china flexing its military muscle for a third straight day after house speaker nancy pelosi s visit to taiwan. defense officials there saying the communist regime s military appears to be simulating an attack on the island. a look at the big picture with fox news senior strategic analyst general jack keane. plus, actress anne heche injured in a car crash, video surfacing that shows her speeding and driving erratically before plowing into a home and sparking a fire. maryann rafferty live in los angeles. reporter: critical condition after crashing her car into a home pretty if morning, causing it to go up in flames. the 53-year-old actress was driving a blue mini if cooper when she first crashed into the garage of an apartment complex. she fled and moments later crashed into a nearby home causing a blaze that also a engulfed her car. a shocked maybe describing that scene. there was three fire engines here and a lot of commotion. but the result was the fire that was going on
to help us lower inflation. what a week of contrast as president biden was racking up win after win, republicans were pushing abortion bans, social security cuts and election denial and watching their mid-term prospects begin to fade. and a texas jury just delivered a massive blow to alex jones, ordering the conspiracy theorist to pay more than $45 million in punitive damages for a first grader killed at sandy hook. i ll be joined by andrew warren, the democratically elected state attorney general who is the victim of an abuse of power by governor ron desantis. it was a great week for democrats, one that will be poised to get even better. first up the economy. after months of criticism of president biden for everything from gas prices to inflation to you name it, today we got proof that his economic policies are working with the latest blockbuster jobs report. in july job growth soared. u.s. employers added 528,000 employees, smashing expectations. and the unemployment rate
them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at all of the interactions that investigators had with trump s team over the past several month and that s going to be all factoring in as they decide whether anyone should be charged with a crime. no one has been charged at this time. there are a lot of questions about exactly what these documents pertain to. two house committees have asked for a classified briefing as well as a damage assessment from the intelligence community and trump for his part, he is indicating that his team could try to c
following the headlines. natasha, first to you. this is a change from the white house. the white house is pushing back very hard on what it says is inf en inflammatory behavior by china. they said please don t up the ante here. now they re making public the fact that they have in fact summoned the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to the white house to essentially give him a dressing down about china s provocations against taiwan in recent days. they had said numerous times that they expected that china would have some kind of reaction to this visit by pelosi, which was extremely offensive to the chinese. but the white house has been, you know, kind of willing to respond in a meaningful way now to the chinese activities that we have seen around taiwan, which are really escalatory and are the most that we have seen in decades. so what the white house is saying now is that they re reiterating to the chinese that this is unacceptable, that the u.s. position on taiwan has not chan
fine, despite persistent fears of a recession. the u.s. government released the latest jobs report this morning. and it far exceeded what economists expected. it showed the economy adding 528,000 jobs in july. that s more than double the number analysts expected. on employment, falling to 3.5%. and these numbers present a new complication for the federal reserve, which has been hoping to cool the jobs market, in an effort to bring down inflation. at the same time, senate democrats now poised to pass a massive bill that could impact everything from the price of prescription drugs to the fight against climate change. we re going to have more on that in just a moment. we start first with the strong jobs report and cnn s matt egan is live with us in new york, cnn s john harwood is live at the white house. matt, we ll start with you. break down the numbers for us, tell us what these numbers are showing. jessica, this is a hot jobs market that just defied all expectations but get