her reign spanned 15 british prime ministers, 14 american presidents, seven popes, the end of the soviet empire, the decline of her own and its rebirth as modern britain. the people you see there outside buckingham palace and gathering elsewhere as well, windsor castle, have been gathering since this afternoon in the rain on word that the queen in balmoral castle in scotland had been put under medical supervision. the arrival of family members underscored the gravity of the hour and the family s single-minded response to it. the image of two of the queen s sons, prince andrew and edward and prince william at the wheel altogether in the same vehicle. from a sometimes contentious but message conscious family, the message this image sent was clear. then the clouds began lifting, rainbows formed outside buckingham palace and windsor castle. they signalled hope but delivered only sadness a short time later. the news coming in a simple message behind a humble frame in keeping with
u.k. earlier in the late queen s honor. 96 rounds fired. one for each year of her life. [gunshots] harris: queen elizabeth was the longest reigning british monarch, seven decades starting in 1952 when harry s. truman was president and she met with 13 additional presidents in her lifetime including with president biden just last june. the president and other lawmakers praising her. president biden: she was an incredibly gracious and decent woman. she made sure her reign was really not about herself, or her fame, or her feelings, or her personal wants or needs. she was a rock. a living embodiment at the core of the nation she so proudly led. we will never see a leader quite like her for as long as we live. harris: jonathan hunt is live in london. jonathan, maybe you can give us a peak into what the people on the ground want to hear from their new king and what he might say to them. yeah, it is the most consequential speech that the now king charles has ever made. an
prerecorded. there will be gun salutes tomorrow. the formalitiies tomorrow. k king charles and queen camilla will be overseeing the first day of national mourning, which will continue until the funeral in just under two weeks time. so at the moment, the body will be lying in the ballroom, i imagine, and members of staff will be paying their respects, as will members of the family who will gather there, and there will be a procession to the capital of scotland tomorrow, where the queen will lie for a couple of days. that s the plan, i think. but these things are being signed off by prince charles, i think. king charles, as we speak. and then there will be the funeral in a couple of weeks, which will be an extraordinary affair, bianca. can you imagine a bigger state event, not just for the uk but almost the world considering her status on the world stage. i don t think it s possible for anyone to imagine what that s going to be like. i think, jake, picking up on your point a
capabilities seized at mar-a-lago. the washington post reports that one of the highly classified documents found in the fbi search last month described a foreign government s nuclear defenses writing, quote, some of the seized documents detailed top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security officials are kept in the dark about them. only the president some members of his cabinet or a near cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to no details of these special access prog programs holding dozens of classified documents in an unsecured location months in many cases after he was asked to return them. we know it s a higher level of sensitivity and does that level of sensitivity increase the likelihood that the doj charges, a legal standard here? more charges, higher charges? more likely to charge given sensitivity? good morning. i m glad to be with all of you. i think that is probably the case. you know? the document
plus, day three without water in jackson, mississippi. and the situation is so bad, the hospital does not have air conditioning. but one part of a temporary fix has arrived. welcome to the lead. i m cakasie hunt in for jake tapper. donald trump s legal team is on the clock. they have under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from the department of justice which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete and inaccurate narrative about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago. the d orc j went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents were moved from a storage room at the florida resort and possibly hidden in an effort to obstruct the fbi s investigation. the doj also filing included a signed letter from a trump lawyer swearing no classified documents were left at the former pred s home. that we now know was a lie. given that fbi teams seized more than 100 documents from mar-a-lago during the august search. c