my name is antonio and i m a technician at comcast. we re working to make things simple, easy and awesome. . a new biook by a former trup administration staff nem describes the white house as out of control. he describes what happened when then speaker of the house paul ryan criticized president trump s handling of the white supremacist rally. the book claims trumped watched on television, increasingly angry and called for trump to get ryan on the phone.
that, a, you do have the president of the united states coming out on national tv and saying, i would take a lie detector test. so that s newsworthy, a. and b, the fact that you have the president calling on the ag to investigate. yeah, i think that s right. it s the president s own public response both to the biook and o the anonymous letter that have fueled so much of the continuing controversy over it. but i think what you saw with this white house briefing was a real effort by the white house, a fairly skillful effort at that to try to get the narrative back on track about the things that some people in the white house think they should be talking about. the economy, of course. you have hassett, the economic adviser out there. he s sort of maybe the right anecdote for the drama. mild-mannered, apologetic about getting some wrong statistics out, actually thanking journalists for correcting the white house, saying they want to get the right information out. and then this effo
balcony. let s get right to cnn s richard quest, live at buckingham palace for us this morning. richard quest, good morning, how has it gone? reporter: good morning to you. it is an overcast but still dry morning. welcome. i m actually up the road from the palace in trafalgar square, where i think you might be able to see there are several hundred people watching what s happening on big screens. the reason we re in tra it ffal square, throughout the day, the queen is literally commuting through the square, backwards and forwards, palace, manchester house, down to westminster for the lunch, and then later this afternoon, soledad, up whitehall and back home to the palace for that royal wave. on the balcony, only six or seven of them. they re limiting the number of people that had be on the balcony. just the queen, the immediate line of succession, charles, camilla, william, catherine and harry. so, up next from the calendar that i ve read, the queen has left st. paul s wher