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
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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