let's go to sally smith, the ceo of buffalo wild wings hear more about the quarter and the prospects. welcome back. >> thanks for having me. >> i spoke with you on february third, you came on "squawk on the street" i asked you, wing prices and you told me, do not worr worry, company will do fine and an analyst down graded it. why do they not get that you have consistently dealt with higher wing prices and it does not hurt business? >> we try to get that story out there. we spend a lot of time with analysts, i think the ones that really understand us, understand that we have a lot of different levers that we can pull when wing prices are high. i focused to earnings call, you can look at g and a, we have strong sales, and managing wing costs is part of the business. you can go back and look historically how we performed when wing prices were high and have confidence that we can achieve the same thing this year. >> there's a perspective that it's your only cost and this everything else does not matter that has not been the case at all with wild wings? >> no, it funny because wings used t

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sally smith, ceo, on this show said don't worry about wings. the day before the company reported miller taybeck came out with a devastating piece saying wings are going to be a problem. sally smith, ceo, right in their face said the wing problem is overblown. we will do the 20%, hence a dramatic short squeeze. >> right. >> the wing problem is overblown. not talking about boeing. let's move on to shares of sprint. check them out right now. company posting a quarterly loss, 35 cents a share excluding certain items. analysts had been looking for as much as a 37 cent share loss. stock may look up. the call is going on right now. big picture for sprint really is they're just trying to hang on. i think that's the best way to put it. the company's trying to hang on for a very difficult period right now. they've got the iphone. yes, they're dealing with subsidies. ebida was better than analysts anticipated. they had fewer postpaid ads of new subscribers. >> they need money is what you're saying. they need money. >> on the call just now they said we're

here first on cnbc is the company's president and ceo sally smith. ee you once again. >> nice to be here. thank you. good morning. >> good morning. is the super bowl to you as christmas is to retailers? >> you know, it really is. this is one of my favorite weekends of the year and super bowl sunday is certainly one of our biggest days both in restaurant and for takeout sales. >> so in terms of percentage of revenues for the year over the super bowl weekend what is that and what's the mix between food versus alcohol? >> you know, we'll do -- last year compared to a nonfootball or nonfootball sunday, we -- our sales were up about 113% for super bowl sunday. and the next day is pretty consistent on food versus alcohol. we're currently about 75% food 25% alcohol. most of that of course is beer. and on super bowl sunday most of the sales, food sales are definitely wings. >> speaking of wings tyson foods says wing prices may be going up dramatically. do we have to worry? >> we've dealt with fluctuating wing prices for years. 2010 wing prices were at an all-

sally smith is ninth with her in-depth look of the queen of england in "elizabeth the queen."hen catherine the great: portrait of a woman, by robe >> for more on these bestsellers good to nytimes.com. each year booktv brings several events from across the country. here's a look at some of the upcoming fares and festivals we plan on covering this year. the first will be the fifth annual savannah book festival for president's day weekend. live coverage on saturday, february 18th will talk about several presentations including pulitzer prize finalist sec quinn. on march 10th and eleventh booktv will be live from the tucson festival of books on the campus of the university of arizona. festival coverage includes numerous author talks and poets ranging from the great depression to forensic science. in late march booktv visits charlottes ville, virginia for the virginia festival of the book. for complete list of upcoming book fares and festivals is a booktv.org and click on the book fares apps at the top of the page. please let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area and

. >> next on booktv, sally bedell smith recounts of life of queen elizabeth ii who assented the british throne in 1952 at the age of 25. it's about 45 minutes. >> before we get started let me tell you because we're going to have a long signing line this evening but if you want a book signed but you don't want to stand in line, purchase the book, leave it at the information counter with the instructions of how you would like it signed and then you can pick it up anytime after tomorrow morning. we'll get it signed for you. i'm barbara meade i'm of the founders of politics and prose and this evening i want to welcome sally bedell smith. i introduced her several times before. and this evening she's here to talk about her biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen. her diamond anniversary it is. and chronicling the lives of william paley, pamela harriman, diana, both the kennedys and both the clintons, i think sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer, prominent and bestselling biographer, i should say. for the past 15 years she has also been a contributing ed

barbara meade, one of the founders of politics and prose and this evening i want to welcome sally bedell smith. i have introduced our several times before and this evening she is here to talk about our new biography, of elizabeth who was in our 60th year as queen. our diamond anniversary it is. in chronicling the lives of william paley, pamela harriman, diana, both the kennedys and the clintons, i think that sally has well established herself as a prominent for, prominent and is selling biographer i should say. for the past 15 years she has also been a contributing editor to vogue and before that she wrote for time and wrote the cultural reporter for "the new york times." during the time, this is a personal aside, that she was researching this biography, well, she was interviewing over 200 people and spending six months in residence in london. our daughter was married. this was a true anglo-american event. our daughter married an english army officer at the guards chapel, which is what she said was a stones throw from buckingham palace. the part as i was just telling sally, the part of elizabe

barbara meade, i'm one of the founders of politics & prose, and this evening i want to welcome sally bedell smith. i've introduced her several times before, and this evening she's here to talk about her new biography of elizabeth who is in her 60th year as queen. her diamond anniversary, it is. um, and chronicling the lives of william -- [inaudible] pamela herriman, diana and the clintons, i think sally has well established herself as a prominent biographer, prominent and best-selling biographer, i should say. for the past 15 years, she's also been a contributing editor to "vogue." and before that she wrote for "time" and she was a cultural reporter for "the new york times." during the time just as a personal aside that she was researching this biography, she, well, she was interviewing over 200 people and spending six months in residence in london. her daughter was married, this was a true anglo-american event. her daughter married an english army officer at the guard's chapel which is just what she says was a stone's throw from buckingham palace. um, the part i was just telling sally, the part

went to la, i put mary catherine gallagher in that stage show. >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: in the rob and molly show, and then i put sally'malley in that show and then, i'm trying to think of what other characters, that was about it, i did, i did other sketches, but basically we did that show for years and i got agents and managers from that show. and i also eventually, and i would use my own waitressing money to produce the show like i, because i would, i want to make it fun and i had a little band and i would, you know we'd have drinks for everybody. and basically if somebody couldn't afford a ticket, i would buy it for them, because i felt like the money will come back to you. >> smith: yeah. >> shannon: i was really into creative visualization >> smith: yeah, yeah. yeah. >> shannon: and -- >> smith: you make it sound so hard though. >> shannon: it was. >> smith: i mean it sounds like fun but it also sounds hard and i guess this is a version of the story that a lot of people starting out have. >> shannon: okay. >> smith: you really got to make it happen. >> shannon: you have to make it happen. >> smith: yeah. >> shann

of passion, not with the working loveliness of sally fairfax a few miles away to remind the strapping groom of what might have been. to historian paige smith, writing in the unbuttoned 1970s, it wasn't hard to tease out powerful emotions in washington's oft quoted letter written to sally at the time of his betrothal to martha. a self-professed to love, washington confides his feelings in language that is anything but confiding. at the end he speaks of, quote, a destiny, which has control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of human nature. for smith, the secret of washington's and the essence of his moral force was to be found in a naturally passionate nature hedged by stoic restraint. milton remarked of oliver cromwell that he learned to govern himself before he could govern england. the same could be said of washington. or if you want a more recent example, his admirers, robert e. lee and dwight eisenhower. contemporary americans are confined to confuse such reserve with emotional constipation. but there is another word for washington's conduct towards the two most important women in his life. that word is judgmen

smith republican from the state. college of mount saint vincent. sally cone is here the author of the new book patriot act judge katherine cryer stark. is it good enough for you the obama compromise? >> it is as slbsolutely good en. you have to go back to the very good catholic justice scalia in 1990 when he ruled in the case that as long as a law is neutral and valid and a broad application even if it requires certain behavior or prevents certain behavior by religious groups it is okay. this goes back to 1879 and the case law is absolutely clear. the president didn't need to make the compromises he did because the law according to the catholic justice pam bondi your rebuttal to judge cry ar's decision he had the conts tugs on his side from the get go and his political move is certainly covered baz the initial edict was covered. >> i think the world of katherine cryer and she knows that. let me tell you, by him meddling in matters of our religious state the president has taken this from the new level. he has gone from unconstitutional to unconscionable.