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
right now, the attorneys are working on fighting the criminal charges stemming from the effort to remain in power. a judge has scheduled the next hearing for august 28th, and at this point, a trial date is set, and a next hearing is going to be five days after the first presidential debate underscoring the historical debate of this case. now, walk us through what is next here for donald trump. well, kate, the august 28th date is not just circled on the calendar, because it is the date that donald trump and the prosecutors in the case are going before the judge for the first time, and loft reason to watch how the judge handles this case. she is a tough case, and moves fast. she is familiar with trump as a litigant before, and she has had a donald trump case before her