. >> nextel phone call is from raymond, kalamazoo, michigan. hi, raymond. raymond, we are going to move on. let's take a call from lonny, chevy chase, maryland. you are on the air. >> caller: good evening. lincoln referred to clay as his ideal as a statesman. i always believed that the two men had never met. however, recently i came across a web page which purported to show a book, i belief it was inscribed by clay to lincoln. could the panel comment on this? what's the thinking now? did clay and lincoln ever meet? >> louisville -- did we meet -- >> we don't know basically. there's -- one person who left a memoir about the turn of the -- between 19th and 20th century that said that person had seen the two in lexington. abraham lincoln married mary todd lincoln. mary todd who was from lexington. and her family was very closely aligned with the clays. so -- her family knew the clays. lincoln came to kentucky several times in connection with the family in the states. and he certainly heard -- heard -- henry clay speak. imagine what a great time it would have b

. >> nextel phone call from scott who is watching news boston. hello, scott. >> caller: hi. how are you? >> great. thanks. do you have a henry clay question for us? >> caller: i do. i went to school ini eastport, maine. very close to canada. henry clay had insisted after the of 1812, the island had been taken by the british. he insisted when he negotiated the end of the treaty, the island be returned to the united states. even when john quincy adams who was another negotiator was willing to sort of let the -- canada have the -- let british have the island. i'm wondering if any of the historians would know why he was so adamant on the return of the island in eastport to america. >> i don't know if you know the specific. >> i'm not an expert on moose island and why clay -- i do know that clay in making the treaty of 1812 took the strongest position of all the american delegates. he wanted america to have a strong position. clay tended to try to get everything he could and i'm not sure on moose island. i hope there is another historian out there that could tell us we talked bef

leading the telecom space was sprint nextel. the stock and the company have been struggling against larger competitors a.t.&t. and verizon. today, shares jumped almost 9%, ending a week with the stock up almost 20%. tonight's close matches its march high. it hasn't closed above $3 per share since october. it announced a pre-paid plan for the iphone this week, competing against subscriber contracts with other carriers. while we're talking about the mobile phone business, finnish company nokia saw heavy trading volume of its u.s. listed shares. the stock closed up 6.7%. the company has been the focus of merger rumors as it has struggled to keep up in the smart-phone market. in banking stocks, citi was the big percentage gainer, up 3.2%. that takes the stock to a three week high. after the close tonight, the bank said it will submit a new plan to the federal reserve on monday, showing its financial cushion, but it does not include a stock buy-back this year. that part of an earlier plan was rejected by the fed. wal-mart got some go

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its competitors, sprint nextel and t-mobile, currently offer unlimited data plans but do not allow customers to add multiple devices. shares of semi-truck maker navistar took a hit today after an environmental protection agency ruling was knocked down by a federal appeals court. the rule would have allowed navistar to sell heavy-duty diesel engines even though they do notomply with pollution standards. it is a win for the company's competitors, which fought the rule and spent hundreds of millions to meet e.p.a. standards. >> susie: lots of winners on wall street today. the markets took off wiping out all the losses from yesterday. look at the dow components all but one united technologies were in the green. good day for a lot of investors. >> tom: more optomism in the market with not a lot of news ahead of the greek election. let's take let's take a look at what else is happening with stocks in tonight's "market focus." a day of optimism helped stock prices recover after monday's steep drop. it took about and hour and a half before the s&p 500 found its footing today on the heels of chicago

well nextel for this trillion is another surprise package irani of ages out in the talent and unique server of germany six three seven six irani claiming her first top ten scalp to reach her major grand slam semifinal and sends out a signal to stall sir. now i've had success against in the past. foreigners roland garros is a whole new ball game and i'm going to be aware you know what's going out on what's happening out of the court when i play you can think about the past in the history of the matches but if something changes when you're out of the court you could have be aware of that and just to be going to play aggressive and play my game and i know that she's having a very good year in a very good time in this world so i have to be ready for a tough match let's move on to football where there's been an entry scare for russia ahead of the european championships first choice keeper edith i can fave has developed a knee problem but still train with the rest of the team russia coach dick advocaat saying that says stopper has fluid in his name and will be monitored before russia's ope

sprint-nextel jumped 5.4%, over $3 per share for the first time since september. at&t is at a new 52-week high, up 2% on stronger than usual volume. and verizon gained 1.8%, also closing at a new 52-week high. verizon announced a new pricing plan for its wireless business. at&t is expected to do the same. energy prices caught some heat today, especially natural gas, seeing a big jump as demand seems to be picking up. natural gas prices jumped 14% after weekly government data found a smaller than anticipated increase in supplies. that led the market to think demand has picked up after months and months of low demand. natural gas prices have suffered under record supplies thanks to new production techniques, and low demand due to the warm winter and weak economy. independent oil and natural gas producers benefited from the rally. cabot oil and gas shot up 8.6%. w.p.x. energy was up 4.5%, and southwestern energy gained 4.3%. independent explorer apache also helped the energy stock rally. in a meeting with analysts the company talked up its portfolio of energy fields

. >> nextel phone call from los vary knows, california, a caller named randy. hi, randy. welcome. >> caller: thank you. yes. i just wanted to give a little bit of background. my grandfather actually voted for eugene v. debs in the election. the other thing that i have, as i went through school, through the primary grades through high school, we never heard of eugene v. debs. it seems like one of the things that is really lacking in our education system is labor history. the fact that when people talk about social security, unemployment insurance and many people, even older people are surprised that people died for those benefits. they were not gifts. they were fought for. people literally were killed and beaten and jailed for the right. with the neofascists that are now running one republican party trying to push it farther tolt, it seems that eugene v. ds, historically, to reestablish that message. we are in c history. if we are not careful, with he could be going towards fam. >> randy, a question? a question for you, randy, before you go? >> the question is- >> did you

that's the way the markets look this i'll be back of course with more nextel we'll have the opening values for the u.s. market ok thanks for that now the latest debate focusing on the violence raging in syria coming up on this channel in just a few minutes after i brought you up to date on the latest headlines from r.t. that's next. if you're followed up on my bill. are sort of a throwback and i can't codified long. and it goes back to a time when people would lie down in their forces in the wild lands and pick up these future dates and put him into the sheriff for prosecution there's no monkey like company may fold. and when they go out there become weapons. and you have to hope that nothing bad. will and. we're chasing killers and you gotta keep that in mind though this is a to me a dollar bill please the rest. we're not super heroes we can be killed too you know in the head i'm going to die. and. once you. never go back to anything else you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize.

sprint nextel's virgin mobile uas brand, costing $649 upfront with prepaid plans.is ireland government may open an investigation into stolen linkedn pass words. the base for operations outside of the u.s. is in dublin. under irish law regulators can fine companies for data breeches. experts estimate six million pass ports were swiped in the breech. two more companies say pass words were stolen from sites as well. and reports say about 1.5 million taken from e harmony users and posted online. stocks out much of the day on news china moved to boost growth. by day's end rally fizzelled leaving stocks little changed. and there is juniper networks lost as much as 5% today. and ora cell has entered a cloud computing space unveiling a suite of cloud-based products competing with sales force.com. and larry ellison trash-talking the competitor richard shuts resigned effective immediately. his resignation from the board came two weeks earlier than planned. he had announced he'd resign after he failed to tell the board about allegations former ceo brian dunn was having an ina

they know something that the rest of us don't know, and in the case of today's trade it's sprint nextelmmered. it's $2.74, but people were stepping in very aggressively, buying the january three calls, just out of the money, and selling the five calls, some 77,000 times, so that's about 7.7 million shares worth of stock, and they are doing it for the long term. just after the bell it was announced that their virgin mobile unit is going to get pre-paid iphone and they will start selling that. was that one of the catalyst, it could be. i mean, whenever there's a bit of news that breaks right after somebody does a really big trade, it makes you scratch your head and maybe say somebody knew. >> i'm going to go brother versus brother because forced to choose, would you choose sprint as the telecom trade or go for a yielder? >> verizon mobile. >> out of the box. >> i love that yield. >> okay. >> i'm right. >> good. it's an interesting name and off 25% in the last couple of weeks so you're getting a valuation. not sure that trades on fundamentals but i like the call on dividend yield. >> china

[inaudible conversations] >> as we wait for the next nextel to convene the u.s.ate will return to work today after a weeklong memorial day break. the chamber will gavel in at qb and -- at 2 p.m. eastern this afternoon. also making it illegal for employers to retaliate against employees for sharing salary information. votes on that measure are not expected until tomorrow. also on the scheduled today at 5:30 p.m. each and senators will take up the nomination of timothy hillman to be a federal district court judge in massachusetts. a vote expected at about 5:30 p.m. eastern. >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] >> if everyone could please take their seats, we'll move to our second panel. [inaudible conversations] >> as those in this room know, we are now at another critical juncture in efforts to negotiate a resolution to issues surrounding iran's nuclear program. after a long interval, the six powers reengage with the rent on april 14 in istanbul, on may 23 a