plus, breaking news. a trump employee told federal agents about personally moving documents at mar-a-lago, the order to that employee came directly from donald j. trump himself. and that is after he got the subpoena. oregon hasn t voted for a republican governor in 40 years, so why is president biden worried enough to go there in the final days of this campaign? let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, putin wants revenge. russian authorities tonight announcing they ve arrested eight people in connection with the bombing of that crucial bridge linking crimea to russia. the only way to get from crimea to russia is that bridge. that blast cutting off a crucial supply route for russian troops inside ukraine. the eight people we know to be in custody are these, five russian citizens, two ukrainians, and a national of armenia. the fsb is claiming that all these individuals helped ukrainian spies to transport 25 tons of explosives to the bridge
everything. and trump was pretty upset about the search and he put out a statement that said they even broke into my safe. they even broke into my safe [ laughter ] trump is like, dammit, i knew i should have flushed that safe down the toilet, i knew it. all right. 6:00 on the east coast, there are new developments on the justice department investigation of donald trump including confirmation that the fbi search of his florida home, mar-a-lago, was related to the handling of classified information. we will have the outlandish claims from his attorneys. desperate for some sort of defense here, i guess. plus, the former president is set to be deposed in new york state s investigation into the trump organization today. and a sixth trump-backed candidate wins the republican primary for governor, this time in wisconsin. we ll have the latest on that election and others. also, the very latest from ukraine. new information this morning on how ukrainian forces are pulling off
ready to discuss a prisoner swap. former u.s. ambassador to russia michael mcfaul and the executive director of the wnba players association will join us to break down the latest. also ahead, democrats reach an agreement on their economic package helping president biden make good on a major campaign promise. we ll have the latest from the white house. that is because, and willie, my gosh, our economy later job numbers have just come out. you talk about a resilient economy, man. it keeps rolling. this is an incredible jobs number. the july jobs report is in and much stronger than expected. the u.s. economydded 528,000 jobs last month. with the unemployment rate ticking down to 3.5%. that jobs number notably higher than what we ve seen in recent months. economists are expecting gains to slow this month and in months to come. let s go right to nbc news senior business analyst stephanie ruhle. by my count, this is about twice as many jobs as most analysts expected to be added
to stay the course and stand strongly with president zelenskyy and those courageous fighters who just this week their efforts witnessed the russian retreat from a city called kherson. they re making incredible progress but we can t lag in our commitment. i m passionate about it because i ve always believed in what we used to call the reagan doctrine, which is wherever there are free peepoples to fig communists, we ll give them the resources to fight them so we don t have to fight them. but it s a little more personal than that for us. karen and i were on a trip through the middle east in march of this year. we stopped on the way back in poland to thank relief workers in a christian organization called samaritan s spurs who were purse who were providing relief in those early days of that russian invasion. we were able to travel in ukraine that day, just a few
ukraine, how do you handle opposing viewpoints from those in your own party and your own home state? thank you for your ministry for so many years. and even in these times of war, the difference that you are making in the lives of the people of ukraine. i said from very early on, it is absolutely essential that the united states of america and our western allies provide the people of ukraine with the support they need to defend themselves and repel that unconscionable russia invasion. i have made it very clear that i believe that there is no room in the republican party for apologists for putin. we need to continue to stay the course, and stand strongly with president zelenskyy and those courageous fighters who just this week, their efforts witnessed the russian retreat from a city called kherson.