. >> nextel, that's correct. of the things that's encouraged investors this year is recapturing a very high percentage of customers last quarter, 60% of them, better than double of the historical recapture rate of the nextel customers. >> in fairness, last time we interviewed you, you were worried about it. you said, look, if we don't get that rate up we won't be able to make good on promises. was that the service in that new system you had? because my take is that that's three times better than i thought you would get. three customers for every one i thought you would get. >> what we have done is we've refocused our activities toward recapture and acquisition, if you will, of the nextel customers versus churn reduction or just saving them on the network. historically, as long as we had to keep the nextel network going we wanted them to stay there as long as possible. we reduced over the four year period by almost two-thirds, 66%. having sprint direct connect capability on the cdma network gave us a competitive a

a record keeper for sprint nextel was up today ... it was believed that the fourth wife of drew peterson tried to directly reach her husband by a cellular phone ... a pastor testified yesterday that stacey peterson woke up during one night and could not reach drew peterson ... he also said that stacy peterson admitted that drew peterson was coaching her on an alibi for the weekend of the murder of kathleen savio ... the defense argues that the prosecutors are failing to produce enough concrete evidence ... and they are pressing for a dismissal if the judge rules against the defense the defense says it's prepared to move ahead calling its witnesses it will not say whether drew peterson will take the witness stand ... closing arguments could happen next week but the judge has indicated to the attorneys that he does in one been a situation where the attorneys are making closing arguments at the friday before labor day weekend ... an illinois state police investigator who testified in the drew peterson murder trial earlier this month... t

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a little background on you, i should let people know, you were in the private sector working at nextelver early on, 13th employee, you write this morning in your op ed. what lessons are you -- make the argument here, the lessons from the private sector that are good to take away and which ones do you think are not good to take away? >> good morning and thanks for having me with you, chuck. i think that really is the question, what lessons do you learn from the private sector? governor romney has, for years now, going back to his race against senator kennedy and then against shannon o'brien for governor of massachusetts says basically elect me governor, elect me president, because i've been in business. i have also been in business as you mentioned, having been with ex-tell from number 13 to 3,000, i was with kinsey and comcast as well. i just believe he has learned many of the wrong lessons it is not about from my perspective, a topdown approach. rather, it ought to be about building the economy for a strong middle class. and if -- and the real question what does it take to do that? th

called this circle k where he dropped terrence off and said he made that call from his work issued nextelstigators say they'd pulled his phone records and told him there was no record of a call to this circle k from his cell phone, he brushed it off, saying simply, quote, i don't know what to tell you. you've been doing this for a long time. you know when something doesn't smell right. do you think that deputy calkins had anything to do with disappearance and possible death of these two men? >> he's absolutely in the middle of the investigation and everything i turn to brings me right back to steve calkins. >> months after santos and williams went missing, calkins was fired for lying in connection with the investigation for terrence williams. calkins hasn't been charged with a crime because no criminal evidence was ever found linking calkins to the disappearances. in the case of terrence williams, the deputy's car was searched and described as immaculate. calkins home was never searched because, according to investigators, they didn't have the evidence needed for a search warrant. we want

sprint nextel, tesoro, first solar, the winners there. the nasdaq's got more work to do to reach new highs though up more than 8% this summer. tops in the nasdaq 100, seagate second too long, sirius xm radio and sandisk. and don't sleep on apple. after some stumbles, the stock is up 12% this summer. back at all-time highs.and if i be unstoppable. you have to love lightning the tortoise, everybody. we had to bring him back and here in march of 2010, the dow's up almost 24%. is it too late for you to get in? let's ask andre julian, president of -- i can't keep that up. scott ren sr. at wells fargo. got to have fun here, andre. trying to understand about the rally is why. >> i mean, if you look at it, we have a lot of bad news. obviously high unemployment. slow gdp. china's slowing. the's bad news. you have a little good news comes in now and again but looking at it it's a statements of draghi. he said -- pulled a bernanke. going to support the euro no what and then merkle out of the shadows today and support it and you have bernanke saying

nextel is -- next is stephen moore. we will talk about congress and its last measures. >> the political parties are holding their platform hearings. democrats are voting on the final platform recommendations in detroit. republican start their platform process at their camp a convention site mid-month. the complete coverage of their party coverage begins monday, august 27, with live coverage of the republican national convention. and the democratic national convention live from north carolina starting monday, september 3. >> sunday, look for our interview with andrew nagorski. >> i had no idea about my predecessors. despite all the times i had spent in germany, i had not thought about what it would have been like to have been a correspondent in the 20's int 30's. how would you have operated? what would you have noticed? much was, how would you attack it? >> sunday at 8:00 p.m. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are pleased to have our first guest. here is stephen moore. he has just told me he wrote the lead edit

sprint's well ahead on nextel.y're converting companies, well ahead on their need to be able to upgrade and dan hesscy is to me, the single greatest ceo right now working. given the hyperbole. >> i think maybe he's the tallest ceo working. >> he's the single greatest ceo from notre dame. let's narrow it a little. >> who's above 6'4". >> one thing on a t-mobile deal, as the valuation of sprint goes up, they would use stock if that were to occur. at one point, large, as much as who knows, almost 50%, as that valuation moves up, of course, perhaps that deal becomes more likely. because they'd have to use less stock and deutsche telekom would not haves alarge a position i'm speculating. >> you hate to speculate for people at home. this is a legitimate turn. you saw it first in the preferred. they can do giant bond offerings right now and continue -- because people want high yields so badly, david. >> they do. >> i don't think it's done. >> 52-week high here. >> when it gets over five, it becomes institutional. at&t and