christiane amanpour is at westminster.ean, there were some polls that suggested that this would be close. others that suggested that it could be a win for brexit, now that it appears confirmed. this country is going to wake up to a very different -- i mean, actually, to a very uncertain future. we don't know how things are going to shake out at this stage. >> you know, you use that word uncertain. it's really important. one of the accusations and complaints of the "remain" camp to the "leave" camp they never spelled out the uncertainty ahead. they never even admitted that there was going to be uncertainty ahead. of course there's going to be uncertainty because the status quo has just been upended. it is the first time any country has left the eu. therefore, there are no rules to this, despite all the things that we've heard about trying to renegotiate dozens of trade deals, about this, that and the other. there are simply no rules. we know things respect going to change overnight because this is going to take a long proce

out of parliament for us is christiane amanpour this evening. this morning there. fascinating. unprecedented vote. the results are so close from one minute to the other. the leaves are ead, next the remains. what do you know? >> reporter: well, don, it is extraordinary because in the last hour or so, we've seen a lot of see-sawing but we've also seen now leave taking a consistent slight lead. nonetheless a consistent slight lead. we also are reporting that our affiliate, cnn affiliate itv news, is predicting using all its algorithms, mathematics and analysis that there is an 80% chance that the final vote will be leave. this, in itself, is unprecedented. never has an eu member nation voluntarily or any other way, left the eu. and this is going to have shock waves. you can already see the shock waves it's having. at one point the pound was down 10%. it may be down lower. i'm not looking at the board right now. the indicators across the financial markets that are open are down. so, this is a real turmoil in the markets. even though they have been sort of prepared for

. >> clarissa ward joins us now, want to bring in richard quest, and christiane amanpour, anchor of amanpour. you guys have been working hard. this is beyond unusual. yes, there was a vote. i suppose we all knew it could go either way. christiane, in the last 24 hours, the dominoes that have fallen are simply shocking. >> i mean, they really are. look, this is the first time any country left the eu voluntarily. you heard nigeriaal far aj talk about independence day as if it wasn't a free and sovereign country. on the other side hearing things like self inflicted wound and economic suicide and i have been talking to foreign leaders, i have been talking to the british foreign secretary. all are convinced this is bad for britain, no matter how much they want to stabilize the situation. britain's voice will be less strong and there's no question about it. britain will take a serious economic hit as all the economists have said and britain will find it very difficult to negotiate not just the divorce from europe but a whole slew of new trade agreements for the future. the germans told me that tod

and christiane amanpour is live in central london with another guest with her. ristiane, over to you. >> indeed. we are here now with lord peter mandelson who has been a very close aide and architect of the tony blair years and the third wave politics that tony blair f the labor party brought in in 1997. he's been northern ireland's success, busine secretary and he's here to tell us what on earth we face going forward. what's been the biggest surprise? the vote, the prime minister leaving, the -- >> the prime minister choosing to step down does not surprise me. i think it is inevitable. he's not just lost a referendum badly. his whole political project in effect has been defeated. and those who never wanted to go on that journey with him in the first place inside his own party -- >> you mean the referendum? >> i'm talking about his whole political project, what he wanted to do in the conservative party was to make it a less nasty or socially inclusive, tolerant -- >> so a good thing. >> -- centrist party. that's what he wanted to do. he did it reasonably successf

charissa ward joining us, and i also want to bring in richard quest and christiane amanpour, and you guys have been working really hard frankly, because this is beyond unusual. yes, there was a vote and we all knew that it could go either way, but cristiano, over the past 24 hours the dominos falling are simply shocking. >> yes, they are. and look, this is the first time that any country has left the eu voluntarily, and you heard nigel farage talk about independence day as if britain was not a free and sovereign and democratic country and on the other side, it is things like self-inflicted wound and economic suicide and i have been talking to the foreign leaders and the british foreign secretary, an all are convinced that it is bad for britain no matter how bad they want to stave the situation, but the voice is going to be less strong and no question about it, and britain will take a serious economic hit as all of the economists have said and they will find it difficult to negotiate the divorce from europe, but a whole slew of trade agreements for the future, and the germans told me

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chief international correspondent christiane amanpour has the latest.five hours ago. >> reporter: it has been a knife edge see-saw for the last several hours. before results started to come in, there were expectations -- we had a lot of leave the eu votes counted from north of england, some from the southeast, going heavily towards leave. right now, remain is microscopically ahead. we don't know where it ends. the big question, turnout and how london will do, whether margins in london are enough to offset those in the north. every vote counts, it is a referendum, literally every vote counts. >> i was working in france yesterday, there were british citizens around me who made sure to vote before they left in order to get their vote because it is that close. christiane, the obama administration clearly wants uk to stay in the eu. talk about why this matters for the united states. is it economic, security related, all of the above? >> i think it is all of the above, economics, security, political, cultural. the basic bottom line, the united states and brit

christiane amanpour is about to speak with the italian prime minister. >> and there is a meeting like no other. prime minister david cameron will meet all his other 27 heads of government to try to explain what happened here in britain on thursday and to try to figure out the least painful way forward. so we are joined by the italian prime minister who is already in brussels and awaiting this meeting with all his other heads of government. prime minister, welcome to the program. >> good morning. thank you so much for the invitation. >> let me first ask you from a personal perspective and from the perspective of the european leader, how do you feel, what is your reaction to the british vote to get out of the eu? >> first reaction obviously is the shock because in the eastern europe was the place of peace and place of big family. for the first time we reduce the number. but i think we must respect the vote of citizens. so is thisthis is a time to rea. british people decide, they vote, we respect this vote and now is the moment to turn the page and to look at the future because europe is

election, lew tells christiane amanpour the issues are high. >> the global economy will either do well or badly depending on how well our economies do. >> the two sides will likely talk steel. china is accused of flooding market with excess cheap steel and manipulating the currency and growing feeling among u.s. companies that china is an unwelcome place to do business. >>> if you are planning to fill up your gas tank this morning, you may pay the highest prices of the year. the national average hit $2.36 overnight. it is up 14 cents over the past month. still below what drivers are paying last year. what's going on? crude oil is the big factor in the price of gas. crude oil has doubled in price after crashing in february. the summer blend is more expensive. analysts don't see $3 gas soon, but prices will likely follow the price of oil. >> still low enough. a lot lower than it was over the last five or ten years. >>> "early start" continues right now. >> breaking overnight. hillary clinton wins a new primary election as sanders vows to fight all the way to the convention. just one day

but someone like christiane amanpour, she acts as if there are no consequences to not just immigrationt several years but for 20 years. and one of the things that britain has to answer for is that they are considered the soft touch when it comes to welfare benefits. so if you're a desperate refugee coming from northern africa or syria, it's not that you want to leave from poland to find a better job in england, you find a good job and assimilate and everything goes fairly well. it's that you're so desperate to leave, but you find out because you know from friends or family that when you get to britain, you'll get a council house and other benefits. you can make it across another 1,000 miles to get there even though you were so desperate as a refugee. what i would ask all these people, such as the smart people in the uk who wanted to remain, what are you willing to do to solve the refugee problem at its source? the u.n. reported last week that there are more displaced people in the world today than ever before since they started taking records. so somebody has to answer to that. or for

christiane amanpour is live. it is an incredible moment and choice.s point no idea which way it is going to go? >> reporter: we cannot call it. it is really, really close. there's a running tally of votes counted so far but not like a general election. this is each vote counts. so it is going to take until all the votes are counted before we really know. right now, the camp has a lead but it has been shifting and changing in terms of mood. the pound has gone up and down last several hours since polls closed. it is very close. we are not calling it by any stretch of the imagination. we talked to several members of different campaigns and each side has been cautiously optimistic. at one point, one side is conceding or individuals from one side, so it's on a see-saw. >> if britain leaves the european union, this could be the unraveling of something that took decades to achieve and change world history. you would see major countries, a breakup of all of europe? >> that's what a lot of european fears. certainly the major powers in europe fear that. they ha

christiane amanpour is joined by boris johnson's father. >> indeed, hannah, i am joined by stanley johnson, who is boris johnson's father and who has been watching that video of his son coming out of his home and being booed. you might also notice that stanley johnson is distinguished by the remain t-shirt he's wearing. so he was on the completely opposite side of his son. i have to ask you, what do you make of all of this? >> i was up all night and didn't have time to take it off. >> you still are a remainder. >> of course. i don't normally wear the same t-shirt all the time. i'm a remainder. and i was a remainder. i mean, i believe there were really important issues in the referendum which needed to be advanced. the environment was one. i argued. all the people who supported environment, say it made sense to do some things at the european level. air pollution, water pollution, solid waste. what has happened? the great british public has voted. it's been a wonderful exercise in democracy. i accept that. >> would you say your son has been the architect of this? >> i would. i absolutely wou

richard quest, host of "quest means business" and christiane amanpour. it seems like a lot of promises were made by the brexit movement leaders, the economy would thrive, immigration would go down. are these leaders at all in a place to follow through on what's been promised? >> listen, anderson, today has been marked by a series of what people are describing as backtracking and u-turns. plus a very real case of having no plan. leave has not come out to say what the plan is. so, what's going on, though, is that they are sort of backtracking. people like boris johnson. even one of the key intellectuals daniel hann. n, spokesman for this campaign. well maybe we have to be kindlier, gentler tmper, what we said was going to be a major halt in free flow of movement and migrants coming to brit ab. now they're saying maybe the immigration picture won't change at all. that's a little troubling. at least for those who voted leave. then they're also saying it was a mistake to promise that this 350 million pounds, which was a mythical figure used by leave would go,

joining us to discuss this is cnn ianchor, christiane amanpour. great to have you here. what a mess as nic robertson just reported from brussels. one of the things that seems to be happening today is that these leaders who had led the brexit charge seem to be back tracking on the promises that they made to the voters that allowed the voters to vote for brexit. >> reporter: you know, it's been sort of very clear in this week right after, you know, brexit happened that there is no plan from the leaders, everybody is asking where is your plan. i asked one of the leading lights of the leave campaign what's the plan. they said we hope david cameron would lead us a plan. you want the loser to figure out your plan for you. where weather he the likes of boris johnson and others who were the faces and main proponents of the official leave campaign. they haven't been seen in public. what about mitigating some of these very, very vital issues that won the leave vote for them, that's immigration and whole take back control was about immigration and it was about paying dues to brusse

. >> to westminster, and christiane amanpour. you make of what he said? >> well, really interesting. he was very, very clear that this was not going to be allowed to let the union split apart into all its 27 different components or however many may want to leave. that for us, the union and unity is still the vision of the future. he's also very clear that there won't be any legal vacuum. but he said that all the laws, the legal obligations, the rights and the, you know everything the uk, eu stands for, vis-a-vis the uk will continue to stand until the uk formally leaves. now this could be something that sticks in the craw of the brexiters. because they don't want some of the provisions of the eu, which is why they voted this way. so while they may want the single market, they don't want the free movement of people. some here have suggested that they may sort of immediately try to say, even without having invoked article 50, even without having started the divorce procedures and in fact getting divorced, that they may immediately

perspective how we got here and bring back clarissa ward and bring in cnn international correspondent christiane amanpour in westminster in front of the house of the parliament. watching you all morning, christiane, dealing with the outcome here and the perspective for it. let's do something here for the american audience. let's take one step back, christiane, and tell us how we got here, what is driving this situation that led to the vote? >> reporter: well, look, in short, there is a lot of populist anger around europe. you see it in the united states as well, and the people are great britain who have been historically, at least half the country, euro skeptic, have directed their anger at globalization, at immigrants and at this faceless what they say, european bure bureaucracy. that's basically what happened and fanned by right wing tabloids who perpetuated all sorts of myths about the eu. that is not to say there are no legitimate concerns about, you know, all the crises the world has been facing and particularly concerns over immigration. all of that created a perfect storm, and that is what has led

christiane amanpour will be interviewing the italian prime minister matteo renzi live in the next houring into the summit meeting today. we'll be back in a moment. >>> welcome back to our viewers who are in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church at cnn world headquarters in atlanta. >> i'm max foster live in london just outside parliament. have a look at these european markets. they're showing some signs of life after the brexit vote, opening some quite big gains, more than 2%, 2 1/2% now in paris. i sort of chuckle because it's so baffling for investors right now. and in the hours ahead the british prime minister david cameron will try to provide some clarity as he comes face to face with the eu leaders for the first time since that uk vote to leaving the european union. he'll alive in brussels in about three hours where he'll meet first of all with the european commission president jean-claude juncker. later he'll attend a working dinner with other eu leaders including german chancellor angela merkel, french president francois

as christiane amanpour said so clearly, we heard great slogans in brexit, amazing, amazing promises.s that sound like? a guy who's good at slogans, a guy who's good at making promises, but has no plan on how to deliver to make this country move forward for working american men and women. >> one more thing i want to ask you about. there is a long tradition in this country of when politicians go abroad, not trash talking the u.s. or the u.s. president or even their fellow candidates, and donald trump broke with that on friday. he did say negative things about the president and hillary clinton and the country. why do you think that he broke with that tradition? >> it's about authenticity. what you have with hillary clinton is she's put an ad out which is completely false. donald trump was not playing golf. >> he was there for a golf resort. >> and he did talk about sprinklers. >> he put 200 million pounds of his own money into a resort to help. his son oversaw that project. he went out to support him. one night overseas to show support for his family. i find it hard to believe he's bein

we will have key interviews and the very latest on the results from christiane amanpour and the restrters. we have a lot of correspondents reporting on reaction from across europe and beyond. we'll also have extensive coverage online at cnn.com/referendum. >>> well, donald trump is on the offensive attacking hillary clinton during his latest speech. trump questioned clinton's character, her qualifications, calling her a world-class liar with a deadly foreign policy. >> the hillary clinton foreign policy has cost america thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars and unleashed isis across the world. no secretary of state has been more wrong more often and in more places than hillary clinton. she believes she's entitled to the office. her campaign slogan is "i'm with her." you know what my response is to that? i'm with you, the american people. >> clinton used her own campaign speech to go after trump, saying criticisms of his economic failures in a speech a day earlier must have got under his skin. >> i think it's an understatement to say that americans face a choice in

chief national correspondent christiana amanpour and in the studio, lord malik brown, former uk minister. thanks for joining me. christiane, i'll start with you. a sense of shock from around the world. put this in perspective. for americans, what was the driving factor? immigration? >> i think it was immigration. basically, they were told that all of your problems are because of the european union, the bureaucrats who bombarded the public with saying that's the problem to all that is going wrong in your country and, by the way, the foreigners are the problems as well. the next day, the morning after, we're being told that they are going to wake up to find that this wasn't a referendum on immigration policy and that may or may not change very much. it was a referendum on the economy. britain will still be important, just not as important. britain's voice will still be heard but just not as loudly. our role will be diminished. they said, listen, we want to be mature and make sure this divorce happens easily and qu k quick. we want it to be quick because we don't want it to spread. the young people are saying, what on earth