Department. Bill barr was Donald Trumps loyal Attorney General for about two years, until December 1st of last year when Bill Barr had this shocking moment where he came out and publicly said, to date we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election. That was pretty much the end of the longstanding trump barr relationship. Barr was gone a few weeks later. In came Jeffrey Rosen who had been number two at the justice department. He moves up and becomes the acting Attorney General and Richard Don owe hugh becomes number two. Donald trump wasted no time pressuring these two to try to get on board with his Election Fraud theme. He called them we know from Richard Donohues notes, what he told them to do was just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me, and the r republican congressman and as you just said with Ambassador Bolton, the chief of Staff Mark meadows got in on the act. He started emailing these two, giving them crazy theor
What does that mean for the economy . Lets begin right there with Cnn Business Anchor julia chatterly. Good morning, jim. Make no mistake, this was a strong Jobs Report. The u. S. Economy adding back 943,000 jobs in the month of july, not the only good news today, though, too, we saw positive revisions to the prior two months adding back around 100,000 extra jobs we werent expecting. All of this is good news. Where did they come from . Well, as youd expect, the toys, the Leisure Sector gave us back 380,000 jobs. Restaurants, bars, hotels have been trying to add People Back, forced to pay more wages. We saw that playing into these numbers in july. Also the Education Sector, 220,000 jobs extra added back in the Education Sector. We know this has been a challenge all through the years as many students have remained educated at home. Also the seasonal effects where you normally see jobs lost in the Education Sector this month, clearly not the case for the month of july. What does that give
Tennis Phenom Cocoa Goff now out of the games after Testing Positive for covid19. Two athletes in tokyos olympic Village Testing positive now. In all, at least 58 cases of coronavirus have been found among athletes, officials, and contractors there. The number of olympic participants falls, the number of cases in japan is climbing fast. A big spike shows no signs of slowing ahead of fridays opening ceremony. Cnns Blake Essig is live in tokyo, japan. What are officials saying this morning . Reporter well, you know, laura and julia, with a few days to go before the start of the olympics, its fair to say things are not exactly going smoothly. As you mentioned, so far 58 people involved with the games have tested positive for covid19 after arriving in japan. Theres also a growing list of athletes and olympicrelated personnel who have been forced into isolation after being considered close contacts with people who tested positive. Despite that, olympic officials maintain they will be able t
For christine romans. Just three days until the olympics officially begin, but competition actually starts today. Softball kicks off the a 8 00 p. M. With Australia Versus Japan and the u. S. Faces italy at 11 00 p. M. Eastern. And the rest of the Games Cant come soon enough for the organizers. Tokyo just reported its second highest increase of new Cases Sense january 21st. Blake essig is live in tokyo for us. Another day, another Athlete Testing positive for covid. What is the feeling in tokyo right now . Reporter you know, as far as athletes are concerned, generally speaking some are worried and for good reason by no fault of their own after a lifetime of preparation, their Olympic Dream could be cut short if they catch covid19 or are considered a close contact with someone who testS Positive. Now, that fear has been realized by two american athletes already who tested positive for covid19 including katie Lou Samuelson and kara eaker, an alternate for the womens gymnastics team. Whil
i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. a 1 in 1 trillion event. that s what alec baldwin calls the fatal shooting incident on the set of his latest film. the actor made his first on-camera comments since the prop gun he discharged killed the movie s cinematographer, 42-year-old helena hutchins. baldwin remembered her as his friend on a tight-knit crew. he and his family were in vermont when the paparazzi tracked them down. a visibly upset baldwin took their questions and called for new safety measures on film sets. would you ever work on another film set that involves firearms? i couldn t answer that question. i have no sense of it at all. i do know an ongoing effort to limit the use of firearms on film sets is something i m extremely interested in. but remember, something that i think is important, that is, how many bullets have been fired in films and tv shows in the last 75 years? this is america, how many bullets have gone off in movies and on tv sets? probably