and gas prices are down 25% from their all-time high, raising americans hopes that inflation is easing. but will progress be derailed by a possible railroad strike here in the united states this week? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin this hour with the uk and the world saying farewell to queen elizabeth ii. the royal rituals we saw today certainly put the spotlight on scotland and on the queen s children, including her heir, the new king, charles iii. here is cnn royal correspondent max foster. reporter: the new king processing behind his mother s coffin, in lockstep with his siblings along edinburgh s cobbled royal mile. the silence only broken by royal sal salutes and gunfire, one a minute from the city s iconic castle. inside st. giles, members of the royal family and household, as well as scottish politicians and representatives of the military and scottish civil society paid
that through these ceremonies, these processes. and you see just how well it is done. it has been well rehearsed, practiced and planned. she was an old lady who they knew would dywon day and while nobody wanted that day to arrive, they have been planning what to do for potentially decades. that means that when it comes down to it, all of the people you are seeing on screen now have practiced and practiced and practiced their roles. that includes, of course, her son, king charles, who now while he is grieving in the depths of his grief for his mother s death is taking on the enormous burden she used to have being a monarch. while people think about that in fairytales as a massive privilege and life of glamour, it is also an extremely difficult job and the burden of responsibility on him is now enormous. something that boris johnson mentioned when he spoke in the house of commons in tribute to queen elizabeth about the enormous burden she undertook at such an early age. he is u
point and what it tells us about the investigations, ongoing into the former president. tonight with the context the former democrat senator and us district attorney doug jones katy balls the deputy political editor of the spectator and the republican strategist doug heye. hello welcome to the programme. it is unprecedented. never before, at least in the modern age, have federal agents searched the home of a former president. the warrant that was executed on mar a lago yesterday, while donald trump was in new york, would have required close collaboration between the fbi and the secret service guarding him, and no doubt it was signed off by the attorney general, merrick garland. but what were the agents looking for? and why the sudden urgency? what we do know, is that when donald trump left the white house last year, there were thousands of documents still in his possession, some of them classified. the washington post reported, that injanuary, 15 of those boxes were r
that was president biden, you see him there, paying tribute, laying a wreath there. john, i was covering the capitol, as i mentioned, on 9/11. joe biden was the senator from delaware and a senior member of the senate foreign relations committee. he was chair. i would watch in the days afterwards people like him and others not just try to figure out how to help the country economically but most importantly at that moment was try to get a handle on who this was, how and whether and when to rea reretaliate. that woas the biggest question. the third plane, the heroes of shanksville, that plane headed for the white house or the capitol, hit our political monuments if you will. those are the heroes. listen to a moment of silence for the second plane hitting the second tower. and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free
years. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 30th. i m jonathan lemire. live from madrid, where the nato summit is under way. we ll have more on what is happening here in just a moment, but we begin with news from washington. the january 6th committee has issued a subpoena for the testimony of trump white house counsel pat cipollone. investigators are compelling him to appear for a deposition next wednesday, july 6th. it comes after the committee s repeated request for him to testify and one day after he was featured prominently in bombshell testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. cipollone sat for an informal interview back in april but in a letter to the former white house counsel, the committee rights in part, you have declined to cooperate with us further, including by providing on the record testimony. we are left with no choice but to issue you this subpoena. the committee states, it has obtained evidence about which