different kind of friday. bill hemmer. good morning to you at home. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the breaking news yesterday and now the sadness is in motion here. the queen s death marking the end of an historic era. she began in 1952 when harry truman was president. things stand at the moment the prince is scheduled to give his first address later today as monarch. prince harry seen leaving balmoral in scotland earlier today. we believe other royals are still at the castle. dana: a service is held later today at st. paul s cathedral in london. bill: our coverage continues with team fox coverage. duncan, a former royal editor of the the sun and author of the inside story. lucas tomlinson has reaction from president biden. dana: we ll go to chief correspondent jonathan hunt live outside buckingham palace in london. wonderful to have you on our show today. you were in los angeles but have returned to your home country of london for this r
i know he would be an outrageous human being and doing what we re doing as a family, helping all these other great americans that paid the ultimate sacrifice for us. he was an outrageous human being. father of five. tremendous sacrifice. dana: how are his children? all of them have at one point or another been part of the foundation and they are all very beautiful human beings. so they are doing well. bill: we give them our best. you started the organization to help firefighters in new york. it is bigger and bigger and you helped our return soldiers from overseas and turned your attention to law enforcement. last night we had two cops gunned down in cobb county, georgia, northwest of atlanta. they have a big target on their back. if you go out to protect your country or community and you die in the line of duty and leave a young family behind we ll pay off your mortgage. your family will be taken care
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another issue. one thing that troubles me the most is that as isis gained force in iraq, our response was to, in effect, double down with maliki, to begin to provide counterterrorism assistance of a stronger kind to maliki s government. that government was so sectarian, so hated by iraq s sunni population that it was a recipe for what we ve seen. i think there s going to need to be a searching re-examination of how we got here. but i think intelligence officers have seen it coming. what is done in light of that information was inadequate. and kimberly, you spent so much time in iraq and spent so much time recovering from your wounds, you talked to a lot of the return soldiers. clearly the veterans community has to be incredibly distressed as seeing the unraveling of this country. it s painful. i ve heard from a lot of both