wedding of prince charles and lady diana. a little later we re going to walk you through a proper tea. we re going to talk a little bit more about that unique relationship between the united states and britain. kind of interesting, there s zain by the way taking me to the dorchester where they do high tea every day at 4:00 p.m. she talks a little bit about the why tea is so important to this nation. she said in good times and bad, no matter what you say is wrong with you, have some tea, that will fix it. she shows us the proper way it to do it. you do keep your pinky up when you drink your tea? it s much harder than it seems. you re not allowed to hook your finger through the little holder. you to pinch your two fingers together. i need to do weight lifting with the index and thumb because it s harder than it seems. only american goss plowing through the little tray of all of the sandwiches. americans see the sandwiches and mow them down like it s dinner. it s just tea. exakt
bodyguards and they show who was held at gitmo high-risk and low-risk and some set free to appear in places like libya. are there any bombshells? here is cnn s national security analyst peter bergen. well, one important point is that these documents are secret and not top secret. 750,000 americans have secret clearances and many more secret clearances so these are not the crown jewels, but they are interesting. the defense department condemned the release of the documents, but it is the latest dump of wikileaks, and others carried more intrigue and controversy, so we wanted to throw this out to the stream team today, is wikileaks good? having a self-described watchdog releasing classified documents? on the team today is security consultant kevin and xm sirius host pete dominic. so, pete, is the wikileaks dump
and good monday morning to you. it is april 25th. welcome to american morning. from london. where it s actually half past noon local time. i m getting used to the lingo as well. we ve been here two days, having a wonderful time. we want to do our best to bring you all of the excitement that s coming up be, four days away from the royal wedding. it may be across the pond but it s sparking a lot of interest in the united states. americans are gearing up to share in the excitement of will and kate s big day. it s largely because of the unique bond the two countries have. i mean our country was started by trying to get away from these guys but at the same time it s quite a special relationship. we wanted to give you a quick look back at its ups and downs. it s that summer of 39 that you see the beginning of the birth of this special
welcome back to american morning. royal wedding is the hottest ticket in town, not in this town but in the one that kiran is at. the exclusive guest list has been revealed. that s right. kiran at buckingham palace in london. what did you find out? well, i was going to say you said the hottest ticket in town, funny when you talk about who s excited about this, three times more americans checking in as hotel guests than in london than brits and when you take a look at what flights are coming in, from boston, from new york, from miami. so a lot of excitement for a certain segment of the population in the u.s. all preparing to come here. some 600,000 additional tourists. that should be exciting. in terms of the guest list, everybody is obsessed with who got invited and didn t. a lot of people made much of the fact that president barack obama was not on the guest list, although many say that wasn t really a snub, that it was more
rates. most economists agree with that. whether it happens politically is a different story. that s the problem. the article in newsweek about china s monetary policies more influential than the united states, that s a pretty scary prospect to most americans. it s not unnoticed if you travel around the world, but more and more people are asking themselves, what are they going to do in beijing, not washington. if china were to tighten significantly and has tightened quite a lot in terms of interest rates and reserve requirements, if it were to go further to bring inflation under control in china the affect on commodity markets including the gold market would be huge. we re seeing a big shift from west to east right now to the extent china may matter more in terms of decision making than the united states. wow. it was great to talk to you this morning. i encourage everyone to read the article. it is interesting. enjoy london. i sure will. back to you, christine and ali.