burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
as he surrenders to justice and we get our first look at his charges. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. tonight, the world is reflecting on the life and legacy of the longest reigning monarch in history, queen elizabeth ii. who died today in her home in balmoral, scotland, at the age of 96. the queen ruled over britain for 70 years, but it was not a role she was not supposed to inherit when she was born back in 1926. you see, elizabeth was the first third grandchild of king george the fifth, of the first child of his second son. she was only ten years old when her uncle, in what was at the time a remarkable turn of events, a scandal, abdicated the throne, leaving her father to take over as king. elizabeth then, first in the line of succession. she took the role and responsibility seriously from a young age, famously declaring her devotion to the duty on her 21st birthday. i declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be
colonies. as the british people grieve the only monarch most of them have ever known. she s been part of my life forever and, you know, she s not here. she s gone. and, you know, you hope, but you appreciate that, you know, her age, it was expected at some point, but when it happens it s still a shock. we begin tonight with queen elizabeth, the longest reining british monarch whose rule spanned 7 decades. she died today at the age of 96. make no mistake, it is a watershed moment. there is a new king and it s a moment intrinsically tied to this specific queen, a towering figure so profound her very name defines an age. while her death raises important questions about how or even if the monarchy will go on. it isn t just brittain s mourning or reacting, it s people all across the globe and certainly here in the u.s. our fascination over the royal family reached a fever pitch during the princess diana years and in many ways continues today. moments ago president biden and th
biden referred to president xi as a dictator. do you share that view of president xi? is he a dictator? you know, one of the reasons that i went to china at the present behest was to make sure that we had clear sustainable communication to make sure that we can work through our differences, to try to prevent the competition that we are in from veering into conflict. and also to see if we can find areas where we cooperate. one of the things that make sense to our chinese counterparts is, we are gonna say, and we re gonna do things that you don t like. you do and say things that we don t like. we are good at work through that. that is what we re doing. does that make him a dictator? the president speaks for all of us, he speaks candidly, he speaks clearly. carrie kaye has a question for you secretary. mister secretary, good morning. i just came back from week in europe and i was struck by the degree to which people were asking me about two things, one was which whether donald t
the age of 26. and just as kathy said, rarely put a foot wrong for 70 years. part of that was she knew how to carry herself in public, but part of it also is that this was a very shrewd and smart, and wise woman. okay, prime ministers from winston churchill on, very good advice to the same thing with american presidents, just as you are saying, chris. you know, beginning with harry truman, whom she met as a princess in washington. and so, she performed all these roles at the time that england had to win world war ii against great odds, survive in the cold war, dismember its empire without and still have a role in the world. and she was a popular queen through all of that, she remained relevant all the way to the end of the 70 years, as much or more than she was in 1952. and carrie, of course her rain is so long, right? that it views that the