we just observed the minute of silence, marked at the beginning by big ben. the final day the queen is lying in state there at the state funeral. that will be tomorrow, with state leaders and dignitaries from around the world attending the funeral there. after ten days, of course, of mourning. we want to bring in nbc s former editor, tim york. both in london for us. and lindsey, let me start with you, as we just marked that moment, that minute of silence for the queen there. talk to me about what we heard from america s president, president biden, paying his respects earlier today ahead of the state funeral tomorrow. before we get to that, i saw somebody walking along the queue here, filing behind us. reminding people, the moment of silence at 8:00 local time, to make sure everybody did pay their respects. and actually, a muffler is being used with big ben, to create a quieter tone. you have mentioned, president biden and the first lady are visiting and paying their respect
banned more shun. and also policing sexuality so you always have another perennial strongman target is gay people. and it s very reliable throughout the whole century and it s no accident that the gop is driving off to budapest, and that mike pence attended this pro demographic summit of war in hungary. there he said openly, he abortion rights would be appealed and so it goes with the re-modeling of the population to have we only want certain kinds of things. and so, all of this if you study the history of these things and how they link together, how propaganda links to the social policies, you see that it s all related. there s a particular allotting thing that surprised many of us, with the texas ban which other states are trying to emulate, artillery productive rights been rolled back the state has empowered citizens to help enforce that
abortion rights would be appealed and so it goes with the re-modeling of the population to have we only want certain kinds of things. and so, all of this if you study the history of these things and how they link together, how propaganda links to the social policies, you see that it s all related. there s a particular allotting thing that surprised many of us, with the texas ban which other states are trying to emulate, artillery productive rights been rolled back the state has empowered citizens to help enforce that law in a thing that feels very vigilante like, it s not just that citizens are empowered to do the work that we think law enforcement would do. but that they can target people who are not actually the participants in the activity. they can go after drivers, whoever help somebody that too has remarkable shades in authoritarian history. it does, i ve been tracking this for a long time. i m very dismayed that it s coming to task more and more because if you re trying