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hunter biden entered the federal courthouse behind me wednesday expecting to put a five year criminal investigation behind him. judges can not approve plea agreements. >> all the heat is moving to the east. >> i don't know how anybody gets anything done. >> feels like you're standing next to an open oven. >> we're not bringing little green men into the hearing. >> do you believe that our government is in possession of uaps? >> absolutely. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with maxes s fosted bianca nobilo. it is thursday, july 27. in wilmington, a u.s. judge has left hunter biden in legal limbo. he is facing two federal tax charges. he was hoping to finalize a plea

deal that would have kept him out of prison but the judge wasn't convinced. now they have to try to salvage the agreement. sara murray has the story. >> reporter: after a ftumultuou day in federal court, hunter biden left with no plea deal after a federal judge said she was not ready to accept it. he arrived at the court prepared to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and strike a deal to avoid a felony gun charge. after a five year justice department probe that hunter biden once predicted unscathed. >> i'm 100% certain that at the end of the investigation, that i will be cleared of any wrongdoing. >> reporter: instead jarthe jud said she wanted to know if it was over and they couldn't agree. so the deal was derailed and eventually hunter biden's team

agreed that he was not shielded from further charges. and the deal seemed for a moment back on track. but then the judge raised questions about the gun deal. is this even constitutional, she asked? and she said she was not ready to sign off on the deal. the hearing ended with hunter biden in a pro forma move pleading not guilty. the courtroom drama providing another opening for republican lawmakers who slammed the plea agreement. >> the plea deal we saw as it started was garbage. >> hunter biden was given a sweetheart deal that no other manner who wasn't rich and had a father as president would ever get ever. >> reporter: republicans already seeking more information about the hunter biden probe after two irs whistleblowers who worked on the case claimed there was political interference dating back to the trump administration and continuing under the biden administration. >> there should not be a two track justice system depending on who you are and who you are connected to. >> reporter: the white house reiterating that the president stands by his son but played no

role in the investigation. >> this case was handled independently as all of you know by the justice department under the leadership of a prosecutor appointed by the former president, president trump. >> reporter: the plea deal was set to cover hunter biden's tax transgressions over a five year span, his drug issues and firearm possession charge. prosecutors say hunter biden failed to pay between $1.1 million and $1.5 million in federal taxes. and they highlighted his substantial income from ukrainian and chinese energy companies. saying that he did in fact have the funds available to pay his taxes in certain years. but he failed to do so. instead prosecutors say he spent wildly on personal luxuries and expenses. our team was in the courtroom for the wild hearing and the judge did address hunter biden and said i know you wanted to resolve this, i'm sorry, but she said she has to be careful in how she is handling it. so it is clear that at least for now, hunter biden's legal woes are not over, neither of course

with his political woes. sara murray, cnn, washington. there is concern about the health of mitch mcconnell. he froze in the middle of speaking during his weekly news conference on wednesday. now sources tell cnn that mcconnell has fallen multiple times this year. at least two of the incidents weren't reported until now. the 81-year-old is brurkshing o concerns about his health. >> how are you feeling now, sir? >> i'm fine. >> have you seen a doctor, are you going to see a doctor? >> any idea what happened? >> i'm fine. >> dehydrated? >> melanie zanona has details from washington. >> reporter: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says he's fine after a scary health episode on wednesday afternoon. the incident occurred during mitch mcconnell's weekly press conferences, this is a press conference that he gives routinely in the capitol to reporters. as he was giving his opening

remarks, he stopped mid sentence and froze for over a good 20 seconds without blinking before senator john barrasso who is a former physician came over to check on him. at that point mitch mcconnell was ushered away by aides and senators to the sidelines. let's watch that moment. >> after finishing the nda this week, been good bipartisan cooperation and a string of -- >> anything else you want to say? do you want to say anything else to the press? let's go back.

>> reporter: he did come back to the podium after about 12 minutes and he took multiple questions from reporters including manu raju. and when asked whether he was okay, mitch mcconnell said that he was fine and his office later put out a statement that the senator felt lightheaded but was able to come back and was sharp. and mitch mcconnell since that moment has been conducting some of his routine business. he's been making calls and we're also told that he mehe met withn mccarthy for one of their weekly meetings. but this is not the first health scare that mitch mcconnell has experienced. in march he tripped and fell and hit his head. he was diagnosed with a concussion and a few broken ribs and he was out for a few weeks in the senate. and i can tell you from observing him the last few weeks that he's been acting differently, he's been talking a bit softer, walking more slowly. and last month he also struggled to hear some questions that were

clearly audible from a reporter. so the issue of health has been top of mind for mitch mcconnell, but his colleagues wishing the 81-year-old senator well. melanie zanona, cnn, capitol hill. and rudy giuliani's confession is stunning. the former new york city married a mitted that he defamed two georgia city election workers with smears. they are suing rudy giuliani for repeatedly wrongly asserting that they stuffed ballot boxes with fake votes. giuliani says the women weren't damaged by his statements but here is what they told the january 6 committee. >> i've lost my name and i've lost my reputation, i've lost my sense of security all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally decided to scapegoat me and my daughter. >> i don't want to go anywhere.

i second guess everything that i do. it has affected my life in a major way, in every way. all because of laws. >> mother and daughter say they have felt fear and guilt and have received death threats. giuliani argues that his statements are protected as free speech even though he doesn't contest that they were false. african leaders arriving in russia for a summit with vladimir putin. they are expected to ask for concrete promises on grain supplies after russia withdrew from the black sea grain 234ish difference earlier this month. wheat prices have risen by about 25% in less than two weeks. they want clarity on the future of the wagner mercenary group in

affair africa. ukraine has been stepping up its counteroffensive with more troops and new pushes in critical areas. u.s. officials say after being held in reserve for weeks, the bulk of ukrainian forces are now deployed. honk ukraine's goals is retaking the battered city of bakhmut. this footage appears to show heavy impacts as forces arrive from the south. david mckenzie is standing by for us, but we begin with clare sebastian. >> and so counteroffensive essentially been going on since the beginning of june but it is really just in the last few days that after several weeks of really not hearing much about any movements on the frontlines, we're starting to see progress on the ukrainian side. clearly one of the key goals is still to try to cut the land bridge between crimea and d i don't know if we have that

map, but they appear to have launcht th are calling a major offensive. it is a heavily fortifd area and so they had to s weeks and weeks picking through the mine fields and things like that. further east, we're hearing about progress from the ukrainian forces around a settlement there along a river which they have been pushing down since the site of the counteroffensive. and around bakhmut, they are still trying to encircle the russian forces but saying that they are making progress toward the south of the city. so we are talking some of the settlements that they are trying to fight for are basically three treats in the middle of agricultural land. so it is progress, but we are seeing momentum and of course u.s. officials committed now a bulk of its forces which of course does ramp up the pressure to make progress. >> clare, thank you.

david, a key meeting between african leaders and the russian government because so much is being felt in africa as a result of this conflict. and then we have this wagner issue as well. >> reporter: the grain deal is certainly not well timed for vladimir putin because of the prices you described. vladimir putin railed on the grain deal as he has many times before i think to try to dissuade some of the criticism from african leaders. he said it was solely for the enrichment of european companies and countries and while much of the grain was going to european nations, that price impact is certainly going to be felt here on the continent. this is an important meeting.

it is also very important meeting for putin because on t that -- it is because of the optics. largest gathering since the ukraine war has started in moscow. and to get up on the stage with the leaders, though it must be said many haven't shown up this year, around 17 heads of state are going, this is an important propaganda moment for the russian leader. and we'll see if any concrete moves come out on the grain deal and also on this much touted from the african point of view russia and african peace initiative i should say. you saw african leaders some time ago trying to push forward a negotiated settlement, but that didn't get anything going. but trying to say that countries like south africa and others may play a role in any eventual peace negotiations because of

what they say is the nonalignment on the issue of the war. >> david and clare, thank you both very much. and now, more than 14 million people are under heat alerts across the u.s. temperatures continue to climb dangerously high in the southwest and states on the east coast will also see warmest temperatures of the year this week. chad myers has the latest forecast. >> unrelenting heat in the d desert southwest is sliding to the east with tens of millions of people under either heat advisories or excessive heat warnings with the heat index over 105 degrees farenheit. the next few days another 170 record high temperatures are going to be broken across the u.s. the good news is with this latest heatwave for the east coast, chicago, you are only warm for a couple days. even for d.c., only three days before you get a cold front to come by and knock you down from 98 to 85, a pretty good

temperature drop with a cold front coming down from the north. we'll take it. dozens of new wildfires are cropping up across southern europe fueled by an unrelenting heatwave. but apparently president putin is speaking at the african summit. can we tune in, do we have any translation? [ speaking in a non-english language ] >> translator: -- in the g-20 hopefully it will be approved in october during the g-20 summit. as before rushsia is making sur that africa will become one of the key partners in the new world order.

these issues are bringing our attention and we'll discuss the practical decisions on increasing our trade and economic cooperations, food security, development of the national health and practical work towards many directions which will give an impulse to the declaration of the second summit, russia, africa and plan of action of russia, european union for 2024. despite the difficulties connected to the pandemic and illegitimate sanctions, we managed to increase our trade and economy connections.

last year trades amassed up to $18 billion which was an increment of 35%. russia still is a reliable supplier he of of food to afric. back in 2022, russia experts of this particular type of food was increased even more. many russian companies work in africa. key areas of cooperation is energy supplies, agricultural. we have good opportunities to cooperate in education, science and cultural spheres. we pay great attention at developing our relations with union kamoras based on mutual effect and have the potential to be developed in many directions. of course we're open in any

directions to cooperate with your country. thank you for your attention. >> president putin welcoming african leaders to st. petersburg there. all of them kueen to hear i thik how wagner -- a lot of wagner fighters operating in africa. and we don't know how that will play out with prigozhin, the leader, currently in belarus. >> yeah, providing security alongside sort of unofficial way of fostering russia's goals in africa. i think people are looking after that failed rebellion to see how they continue to operate in of a came. prigozhin himself said they plan to do so. so i think food supplies are critical. president putin has said that he

plans to provide it commercially and free of charge. apparently russia stands to step in where ukraine can't provide the supplies. ukraine continues to be a provider, but no details as of yet. >> we'll keep watching that. we also have david mckenzie, you were able to catch some of that too? okay. he's not there. we'll come back to it -- oh, he is there. david, can you hear me? >> reporter: yes, i can, max. sorry, we were just jumping back on set. what i do think is important is the optics again of vladimir putin with the african leaders at that round table and what he is really pushing is the trade relationships between russia and african nations again talking about the ability of russia to provide food and trade to the

continent. you've had this period of the last few years, not withstanding the war in ukraine, of russia getting much more involved in multiple countries on the continent, both in its official channels and taelattempting to bolster trade, but also through wagner deeply involved in security. and that involvement has been criticized. just yesterday the u.s. parliamentary group, foreign affairs group, deeply criticized the uk government for not paying attention to the expansion of wagner on the continent. that is not something of course that putin will speak about because of the controversy. what he is trying to do is to push the importance of russia on the african nations where they are involved. >> okay. david, thank you. also clare. still to come -- >> if you had one, you captured

one, you reverse engineer it, you got it to work, you are talking something that could go into space, drop down in a matter of seconds, do whatever it wants and leave and there is nothing we can do about it. nothing. >> science fiction becomes a reality as u.s. lawmakers push for more intel on ufos. we'll go to washington for the latest on that hearing. plus the u.s. federal reserve raises interest rates for the 11th time in the past year and a half. it appears more hikes are on the way as well. plus a possible blow to the fight against islamic in-you are s insurgency in affair ask a. came.

dozens of new wildfires are cropping up across southern europe fueled by an unrelenting heatwave. the greek fire service reported 61 new fires in the past day alone. they are spreading in central greece killing two and threatening the country's main agricultural hub. parts of the country reached 46 degrees celsius on wednesday. italy is also seeing some of the highest temperatures in europe right now. ten fires are burning in the

south of the country and four elderly people died on tuesday. nada bashir joins me from rome. it does seem as though that the heatwave is ending but it is still so dry. >> reporter: absolutely. we are learning from local authorities that those temperatures are drop wilping, good sign after these extreme heat events and in particular the wildfires we've seen across the mediterranean. in italy, ten wildfires are trying to be contained. and we've seen the devastation, some 2,000 people were forced to be evacuated from their homes earlier in the week as a result of those fires coming dangerously close to residential areas. the authorities there say the vast majority of those evacuated have now been able to return home and actually in the last couple of hours we've learned

that the fire alert level has been downgraded across sicily. so certainly a sign of hope there. but we heard from the italian prime minister speaking yesterday, and she said that the fires, these extreme heat events, have put italy to the test and the government is committing all resources at its disposal. but the government has stopped short of declaring a state of emergency. there is something that many regions have been requesting at this stage. it is still under consideration, but look, this is happening across the region and the warning from the experts is that this is only going to become the new normal unless changes are made urgently. >> nada, thank you. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is joining the chorus of condemnation after the apparent military coup in niger. a group of military officers wednesday night that the president about a sooum had been ousted. and there is a concern that the removal could be a major drag on

the fight against islamic insu insurgency. larry madowo is joining us from nairobi. what are you looking at here? >> reporter: the foreign minister there says that the is the acting don't know where th president is. this uncertainty where the president was reported to have been detained around the presidential palace, he tweeted the official account of the presidency tweeted that he was well and that some would be dealt with. we see secretary of state antony blinken talking to him saying that he assures him of their support of the united states as democratically elected president of niger. and antony blinken was the first u.s. secretary of state back in

march to visit niger and highlight the progress the country was making. and then wednesday night, this on state tv -- >> translator: brought together by national council for the safe guarding of the country, we have decided to put an end to the regime that you know. this follows the continuing deterioration of the security situation and poor economic and social governance. >> reporter: this back sliding further complicates the security situation. niger has been a key part of the west security strategy in that region when it is surrounded by mali and faso. so what happens now is a big headache and a problem for the african union and the economic community of the west african states. >> larry in nairobi, we'll be back with you as you get more. thank you. and now big economic numbers due out today when the commerce department releases its estimate

of u.s. gdp in the second quarter. many expect it to be at about 2%, but that could be stronger than the federal reserve would like as it battles to bring down inflation. we are closely watching to see how the markets react to the figures. wall street has been on a roll with the dow racking up 13 straight days of gains for the first time since 1987. investors shrugged off the quarter point hike by the fed, but the u.s. federal reserve is still unsatisfied and say inflation is out of control and wednesday raised its benchmark rate to the heist level in 22 years, the 11th time the fed has raised the prime lending rate since march of last year. jerome powell said inflation numbers have improved but not enough. still to come, a retired intelligence officer claims the u.s. has the intact bodies of aliens and their spacecraft hidden away. and plus israel's supreme court sets up a showdown with

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welcome back. u.s. lawmakers are pushing for more information and transparency on ufos, or as the government calls them unidentified an nam husband phenomena or uaps. three called the mary ann urgent matter. oren lieberman reports. >> what's going on? >> there is a whole fleet. >> reporter: videos of mysterious airborne objects have captured the public's attention. >> they are going against the wind. >> reporter: and perhaps it is imagination. >> there is a pressing demand for government transparency and accountability that cannot be overlooked. >> reporter: as wednesday's hearing focused on the threat they may pose and whether the government has been too secretive about what it knows. >> uap foreign drones is an urgent national security problem, if something else, it is an issue for signs. in either case unidentified objects are a concern for flight

safety. >> reporter: david grusch claimed the u.s. had alien bodies, spacecraft, a statement for which he admitted he has secondhand info and no proof. >> you've said that u.s. has intact spacecraft, you said that the government has alien bodies. >> i have to be careful to describe what i've seen firsthand and not in this environment. >> have you seen any of the bodies? >> that is something that i've not witnessed myself. >> reporter: the house oversight hearing was a rare moment of bipartisanship in a sharply divided congress. >> we're not bringing little green men or flying saucers in to the hearing. we'll just get to the facts. >> we should encourage more reporting, not less. >> on uaps, the more we understand, the safer we will be. >> reporter: one of the witnesses was former navy pilot ryan graves who now runs a group that encourages pilots to report uaps. vast majority of sightings he

says are never reported. >> this is an approximation based off of my personal experience speaking with a number of pilots, but i would estimate we're somewhere near 5% reporting perhaps. >> reporter: the three witnesses all retired military veterans warn that the threat these objects pose is real. >> based off your own experience or the data that you have been privy to, is there any indication that these uaps could be essentially reconnaissance information? >> yes. >> fair assessment, yes. >> very possible. >> reporter: a retired navy commander picked up this on his aircraft sensors in 2004, a reading he claimed was something information superior to anything that the u.s. had. >> you are talking something that can go into space, go someplace, drop down in a per of seconds, do whatever it wants and leave and there is nothing that we can do about it. >> reporter: in april the head of the pentagon office looking into these incidents told lawmakers there were about 650 potential cases of uaps.

about half of which he said may be of interest and value. the white house said wednesday it is still working on figuring out those answers. >> if your question is do we think that we need to be transparent with the american people, of course we need to be as transparent as we can be. but the truth is, we don't have hard and fast answers on these things. we are trying to get smarter on it. >> reporter: the white house points out when these uaps, unidentified aerial phenomena, have been spotted, they have disrupted military training and part of the reason that went into the u.s. standing up the aero office to figure out how serious of a threat they pose. of course we're watching this closely to see if these are harmful or whether they will be nine or simply sensor readings or errors. oren lieberman, cnn, pentagon.

and secretary alejandro mayorkas was in the hot seat on capitol hill wednesday as house republicans grilled him over the biden administration border policies. they accuse him of failing to stop illegal immigration. but while crossings remain high, they dipped to their lowest levels in about 2 1/2 years. and a feud between the federal government and texas over floating barriers in the rio grand is escalating. the justice department is asking a court to block the construction of any new buoys and remove existing barriers within ten days. that is on top of the lawsuit it filed earlier this week. mexico is also weighing in writing in a diplomatic note that the barriers violate two treaties and that many of the buoys are actually in mexican territory. israel supreme court has agreed to take up one of the most contentious laws setting up a major legal battle between the government and opponents who warn that democracy itself is at stake. the judicial overhaul would

weaken the supreme court oversight of government decisions stripping its ability to block those it deems unreasonable. elliott gotkine is live for us in tel aviv. and this continues potentially for months. >> reporter: it does. because this hearing won't take place until september. and even then, it could take weeks or months for the supreme court to actually make a decision. and if it were to decide that these seven groups that have petitioned the court -- the seven groups that have petitioned the court to strisk down the so-called reas reasonableness bill, it would be unprecedented. because this is not just any other law. is this what is called a basic law in israel, which is one of their quas quasi constitutional. and they would that they would ever block it down if there was a blow to freedom and fair

elections, separation of powers, rule of law and independent judi judiciary. of course they would have liked the supreme court to impose some kind of injunction on the reasonableness bill preventing it from coming in to effect until it held a proper hearing. however it didn't do that and this bill came into force just yesterday. so kind of mixed emotions one imagines among the opposition and opponents of this bill. now, the other question of course is if the supreme court strikes down this reasonableness bill, would the government abide by it because of course this bill is designed to prevent the supreme court from striking down decisions or rules based on reasonableness. so a bit ironic situation. the minister for strategic affairs speaking with cnn said that the government will always obey and abide by the rule of law indicating that the government would abide by any decision that were to strike down the basic law. more protests continue until they have some kind of victory

for you like from the supreme court perhaps. >> elliott, thank you. still ahead, it has been send decade seven decades since the ceasefire, how north korea is marking what it calls victory y day. get odor-free eight hour protection from mososquitoes and ticks without the ick. zevo on-body repellent. people love it. bugs hate it. hi, i'm norma, and i lost 53 pounds on golo. once i entered menopause, i did not like the fact

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let's bring in mark stewart. what do you make of the optics? >> reporter: optics is a key word. north korea is once again trying to establish itself as a power broker and the best way it knows how to is pageantry. we've been getting a lot of pictures and video from pyongyang. we have video of skim wkim with russia's defense minister touring what is described as a military expedition, state media says this is new types of weaponry and equipment. north korea and russia for that matter have been strong supporters of each other. we have seen north korea show its support of russia and vice versa. in fact the russian defense minister making the statement to the effect of the people's army, korean people's army, became the strongest army in the world. so that is the kind of verbiage

that kim jung-un is certainly wanting to see. we should point out that it is not alone. there is also a delegation from china during this anniversary in north korea. as one analyst pointed out to cnn, this is really an interesting trio to see china, to see russia and north korea together at a time when a lot of world has been condemning them especially for support of the war in ukraine. in fact if you look at north korea, it has been accused by the united states of providing weaponry to russia. russia on the other hand has not condemned necessarily vladimir putin taking a more sideline approach. but it goes to show that these three nations have really been isolated at a time when a lot of world has been united against ukraine. there is always the possibility we may see a bigger military parade perhaps in the hours ahead, we'll keep you posted. >> thanks for that, mark. two of the world's top teams

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portuguese is leading by two goals at the halftime mark. but the big focus was the clash between the u.s. and the netherlands of course who took an early lead. this was the rematch of the final 2019, wasn't it? >> it was. and i have to tell you, when i was there helping to conduct the draw in auckland in october, this was the tie when the balls came out of the pots that really did bring the biggest reaction in the room. it is two of women's world cup heavy weight teams. and arguably the tie of the group stage of this tournament, and it was tight. u.s. having to come back from a goal down, the dutch taking an early lead on 17 minutes. the game really changed when rose lavelle came off the bench

for the u.s. she was one of the goal scorers four years ago and she combined with the captain for the goal that gives the u.s. a point. but i have to say, there is criticism for the u.s. in this one. they are not as clinical, they are not taking the chances that we have seen from them in years gone by. they have won 13 matches in a row over three tournaments, so historically have been the team to beat. but this is a side in transition. they have 14 debutantes. jill ellis was the person who led the u.s. to their last two world cup titles. and there is a feeling that they are finding their feet, finding their identity. and we're sitting here in london, but the european teams

recently are the sides that have troubled the u.s. they have lost to germany, lost to england. and the dutch here. but if you speak to the u.s. captain, she is still fairly positive. >> i felt the momentum the whole time. i think the first half we could be disappointed in how we played, but i think that we fixed things right away. the pressure and amount of chances an opportunities that came from it, so proud of the team and response. against a really good opponent. very competitive team. one that we saw last world cup do such good things. so i think for us, it is going down a goal and coming up and getting able to tie. and again the chances that we got on goal. have to finish a few of those, but we keep moving forward. >> so it is u.s. who are still top of the group. ahead of the dutch on goal difference. so it will be interesting the next round as u.s. is up against portugal, netherlands against vietnam. who will take that top spot

heading in to the knockout stages. >> and i want to ask but mbappe. there is so much briefing between all the different clubs. is he going or not? >> it is a great headline, kylian mbappe, one of the best talented players going for a record feat to the saudi arabia side. nothing official has been said. but we do understand that psg were happy for kylian mbappe to speak to the saudi arabian team but mbappe doesn't want to speak to them. so we know his contract is up at the end of next year. we know psg don't want to let him go for free. so we'll see what happens. >> we have the facts from amanda. stick with them. seven major auto makes are joining forces to create charging stations for electric

vehicles, the plan envisions at least 30,000 across the u.s. and canada. and right now there are only about 35,000 charging stations in the u.s. car makes are betting that demand for electric vehicles will go up once there are enough places to charge them quickly. nasa's webb telescope has captured new images of stars in the making located about 1500 light years away. they reject gas and dust over thousands of years which is what makes the orange material in that image there. nasa says it will take millions of years to fully form. and this pair of rare apple sneakers is being auctioned off. they were custom made for the employees as a one time giveaway at a national sales conference in the mid 1990s. size 10, my size, new in the box but show some signs of aging and starting at $50,000, shoes are

fetching a hir higher price tag. only amanda can afford them on this desk. thanks for joining us. "early start" is next.

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