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Wages at a 2.7% annual rate. that was within expectations but heres the thing. in good economic times in the past like were having now weve scene greater wage growth. where is the hiring happening? business, an addition of 5,000 jobs. manufacturing 37,000. health care 34,000. pausing on manufacturing because were not seeing any impact yet of the there haves imposed by the administration or china affecting jobs. we are seeing futures get hit because the jobs report is a miss with 157,000 jobs cre...

Gallap. it is not clear how the fire started. >> police have identified a suspect of a card young that treated george hw bush. police are revealing what they believe to be his motive. what are they saying, ed? >> good morning, alisyn, it has nothing to do with his political connections to the political world and treating george h.w. bush many years ago. police say that his mother died on the operating dabble while being operated on by -- he was skilled on july 20th. police say it is that grudge

All right. so the u.s. government faces a court-ordered deadline today to reunite those families separated from their children at the border. the trump administration has already admitted that roughly 914 parents will not be reunited with their children by this deadline today. cnns ryan nobles spoke with many of the families affected and he joins us live from washington. what did you learn, ryan? >> well, alisyn, i met two children from two different families. one a 7-year-old boy, who loves the...

Help michael cohen? >> it is a good question, alisyn. we dont know right now exactly the contours of the federal investigation of michael cohen specifically. we dont know what he might be charged with. its possible at this point that his lawyer does, and its unclear whether or not he has has any information of value to provide to the government and whether or not they are in any type of serious negotiations with the government about him cooperating in another investigation. at this point, it is ...

Mean, thats an issue you have to bring down to the floor, have serious -- >> just to be clear, your republican colleagues in the house freedom caucus have now voted on that. >> well, i was just going to say, i dont see a reason to impeach him at this moment. and im watching carefully and listening to leaders of the respective committees, oversight committee, chairman goudy, chairman goodlatte, as well. and so impeachments a big deal. i think back home, as well, a lot of people arent talking abou...

Important going forward, because the number of republicans has diminished ever so slightly and also it is a small slice of the pie of the overall electorate. >> well, what i was saying, david, when you see 88% of republicans approve of how he did his job, this was after what happened in helsinki, ive been pointing out to john, that the number of republicans is down to 27%. so you have to keep that in mind. its not 50% of the country. >> it is, alisyn. can i push back on that for a second? i agre...

Avoided. and when we think about this stand your ground, law, what its doing, alisyn, and the way its been applied is allowing people, licensed to kill black people and people of color, and not be held accountable. and if this is allowed to happen, this is not good for society, because people are going to think that its my right to take the law into my own hands. lets dont call the authorities. lets just shoot them, make sure theyre dead, and then we can claim stand your ground. and these childr...

>> it makes no sense, alisyn. the trayvon martin case was when most americans became familiar with this stand your ground law that allows people who can be the initial aggressor, like this gentlemen was, this self-appointed cop wannabe at this convenience store, because this wasnt the first time he had did this, to people of color. but he comes to this mother whos in the car with her two toddlers in the backs. and he con fronts her, starts cursing at her and tells her she needs to move the fing ...

And then when you watch that video, alisyn, its just heartbreaking, because this is a mother who watches her boyfriend of nine years be killed in front of her and these three children, ages 5, 3, and 2 watch this will person kill their father in cold blood. and then says, he was defending himself when clearly, when he pulls the gun, mr. mclaughton stops to walk back. >> yeah, you can see that. >> as well as another person, so hes not in fear of his life. this isnt an objective fear. this isnt ju...

Standing on the world stage and blaming america and taking the word of vladimir putin that its now hard to actually see the shiny object, any other shiny object. >> thats a good way to put it, alisyn. i agree with you that the helsinki moment will be sort of a definitional moment of the trump presidency. i think theres little doubt about that. and yet, if you look at the public reaction to it, we dont have a ton of polling to look at, but that recent nbc/"wall street journal" poll was conducted,...