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we have an emergency situation here in southern orange county. >> parts of new york recovering from a once in a thousand year flood event. >> oh, my god. it's up to my knees. >> officials say at least one person has died in floodwaters after powerful storms. >> you can see water gushing past houses and rising around cars. the president starts his trip in the uk, meeting with prime minister rishi sunak. >> the two leaders have actually met six times, believe it or not, over the past six months. >> while in london he will meet with king charles at windsor castle. >> the two men are expected to discuss climate issues which is a key priority for king charles. that nato summit will be the

centerpiece of president biden's trip here to europe. >> high on the agenda ukraine's push to join the alliance as well as sweden's bid for accession. >> zelenskyy told erin burnett that that decision is entirely up to president biden. >> i don't think there is unanimity in nato to bring ukraine into the nato family now in the middle of a war. a warning today about a sports drink that is all the rage with the young people. >> we have created our own drink company. >> engaged in a vast advertising campaign aimed at kids even though kids aren't supposed to drink a drink with this much can a caffeine. drama in the gold cup counterfinals the u.s. answering a late goal from canada in the final minutes spending it to

penalties. >> if he misses the u.s. moves to the semifinal. it's off the war, the u.s. wins it. good morning, everyone, i'm phil mattingly here with pamela brown in washington, d.c., poppy is off. i know you were staying up late to watch the gold cup quarterfinals. >> of course, i'm going off of an hour of sleep. it's all good. >> the u.s. women also winning the week before the u.s. world cup. most importantly, pamela, there is a ton of news on a monday morning. >> there is. >> which i greatly appreciate. >> it's not always the case. >> better than coffee and that's why we will begin in london where president biden has kicked off his high stakes trip to europe after spending the past rum of hours meeting with british prime minister rishi sunak the president will meet with king charles for the first time since his coronation. >> they come ahead of nato's summit in lithuania. arlette saenz is live at 10 downing street and max foster is

standing by at windsor castle. arlette, let's kick it off with you this morning. what are you hearing about biden's meeting with sunak? >> reporter: president biden spent about 40 minutes at 10 do you think to meet with british prime minister rishi sunak. the president described their conversation and their relationship saying that they have an incredibly strong bond. really that bond and connection has been built around the u.s. and the uk's continued unity and support for ukraine during its war against russia. this comes as the president is set to head to the nato summit, so this meeting between biden and sunak gave him an opportunity to kind of consult ahead of that meeting of the nato alliance and it also came just a few days after president biden approved sending controversial cluster munitions to ukraine. a move that puts him at odds with many allies within nato, including the united kingdom. sunak has noted that the uk is one of over 100 countries that

has signed on to a convention that prohibits the production and the use of cluster munitions and also discourages the use of them by other countries as well. the white house has really tried to down play this difference that there is between the u.s. and allies, saying that there is not going to be a fracture in the alliance when it comes to supporting ukraine. so the president here started his day talking about ukraine, they also touched on other issues like climate, technology, artificial intelligence and also china and now he is heading on his way to windsor castle for that first engagement with king charles iii since his coronation. >> max, i have to ask, there's always a lot of intrigue when it comes to president biden and the uk. president biden and royalty to some degree. what are the expectations heading into biden's first meeting with now king charles? >> reporter: yeah, well, the red

carpet being rolled out as it is for the u.s. president. he will arrive at the castle, there will be a guard of honor, they will play the u.s. national anthem then they will go into the castle for tea, it's something that u.s. presidents always enjoy. the first serving president that king charles metith was eisenhower back in959 so there is a long history there that obviously plays into queen elizabeth's history as well with the many u.s. presidents that she met. what is different about this visit is that we're actually being told that we are they're going to discuss which would never have been the case for elizabeth, those conversations were all highly confidential. we are told they will be discussing environment, something that king charles and the president of the u.s. share a lot of common interest over, so they will have a discussion about that. a lot to fix actually frankly in this special relationship as it's called here in the uk. there are tensions, arlette was talking about ukraine, not just about these cluster bombs, but also how quickly ukraine should

become a member of nato and reportedly president biden rejected the uk's choice as head of nato as well. when it comes to the head of state meeting this is all about firming up the long-term relationship between two the countries. so some pressure on king charles to get this one right as a big meeting for him at the beginning of his monarchy. >> the first meeting with president biden as the king. thanks so much, max foster and arlette saenz, with he appreciate it. we are now hearing from the kremlin that yevgeny prigozhin met with president vladimir putin after -- after that short-lived mutiny at the end of june. we are told the meeting took place on june 29th, five days after that rebellion. cnn's clare sebastian joins us live from london. this is still kind of the stunning news of this morning. what exactly do we know right now. >> reporter: another major twist in in tale. the kremlin saying the meeting happened on june 29th just five days after that armed rebellion and 11 days ago so that raises of course questions why did they

wait so long to tell us. news outlet.leak ia french we know it lasd three hours according to demetri peskov, he doesn't y at exactly was discand that it involved 35 people. they are saying all unit commanders and the leadership of the complain including prigozhin. this seems to be deliberately ambiguous. they are not saying whether these are the commanders of the overall so-called special military operation, so ministry of defense figures, the kremlin would not comment on whether any representative of the ministry of defense was there, but they do say that putin listened to the explanations provided by the commanders and offered them further options for deployment and a farther combat use, again, major questions around that. does this signal that wagner could still have a role to play in this conflict. that of course is crucial to ukraine. we still don't know by the way where yevgeny prigozhin is, if this meeting was on the 29th we don't know where he has gone since then. there have been no photos or videos of him emerging since the

armed rebellion itself where he was seen leaving rostov in russia. one interesting comment i want to bring out is he said that the commanders said they were staunch supporters of the head of state and supreme commander, putin himself, also that they were ready to ready continue to fight for the moreland. are they reaffirming their support for putin? does wagner continue to have a role to play in this war? many questions. >> left reading the tea leaves. clare sebastian, thank you so much. >> three hours, wow. let's bring in former u.s. ambassador to ukraine william taylor. he is the president of the russia and europe center at the u.s. institute of peace. cnn military analyst former member of joint staff at the pentagon and former deputy director for training at the nsa, retired colonel cedric later and cnn senior political analyst nia-malika henderson. all-star panel to talk about the news happening. so much going on. let's start with this meeting.

i want to get your reaction to this, ambassador, this meeting between prigozhin and putin just days after this attempted coup. >> pamela, it's hard to understand. i mean, here is president putin who came out guns ablazing on the 24th of june saying that prigozhin was a traitor and stabbed the russian nation in the back and he was going to crush him, and then he meets with him again? i think this demonstrates putin's weakness. i think it really shows how weak he is. >> okay. so where has he been for the next 11 days? >> who knows? that's the right question, phil. we don't know where this guy was but clearly he was not under control. clearly he was not in belarus. he was not going by the deal that he apparently struck with putin through lukashenko so we don't know. >> what is the sits of this? like in the larger picture with the war going on in ukraine? >> pamela, the big thing that i look at this as ambassador taylor said, you know, this guy

is weak. if he were going to be playing the czar, in russian history you always had the czar as the center of all things good even though there were evil happening in the middle of the bureaucracy, the czar would take care of you eventually. putin could have played that role but it appears he didn't play that role. since he didn't do that, i agree with the ambassador, this makes him very weak. from a military standpoint this could mean that the wagner group comes back into ukraine. could mean. it could also mean that they are trying to reorganize things because they have a shortage of munitions or they have a shortage of weapon systems or a shortage of personnel. i believe they have a shortage in all those three areas. >> so everything is clear as mud obviously in moscow, which is par for the course to some degree but this is all happening as president biden and nato leaders head into a very consequential summit in lithuania. from president biden's perspective what's kind of the key take away, what duds he need from this meeting?

>> you know, i think stability, right? and this ongoing support of the ukrainian war effort. you have in america polls showing that americans by and large support this, it's over 50%, it's more than biden's approval rating so he needs to keep this alliance together, he needs to keep nato strong. if you flashback to president trump's presidency, a very different take on nato and america's position in the world. so i think if you're biden you want to stretchingen nato, you want to also -- i mean, just sort of politically for his own benefit, i think, you want to make no mistakes, right? no gaffes over there that are visible and sort of easily picked up on by the american public. mainly i think it's making sure that the alliance stays together, that they stay strong in support of this effort of ukraine. listen, there has been some disagreement around these munitions, for instance, the cluster munitions, some disagreement here from his people of his own party and then of course some disagreement with the nato alliance as well. >> and on that note i'm wondering, ambassador, because as a former diplomat behind the

scenes you heard jake sullivan the president's national security adviser say, look, we haven't had any, you know, issues with our allies over the cluster munitions, even though a majority of the nato countries have banned cluster munitions and the production of it. he said there's been no issue. you had that statement from sunak, the prime minister of the uk expressing the uk's stance, but behind the scenes do you think it's a different situation in terms of what the allies are saying to the biden administration about this decision? >> i think what the allies are saying is we need ukraine to win. we are united behind ukraine, we want to push the russians out. in order to do that the ukrainians need ammunition, 155 artillery ammunition. it turns out they don't have very much, it turns out we don't have very much of the unitary. what we have a lot of are these cluster munitions. so in order to get them the ammunition they need for right now, until we can ramp up production of this unitary, they need to provide -- they need the

right ammunition so that russians can't run them over. >> can i just follow up quickly, if you don't mind. in terms of the difference between the cluster munitions the u.s. is sending over versus what russia has been using, break it down for us, cedric. it's called the dud rate, right? >> that's right. yeah, the dud rate is basically the failure rate, if you will, of these munitions. so for the american munitions that are being planned to be shipped to ukraine the dud rate is about 2.35%. for -- and that's the official -- those are the official figures. in real life it will probably be a little bit higher than that but it is definitely not going to be as high as the russian rate which is around 30% to 40%, which is incredibly bad. >> ambassador, can i ask you a critical kind of substory of this nato summit is sweden and turkey's continued blocking of their accession into nato. finland is already in. sweden is kind of hanging out there right now. i think if you read between the lines of what president biden

has said to some degree some of the statements out of the turkish foreign ministry there is atial deal in theks or hanging out there, turkey obviously wants access to f-16s, they have a lot of powerful capitol hill objectors to that idea, perhaps you build up some of -- the defense capabilities as deal, get an agreement for turkey to sign off. i'm not trying to make this into chess here, but is there an end game here that you see? >> there is an end game, phil. we will see sweden in nato. maybe we will see it this week. >> really? >> maybe we will see it this week, maybe there is a deal, as you said, president biden talked to president erdogan, they have had a conversation about f-16s, about sweden. there is a deal there and i expect that that will happen this week, but if it doesn't happen this week it will happen shortly thereafter. >> even with -- i mean, congress does have a say over weapons

capabilities being sent even to allies. >> and that gives president biden leverage when he talks to erdogan. he's going to say you need to let sweden in or there is no chance of getting the f-16s. >> you have the looming question about ukraine and its desire to join nato. you heard the president say not right now, the president doesn't want to get into a war with russia. you look at article 5, if ukraine joined it would certainly complicate things. how important is it for the president to work with the allies to lay out a path for ukraine to join? >> listen, i think it's incredibly important but i think people understand. if you let ukraine in now this is a war with russia and that is what biden and the allies want to prevent at all costs. it is important to lay out what are the guidelines. is there has to be some sort of settlement, i think, of this war, some sort of peace deal as well as some democratization as well. president biden talked about that with ukraine. there has to be some sort of

path. it sounds like at this point the allies are all in agreement that letting ukraine in at this point would be a disaster because it would mean a strike against ukraine would be -- would invite basically world war iii. >> and the president saying after the war. what does that mean? what is the end game, you know, as this war continues to drag on? thank you all so much. great to hear your perspective, your expertise on these issues this morning. it's being called a once in a millennium rainfall. ahead the areas in the northeast that are still at risk this morning. and man hunts are under way on both coasts this morning after inmates right here, you see them, described as dangerous by authorities, they escaped from jail and they are on the run. ♪ i gotta good feeling about ththis, yeah ♪ ♪ i'm with it ♪ ♪ i gotta good feeling about this ♪ ♪ yeah, ♪ ♪ so let's get it ♪ ♪ i'm feeling good vibes ♪

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just north of new york city parts of the hudson valley saw a once in a millennium levels of rain. this was the scene in highland falls, new york. look at that. it's incredible. a woman was reportedly swept away by raging floodwaters and drowned while trying to evacuate from her home with her dog. a rescue team was using the boat to save this man stranded in his house. you can see piles of trees and debris pushed up against the homes. the storm dropped nearly 8 inches of rain at the u.s. military academy at west point. flooding was so bad that people had to swim out of their cars after becoming stuck. >> and now the storm system is bearing down on new england. as of right now more than 1,000 flights are already canceled or delayed today. we have team coverage, pete muntean is tracking the travel chaos the storm has been causing. let's start with polo sandoval, he is live on the ground in rockland county, new york. what is the situation there right now, polo? >> reporter: well, pam and phil, good morning to you. with that rain shifting to the north as you just mentioned that

moons a break in the clouds here and an opportunity for recovery, but the impact certainly stim being felt. for example, you look behind me, that road block here on the palisades interstate parkway, that is detouring drivers here most of the day. if you've driven on it you know it's extremely busy, especially on a monday just mortgage of new york city. one of the most affected areas north of here were thosed into waters that proved deadly last night. >> look at the people's door. oh, my god. >> reporter: historic flooding slamming southeastern new york on sunday. >> it's up to my knees. >> i know. >> reporter: orange county officials say at least one woman died after she was swept away in floodwaters in the town of highlands. >> we have an emergency situation here in southern orange county, in particular the highland falls area. >> reporter: a state of emergency was declared in ontario and orange county sunday by new york governor kathy hochul. in orange county hochul and the orange county executives said it

was due to, quote, life-threatening flooding and power outages to more than 12,000 homes. >> we have flooding situations and emergency calls. if you do not need to be on the road, is that i off the road. >> reporter: at west point intense rain recorded there totaled more than 7 1/2 inches in six hours according to preliminary data from noaa. a cnn analysis of noaa's historical rainfall frequency data indicates this would be a 1 in a 1,000 year rainfall event. also in orange county the city of cornwall issued a no travel advisory due to numerous flooded roadways, stranded vehicles, water rescues, mudslides, downed trees and debris. in rockland county flooding stranded vehicles, police say they've been assisting local fire departments and ems hoping to get stranded motorists to safety. new york state police urging people to avoid the palisades interstate parkway due to heavy flooding and washouts. it's not just new york state feeling the print of it. on sunday vermont governor phil

scott declared a state of emergency. friday heavy rain washed out a portion of route 4 in killington. and this morning an orange county official confirming they will be putting in place a nonemergency vehicle and pedestrian ban in orange county through this evening just north of here. but the threat far from over with 25 million americans under some form of flood threat with the potential for excessive rains just north of new york state tonight. >> reminds me of the scenes of my home state of kentucky a year ago and that rebuilding still going on. our thoughts and prayers are with the knocks folks there. polo sandoval, thank you so much. more than 10,000 flights were delayed or canceled yesterday as that wall of storms pummeled the east coast. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean is live for us at reagan national airport just outside the nation's capital. pete, a nation's travelers turned their lonely and weary eyes to you, give them good news, pete.

>> reporter: you know, the weather has cleared out today, phil, and that is the good news, although airlines are still recovering after that huge day for cancellations yesterday. just checked flight aware, 437 cancellations already today after the more than 2,000 nationwide yesterday. that puts it in the top five for cancellations this year. a busy day for a lot of folks, in fact, the tsa told me they screened 2.63 million people at airports nationwide yesterday, all the folks coming back from the holiday week. the worst airports, new york especially hard hit, laguardia, half of all flights in or out canceled yesterday. newark 8% of all united flights canceled. jfk huge international hub about one in five flights there canceled. boston logan hit hard, philadelphia hit hard, reagan national airport 20% of all flights canceled. the faa says as that weather moved through the east coast it

cut off major flight routes. essentially the on and off ramps to get into busy airports. we are still hearing about ground stocps today, we are not out of the woods just yet. the faa warning of ground stops in new york, also in boston and in florida as the day goes on. this is the big tip and the big take away you should take from this according to travel experts, try to take the first flight out if you can, it's the weather that builds later in the day that's usually the problem and if you leave early, you have a 25% better chance of getting to where you want to go on time. phil? >> pete, you should have like a travel website. he gives good tips. don't minimize yourself as just our brilliant aviation correspondent. >> reporter: thanks. >> diversify yourself. >> diversify. pete muntean sharing his brilliance. >> here we have a business strategist phil mattingly for us. so let's turn to iowa.

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happening now, president biden is arriving at windsor castle to meet with king charles. this is their first meeting since king charles took over the throne. let's bring in cnn political director david chalian, senior political analyst nia-malika henderson and national political reporter for axios, alex thompson. and max foster joins us from windsor castle. that's a lot of people joining us and for good reason because we have a lot going on. max, as we look at these live pictures, what should we expect? >> reporter: well, he'll travel a short distance from the helicopter into the quadrangle at windsor castle where there will be a guard of honor, they will play the national anthem, they will inspect the guard as well. you will remember a few years ago it didn't go so well when president trump was there, he got lost going along the line, but this is king charles' first

moment like this where he can guide the president along that guard of honor. that that will be interesting to see. the red carpet rolled out for the u.s. president as it always is. an absolutely crucial relationship to the united kingdom. the most important alliance. so you have the welsh guards here, they are actually based just down the road in windsor, they are involved in the coronation which president biden didn't attend of course, so some people suggesting there is some tension because of that. i think actually king charles was very happy to have jill biden there and, you know, that he had the invitation, he wasn't able to attend. this is a moment where we can celebrate the bilateral relationship between two countries and ignore some of the tensions between the u.s. and uk which undoubtably set in over the situation in ukraine. >> alex, i want to ask you because you covered the president so closely during his time in the white house. we are looking at windsor castle right now as max was saying the guard of honor playing as we

await the president coming in. you saw the two chinook helicopters carrying staff and press landing just outside so we should be seeing the president shortly. the president on the international stage, i think when you talk to advisers they made clear this is something that an mates him, he certainly likes this part of the presidency. behind the scenes for moments like this, what kind of drives president biden? >> i mean, this is not unusual for an incumbent president running for reelection because on the nt stage you don't have congressional republicans basically telling you no all the time. right. so he gets to go -- and you saw this in the interview with fareed zakaria over the weekend, too, where he was just so much more comfortable talking about these issues. also, you know, as he was the head of the senate foreign relations committee, too. these are issues that really animate him. i can tell you just behind the scenes when even aides will say you can tell that he is going through these briefing books looking for little things, going and doing these meticulous details about the ammunition that they're sending to ukraine, really getting in the weeds in

ways that he doesn't always with other issues. >> you know, when you think about these two men meeting, this, again, the first time that president biden also meeting with charles since his coronation, the two men they have a lot in common, right? they have waited a long time for the jobs that they have, right? they share a passion for climate change no doubt that will be a centerpiece of the discussion today. they've also faced some of the same challenges when it comes to winning over, you know -- >> that's right. no. i think that's right. i bet their approval ratings are similar, biden's is something like 40% and some folks, you know, king charles has been in public and booed often, people questioning the worth of the royalty and the royal family at this point. as you said, i mean, these men have lots in common, waiting for decades and decades to get the big job, they both have it now so they will meet for the first time and this real interest in climate change, right? if you think about queen

elizabeth wasn't really clear what she was interested in other than those cute little dogs that she had and we know here for king charles that this has been a real passion of his for years and years and years. it's also a passion of president biden's as well and the democratic party, progressives in particular. so i'm sure that will take up some time in their discussion. listen, this is just cool. sort of the pomp and circumstance. >> i'm captivated watching this, right? >> exactly. >> this is a beautiful entry. it will be interesting also for king charles, i'm watching as well because he of course has been outspoken on climate change but now he is in a new role as king, right, and typically there is the motto light over politics and you don't go there when it comes to politics. we will have to see how he is. >> he has to be a little bit more careful in terms of how he talks about this passion of his which is so important to the global, the climate change we're seeing here obviously in america with these record temperatures so we will see what comes out this have meeting. >> david, i do want to ask you

saw marine come down and land, we should see the president coming off marine one shortly. >> behind trees, with he won't be able to see him disembark from the helicopter. >> president running for reelection, a major geopolitical moment as well given the fact that the ukraine war is still ongoing, about to head to a consequential nato summit. >> joe biden if you want to follow the trajectory here he is president because of his stature on the world stage throughout his career. it's why barack obama put him on the ticket in 2008 as vice president was because barack obama was -- had no experience in that area really of world affairs and needed he felt to bolster the ticket. joe biden becomes vice president largely because of his foreign policy credentials and his ability to work around the globe with a whole host of global leaders. so there's no doubt this is one of his favorite pieces of the job. i wonder, you know, when he used

to visit with the queen he probably like the age comparison better than now meeting with the younger king. >> 74. >> yeah, exactly. but, you know, there is no doubt. this is sort of the precursor to what you're discussing, phil, which is the meat of this trip will be the nato component to this given it seems that, you know, nato is at a particularly tricky moment given where the situation is with ukraine and russia and the length of time needed for continued investment and where that is. you can start seeing while it's been an unbelievably unified alliance due to the president's work, you can start seeing the continued work that the president is going to need to do to keep it unified. >> and i want to go back to max foster there on the ground as this all plays out. tell us what's going on here, max. >> reporter: well, it's a guard of honor. they don't have the same protocols in windsor as they do with at buckingham palace. these have developed in recent

decades but the queen would obviously not want to travel up to buckingham palace in her older years so she would hold a lot of thee receptions and national events at windsor castle instead. so we can see the king coming out now, a big test for him really. you were discussing there environment. we never found out what was discussed in the meetings with the queen. she always kept that absolutely confidential. we're seeing a new way this king is handling these moments, both the white house and the palace have told us they're going to be discussing environment, which for many has become a political issue, which is something that monarchs are not meant to be getting involved with. here in the uk the environment minister recently resigned because he said rishi sunak didn't care about the environment and that caused a real stink. but we know that king charles has always had an interest in the environment, he is refusing to let it go, he has told the world he's going to discuss it in this meeting with president biden and hopefully get some movement on that issue on something that they have common ground on. once the president arrives there will be this guard of honor, you will see them inspecting the

guards there, which is something that charles has a lot of experience in, one of the advantages he has for being one of the longest serving heirs to the monarchy in the uk and they're currently playing the british national anthem and that will be followed a bit later on when the president arrives with the american national anthem. >> max, can i ask you, you know, with he see obviously king charles standing there, we are awaiting president biden walking out as well. you mentioned this is at windsor castle, this isn't buckingham. i think part of the reason, you can correct me if i'm wrong on this, buckingham palace is undergoing some rehabilitation at this moment, some construction at this moment, but the significance of this between these two men, i think pamela and nia were talking about they have had similar trajectories to some degree. what do you know about their relationship, king charles and president biden? >> reporter: well, largely my experience has been through the climate issue, so the summit in glasgow when they had a meeting

in 2021 on the sidelines there and they got on really well on that issue. this is the key issue for king charles. so i think that's where they find common ground. i think as you say in my experience of u.s. presidents coming to the uk really enjoying these moments because they stand the test of time, don't they, that image next to a british monarch and the queen was the towering figure, the longest serving head of state. i know that u.s. presidents would like to have that photo with the queen and this is a new era, charles' era, so it's a significant moment because he's also going to be in in role for many decades to come. i think they can look to the long-term relationship between the two nations whereas this morning we saw a shorter-term discussion of relations between the u.s. and the uk when president biden met with the prime minister. but these are very important moments because they go down in the history books, these images last forever and king charles will use it showing how many u.s. presidents he has met in many years to come. this is the first serving

president he has operated with. interesting to see how that will play out. >> help us better understand the difference between the queen's meetings with -- the late queen we should say -- meetings with former u.s. presidents and what we expect between this meeting with king charles and president biden today. the difference there. >> reporter: well, the difference is just that we never -- you know, the queen's policy was to never ever discuss what happened in those meetings and we would be told that we would never find out what happens in those meetings because the idea of those meetings was the presidents just as their own prime ministers here in this country could have a completely free discussion without, you know, any concern about it leaking and not having to hold back in any way. this was something that u.s. presidents -- i know that president trump would talk to the queen about historic moments because she's had so much experience. she had so much experience. but charles has also had a lot of experience. he meet president eisenhower his

first serving u.s. president back in 1959. he has been often in those meetings with the queen. so i think that he's got a lot of history just not as a serving monarch. they will go inside, as the queen would have done, and have tea. that's the british tradition. and i think presidents always enjoy that. the one difference is they're then going to go into a discussion about a conference that's been held here about climate change. president biden will be drawn into that. it will be interesting to hear from the white house what was discussed in there, i don't know how much we will hear from the palace, but i think it will be very telling to see how charles will handle his monarchy if they really divulge a lot of information about that meeting. he is a bit more political this monarch than his predecessor and it shows how he's changing the tone of british monarchy really. >> i just have a quick follow because president biden did not attend king charles' coronation, he sent his wife and his granddaughter. i wonder if king charles has any sore feelings from that at all. >> reporter: you know, they

would have loved to have had him here, i'm sure, the key ally, the key head of state that would have flown in away from the commonwealth leaders. i haven't been given any suggestion but certainly it's been -- there is a lot of talk in london it would have been nice to have the president here, but i think that, you know, the most important thing is that they are seen to get on very well and that's what today is all about and showing those images. this is the quadrangle, by the way, this is the part that the public is never allowed in, this is the private part of this huge thousand year old castle. interesting to see how charles is using these properties now as well. he hasn't moved into windsor in the same way that the queen was there. it was her favorite property, she was always there, she had her horses there. he hasn't done the same, but we're being shown here that he will be using it for state events. we will wait to see how this private part of the property is used in future because there is a suggestion that buckingham palace will just become a public space and perhaps windsor castle should be as well. he's trying to cut back on the costs of monarchy to try to show

that he is in tune with the cost of living crisis and, you know, the world going forward which has quite an awkward relationship with the monarchy frankly and all the privilege they have. >> it's illuminating kind of the new dynamics of a new king. alex, i want to ask you and i want to get to max with this, too, but i want to ask you as we bring the panel back in while we wait for president biden, every time president biden heads to the uk there is kind of a fascination with his irish roots. you're seeing the president's motorcade looks to be rolling in right now. i would love going on foreign trips with him to the uk and reading the british media's response to sometimes what they would perceive to be a level of coldness to the uk. tell people about that. >> there is this one really fascinating exchange several years ago where a reporter from the bbc asked him a question and biden responded bbc, i'm irish. >> which we laughed at but in the uk it was like a very significant thing. >> exactly.

and i think you're going to see -- i'm assuming -- a different sort of tone, a different sort of energy than when the president was in ireland just a few months ago, which honestly is probably the happiest i have ever seen him as president. the guy was just having a great time, was doing selfies out in the public, was staying out late, which he doesn't do all that often especially out in public. so i think you're absolutely right, it is going to be some really interesting body language to watch. >> yeah, he was tracing his family roots, he was really soaking it up engaging there. i want to bring in sally smith, as we see president biden approaching in the motorcade. sally, what is the significance in your view of this meeting today between president biden and king charles? we should note to our viewers no one covers the royal family better than sally smith. >> thank you. >> bring us there. >> well, i think it's going to be very congenial, i think they are absolutely of like mind on climate. this is an issue that has been

animating charles for 50 years. he gave his first meet on the environment in 1970. he is no stranger to convening british businessmen, british philanthropists and he has -- you can see he has a good chemistry with biden. he has met him a number of times over the years and the last time he was at windsor castle was two years ago with biden's mother and it was a really congenial meeting. he said later that the queen reminded him of his own mother and so i think there's a lot of warmth between the two of them and -- [ playing national anthem ]

[ playing national anthem ] >> poignant moment there as we see king charles, president biden listening to the national

anthem. sally, continue, if you would, please. >> well, also i think what's going to be really interesting about today is that unlike previous meetings that monarchs have had with presidents, at least in the case of queen elizabeth ii, her meetings with the bidens two years ago, with the obamas, with president trump and melania, they were all sort of ceremonial occasions. this is very different. this is going to be a meeting of -- this is going to deal with climate and he has and the people he has invited, philanthropists and finance years and industrialists, people who have already been on board the climate bandwagon and the purpose -- i mean, it is really interesting that it is a meeting with a purpose, a very difficult

agenda so that will be a real departure from what we have seen. >> you had mentioned, sally, that there would be sort of collegiality between them and a warmth between them. i thought it was interesting when we saw them first meet, there was some physical touching. and do you all remember when michelle obama had the gall, apparently, to put her hand on the small of the back of the queen in 2009. and there was all of this outrage. and the queen was totally cool with it. >> by the way, they had their arms around each other. i talked to two people who were right in front of them and said it really started when they were comparing their shoes. >> it dominated days of coverage. and biden gets out and grabs the king by his arm. >> and we always look at the body language. but biden, correct me if i'm wrong, he did not bow to queen elizabeth. >> he didn't. and to be fair, bowing is

optional, and has been. but he had a very warm exchange with them. >> he says his mother told him not to bow to the queen. >> which fed into what alex was talking about and the perception of whether or not biden is, because of his irish roots, is not -- >> i think he's putting that aside. i think this is much, much more important. >> max, i want to ask you as we watch president biden and king charles, walk people through what we're seeing right now. people might have some memories of what president trump did something similar in a different location, obviously. what are these two actually doing right now? >> well, this is just an inspection of the guard. it's just a tradition that they have there at windsor to invite foreign head of state to protect the guard that's seen as our head of state. it's seen as a big honor. trump struggled with that, because he didn't quite know how to walk along the line. the queen wasn't guiding him

properly, to be fair, because it was always prince philip who had done that before. here in the uk, biden has been touted as an anti-british president, because he spent so much time focusing on the -- on ireland, which is of course legitimate, because he identifies as being of irish de des descent, but at the time there was a big row between the brexit agreements, and there was concern that president biden was favoring the british side rather than the irish side in those debates. that's certainly a tension here in the uk. one of the many tensions in the u.s./uk relationship right now. this body lanl, what we're seeing here, very important to show in images that the two heads of state do have a good chemistry. and are getting on. and to be fair to biden, he has a very good chemistry as well with ritchie sunak, the british

fro prime minister, but quite fundamental differences of opinion on how to handle the war in ukraine. i don't think they're going to go there in these discussions. they're going to keep it to environment. >> max, it's interesting, the president also has english r roots. which the english/british politicians try to point out when they get a little frustrated about his very close ties and very publicly close ties with ireland. but you mentioned the body language, the relationship between the two. you and sally have both been talking about the substance of this discussion and this meeting itself. do you see this as an opportunity for president biden to try and kind of utilize this meeting for political or policy purposes? and i don't mean that in pejorative sense or a surface-based sense, but actually on trying to move the ball forward on climate goals, or trying to move the ball forward, perhaps, given what's coming in terms of the substance of the ukraine issue, as they head into a nato summit. >> yeah, i think, suddenly, in terms of climate, you know,

having traveled with charles around the world, it's certainly seen as a legitimate pioneer on that climate issue. and he's hugely well connected with that world. he's very close to john kerry. i've been told that they speak regularly about climate issues. and this is something that, you know, this is an opportunity for president biden to show i am in tune with the climate issues, with one of the world's leading pioneers and for charles, frankly, someone that can do something about the climate issue is president biden. so he can also show that he's working with a key player in that space. king charles raised some eyebrows when he talked about the unprovoked attack on ukraine from russia. because king charles wouldn't normally get involved in an issue like that when he's meant to represent uk around the world. and one day, we have russia and the uk as well when those relations get back to normal. and there's fundamental problems there with that ukraine issue. and they've only bubbled up in the recent weeks. and they are that president

biden reportedly rejected president biden's choice for the head of nato. the ukraine wants to be brought into nato more quickly than the u.s. and in britain, cluster bombs are illegal. they cannot, would never, ever sell them and it's pretty clear that ritchie sunak disagrees with president biden on that issue. and if you look at king charles' humanitarian work, i don't imagine he would ever support the use of cluster bombs. the best way of dealing with that in a monarchy situation is to avoid the situation altogether. and stick to whiskey. >> max, we'll circle back with you after this quick break as we watch the pomp and circumstance at windsor castle play out on this monday morning. our custom ink rep is just as excited as we are anand knows what great quality products to get. celebrate your milestones with custom gearar. get started today at customink.com.

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good monday morning, everyone. i'm phil mattingly here in d.c. pamela brown is with me. there is a lot of news happening right now. we've been following a lot of it live. we're going to keep following it live. president biden meeting right now with king charles at windsor castle on the eve of the high-stakes summit with nato leaders in lithuania. we'll take you live to england. and the kremlin is now claiming that vladimir putin personally met with the mercenary leader accused of staging rebellion in russia. this is surprising news this morning. this meeting allegedly happened just days after the immmutiny, the mercenary chief's fate and miss whereabouts, that's still a mystery. and deadly flash flooding drenching new york. but the threat is not under yet. over 25 million americans are under flood alerts as the

slow-moving storm moves north. this morning of "cnn this morning" starts right now. and good morning, everybody. it is happening right now, president biden is in the midst of his meeting with king charles at windsor castle. you saw the meeting just a short while ago. this meeting happening on the eve of a critical summit with nato leaders. just noted, just moments ago. >> the warm embrace there between the two men. the president arrived, inspected the honor guard. it is the first time the king and president biden have met face to face since charles ascended the throne. they are set to discuss climate change and clean energy, and tomorrow, russia's war in ukraine will take center stage when the nato allies meet in lithuania. max foster is live at windsor castle. max, what is the significance of president biden's stopping in england before the nato summit? >> reporter: well, it's an opportunity that american presidents like to take up and