Trade tensions with china, you expect the market to sell off. Thats not the case. Whats going on . As you say, lets crunch the numbers. We added 157,000 jobs in july. That missed expectations, by the way, by about 30,000. 33,000, to be exact. It does show the jobs were created last month despite all of the complaints among businesses about a shortage of skilled labor. The core trend per month is up 200,000. This is important. The upward revisions, both for june and may, may was up 24,000. June up 35,000. Very healthy. Meaning those two months were the strongest performing months for creating jobs in more than two years. Its interesting. If you look below the headline number, the job market, the labor market still strong. The question is where are the jobs being created . Lets have a look. Professional and business
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Be asking themselves regardless of the nuclear deal, why do you want to do business with the Worlds Largest financer of International Terrorism . Bill Benjamin Hall has more. That story Live In London. Good morning, bill. What these sanctions do are give companies two options. One to deal with the multitrillion economy of the u. S. Or to deal with iran. What weve seen overnight is Companies Choosing to deal with the u. S. Despite European Countries trying to force them in other directions. President trump tweeted this morning saying the iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed and in november they ratchet up to yet another level. Anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the United States. Im asking for world peace, nothing less. And the response was quick. Just in the last few hours the French Oil Giant has said it will quit its multibillion
the door was open for negotiations. Iranians refused. Bill. Bill we await
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jay sekulow on abc yesterday. Would that meeting constitute a violation of the law . And what you have is a situation and ive said this well over a year. You have to look at what laws, rules and Regulation Statutes are purportedly violated here. Hes been saying that for well over a year. Well over a year ago, he said the opposite about that meeting in trump tower. Remember, it was all about adoptions. I didnt hear anybody talk about babies this weekend. And there are some potentially relevant laws. For example, u. S. Code of federal regulations. Quote, a Foreign National shall not directly or indirectly make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation in connection with any federal, state or local election. And, quote, no person shall knowingly solicit accept or
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Final day of the presentation of their case against paul manafort, the president s campaign chairman, simultaneously a woman named kristin davis, who is better known in tabloid circles as the manhattan madam will be testifying tomorrow before the grand jury in d. C. , convened by the special counsels office reportedly about her relationship with Trump Campaign associate roger stone. Expect that to be an incredible tabloid scrum, if nothing else. We wont necessarily know what that legally is going to amount to for quite some time, if ever. But those two things are going to happen. One in virginia and one in d. C. , both in Federal Court tomorrow. Enjoy your morning. That does it for us tonight. Now it is time for The Last Word with lawrence odonnell. You just made the day of every Hollywood Screen writer who is dreaming of some day getting the assignment for the miniseries of the robert
mueller investigation, that there will come a day when the manhattan madam has to walk on to the set
Screws loose, i guess, never really knew it until now. Thinking if i land successfully, alaska will give me a job as a pilot . I think they would give you a Job Doing Anything if you can pull this off. Yeah, right. Can this thing do a back flip you think . Try to do a barrel roll. If that goes good, ill go nose down, call it a night. Lets try and land the airplane safely and not hurt anyone on the ground. All right, man, damn it. I dont know, man, i dont know. I dont want to. I was hoping that was going to be it, you know . Cnns aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh joins us, working this story all morning with her sources, chilling to listen to that audio, so calmly the man talking to air Traffic Control. What do we know about this man and his level of access . We know he is a 29yearold,
after the plane took off and took off from the airport, witnesses saw it flying erratically. Tell us what did you see when this airplane was up in the air . My wife and i were in