listen to chuck robinson, ceo, on the call. take a listen.verall: while the macro environment remains uncertain, we are nicely positioned to benefit from any rebound in the global economy. at the same time, we will continue to manage our business, capitalize on key growth areas in front of us. emily: how would you say he is doing so far infilling john chambers' big shoes? are indeed big shoes. john is a legend and took cisco from a small company to the behemoth it is. chuck is a smart guy. i have gotten to know him a little bit. he is great at execution and will take time to develop his real vision for the company, and this is a tech company. in the world of technology, you need a vision, and you need to execute. the vision is still largely the vision that chambers had cut out, but i think chuck is carving his path nicely. we need to give him more time to really turn it into his baby. you said cisco has been in there shall-challenged. how do they overcome that? they have this huge base of people who are basically networking people. going forw

i think we have a chance to talk to chuck robinson at cisco. reporting very strong outlook. this stock is rising in premarket. it is really taking off here. joining us first on cnbc from san jose, chuck robins. great to see you. >> jim, thanks for having me on. your voice sounds much better today, by the way. >> we struggled last night, didn't we? okay. chuck, i got a new narrative i want to bounce off you. the analysts are seemingly wetted to the old switching story, router storey. i see a company that has taken the top ten web sites scale companies and given them collaboration, given them security, given them an internet of things the way they can analyze the data. this is not the old cisco. it seems to have happened very rapidly. >> well, jim, first off, you know, we're very please wtd quarter and very happy with how the team executed. we had some real strength in businesses like collaboration and security and our service provider video. we have strength in china, india, u.s., new orders was up 6%. so we were very pleased with the performance. you know, the reference that

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chris matthews, chuck todd, joy reed, the great steve kornacki and his big board. jean robinson, nicole wallace. all of the campaign reporters. the gang is all here. it will be a big, busy night. but i will tell you, we did not expect it to be this way and i'll tell you why. on april 26th, five states, five states cast their votes that night in the northeast. connecticut, delaware, new york, delaware and rhode island. bernie sanders won rhode island but hillary clinton won the other four states. the following day, the hillary clinton campaign, let it be known that they were done with the primary basically. candidate clinton, sure, she would keep herself making campaign appearances in the rest of the states on the democratic calendar but the clinton campaign made clear that even though bernie sanders was still in the race, the clinton campaign was going to be moving on. after those northeast primaries on april 26th, the clinton campaign said out loud that they would no longer spend any money to run ads in the democratic primary. and they didn't for awhile. until something about t