through the years, as a grandmother, the queen revelled in prince william s successes, enjoyed a good joke with prince harry. as the queen s grandchildren stand in tribute, so does the public. countless mourners stand in the line to see the queen. there is no casual act of reverence on display here. the line stretches for miles across london. wait times skyrocketed 24 hours. and the weather has been cold. king charles iii and prince william recognizing the moment, surprised the public there earlier today. the new king summed up this incredible show of love telling one mourner his mother would have been so touched. as cnn s richard quest joins us from london. richard, in all your years covering all of this, have you ever seen anything like this? reporter: no. and yet it was one and the same time the event that we had prepared for and dreaded at the same time. i was saying to colleagues earlier even now, jim, i can t sort of quite believed it s happened. and i m 60. you ve al
environment right now actually may have been the trigger for something like this. juliette, i ve been wanting to talk to you about this. you addressed this false flag theory at length on twitter today. please explain why it could be a legitimate theory and how it needs to be weighed against other possibilities out there. thank you. thank you. i got into a little trouble for that. a lot of sort of right wing or others are promoting a really, really dangerous false flag theory that democrats and even the party itself planned this to make trump look bad and to incite anti-trumpism. what people need to know is the theory of the case is not known yet. so it is possible that this was a black flag or a hoax operation by someone with political sentiments that align with anti-trump sentiments. that s possible. do i think that s probable at this stage? no, i m looking at the rest of
reality that they should it be adhering to instead of the truth because trump has destroyed the foundation of trust in our country. he doesn t believe in the truth. he doesn t believe in a shared reality. so he could sit here and look you in the face and tell you well, everyone is to blame. everyone has equal share in responsibility. whether he is the prime mover when it comes to distrust in our country. and his whole enterprise has been to destroy credibility and so now no one has it. he can go to his followers and say, i am the source of information. no one else counts. listen to me and then he issues thousands upon thousands of lies. it s very cultish. incredibly. it s dangerous and scary. thank you very much. thank you, douglas, michael. i appreciate your time. can the president claim his rhetoric has nothing to do with the pipe bombs if all the targets are people he has attacked repeatedly. we re going to discuss that next. cancer.
serious moment. two predecessors having assassination attempts on them, bombs coming to hair homes and the president acts like it s not that big a deal. the media is exaggerating it. i thought he was at times through this crisis starting to track a little but there was the tweet blaming the fake news, blaming the media and trying to flip this 180. i know michael as a biographer knows that s what he does. once in awhile you keep thinking in a true crisis like this he will turn a kind of corner that he just doesn t do. i think he s maybe i always thought there was one donald trump. maybe there is. but i think he s the entertainer donald trump at rallies and i keep waiting pore this presidential trump. we see it in bits and pieces but then he reveres back to scorched earth style and representing his base not ever trying to unite the american people. you mentioned paul ryan. i watched he did mention it and
try not to hurt him. if you do, i ll defend you in court. i ve been going around lately saying the democrats are the party of crime. laughing, i d like to punch him in the face. proof that this president is a divider in chief and uses division as a weapon. so let s bring in now the former pennsylvania congressman charlie dent, scott jennings and keith boykin. they re also with us, as well. good evening, everyone. congressman dent, no one here at cnn has said that trump is responsible for these bombs but there are discussions whether the rhetoric the president uses has contributed to the tense political climate that we re living in. there is a distinction between those two thoughts. what are your thoughts? yeah, i would certainly say that the president s incendiary and inflammatory comments over the last few years have led to a degradation calf civil discourse in this country.