michelle, back to you. >> reaction now to this deal with huawei's u.s.kesperson, william plumber. good to see you, sir. >> mr. plumber, obviously, your company is unhappy with the way this deal is being structured. what's your response to it, to begin with. and then we'll talk about it. >> well, you know, huawei is a $35 billion company doing business in over 150 markets worldwide. and providing telecommunications equipment to the nationwide carriers and virtually every oecd company, connecting about one third of the world's population. it feels as if this remedy is not -- this remdy is not addressing the symptoms. the symptoms reflect a much broader challenge. >> what do you mean? >> well, the bottom line is is the cybersecurity concerns that are being expressed in the u.s. and elsewhere are very, very real. but all of the telecom venders, regardless of where they're headquartered, are global companies that rely on global supply chains, so they're all subject to global vulnerabilities. >> but this is not about supply chains. this is about espionage. thi

, does that hurt huawei?a minute, we're not going to use huawei's systems because they may be trying to hack in. that, of course, has not been proven. huawei completely denies it. but does that play into why you believe cisco might regain that toehold nationally and internationally? >> great point, liz. where there's smoke, there's fire. or at least where there's suspicion, there's certainly going to be peek that look at -- people that look agencies coe. liz: chris, we'll see you next time. ttank you for joining us. >> thank you. liz: okay. we've got less than two minutes, david, before that closing bell rings -- david: and i am david asman, pleased to be here today. we have individual stocks that are moving far beyond kind of the flat market that you've been seeing that's fedsing with the plus -- fiddling with the plus side. interesting things today. liz: and that's what nicole's looking at on the floor of the new york stock exchange. you and i were just talking about barnes & noble falling today as microsof

>> that was part of what he was working on and the deal with huawei which now the level of scrutiny it'se company has withdrawn from wanting to work with the u.s. market because they know they're under that kind of spotlight, it has applications with semiconductors. it also has military applications, which could be valuable to a number of governments. >> they have this hard drive and there was information on this hard drive, and it looks like it was accessed after his death? >> this is the key factor. one of the great suspicious elements here was when the family got there, police had his laptop but they found a portable hard drive there, and they said this basically is a mirror of what was on his laptop and there is all this gan technology stuff he was working on and they said, we probably weren't meant to find this but then they said it's been accessed and information has been ex exfiltrated from it. and during the court this week to see if they can get the ruling of suicide changed. >> it's a fascinating story on many layers. >> many layers. >>> now here's a look at your weather for th