At the ceremony, we will hear from current House Speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the United States house of representatives. Speaker pelosi good afternoon, everyone. As the speaker of the house, it is my official and personal honor to welcome friends of Speaker John Boehner to the u. S. Capitol on this historic day. The presence of members from both sides of the aisle, from both sides of the capital, is a testament to the respect that all have for john, mr. Speaker. We are pleased to welcome two former speakers. We anticipate speaker gingrich, who is with us, and speaker ryan. Both of them are here. [applause] welcome and extend our gratitude to debbie, lindsay, and tricia, and the entire boehner family for sharing john with this congress and with our country. It is my privilege to invite the delivery of the invocation. I am surrounded by quadrophonic speakers. [laughter] dear god [applause] [laughter] w
royal family in the procession, as well as the queen s coffin. it will be carried on a gun carriage from buckingham palace through the city to an historic hall in the palace of westminster. that is where the queen will lie in state until her funeral on monday, as more than a half million people are expected to pay their respects. this is cnn s live coverage as the people of london get close to their beloved queen and say farewell one last time. i m don lemon at buckingham palace. and i m anderson cooper in london overlooking the procession route. we ll take you every step of the way on this leg on the queen s final journey. the procession will begin at buckingham palace, as don was saying, and move down the mall to westminster with royal family members walking behind the queen s coffin. they ll pass the horse guard s parade ground, traveling on to white hall. they ll go by landmarks including number 10 downing street, parliament square, until they arrive outside westminster
Our main story in the past few minutes, theresa may has arrived at the white house to hold talks with donald trump. She is the first foreign leader to visit since mr trump became president. Here are the pictures of the Prime Minister meeting mr trump. Here are the pictures of the Prime Minister meeting mr trump. Global security and a trade deal after brexit are high on the agenda. The Prime Minister will be holding a joint Press Conference with the us president in around an hours time, at 6. 00pm this evening. In a speech to us republicans yesterday, mrs may said the uk and United States could not return to failed Military Interventions to try to remake the world. Her visit comes amid the continuing controversy over President Trumps support for waterboarding terror suspects and his war of words with mexico over the building of a border wall. Heres our correspondent richard lister. The Prime Minister began her day in the Chill Winter Sunshine of Arlington National cemetery. On the quays
Caribbean, and then he was sent to tasmania, and he had terrible asthma. Meagher was the great orator during the rebel times, mitchell was the great writer. So it was a onetwo punch. Mitchell would write in the newspaper, meagher would give speeches in front of thousands of people. They were very close. Mitchell finally comes to america as well, but he likes slavery. Something happens in him that he sees slavery as not a bad thing. He writes in his own newspaper that if you irishmen are coming to america looking for a start, get yourself a couple of slaves and come south. And so meagher and he, his other people, break with mitchell. Mitchell has three boys. Two of them were on the other side of that wall when the irish stormed marys heights. So there was not a technical irish brigade in the confederacy, but there certainly were irish who fought on the other side, including the very people who were the kids of his best friends. Also i have a scene in the book where they fight the irish
Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish. They could not pay for this. And as they rolled the barrel in the first draft in American History, the names that came out were heir began, omalley, you know, all these irish names. And so they rioted. I will not ever excuse the riot. It was the darkest point in irishAmerican History. They strung up africanamericans, they burned down buildings, they nearly destroyed new york. They would have killed mara because he stuck to the union til the very end had he not been in washington d. C. They wen