good evening, as ukraine continues to prepare. russia lost more missile strikes against civilians, including one of the deadliest race in the war this year, the missiles at residential buildings within two cities

ukraine officials say la's 23 confirmed that. in the city and mitchell slammed into that apartment building, they were sleeping in. and in dnipro, also reported killed, russia routinely denies they are targeting civilians with a list of noncombatants killed is a long one, and tonight as they continue to be clear, that list is likely to grow, cnn's team is there, as some of the dead were found. >> with us last night, joining us about the attached have been recording how does today compared today through out this work lacks >> reporter: the numbers are always terrifying, not the worst we have seen since the war has began but after weeks of not months or less of missile attacks like this, in terms of their intensity. the numbers they tell are much more intimate and horrifying where they have had an apartment block, families who knew each other and under that rubble tonight, firefighters are still looking for a boy and

girl that parents are trying to reach their children for but getting no answer, here is what happened today. as usual, the terror comes at night. as ukraine tries to sleep. a mother described hearing the missile rower and throwing her children into the bathtub, under pillows, and another filmed 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 was the children's room but we are all alive. we are just all over covered in blood, we don't have windows or anything, i am so afraid. >> reporter: as usual, in this apartment block, it was only those hoping to escape the war. >> without the impact, we heard the explosion, we were on a balcony, all of those were full

of smoke. >> reporter: the rubble, hiding some of the agony. but also surrounding some throughout the day. this body removed hours later. that morning, as tension around a possible ukrainian counteroffensive grows, russia fired 23 missiles. only two cannot get past ukraine's nato improved air defenses. but unless you think the horror, similar strikes hit buildings in dnipro, and also killed a 31- year-old woman and her two-year- old. they had fled the war, to this, her parents suburban home but savagery found them. hoping to turn the tables, slowly taking out viable targets on this radar system. with social media videos fueling fears like this one are, apparently showing a

russian ammo depot hitting an unoccupied area, where ukraine will soon assault. kyiv, very silent about when and where they will attack, which made this days comments by the defense minister about their high readiness potentially intriguingtor: in a global sense, we are ready. 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. >> ukraine's need to move mountains, as russia lashes out. >> nick, how does the size of this attack compared to other big missile waves that we've seen from russia? >> reporter: over the past two weeks, we saw significant attacks where over a dozen people lost their lives, and this is bad, certainly, it is also intriguing to see how many missiles ukraine says it was able to down, over 90% taken out of the skies, out of

improved antiaircraft and antimissile systems, supplied by the west, and i fear that we will see more of this as the counteroffensive inevitably gets underway in the days or weeks ahead, russia has a track record of lashing out, overtime, claiming that it's trying to hit something, but really knowing it's targeting systems are pretty poor and the violence ends up being indiscriminate, and will probably try to take its anger and revenge out on the ukrainian civilian population, we have seen that in the past when i have endured losses but a lot of pressure on ukraine now to get results in this strategic win that it needs in the counteroffensive. >> thank you so much. we thought tonight would be a good check to check in with cnn military analysts. we heard the ukrainian foreign minister say in the aftermath, that the way to peace is the arm ukraine with f-16, this has been talked about certainly since the beginning of the war, our fighter jets answer?

>> i don't believe they are, anderson. i know that this is has been a debate and 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 result that the u.s. and nato forces have seen in complex 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 and with combat air patrols, all of those things are critical. and it is beyond the measure of just putting a pilot in a seat, and training them on flying the airplane. it is that coordination between ground and air, that is what is so difficult. that takes years to do, what we are seeing right now, there is no magic potion to stopping russia attacking ukrainian villages, hitting ukrainian civilian targets, those are war crimes, what is critical right now, is of the 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 and artillery, there are additional tanks into a ground campaign. the air would be great, if they had it, but they don't have it. and that is not something that can be completed within weeks or months. >> let me ask you about that counteroffensive that you are talking about, the combined ordinator the ground offensive. what is that going to look like, and why is that significant? because there are some people who believe that this offensive is for political reasons or strategic reasons in the sense of convincing european allies and the west to keep funding ukraine, that they can actually retake the territory, or is there a military reason for it? >> yes, i am 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 that you do, you're either force oriented or terrain oriented. ukrainian forces are going to be terrain oriented, they are going to look to regain ground, they have to do that and a quick lightning bolt and what is going to be different and we have to watch this closely. in the past 14 months, ukraine has been on the defensive and russia has been on the offensive. they have kind of come to a little bit of a bite out over the last couple of months, within the next couple of weeks, you will see russia turn to the defense of, and they have been preparing that for months, and you will see ukraine go on the operational offensive. and it's more difficult to do that. they will pick the time and place of their choosing, in terms of attacks, they will look for seems in the russian defensive belt, which russia has been preparing, and they

will take the new equipment they were seen from the west, and conduct that combined arms operation, one of the things that we need to watch, is how they conduct breaching operations, in other words, getting through the defensive bells that russia has cared for, with wire, and it's going to be a difficult fight over the next couple of weeks. >> we appreciate your time. >> exactly 12 years ago on may 1st 2011, operational forces, and pakistan and killed al qaeda's leader, in the years, there has been a lot of books put out about what happened and today we learned some new information, here is brian type. >> 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, and the white house room, tension visible on their faces, pressing defense secretary bob gates, one of several newly published pictures from inside of the

white house on that momentous day, may 1st, 2011. >> when this thing goes wrong, al qaeda fights back and special operations people that captioner killed bin laden, and military gets involved in other things that could go wrong. >> reporter: these pictures obtained by the washington post from the obama presidential library from the freedom of information act request, previously, this was the image that from that day, obama along with biden, that secretary of state hillary clinton and other top aides watching the bin laden raid in real-time, clinton's hand over her mouth, transient national security analyst peter bergen believes this is around the time that the navy s.e.a.l.s helicopter clipped the wall and was damaged in a hard landing. bergen interviewed president obama and all of the key players in the room, for the cnn documentary, we got him. >> it is your where we observed for example one of the helicopters got damaged in the landing. >> what were you thinking? >> i was thinking this is not

an ideal start. >> your heart was in your throat, the whole time that they were in there, i have never spent a more stressful 30 minutes of my life. >> reporter: the newly released picture show them asking questions, when word came that the raid was successful, obama is photographed shaking hands with gates, other photos depict the president making calls to give the news to former president 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 to the nation late that night, as they could hear a crowd gathering outside of the white house. in one of the newly released photos, biden and enjoyed chief chairman showed white house photographer pete the rosary beads they had wrapped around her fingers, during the bin laden raid. >> what sense did they give you about afterwards? >> i will tell you what a lot of people said. they said that they only really realized what a big deal this

was, when they left the white house. suddenly they heard these tears, and that is when people said, some people said they started crying. >> reporter: all those phone calls, president obama made to tell other world leaders about the bin laden raid, according to obama's memoir, when he told an pakistani president about it, his reply was, quote, whatever the fallout is, it is very good news,", that despite the public backlash from the pakistani government. expressing serious displeasure with the raid, anderson? >> still to come, the washington post reporting that previously unknown evidence obtained by the special counsel's office. looking into efforts to overturn the election. knew that there fraud allegations were false, we talk about it with harvard law school professor. also tonight, republicans raising questions about president biden's while talking with reporters, dr. sanjay gupta joins us then.

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for nor were able to confirm any of the all-time claims of voter fraud that i was asked to look at. every fraud claim i was asked to investigate was false. this comes the day after we learned the potentially important moment that both of the investigation, and history, former vice president pence, testifying the first time in modern history that a vice president had been compelled to testify about the president he served under. it's also the first time that he testified about january 6th under oath. joined now by harvard law school professor, co-author two and the presidency, and the power of impeachment. professor tribe, the historical significance of the former vice president testified, it is hard to overstate, how concerned you think that former 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 presidents attempt to storm the capitol with an angry mob. when it turned out that mike pence would not do his bidding.

and basically carry out a 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 that had mike pence in there before the grand jury all day yesterday. who 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 court had already rejected the claim that that special role 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 that pentz was vice president. failed just the day before yesterday, when his final attempt to invoke executive

privilege, to silence the former vice president. >> does -- -- >> pence was in a position to tell the truth, and he really had no alternative. >> does the timing of this -- >> lips us that was very damning to the former president. -- >> is the timing of the testimony signal any potential timeline of the special counsel's probe? when investigators be likely to bring pence into testifying, or were they more likely to bring them in towards the end, or was this when they could get him? >> i think they would bring him in as the final witness for the next final witness because, when you go up the food chain, the only one beneath the former president was the former vice president. the way that 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 very clear that the indictment is about to come down, sometime this summer. >> what about mark meadows, might he have perhaps even more to offer the grand jury, a federal judge last month, the meadows must testify, to our knowledge, that hasn't yet happened. and he certainly would be, if 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 is the last shoe to drop before the entire indictment falls, i don't think that we can predict for sure, if it was the very last, the point is, we are now in the inner circle, the inner ring, we are not at the outer spokes, we are not talking to people who have only had a remote

connection, we have closed in on the former president and everything about the pressure that 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, simply, it is rather like sort of waiting for the guillotine to fall. >> you think the department of justice and the special counsel will wait until all of his investigations and election interference and january 6th, the mar-a-lago documents are wrapped up before making the decision to indict or do you think those announcements could be made piecemeal? >> they could be made piecemeal because the mar-a-lago matters involving and refusing to return top-secret documents when they are demanded by the dot government, really does not overlap the january 6th and crew investigations, so, either of them could come first, there is no particular region for

them to be consolidated. not even in the same jurisdiction, so which will happen in what order, that i don't think we can no, unless we are to fly on the wall in the special counsel's office, and that is not where i am at the time. >> what the decision ultimately to indict be up to jack smith, the special counsel or the attorney general merrick garland needs to sign off on it. >> the final decision is merrick garland's, but he has made it very clear that unless there is some extraordinary misconduct on the part of the special counsel, something that undermines the plausibility of a recommendation to indict is not going to upset that recommendation and conversely, if a special counsel doesn't decide to indict merrick garland, we know for sure, is

not going to override him. although the final signoff is going to be in merrick garland's hands, the decision is ultimately going to be made for jack smith, and i'm quite confident, given how he has proceeded that the law are going to make it clear that if you don't have an indictment here, that means that no insurrection will ever be held accountable. no attempt at coup, and the country cannot survive that, jack smith knows it, and in the end, merrick garland knows it. >> appreciate your time, thank you. still ahead, new questions about president biden's age, as he announces his second bid for the white house, republicans claimant, what they are calling a cheat sheet at a press event this week in part, due to his age, what the white house is saying about this, with dr. sanjay gupta joining us and what we know about the president and all of our cognitive abilities as we age.

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as you know this week president biden formally launched his re-election, his age 80 years old, a factor voters will take into account and a number of republicans pointed to detailed notecards,

one seemingly showing a list of speakers, and you in capitol letters at the top of the list, the president also holding a piece of paper with the photo of the pronunciation of her last name and seemingly what she would ask. the president did call on that reporter and it turned out she did ask a question topic stated on the presidents note card it wasn't word for word but it was the same topic. the l.a. times insisted they didn't give the white house details on what would be asked. still some republicans are asking is note a cheat sheet, and they accused the white house and implying that he needs notes due to his age, the white house says that is not the case. >> it is entirely normal for a president to be briefed on reporters, that would be asking questions, and issues that we expect they might be asked about we do not have specific questions in advance, that is not something that we do. >> we should point out the president is not the first to use notes, it has happened for

decades even president trump in 2008 and was spotted with a note card that read quote, i hear you, when meeting with families who loved ones were killed in the high school shooting at parkland florida, still, questions obviously remain about president biden, joining us about inside of cognitive abilities, cnn medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta. using notecards is not out of the ordinary and politics but how common is it for people in that age range, the president is in, to need help remembering certain things, does it signal cognitive decline? >> i don't think it signals cognitive decline, but people who are many decades younger, even often using notecards, and when you have a lot going on, and you have a lot of things to sort of keep on top of. they held, there are these cues to sort of get you through these days, i worked at the white house, back in the 90s, and i remember president clinton often using notecards at that point, he was much younger obviously but what i can tell you, it is interesting, a dishonestly a factor when it comes to attention, it is not the only factor, their overall lifestyle

is a big factor, how much you are exercising your brain if you will, something you and i have talked about but if you think about the brand like a muscle the more you exercise of the better it will perform. and being president is one of those ways of exercising the brain, your genetics make a difference to some degree, as father and mother in the late 80s and there are different types of things that do happen with age, let me show you this, i think this is really interesting, to try to break this down into crystallized abilities, and fluid abilities. going up into the right, the darker line, that is crystallized ability, over one's age. and you can see that they really continue to increase, this is your ability to have a good vocabulary, good judgment, sort of stored knowledge of things, and you can see those crystallized abilities, going up and sort of plateau into the 80s, what does go down, a pretty remarkably young age, like in your 20s it starts to

decline. and around mid-50s, and your fluid abilities, and think of that, more like attention, and think of that, like you were processing a speed, you have a lot more stored knowledge and judgment but your overall processing, so according to some of these studies, it does start to go down, that could also explain the need for cues and things like that. >> i'm happy that i'm in the age where it is starting to go downward. it is comforting, that graph. as i mentioned, president biden is 80 the oldest president in the u.s., how does that compare to other leaders cracks >> i looked this up and i didn't know, we know that is the oldest u.s. president, at least nine oldest as far as world leaders go over all. there's the king of norway, and things like that that are older. but if you look at this graphic, this is sort of a lot of leaders that you would know. and he has been far to the right there in terms of age, so, you know, you have the

leader of cameroon, he is older and he's 90 but the medium age is around 62, the youngest leader in the world around 37, what i thought was interesting, when we are looking at the segment tonight, the leaders of countries are often almost always older than the members of those countries, the citizens of the country, the average aging united states is 40, and president biden is 80, so he's about twice as old, that fits with what you see with a lot of leaders in terms of that disparity, in age, between citizens and leadership. >> i had been reading a lot of things about what people can do to protect their brain abilities and cognition as they age, can you talk about those? >> yes, i am wildly fascinated about this, as you know i wrote a book about this because as we are getting older, it becomes more of a concern. actually physical exercises one of the biggest protections as it turns out of cognitive health, physical exercise and people are sometimes surprised by that, president biden works out five days a week and smoking is a big thing that is a potential problem, he doesn't

smoke or 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 people who are rigorously exercising their brain if you well with all of these different challenges, that also is predictive of long-term cognitive health as well. >> we appreciate it. >> you know what else i have to tell you, having recent birthdays of your children. that makes it a huge difference as well. >> that's good, why it turned three yesterday, and sebastian turned one february 7th. i spent >> i can't even believe it. i have known you for so many years, i am just happy for you. >> yes, he got a bike with training wheels and actual petals, and it is his big boy bike. i took the day off yesterday to

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author judy bloom is one of the leading critics of banning books, her powerful books many dealing with growing up in dealing with adolescents mean a lot to many people. ground zero for many of her home state of florida, legislation by governor ron desantis and the republican controlled state legislature as we have been reporting, criteria for pulling books for florida schools is not clear and there's been a lot of anger over the move. one florida school district removed judy bloom's district for decades because they often dive into puberty and the new documentary, judy bloom forever on amazon prime dimes more into her story and in theaters today as the movie, are you there god,

based on her best-selling book, first published in 1970, the iconic author judy bloom joined me tonight. it is such a pleasure to meet you. you've had such an impact on so many generations of people, i remember when forever came out and it blew my mind when i was a kid. and you have faced people trying to ban your books, from a long time ago, did you ever imagine that you would still be facing these kind of attacks in 2023? >> never. never, never. of course, it is not just me, it is a whole lot of people who are facing the attacks today. it is much worse. >> it is worse than what way? >> it is worse because it is coming from the government. i mean, i happen to live in key west, which we pretend isn't in that state, where we have that governor. but, in fact it is, and, you know, we have elected elective

legislators, who are trying not to ban books, but, too, control kids what can learn, and what they can ask, and what they can think of. it is that bad, and it is not just in florida, it is in a lot of states. >> when you look at the current crop of particularly books that have been targeted, and your books are still being targeted, they often deal with matters of race, gender, identity and sexuality, you see, are those the same topics that we are being attempted to be banned, back in the 80s, let's say? >> you know, sexuality is always so dangerous, for anybody, puberty is such a dirty word to some people. so that is the same, but what is different is that any books,

lgbtq, any books having to do with gender, any books having to do with racism and what is really scary to me, it is that as if the book banners want to get rid of history, they just want to erase history, that is scary stuff. >> it is interesting to me, when you actually drill down on some of the people who are doing this, you realize, they haven't read these books, it is not like they've actually read them and are personally outraged, they often been downloaded lists of books that are supposedly dangerous for some organizations online, who just prints out lives of books who they think should be banned, and people go to school boards and raise , but they haven't read them.

>> exactly, but they never did read them, they didn't read them in the '80s either, it is based on fear, i've always thought it was based on fear, and it is based on, how can we control, we want to control our children's lives, are we going to do that, it is worse and worse with the internet, how can we control it? oh, i know, we can take away books. not guns, but books. >> can we talk a little bit about the way that you approached writing from the beginning? why you chose to write books that dealt candidly with real issues, facing young people. and me asking that question sounded so stupid, because it seems like such an obvious thing, of course, you are an author, and you would want to write books that dealt with real issues, but, there weren't a lot of people doing it when you started. >> i just knew that i wanted to ride and write books about real kids in the real world, that

was my real world, not everybody's. and, i hated secrets, got i hated secrets, family secrets, and a secret, when i was a kid. and, so, i wanted to be honest and truthful. i didn't know anything more than that. >> there was a lovely documentary that i think came out and started screaming last week about your life and work it is called judy bloom forever. and one of the things that is so amazing in this, and we are showing some of the video right now. that, not only the impact that you had on the lives of adolescents in the 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 incredible. >> yes, and in the documentary,

you made the two women, who have children themselves or are beyond, who wrote to me, one started when she was nine, and one and they have never lost touch. >> what an incredible family to have built. an extended family of readers and admirers, and people who become strangers and become friends. >> yes, i never think of it that way. but that is lovely, thank you. >> tonight is the opening of are you there god it is me margaret. you waited 53 years, to make this film, why so long? >> i don't know, you know i thought it would get ruined, although a book is a book and a movie is a movie. it wasn't until this team came along, and i just knew that it was the right team, and it

turned out to be absolutely the right team. >> i look forward to seeing you, judy bloom thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i was told there was a really big sporting event, that i had no idea about but here to explain it all to me next.

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so last night kicked off the 2023 nfl draft, which is apparently a big deal to a lot of people. i don't know much about how it works but the draft is seven rounds and each nfl team received an automatic pit taken each round, i really have to do this, this whole event spans across three days, and i know all of that because someone read it for me. i am just reading, i'm not even here. cnn harry denton is here to tell me at all. do people watch this on television? >> they absolutely do. >> so, this is a tv show where people watching football players getting picked for a team. >> correct. >> things that used to happen where i would try to hang back at school on the sidelines hoping to never get picked. >> or you might have gotten pick

last if you are picked at all. >> if i even showed up that day. >> if you are not cutting jim. >> people watch this? >> yes people watch this. >> what is the appeal? >> it is like 13 million people on average. >> god bless them, i wish i knew the characters. >> maybe you would be into it, that is what is so interesting to me, bryce young was picked number one, but which of course you knew obviously. >> that was in my, what you call that? that was in my -- my bracket. >> your ncaa bracket. that was a fun time. >> he was supposed to be picked really high up. he didn't even get picked in the first round. >> i try to complete the last thing the person has said and it makes me seem like i know. >> you're fooling me right here. >> just

players want the earlier rounds, why is that? >> that's because you get paid more money. the better players get picked earlier. the scouts who think are good get picked in the earlier round, but it turns out it's not always the case. there's a little bit of mystery. i was talking about "dallas." it's almost like a soap opera. somebody like a tom brady. >> put it in terms i can understand, soap opera. >> i like watching soap operas "dallas", falcon crest. >> this is somebody picked very, very late in the draft. >> does everybody have to stand there shirtless? >> for the combine. >> what's the combine? >> the combine is something you train for before time and they measure your times and you figure out what's exactly going to happen. >> people are tuning in and

looking at shirtless football players? >> they take those photos beforehand. i mean, maybe. but that tom brady picture is a very famous picture, because a lot of people were very surprised how good he ended up being. he was not somebody anybody expected. that's mystery of it all j i like mystery. how are salaries 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 we just had a contract with lamar jackson do you know how much he's making? >> i don't. >> over $50 million. $52 million a year. compare that to, you remember g joe montana? players salaries have exploded. which may be why they're turning in to the travel.

t draft. >> is it a fun show to watch in. >> i think it is a fun show to watch. they have a red carpet. they throw things back and go like this. it has something for everybody. >> all right, thanks very much. coming up, king charles will be crowned a week from tomorrow. but as the common wealth officially welcomes king charles, many are questioning the monarchy. a preview of that next. my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®.

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just a little over a week from now, king charles iii will officially be crowned after being heir to the crown for 70 years. as final preparations are under way, it's raising questions about what the monarchy means in a modern world. monica hill travels to london in search of those answers. here's a preview. >> reporter: the king is acutely aware, like his late mother was that they're only there for as long as the public wants them to be there. >> in britain, among 18-24-year-olds, specifically, we're now more than 50% toward support of abolishing the monarchy. >> there's no real rule about

how the uk would go about abolishing the monarchy. >> we have no constitution. that political will has to be there to abolish the monarchy. >> monarchy does depend on taxpayer money. every year that goes through the poll l parl lamentry process. >> reporter: last year it cost each taxpayer $1 >> it's his problem right now. and in the future william's problem. >> 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 for the coronation. they haven't seen this in 70 years. not a lot of people remember it

who were even alive 70 years ago. t they may have watch tooed it on. there's a very serious discussion about the cost ofr e. and that was coming nun the questioning about how much is we actually spending on it. >> he's 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. i mean, the issues with the family at 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 expert that is we spoke with, scholars and journalists who work closest, foreign secretaries to the queen and to king charles. he has been watching and

planning for 70 years trying to rally around causes he believes in. what i was told is he does see this as a role that is all about service. it is about serving the british people. the question 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 hoo this place. >> thanks so much. look forward to it. the reign begins, charles and camilla, this sunday at 8:00 p.m. and the coronation will be televised with all the pomp and pageantry here on cnn. the news continues next. tonight the showdown in washington. fwrt pre >> the president can no longer put this economy in jeopardy. >> this maga wish list has no chance of moving forward in the senate. >> just as president biden announces he's running for a second term. >> let's finish the job! >> we'll talk with one-tim