5 a.m. in new york. we heard one of the most detailed and stunning despigot shuns of the royal institution in generations. harry and meghan recounting in stunning detail what led to their departure. racist and sexist coverage in the tabloids pushed her to a place she never imagined. >> i just didn't want to be alive anymore and that was a very clear and real and frighten ing constant thought. i went to the institution and i said that i needed to go somewhere to get help, said that i've never felt this way before and i need to go somewhere and i was told that i couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution. there are so many people who are afraid to voice that they need help and i know personally how hard it is to not just voice it but when you voice it to be told no. >> just incredible. cnn's than stewart is live in london. anna, we will get to all of the reaction in a second, but there was just so much in this interview. it takes a lot to keep me up until 10 p.m. you couldn't turn away. i thought one of the most remarkable moments in that interview was this whole discussion of archie's skin tone. >> reporter: it was utterly shocking. in addition to the -- that terrible moment meagan said she felt suicidal at times, there was the issue of race. we expected racism to be a topic, institutional racism in the u.k., the racist undertones in the british betrayal of meghan. we weren't discussing that discussions would take place between prince harry and his family with concerns of the color of their child's skin. take a listen. >> in those months when i was pregnant all around this same time, so we have in tandem the conversation of he won't be given security, he's not going to be given a title, and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born. >> what? >> and -- >> who -- who is having that conversation with you? what? there's a conversation with you -- >> with harry. >> about how dark your baby is going to be? >> potentially and what that would mean or look like. >> and you're not going to tell me who had the conversation? >> i think that would be very damaging to them. >> reporter: no name given and prince harry when he was asked about it said that's a conversation i am never going to share. some really serious allegations made here against the palace. usually of course it's a no comment policy. i think they might have to break that one today. >> prince harry made some not so subtle references to his mother, diana. listen. >> what i was seeing was history repeating itself. perhaps definitely far more dangerous because you add race in, you add social media in. when i'm talking about history repeating itself, i'm talking about my mother. when you can see something happening in the same kind of way, anybody would ask for help, ask the system of which you are part of, especially when you know there's a relationship there that they could help, share some truth on, call the dogs off, whatever you want to call it. >> anna, as we talked about how his mother left him an inheritance, it's almost as if she saw this coming. they had this flexibility like she could see her son living outside the institution potentially. >> there were just so many parallels really to be drawn between princess diana and meghan, not the least an outsider joining the royal firm hoping for a fairy tale ending and getting anything but. what's so difference, they were both unsupported by the royal family. in meghan's case, she's vilified by the press. in this interview harry suggests that's down to racism. if you think the media in the u.k. would be more sympathetic. in some outlets they would have been. one of the tv anchors, piers morgan, good morning brittain, has been slamming the sussex's. let's be clear, prince harry and his wife spent two hours trashing everything the queen stands for. they did it while her 99-year-old husband phillip is in hospital. it's contemptible. this is what many britts are waking up to. it may have been broadcast in the u.s. but it doesn't broadcast here until tonight. >> they will be in for it because i heard a very different interview than the one that piers morgan apparently did. they were very clear to defend the queen and they were very clear about how supportive she has been. they were silent on some other members of the institution and the firm. anna, before we let you go, there had been this perception that harry and meghan had blindsided the royal family but harry says otherwise. listen to this. >> when we were in canada i had three conversations with my grandmother and two conversations with my father before he stopped taking my calls and then said can you put this all in writing what your plan is. >> so you just said that your dad stopped taking your calls. why did he stop taking your calls? >> because i took matters -- by that point i took matters into my own hands. it was like, i need to do this to my own family. it's not a surprise to anybody. it's really sad it's gotten to this point but i have to do something, for my own mental health, for my wife's and for archie's as well because i could see where this was headed. >> his father stopped taking his calls. there were so many stunning moments. that was another one. is the british public in harry's corner on this or do they see them as almost turning on his homeland, anna? >> reporter: well, it will be really interesting to see throughout the day what the reaction is. it's still only 10:00 in the morning in the u. k. they haven't watched the interview. up to this point it is polarizing. opinion is split. it depends depending on what you watch and where you fall. having watched this, i don't think anyone can argue about what has been said. serious allegations. they have put the world right on so many narratives that have been widely shared, whether it was something as simple as did meghan make the duchess of cambridge cry before the wedding. meghan says it was the other way around. the big issue, they didn't want to, they wanted to step back as senior working members of the royal family. they said they would still be there if they had only received the support from the family and the firm. >> there is a queen in the united states and her name is oprah winfrey. that interview is well done. she is the one with the regal status. anna stewart, so nice to see you. great interview, folks. i mean, really something there. legacy building legislation. the senate passed its version of president biden's american rescue plan over the weekend with money going directly to poor families. a critical and historic story to eradicate child poverty, that's in here. that credit will give parents with children under the age of 6, $3600 per child each year and 3,000 per child under the age of 18. key direct payments. it's a guaranteed income for poor families with children. only a year here. there's hope among democrats that they could get this moving on a more permanent basis. democrats 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departure as working royals. meagan said racist and sexist coverage in the u.k. tabloids and a lack of support pushed her to a place she never imagined. >> i just didn't want to be alive anymore and that was a very clear and real and frightening constant thought. i went to the institution and i said that i needed to go somewhere to get help, that i had never felt this way before and i need to go somewhere and i was told that i couldn't, that it wouldn't be good for the institution. >> there are so many people who are afraid to voice that they need help and i know personally how hard it is to not just voice it but when you voice it to be told no. >> cnn's anna stewart live for us in london this morning. and just, wow, anna. you know, one of the most remarkable moments was how the discussion of how dark archie's skin color may be. that was quite a bombshell. harry had a very honest take on their interracial marriage. listen to him. >> this and the specifics around her race, it was an opportunity, many opportunities, for my family to show some public support and i guess one of the most telling parts and the saddest parts i guess was over 70 members of parliament, female members of parliament, both conservative and labor came out and called out the colonial undertones yet no one from my family ever said anything over those three years. that hurts. but i also am acutely aware of where my family stand and how scared they are of the tabloids turning on them. >> anna, honestly here in the united states a riveting two hours of television. it will air in the u.k. later today. tonight really. how is it all going over in the u.k.? i know the papers are full of the coverage even though it hasn't aired there yet. >> reporter: exactly. they're dominated by this interview. the key headlines meghan saying she felt suicidal. that she asked for help from the palace and didn't get any and this bizarre consideraversation the color of their son's skin. one member of the royal family where they expressed concerns about how dark the color of their child's skin would be. absolutely extraordinary. now i can show you some of the newspapers. we have lots of editions through the night. this is from 1 a.m. this is published before the interview. they've called it mexile as the headline. it was very much like the megxit headlines. it was all put on to meghan. from that headline you can see not a lot has changed except the latest editions. they are a little bit more fair, a little bit. for one day perhaps only. >> the difference is now we get to hear her side of it. whereas, before she said she was silenced. we didn't get to hear herself defending. her and kate middleton widely reported at this time, this whole issue of making somebody cry. meghan tells a very different story. a broader point was just the double standard. i sort of forgot all the different ways meghan had been vilified where kate had been praised. listen to this. >> do you think there was a standard for kate in general and a separate one for you? if so, why? >> i don't know why. i can see now what layers at play there and, again, they really seemed to want a narrative of a hero and a villain. >> the biggest thing she seemed to say was just the lack of support she received and how they know how to push back when they want to. when they come after kate and the family, the firm does push back. for her, they didn't. >> reporter: that was what we got out of it in one of the teaser clips. she said she felt the firm had played an active role in perpetuating falsehood. once the press puts out a story that wasn't correct, they didn't correct them. they have a no comment policy. that has been so damaging. they have absolutely turned some of the stories on their head. this idea that meghan mate kate, the duchess of cambridge cry, meghan said, it was the exact opposite. we'll go to the palace to get some comment. i hope we get some. >> some daily mail headlines show you the hypocrisy