alex ross joins us to discuss the growing divide between tech and politics.lus, our conversation with hiroshi lockheimer, the mind between -- behind the most popular operating system on the planet. mapping the road ahead for android. and our extensive interview with famed venture capitalist fred wilson. he tells us where he is placing his bets and why he is still bullish on jack dorsey. first, u.s. stocks turning their worst performance this year -- turned in their worst performance this year. president trump asked james comey to drop the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn. the crisis threatens to derail the policy agenda that helped push equities to recent highs. techres were not -- shares were not immune to the selloff. for more, we are joined by our bloomberg news stock reporter, abigail doolittle. abigail: what a selloff, as you mentioned, the worst selloff since september of last year, the worst of the year on this shift in sentiment. youtive to the nasdaq, as mentioned, underperforming, both the dow and the s&p 500, by abo

alex ander of nomura is staying with us. and we will talk with commerce secretary wilbur ross. and we speak with the former u.s.. ♪ ♪ i am emma chandra with your bloomberg business flash. barclays ceo got prank. he responded to emails where the barclayscized shareholder. staley responded with praise for mcfarland. preliminary talks to merge with t-mobile. executives from sprint's largest shareholder, softbank, have been in contact with deutsche's, calm -- deutsche telekom. that is your bloomberg business flash. alix: thank you. joining us from princeton is alex sherman, who wrote that story. it has been three years sprint has had this love letter to t-mobile. what stage are these negotiations in? alex: we are still in the informal stage. what does informal mean -- we do not know. but we know that banks have not been hired across the board yet. when things become more formal, each side will pick banks. this will be a wall street bonanza if this happens. softbank will use a bank, sprint will use a bank or banks. bank or will use a banks. georgia telecom pull use a bank or banks. because softbank owns 80% of sprin

given ten days to signa ross barkley has been given ten days to sign a contract that everton or the manager says he will sell him. he has a year left on his current deal. and alexrent bridge. having made in england record score there last year, he hits a century for nottinghamshire in the one—day cup. more on those stories just after 5:30pm. we are going back to the content of labour's manifesto. one of the key pledges is to be nationalised railway network. just how could this work if the plans were implemented? with me is michael holden, who was the chief executive of directly operated railways. it was set up by the former labour government in 2009 and ran the east coast mainline for five years, until it ceased operating in 2015 when east coast was passed from public to private hands. he's now a railway management consultant. a long introduction but important understand the background, and good to see you. thank you for coming in. your broad response, first of all. so much interest in this policy not just from commuters but others. your broad thoughts on whether that kind of ambitious policy is realistic and practical? my sense of it is that who owns the railw

in sport, ross barkley is given a ten—day deadline to sign a new contract at everton or ronald koeman says he'll sell the england international. barkley has a year left on his current deal. alexdge again. the batsman, who hit an england record score there last year, is playing for nottinghamshire in the one day cup. and andy murray is playing for a place in the quarter finals of the madrid 0pen. you can follow his progress against borna coric on radio 5 live sports extra. i'll be back with more on those stories. the fallout in the united states keeps coming as more details emerge from the extraordinary sacking of the f by it from the extraordinary sacking of the fbyiti from the extraordinary sacking of the f by it i directorjames komi. -- fbi. the white the f by it i directorjames komi. —— fbi. the white house denies it was trying to close down the fbi investigation into links with russia and has rejected calls for a special prosecutor. meanwhile, mike flynn, the former head of the national security agency has been accused of not cooperating with the senate investigation into the matter. in the last few minutes, the acting head of the fbi has been giving evidence to a committ

ross has called tpp a starting point. >> let's get to our newsmakers of the morning. barry sternlicht, starwood capital chairman and ceo, and i mean, a-rod. i have to say alexnyone ever call you -- i guess you do. your friends call you alex? >> not my daughters. >> they call you dad? >> they call me dad. >> you should mention that alex rodriguez will host a new prime-time cnbc show back in the game. and i think -- and you're bshs but strahan is executive producer of this? >> yeah. michael and i, something that we've been very passionate about is taking athletes that have run into some bad luck. if you look at the data, it suggests that a lot of our players are going bankrupt way too soon. so it's an opportunity, a little bit like mark limones and the profit to get a chance to lend a helping hand and hopeful they they can get back on their feet and hopefully entertain some people at home. but more importantly that current athletes can hopefully look and be a little bit more pro-active about their careers. >> you are good. you mention the profit and mark limones. might be a good idea to watch "squawk box" and "squawk alley" throughout the day. you round thing