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breaking news. hello i'm alex marquardt in washington. thank you so much for joining us today. we do begin with breaking news in the donald trump hush money investigation. we're learning that the manhattan grand jury that has been hearing the case is set to take a break for up to a month and may not hear evidence again until the end of april. let's get straight to cnn's caress canal in new york, keira. this comes after the former president. he predicted that he was gonna be indicted last week. but now, if that indictment comes, it may not be for several more weeks. alex. so we're learning from a court administration source that the grand jury has a scheduled break for the holidays and that they will be breaking after april 5th. that's next wednesday and they would return later in the month of april. what is not clear is whether this grand jury which normally sits on mondays, wednesdays and thursdays, will hear evidence about the trump case before they take that break. they are off today,

according to a court sources, and they are in tomorrow, but they're not expected to hear any testimony about the trump investigation, according to those sources. important to underscore here, though, that this whole process is secretive . we're learning some details from court administration sources. but the district attorney's office can make decisions they can decide to bring in a witness. they can. decided to take the case up. if they decide they were to move forward with an indictment, they could ask the grand jury to vote. it is just not clear how quickly that decision making is going and when they might bring any evidence, whether it's additional witness testimony or a final decision before this grand jury, but we do know that there are just a few days left before they do go on this break beginning next wednesday after that session, where they are scheduled to sit, alex. alright paris canal in new york. thank you so much for all of your terrific reporting on all these many twists and turns in this case, joining me now to discuss is harry litman. he is a former u. s attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general as

well as well as laura barron lopez, the white house correspondent for pbs. laura harry. thank you so much for joining me today. harry i want to ask you first about this break that the manhattan grand jury is going to be taking. as you heard keira saying there there are several holidays coming up. what do you think that this means that this grand jury is going to taking a break for several weeks. yeah you know , i've been scratching my head somehow. alex as had others in the one day delay. two days delight. this is more like flabbergasting. and he's the big point. here is the d a s office has to have known about it has to have planned for it. so is it really just a sort of administrative little bump in the road that we've always except for some reason, we're just learning about it now. and i you're the reporting is important that i hadn't realized . apparently they could still go forward before the fifth. something is really this is a very unusual development to happen when the table is

completely set as it is for an indictment, it may turn out to be an innocent administrative solution. but i i'm find it very perplexing that they're calling, you know, stopping the line. backers right where they are. okay we did note that there are scheduled. take that break on april 5th. so there is there could be some movement before then, but but, harry, i want to stick with you and ask you about mike pence. we did just learn 24 hours ago that a federal judge ruled that he has to testify about conversations that the former vice president had with donald trump in the lead up to the january 6th investigation. we know that pence has been fighting that subpoena from the special counsel jack smith. here is pence. responding to that judge's ruling yesterday. take a listen. i am pleased that the judge recognized down constitution, speech and protection. clause applies to my work as vice president. i have nothing to hide at the end of the day will obey the law. and

uh but right now, we're evaluating what the property is right there. so, harry mike pence, saying i have nothing to hide. i have a constitution to uphold. do you take that as he won't be putting up much more of a fight over giving the grand jury this testimony. i take it as the opposite. first he's putting a nice face on it saying i'm pleased with the court really said as you have to testify about everything that that smith needs all the one on one in particular conduct with trump when he was haranguing you in vulgar terms to act illegally . um and that, the court said, you have to testify, but just recognized there might be some protection. that's not a victory for pence, but when his in his talking about the constitution i took him to be saying, i'm going to try my luck and the court of appeals. this is an at least a new area. that hasn't been gone into that much. maybe i can get a little bit more time out of it

under the sort of rubric of, you know, protecting the constitution. very interesting. so you do think he will continue to resist. i want to ask laura about the political implications . given that pence today, he's considering running for president in 2024 how much of a blow politically do you think it will be? if he does go ahead and testify or if he continues to fight that? does that really help him politically with that republican base? that's the hope that fighting it will could potentially help him with the republican base because right now we know that the republican base doesn't really believe in these investigations doesn't support them does not does not think that the former president did anything wrong. pbs news hour just had a new poll come out this week that actually showed that 76% of republicans would like former president trump to be reelected again, and they don't think that these investigations are fair, even

though a majority of america con's actually, we found do think that all of the investigations that are looking into the former president's potential wrongdoing whether it's the one that manhattan the manhattan d a is investigating or the special counsel investigations are fair. so pence right now is trying to show that he's putting up a fight and that he won't be just willingly going in to speak to the grand jury, because if he does, the republican base is not going to be happy about that. and at the center of this potential pence testimony is a heated phone call that pence had with trump on the day of that insurrection, while pence was at the capitol. let's take a quick look. but at some point it started off. as a calmer tone and everything and then became heated. the conversation was was pretty heated. so as i was dropping off the note, um i my memory. i remember hearing the word wimp either. he called him a wimp. i don't remember if he said you are a wimp. you'll be a womp womp is the word i remember

apologize for being impolite. but do you remember what she said her father called him. the p word. harry. i think that's the call that you're referencing and that that vulgarity you're referencing that the judge ruling that pence can still declined to answer questions related to his actions on january 6th. but will he have to answer questions about that specific phone call? yes and other one on one conversations with trump as well, including they had weekly lunches during the post election period. that's where he's most valuable when he doesn't have to answer is where the things we already know about where he's actually presiding as president of the senate that is the heartland of what he's going to have to talk about it. it's going to be gangbusters evidence for jack smith. and in terms of 2024, laura, we did just hear from the former new jersey governor chris history in quite strong terms, saying that he is not going to support for trump for president. he said. look i

just i just can't when you look at that january 6th choir at that rally in texas the other day and you show video of it, he said. i just don't think that that person is appropriate for the presidency. those are very strong words, the strongest arguably against trump by any of these potential 2024 republican candidate. how much do you think that that cracks open door if at all for others say dissenters? mike pompeo. how much does that give them license to more directly go after trump now. on the issue of january 6th and the former president's involvement in january 6th and inciting that violence. i would i don't think that we're going to hear much from candidates like ron desantis on that because ron desantis himself in 2022 supported of variety of election deniers that ran in states in swing states across the country , so he has endorsed and gotten behind people who have lied about the 2020 election, including the former president himself, and i think a lot of

those other candidates are also not eager other than former vice president mike pence to stand up to trump on the issue of january 6th and political violence and the threats that he that he has issued against law enforcement officials. alright, well, lots going on in the courts, lots going on in the campaign trail. laura barron lopez linen. thank you very much. thank you. all right, well, the search for answers in nashville has turned up new details about the school shooter. audrey hale is the shooter's name authorities still digging into determining why hale went on that rampage on monday, killing three children and three faculty members at hales former grade school we do now have new video showing the frantic, frightening escape. for some of the survivors that day. take a look at this. these are terrified children trying to cross four lanes of traffic to flee the shooting really, really harrowing footage captured by a

man who was driving by. he spoke to cnn this morning. about that moment. take a listen. as i was going down the road to get away from the gunshots, sc police everywhere and a woman jumping out into in front of my car waving her arms. i noticed there's children behind her. they came all the way down the hill. to the road and jumped out and a four lane highway basically on the road there, and so stop the car immediately. we jumped out the people to the left of me. stop get out! and once they see these kids crossing the road, everybody stopped and got out, made sure they were safe. and the actress melissa joan hart says that her children go to school nearby and that she was in the area and helped with those same desperate escapes. listen. my husband and i were on our way to school for conferences and luckily our kids weren't in today and we helped a class of kindergartners across a busy highway climbing out of the woods trying to escape. the

shooter situation at their school. so we helped all these tiny little little kids across the road and get their teachers over there, and we helped him. mom reunite with her children, and, um i just i don't know what to say anymore. it is just enough is enough. children running across an open highway. cnn's carlos suarez is on the scene in nashville, where he's been reporting for the past several days. carlos we are starting to get insight into the shooter's state of mind, but a firm motive still seems to be elusive. the police still looking for that. what have you learned? well alex, we are getting a better sense of where this investigation stands. the chief of police here in nashville, spoke to cnn earlier today and was able to provide us with some updated some updated information. we know that detectives they are still going through a notebook there taking a look at some of the writings and the statements that were

made by the 28 year old shooter , all in an effort to try to get a sense of a motive. why this 28 year old decided to do this act. we know, according to the chief of police, that there were no problems at this school between the shooter when that shooter was a student here, we're also being told that the 28 year old was never committed to an institution and that when it comes to this mental disorder officials they are still trying to get a better sense of just how long the 28 year old was seeking medical treatment for this medical disorder. the chief was also asked whether whether detectives believe that the parents really did not know that the shooter had seven guns, some of them hidden across the home, and the chief said look, the detectives believe the parents really only felt they only believed that the shooter had this one weapon at home. here now is a little bit more about what the police chief told us.

detectives are looking at the manifesto. there been a ah. in coordination with the fbi and the t b i. and in combing through all of the documents, all of the writings the maps, the maps did have a display of entry into the school, a route that would be taken for whatever was going to be carried out. um and so that's very much in the phases as well. quite a bit of writing notebook. maybe it has 60 pages in and i'm not sure how many of the pages are written on, but i couldn't. i couldn't give you a true estimate on that. and just a little bit. over an hour ago, my colleague diane gallagher was able to get some additional information from the nashville police department . we're told that authorities are still trying to piece together trying to piece together a timeline from the moment when the 28 year old left

home and came to this school. we're being told that detectives are looking into the possibility that the shooter made a stop between leaving home and coming to the school. alex and some of my reporting yesterday we were able to confirm that authorities are looking into the other authorities were able to confirm that a mall was mentioned in some of the writings in the statements that were left behind by the shooter. and so again, it appears that authorities are trying to get a better sense of whether or not this 28 year old. stop somewhere between home and coming to the school. questions about whether the shooter had intentions beyond that school. carlos suarez. thank you very much for all your reporting and their nashville. we are joined now by nashville city council member bob mendez. councilman. thank you so much for being with us today. we know it's only been 48 hours in your community is still reeling from this or thoughts, of course, are with everyone in nashville. i first want to get your reaction to hearing about these children,

along with these teachers sprinting through the woods and crossing that highway to try to escape this you eating. yeah i mean, that's uh, terrible. i mean, right within the first couple hours, there were so many stories going around town about you know, people aren't immediately reunited with their children. um even in the best of circumstances. it was several hours before parents were reunited with their kids. and it's really just, uh you know, sickening, um shattering to think that you'd have to do that as a parent. and councilman right after the shooting that the police chief did float the possibility of the possibility that there was some resentment by the shooter towards the former school where they were students. have you learned anything more in your in your capacity on the council about the attacker about this possible motive and the specific emotional issues that that the police have talked about audrey

hale having that that audrey hill was getting treatment for. yeah we don't have any special knowledge in the council. the law enforcement authorities are , um, but seem to be deliberate and how they're going about gathering and sharing that information. um honestly, it's some of the information that has been put out seems contradictory , and i think i'm assuming we're going to have to wait a little bit longer to get clarity about exactly what the problem was, um, you know, there's talk about it having been a mall is a potential of other location. there's some talk around town about. maybe it was another school. um and we just don't really know those details right now, other than to know that it was harrowing, terrible experience. that is certainly was mr mendez. we know that tennessee has no red flag laws as they're known and at the same time, the police told cnn again . this this was someone audrey hale had emotional issues was under a doctor's care. hales

parents did not believe that hail should have guns and hail apparently managed to convince parents that that there were no more guns in the house. but what do you think needs to be in place so that all of those factors which were known at least by some people do not lead or sorry. rather do lead to some kind of notification to the proper authorities. well the reality is that the state of tennessee has some of the loosest gun laws in america and the state prohibits local governments like here in nashville from making any laws of our own regarding guns. and so we know that guns are flooded all over america, including the streets of nashville, and we're, unfortunately locally, not allowed to have any rules about that. um, and since the state of tennessee doesn't have any rules, it's you know what it dealing with mental illness is hard, um dealing with having so

many guns on the street is hard . you know, i was talking to constituents this morning. one of the common threads that i heard was that there's a feeling of helplessness even if we wave a magic wand and figure out how to help folks in emotional distress and get common sense gun laws in place. we have so many guns on the streets already that it will. it's not. it's not clear it would actually help in the short term. if there's definitely a sense of frustration and helplessness from a lot of people. i'm talking to yeah. helplessness anger, sadness, so many challenges on so many fronts for nashville and cities like yours all across the country. nashville city council member bob mendez. thank you so much for your time today appreciate it. thanks a lot. it could be a game changer in the deadly opioid epidemic. the fda announcing you no longer need a prescription to buy the overdose , reversing drug narcan. but what is the cost of insurance is

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use? alex it's so easy to use. it is just to know spray. it has saved so many lives, and before , sort of as we speak, it's available without a prescription , but you have to ask the pharmacist for and it's behind the pharmacist counter. so you have to know what's there. you have to not be embarrassed. now. it'll just be on the shelf with the aspirin and the shampoo and the toothpaste. so let's take a look at why this had to be done. this graph is so dramatic. what it is showing is the number of opioid deaths from 90. 18 99 to 2021. it's pretty horrifying. when you see the numbers just written out. it's really quite horrible and not in 2021 more than 80,000. people in the united states died from opioid overdoses and as a parent, that's just turns your stomach. about not about 19. i'm sorry about 9000 children and teens died between 1999 and 2016. so

basically, two questions are sort of out here with this news. one is a lot of people are saying, why didn't they do this before people were urging the fda to do this years ago? the second question is, how much will this cost? i mean, this is not candidates extremely effective. it works really well, it's easy to use. but if the price is very high, then in a way, this is kind of all for not alex. elizabeth cohen. thank you very much for breaking that down for us. joining us now is dr rahul gupta. he is the director of the white house office of national drug control policy, doctor. thank you so much for joining us on this very important and exciting day. narcan as elizabeth just know tonight incorrectly said earlier that it was not available without a prescription. but it is a very it is now it has been available without a prescription. so why does this move to make it available over the counter change things so dramatically? well, thank you for having me, alex, like tell you the physician after administering hundreds of doses of no lots on or north can as we

call it, it's really important that we continue to do everything possible in our power to make this life saving drugs available to anyone and everyone across the country, so the fact is that we've produced and provided unprecedented and historic resources to states and communities to get, you know ability to purchase naloxone, but it's still there's a lot of inconsistency across communities and folks who needed often aren't able to get it as easily as possible. we know that four out of five as you just mentioned that's that are occurring of the 100,000 are because of opioids like fentanyl , so it becomes even more important that we get in the locks on in the hands of anyone and everyone and so making it over the counter. fairly easily accessible is going to be an important part, an important tool of that toolbox to save lives. how much of an issue has the question of stigma been and preventing people from just getting it? what stigma is to me

as a provider, one of the most important ones, it exists not only in communities and neighborhoods but also within the healthcare itself. so this is going to be an important piece. well people can just walk in, pick it up as they were tylenol or any other medication and be able to pay for it and go . it's going to be important, but at the same time we want to make sure that pharmacies are stocking it when it's available. and people are encouraged to access it. stigma still pervades, but we talk about addiction and mental health. and these are the things that these type of efforts are going to help us. reduce that stigma a doctor. perhaps the biggest question is what is this going to cost? and will it continue to be covered by some insurance? well this is important for us. it is a very important priority of president biden to make sure that the costs of medications overall or affordable healthcare is accessible. so in that term,

we're going to continue to monitor the you know, obviously , the product itself is narcan to make sure that this is not becoming beyond the reach of people. but at the same time we will encourage businesses, restaurants, banks, construction sites, schools, others to think about this. think about it as a smoke alarm or a defibrillator to make it as easily accessible because it's not just you. it could be your neighbor. it could be a family friend person that's work or school who might need it , so it's very important to have that access. why we continue to monitor the pricing of this and provide unprecedented. resources for states and communities to also purchased matlock so are you able to put a dollar figure on it? well you know that it is going to be a to the companies to do the pricing, but they need to know and we are asking these companies to ensure that this

life saving medication remains accessible and affordable to everyone who needs it, so it's going to be important for us to make sure that we are watching and monitoring that pricing structure, so it remains within the reach of people. you know, that's one of the things that the president has been very clear that we've got to make sure that these life saving medications as well as treatment is accessible across no matter where you live. rural or urban, richard poor. we want to make sure there's accessible across broad swaths of people. all right, dr. rahul gupta. thank you so much appreciate your time today. thank you, alex. that's bad. and we could soon see some of fox news is most high profile hosts taking the stand in the dominion voting systems lawsuit , but will its founder rupert murdoch, before testify, we'll be right back. .com even if you like a house lowball the first offer house whisperer.. this

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to put them on the stand? yeah it's shaping up to be really high profile trial with some of the biggest names in right wing media potentially testifying. i mean, i think, fox, they're looking at this, and they have a different incentive to put people like bret bear on the stand. you can imagine, perhaps in previous filings, they pointed out that bret bear did fact check some of trump's election line, so it perhaps they want to put him on the stand so that he can tell a jury that look, we were fact checking some of trump's election lies. i can't speak to the others, but i'm sure fox has some different incentive for putting these executives and hosts on the stand versus dominion, which probably wants to grill them about the post election coverage in the wake of the 2020 20 contest. and another person they may want to grill is, of course, the chief rupert murdoch himself , and there are big questions over whether he would take the stand. fox i understand is trying to fight that. what more can you tell us foxes, saying the 92 year old fox corporation chief, rupert murdoch should not

take the stand in his testimony during the deposition should basically be enough. i'm not sure the judge is going to agree with that. if this does go to trial, he has suggested that he believes that rupert murdoch is obviously in a very important person up fox and should potentially take the stand. he said he prefers live witnesses and yesterday during this virtual court hearing, he said that he really you know, he thinks that murdoch can travel. he talked about how murdoch has expressed interest in traveling between his various residences and that he just got engaged. so it doesn't sound like someone who can't travel from where for he is in the world to wilmington's delaware for a very serious trial. well i mean, given what we already know, before the trial even started, it certainly is poised to be an extraordinary trial over darcy. thank you very much for all your reporting on that. right now. in the senate, the gloves are off. you made more misstatements and a shorter period of time that i have ever heard. please correct

me if i'm worth $8 million. excuse me public excuse me. go ahead. alright excuse me. yes, sir. million dollars. that's good news to me. i'm not aware of it. that's a lie. all right number two records. you're probably looking at some phony right wing into net stuff. it ain't true. you should read beyond that. now that exchange very heated between senator bernie sanders and republican senator mark wayne mullen that came during a hearing on starbucks alleged union busting tactics. howard schultz is the star witness today, just days after he stepped down from his third stint as the ceo of starbucks. he is there under the threat of subpoena from bernie sanders. cnn's madigan has been following all this mat that exchange that wasn't even the main event. it was it was, you know, there was four schultz to testify. so what did we hear on the starbucks front? the main event really was bernie sanders confronting starbucks founder

howard schultz about his company's alleged union busting sanders didn't mince any words. he accused starbucks of waging quote the most aggressive and illegal union busting campaign in modern history. and he noted that schultz, the company's founder, only agreed to testify after being threatened with a subpoena. listen to this exchange between bernie sanders and the starbucks founder. let me remind you that federal law 18 u. s code section 1001 prohibits. knowingly and willfully making any fraudulent statement. i understand that were you ever informed of or involved in a decision? to fire a worker who was part of a union organizing drive. i was not were you ever informed of or involved in a decision to discipline a worker in anyway, who is part of a union organizing trife? i was

not have you ever threatened, coerced or intimidated a worker for supporting a union? i've had conversations that could have been interpreted. you know, different way than i intended. to make his point. sanders pointed to a ruling from just a few weeks ago by a judge at the national labor relations board, who found that starbucks displayed quote egregious and widespread misconduct in its dealings with employees trying to union unionized in buffalo, new york now for his part, schultz, he repeatedly stressed that starbucks has not broken the law. he also referred to these allegations from the lrb as just mirror allegations once that he thinks will be disproven over time. here's why all of this matters. i mean, starbucks , of course, is a brand that a lot of americans care about they love. it's also a major employer. look at that. almost half a million people around the world work for starbucks more

than a quarter of a million in the us alone, starbucks raised its minimum wage to $15 an hour recently and howard schultz says the average store wage is 17 50 nationally, but clearly, starbucks has become sort of the latest flashpoint in this growing effort around the country by workers who were trying to fight for better wages, better benefits and stronger working conditions. and alex. you know this? this fight clearly is not going away. all right, matt eagan. thank you very much. we're going to take a quick break. we'll be right back with the latest from israel. stay with us. the only thing i regret about my life wawas hirig local talent. if i knew about up wowork, i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world instead of talent, less people from all over my house. ever better disruption hits your supply chain and writer. make sure

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minister benjamin netanyahu is acknowledging a rare and public dispute with president joe biden , who is urging the israeli prime minister to walk away from his highly controversial proposed judicial reforms. here's what netanyahu had to say earlier today at the summit for democracy, take a listen you know, israel and the united states have had their occasional differences. but i want to assure you that the alliance between the world's greatest democracy and a strong, proud and independent democracy. israel in the heart of the middle east. is unshakable. yesterday president biden said that he will not be inviting netanyahu to the white house anytime soon, and biden issued a stinging response to netanyahu's proposed judicial overhaul. like many strong support of israel. i'm very concerned. and i'm concerned that they get this straight. cannot continued on this road. hopefully the prime

minister will act in a way that he tried to work out some genuine compromise. but that remains to be seen. and to that , netanyahu responded on twitter , saying quote israel is a sovereign country which makes its decisions by the will of its people and not based on pressures from abroad, including from the best of friends. that of course, a reference to the united states now to ukraine, where president vladimir zelensky has invited one of vladimir putin's closest allies to visit ukraine. in an interview with the associated press, alinsky called on chinese leader xi jinping. to come to kiev and engage with him directly. he also warned that the fall of the city of baku moot in the east would embolden putin to push forward more aggressively. in the meantime, the head of the international atomic energy agency is in ukraine inspecting the apparition nuclear power plant that's the biggest power plant in europe at his for a second time amid significant safety concerns because the plant is

occupied by russian forces. russian state news agency reported that the un nuclear watchdog is working on a new concept to secure that bridge, a nuclear power plant. and elsewhere in ukraine, much of the occupied southern city of maleta paul is now without power after reports of powerful blast earlier this morning. let's bring in. cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live on the ground in eastern ukraine. ben a big question ukraine right now, which you've been reporting on is when and where ukraine's military will mount a counter offensive and we just heard a little bit more from ukraine's defense minister on that. i'm in. hey ben, can you hear me? it's alex. yes sorry for a moment. i lost communications. yes, the ukrainian defense minister had an interview television interview with estonian television in which he said that ukraine would probably with the arrival of new tanks

from western europe launched an offensive in april or may. now this really doesn't come as a big surprise. it's widely anticipated. this was going to happen. the timing is obviously very much in the air. now. what's interesting is what we have seen and just the last few days is the ukrainians have clamped down on the media, where no longer allowed to go to baja mood nor other areas along the front line. now whether that is because they don't want us to see them in having troubles on the front line, or if it's preparation for an offensive. it's hard to say, but certainly we were here for the entire month of january, and we saw a fair amount of reinforcements coming into the ukrainian side. my colleague ivan watson preceded me in this area. and he said also that what he was seen as a constant build up of forces in the area. so as i said, not a

complete surprise what we heard from the ukrainian foreign minister but just an indication of perhaps what we can expect in the coming weeks or perhaps months ahead. and i think i've lost communications again. well what? what may be coming, maybe indeed, quite dramatic. the ukrainians expected to mount a counter offensive with newly trained troops and new military equipment are thanks to ben wedeman there in eastern ukraine . now king charles of the united kingdom is the third is making his world debut. sorry, king charles, the third he's in germany for his first state visit abroad. we have a live report from the iconic brandenburg gate that's coming up. age i is just a number. and mine's unlisted b boost high protein with 20 g of f protein r muscle health versus 16 g and ensure high protein boost high protein now available in cinnabon. bakery inspired flavor learn more boost dotom slash t

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does feel really historic. lot of this is about symbolism, of course, as opposed to what actually happens, but for the first time, i can remember. we're on the royal flight and we were flanked by fighter jets. german fighter jets escorting the king as he came into germany . i hadn't thought seen that happen before and then when we got here, as you say, we came straight here to the brandenburg gate. big crowds and this is the first time we think since the second world war possible could possibly be ever that a foreign head of state has been welcomed for full ceremonial welcome here at the brandenburg gate, so they really did roll out the red carpet. this is the king charles's first state visit anyway, anywhere because earlier on in the week, as you know who's going to france that got canceled because of those demonstrations, so it was a big event. actually the french embassy is just next to us. they're all up there the window looking down at this wondering perhaps it would be embarrassing. we weren't able to handle this ourselves, but this becomes the historic moment. king will spend the next couple of days here. the family has

strong links to germany. he has ancestors that come from here. the last time i was here with the royal family was with his mother, the queen. that was her last state visit. so this is now the king's first state visit, so there's some poetry there as well. it's the government that decides where he goes. so this is also about connecting. reconnecting if i can say that with germany post brexit that gave the site of so much history and that's where we find max foster tonight. thank you very much, sir. take care now that does it for us. we have much more news after this q quick break. let it rain, randi. that's how you make like it never even happened. happens pro someone living with te two diabes. i want to keep it real and talk about some risks. wh type two diabetes, you have up to foutimes greater risk of stroke, heart attack or dea. even at your a one c go, you're

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