First Public Comments after house members, including 11 fellow republicans, voted to strip her of her Committee Assignments over the Crazy Conspiracies shes pushed before. Good morning. Im Hallie Jackson In Washington along with our nbc news team, Peter Alexander at the white house, Leigh Ann Caldwell on capitol hill, nbc News Business correspondent jo ling kent has the new jobs numbers, and Austan Gooslbee served as chairman of the White House Council of economic advisers under President Obama. And just to map out, right, what were watching during our hour, because it is going to be a pretty packed one. Youve got that meeting with House Democratic leaders and committee chairs, along with President Biden, to talk about the next steps on covid relief. In an hour from now, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene holds that News Conference. Also at 11 00 eastern, were going to hear from members of the white house Covid Response team, who will probably have a whole lot more to say on Johnson
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
companies. and we re exactly two weeks away from the day the u.s. is expected to run out of money to pay its debts. negotiations are under way in d.c. despite president biden being half a world away in japan. plus, new details about the man who authorities say is behind one of the biggest intelligence leaks in years. court documents are revealing the suspect may have been mishandling classified information months before the leak. new attacks in ukraine. with officials saying russia launched an unprecedented barrage of missiles across the country overnight. we ll talk to ukraine s former president about what appears to be a rise in russian assaults. and more crackdowns on lgbtq rights. texas on the verge of becoming the biggest state of the nation to ban gender transition treatment for children. we begin this very busy hour with breaking news from the nation s highest court. just in the last hour, the supreme court ruled the social media giant twitter is not liable f
democrats at this time. the whistleblower doesn t make committee rules, sir. that happened. jim jordan s weaponization of government hearing goes off the rails. his so-called fbi whistleblowers are getting paid by a trump supporter and recently had their security clearances revoked. that s just one example of how toxic the republican brand has become as speaker kevin mccarthy allows the most extreme members of his caucus to run wild. also tonight, the rapidly growing field of republican presidential candidates and the misplaced perception that any of them can take the nomination away from donald trump. i m michael steele in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with the republican party. the party of abraham lincoln, ronald reagan, the party i chaired for two years. the face of so many losses, you would think that maybe just maybe the party would take a beat and reconsider the brand. alas, the modern maga republican party looks failure in the face and says, please, sir,
good evening, bret. this is a major step in the ongoing battle over tiktok and the growing attempts to limit its use or in this case, to ban it entirely. montana s law now signed by the state s republican governor prohibits any downloads of tiktok in the state and would find any, quote: entities, meaning an app. store or tiktok itself $10,000 per day for each time someone, quote, is offered the ability to access the social media platform or download the s enforce somebody scenes open question. ban come back increasing concern lawmakers nationwide and fbi and other agencies over tiktok, which is owned by a chinese tech company called bytedance. officials worry that the company could share data on american citizens with the chinese government. now, the montana ban, the first of its kind in the nation, seems certain to face legal challenges from tiktok, from those who provide access to the app. from businesses that use tiktok for advertising and f aclu who said the ban is unco