longest running monarch in british history and the second longest sovereign in world history behind louis the 14th of france. today, king charles the third was formally declared as monarch, hours before buckingham palace announced queen elizabeth state funeral will be held on monday september 19th. the ceremony at st. james s palace in london officially marks a new era in british rule. though charles automatically became king after his mother s death, he was officially announced as britain s new king in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition and colonial symbolism. and for the first time, it was broadcast live. its dedication and its devotion. in taking up these prp responsibilities, i shall strive to follow the ex inspiring example i have been set in upholding constitutional government and to see the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of the silence. the kings official coronation has not yet been scheduled but will likely occur in the next few months. crowds
the prime minister has been replacing those members of his cabinet, who have either resigned or have been fired or shifted into other positions. that is a work in progress. a big work in progress for the prime minister, because so many of his senior officials have stepped down in the past 24, 36 hours, but that precise understanding of how the party will handle this moment is yet to be made clear. and if the prime minister, again, as he did yesterday, appears to want to dig in and refuse to go and wants to hold on, on his terms, until the fall, that could bring an addition to this already historic level of chaos that is surrounding this transition, absolutely huge. historic, without precedent, boris johnson had more people resign from his cabinet and senior positions in 24 hours than any other prime minister has had during history. these are monumental moments and monumental hours and minutes we re waiting for right now. bianca, what is the argument for boris johnson to sti
but there is more good news on gas prices. we begin with a court showdown over whether we should get to see over how the fbi secured its search warrant for mar-a-lago. next hour, lawyers for the justice department and several media organizations will argue inside a federal courtroom in florida. at issue, whether the affidavit, the doj filed to support the application for that unprecedented warrant should be made public or whether it should stay secret. the document contains sensitive details known only to the government, including the identity of witnesses who cooperated with federal investigators. the justice department argues making those details public would hand deliver its investigative road map to team trump, and perhaps threaten the safety of those witnesses. let s begin with jessica. the justice department says keep it public. we ll see if the judge agrees. keep it private, excuse me. reporter: that s right. we ll see how the judge sides with this when the hearing s
prepares to reconvene for its seventh hearing into the attack on the capitol today. focusing on the extremist groups that led the attack. how the committee plans to tie the far right militias to the trump white house. boy, mika, as we look at the united states capitol, which, of course so beautiful. was besieged by terrorists on january 6th. if you call people who try to take something over and brutalize cops and try to destroy american democracy terrorists, i guess it s all a definitional thing. you re really starting to see the impact of these investigations, not just the january 6th investigation, but we re going to be talking this morning about what s going on in georgia. lindsey graham has tried to escape a subpoena because the secretary of state in georgia said they re republicans. secretary of state said his fellow republican lindsey graham called and tried to get him to throw out legal ballots. graham is trying to get out of that. of course he wants to esc
struggling to answer questions about the president s new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting both from the left and the right. this hour we ll break down the plan s benefits and the backlash. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight, the justice department is up against a new deadline, under orders to release a redacted version of the mar-a-lago search affidavit within the next 18 hours. let s go right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. judge bruce reinhart did not take long to decide on unceiling the document after receiving the justice department s redactions today. he didn t. the judge moving very swiftly. less than four hours after the doj submitted its proposed redactions, the judge agreed to what they were recommending here. the doj has likely been working on this for the past week since the judge ruled they