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CNN 5 Things

Trump fires commissioner, Montana’s deadly shooting, Carrie Bradshaw’s goodbye & more

CNN 5 Things

CNN

News, Daily News

3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump makes an abrupt change over weak jobs numbers. Trump escalated his online spat with a Russian official. We have new developments on Republicans’ effort to defund public media. A deadly shooting at a Montana bar is under investigation. Plus, it’s the end of an era for “Sex and the City” fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From CNN, I'm a phone with D-K, with the five things you need to know for Friday, August 1st.

0:43.3

President Donald Trump has fired the Labor Statistics Commissioner over the jobs numbers. Without evidence, he accused Dr. Erica McIntyrefer of manipulating the monthly job report for, quote, political purposes.

0:51.3

The latest report showed the U.S. added 73,000 jobs last month, far below

0:57.0

expectations. It also sharply revised down the employment growth that had been previously reported in May and June,

1:04.0

by a combined 258,000 jobs. After the revisions, the jobs report showed the weakest pace of hiring for any three-month

1:12.5

period since the pandemic recession in 2020.

1:15.9

On Truth Social, Trump also accused, again without evidence, McIntarfer of faking the

1:20.4

jobs data before the election to boost former Vice President Kamala Harris' chances in last year's

1:25.7

presidential election. CNN has reached out to McIntyre for comment.

1:31.3

Meanwhile, President Trump says he ordered two nuclear submarines to be strategically positioned near Russia.

1:38.3

That's in response to what he said were aggressive remarks by a Russian official.

1:42.3

Dimitri Medvedev, who has been sparring with Trump online for the past several days,

1:47.2

made reference to Russia's Soviet-era automatic retaliatory nuclear strike capabilities,

1:52.7

after Trump told him to quote, watch his words.

1:55.8

Medvedev has no power to launch Russia's nuclear weapons.

1:59.6

CNN's Natasha Bertrand has more.

2:01.6

These nuclear-armed submarines, they conduct these kinds of patrols constantly.

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