they had sprint subscribers and nextel subscribers, so we put so much focus on winning back the nextel subs, that was important and they had to leave by the end of the second quarter. the sprint customers, if we lost that business account, they tend to come off in the second half so we're still going to lose a lot of cdma or sprint brand customers in q3 and q4 because of the accounts we lost because we shut off the network. for those 60% of the business accounts that we didn't retain, we won 40% which is a lot more than anybody expected us to win. >> much better. >> much better. but if you will the nextel customers came off in the first half. the sprint customers come off in the second half. so that so those customers leaving this is not going to be a great subscriber year. >> right. >> but you got to take the long-term view. >> take the long-term view. do you most fear facebook? do you fear google? do you fear microsoft's skype? do you fear your own owners who have such a long-term perspective that they may not want the shareholders to win right now? >> all the companies you named we

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he was the founder of nextel. we put investments at all of it.e you get to a certain am of wealth go that's where it all come from. the man who ran the number is the senior editor for roll call. thank you so much. this was pretty fascinating. and i lake how you designed the list. you can sort by all kinds of thing. gender, party, that's the way it should be, republicans are rich. when you look at the top 50, it was pretty evenly split. in the top ten, it was not evenly split. not at all. >> no. it goes back and forwards depending on the election cycle. after the health care overhaul was enacted, they got wealthy doctors to run. this year it is more democrats than republicans so there is not a consistent trend. both parties really like to recruit wealthy people who can finance some or all of their campaigns. >> pretty interesting. to make that top ten. diane feinstein at number nine was $42 million. so it was at $42 million to even make the cut. they are incredibly will wealthy. of the top three work the were self-made originally, right? when you

on july 1st we found out that info and ratings company nielsen would replace sprint nextel. shares finished up 2% in the next regular trading session but a month later we're down 1%. on june 3rd, we found out gm would replace heinz, shares jumped about a percent and a half the next day, down a percent a month later. some stocks have carried immediate gains through the next month. take animal science company zoetis. still up 2.5% a month later and then 21st century fox traded up half a percent on june 21st and still up about 12% even a month after that. so tyler, there are some hopes, but again, admission to the s&p 500 doesn't guarantee a success in terms of stock market performance. back over to you. >> thank you very much. >>> carl icahn on the "halftime report" on his decision to throw in the towel in the big fight over dell. highlights from the always outspoken billionaire, coming up next. phil lebeau come fly with me. >> if you want to find out who's doing business, see who is using their corporate jet and where they're flying to. we have the latest numbers on what indu

you can look at sprint and nextel, and sears and kmart. the list goes on and on.re aren't a lot of case studies of putting two companies of this scale together and having it be a huge success, when you take into account all of the parameters that we have here in terms of mergers and acquisitions. >> all right. >> great points, both sides. >> yeah. yep. all right. >> thanks. >>> we have about 15 minutes to go before the closing bell. the dow is holding onto a gain of about 26 points. >> we're tracking the market movers on this first trading day of september. it's been a volatile one. >>> after the bell, i'll go one on one with bob nardelli with the august employment report just three days away. he has some concerns about the jobs market. we'll be right back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some things are designed to draw crowds. ♪ ♪ others are designed to leave them behind. ♪ the all-new 2014 lexus is. it's your move. the all-new 2014 lexus is. nascar is ab.out excitement but tracking all the action and hearing everything from our marketing partners, the medi

nextel has not admitted to any of those crimes. the judge will have the final say. sentencing will be held at the superior court in marin county on friday. a former morgan hill ymca employee is now facing five charges on its child sexual abuse. the charges against nicholas lhermine include a tax on a seven year-old girl and a three and a half year-old girl. the alleged attacks happened while he worked at a ymca child care program this past summer. the toy year-old was arrested in july after a six year-old reported that he tried to force her to have sex. nearly a decade old battle between contra costa county and chevron up over taxes has been settled. supervisors unanimously approved an agreement between the two entities over the taxable value of chevron's richmond refinery between the years 2004 and 2013. under the agreement, the refineries taxable value for 2012 will drop from 3.8 $7 billion to 3.2 $8 billion. chevron also agreed to forgo an $8 million refund that would normally be awarded because of that decrease. we will take a quick welcome back. time now is 415

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back on july 1st we found out that info and ratings company nielsen was going to replace sprint nextel down a percent a month later. same thing happened with general motors on june 3rd we found it would replace heinz. shares went up but down about a percent a month later. a couple of names carried over gains through the next month, animal sciences company zoetis, gained and still up 2.5%. and 21st century fox traded up half a percent on june 21st and we're still up 12% a month later. lots of factors affect the move but short-term rises on stock, index inclusions don't always last. certainly something to pay attention to, carl. >> those are good numbers. facebook is still the biggest company that's not in the s&p. everybody wants to know when or if they'll get at it. >> talk about a stable supply of buyers. if you're an index maybe you have to buy the facebook shares if they get included. >>> new phones, new colors, maybe something else? the rumors are flying ahead of a major press event in cupertino. we'll tell you what to expect from the tech join the in just a moment. riter. [ man ]

doubt about it that sprint had to cut back on advertising because they're doing this transition from nextel and in some places, you go on twitter and people say it doesn't work in toledo. it was down a lot in chicago. it's not a great quarter. it's not. but they're taking a 300-year approach. how many quarters is that? >> it's like 1,200 quarters. >> that was fast! >> i'm raising numbers, 20 for the out years, raising numbers in 2323. in the year 2525 this thing is going to bust out. >> they'll be there to take it from you, whatever they need. >> they are very health conscious. >> by the way he owns some alibaal alibaba. >> he does? >> yes. soft bank does. >> it will be probably a first quarter event, i think we'll talk more about that. we'll see what twitter does in the fourth quarter. very important when it comes public. >> i think twitter is going to be much bigger than people think. >> i think it's going to be an $18 billion to $20 billion a year. it doesn't mean i'm saying buy it, it doesn't mean it's not inflated. i don't want people at home to say cramer said buy it. no. >> just for