Around these companies, whether that means private ownership or state involvement. Dagen much more of marias interview throughout the show. Rallying again, President Trump officially restarts his 2020 campaign with the rally in tulsa, oklahoma over the weekend, what he said about his opponent and the controversy over crowd size ahead. Speaking of rally futures back on the rise this morning, 216 point gain after fridays disappointing downturn led by apples decision to close stores over fear of coronavirus, but look at the markets go last week, gains across the board. The nasdaq is up 45 from the bear market low. Dining in sunshine, new york city allowing restaurants to reopen with customers taking a seat outside, restaurant ur lady gagas father. Mornings with maria is live right now. Dagen european stocks, good morning, european stocks largely flat after losses, slight gain in ftse 100 in england. Wire cart shares plummeting overnight. Resurgence of coronavirus around the world. World Health Organization reporting the biggest single day increase of coronavirus since the pandemic started. Good morning, cheryl. Cheryl good morning, dagen, w. H. O. Says there were more than 183,000 coronavirus cases worldwide in just 24 hours with the biggest jump, brazil, u. S. And india. For global total stands 9 million confirmed cases and 468,000 deaths. Here in the u. S. Safe breaking previous records, california reported 4500 new cases and more than 20,000 over the last 5 days. Then to texas, 506 new cases reported just in austin. Travis county bringing total to 6200. Highest increase since outbreak. Texas considered a covid19 hot spot with uptick in infections in austin and san antonio which reported 382 new cases just over the weekend. Well, a safe reopen, President Trump is calling on schools to reopen next. Lets open the schools, please. Open. We have to get them open n. The fall, we have to get them open. Cheryl most schools across the nation have been closed since midmarch. Well, more violence in seattle autonomous zone after shooting left one person in serious condition. The victim is currently hospitalized and there are reports of a second shooting but police have not been able to verify that. Saturday a 19yearold shot and killed inside the zone. Police shows officer struggling to reach victim in the crowd. Thats what im saying. [inaudible] cheryl harassed people on the beach and resisted arrest, new york city bill de blasio commended swift action and dagen, those are your headlines, back to you. Dagen Geoffrey Berman announcing he is leaving office just hours after u. S. Attorney general william barr said President Trump fired the powerful prosecutor. The move comes after berman disputeds disputed barrs statement. Because you have no intention of resigning, i have asked the president to remove you as of today and he has done so. Senator Lindsey Graham says he wont move forward until he receives approval from Chuck Schumer and christy gillibrand. Senators from new york. Joining us robert wray and also here with me all morning pollster and maslansky partners president , lee carter and pwc partner Mitch Roschelle and real clear politics and cofounder tom devin. Robert ray to you first, what do you get berman being shown the door over the weekend and theres editorial about it, the average trump melodrama and it could distract from bill barrs attempt to actually clean up the Justice Department . Dagen, it wasnt the smoothest rollout. Its rather unfortunate to think that there isnt a nominee that could be proposed that would satisfy the two new york senators. I hope thats not the case and i understand their their concerns, but right now, of course, the result is that the office will be led by an acting u. S. Attorney who was mr. Bermans deputy and the president has the right to fill that that position, so i dont know that this is the end of the story, it was a rather tumultuous from friday night all the way through the weekend, but it doesnt change the fact that the president wants to make a change in the Southern District of new york and the change should be made and it shouldnt have to wait until after the election. Dagen wall street journal in editorial writes that people on the left, the democrats are using this to create the narrative that this is an attempt to protect political allies, theres one minor investigation going on into rudy giuliani, trump adviser according to editorial, but, again, the whole point is that replacing berman with jay clayton is who they we wanted to nominate for the job who is running securities and exchange commission. Again, removing berman isnt making cases go away. Explain to the audience the way that the Southern District of new york and the whole Justice Department exist. There are career attorneys in this division and replacing the head of sdny doesnt make them disappear. Theres 200 attorneys and 100 in Criminal Division and many of them are young and they the office has a long tradition of independence. That will continue whoever is running the office and whoever the president s appointment is, but, again, you know, i think this was a longtime coming. I know that the democrats narrative on this this constitutes yet another effort to attempt, to obstruct justice on the president s behalf, theres no evidence or indication that thats the case and i understand that youll have a boatload of federal prosecutors come and write another letter claiming that attorney general barr should be impeached or should resign, i dont i think thats far from the case here. I think thats more melodrama but the substance of this is this that the president is entitled to have his choice running that office in the interest of justice and its apparently what the attorney general wants. Hes in entitled to have a relationship thats a good one between him and the person who is leading the most prominent and most important u. S. Attorneys office in the country. Dagen Geoffrey Berman was never nominated and it was within the president s power and right to fire him if he wanted. I want to move onto attorney general william barr in an interview with Maria Bartiromo hinting at when more details on the origins of the russia probe will be out, maria sat with barr in an exclusive interview and asked about berman investigations. Maria has he been delayed because of covid19 . There has been delay because of the pandemic . Yes, he has. Maria inability to interview people . Not an inability but slowing down of process. Maria because you cant gather a grand jury . It is a fact that there have not been grant juries in virtually all districts for a long period of time and some people had been reluctant to travel for interviews and things like that, so it has slowed things down but theres hes been working where he can on other matters that arent affected by the pandemic but there has been an effect. Dagen robert ray, your reaction to that . Thats, of course, how careful the attorney general is to confirm or not confirm grand jury investigation. That comes by operation of federal rule. Hes not really permitted to do so. I mean, i think its pretty clear to many of us on the outside who have experience that there is, in fact, grand jury investigation up and running but theres no question as the result of the pandemic that a grand jury is not going to be able to assembwell the same degree of regularity that would otherwise have been the case prior to covid19. I guess i would say, what i hope here at the end to have day is they could get to important conclusions in that berman investigation before the election. I think the electorate is entitled to have the benefit of those results and i hope we can get there and still have a number of months left, but it would be ideal if the public had the benefit of that election before november 3rd. Dagen do you worry that the berman firing gets in the way of this incredibly important probe again, into, the origins of an investigation into a president ial campaign and ultimately a president with many people working together within justice and fbi to basically take down a president . I hear the point, dagen, i really dont think so. This is a weekend distraction which is the berman saga. I think this too shall pass. I dont think that it will have any effect on what john durham is doing and i dont think theres a significant distraction to shepherd that investigation into a conclusion. Dagen robert ray, good to see you. The federalist ben domenech on bigtech censorship. Hes experienced that firsthand, then at 7 00 oclock hour,. [inaudible] congressman jim banks on threat of china and more from marias interview from attorney general william barr. And realtor, former hgtv host mark arbery plunging on the most expensive cities in the country. In the 8 00 oclock hour trump cannian Senior AdviserMercedes Schlapp. Lady gagas father, restaurant own e on new york phase 2 reopening, Outdoor Dining now allowed. You dont want to miss any of the special guests. Dagen President Trump holding his first rally since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in tulsa, oklahoma over the weekend, but not without controversy, blake berman is here with the latest, good morning, blake. Blake hi, there, dagen, good morning to you as well, going to relaunch from president ial rallies we have been hearing from President Trump about record demand for tickets, however, when President Trump took the stage, you could look around the arena and see batches of empty seats. The Trump Campaign in part blaming that on the media saying in a statement sunday, quote, the fact is that a weeks worth of Fake News Media warning people away from the virus and images of American Cities on fire had real impact of people being family and children to the rally. Here is how they describe who did show up. You are warriors. Ive been watching ive been watching the fake news for weeks new and everything is negative. Dont go, dont only, come, dont do anything. Ive never seen anything like it. You are warriors. Blake as we start the week the white house and the president will likely be pressed over the comments the president made regarding covid19 testing. You do testing to that extent you will find more people, you will find more cases so i said to my people, slow the testing down, please. They test, and they test, we had test of people that dont know whats going on. We have another one over here. The young man is 10 years old, he has the sniffles, he recovered for about 15 minutes, thats the case. Blake joe biden responded in a tweet over the weekend, quote, i cant believe i have to say this but we should be speeding up testing not slowing it down. Now theres been a bit of cleanup from President Trump overnight as he has sent out the following tweet as well writing, quote, coronavirus testing is so much greater, 25 million tests and so much more advance that it makes us looks like we have more cases especially proportionally than other countries, my message on that is very clear. Dagen, back to you. Dagen joining us president ial Campaign Communications director. How can you assure the president , he has rallies coming up this week, i believe, in arizona and wisconsin that the places are packed and you dont have that many empty seats . What we saw an enthusiastic crowd for President Trump to be able to get his message out there. Not only were people wanting to be there, but we were right when we said that there was a real issue when it came to people feeling comfortable being able to go because of what was being reported on the news but those who went had a great time, we saw over 12,000 people be able to attend President Trumps speech, so we will continue that ground swell and couple with 10 million views online just on team broadcast, we know the message from President Trump was far and wide received and we feel good about what we were able to do on saturday. Dagen tom bevin, jump in. Tom we are under 5 months of the election, donald trump is behind in Real Clear Politics National average about 9 and a half points and behind in key swing states like florida, michigan, do you see things differently and if so whats the game plan moving forward over the couple of months . Erin internally we see when we match up President Trump with a defined joe biden the president is competitive in every state across the country and we are close if not leading in the states. Its our job to continue to get the message out there about joe bidens failed 40 years of policies in dc, so we will continue that fight and weve got the greatest ground game thats ever existed in president ial politics, weve got millions of volunteers engaged. We are doing volunteer training remotely and in person across the country, contacting over making over 40 million voter contacts, we will continue to do that all the way to election day. Dagen joe biden outraised, i know that the Trump Campaign has more cash but are you focused onramping up fund raising . We will continue to bring up our money and most come from small donors and we are over 800 million on the campaign with 200 million cash on hand, those are hardworking americans give to go support President Trump, so we will continue to fight for every vote and every dollar to make sure we get the president s message out there because we want to be able to hold the trainings and continue to push online and across the board. Dagen thank you for being here. What the u. S. May do in the race for 5g, plus censoring controversy, ben domenech on platform being silenced by google with the help of nbc news. Thats ahead. Dagen business alert, attorney general william barr breaking news to maria on sunday morning futures saying the u. S. Must rally behind Telecommunication Companies like nokia and erikson. Maria would the u. S. Consider acquiring erikson and nokia to send a message to the world that if you use erikson and nokia, youve got the backing of the United States government as an alternative to hauwei . I gave a speech a while back saying that the two Companies Best way is erikson and nokia and hauwei has the backing of Chinese Government and money. Just to give you an example of 5g network facilities, the total Global Market is around 90 billion and the Chinese Government has set up fund of over 100 billion to subsidize. They can go to countries and say, hey, we will put this in cash free, very cheap money. So, you know, thats thats what we are competing against with, with hauwei and the Companies Like ericsson and nokia are the strongest western competitors in this sector and i gave a speech saying that that ultimately the west has to rally around these companies whether that means private ownership or state involvement. Maria so you would be okay taking a stake even if its a Minority Stake in these companies to offset the threat of hauwei then . Thats not a decision for the Justice Department. I i do think that the west has to pick a horse or horses. Dagen Mitch Roschelle, potentially acquiring, u. S. Acquiring nokia and ericsson, what do you make of that . Mitch the banks all of which are relevant to propping up our Financial System and it stands to reason that if you think that 5g infrastructure is important we should have the Stateowned Enterprises own a piece of that so we can compete globally. The fact of the matter is there are Many Industries that have enterprises and difficult for us to compete on a global basis when government owns a piece of the business, so i think theres going to be more discussion about this and 5g is the future of telecommunications so stands the reason that this would be something that is continued to be out there and discussed. Dagen lee carter, your Quick Reaction . Lee its northern we frame this around investment of 5g rather than being private owned because the United States does need to be involvemented in the future of 5g, 5g is where its at. We want to be about innovation and thats what this needs to be about rather than us owning and thats what we need to be focusing on. Dagen coming up big techs influence, attorney general bill barr talking about platforms sway over content, essentially google can put you out of business if they want to and we talked to a guest who was on the forefront of that. Plus new york city bouncing back, one Small Business owner who defied state orders. We are back after the break. Dagen welcome back im Dagen Mcdowell in for Maria Bartiromo. Monday june 22nd, top stories at 6 30 a. M. Eastern. Triple digit gain at the open, stocks in the green across the board despite a selloff friday over apple keeping stores closed, some of them amid the pandemic but it was a winning week for all three major market gauges here. I europe today stocks there largely flat after erasing earlier losses, the un and china meeting in video summit hoping to ease tensions over coronavirus disinformation. We have losses across the board at the moment, although slight, in asia overnight selling galore in resurg