♪ just after 8 in the morning in the united states, it is 1:00 p.m. here in london. i'm don lemon. thanks so much for joining us. we're following the pomp and pageantry in the united kingdom as king charles iii is officially proclaimed the new king of england and head of the commonwealth. a second proclamation of king charles has been read out from the royal exchange. it's all part of a shift in power in the united kingdom, the end of one reign and the beginning of the next. >> the prince charles philip arthur george is now by the death of our late sovereign of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful liege lord, charles iii. by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, and of his other realms and territories, king, head of the commonwealth,

defender of the faith. >> the proclamation being read out was signed by members of the privy council, including prince william, the new prince of wales, and camilla, the queen consort. now looking on where british prime minister liz truss as well as a former prime ministers including boris johnson, theresa may, david cameron and tony blare. afterward, the king addressed the council paying tribute to the late queen. >> my mother's reign was unequalled in its duration, its dedication and its devotion. even as we grieve, we give thanks for this most faithful life and in carrying out the heavy task that has been laid upon me and to which i now dedicate what remains to me of my life. i pray for the guidance and help of almighty god.

>> i want to bring in now max foster and cnn contributor kate williams. hello once again. good morning, kate. >> good morning. >> i should say good afternoon now here. this is history playing out. and we have been sitting here watching it. the world has been watching it. but it's also a moment of transition for the monarchy and the people of the commonwealth. >> so the accession council goes back to the very early days of monarchy, more than 1,000 years. and it's never -- the public has never been allowed in. so that was what was truly historic just then. we had tv cameras in that moment. we should have never seen before. a glimpse into the heart really of the british establishment. so an amazing moment. and it seemed very dry, but it's solemn and today is charles' day. people would have noticed that the flags that were at half-staffed after the queen's death have been raised to full staff and they will remain there until tomorrow because today isn't about looking back on the previous monarchy, it's looking

ahead to the king's monarchy. and that will keep flitting until we build up to the ultimate day of remembering the queen which will be the state funeral. >> speaking of looking forward, people say new technology, new money, is this new monarchy? >> this is a new monarchy, me as a historian, watching this cataclysmic, huge transition of power and studying the queen's accession council, she wouldn't be there, she was still coming back from kenya and her speech and charles' speech, her speech -- his speech was so significance to her's but his broadcast all other the world, the cameras in there and so much was traditional, being announced as it always has been from saint james palace and the royal exchange. this shows the mix of old and new that charles i think wishes to embody both traditional and also really being a new media monarch. this is in the digital age. >> does this offer the monarchy and the people of the

commonwealth a sort of push, an opportunity to move into the future? >> yes, i think this is the future. and i think the commonwealth is charles' biggest question as we move forward into the future, commonwealth will fragment and change. for charles, his key john is overseeing that in his monarchy. >> he said this is the future. talk more about that. >> charles' future, i think the commonwealth i think that countries like barbados, left, no longer have the head of state last year, other countries talked about this, jamaica, australia, ante gau belize will no longer have the monarchy at the head. it was the guiding light for the queen. that was post empire, many young people, many in the commonwealth, they do people that parts of the commonwealth were founded in the oppression, exploitation of empire and other

countries in britain they wish to alie to. overseeing that change will be charles' most significant job as monarch. >> what do you think the overall sentiment is? and it could be both, right? is it optimism or is it uncertainty among the people? >> i think in the uk, the monarchy is still incredibly strong. overriding sadness about the queen. that will take a very long time to get used to when she's not there when we need her. wait and see in relation to king charles. but so far the speech was pretty good, wasn't it? so far he seems to be modernizing in a subtle way and he seems to have got approval. getting cheers from crowds. how else do we measure it? kate's point about the commonwealth and particularly the realms is really important. i've traveled with him to the caribbean, all the royals. and the challenge they've got is that they can't apologize for the role that britain undoubtedly had, the slave

trade, because it has to be the government because they have to pay the reparations, but they can respond. when you're in these countries and people talk about racism, they become a touch stone and don't respond to it but they can't respond to it. as i spoke to you in rwanda he expressed sorrow for britain's role in the slave trade, prince charles as he was then, it frustrated people they wanted him to say sorry and he wouldn't. they've got to find some way, haven't they, of not taking all of the anxiety around the slave trade -- not consuming it all themselves because, well, that's their challenge. i won't say whatever way it goes. nothing to do with my views. if they can't address this link that's been created between the british monarchy and slave trade and therefore racism, i think that's hard. >> yes. >> respond to this, but where is

this on their priority list? he says this is one of their challenges. where is this on the list of challenges and priorities? >> i think this has to be very high on the priority list. they were seen as colonial. it will be a key question on their list. of course, the governor generals were invited to today's meeting. they will be having conversations with charles over the next few days. we're expecting to meet the prime minister today and other members of cabinet but he will be talking to representatives in the other realms. this will be a really high point on the agenda such as prime minister andrew holmes of jamaica. this is what they're going to be talking about and will mean a lot. i think when you think of the queen's state visit to the public of ireland in 2011, she talked about things that should have been done differently and things that shouldn't be done at all in terms of the troubles in northern ireland the actions of british army, those are the kind of things they will have -- beginning to say as we move forward. charles has many challenges on his plate.

britain is a country full of challenges, pomp, circumstance, magnificent today but there also is today, as he said in his own speech, a heavy task on his shoulders. >> go with me this moment. you see me looking over my shoulders here. the procession of people almost to a person -- i shouldn't say to a person, many of them carrying flowers and talk to me about what is going on here. >> these are people trying to do what they can to express -- >> it's a massive line. >> it's just instinctive thing, you buy flowers and come down here and lay them. i think so what's happened in the past the flowers have gathered there and built out and out and out. they want to avoid that this time because it's a health and safety issue. they're placing them in a flower garden in green park. that will be quite a spectacular scene. >> i walk by that as i enter everyday. it's growing and growing and growing. pretty soon they're going to have to move from there or find

another place. >> i never forget the flowers outside kensington palace when princess diana died. there was this eerie silence. when we get to the point where it's a sea of flowers, that will become the focal point actually. >> live pictures now of lawmakers, uk lawmakers, squaring their allegiance to the king now. talk to me about this, max. take us behind the scenes here. >> so, when you -- the queen is an element of parliament. the commons, the lords and the queen. you have to swear allegiance to the crown in order to be able to sit in the house of commons. they have all committed oaths, the queen. they now have to recommit to the king, is that right, kate? >> yes, that's right. the king and queen's role is so crucial in parliament. you were talking whether we have too much pomp in britain. parliament is the key place. we always remember when the queen opens the parliament, some

mps -- an mp has to come to buckingham palace, charles i, got on the wrong side of the bankers, when charles i tried to take mps prisoners, he fell out so badly with parliament and lost his head. you have to keep on the right side of the mps. >> i want to listen to one of these. each is read something and raise their right hand and have to res recite it. can we listen in? >> according to law, so help me god. >> i swear by -- >> so each member must do this,

raise their right hand and say this short pledge? this short oath? >> yes, that's correct. each one must do this. we saw some of the major politicians, for example, the deputy leader of the opposition and also the first minister of wales and the prime minister this morning signing the proclamation. they are now vowing their allegiance to the king because the king is politically neutral. the king stays out of parliament. the king is not allowed -- only in the state opening can the king go into parliament. but it's very important, his role. he is the head of our constitution, the politically neutral head. and they swear allegiance to the king in a way of swearing allegiance to the country, to their role as representatives. >> does this happen in ore parts of the commonwealth or just here? >> in the realms they do the same. and famously just a few months ago australian mp refused to swear an oath to the queen. but they will have to do this in every parliament in 15 countries. >> we have a growing amount of

mps in various countries who say we're not going to swear. reasons we were just discussing questions about colonialism, the suffering of indigenous peoples particularly these matters are coming up again and again when it comes swearing allegiance to the monarch. >> it's very important, that's why i said, where is this on the list? you said it's a challenge. where is it on the priority list? >> it's glacial as everything is with monarchy. they got to the point now where i think they're going to -- if i was a member of the royal fam lirks i would think twice about doing a royal tour to the caribbean and parts of africa because every republican group in those places or camps, reparation campaign has basically come at it. it's so sensitive, the thing about the caribbean, when kate and william got in such trouble in jamaica is that they were asked by the jamaican government to recreate a moment which was from the 1950s the queen on the

back of the land rover. and he was in -- they did it. william was in full military uniform, the back of a land rover, going past a group of people of color. and this optics of it were just horrendous. and you know, they had thought about it, but he came back and he said he will reflect on everything that happened on that tour because it does hurt people to see that when they immediately relate it to the empire and the horrific things that happened. and you know, much of the -- not much of the wealth -- >> yes, a lot of the wealth. >> wealth was built on that. >> you think the queen when she came to the throne in kenya, what a fantastic moment but kenya was fighting hard for independence, a bloody battle between the british army and the kenyan freedom fighters in the 1963, well into the queen's reign. these questions are at the forefront of a lot of minds. the prime minister of jamaica andrew holmes gave a beautiful tribute to the queen talking how we comfort brothers and sisters

across the commonwealth. he really did see her service but that doesn't mean that very quickly he won't be saying i do think jamaica should be republic and it's quite complicated in a lot of countries. constitutionally complicated but i think we agree, max, but the public desire, the public and political will is there to make this change. >> max, kate, thank you. the optics of a royal tour, they have to rethink royal tours how they are carried out. >> we'll continue these conversations. thank you very much, max. thank you, kate. >> president biden's plan to attend the funeral. we'll talk about that, what it could mean for former presidents. our special coverage continues.

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no announcement has been made yet when the queen's funeral will be held, but many of the world's leaders are expected to attend, including the president of the united states, joe biden. cnn's white house reporter, jasmine wright, live for us this morning with president biden in wilmington, delaware. she joins us now. jasmine, what's the very latest. good morning to you, by the way. >> reporter: good morning, don. well, president biden answered a resounding yes when he was asked whether or not he would be attending the funeral. so he said he did not have any of the details. there's no surprise there that the president would say he's going without an official invitation going out or at least word of it because of all of the praise he has been heaping on to the queen after her passing. now, we know that biden said on friday he had not yet spoken to king charles, but as of friday, preparations or initial preparations were under way at the white house to make sure that the president would make it to london for that funeral. but when it comes to the specific invites, that gets a

little tricky. now, former presidents are not expected to receive their individual invitations, according to sources, instead how it will go, the white house itself will get one invitation. now, of course, president biden could choose to bring along his own delegation as we know the queen, throughout her time in her reign, she met with a lot of presidents, especially those recent presidents, president biden, former president trump, obama, the list goes on and on. white house officials caution that no decisions have been made, though initial discussions are happening, no decision will be made until a formal invite is received from the palace, don. >> jasmine, thank you very much. i appreciate that. i want to bring in some of our other guests now, jack reussen, co-host of "the royals podcast" as well as our british broadcaster and journalist. good to see both of you. thank you very much.

jack, pomp and circumstance i should say playing out, but this is real tradition. this is important to the people of the commonwealth. >> yes, absolutely. yeah, it's very important to the people of the commonwealth. like you say, you got joe biden coming to the funeral. he's a figure who met the queen twice in quick succession in 2021. and you know, u.s. president is hugely important for british people, they're important for the queen. she met every one except for lbj. and we have had serious moments, we had amusing moments. she had a moment with george bush senior where she came to give a speech at the white house and the microphone was stood too high. so people couldn't see her face when she was on screen. we also had some really disarming moments when michelle obama, obviously hugged the queen, which obviously technically on paper is a breach, but the queen hugged her back, which showed the enormous

warmth between the two women. >> the queen didn't mind. >> she did not. >> people get so caught up on the tradition and this isn't supposed to happen, and what do you call them, don't say king of england, stop it. he is the king of england. but people shorthand everything. you say the prince of wales even though he has other titles. it is what it is. everyone gets so caught up. we're moving into the future when it comes to the monarchy now. and the days of old where people get so caught up in the exact titles or the way things were. this monarchy, this particular reign and regime, they want to move into the future? >> i think that's absolutely clear. and you're completely right. charles knows he's king. >> right. >> we know that he's king. we're never going to make a mistake about that. in fact, in his speech, he made it very clear that we were at a mid point except the mid point was thousands of years of history, but let's say the last

70 years. he was honoring his mother. we now need to look forward to the next 70 years. tradition is exactly what you make it. you can tweak it. you have to move with the times. in fact, the lesson that the queen has to teach king charles is you can start off completely green like a newby and make it your mission to be reactive to the times. you move and you change and your learn and your values when you're 21 are not the same of your values when you're 40, 50, 60. you greatly gain in wisdom and have a sense of being part of a long line of history. king charles knows that. he's promising us that this institution, which has been so criticized in many ways and scrutinized by everyone all the time will not be stuck in the past. >> it says a lot about old thinking and new thinking. young folks, right, what's their relationship to the monarchy now? who wants to take that one on? >> so young people in britain

have historically very recently had a more divided view of the monarchy than historically, going back many years. monarchy hugely popular across a huge wide section of british society. the time after oprah this changed and the youngest generation, gen-g became slightly more divided. some polling had very much in favor of abolishing the monarchy. what will happen around the public mourning around the queen passing away, you'll probably see even among the younger generation people start to rally around the monarchy again and see whether a new view emerges of king charles and see about some of those opinions may be soften a little bit in the months to come. >> that will be whether abolish the monarchy or whatever it is, that is dependent how they handle this moment? >> i think that's true but i don't think that's a red hot touch point. in fact, i was just listening i was thinking that king charles is quite the zillenial. he cares about the environment.

he cares about town planning. he's been talking for years about social mobility and inequality. prince's trust is a pioneering organization which reaches out to disadvantaged youth in a very constructive way without patronizing that's very hard to do if you're as rich and famous as prince now king charles. he's very on board with the 21st century program, all about greener and less meaner future. >> but how does one do that when, you know, as everyone i have been speaking to, all of the experts, say the king is not supposed to be political at all. they consider some of the issues that he has been fighting for, an advocate for political. >> being inappropriately hot when it's winter affects us all whether we're left, right or center or however we vote. i think a lot of the king's interests are really not political. i think they're social. they're to do with inequality,

they're to do with justice, they're to do with how can we raise up the maximum number of people. i don't think poverty is that political -- party political afterall. of course he shouldn't meddle in parliament although i love the idea that one day he just pop up on the youtube channel and say i totally disagree with liz truss. but i don't think he's going to do that. talking about the environment, talking about poverty, these are things we should all be concerned about. >> yeah. the government is going to have to tackle climate change. britain has to tackle climate change. if there's a desire on the part of the prime minister for him to make an intervention, then that creates a pathway through which he can do that and have that shield. there's been times when the queen did that. david cameron asked her to make rep ren dumb. you know, if there is a political will for him to help a government effort to tackle

climate change, that gives him a pathway for doing it. >> is there any indication in the speeches he's given so farks at least the one speech he gave and we heard him talking sort of the hot mic moment, nothing negative, this is a day he dread. an indication of how he's going to do this? >> so he's probably dampened expectations that he will make any kind of political intervention. he's sort of said that he would have to be less passionate about the issues he cares about. also i think he back in 2018 he promised he wouldn't be a, quote, meddling king. i'm not that stupid. so, i think he has been preparing for this moment and to give this caveat for a long time. he wasn't going to not give it now. but if the government want help climate change and an issue he's passionate about, i find it hard to believe he won't. >> he's passionately concerned about unity and will do whatever it takes to get us over this

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tell us more about the reaction you're hearing. hello to you. >> well, don, the prime minister that you mentioned there led australian in two days of solemn remembrance for queen elizabeth ii who, of course, served this country as head of state for seven decades. we've been watching the proclamation ceremony there for king charles iii. australia will have its own version of that tomorrow morning when king charles will officially become head of state here in australia. that's not without its controversies. there's a growing republican movement here in australia which believes that an australian should hold that role as head of state. it's an issue that queen elizabeth ii had to deal with in 1999 there was a referendum asking australians this question and overwhelmingly they voted to keep the queen as the head of state. but it's an issue that king charles iii will have to deal with throughout his reign. for now, though, don, there is a solemn feeling here in australia

as people remember the life of service that queen elizabeth gave them. don? >> all right, thank you very much for that, angus. we appreciate it. i want to toss it back now to my colleagues boris and amara. what a morning it has been here in london watching all of the pomp, the circumstance, the pageantry but also the exchange of power. the peaceful exchange of power. and with the circumstances and things they really need to do to move from one reign to another here. it has been an educational process and one that's been very interesting to watch. and also very important is that there are thousands of folks who are behind me who have been waiting for hours and hours and hours just to get a glimpse of the new king and the queen consort. and they certainly got to do that this morning. there's much more to come throughout the day. of course as you guys know in the coming days as well.

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utilities are primarily hardening the grid through increasing the amount of storage that you have. batteries are being installed. several thousand megawatts of batteries are being installed. and the importance there is that you actually have a lot of install capacity during the day. if you'll notice, those urging people to conserve energy occurs from 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon to 9:00 p.m. at night. and when you get towards sunset, the solar energy systems don't produce as much. and you have to have other systems throttle up. if you can store energy during the daylight hours where there's plenty of capacity and shift that battery storage to the evening, that's what really has to be done. so the hardening of the grid is taking place both in terms of the wire side of it and the storage side of it. it just takes time to install that capacity. >> so, and how much time -- and i ask this because we know that

california has really been on the forefront of climate policies, including one that would include the banning of new cars that are gas powered by 2023. but if you don't have an electric grid that can hold up at this point, you know, how -- do you think california is being too ambitious, too quickly? >> no. i actually think it's being -- it's doing the right thing. look, just makes sense to be able to produce electricity or upping the transportation systems without throwing emissions into the air. and i think they've mapped this out pretty good. will hope to be at 100% carbon free energy by 2045. so there's a fair amount of time to get this done. but truth is, we already have i think half the lek tris cars in the country are now in california. so grid primarily is holding up really well. you get these long contracted

heat waves, they have been once or twice a year, it's been a pretty cool summer up until recently, you have to deal with that. so the emergency part of it is urging people to take voluntarily measures to lower their energy use. the engineering part of it is to be able to increase the system's capacity to take that solar energy in particular, that's generated during the daylight hours, and store it so you can use it when you need it 4 to 8 or 4 to 9 p.m. so i think the state is doing a remarkable job. now, look, there will be bumps in the road along the way. nothing is perfect. this doesn't -- you can't expect perfection here. but, i think the state embarked on the right policy. i do think you have to be very clear headed about the resources you add in the near term. you'll notice that california has passed legislation to keep diablo canyon, the only

remaining nuclear plant online for extended at least five years. that gives 2,200 megawatts and some resources that it can use. so i think everyone is working very hard to keep this grid stable and to improve it in the future. and i'm confident that we can do this. >> you think it's an unnecessary evil at least in the short term. >> i hate to say necessary evil. i just think it's -- look, california has embarked on an ambitious new policy that no one else in the world has done. and it's done it fairly well. we had this policy in progress for about ten years. and with rare exception it's operated pretty smoothly. there are issues. there will be issues. you have to address them with all the engineering talent that you have. and we're doing that. look, everybody has criticisms of the system at one time. but what's disturbing to me, to be candid, and i see this all

over the country, as soon as you get a glitch in the system, people automatically start to blame renewables. that's not the problem. it's not the renewables that are the problem. california renewables work extraordinarily well. it's the cheapest resource we have, by the way. and i think that the future is -- we're embarking on the right path. >> it's just before 3:00 a.m. in kona, hawaii. we appreciate you staying up with us. bob foster, thanks for the conversation. we'll be right back. >> thank you. the right relationship with a bank who understands your induststry, as welell as the local markets where you do business, can help lay a solid foundation for the futurure. pnc provides thehe resources of one of the nation's largest banks and local leaders with a focus on customized insights to help your business achieve its goals. that's how we make a difference. ♪

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♪ >> a fanfare of trumpeters king charles iii is formally proclaimed britain's new monarch. i'm michael smerconish with cnn's continuing special coverage of the death of queen elizabeth. this hour the new king is expected to hold audiences at buckingham palace. we'll go straight to that when it happens