Donald trumps legal team is prepared to go back to court later this month, and the many deflections they are testing out in public. A dramatic attack in a russian port overnight. It shows an unmanned drone seriously damaging a russian warship. And the update of the gilgo killings. Sara is off today. Im kate bolduan with john berman, and this is cnn news central. A new month of job growth extending Employment Strength in the u. S. Economy. 187,000 jobs were added in july and the Unemployment Rate ticked down to 3. 5 , and now the 187,000 jobs added were lower than what economists were expecting. Joined now by acting labor secretary julie sue, and thank you for joining us, and economists were expecting more jobs added and what do you think of that . Well, this is the stable steady growth that the president predicted a year ago. We were hopeful that we would go from the recordbreaking numbers of jobs created on the numbers created coming out of the pandemic, and now over 13. 4 million job
republicans for their protests over guns. i want to be clear, the protest over asking for legislation to stop the massacre of children. two of them black were expelled yesterday by the republican super majority one lawmaker, gloria johnson, an older white woman, narrowly avoided expulsion. tonight, fears about the precedent this sets and the potential for a kind of revenge politics spreading to other states this is what happens when you lose democracy cries of anger and accusations after an extraordinary move by tennessee house republicans. expelled for so-called decorum violations it might have to do with the color of our skin. it looked like a jim crow era trial. if could happen in tennessee, it could happen anywhere. the first partisan expulsion in the state s modern history. it s a signal of authoritarianism. we will keep fighting it. it was nice to have somebody to fight with me for the first time i will keep fighting for you all- i won t stop forme
reports that attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before approving the warrant application. now, garland faces an even more daunting and consequential decision, that is whether to pursue criminal charges against the former president. now that decision is amplified as an fbi organization representative warns that growing calls for violence against law enforcement are, quote, real and imminent. the fbi investigating an unprecedented number of threats to bureau personnel and property in the wake of the court authorized search of mar-a-lago. also this morning, rudy giuliani firing back after prosecutors in georgia tell him that he is a target of the special grand jury there. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s begin this morning, here in washington, cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz tracking all the latest developments. the justice department is making clear just how serious this investigation is. what do we know about where it sta
prior to disclosing the information, we were able to notify the family members, and at or around the same time we were able to disclose the confidential grand jury investigation into the gilgo four investigation, and marie brainer barnes, and melissa barthelemy and decided not to make any comments at this time, but the information became public and we made notification to mrs. vergata, and now we can make this announcement now. i want to thank lori giordano from the fbi and the if familia dna lab, and also, the suffolk county police department s homicide unit, and i wanted to
i don t think that d.a. bragg is going to give these republicans anything that they want. what they are asking for violates the constitutional principal of separation of power. it would break the law for bragg to reveal confidential grand jury information were the district attorney to comply with this request, he would be committing a crime. joyce, this is the other thing that gets me about this. i m not a lawyer i don t play one on tv i do know a little bit about how legal proceedings are supposed to go. it seems to me that if your legal team is being questioned about intimidating people and insulting people and you are bringing in outside resources, that has to have a consequence on a potential jury or something like that. can they outside noise that the