coming up. king charles is a man with a battle on his hands. on the whole story. the institution is so unique. do you ever imagine that the monarchy would go away? good evening. welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. final preparations are under way in the united kingdom for the coronation of king charles iii and his wife camilla the queen consort. it s only been televised once, when queen elizabeth ii was crowned nearly 70 years ago. she was one of the longest serving monarchs in british history. many are questioning the role of the royal institution. erica hill traveled to london to meet with leading british scholars and those close to the royal family to et abouter understand what this moment and this man mean in a modern world. the reign begins. charles and camilla. the queen has died. very sadly. for 70 years, this country has only known a queen. king charles iii is taking over. long live the king. for centuries, london ruled as a global
rift. and so, i think it speaks extremely well of william in effect for perhaps taking a cue from his father and moving it one step further. i mean, we now have a situation where the new king is reaffirming his tradition and it is turning into a sort of new hope as sort a healing within the family. to see the four of them as they are, you are sort of reminded of what was from the very beginning, and i ve felt for the last two years that harry and meghan missed a terrible opportunity by leaving the royal family. they had so many things that they could do. and william and charles needs them more than ever. who knows. nothing is there is hurts there. and there is a lot of hurt and a lot of mutual mistrust. but, you know, one can perhaps at this moment be an optimist and think that this could be a brief celebration and healing. sally, your words are so poignant but the pictures are speaking louder than anything. we did get to see william right before he got into the car. he a
and what he was doing, as that mob descended on the capitol. let s begin with our justice correspondent. so kenzinger putting this tweet out. can you talk about the significance of what we are seeing? reporter: absolutely. it goes to the fact that the committee will hammer down on what they re calling trump s dereliction of duty. so what adam kinzinger tweeted out drills down on that and illustrates what he said earlier this week, during a large chunk of those 187 minutes, trump was gleely watching tv. so here s the clip showing multiple white house officials documenting what trump was doing. to my recollection, he was always in the dining room. what did they say during that brief encounter that you were in the dining room? i believe they were watching the tv. do you know whether he was watching tv in the dining room when you talked to him on january 6th? umm, it s my understanding he was watching television. okay. we re having a jessica snyder there. we l
joining us at the white house. we have dr. sanjay gupta joining us to break it down for us. what more do you know about the president s condition? president biden tested positive for coronavirus this morning. we re told that the president went to bed last night, largely feeling fine, but he woke up this morning having not slept very well, tested, according to the white house s routine screening procedures, that s according to the white house doctor, dr. kevin o connor, who says that the president is now experiencing mild symptoms, which include a runny nose, fatigue, and an occasional dry cough. the president s physician recommended that he begin a course of paxlovid, that antiviral that is considered the gold standard of care for coronavirus, particularly early on in the onset of the disease. and, we re told by the white house that the president has, indeed, begun that course of paxlovid. now, i also spoke separately with dr. ashish jha, the white house s coronavirus coord
moved. immediate test for the new king as the uk starts a week-long bid g g goodbye to quen elizabeth ii. plus, russia is already striking back. and now the campaign stretch. primary season ends tuesday, opening an eight-week sprint to election day. we ll break down the midterm fight for control of congress. we begin, though, in scotland. as the united kingdom opens a week long farewell to queen elizabeth and as her son takes over the monarch. members of scotland paying their final respects to the longest reigning monarch as the queen lies at rest at st. giles cathedral. this morning, the queen s body was moved to that cathedral. the crown of scotland placed on her coffin. king charles iii walking in the procession to the cathedral along with his siblings. the farewell events are meticulously choreographed as are the first glinjss of the new king at work. this morning in london, his first address to parliament as king. as i stand before you today, i cannot help but fe