. >> is the white house believe the nation's veterans are better served by having jacob sullivan as secretary? mr. shah: i have no announcements to make at this time. how much longer is a secretary worker with this administration? mr. shah: i have no announcement. >> there's a party that prime minister netanyahu has informed foreign ministers that the u.s. is likely to vote out of the iran deal in may, can you confirm that? mr. shah: i can't confirm that but what i can tell you is the president has been clear since january when he gave remarks about this. and he thinksears it is one of the worst agreements the u.s. has ever made internationally. insisted on changes both at the congressional level and also with our european partners. if changes aren't made the president is prepared to potentially withdraw from the agreement. announcedt of these expulsions of russian is thegence agents, president going full steam ahead with the russian president vladimir putin? mr. shah: we have no announcements of a potential meeting or summit. we want to work with russia and we have areas of mutual concern th

paul jacobs is seeking bio funding with shares trading higher in the premarket. .oining us is dan morgan he joins us from atlanta and brooke sullivanis. how serious is this venture? is this likely to go forward? dan: i think of michael dell in the pc industry. he took his company private because he was frustrated with the way that things were going. it would be interesting for qualcomm. sideways ass gone the semi conductor industry has done well from a performance perspective. you talk about issues with apple in terms of royalty fees. they had problems with china. all of a sudden they disbanded .his merger with qualcomm they have not been doing as well as micron technology in terms of performance. maybe this is how they feel they can create lun their company i taking a private -- create value in their company by taking it private, because they have not been performing in the last couple of years. david: do they have a plan b? dan: in terms of plan b, the thing for qualcomm going forward will be this annexation. cdmaomm is a leader in technology, technology that is used in the wireless industry to compete against analog. forward,isi