and finally tonight some very happy news to share. we've added two new members to the "out front" family. this is samuel, eight days old now. and you see his dad there. samuel was born weighing 7 pounds, 13 ounces. and his mother you saw there jamie and samuel are doing great. and that's not all. there's teddy born to our producer and her husband,

andrew. teddy joins his brother wilder in keeping his mom and dad sleep deprived. we congratulate all of them. thanks so much for that and for joining us. "anderson" starts now. good evening. as ukraine continues to prepare in ways to launch a counter offensive today russia launched more missile strikes against civilians including one of the deadliest strikes of the war this year. the missiles hit residential buildings in two cities. ukrainian officials say at least 23 are confirmed dead including four children in the city of aman. a missile slammed into that apartment building they were sleeping in. and in dnipro a mother and her 2-year-old child were also reported killed. the list of noncombatants they've killed is a list of a long one. and tonight as the rubble is cleared that list is likely to grow. cnn's tim was in uman was there

as some were found. how does it compare to the attacks you've seen all throughout this war? >> reporter: the numbers are always terrifying, not the worst we've seen since this war began, certainly. but after weeks if not months of missile attacks like this in terms of their intensity the numbers today tell a much more horrifying story in uman. fm aallies who lived by each other side bide side and firefighters still looking for a boy and girl, their parents survived and they're trying to reach their children through cellphones but getting no answer. here's what happened today. as usual the terror comes at night as ukraine tries to sleep. a mother described hearing the missile roar in and throwing her children into the bathtub under pillows, another filmed the seconds afterwards. >> translator: my god, i never thought this would happen. a rocket hit our building. i am covered in blood.

i don't know. my windows were blown out. this is the kids' room, but we're all alive. we're just all covered in blood. god, we don't have windows, anything. i'm so afraid. >> reporter: as usual the dawn clarifies the victims. in this apartment block in uman it was only those hoping to escape the war. >> translator: we heard the impact, heard the explosion. we were on a balcony 2:07 a.m., all the room were full of smoke. >> reporter: the rubble hiding some of the agony but also surrendering some throughout the day. this body removed hours later. that morning as tension around a possible ukrainian counter offensive grows, russia fired 23 missiles. only two got past ukraine's nato improved air defenses. but lest you think the horror of uman an error, similar strikes

hit buildings in dnipro and also killed a 31-year-old woman and her 2-year-old. they had fled the war to this, her parents suburban home, but its savagery found them. kyiv is hoping to turn the tables, slowly taking out valuable russian targets in the south like this radar system. with social media videos fueling fears like this one apparently showing a russian ammo depot hit in occupied areas that ukraine will soon assault. kyiv very silent about when and where they will attack, which made this day's comments by the defense minister about their high readiness particularly intriguing. >> translator: in a global sense we are ready in a high percentage mode. the next question is up to the general staff. as soon as it is god's will, the weather, and the commander's decision, we will do it. >> reporter: ukraine's need to

move mounting as russia lashes out. >> nick, how does the size of this attack compare to other big missile waves that we've seen from russia? >> reporter: yeah, i mean over the past two weeks we saw a significant attack and over a dozen people lost their lives. so this is bad certainly. it's also intriguing to see how many of the missiles ukraine says it was able to down, well over 90% taken out of the skies. that a reflection of improved anti-aircraft, anti-missile systems supplied by the west. i fear, anderson, we're going to see more of this as the counter offensive inevitably gets under way in the days or weeks ahead. russia has a track record of lashing out over time claiming it's trying to hit something but really knowing its targing systems are pretty poor and the violence ends up being indiscriminate. it'll probably try to take it's anger and reerevenge out on the

civilian population. we've seen that in the past. but a lot of pressure on ukraine now to get results in this strategic win it needs in the counter offensive. >> nick paten walsh, thank you. appreciate it. we thought tonight good to check in with retired lieutenant general mark hurtling. we heard the foreign minister say the way to peace is arm ukrainians with f-16s. are fighter jets the answer? >> i don't believe they are, anderson. and i know this has been a debate and i know i'm going to get heat for saying this but you just don't put a pilot in a different kind of airplane and expect the kind of results the u.s. and nato forces have seen in conflicts around the world. it takes years to train that kind of capability where you have a coordination between the ground forces and the air forces. with close air support, with combat air patrol, all of those things are critical. it isn't -- it's beyond a

measure of just putting a pilot in a seat and training them. it's that coordination between ground and air. that is difficult. that takes years to do. what we're seeing right now is there's no magic potion to stopping russia from attacking ukrainian villages, hitting ukrainian civilian targets. those are war crimes. what is critical right now is the combined arms operations that the ukrainian ground forces are going to do within the next several weeks. they are going to coordinate their new infantry fighting vehicles, their strikers, their artillery, their additional tanks into a ground campaign. the air would be great if they had it, but they don't have it, and that's not something that can be completed within weeks or months. >> let me ask you about that counter offensive that you're talking about, the combined coordinated ground offensive. what is that going to look like,

and why is that significant? because there's -- there's some people who believe this offensive is sort of for political reasons or strategic reasons in a sense of convincing european allies and the west to keep funding ukraine, that they can actually retake territory. or is there a military reason for it? >> yeah, i'm not one of those that thinks that. i think it's going to be an operational campaign where the ukrainian forces are going to be terrain oriented, regaining terrain. there are two types of attacks or offensive operations you do. you're either force oriented or terrain oriented. the ukrainian force is going to be train oriented. they're going to look to regain ground. they have to do that in a quick lightening bolt. and what's going to be different, anderson, and we've got to watch this very closely. in the past 14 months ukraine has been on the defensive. russia has been on the offensive. they've kind of come to a little

bit of a slugfest over the last couple of months, but it's still that case. within the next cup of weeks you're going to see russia turn to the defensive, and they've been preparing that for months, and you're going to see you crane go on the operational offense. they'll pick the time and place of their choosing in terms of attacks. they'll look for seams in the russia defensive belt, which russia has been preparing. and they will take the new equipment they've received from the west and conduct that combined arms operation. one of the things that going to be -- that we need to watch is how they conduct breaching operations. in other words, getting through the defensive belts that russia has created with mine fields, trenches, and wire. it's going to be a difficult fight over the next couple of weeks. >> general hurtling, appreciate your time. thank you. almost exactly 12 years ago on may 1, 2011, american special operations forces raided osama

bin laden's compound in pakistan and killed al-qaeda's leader. there's been a lot of movies and books put out about what happened. today we learned some new information. here's brian todd. >> reporter: a never before seen image depicting the intensity and drama during the raid that killed osama bin laden. then president obama and vice president biden in the white house situation room, tension visible on their faces, pressing defense secretary bob gaetz. one of several newly published pictures from inside the white house on that momentous day, may 1, 2011. >> if this thing goes wrong, al-qaeda fights back, special operations people are captured or killed, bin laden isn't there, the pakistani military gets involved. >> reporter: these pictures just obtain from "the washington post" from the obama presidential library from a freedom of acquisition request.

obama and other top aides watching the raid in realtime, clinton's hand over her mourt. believed this was around the time the navy seal's helicopter clipped a wall and was damaged in a hard lining. bergen interviewed president obama and all the key players in the room for the cnn documentary "we got him." >> it's here we observed, for example, one of the helicopters got damaged in the landing. >> and what were you think something. >> i was thinking this was not an ideal start. >> and your heart was in the throat the whole time we were in there. i've never spent a more stressful 30 plus minutes in my life. >> reporter: the newly released pictures show obama watching intently, asking questions. when word came that the raid was successful, obama was photographed shaking hands with gates. other photos showing the president making calls to give the news to former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton and calls to other world leaders. other images show the president

and his team working on the speech he would give the nation late that night as they could hear a crowd gathering outside the white house. in one of the newly released photo biden and then joint chiefs chairman mike mullen showed pete sousa the rosary beads they had wrapped around his fingers during the raid. >> what relief does it give you afterward? >> i'll tell you what a lot of people said. they said they only really realized what a big deal this was when they left the white house. suddenly they hear these cheers, and that's when some people said i started crying. >> reporter: on those phone calls president obama made to tell other leaders about the bin laden raid according to obama's memoir when he told the pakistani president about it, his reply was, quote, whatever the fallout it's very good news, end quote. that despite the public backlash

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"the washington post" is reporting on more evidence collected by the potential counsel in its investigation of january 6th that suggests the form were president and his team knew their claims about a stolen election was false, specifically "the post" uncovered a second study paid for by the trump campaign to look into their allegations of voter fraud. the founder of the firm has since spoken with the justice department. ken block told "the post," quote, no substantive voter fraud was uncovered in my investigations looking for it, nor was i able to confirm any of the outside claims of voter fraud that i was asked to look at. every fraud claim i was asked to investigate was false. this comes a day after we learned of a potentially important moment both in the investigation in history, former vice president pence testifying before the grand jury. the first time in modern history that a vice president has been compelled to testify about the president he served under. it's also the first time he's testified about january 6th under oath. joined now by harvard law school professor laurence tribe, coauthor of "to end the presidency the power of

impeachment." professor tribe, the historical significance certainly of former vice president testifying under a president he served under is hard to overstate. how concerned do you think president trump should be about this? >> he ought to be very concerned because mike pence is the last piece of the puzzle. he is the one who was the object of the former president's attempt to storm the capitol with an angry mob when it turned out mike pence wouldn't do his bidding and basically carry out a bloodless coup. all of the conversations between the president and vice president who were in office at that time are going to be fair game for the prosecutor. the special prosecutor had mike pence in there before the grand jury all day yesterday. he wasn't taking the fifth amendment because he doesn't have any criminal exposure. he wasn't invoking his special role as president of the senate

because the courts had already rejected the claim that that special entitled him to stay silent when it came to what the president was doing and saying to him. and the president who was in the office at the time pence was vice president failed just the day before yesterday in his final attempt to invoke executive privilege, to silence the former vice president. so, you know, pence was in a position to tell the truth, and he really had no alternative. that proves very damning to the former president. >> does the timing of his testimony signal to you anything about a potential time line of the special counsel's probe? would investigators be likely to bring pence in to testify in the middle of it? or are they more likely to bring him in toward the end, or this

is just when they could get him? >> i think they would bring him in as the final witness or the next to final witness because when you go up the food chain the only one beneath the former president is the former vice president. the way the plot unfolded, the attempt to basically steal the election through using phony certificates to give mike pence an excuse for interfering with the transition of power, this was the final step, and so it's very clear the indictment is about to come down some time this summer. >> what about mark meadows, the chief of staff? might he have perhaps more to offer the grand jury? a federal judge ruled he must testify. to our knowledge that hadn't happened. he certainly would be -- he was in the white house on that day talking with the president. he must have a lot of

information. >> no question about it. so it might well be that meadows will be the last shoe to drop before the entire indictment falls. i don't think we can predict for sure who was the very last. the point is that we are now in the inner circle, the inner ring. we're not at the outer spoke. we're not talking to people who had only a remote connection. we've closed in on the former president, and everything about the pressure he was putting on the vice president of the united states to enable him to stay in power all of that is going to be revealed in the last few days of this grand jury, so at this point it's simply, it's rather like sort of waiting for the guillotine to fall. >> do you think they'll wait until all the investigations are

wrapped up before making a decision to indict, or do you think those announcements could be made piecemeal? >> it could be made piecemeal because the mar-a-lago matters involving refusing to return top secret documents when they're demanded by the government really does not overlap the january 6th and coup investigations. so either of them could come first. there's no particular reason for them to be consolidated. in fact, they might not even be brought in the same jurisdiction. so i'm not pretending to have a crystal ball about exactly which will happen in what order. that i don't think we can know unless we are sort of a fly on the wall in the special counsel's office, and that's not -- that's not where i am at the time. >> would the decision whether to indict ultimately be up to jack smith, the special counsel, or would the attorney general merrick garland need to sign off on it?

>> the final decision was merrick garland's but he's i think made very clear that unless there was some extraordinary misconduct on the part of the special counsel, something that undermines the plausibility of a recommendation to indict, he's not going to upset that recommendation. and conversely if the special counsel doesn't decide to indict merrick garland we know for sure is not going to override him. so although the final sign off is going to be in merrick garland's hands, the decision is ultimately going to be made by jack smith. and i'm quite confident given how he's proceeded that since the facts and the law are going to make it clear that -- that if you don't have an indictment here, that means that no insurrection will ever be held accountable, no attempt to coup. and the country can't survive that. and i think jack smith knows it, and i think in the end merrick garland knows it.

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as you know this week president biden formally launched his re-election bid. his age, 80 years old, will certainly be a factor voters will have to take account. one seemingly showing a list of speakers and you in capital letters at the top of the list. the president was also holding a piece of paper with the photo a lasks times reportwer the pronunciation of her last name and seemingly what she would ask. it wasn't word for word but it was the same topic. l.a. times insists they didn't give the white house details on what they would ask, and still republicans are calling his note a cheat sheet and they accuse the white house of knowing what he would be asked and imply he needs notes due to his age. the white house says that is not case. >> it is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters who will be asking questions at a press conference and issues we expect they might

ask about. we do not have specific questions in advance. that's not something that we do. >> we should point out this president is not the first to use notes. it's happened for decades. even president trump in 2018 was spotted with a note card that read, quote, i hear you, in a meeting with families whose loved ones were killed after the shooting in parkland, florida. still questions remain on president biden's cognitive abilities. certainly using note cards is now out of common in politics but how is it in the age range. does it signal cognitive decline? >> i don't think it signals cognitive decline, and frankly people who are many decades younger often use note cards. i mean when you have a lot going on, you have a lot of things to sort of keep on top of, they help. there are these cues to sort of get you through your day. i worked at the white house back in the '90s and i remember

president clinton often using note cards at that point. and he was much younger obviously. what is interesting obviously age is a factor when it comes to, you know, attention, memory, things like that. it's not the only factor. your overall lifestyle is a big factor. how much you're exercising your brain, if you will, something you and i are have talked about, anderson. but if you think about the brain like a muscle the more you exercise it, the better it's going to perform. being president i think is one of those ways of exercising the pran. your genetics make a difference to some degree. his father and mother i think lived into their late 80s, early 90s. but there are different types of things that happen with age. i think this is really interesting. sort of break this down into crystallized abilities to fluid abilities. it's going up and to the right, the darker line. that's crystallized abilities over one's age. and you can see that they really continue to increase. this is your ability to have good vocabulary, good judgment, good sort of stored knowledge of

things. and you can see those crystallized abilities keep going up and sort of plateau into the 80s. what does go down at a pretty remarkably young age like in your 20s it starts to decline and really decline around mid-50s, early 60s is your fluid abilities. and think of that more like attention. think of that like your processing speed. so it's like you have a lot more stored knowledge and judgment but your overall processing speed at least according to some of these studies does start to go down. that could also explain, you know, the need for cues and things like that. >> i'm happy i'm right in the age where it's really starting to escalate downward. as we mentioned president biden's 80. he's the oldest president in the u.s. how does that compare to other presidents around the world? >> it's interesting. i liked this up. we know he's the oldest u.s. president, actually ninth oldest as far as world leaders go overall. there's the king of norway and things like that that are older.

if you look at this graphic, this is sort of a lot of leaders that you mind know. and he obviously skews very far to the right there in terms of age. so, you know, you have the leader of cameroon who's older, he's 90. but the median age is around 62. the youngest leader in the world around 37. what i thought was interesting when we were looking into this segment tonight is that the leaders of countries are often almost always older than the members of the country, the citizens of the country. the average age in the united states is about 40. president biden is 80, so that's twice as old. that sort of fits with the leaders in terms of that disparity in age between citizens and leadership. >> i have been reading about things people can do to protect their brain abilities and cognition as they age. can you talk about those? >> yeah, i mean i'm wildly fascinated by this. as you know i wrote book about this because i think maybe as we're getting older it becomes more of a concern. but actually physical exercise is one of the biggest

protectitant as it turns out of cognitive health. physical exercise, people are sometimes surprised by that. president biden works out five days a week. smoking is a big sort of thing that's a potential problem. he doesn't smoke, he doesn't drink. we know that. also having a higher education tends to create more of a buffer against cognitive decline over time. but, again, going back to this notion of if you don't use it, you lose it. i think, you know, people who are rigorously exercising their brain, if you will, with all these different challenges that also is predictive of long-term cognitive health as well. >> sanjay, fascinating, appreciate it. >> what else is predictive having recent birthdays of your children. that makes a huge difference as well. >> that's good. wyatt turned 3 yesterday and sebastien turned 27. >> i can't even believe it.

>> he got a bike with training wheels on it and actual pedals and it's his big boy bike. i took the day off yesterday to help him ride it and learn how. the best day ever. so sanjay, thank you. appreciate it. >> we could always use more balance all of us. >> thanks. a programming note the white house kraupdants dinner takes place in washington tomorrow night. it'll air right here on cnn. starts at 8:00 p.m. you don't even have to get all dressed up. up next for us is author judy bloom joins me. now he says what is happening is worse than ever. hear why next. when the davises booked their vrbo vacation home, they didn't know about this view. or the 200-year-d tree in the backyard. or their neighbors down the hill. but one thing they did know exactly how much they'd pay.

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author judy bloom is one of the leading critics of banning books. her powerful books many dealing with growing up and making sense of adolescence means a lot to a lot of people. ground zero for her fight and for many is the home state of florida with the legislation backed by governor ron desantis in the republican controlled state legislature. as we've been reporting on the program the criteria for pulling books off shelves in florida schools is not clear often and there's been anger over the move. one florida district removed bloom's books forever from shelves and her novel to face

bans for decades because they often dive into puberty and sex. in theaters today is the movie are you there, god, it's me margaret based on erbook with the same title published in 1970. it's such a pleasure to meet you. you've had such an impact on so many generations of people. i remember when forever came out. it blew my mind when i was a kid. you faced people trying to ban your books from a long time ago. do you ever imagine you would still be facing these kind of attacks in 2023? >> never. never, never, never. and of course it's not just me. it's a whole lot of people who are facing the attacks today. it's much worse. >> it's worse in what way? >> it's worse because it's coming from the government, you know. i mean i happen to live in key

west, which we pretend isn't in that state where we talk about that governor but in fact it is and we do. and we have elected -- elected legislators who are trying to not just ban books but, you know, control what kids can learn, what they can ask, what they can think. i mean it's that bad, and it's not just in florida. it's in a lot of states. >> when you look at the current crop of particularly of books that are being targeted, and i mean your books are still being targeted, they often deal with matters of race, gender identity, sexuality. do you see -- are there -- is that the same topics that were being attempted to be banned back in the -- in the 80s, let's say? >> well, you know, sexuality is

always so dangerous for any but puberty is such a dirty word to some people. so that's the same. but what's different is that, you know, any books, lgbtq, any books having to do with gender, any books having to do with racism. and what's really scary to me is that it's as if the book banners want to get rid of history. they just want to erase history. that's scary stuff. >> it's also interesting moo me because when you actually kind of drill down on some of the people who are doing this, you realize they actually haven't read these books. it's not like they've actually read them and are personally outranl by them. they've often been -- you know, they've downloaded lists of books that are supposedly dangerous from some organization online who just prints out lists

of books that they think should be banned and people go to school boards and raise hell about these books. they haven't read them. >> exactly, but they never did read them. they didn't read them in the '80s either. it's -- it's based on fear. i've always thought it was based on fear, and it's based on how can we control -- we want to control our children's lives. how are we going to do that? it's worse and worse now with the internet. how can we control it? oh, i know we can take away books. not guns but books. >> can you talk a little bit about the way you approached writing from the beginning, i mean why you chose to write books that dealt candidly with real issues facing young people? i mean actually me asking that question sounds so stupid because it seems like such an obvious thing. of course you're an author, you would want to write books that dealt with real issues facing young people, but the there

weren't a lot of people doing it when you started. >> i just knew that i wanted to write books about real kids in the real world. that was my real world, you know, not everybody's. and i hated secrets -- god, i hated secrets, family secrets, any secrets when i was a kid. and so i -- i wanted to be honest and truthful. i didn't know anything more than that. >> there's a lovely amazon documentary i think it started streaming last week about your life and your work. it's called "judy blume forever." one of the amazing things in this is you've had not only an impact on adolescents in this country for generations, but so many young people reached out to you and you wrote them back. and in some cases you have had correspondence back and forth

with people for decades. and some of those young people who wrote to you are now authors themselves, which is -- i mean, that's incredible. >> yes. and in the documentary you meet two of the now women who have children themselves who are teenagers or beyond who wrote to me. one started when she was 9 and one when she was 12. and we have never lost touch. >> i mean, what an incredible family to have built. i mean an extended family of readers and admirers and people who become strangers who become friends. >> yeah. i never think of it that way, but that's lovely. thank you. >> so tonight is the opening of are you there god it's me margaret." you waited 53 years to make this film. why so long?

>> i don't know. i was afraid. i thought it would get ruined. although a book is a book and a movie is a movie, but it wasn't until this team came along and i just knew it was the right team. and it turned out to be absolutely the right team. >> thank you so much. it's an honor to talk to you. >> thank you. >> i'm told there was a really big sporting event that kicked off last night that i have no idea about or why it's important, but harry henton is here to explain it all to me next. can't wait. as that? - huh? what, that? no, don't worry about that. here we gogo. - asking the right question can greatly impact your future. - are, are you qualified to do this? - what? - especially when it comes to your finances. - yeehaw! - do you have a question? - are you a certified financial planner™? - yes. i'm a cfp® professional. - cfp® professionals are committed to acting in your best interest. that's why it's gotta be a cfp®. find your cfp® professional at letsmakeaplan.org.

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last night kicked off the 2023 nfl draft, which is apparently a pretty big deal to a lot of people. i don't know much about how it all works, but the draft is seven rounds and each of the 32 nfl teams receive an automatic pick in each round. wow, i really have to do this. this whole event spans across three days. and i only know that because someone wrote it for me. i'm just reading. thankfully, harry enten is here to help me explain it all. do people watch this on television? >> they absolutely do. >> this is a tv show where people are watching football players getting picked for a

team. >> correct, the things that used to happen that i used to, like, try to hang back in school on the sidelines hoping never to get picked. >> right. or you might've gotten picked last, if you were picked at all. >> if i even showed up that day. >> if you weren't cutting gym, right? >> this is the thing, people watch this? >> people watch this. >> so what's the appeal? >> could you imagine? it's like 13 million on average. >> i mean, god bless them. i wish i knew the characters. >> maybe you would be into it. and that's the thing that's so interesting to me. bryce young was picked number one. which of course you knew obviously. >> that was in my -- what do you call that thing -- >> your bracket. >> yeah, my bracket. >> that was a fun time. but someone like a will levis out of kentucky, he was supposed to be picked really high up. he didn't even get picked in the first round. how could that have happened? >> i don't know. >> it was like an episode of dallas. >> this is how i get through sports conversations.

i try to complete the last thing the person has said, and it makes it seem like i know. >> you're fooling me all along right here. >> so when it comes to -- i understand that just because there's a question written here, when it comes to getting picked, players want the earlier rounds. why is that? >> because that means you get paid more money if you get picked earlier. it turns out it's not always the case. there's a little bit of mystery in here. i was talking about dallas earlier. it's almost like a soap opera. you don't know what's going to happen. so someone like a tom brady -- >> don't put it in terms i can understand, soap opera. >> i like watching soap operas. dallas, falcon crest, what have you. someone like a tom brady was picked way late the 199th pick in the 2000 draft. this is somebody who was picked very, very late in the draft. >> does everybody have to stand there shirtless? >> yes.

>> what's the combine? >> so the combine is something that you train for beforehand. you go out there and they measure your times and you try and figure out what's exactly going to happen. >> so people are tuning in and just looking at shirtless football players? >> they take those photos beforehand. that tom brady picture is a very famous picture because i think a lot of people were surprised how good he ended up being. >> so i like the mystery. and what are salaries like these days? >> to me, what's so amazing, if you get picked in the first round, you're going to make millions of dollars. but let's just say that we just had a new contract that came out with lamar jackson. do you know how much he's making? over $50 million. >> wow. he must be really good. >> $52 million per year. compare that to 1990. do you remember joe montana? >> i remember the name. >> 7.6 million per year back in 1990. players' salaries have exploded, which may be why they're turning

into the draft because there's so much interest, the teams are worth so much more, the players are making so much more. >> i might actually watch this. is it a fun show? >> i think it's a fun show to watch. there is a red carpet so you can watch that. they do the fashion. they sort of throw things back and they go like this. so it's a fun time for everybody. and it has something for everybody. >> harry enten, thanks very much. coming up, king charles iii will be officially crowned a week from tomorrow. officially welcomes charles as her new king. many are questioning the monarchy in today's world. my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®. his a1c? it'sown with rybelsus®.

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24-year-olds specifically where now more than 50% would support abolishing the monarchy. >> there's no real rule about how the uk would go about abolishing the monarchy. >> they have constitutions. so the political will has to be there. >> the monarchy does depend on taxpayers' money. it receives 80 to 90 million pounds of taxpayers money every year. every year that goes through the parliamentary process. ♪ >> reporter: last year the royal family cost each uk taxpayer roughly $1.60. and while that number is admittedly low, amid rising inflation, it's the optics that really add up. >> the current generation are about to go for a cost of living crisis. it's his problem right now. in the future it might actually be william's problem. >> and erica hill joins me now. is there excitement over the coronation?

>> it was interesting. i found it was a bit of a mixed bag. there's definitely some people i spoke to who were very excited. they haven't seen this in 70 years. not a lot of people remember it who were even alive 70 years ago. they may have watched it on tv. maybe they just heard about it. and other people had a lot of questions. there is a very serious discussion in the uk right now about this cost of living issue. i kept hearing on the news it's heating or eating. and that was coming up in the questioning about how much is this going to cost, what is it going to look like, how much are we actually spending on it. >> king charles has certainly been waiting for a long time for this. he's given it a lifetime of thought and preparation. and, yet, the situation he's finding himself in is pretty unique and relatively new to him the issues with the family writ large, the death of his mother. >> absolutely. i think all of those things certainly based on the conversations and debates in many ways that we had with the experts that we spoke with,

scholars and journalists and some of the most closest secretaries to the queen, all of those things have weighed on him. he's been planning for 70 years trying to really rally around causes he believes in. because what i was told is he does see this as a role that is all about service. it's about serving the british people. the question i think in the modern world in 2023 is what does that service look like, and how much of that service is going to be tied to addressing the history that got the uk into this place. >> thanks so much. "the reign" begins this sunday at 8:00 p.m. the coronation of king charles iii will also be televised with all of its pomp and pageantry here on cnn. and i will be there to bring it to you live. if you missed it, the first episode of "the whole story" starts right now, only on cnn.