queen elizabeth ii dedicated her life to her country. the queen took a vow that her duty was a lifelong commitment. she put duty above all else. she loved her younger sister, but she couldn t give her permission to marry someone who was divorced. she sacked her son from the family firm. she survived extraordinary crises. princess diana has died. the issues surrounding charles and diana probably rocked the monarchy to its core like no other crisis. the future of the monarchy really hung in the balance. and she revolutionized the british monarchy. no man arcy should expect to be free from the scrutiny of those who give it their loyalty and support. she steered the world through 70 years of tumultuous change. her legacy will be the fact that we still have a monarchy. tonight a cnn special report, a queen for the ages: elizabeth ii. i have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as i would
show that ukraine will become a full-scale nato member. i think it is a case of the glass being half full. i know that president zelenskyy wanted more, and the ukrainian war wanted more out of this, and it is a strong showing for nato, and president biden and his team have done a really, really credible job of leadership, and globally, and it is an impressive achievement on bal balance. you make a very important point. nic, nato has now admitted finland, and it is on track to admitting sweden to the alliance as well. finland s membership more than double the bloc s actual border with russia, and what are the global implication, because russia is not happy about this dramatic expansion of nato especially along the border. that is exactly what
i recall a feeling that none of us really knew what was happening and how best to respond to it. the british press demanded a public response from the queen. people wanted the monarch. but she felt the place she needed to be was with her grandsons. what do you think that said about her? it was an occasion where she put family before duty. family before duty. something the queen had rarely done before. it was the most dangerous week of her entire reign. i think that the future of the monarchy really hung in the bal balance. at what point did you realize you had to respond in some way? oh, i think very early on. the communications were not great. so in retrospect you d say you were doing everything right, you just weren t communicating it? no, i think we were slow in getting some of the decisions.
look at this story about strange financing he s gone through. he had a million dollars over three years from a nonprofit with no employees and seemed to be a mailbox. what the heck was going on here? it s good for the democracy no matter what side that you are on that there is now going to be a check, an investigatory check which can hold some of this in bal balance. the president s take-home test is in. his answers to robert mueller s questions here. we know that robert mueller has a number of cooperating witnesses who had direct contact with this president and witnessed his behavior, discussions, et cetera. among them his white house counsel who sat down for hours and hours and clearly had differences with the president on things, including his efforts to prosecute his enemies there, as well as rick gates and others. how concerned should the president be that robert mueller will find contradictions, find holes in the president s
tax increase in it as it has i m confused. i thought republicans were for chain cpi. are you now saying you re against it? no, what i m saying is that democrats who say you can t touch chain cpi luns you raise taxes should know that chain cpe has within it tax increases because of the indexing of the brackets. so it s a ridiculous argument. it is this balanced if you want balance the way the president wants to do it which is to have taxes and some important restraints on spending,this bal balance the way the president wants to do it which is to have taxes and some important restraints on spending, second this president has gotten plenty of tax increases i don t mean to interrupt, but i want to cover one last area. and there is one area where there were big cuts, and that is to the pentagon. defense secretary hagel says that he would shrink the army from a post- 9/11 high of 570,000 to less than 450,000 which would be the smallest army since 1940.9/11 high of 570,000 to less t