michael johnson is a predator, okay? this is a criminal enterprise, okay? you're listening, michael. and it's time to shut the company down, because with that, i'm going to take a break. liz: he is crying, and michael johnson, when he got teary, he, of course, it's important to note said that michael johnson, who is the ceo, is some type of guy running a criminal operation. market doesn't feel that way at all. take a look at the stock, it is jumping. and, in fact, starting just after 2:30 when you, charlie, started to sit down with the chief financial officer of herbalife -- >> his first -- liz: -- it jumped another 3%. >> right. his first interview following the presentation, fox business was able to secure first. i will say this, you know, i said this yesterday, i think bill ackman's a very good investor. his bark is bigger than his bite when it comes to herbalife, and it has been for a while. the market was pricing in something dramatic today, and all's he gave us was more of the same. listen, herbalife might be a crummy company, i have no horse in this

. >> 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

jury ordered reynolds to pay her more than $23 billion for the wrongful death of her husband, michael johnson, birthdays, christmas, father's day, i still go and put flowers on his grave. >> reporter: johnson was a chain-smoker in 1986 when he was just 36 years old he died. his widow still blames the company. >> with concealed information that was harmful to a human for years. and still to this day have not admitted that they were wrong. >> reporter: once part of a class action lawsuit that was tossed out in 2006, robinson then sued rj reynolds on her own and on friday she was awarded one of the largest verdicts in u.s. history. rj reynolds is vowing to appeal. writing in a statement, the damgs awarded in this case are grocery excessive and impermissible under state and conversations stug constitutional law. >> we beat them once and we will beat them again because we are on the side of justice. >> reporter: still, according to one legal analyst, robinson may never see the billions she's been awarded. >> when you get an award this size, extremely, extremely rare, a lot of the times the award p

tobacco giant rj reynolds to pay her more than $23 billion for the wrongful death of her husband, michael johnson>> birthdays, christmas, father's day, i still go and put flowers out on his grave. >> reporter: johnson was a chain smoker, who died of lung cancer in 1996, when he was just 36 years old. his widow still blames the company. >> they concealed information that was harmful to a human for years. and still to this day have not admitted that they were wrong. >> reporter: once part of a class action lawsuit that was tossed out in 2006, robinson then sued rj reynolds on her own, and on friday, she was awarded one of the largest verdicts in u.s. history. rj reynolds is vowing to appeal, writing in a statement, the damages awarded in this case are grossly excessive and impermissible under state and constitutional law. >> read thbeat them once and wet them again because we're on the side of justice, we're on the right side. >> reporter: still, according to one legal analyst, be robinson may never see the billions she's been awarded. >> when you get an award this size, which is extremely, extreme

michael johnson died 18 years ago from lung cancer. his widow and family sueded r.j. his death. we had an exclusive interview with the family's attorney and asked him what he thought about critics calling the award too much. >> i say to those people, let's join in and stop the tobacco industry from laughing at us while they drive to the bank with larger money bags. let's stop them -- let's put the grave diggers out of business. serious smoking is killing 480,000 people every year. people that never would smoke, people that wouldn't smoke. they spend billions of dollars on advertising. they lure our kids into smoking, our children. >> he says the $23 billion verdict is unreasonable and goes way beyond the limits of fairness. the company plans to appeal. >>> a capitol hill press secretary is out of jail tonight after he was accused of bringing a gun to work. police released ryan shoehard this afternoon after he pleaded not guilty to a felony gun offense. u.s. capitol police arrested him friday. they say he had a nine millimeter semiautomatic handgun in his briefcase. it

and michael johnson said that we wouldn't allow him to come to the presentation. that is false.y clear that michael johnson and his senior management team are welcome to come to the presentation. we'll be happy to sit them in the front row if they would like. we're happy to let them answer questions or even ask questions during the presentation. we're holding it at the axxa equitable auditorium, 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. and you register at www.herbalifepyramidscheme.com. come early, limited seating. this will be the most important presentation that i have made in my career. so how's that for raising expectations. but we won't disappoint. >> at the same time, you know, bill, herbalife is certainly stepping up their own rhetoric in relation to you. they call you -- and by a hashtag on twitter - twitter -- #theworstofwallstreet . howdoyourespo do you respond to bill ackman manipulation? >> i look forward to talking tomorrow. we have not paid everyone to spread bad information about herbalife. and i look forward to going through the facts, the facts, think about a public company

michael johnson sr. died of lung cancer in 1996. he family sued the tobacco company blaming it for johnson's death. we learned they saddled them with $23 billion for punitive damages. that's on top of the $17 million that the judge awarded johnson's family. a judge determined johnson was 30% responsible for his own illness because he was a smoker. however, the jury sided with the family. >>> today we can learn why a capitol hill staffer brought a handgun inside a house. he works for pennsylvania representative tom moreno. he went into the cannon house office building with a handgun and ammunition. they found the gun during a briefcase search. darcy spencer talked to him by phone. he says it was an accident. carrying a handgun without a license is a felony in the district. >>> we're getting a new look at robbers trying to steal money out of your account. these photos show a man and a woman wanted for atm skimming. this is our first look at the female suspect. police say at least three men are also involved. the thieves install secret

. >> well, unopposed, i mean, look, be honest, you're sitting here today, but michael johnson, the, hasvirtually silent on the issue for 18 months. you've let bill ackman control the knavetive, haven't you? >> our key role is to deliver results. that's what we focus on. when bill came out 18 months ago, we divided the company into teams and decided michael, that walter, the president, the coo just focus on performance. that's michael's job. i think that we gave mr. ackman too much of the podium. that will change. there's an ogranic drive in the company. we have 550,000 districters and members in the u.s., and there's an ogranic drive within that group for us to tell the truth about herbal life. >> there's been instances, and i'm sure you'll readily admit where distributors of herbal life made claims about the product that may not have been true, have said things that you, as a company, had wished they hadn't. you started retraining people as a result. correct? >> so let's put it in context because we have a four-prong approach to compliance. it's integrated. the first -- so we have 550

. ♪ ♪ >>> michael johnson senior from florida died of lung cancer in 1996 after two decades of chainke. a jury awarded his widow 23 billion in damages. the company that has to pay up, rj reynolds tobacco. the case one of those in florida after the state supreme court tossed out a $145 billion class action verdict in 2006. stuart varney sat down with the man's lawyer and asked about the case. >> should we be trying to put tobacco companies out of business with a lawsuit? >> we should send them a message, they can make a safer cigarette, they may make a few less dollars, they should do it. you have to give people a right to make an informed decision. >> everybody knows -- >> not everybody. >> how could you not know? >> what about a ten-year-old? >> how many die of cirrhosis of the liver because they drink alcohol. >> you cannot withhold information about the product that's detrimental and people rely on it to their detriment. >> unbelievable. kimberly, a legal perspective. no one put a gun to his head, said smoke two packs a day. he was in his 30s, he was warned about it on labels his

michael johnson is a predator, okay? this is a criminal enterprise. okay? 're listening, michael. and it is time to shut the company down because with that i will take a break. david: you hear the voice cracking there. that was bill ackman, getting emotional this afternoon as he tried to make his case against herbalife. ed max ever market was not buying it all, that herbalife was against american dream and illegal corporation, that the company roared back to cover losses from yesterday and doubled those gains. is ackman's case against herbalife all emotion and little substance? joining me, john coffey, columbia university law school professor. professor, the market spoke clearly. they believe what he is saying is all emotional and there is little fire beneath all that smoke. what do you say? >> clearly mr. ackman came up short so to speak. the market doesn't see anything in his charges. the market may well agree that herbalife is exploiting poor people but cynically they expect that exploitation to produce a great deal of profit and to continue. there is no

smoker michael johnson sr. died of lung cancer in 1996. his family sued rj reynolds tocco company blaming it for his death. friday night the jury ordered the get manufacturer to pay $23.6 billion in punitive damages. that's on top of the $17 million that a judge awarded johnson's family. just minutes ago, news4 shomari stone had an exclusive interview with the family attorney who won last night's verdict. >> some say this verdict is excessive. what do you say to people who have the opinion that johnson decided to smoke on his own, he knew about the dangers of smoking. >> i say to those people let's go in and stop the tobacco industry while they drive to the bank laughing at us. let's stop them. let's put the grave diggers out of business. cigarette smoking is killing 480,000 people every year. people that never would spoke. people that wouldn't spoke. they spend billions of dollars on advertising. they lure our kids into smoking. our children. >> now, the case could be up for an appeal and then to be settled. >>> people in richmond don't w

michael johnson is a predator. this is a criminal enterprise. lauren simonetti?e listening is time to shut the company down. charles: earlier in the week the stock got hammered, herbalife. obviously investors did not think so. the stock had a huge move, one of the biggest it has ever had in one day. why do you think his words fell on deaf ears? >> you know what, carl icahn came in. i think today he has proven to be the winner on that one. from my perspective they both have valid points, but i would take his view that this is a -- form of entrepreneurialism trying to find a new way to make money. they have tried and tried again. >> that is the point. the second time he has gotten on a soapbox to talk about herbalife. >> she has been doing this for years. >> but use the help it can be manipulated. 10% yesterday just him talking move the stock and cause a lot of people to lose money facebook.com/makingmoney -- charles: i don't like the soap boxes they give these people. it seems problematic. appreciate it. coming up, kirk douglas dated and so did the nation of burma

michael holland and cory johnson are with us this hour. we will be back. ♪ >> this is bloomberg surveillance. michael holland is with us. what about mergers and it positions as a use of cash. it was all the rage in 2013. is that a good use of raising cash? expression heard the it is cheaper to drill for oil on the new york stock exchange go out to the real fields. the private market value of a lot of these companies is substantially above where we are in the public microplate -- public marketplace. the answer is, yes. >> but with all of this cheap money we've got out there, can system,to gain the guess who would be next? >> you would have to be the companies that are smart. the companies that are buying smart are growing faster than you would expect. this is a constructive thing at this point in the cycle. at the point in which it becomes the structure -- destructive is good for the acquirer as well as acquirees.es -- one of the wonderful things about the current reporting timeframe is not only three quarters of the companies reporting and

in compensatory damages and $23.6 billion in punitive damages for for the death of her husband michael johnsong cancer in 1996. >> to the day he died michael smoked. >> reporter: and how many packs? >> up to three packs a day. >> reporter: the attorney presented documents from the tobacco industry, some dating back to the 1960s. >> they refused to give this information out that nicotine in tobacco will get you hooked more than likely. you try to stop, you're trying to stop. you're trying stop. >> reporter: but your husband had a choice that he could have stopped smoking. you say? >> he did have a choice, but did he have a choice to know what was in it? would he have made that choice? if you give him the listing of everything they had in these cigarettes to let him have a choice? they did not. >> reporter: in court attorney chris chestnut played jurors a video of tobacco experts testifying before congress in 1994. how did that affect, do you think, the outcome here? >> we saw a video, every tobacco agent from major companies, each one, going to the next. say are all saying tobacco is not addict

then former professional athlete kareem abdul-jabbar, michael irvin and kevin johnson talk about racism in sports. in about one hour, a debate about immigration with daniel stein for the federation for the migration reform, and benjamin johnson of the american council -- then charles murphy on american exceptionalism from the american enterprise institute. ago, it isears estimated that the population of the 13 colonies was about 2.5 million people. aroundthe population is 320 million here in the united states. fourth of july became a federal holiday in 1870. 1938. federal holiday in good morning and welcome to "washington journal" on this july 4. we will ask you, what does it mean to be an american?

my name is michael and i'm here to lend my voice in support of christine johnson's nomination. i have had the pleasure of working with her. i run the office at the hunters point shipyard. christine just has an incredible capacity to be able to intake information and as others have said, to ask the right questions. but one thing i did want to say, her commitment is just way aboveboard. i think in the years that she served on the cac, she may have missed three meetings out of hundreds of meetings. so again i just wanted to lend my support. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisor. brook solomon with rdj enterprises. as a firm, working in and for the southeast, we have had the distinct pleasure of working with and witnessing commissioner johnson's engagement with elected officials, department heads, community leaders, community members, families in an effort to address land use issues in the bayview. and the successful result of those efforts in tandem with her finance background, we're wildly excited to endorse this recommendation to the seat for commissioner johnson and strongly

johnson is following earnings. big tech companies reporting over the next few days. michaelheaving his eye on the housing market. more data out this week. peter, why don't we begin with -- withclear in ukraine. >> it is proving to be a challenge for them. button issues are ukraine and the middle east you situate -- middle east situation. the fighting going on his way to cairo. hoping to achieve a cease-fire, working with the egyptian and other players. the u.n. secretary general. for thet challenge administration. syria, iraq, afghanistan. play rightlot on the now, juggling them to the best they can. they said the u.s. is engaged in all of the issues and that is what is important here. >> help me out. the white house, administration juggling at the best they can. yet the president headed west this week for yet another gunner -- yet again another fundraiser. >> multiple fundraisers. the life of the president goes on. not the first to go on fundraisers in an election year. it will strike some as unseemly that he is out west schmoozing raisinglywood types and money. the only th

johnson. and because -- and, of course, because of the courage of civil rights activists across the country and including this week we mourn james cheney, michaelis possible. at the time, i'll acknowledge that the civil rights act was incomplete without the voting rights act. president johnson and dr. king would press for the voting rights act's passage in the next congress. it was only a matter of months later. and today those twin triumphs of civil rights stand among the greatest legislative accomplishments of our country [ applause ] and so as we bestow the medal on dr. martin luther king and coretta scott king we must insist on the truth. and this truth is to truly celebrate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. thank you all [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican leader of the united states senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. [ applause ] >> america, as we know, is the land of promise and opportunity. it's a conviction that unites all of us americans and one we repeat quite often. but for too long in this country that wasn't the case for a large segment of our population. and for nearly a century after the end of t

if it's michael bradley and jermaine, they are talking about their game plan. jo fabian johnson, they are making sure that they are not only a team in their type but they will match up against their opponent. >> let me run through some scenarios. you know this very well. these are the nuances of soccer, especially now that we're in the knockout rounds. the game will end after 90 minutes of play and plus the whole injury time. that's pretty simple. but if after all of that, they have this 30-minute overtime. a couple more minutes injury time. if they are still tied, because we like to play out the scenarios here, five players from each team tries to get a shot past the goalie and the team with the most goals wins. if they are still tied, cobi jones, they have sudden death. can you describe the pressure for me, cobi, for the kicker and the goalkeeper? >> it's intense pressure. it's more pressure for the player taking the penalty kick because it really doesn't have anything to do, you know, with those 120 minutes plus that happened before. it's just the one moment where you get to

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johnson selling 15 million worth in shares? selling when things look so good to you? >> michael had an expiring set of options issued to him in 2003 and he had to exercise some of those. i don't think you will see that again. >> all right, john. thank you so much for joining this morning. clearly, you know your business. sporting his green tie, bloomberg west is out there in california, starting right now. i will send you to emily chang. ♪ three, welcomeer to bloomberg west. hour, has dick costolo fixed to the user growth problem and figured out how to keep the users engaged? those are some of the questions that they are ready to answer today and we will look into whether the recent changes and twitter are impacting the business. linkedin is refreshing its mobile app, rolling out a major redesign of the service, designed to summarize your profile and make it easier to find things. the vice president will be here to talk about it as well as the recent acquisitions. admits that it secretly conducted experiments on users, including purposely creating bad matches to see if people wo

michael ricci. >> i've been in fights, i don't get along well with others. they don't like my religion. they discriminate against me because of that. >> johnsonractices an obscure religion called osatrue. >> before we were christians, we were osatrue, believe in oden, thor. it's a medieval religion, classical. >> prison officials maintain these religions like osatrue are really covers for white supreme cysti supremacist gangs. >> it's a problem. >> for father mcnally, the choice or legitimacy of an inmate's religion is a secondary concern. >> forget the priest bit. deal with them as a human being first, then the ministry comes along with that. you deal with them as they are, as i would in a hospital or any other setting. i redad a bit of t found it fascinating. >> it's cool. i never understood the jesuits of that time period. it's nice to have somebody come in and spend some time with me. he doesn't try to force christianity down my throat. >> it's sad that this has to be where they are. knowing, as they know, they've done something pretty darn bad to get in here. >> i need all the help i can get, you know? >> god bless you. i'm just going to

johnson. and because -- and, of course, because of the courage of civil rights activists across the country and including this week we mourn james cheney, michaelis possible. at the time, i'll acknowledge that the civil rights act was incomplete without the voting rights act. president johnson and dr. king would press for the voting rights act's passage in the next congress. it was only a matter of months later. and today those twin triumphs of civil rights stand among the greatest legislative accomplishments of our country [ applause ] and so as we bestow the medal on dr. martin luther king and coretta scott king we must insist on the truth. and this truth is to truly celebrate the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. thank you all [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, the republican leader of the united states senate, the honorable mitch mcconnell. [ applause ] >> america, as we know, is the land of promise and opportunity. it's a conviction that unites all of us americans and one we repeat quite often. but for too long in this country that wasn't the case for a large segment of our population. and for nearly a century after the end of t

yesterday morning when 25-year-old andre johnson, who has been described as homeless, arrived outside the studio where "live with kelly and michaelofficer who was working security for abc instantly restrained the man, at which point, the knife was discovered.

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johnson about 20 years ago and it's fantastic. [applause] >> john avlon. >> you know it's amazing to see this many people realize it's just the beginning of how many people miss michaelhe would want it. you know there is a legend of michael hastings over the past years. it's one that was beginning to be in place during his lifetime. but we all know that figurative, michael the wild man, it's a dangerous man but he was also ultimately a good man and there was a deeply moralistic sense about him of fidelity to his craft and fidelity to the truth. he was absolutely uncompromising on it and it made all of us around him better to have that example so vivid in front of us, to have that intense commitment while at the same time having that gets to be able to take his work seriously but not himself. and you know he had that moralistic sense that journalists are supposed to have, that whole idea of you are supposed to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. he believed that and he did that. as this administration knows he was not going to be a stenographer and he had the built-in gift that hemingway described as being a built-in shock proof bowls should detector. h

>> michael, they are saying that unless they get the supplemental funds the president is pushing for, the situation on the border will get even worse. we heard from secretary johnson that next month, immigration and customs enforcement will run out of money. customs and border protection will run out of money in september. now, about half of the funds the president is looking for will go to the department of health and human services. their primary mission is taking care of these children. secretary sylvia burwell said she was down on the border just last week visiting with children, seeing what their sessions are. she said they need to get these -- what their situations are. they need to get these children prosprocessed more quickly and have more shelters overall. >> federal law says that hhs's role is to feed, shelter and provide medical care for unaccompanied children until we are able to place them in a safe and suitable setting with family members or a sponsor while they await immigration proceedings. as the number of children has grown, our resources have been stretched thing. . >> burwell emphasized that if they get the funding, if it's secured, they can sa

michael gerson, columnist for "the washington post" who serve ed as chief speechwriter for president bush, and carolyn ryan, political editor from "the new york times." welcome to all of you. chuck, from secretary johnsonthink an ambiguous response to what they are going to do and how exactly we got here. >> it's been that way. it was that way in the white house briefing. you could not get a straight answer out of the administration. you couldn't get them to say, should the president's image be used to send the message in central america. to send the message, hey, don't sed your kids here. this isn't going to happen. ambiguity with you, do you want to increase deportations. they've been afraid to say that and it's the politics of this. immigration, separate from the issue debated in washington but conflated obviously back and forth. i think part of the problem is an administration on one hand has immigrant rights groups wanting them to expand some of the executive orders, dreamers, this daca thing, dreamers for the parents, and an exchange they know politically in order to get away with that, they have to increase the deportations but they don't want to say that. >> lori, is america still the country t

johnson. o film, and performing her latest hit, "beautiful girl," sarah mclachlan. plus, your questions and comments on another edition of the "inbox." ll next on "live." now, here are kelly ripa and michael

michael, thanks for the call in california. fox news points out five things about the civil rights act. among the points, five hours after congress approved the legislation, president johnson signed it, then turned and handed pens to various key figures in getting the legislation passed, including then attorney general robert kennedy. since the law, congress followed up with the voting rights act of 1965, which banned the use of literacy tests at its federal oversight for minority voters and allowed federal investigators to investigate the use of poll taxes in state and local legislations, prompted in part by the blood sunday attack in that year. john boehner said on this date in 1964, referring to yesterday's official anniversary, the house passed the civil rights act. relive this history in oral history. you can go to speaker boehner's twitter page to look at that video. and next we have edward from north carolina. thank you for being with us. >> caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm proud of this day to see this anniversary. i'm just concerned that over the years that black democrats in office are still continuing to preach the same thing, but we're in the same posi