here with us live. michaelam today. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three y we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love ience. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ >> steve: catholic leaders across this country up in arms over president obama's health care mandate requiring all religious organizations to cover birth control for their employees. our own ed henry asked white house spokesperson jay carney about their controversial decision. >> how is it the administration justify having the federal government institute a law that basically forces people to violate their religious beliefs? >> the administration believes that it strikes the appropriate balance between respecting religious beliefs and increasing access to important preventive services. we will continue to work closely with religious groups