Election. Though the dispute is technically over the handling of evidence, its become a proxy war of the expresident s mob boss tactics. Its a little complicated, but incredibly important. Here is where things stand right now. Federal judge chutkan was ordered a hearing over the Justice Departments request for a protective order. The rules governing the process between prosecutors and the defense team. The Washington Post notes such orders can be technical but are routinely approved by judges to protect witnesses and government investigative methods and priorities by limiting evidence by the defense to people authorized by the court. In its argument for a protective order, the Justice Department made a nod to the fact that the defendant has prosecutors explained they wanted to immediately turn over evidence to speed Defense Trial Preparations but were concerned in part over trumps history of posting on social Media Associated with cases against him. Trumps defense team complained the g
Donald trump has another court date on the calendar after pleading not guilty for the third time in four months. Is he going to use this trial to relitigate the 2020 election again . And a Russian Naval ship towed away, the results of what appears to be a strike from an unmanned sea drone overnight. Sara is off, im kate bolduan with john berman and this is cnn news central. All right. These are the numbers hot off the presses, 187,000, 187 k jobs added in july, thats according to the bureau of labor statistics. The Unemployment Rate ticked down to 3. 5 . So these are the numbers, what do they mean . Standing with me here oh so naturally richard quest. You can answer the question. What does that mean . How big of a deal is that . Its important because if you are talking about a soft landing, according to one economist this morning, that is what a soft landing looks like. Why . It is lower than expected, under 200,000. The revisions of the last two months, they are also lower, which sugg
clubs over concerns that more documents were stashed there. also ahead, a big win in the fight against the big lie. we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court and we ll get expert analysis on the situation in eastern europe following a failed revolt against vladimir putin. secretary of state, antony blinken will be on the show this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday june 28th. with us we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire. u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay and white house editor for politico, sam stein. joe is is on assignment but willy and i are here and donald trump is rolling out yet another excuse for that leaked audio tape that appeared to have him showing up classified documents to people. in an interview with fox news digital yesterday the former president professed his innocence and accused the media, even fox, of conspireing against him. here s a portion of the leaked tape from augus
and harlan crow and harlan crow refusing to as he is politely requested, everything, all of the money that harlan crow has spent on clarence thomas will get the senator s latest attempt to get that information. he has been leading to charge on that, it way that was so critical given the utter silence honors so i m eager there s a tweet i want to redo, this is from feisty granny, which is a handle that i think will probably be available to you 40 years from now when you might want to use it. she says i never have doubts that this was not his first time dealing with negotiations. he knows what he s doing, i ignored all of the breathless reporting, knowing that it would be okay. she is, of course, talking about president biden s handling of the debt ceiling negotiations. feisty granny is just much cooler than i am about this, i was worried for months and weeks but it turns out the guesswork thing that i offered to the audience last week turned out to be pretty much what
$2.1 trillion we ve ever had. if i can parrot to when republicans were in the majority when they had the house, the senate and everything, they didn t cut anything. that s house speaker kevin mccarthy defending the debt limit agreement hours before the bill barely cleared a republican led house committee. we ll have a look at where the vote count stands in the full house as lawmakers from both parties continue to criticize the bill. also ahead, we re learning more about what was reportedly happening inside mar-a-lago as the justice department ramped up the pressure on donald trump to turn over classified documents. plus we ll have an update from eastern europe following another drone strike inside russian territory. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning on capitol hill where the house rules committee voted in favor of advancing the debt ceiling bill to a