good day, everyone, this is "andrea mitchell reports" in washington. as the british people get a chance to pay their final respects to a beloved monarch, the queen's casket is on display for viewing. earlier the casket was gathered on a gun carriage previously used for the queen mother in 2002 and before that, the queen's father, king george vi in 1952, followed by her children, king charles iii, princess anne, andrew and edward, and both grandsons, prince william and harry. in washington today massachusetts senator elizabeth warren will be joining me on inflation and on how abortion

are both dominating the parties' divide heading into the midterms. and former homeland security secretary jeh johnson will be here to discuss the mar-a-lago document fight and the january 6th investigations. but we begin in london with nbc's molly hunter, msnbc royal commentator daisy mcandrew. molly, let's talk about what we've seen from the royal family today as the citizens throughout that country are finally getting their say, their chance to say goodbye to queen elizabeth in person. >> yeah, andrea, that's exactly right. the coffin today is moving from the family to the people. we are actually across from westminster hall. the queen is lying in state just across the river from where i am right now. and people line the streets of london for that procession. it was incredibly moving, and daisy can speak to being outside of buckingham palace when

everyone went by. everyone was huddled around their mobile phones to watch that procession. police estimate between 700,000 and 1 million people will wait to pay their respects. so the doors of westminster hall, andrea, open up to the public at 5:00, right now. you can see this line is already moving. it runs for ten miles. and i actually want to bring in my friends over here cindy and della from texas. andrea, as you mentioned, it's not just brits saying goodbye. last night people were already camping out. you were in the procession, on the side, lining the streets. so you watched that, and then you came over here. first of all, why did you come over? >> texas is all -- texas. she's all of our queen. she's all of our queen. she's the world's queen. >> we had to be here, we had to be part of this momentous occasion. >> what went through your head? >> she's somebody we've known

all of our lives, most of us, all of our lives. this is something that touched all of our hearts. even across the pond, everywhere in the world. we're fortunate we had the ability to come over at the drop of a pin, so here we are. >> can you describe, i've been trying to subscribe -- describe for our american audience the atmosphere over here. it's not just somber, there's reverence but also a fun, celebratory thing. you're all united in this line, making friends in this line because you're all here in the same reason. when i met you, you guys had already made some british friends. >> we have, we've only been here for 24 hours. in that time we watched the queen when she landed last night from scotland. we made friends on line trying to see the procession here and on line at westminster abbey. everyone has a genuine spirit of love and camaraderie, everybody here knows we're here to pay

respect. there's respect all the way across the board. >> i don't want you guys to lose your spot in line, andrea, this line is moving quickly, it goes across the river and doubles back towards westminster. quickly, what does it mean to see coffin? >> last night it was a surprise when she went by, my heart started beating fast. we were in the presence of literally royalty. it felt just surreal. that's the best word. >> i don't want you to lose your spots in line. thank you so much. andrea, i'll send it back to you, but it's interesting, they're not the only people that talk about this moment of kind of gasping, of surprise when the coffin actually goes by. we knew that that was going to happen. we were all expecting, we knew the exact route that it was traveling through london. there was still this moment where i think people really caught their breath and appreciated what they were seeing. >> absolutely, molly, it's just so interesting, they're from texas. daisy mcandrew, does it surprise

you and the british people that people from all over the world are so fascinated by the procession, by the pageantry, and by the legacy of this monarch? >> i don't know, andrea, if i would say it surprised me, but i think all british people are feeling very proud of the fact that we're not just talking to ourselves at the moment, we're not talking amongst ourselves about our loss, about the queen's death, but that it is affecting people all around the world. and i think that is a source of pride, of national pride. because of course i think i've said this to you before, andrea, when you try to reflect and really define what it was that the queen meant to us and why she was so popular, it does come back to national pride. she epitomized the best of us in many ways, and what a lot of us aspire to be, and aspire for the country to be, dignified, hardworking. and as i said, a source of national price. so to hear, you know, those two

ladies from texas have come all the way to show their respects is very, very flattering for us. >> and just, daisy, talk to me about the ceremony here. we have not seen anything like this since king george vi in 1952. but certainly on live television, in color, around the world, globally, for us to all be experiencing it, it's really extraordinary. just the procession itself, it's been followed by of course the king and the heir, prince william, the grandchildren, just walking down the mall. >> it was an extraordinary spectacle. i think you can see over my shoulder, andrea, you can see in the pictures, it's incredibly hot and sunny today. everything looked beautiful, the uniforms, the helmets with the

sun glinting off them really looked incredibly romantic. as molly was saying, people all along the line watching on their phones, this strange mix of incredibly old fashioned ceremonial duties mixed with the modern way a lot of people were watching it. then of course we've got the family right at the center, walking behind the coffin. the coffin, you can see there being pulled on that old gun carriage, a tradition that goes right back to queen victoria. queen victoria had seen prince leopold at a funeral being drawn on a gun carriage and she said to those around her, when i go that's what i want for my coffin. and it's been a tradition for british monarchs ever since. and as you said, the lying in state, such a tradition. the queen mother, 20 years ago, lying in state. a couple of hundred thousand people, and now we're talking about a million people. and again, this mixture of the modern and the old. a lot of people here started to

get very obsessed with an app that you can look in real time to see how long the queue is. so all these strange mixtures of the old and the new. and you can see the line there on the screen now. it's up to two or three miles at the moment, but as molly was saying, predicted to be as long as ten miles. people seem very happy, in a way, to have that sense of camaraderie and stand in that line, because a lot of us are a bit confused about what we're meant to feel. we haven't had this for 70 years, none of us have experienced this before unless you're in your 90s. >> indeed. and tim, let's talk about the family, certainly on full display. what we saw the statement from harry yesterday that he wanted the focus to be on his grandmother and on her legacy, not on them. there were questions about what he was wearing and why he was not in uniform and that he was wearing a mourning coat.

but tim, today we saw the brothers together, and that was certainly notable. >> yes, and i think everybody hopes that this is the beginning of some sort of process of reconciliation, andrea. but when you look at what they were wearing, that kind of spoke to the divisions that exist in the family. because you've got two members of that family, prince andrew and prince harry, who have actually seen combat in the military. and they're the two who are not allowed to wear uniforms. and they're not, because they're no longer working royals. prince andrew clearly is disgraced and i think we won't be seeing much more of him after this process is over. prince harry has moved to the united states. all the signs are that he's not going to come back and be an active member of the royal family. so the best that they can hope for i think is that there is within the family sort of reconciliation. and, you know, there is just a point to make here. without in any way wanting to sound skeptical or pour cold

water over what's going on today, but there are quite a number of people in this country who aren't standing in line in central london, who see what we've seen today more as a display of privilege than anything else. and the new king is clearly very conscious of that. and his son prince william also. and they need to address that going forward. they need to make the monarchy more modern, more accessible, and more in touch with certainly the younger people of this country. >> and indeed, in fact in the press today, "the new york times" and other newspapers, about prince charles and the millions of dollars that he and his foundation have gained over the years from investments and such. so less focus on his being so prescient on the climate and other issues that are very popular with young people, and more on the privilege.

and of course the colonial history and the history of the slave trade and all the rest that have, which is all part of the history, you know, a very mixed tapestry here of the family and the monarchy. thank you so much to molly, tim, daisy, our thanks to you all. the midterm misstep? lindsey graham jumping into the abortion debate. exactly what republican leaders did not want to hear. senator elizabeth warren joins me next on the abortion debate, the bad news on inflation and a lot more. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" here on msnbc. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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republican senator lindsey graham has stepped into the political crossfire over abortion, proposing a ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy. >> i think we should have a law at the federal level that would say after 15 weeks, no abortion on demand except in cases of rape, incest, to save the life of the mother, and that should be where america is at. >> well, that upset his own party leaders, who want people to focus on inflation, not abortion, because abortion is the issue that is rallying democrats to vote in record numbers. >> if we go to his bill, you'll have to ask him about it. most of the members of my conference prefer this be dealt with at the state level.

>> joining me now is democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts. so do you see abortion as the defining issue for this election? >> oh, i do. >> or inflation -- >> this is the difference, though, between democrats and republicans. and that is that republicans, if they have the power, are going to put a nationwide abortion ban in place. keep in mind, mike pence was saying, yay, keep this going. and that's just become clear with this latest bill that's been introduced. democrats, if we've got the votes, are going to make roe v. wade the law of the land, which is what the majority of americans want. and by the way, what all those supreme court justices who when they came in for their hearings, when they were nominees, and held up their hand and swore that roe v. wade was settled law and there was no reason to disturb settled law, that's what they said at the time, or

certainly tried to imply to the american people, was going to continue to be the law. so that's a huge division. and it's going to drive a lot of votes in november, as it rightfully should. >> so how do democrats get republicans off the inflation issue, when the numbers came out yesterday are not good, markets reacted, but it's very clear the fed is going to have to tighten again, a big -- a big tightening again, it will be the third one in a row, likely 75 basis points, and that inflation is still not licked, core inflation, even though gas prices are down. food prices are up and core inflation is up, which is disturbing. >> the question you have to ask is do democrats or republicans actually have a plan to deal with inflation. look at the principal causes of inflation right now. we have terrible kinks still in the supply chain. we've got covid still shutting down parts of the economies around the world. we've got a war in ukraine that had driven up the price of

energy. and we've got price gouging. democrats are on the attack on all four of these. what are republicans doing? republicans have no plan at all. i literally have not heard a plan from a single republican to try to deal with inflation. >> but the inflation reduction act, so named, doesn't really reduce inflation. it brings the deficit down, less than one might have hoped due to manchin and sinema taking things out of it. >> it absolutely brings the deficit down. if you think the problem of inflation is because of too much money floating around in the economy, then it absolutely attacks that directly. what we have to remember about inflation is it attacks costs directly where families live. so the inflation reduction act is partly about bringing down utility costs, and it's partly about bringing down health care costs. >> long term on both of those. >> long term.

>> doesn't kick in until '25 or so. >> long term is when everybody in america would like to see prices come down. this is literally the first time that big pharma has lost in a battle to be able to keep raising prices forever and ever. and democrats, again, democrats, have a real plan to bring down prices, while republicans just stand by and scream. >> in neighboring new hampshire overnight, you've seen this former general winning, he is of the two possible choices, the election denier, the most conservative, the most radical, don bolduc. in state after state, the democratic party and democrat-supported pac groups, pacs, are supporting the most radical, the election deniers. how do you feel about that? maybe it's good strategy in terms of maggie hassan holding her seat. but what if they're elected? >> look, i think this is just d

there are still so many maga republicans who instead of talking about what's happening on the abortion front, as women have lost their rights, how we bring down prices for families, they want to still relitigate 2020 and impose a nationwide abortion ban. >> why are democrats supporting, putting money into their campaigns? >> i believe that these folks are very, very dangerous. and we have got to make it clear by november that this choice between democrats and republicans really is the choice between do you believe in an america where health care decisions are between a woman and her doctor? or do you believe that republicans in washington should be making that decision? do you believe in an america where we actually take on big pharma and beat 'em, where we actually bring down energy prices, where we actually try to

make this country work better for working families. >> one thing you're trying to do for working families is bipartisan. >> yes. >> take a look at the front page of the print edition of "the new york times" today, we'll put a graphic up to show it, look at all these members of congress who actually are trading stocks that involve companies on which they are on committees that have oversight of these companies. it is a potential conflict of interest if not a real conflict of interest. it's very hard to dig down into whether there are real conflicts here without a real investigation of each one of these. but look at the numbers, look at this graphic again of how many people. you've got a bipartisan bill in the senate. >> yes. >> what's the future that have bill? that would ban ownership or trading, right? >> let's start with the good news. it is the toughest bill that has been proposed in congress. and it says, no buying, no selling, no owning stocks, period, individual stocks, for members or members' spouses. it's a really easy bill.

and here's the good news. it is bipartisan. my senate partner in this, senator danes, we have other republicans who signed on, we've got democrats, we're trying to build a big enough coalition to move this forward. there is just no reason to permit this behavior. it is time for congress to step up, vote on the stock act, and stop this business. >> before i let you go, i just want to ask you about donald trump and mar-a-lago and whether you see -- whether classified or unclassified, is there any excuse for taking documents in these numbers, including some of the most secret documents that the u.s. has, and now there's a court battle going on over this, but -- >> no. >> -- this is delaying the investigation and delaying the damage assessment. >> that's right. no, there is absolutely no reason, no excuse for taking these documents. but more to the point, he's putting the security of the united states at risk, and he

must be stopped. we need to keep these documents secure. our government needs to be able to deal with them. but this is donald trump doing what donald trump always does. he puts donald trump first. and everyone else, literally, including people who are out in the field whose lives could be at risk, all are subsidiary to donald trump. he cares only about himself. what's important is that we have a department of justice that without fear and without favor is going forward in its investigation. we need the courts to abide by the laws on this. and we need to remind everybody in america, including former presidents, no one is above the law. >> spoken like a former law professor. senator elizabeth warren. >> so good to see you. >> come back often, please. and call waiting. a former president lending his support once again to january

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former president trump still define it in spite of all the january 6th investigations, calling into a washington, dc protest yesterday after three men were convicted of assaulting or impeding police officers including some of the most violent victims of the attacks, attacks against officers fanone and hodges, for instance, on the west front of the capitol on january 6th. the president praising ashli babbitt, the protester who died while trying to break into the house chamber. >> it's a terrible thing that has happened to a lot of people that are being treated very, very unfairly. we love ashley and it was so horrible what happened to her, uh, that that man shot ashley is a disgrace, and then he goes on television and it looked like he was actually bragging about it. >> that was ashli babbitt's mother holding the phone for the president's call. at the same time a house oversight committee wants to review whether or not the trump team turned over all the mar-a-lago documents as his

lawyers claimed in an affidavit. joining me now is nbc justice reporter ryan reilly. ryan, bring us up to date. what message was donald trump sending yesterday? >> yeah, so they gather regularly, these protesters, outside of the dc jail there. i think we've seen a number of indications of donald trump's support for a lot of the january 6th protesters, just a little while ago he had the aunt of one of the defendants who actually dressed up as hitler in photos that the government produced and was a very big supporter of neo-nazi beliefs, that the aunt spoke at trump's rally at pennsylvania. he's indicated his support at several steps along the way here. we've seen ongoing statements of support for them. the individuals held in jail are individuals the judge determined committed the most violent acts. there's a few mixed in there who violated their conditions and aren't charged with serious

charges. but a lot of the folks in there went through the procedures here, tried to secure their pretrial release and failed in that measure because of the overwhelming amount of evidence against them and the potential for dangerousness to the community. these aren't the run of the mill protesters who maybe just walked in the building that are being held there. those are some of the more serious offenders who are being held pretrial as well as folks who have been convicted already. we've seen a number of convictions obviously from this sprawling january 6th investigation already, including those three convictions that we saw yesterday, andrea. >> ryan reilly, thank you so much. joining me now is jeh johnson, former secretary of homeland security during the obama administration, also former general counsel for the defense department. mr. secretary, thank you very much for being with us. i just wanted to ask your view of donald trump calling into these protests, continuing to praise the insurrectionists.

>> well, let's call it what it is. he's validating the insurrectionists. he is basically saying, you're heroes, i stand by you. he even floated the idea of pardons for all of them should he be reelected president again. he's validating the insurrectionists. and if i were his lawyer, and i'm not, never will be, but if i were his lawyer, i would be saying to him, you are putting yourself in additional legal jeopardy by seeming to take the side of the insurrectionists, especially now that the department of justice seems to be expanding their january 6th investigation into those who were part of the broader conspiracy to submit fake electors and possibly those involved in inciting the insurrection. >> let's talk about mar-a-lago and the search, and what the search produced, and the

indications from the justice department that they may not even have it all yet. first of all, you've dealt with, you know, the pdb and security at the highest levels at a number of your jobs, and just the idea that all of this was found in that storage area of the country club, if you will, in his personal office, some other documents elsewhere, without categorization, 43 file folders marked classified with nothing in them, just the way everything was held, and held in the private residence and country club. >> well, two thoughts. one, when i look at this photograph of these cover sheets, if you're in national security, you acquaint those cover sheets with things you see in a highly secure room, a scif.

and not in a country club. it defies belief, for those of us who have had to handle these. who is to say that president trump didn't give some of it away in the course of holding on to it at mar-a-lago for the last year and a half? suppose he gave some of this stuff to some author who is writing a book, for example? >> how do they do a damage assessment? how do they know whether or not he discussed it, whether he was attempting to monetize it, whether these were just souvenirs, whether he showed it to people? how do you do that damage assessment without questioning the former president? >> that's a good question. on the face of it, it would seem that you're limited to what's on the face of the documents without knowing who saw them, who might have tried to compromise mar-a-lago to get the documents. it does seem apparent from the

affidavit, the unredacted portions, that there are sources, human sources of information who might be giving the fbi information about who may have seen these documents. but my guess is that the damage assessment will have to be limited to what's on the face of the documents. and there will be a lot of speculation about who might have seen them. >> how would this affect our allies in the so-called five eyes, the countries we work with closely, great britain and others who we share our most sensitive intelligence, and receive intelligence from them, israel and some of the other -- >> the message to our allies is america cannot be trusted with our classified intelligence or their classified intelligence. living in the national security world, we all rely very extensively on intelligence

agencies of other friendly governments, to gather our own intelligence. and i can tell you a number of times, if i could, if they were unclassified, where the classified information that we got from a foreign government really did help immeasurably with our own homeland security. so intel sharing among governments is vital. and this kind of event and some other events that occurred during the trump presidency really do send a message that america cannot be trusted. >> do you have concerns about delaying the investigation and/or the demand assessment while this issue of an independent, whoever he or she may turn out to be -- >> yes, i do. it's unprecedented for a district judge to enjoin a criminal investigation. you know, criminal investigations very often are -- it's a matter of time is of the

essence, before evidence goes cold, before a trail goes cold, before sources dry up, before people have second thoughts about talking to the government. there is an impact to having to stall a criminal investigation. i hope this judge appreciates that. it's not simply a matter of just pencils down. when you're in the middle of conducting a criminal investigation, it involves cultivating witnesses, cultivating sources while their memories are fresh. you can't just put it all on ice so easily. >> i also want to ask you about this new book by geoffrey berman who was forced out as attorney for the southern district of new york. it's alleging that bill barr, former attorney general, pressured him to indict prominent democrats, including john kerry on the logan act, also a white house counsel who was indicted, when geoff berman

refused. he was indicted here in the district of columbia and was quickly acquitted, but at great personal cost to his reputation, his job and a lot of other things. what about the politicization of prosecutions from the former attorney general? >> i used to be an assistant u.s. attorney in that office. i was hired in 1988 by rudy giuliani. i served for three years there. 199 -- 1989, 1990, '91. i believe geoff and i overlapped for a few years ago. this is unheard of. southern district of new york considers itself, always has, fairly autonomous. i was in public corruption, and we prosecuted and investigated republicans and democrats. so the notion that there would be some word on high to prosecute or indict a democrat

to sort of even the score is just so foreign to anyone who is a career prosecutor, who values and understands the job, the rule of law, and the legitimacy that a u.s. attorney's office has to have. geoff seems to have done a good job of standing up to that kind of political pressure. >> jeh johnson, your perspective is so valuable. thank you very much. thanks for being with us. and the victory lap. ukraine's president walking the streets of a city recaptured from russian forces. the status of ukraine's advances next, and the possible reaction from vladimir putin. this is "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. hell reports" on msnbc. riders! let your queries be known. uh, how come we don't call ourselves bikers anymore? i mean, "riders" is cool, but "bikers"...is really cool.

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liberated 150,000 people across more than 2,300 square miles. ukraine's military running russian forces out of previously held ukrainian territories. >> russians have come home in body bags, have come home missing limbs, stories of the abject brutality of this war. >> reporter: you're not worried that the russians will return? >> they are demoralized and have no specific plan how to do so. we've proven our planning is way much better, the weapons on the ground are working fine. we just need more to proceed and to speed up the liberalization process. >> reporter: a process that's showing signs it's working. "they were running like mice," this ukrainian soldier said. "they were running and abandoning everything, vehicles, their own men."

people in liberated towns separate for aid but relieved to be free. they're also angry. civilians and soldiers tearing up the russian flag and tearing down russian propaganda. but as villages are taken back, evidence of horrific war crimes surfacing again, this time in kharkiv. "they took people. it was hard here," this woman said. investigators recovering bodies. people shot in the head. and evidence of torture. and british intelligence suggests that the russians are using those drones they bought from iran here in ukraine. meanwhile, president putin is preparing to meet china's president xi in uzbekistan tomorrow. back to you. >> and our thanks to meagan fitzgerald there. coming up, drive time. president biden heading to the detroit auto show to focus attention on electric cars and combating climate change as part of his big economic agenda and the infrastructure program, as inflation still wears on. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc.

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touring the auto show and announcing $900 million in funding for electric vehicle charges in 35 states. that money comes out of the bipartisan infrastructure law that the president is touting in the run-up to the november elections. the president also got into a corvette and is revving up the engine in a message to the secret service. >> tell my secret service detail, i'm driving home. >> wow. just look at that corvette. joining us, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker, "usa today"'s susan page, and george will. peter, this last inflation report was not good at all, core inflation still high even though gas prices are going down. food prices are going up and

core inflation is bad. market reaction yesterday. so how much of a threat is inflation to the midterm hopes of democrats going forward? >> well, it's a pretty big threat, obviously. it's the number one issue for a lot of voters because it's so much about their about their po. we can argue about the 2020 election and the various investigation, but it hit everyday americans how much they are paying. disappointment in democrats doesn't help them keep up with the momentum they had otherwise fwn to build and maybe ease that dynamic. what president biden is trying to do is change the subject to topics he thinks is more advantageous. from the maga republicans. >> susan page, they don't want to be talking about abortion.

really got into the middle of this with mitch mcconnell. house speaker nancy pelosi was asked about abortion, specifically about lindsey graham's abortion ban. let's watch. >> you'd have to ask the republicans as to why they poured cold water on t but they know they are digging a hole and they just keep digging. what you're seeing there is a conflict within the republican party. there are those in the party that think life begins at the candle light dinner the night before. >> susan, we have seen abortion is energizing democratic and independent republican voters. we saw the results in kansas and in two special elections in new york congressional. so how much are democrats hoping that abortion can be what people are talking about and not the inflation, not the economy, even with declining gas prices.

>> lindsey graham's announcement was a surprise on both sides to the delight of democrats and to the horror of the republicans, who would like to talk about anything other than abortion. maggie got her republican opponent yesterday in the new hampshire primary. her first ad out this morning is about abortion. and you see that in these competitive house races across the country. but this is the issue that democrats see are motivating their voters and winning over voters they might otherwise lose if voters are most concerned about issues like inflation. could not be a bigger issue and could not have put lindsey graham more at odds with mitch mcconnell and others on his own side. >> and george will, one of the issues that some democrats are very uncomfortable about, and senator warren was here earlier very krit call of this. democratic party money being

poured into election deniers, helping in new hampshire, the most radical conservative republican, i shouldn't call it republican, but election denying republican for that senate seat. and in other races going against peter meyer, the house who voted for impeachment. how about democrats doing that and interfering in republican primaries to look like someone so radical they think that person would be more easily defeated. but they can win. >> while a democrat president is saying these very people represent a threat to democracy. they spent probably $55 million, no one quite knows, because they are using dark money to get this done. and some places it backfires on them. the republican nominee in colorado, in spite of the fact that the democrats spent $10 million saying don't vote for him, because he's a moderate. that's a fighting word.

>> i want to tell you we're look ing at live pictures so i have to explain this. this is the president of of the united states behind the wheel, which the secret service may not love, or may they may. that's an electric cadillac. that's part of the big economic push today in detroit by the president of the united states and in the midterms and focusing on climate change and electric charges. just to explain that. getting back to what you were pointing out, these people now are the nominees and they can win. >> what they did was convinced them that oday is a temperate moderate ask that's going to help him because 45% colorado voters are independents. can i say something about the president in these cars? there were 8 million cars in this country in 1920. there were 20 million in 1930. explode across the land. they all found gasoline. how did they do that? the private market provided gas stations. instead in the modern age, we

have to have an enormous plan to build charging stations for electric vehicles, which are supposedly wound rous things, but we're bribing people to vie buy the vehicles and then we're building the electric charging stations for it. why? >> why is the climate change? why is how short a period of time to try to do something to get people off of fossil fuels. california is going to do it by 2035. >> let's hope they repaired their grid by then. don't charge your cars at this point because the grid can't handle it. if you have confidence in the government's ability to plan all this, you have been in washington to know better. >> we're going to have to address that another day. please come back. thank you all so much. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online on facebook and twitter.

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i'm chris jansing live at buckingham palace in london where we have witnessed an extraordinary morning. a display of communal grief, respect and love playing out on a massive scale rarely seen in modern history. as we speak, the first of what is expected to be hundreds of thousands of people have begun to file past the queen's coffin at westminster hall file saving their final good-bys to the only monarch most have ever known. the line to get in as being monitored by the government and you see it on the screen, more than 2.5 miles long, stretching along the river. then running north and east past london bridge. and these were the pictures out of central london earlier today. thousands gathering in the late summer sun, many of them wipe ing away tears as the coffin was escorted on her final journey from buckingham palace and off the