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
20% saying better. how do you explain that? yeah, i mean, americans have been through a lot, right. it has been a hard several years. we got through a global pandemic, and people experienced loss and, you know, destabi destabilization. but when i travel around the country, i see the people feeling optimistic, and it is reflected in the numbers and the people coming back to the market in record rates, and women coming back to the market, and the numbers of the past month that we are seeing nonresidential construction, and so we are building things, and building the factories to help to help this industrial policy of bringing manufacturing back to the united states, and health care jobs and life in normal to health and personal services. people are getting the haircut, and going to the nail salon and areas of growth. as i am talking to americans
the ukrainian assessment did deviate from the u.s. side by saying, look, we don t think, and i m paraphrasing it here, we don t think that level of forces is sufficient to be able to commit to a big, large-scale armed invasion of ukraine. that doesn t mean they can t do a smaller one or they can t try it with a force the ukrainians assess not to be big enough. that is what them they don t think that there are enough russian forces there at the moment to stage a full-scale invasion which is what the united states has been warning about. now, what the ukrainians are saying is that they re more concerned about is internal destabi destabilization. the russians using economic levers, energy is a weapon and of course, cyberattacks. and cnn has obtained new satellite images which shows road construction and a new bridge in belarus near the