the base without his body armor and weapon and eventually into the hands of the taliban, andrea. >> mikbriefly, str is there any clarification to his father's suggestion that he might have forgotten english? >> no indication of that whatsoever. he's speaking to the doctors and military intel officials so it doesn't sound like there's a communications problem there. >> thanks so much to jim miklaszewski and ayman, you've been talking to people about the conditions that he is going to be held under. there are a lot of concerns among critics that they will be able to return to the battlefield or command and control function because they were so senior. you have a deputy defense minister involved. >> reporter: that's absolutely correct. it's a very ral i had concern but one that quaut ar officials will not allow to happen while these individuals are under the care of the government. we're learning more about the final hours of that deal, if you will, but more importantly, the conditions under which they have agreed to accept the individuals puts restrictions on these individuals. they are b

. >> mik, to your point, to the question of do we have a partner and leader in government we can trustan and the developments there? >> in this case, the history between the u.s. fost and iraqi government is pretty much well known. but currently, you know, the -- i'm sure that the administration has problems with the maliki government and the fact they haven't included sunnis in that government as the administration thought it would. so you're looking here at -- and chuck hit on it exactly. a thousand year sectarian war that is not going to be solved with a couple of bombs or a few bombs or dozens of bombs dropped by u.s. military aircraft on a bunch of insurgents. this is not going to solve the problem. >> to that point, our own richard engel who lived in the region was on nightly news and asked, does this come as a surprise given his reporting? and he said, sadly, no. so mik, you obviously have the question, if you have seasoned reporters in the region not surprised as you pointed out thousand year sectarian war, how is it that the criticism today is that perhaps the administration w

jim miklaszewski joining me now from the pentagon and what is the very latest that we are learning, mik? is. >> well, these five americans were on a training mission with the afghan security force s s i the province of southern afghanistan in what should have been a routine operation turned into a tragic mishap. it is not clear what the mission was, but apparently some reports that they were out to screen polling stations for the upcoming runoff elections for this weekend, but that is not even clear at this point, but what is clear is that they came in under a heavy and fierce attack under taliban forces and returned fire, but the taliban kept on relentlessly so that the americans had to call in an airstrike. a b-1 stealth bomber, and then came up upon the scene, and launched a precision-guided bomb that fell on what they thought was the taliban target, but unfortunately, killed the five americans and kill the one taliban soldier. by all accounts, it appears to have been either mechanical or electronic or human error and a terrible accident, but just how it happened won't be known until

the stock trades under the nasdaq ticker symbol mik and at the close the stock rose slightly to $17.02. >>> news that dollar general ceo is retiring next year sent shares lower today. that decision comes as activist investor carl icahn has been pushing for the chain to merge with family dollar. dollar general is also sticking with it's lowered full year profit outlook and as a result, the stock tumbled more than 7% to $57.19. >>> a strong first quarter finish, though, for finish line. the athletic apparel company posted earnings and revenue that topped estimates as sales and margins expanded. finish line credits its relationship with macy's to expand the market share. the stock was up more than 1% to close at $29.56. >>> shares of rack space fell after a news report saying the company is not catching the eye of potential buyers. shares surged in may after rack space hired morgan stanley ranging from partnerships to an out right acquisition but today, the stock was down more than 7% to $33.63. >>> and ceasers delivered another blow to atlantic city. it will close the show boat hotel it

it's relisting tomorrow trading under the stock symbol mik after being taken private in 2006. in that time sales have grown 1% with a store base that's grown to more than 1142 stores today, plus, it's profitable. when it comes to the product, makes a little over half of the sales come from crafts, home decor and seasonal items and framing and scrapbooking make up the rest. it's a market leader in the arts and crafts space out selling competitors, joann stores and hobby lobby. the platform and expanding store base are both expected to continue to contribute to increasing sales. those following michael's progress say it's a well-run business but question how much growth there is in the arts and crafts retail sector. >> crafts are back. it's starting to grow again and went through a period of growth, kind of retrenchment and growth again, but this company itself has to fight the battle with two tough coal pmpetitors. >> reporter: one of two retailers offering the rainbow loom. the success of the rainbow loom is the primary reason sales increased for the past fiscal year but there

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. >> i think the old ticker mik. >> what's the operative word? >> for bankers. restructured, ipo? lbo? you move the letters around. >> that's exactly what happened. >> so you don't like you like blackstone. you like michaels? >> i probably would not buy michael's. >> we have general motors according to dow jones, gm is recalling foreign 1240u6789 of the 2013-2014 chevrolet cruze vehicles because of airbag issues remember they told us that gm told deal torres halt sales. now it has become an official recall of 40,000 vehicles. now has the story changed, guy. >> we said the stocks seem to now shrug everything off. i think thing to is okay at 37. >> having said that it keeps you in a range. i am long gm. i leak the stocks. >> why take the risks, though you have 4 up 11%. i hear you. it's due for a bounce. >> you are long gm. >> i am. >> all of it. >> all >>> my mission is simple -- to make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors. there's always a bull market somewhere and i promise to help you find it. "mad money" starts now. >>> hey i'm cramer, welcome to "m

but mik, i want to ask you.mething, i was going to say, you've brought up something i've been hearing from a lot of people inside the pentagon and outside of the pentagon. a lot of people in the military culture, very offended by the rose garden ceremony. and they have said that what the president's excuses were for getting him out did not hold up. military officials telling me that the taliban was not going to kill him. that he was like their gold en goose. i mean, he was their ace of spades. they were not going to get rid of him. and that the president -- i have somebody here who said, he wasn't near death. it didn't happen quickly, they would have never killed him if it had leaked. and what this really is a cover for is the president of the united states basically saying, he can't trust dianne feinstein and he can't trust saxby chambliss and he can't trust nancy pelosi and these people with this information. are you hearing that from the military community? that they don't buy this and many are offended by th

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barbecue, they don't know that the dog is in the house they leave the gate open -- the dog is eating the mik microphone rit now, i was wondering what that noise was. gerri: give our pet a nibble of something? >> we see poison related claims related to food more often during the summer, onions for burger, and avocado for guacamole. for a small dog like these, onions can be deadly. gerri: you are kidding? they are allergic to them. >> it is toxin it can be deadly. i can put them in a room with a sign on the door, don't open. gerri: what else? >> it is not nice to leave them alone if they are really scared, if you leave them in a crate they could be so panicked and break teeth or nails, stay with your dog if you know they are really scared, make our own noise, and delicious treats, during fireworks feed them the good things. it is okay to comfort our dogs, it is okay you are just reassureing them in this case. gerri: a lot of people like to take their pets with them to big events should they be on a tight leash. >> you should leave them at home, there is too much going on, if you take them, mak

it looks like that's -- i love he said he wants some options as mik reported, they have the options. he has a, b and c. now, he can weigh -- obviously he's going to weigh those options but this is really about negotiating publicly now with maliki and sending the message. we're not helping until you put some promises because it's your army that's laying down their arms and your -- you've got governance problems and you've got to make real promises here and political solution. iraq's ambassador says we can't do political solutions until there's breathing space from the militants. >> maliki has arrested sunnis, put people in prison. >> been authoritarian. >> and thrown sunni rivals into the arms of these insurgents. general mccaffrey, we're falking about air strikes but the concern is who will trust maliki to give you the targets? and know that he was really targeting the insurgents and not his enemies, political enemies. >> andrea, i thought the president's address showed real wisdom and balance and sensibility. i take it a step beyond though perhaps how chuck set it up. i think there'

currently trading just above its offer price under ticker symbol mik. spent nearly eight years in private ownership. bane and blackstone, two private equity took the company private in 2006 paying and own 70% of the company postipo. michael's raised money in the offering. proceeds used to pay down debt. we'll see if investors have appetite for the craft company, best known for its rainbow loom bracelet making kit. a primary driver of sales last year. mandy? >> thank you very much. >>> let's trade gopro. back up a little. michael's, yes, talking about that today, because it's today's ipo. face it. the high lot of the ipo week has been gopro. what do you think about gopro? guys? >> i got my -- we have a bunch of clients that got allocations on this one, mandy, somewhat foolishly i told them take the profits and run yesterday on $7 pop. today it's up another $7 or $8. it's a takedown of myself, that i shouldn't have let them get out of it so quickly. however, i don't think this is a media company. i agree with curt swisher. not a media company. parts of a

jim miklaszewski joining me now from the pentagon and what is the very latest that we are learning, mikans were on a training mission with the afghan security force s s i the province of southern afghanistan in what should have been a routine operation turned into a tragic mishap. it is not clear what the mission was, but apparently some reports that they were out to screen polling stations for

as i miks mentioned, i want to express my gratitude to my family and friends, especially my wife erica and brother walk joaquin both of whom join me today. without their support, i wouldn't be here in front of you. i want to commend this committee which has a well earned represent uation for working in a bipartisan fashion on behalf of the american people. it has been a pleasure to meet with you and your staff. if confirmed i look forward to advancing issues critical to our nation's future. mr. chairman, i appear before you today with more than experience, i also bring any own personal experience. i grew up on the west side of san antonio in a neighborhood of hard working families of very modest means. my father at two different times in his life lived this public housing. my mother worked for the san antonio housing authority. i've seen with my own eyes how talented and driven americans who just want a fair shot are weighed down by the conditions in which they live. this simply isn't right. all americans deserve the same opportunities that i had and i've dedicated my career to giving

. >> mik, the united states spent trillions of dollars in iraq, a lot of that money went to bolster up the iraqi army. from what you hear at the pentagon, what is the status of the iraqi army right now? it seems to be overrun by these militants. >> you can train individuals, the grunts, the ground pounders, how to shoot a gun, how to take directions, how to figure out where you are on a map. but you cannot teach them leadership. and that's been what's lacking here. the fact of the matter is, you have all these low-level soldiers out in the open battlefield, and they don't have the kind of leadership that is necessary. and in fact, we have seen many of them shed their uniforms, shed their weapons, some out of fear probably, but here in the building, some analysts believe that it's because they in fact have sympathy for the sunnis, those militants, isis, that are carrying out these assaults. >> jim, thank you, as always. let's turn to the global analysis at stratfor. and managing editor of news at foreign policy magazine. thank you both for being with us. one of the biggest problems i se

pentagon and state department and the white house as well for the "washington post," first to you, mik, what is the latest we know about how this could have happened? >> we're told that a group of u.s. special operations forces on a mission training mission with afghan security had been working in the area zabul when they came under heavy fierce attack from taliban forces which forced americans to call in an air strike from a b-1 stealth bomber. it's not clear exactly how this happened. but one of the weapons at least one of the weapons, struck amidst the americans and afghans killing five americans and at least one afghan soldier. centcom has an investigation under way to figure out what went wrong. incoordinates or provided into the weapon itself or was there some sort of electronic error. it's way too early to tell that. at a time when most people think that the afghanistan is coming to an end, if it's not already ended, a stark reminder that tens of thousands of americans are still at risk there and in harm's way in afghanistan. >> indeed. richard engel, in landstuhl germany, where

this week, he told me, mik, it gets econom s complicated when o mix military operations and white house politics, just saying. bergdahl to come home at the end of this week. not likely to be a hero coming home. he's likely to face charges. joshua was a medic bergdahl's platoon and believes bergdahl should be cart martialed for desertion. >> he willfully walked away from his duty as a united states soldier and he needs to be held accountable for that. >> reporter: desertion is considered one of the most severe charges in the military justice system. >> it's the hard of the matter, you have to have g.i.s who stay at their duty station who don't wander off who dare to perform duty. otherwise there's no way to achieve an army mission. >> reporter: the army has said the deaths of six deaths killed in action during search operations for bergdahl. one of those killed was bergdahl's platoon leader darin andrews. his mother wants to see him process to justice. >> he's not a hero, he's a traitor. he's a deserter, he left his post in war. >> reporter: his father andy does not want his son's death

the shares are set to start trading on the nasdaq today under the symbol mik. alibaba has picked up the nyse. it's chosen the nyse for that rollout. the chinese internet commerce giant plans to list under the big board under the symbol baba. it could start trading as soon as august. gopro was welcomed by investors pb closed up 30% on its first day of trading. the founder nick woodman joined us yesterday with his view of the company. >> people buy solutions, not things, not damages. helping people express themselves, share their life experience, that is an everlasting value proposition to consumers. that's not a fad. and if gopro can make it easier than any other company in the world, make it edzer for our customers to share compelling professional quality personal content, that's an opportunity that's never going to go away. >> is he wearing a gopro thing on his head a lot? >> no. he just went like this with his air. >> he has that -- >> something about mary is what it looked like to me. >> oh, look, there you are. >> did you mention -- with me, you look and yo

this video is extraordinary to look at, mik. what more can you tell us about the circumstances of this exchange, it looks so smooth when you watch the video but could have been so dangerous. >> well, it was complicated. the first impression i'm hearing from people in the pentagon is that he actually looks in pretty remarkable physical condition. no idea how he is psychologically. but physically, they think he looks pretty good. second of all, we saw in that video that they frisked -- the special operations forces frisked bergdahl not once, but twice. and we're told that it was out of fear that the taliban might have planted a suicide bomb on that american soldier. >> meantime, mik, as you well know, there's so much fallout about the circumstances of bergdahl's departure from the army. so many former soldiers, platoon mates speaking out against him. they had signed these nondisclosure agreements, which apparently they now feel they are released from. how are the pentagon brass really reacting to this and the soldiers coming out a

they have the low end of the projected range, and they'll trade on the nasdaq under the ticker symbol mikwe'll talk with the ceo at 11:00 a.m. eastern time asking about the level of debt, in which this case has given people worry. >> private equity, of course, always amazed at the number of skews they have in there. you have been in it, with two girls -- >> cramer i'm sure has. >> unbelievable. >> taken private at 6 million and to the market at 3.5? >> not the way it's supposed to work. >> i'm surprised with the rainbow loom bracelet kit. i didn't know that was important to the company. that's the big hit. it's the primary driver of the 4% sales rise recently. >> i have not been in a michael's since high school, but scrapbooking is a popular activity. >> you moved to the big city. >> you can get lost in there. >> it's a retail irgs po. last we saw was the container store that popped on the open, but steadily declined since then. >>> exactly. talking to art cashin, what do watch as we enter one of the final trading sessions of the month, and a lot more on "squawk on the street," we're back

very happy, mik and i are joining kate bolduan. >> very happy to be here. >>> in las vegas, three peoplened down, including two police officers who were just eating lunch. authorities say say the suspects are a married couple who apparently had extremist views towards law enforcement. cnn's dan simon is there with the latest. dan. >> reporter: good morning, chris. while cnn is not naming this married couple until they're identified by law enforcement, it's clear based on things on social media, they had a clear hatred towards law enforcement. police officers are having lunch, a couple walks in and shoot them officers dead. then they come over to this walmart and they kill a woman near the front entrance. then police converge on the scene. there's a scene. apparently, they had a suicide pact. the wife shoots the husband then shoots herself. luke at social media sites. there's it's clear there's a disdain towards law enforcement. there's going to be a press conference at 10:00 a.m. brooke, back to you. let's go to mark, he studies extremist groups across the country. good morning. >> good

what numbers miks makes sense here?cause you may have 20,000 plaintiffs, 20,000 former players with injuries. what's the right number? >> i don't think you can look at a right number. i think when you look at how this is structured and the period of time that it's supposed to be paid out, over years, you know, this fund is supposed to take care of guys that's playing right now, that haven't came for it. so to go back to dan marino when you say he don't have any serious injuries, you can't judge migraines, you can't judge memory loss. like no one can tell you you remember something that you don't remember. so i think that dan marino's case at the time that he played and he was probably one of the best quarterbacks of all time, when you look at this situation, i think for dan marino's case, migraines could kick in. when you look at guys such as terrell davis who is known for migraines, it's so many guys who have migraines later in their career, headaches all the time, lights, so stuff that you really can't judge, you just