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thousands more people are waking up to the news they will soon be out of a job. after google's parent company alphabet announced it is slashing a whooping 12,000 jobs worldwide. that's more than 6% of its workforce according to cnbc. it's one day after microsoft announced 10,000 layoffs. so what's driving these signature job cuts and what does it say about our economic climate? president biden marking the halfway point of his first term in the white house under a cloud of controversy. the president finally broke his days' long silence about classified documents from his time as vic...

conflicting claims. the russian military said that as of friday, they controlled the town. ukrainians dispute that claim. and say they still have parts of it. now, what we know is what we saw. we were in -- in the area around soledar for several days. what we saw is ukraine forces are digging in, they're not trying to retake the town, just trying to hold the pogs they have. now this afternoon we got in touch with some of the troops and they say they are no longer in the area and that they have pulled back. now we don't know if that is part of an organized withdrawal or just a rotatio...

might's ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. >> i'm standing right in front of the grizzly giant and we've got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. >> i'm pamela brown in washington. you're live in the cnn "newsroom." we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special trees? >> reporter: well, we just have heard that the fight is going in the right direction, but ...

state department is rejecting steve bannon's sudden willingness to testify before the january 6th committee days before his criminal contempt trial is set to begin. bannon produced a letter from donald trump, trump saying he is waiving executive privilege so bannon can testify. here's the thing, the committee and most legal analysts say no privilege existed in this case to begin with. what's more, federal prosecutors argue, trump never invoked executive privilege here. so, this doj court filing also reveals that former president trump's attorney justin clark was interviewed by fbi in...

possible obstruction. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, august 29th. it's pretty much the end of summer. there is new reaction this morning after a heavily redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump's mar-a-lago home was unsealed on friday. the 36-page affidavit removed details of the federal government's efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegal little taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in m...