we re right outside the gates of buckingham palace. just up there, they ve already been swung open. the crowd s been pushed back a little bit. as clarissa was saying, we re waiting for the hearse here, the coffin of elizabeth ii to come through. i ve been here for six or seven hours and the crowd was already here. they ve been waiting here patiently in the pouring rain out of respect for the queen, but also out of a sense of historical moments as well. people are very conscious that this is a moment in history that they are able to witness so they re out here standing up very patiently filming, trying to capture that moment. now when the casket, when the hearse goes through these gates for the last time, in fact, in the duration of buckingham palace, it will be met by king charles iii, by his queen, queen camila, queen consort. it will be taken. we saw 50 or 60 palace guards marching in there as well. they ll obviously be playing a role in welcoming the casket to buckingham p
what trump s innermost circle thought of his election fraud lies. detached from reality was the polite way of putting. president biden wrapping up a speech in philadelphia to the aflcio convention. the president s argument, times are tough, but he should be trusted to get us through the economic pain. and the president got political saying a republican wave in november would bring a renewed attack on two sources of security. the president says republicans would put programs like medicare and social security at risk. our cnn white house correspondent is traveling with the president in philadelphia. john, the president was relaxed because he was among friends. talked about the economics, but he also talked politics. he did. look, this was a president, john, who was reveling in the applause of his friends in the union movement. he s always said from the beginning of his presidential campaign that he s a union guy. so he talked about the positive aspects of his economic record.
my congressional republican friends led by rick scott have a different approach. he s actually introduced a plan he wants to raise taxes on working families by an average of $1,500 a year, put medicare and social security, medicaid excuse me, social security and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. in other words, every five years they re going to no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with anyone, democrat, republican, independent, to deliver real solutions and real savings for the american people, not take money out of their pockets. now the other other element i d like to address that has impacts on inflation is to lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families is because reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends on the republican side like to paint me as the big spender. but let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor, th
ahead of one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. national average price for gallon of gas is $4.57 now. that s up 5 cents from yesterday. 17 cents from one week ago. and the national shortage of baby formula causing a pair of hospitalizations in this country. the biden administration is defending its policies as criticisms pile up and they re promising more action. in fact, we are getting breaking news at this hour that the administration is going to deploy the defense production act on baby formula. just getting word about this at this hour. correspondent mark meredith is at the white house on the north lawn with the very latest. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. this is the breaking news at this hour that biden is invoking the defense production act which will allow these ingredients that go into baby formula to be prioritized to formula makers the idea is to make sure that the factories that produce baby formula have what they need as quickly as possi
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