a huge decision by this district judge, something we have not ever seen before. and we will have much more on this breaking news. thank you to you, kaitlin for bringing us that last-minute breaking on the edge news. thank you so much for joining us. there ll be much more this decision by judge cannon. and of course, the republican national convention is going to be getting underway just in a bit here to cnn newsroom up next good morning. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta. we are following breaking news at this hour. this just came in a few moments ago the job judge in the classified documents case down in florida, judge aileen cannon, she is dismissed the trump classified documents case because the special counsel prosecution is in violation of the appointments clause of the constitution. of course, the special counsel in the case may appeal this case. so the saga may not be over yet, but that breaking news just coming into us right now at cnn, let me go
instead, the story you ve been watching unfolding live. we have continuing coverage now, which is this focus on the trump organization and their company s cfo that plead not guilty. there he is. the charges failing to pay taxes on certain perks and benefits that he received as a trump ploy eye. they do not involve these charges any member of the trump families that is involved in the business or the former president himself. so that is the charge that i just described. we ll get into it in more detail. that s the charge they came up with after three years of digging, which appears to have emboldened the trump team when they look at the way this sorted out in court. this is not justice, this is politics. eric shawn is outside the new york supreme court all day covering this story for us. good afternoon, eric. good afternoon, martha. 72-year-old top trump organization executive allen weisselberg exchanged french cuffs for handcuffs this morning when he turned himself in and s
block the mueller investigation. fire robert mueller. jeff andrew weissmann was on the other end of that stuff and wondering exactly what the president was up to. they documented a lot of it in the mueller report. but andrew weissmann has actually learned some things about don mcgahn as a result of this testimony. so that s going to be. interesting and i know mr. weisman was invoked by name during the testimony himself. which i m sure was a comfortable situation from it. he s right in the middle of this stuff. yeah, we re going to get right to that, rachel. all right, lawrence. thank you. thank you. as i said, it was two years, two years ago, the judiciary committee subpoenaed trump white house counsel don mcgahn to testify about what he had already testified about in interviews with special counsel robert mueller, whose investigation of russia s interference in the 2016 election to help donald trump had also become an investigation of obstruction of justice by donald
than anybody thought. what we re seeing is a big summer hiring boom completely fizzled in september. it was a hurricane, don t forget. there was a delta variant that really was picking up speed and people are going back to school trying to get their kids back to school at the same time. you have an unemployment rate that fell to 4.8%. which is in a normal time would be almost full employment. that s a number on the surface that looks good. you don t see the massive hiring you need to go along with that. couple of things happening here. people still leaving the labor market, especially women. and we have got the participation rate fell, meaning fewer americans are actually considering themselves in the labor market. and we also have seen a lot of new business creation, so could also be that the government surveyors are calling households and saying are you employed and they say, yes. but when they call companies, companies aren t necessarily adding the big jobs. so that could
now. camila, i was just amazed. you probably couldn t see the video from where you re standing. as i was talking to this woman, she picked up her foot and showed what looked like two or three inches of thick mud stuck to the bottom of her shoe. and i guess this is what people are dealing with in the middle of all this. but i guess things are improving somewhat. give us the latest. reporter: well, jim, it s still really messy, and i don t have to see the video because there were so many people that i saw here walking out of the playa. just to give you some perspective of where i am, the playa is right here behind me. so the festival is only just a couple of miles from where i am. throughout the day, i saw dozens and dozens of people with those cakey shoes with mud all over their bodies. the cars are covered in mud. i saw a number of rvs getting stuck behind me here in the desert. that s what you re seeing today. people are saying, look, i want to get out no matter what. the