the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
redactions. president trump argues there shouldn t be any. judge reinhart rejected the doj s attempt to hide it from americans. the whole affidavit should be released. given the democrats penchant for using it to hide government corruption. that s the crux of the matter. they re demanding whether to know political buy as played a role in the buher eos decision making. we re interested in how that information was presented of the was it presented faithfully and truthfully given the past record of the f.b.i. and department of justice in trump investigations? mark meredith joins us from west palm beach, florida. good morning, park. good morning. the justice department says there is a lot of information about why federal agents came to mar-a-lago last week that they don t want to release at this point. a judge yesterday said in the interest of transparency there is also the information the public needs to know and likely we ll see some information in that criminal affida
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
Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. After five weeks, the first criminal trial of a former u. S. President is nearly over. The defense rested, this morning, it called only two witnesses. Despite all his bravado and insistence to the contrary, yeah, donald trump was not one of them. We knew that, right . Instead, we heard briefly from a paralegal, attorney Todd Blanches from about phone records, for a man by the name of Robert Castella took the stand. Costello is a former federal prosecutor, a very close associate of Rudy Giuliani, the twice indicted former mayor of new york city. More about him later in the show. And, also, Donald Trumps personal attorney while he was in the white house. I think it is fair to say that costellos testimony, this week, backfired on the defense. How much remains to be determined. But, trumps attorneys main reason to put that man, Robert Costello understand, was to directly contradict and impugn the credibility of the prosecution three witness key w
Out. Thank you. Welcome to the Cathedral Church of saint. My name is justin holcomb. Im the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of, Central Florida. And this is our we have lots of people from around Metro Orlando in the room and we are thrilled that you are here some of you are churched some of your church, some of you are unchurched for some us, its complicated regardless of your attendance, we are thrilled that youre here for the church event named after this book, which youll hear more about in just a little bit. But this is vital for to first 40 Million People in the past 30 years have left the church and half of them are willing to come back. And we need to find out why they left and why are they willing to back. And and so that theyre not just numbers, though thats the thing that youre here because you want to hear about this but these are people it could be you these are friends, family, neighbors and, coworkers. Youre going to hear a lot numbers tonight. And those numbers importan