Twitter storm, we have it for you. The force is with amazon at least temporarily, a judge ruled microsoft and the pentagon must put the multimillion dollar je distribution contract on hold as legal battle rages on. Sweet success this morning, valentines day busiest day of the year, selling more than a million strawberries, the company ceo is here. Nicole phelp is here and take us on a trip to sesame street, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria some of the stories we are watching this morning retaining vigilant the new York City PoliceDepartment Warning of, quote, credible threat after last weeks assassination attempt, the Department Said that there are no specific threats at this time but stress that every station security post needed to be staffed around the clock, a surprising tribute from attorney general william barr amid the pending doj investigation of roger stone case, hitting back against President Trumps criticism of the justice. I think its time to stop the tweeting, you have Public Statements and tweets made about the department make it impossible for me to do my job. Maria but President Trump unfazed by the remarks, the white house releasing a statement, the president was not both otherred by the comments at all and he has the right just like any american citizen to publicly offer his opinions, the president has full faith and confidence in attorney general barr to do his job and uphold the law. Fifteenth coronavirus case con if you remembered in the United States, this comes as chinese Officials Say nearly 1400 people have died from the disease, there are more than 50,000 people infected. Worries at wayfair, stock has taken a big hit, biggest hit since october, retailer will cut more than 500 jobs, adds to growing list of retailers cutting jobs, macys and kohls announcing major layoffs. And then theres this, hauwei corruption charges this morning, u. S. Government charging the Telecom Giant with racketeering and conspiracy to steal trade districts, the u. S. Accused hauwei to use equipment on spying on foreign networks, hawaii ray responding, new indictment is part of the Justice Departments attempt to damage hauweis reputation and business, racketeering enterprise that the government charged today is nothing more repacking of handful of civil allegations that are almost 20 years old. Yesterday i spoke with hauweis chief Security Officer before charges came out andy purdy and we talked about the claim that hauwei chairs information in Chinese Government. Theres back doors that allow data to go back to communist department, you have said over and over that its not true, now we have confirmation from the federal government, your reaction . Well, i think its fantastic news that the United States have decided to declassify the information that theyve been providing to our allies without being able to convince them, i would ask the u. S. , please, release the socalled evidence, as germany said, theyre not worried, they provide the equipment thats necessary for lawful we do not have access. Maria management chief Investment Officer scott martin, fox business Dagen Mcdowell and National Taxpayers union senior fellow ford strategist president mattie, great to see everybody this morning, thank you for valentines desk. Theres candy courtesy of muah. Maria the story on hauwei actually gets bigger, i asked him specifically about this, the fact that they had to settle all of the cases because they stole intellectual property. Over and over, maria, and you have been on top and he keeps denying, no, theres no back door and in the interview oh, well, this is get that we found this out. Also i will note besides the fact that they ripped off so many trade secrets lying to federal investigators, so there you go, these guys are bad all around. Because the Trump Administration has been so explicit about concerns with china, i think a lot of people think that that is a recent problem with hauwei, its not companies have consistently come forward and now we have the government finally exceeding to those allegations. Maria europe is still having hauwei infrastructure there, they are not necessarily buying into what the u. S. Has said. Dagen puts pressure on the United Kingdom which deals with hauwei, and others but these are because this is related to individual charges from companies, allegations that weve known about for years, you talked about on this program, this involves major u. S. Companies including tmobile, motorola which you specifically talked about and then cisco. And by the way, i i know for a fact that Chinese Government essentially spies on the ceos and executives at these companies, they cant go anywhere or say anything with essentially without being tracked by the communist government. Youre absolutely right. Yesterday i was with one executive who has business in china for a long time and do you think hawaii hauwei can spy to everyone in even and he said yes. Watch this. To have Public Statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, about cases pending in the department, and about judges before whom we have cases make it impossible for me to do my job and to assure the courts and the prosecutors and the department that we are doing our work with integrity. Maria interview with abc news and that the president was not bother bid the barr comments. I tell you i really like william barr, he says it the way it is. Dagen lets see if the white house and the president listen to that because the wall street journal writes a long editorial about trumps worst enemy, he needs to stop tweeting about cases and let bill barr do his job. President trump needs bill barr to be ag and bill barr wants to be ag, he needs him more than barr need the job. The issue is democrats clearly want to take the president down. And they will move into any opening, so tweeting about the roger stone sentencing, the people witness the Justice Department, not the prosecutors but the people within the Justice Department had already decided that that sentence recommendation was too excessive but with the president piling on, it looks like, well, hes damaging his own his own person and stance according to wall street journal but also hurt the Justice Department himself and the idea of executive power and privilege, so its like one, two, three punch. Maria dont give them anymore to get on you and to stop and continue this attack on this president , sitting president , we are just getting started, a lot coming up. One of the Worlds Largest boating events is dropping anchor in south florida, we will take you live in miami with the look of hottest yachts in 2020, it is valentines day, americans consume 3 billion pounds of chocolate a year, one Big Chocolate company godiva in the studio to talk about success. Dont forget to ask maria, i will be answering questions from social media. Tax cuts 2. 0, i ask National Economic larry kudlow about the timeline, i will give you his answer coming up next, the battle between the Trump Administration and amazon continues, we break down the jedi contract where that stands, thats straight ahead. Back in a moment. Thank you, real people. Youre welcome. Were gonna need a bigger room. How bright you shine. How strong you are. How brilliant. Unique. How youre. My rock. My diamond. For the diamond in your life, theres only one diamond store. Its the valentines day sale. Get 25 off everything. Including these special deals. At zales, the diamond store. 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Yes, we are, tax cuts 2. 0 and the meeting in the oval 2 days ago, he said lets get it out by september, we would like to have 10 middle class tax cut and we would love to strengthen and make permanent some of the other tax cuts, my great friend omb director has put 1. 4 trillion plug to make tax cuts permanent and use that to craft our package, itll come out some time in september. Maria wow, what a difference as you see, all democrats running against President Trump want to raise taxes. Jon hilsenrath, great to see you this morning, one issue that you keep bringing up is debt and deficits. The president is talking about tax cuts 2. 0, how is that going to fly on 22 trillion in debt . Theres two issues, a political issue and economic issue, the political issue right now at least democrats control the house unless that changes in 2020 and perhaps it could, tax cuts arent going to go anywhere, because as you said, you know, the democrats are looking to raise taxes. The economic issue is exactly what you say, you know, Government Spending is is increasing at a really fast rate and we were running a trillion dollar budget deficit this year, so is it prudent for the government to be talking about tax cuts in 2020 without doing anything on the spending front . Maria its interesting that you mention the political story on the house because if you listen to Kevin Mccarthy, the minority leader, when he does interviews he always throws in the line, takethehouse. Com because they are fully expect to go take the house in november, do you think its possible . I think its fully possible particular if the house and the president continue to talk about why its so important for the republicans to take the house. So House Republicans need to continue to talk about the fact that republicans were the only ones that passed the tax plan, no democrat votes supporting it and every democrat that ran for president has campaigned on repealing. Maria dagen, jump in here, what are you looking at . Dagen in terms of budgetary problems, theres a story out yesterday in the wall street journal editorial page writes about it today, student debt forgive innocence the u. S. Will cost the government more than 200 billion just over the next 10 years, the Obama Administration really pushed the plans; they didnt introduce them but students only have to agree to pay 10 of their Discretionary Income for 20 years based on the income base repayment plans, 10 years for those who work in Public Service after which their balance is forgiven, so 200 billion, Bernie Sanders is running on canceling all 1. 6 trillion in student debt, but we are already doing this, jon, what is the cost of all of the programs to the American People and taxpayers . Jon well, dagen, i think it speaks to a larger budget problem, you talk about the specific budget problem relating to student debt and thats a huge issue because, you know, the government is subsidizing all of the debt and colleges have used it to jack up tuition, but the larger budget problem in any mind is this, you know, theres all this talk about how strong the American Economy is, weve got the strongest American Economy in the history of the country and what im asking is if thats the case, why are we running a trillion dollar budget deficits when the economy is so strong, you are supposed to be running surpluses, thats what happened in late 1990s. Dagen dagen, correct me if im wrong, argue to get the pushback from the administration to say i want to run a deficit and this kind of rate where debts arent where they are right now, isnt it the time to borrow that much money to do it . Dagen also you try to make small changes to entitlement programs, medicare, Social Security and medicaid, people on the left lose their mind. You cant have it both ways, you cant complain about the debt and deficit and not try to right size the entitlement programs which are literally swamping the American People and swamping our budget. The medicare Hospital Trust fund, i say this over and over again, it runs out of money. Broke. Dagen in six years. 6 and a half, i think. Dagen 2026 its based on and pay 89 cents on the dollar. You will have automatic cut in benefits. Maria markets dont care, scott . They dont care until they care, maria. Once rates start normalizing, they will care. The fact that it runs out in 6 and a half years or so, you will take somewhere else to cover that. Thats another issue, jon, one quick thing, do you think the spread of coronavirus gets worse and pushes tax cuts of more than likely happening . Maria good question. Jon the coronavirus is certainly a very Serious Health scare and could become a Health Crisis but if you look at moments like this in the past for instance with sars, they havent left a very big economic imprint out there, so for now i will stick to that until we, you know, until or unless we see the spread more globally, it just doesnt look like it has that economic impact. Maria jon, how about the fact now because of the coronavirus fears theres a whole new conversation about possibly the Federal Reserve cutting Interest Rate this is year after we all thought they were on hold, did you hear anything from jay powell this week that struck you . Well, a couple of things from jay powell struck me, one is i think the bigger virus that jay powell is looking at isnt coronavirus, its the disinflation virus, they just cant get inflation up to 2 and they are very concerned about that and if that continues to be the case, they could talk about Interest Rate increases, the other thing relates maria increases or cuts. Im sorry, cuts, thats it. Reflex i had there. The other thing is that jay powell was talking about what happens the next time we have a recession, the fed does not have a lot of ammunition, i dont think Interest Rates are going back up, so when we have another downturn the fed isnt going to be able to do much and that comes back to this whole physical fiscal front, do we want to cut taxes when the economy is growing at pretty good rate or save ammunition for when it really needs it and thats a question that the people need to be asking. Maria you make a good point. I think thats where you were going too. 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Ends monday maria welcome back a Court Victory for amazon over pentagon jedi contract, a judge ruling that microsoft has to stop working on the 10 billiondollar cloud deal temporarily, the decision weighing on microsoft shares after hours, take a look, this morning we are looking at a gain for both stocks but, you know, this is one of those opportunities where we talked earlier about william barr, look the trump tweets are making it impossible to do my job, another opportunity for a judge to say because of what the p