a warm welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom those are the white things and the gray in the middle, that is where the smoke is. elderly couples behind me, they can barely walk and now they are standing in lines for ten hours? investigators sat down with rudy giuliani who was representing former president trump and helping him file a lot of challenges to overturn the 2020 election. with yevgeny prigozhin now believed to be in belarus, questions still remain about what his ultimate goals were when he undertook his insurrection over the weekend. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, june 29. in the midwest u.s., millions will be waking up to unhealthy air quality level in the coming hours. chicago experienced the worst air quality in the world 00 wednesday. smoke from the canadian wildfires is blanketing dozens of states from the midwest to the east
A warm welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom those are the white things and the gray in the middle, that is where the smoke is. elderly couples behind me, they can barely walk and now they are standing in lines for ten hours? investigators sat down with rudy giuliani who was representing former president trump and helping him file a lot of challenges to overturn the 2020 election. with yevgeny prigozhin now believed to be in belarus, questions still remain about what his ultimate goals were when he undertook his insurrection over the weekend. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo.
Veteran irs agent who handled the investigation claims the president s son got off easy. republican senator lindsey graham is amongst those now demanding to know if the agent s allegations are true. jessica schneider has our report. if this was any other person, they likely would have already served their sentence. reporter: gary is talking about hunter biden, the 14 year irs veteran who once oversaw the investigation into his taxes is now claiming that he was blocked from pursuing leads connected to the president. there were certain investigate difference steps we weren t allowed to take that could have led us to president biden. you wanted to take them. we needed to take them. and you weren t allowed to take them. that s correct. reporter: president biden was questioned wednesday on the white house lawn about whether he was involved or aware of text hunter allegedly sent to a chinese business partner 2017. how involved were you in your son s chinese shakedown text
Here in london. and we re learning a bit more. i think we re getting a sense from the various reports, and we haven t confirmed them, but the wall street journal saying that he changed the plans. new york times has reported citing u.s. officials familiar with intelligence that says that very high ranking general in the russian military, former commander of the operation in ukraine, may have known in advance about prigozhin s plans. and plus cnn reporting that u.s. intel against had built up a fairly detailed picture of what prigozhin was doing. you get a sense that people inside and outside of russia were somehow aware of what was going on and perhaps if the wall street general report is true, that could contribute to the level of chaos on the prigozhin side. i think the key thing now for the kremlin, it means they are in damage control mode. it is very unusual for putin to be out amongst the crowds. i think that the kremlin is now
it is thursday, june 29. in the midwest u.s., millions will be waking up to unhealthy air quality level in the coming hours. chicago experienced the worst air quality in the world 00 wednesday. smoke from the canadian wildfires is blanketing dozens of states from the midwest to the east coast yet again. and meteorologists say the haze is expected to stick around the next couple days. meanwhile nearly 85 million people from california tole alabama and as far north as illinois are under heat alerts. national weather service says new orleans has surpassed the number for the most in that of heat warnings in a year. in texas, at least 11 people have died in just one county due to heat-related causes. and now the heatwave is set to expand. the latest now from chad myers. big high pressure in the