Full peal which ive never heard of, driving us up the wall, but its part of the day of coronation. About 100 yards behind us we saw king charles and Queen Camilla turn up in one of those horsedrawn carriages and we knew this was Something Special and we knew, in fact, something that hasnt been seen here for, oh, 70 years. A lot of hubbub, pomp and circumstance, but in the middle of the ceremony when the archbishop of canterbury took that Coronation Crown and fitted it on king charles head and you knew something would happen and a short time after that to show the tradition and heritage of the place you saw Something Else, his son and heir apparent, Prince William, Pledge Allegiance to king charles. I, william, pledge and faith unto you, as for life and limb. Theyve got the si ceremony, and there was an older carriage and the crowds have been battered and buffeted by rain and wind and they were there by the tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands just to show that the royal naysayers still are in minority in this country. And finally, neil, we saw the Family Balcony Salute from buckingham palace, that never gets old. It was missing a few members, prince harry was at the ceremony without meghan, took a quick exit, the disgraced prince andrew, too, was at the ceremony, also made an early exit. Probably more important as youve been talking about, neil, theres the queen, Queen Camilla now with her crown, too, and thats an official thing and no time to relax. Theres going to be Block Properties tomorrow and yes, that much neiltouted concert tonight. Yes, no adele, no elton, no ed sheeran, but, hey, youve got Lionel Richie, katy perry, andre bocelli. Neil youve got bocelli, but the adele thing, that would prompt a noshow for me, but thats just me. Greg, great coverage, my friend. Greg can speak like eight languages and awesome on this stuff. And i think that karen pierce, too. And always remember when she was at the United Nations and you just tried to get an end run around karen pierce and youre going to live to regret it. Happy to have the ambassador back with us. Great seeing you. Thank you. Neil we make a lot of these people who dont show up and the family rivalries and the prince harry thing and all that. I think its tacky for a journalist to do that, but were you offended that any of these prominent british musicians didnt go to this event or sing at this event . Oh, no. Absolutely not. I mean, Lionel Richie is not british, but a great musician. Neil absolutely. And hes connected with the princes charity, now the kings charity, the princes trust. Neil hes not british, and elton john is, adele and harry styles. What happened . I dont think it mattered. We have katy perry and we have some really great stars performing. Elton john, of course, knows the royal family really well. Im sure they had other commitments. I think adele is committed to appearing in vegas, but, really, everybody is quite relaxed about this. To get Lionel Richie and katy perry and have the windsor concert, thats great on this day. Neil i ask a tacky question and i get a respectful answer. I want your take on the fact that the king decided not to give a speech or extended remarks. I know the last time we had an event like this was 70 years ago, but still, what did you make of that. I think the king made it clear that he would have a slightly slimmed down ceremony and he put a huge emphasis on music because of the universality of music and emphasis on the solemnity of the occasion and the holy Oil Speciallity made to his recipe, it comes from jerusalem. So he wanted the emphasis to be on that and to have the range of singers and music that we had was really lovely. Neil you know, we know that the monarchs meet regularly with the Prime Minister at the time, weekly audiences. Theyre never sharing their opinions with the world. Im sure they do with whoever the Prime Minister is at the time and im just wondering in the case of king charles whether he has spoken one way or the other, for example, about the ukraine war and britains role in it, and concerns about it . I think the king has actually spoken publicly about that and Prince WilliamPrince Of Wales has, also. Youre absolutely right about the Prime Ministers audience, neil. It is weekly. No records are kept. What is said is strictly between monarch and premier and and one of the reasons for that is so that they can talk frankly and so they can give each other advice. But in terms of ukraine, youll have seen the pictures from the abbey, there were the ukrainian colors, blue and yellow, on the floor of the abbey. Neil thats true. So the king and Prince Of Wales have been tremendous supporters of the ukrainian people. Neil you know, were told, speaking of ukraine, ambassador, that support is beginning to wane or certainly impatience is, through nofault of the ukrainians, of course. This war drags on and obviously now what the russians say was an attempted assassination of Vladimir Putin. Some see that as a means to really escalate the war in ukraine ahead of what is supposed to be the kyiv offensive in the spring. Your thoughts on that and where that war is going. Well, the british people are full square behind ukraine system. Its a bipartisan issue in the u. K. We support the ukrainian people very strongly. The governments make clear that were going to go on supplying ukraine with training, with equipment, defensive equipment, so that she can prosecute this war not of her making in a way that is to her advantage. I think the Assassination Attempt on President Putin, i think the real problem, neil, is that the russians have, over the years and particularly since they invaded ukraine illegally, theyve put out so much disinformation and so many attempts at false flag, nobody knows whether to believe the russians anymore. I think we wait to hear the facts of what really happened with that attempt, but you know, i dont want to pass judgment, but i think its very hard to believe what comes out of the kremlin at the moment. Neil could it be that someone is out to get Vladimir Putin, its not president zelenskyy or anyone ukrainian, but some in his own country . Well, one cant approve of assassination and i think its been said of putin that he had over the years made sure there was no one close to him who would oppose him. So, i just dont know about that, but i think it is true that President Putin is not doing something that benefits the russian people. You know, he set out to recreate the russian empire, neil and what hes got is the soviet economy of 30 years ago. So hes actually taking the russian people backwards. Neil you know, its interesting, too, weve mentioned ukraine, ambassador, but the leader of this Russian Paramilitary Group, the wagner group, its supposed to work in concert with the Russian Military, but the guy who says they are torpedoing his efforts, and im wondering what you make of that and set the stage for the russians to find a convenient excuse to get out . I dont know, neil. I think all scenarios are possible at the moment, but i think this infighting within the russian machine, as you say, wagner would normally be a part of that machine, even if the paramilitary one. I think the infighting shows its not going well for the russians and casting around for people in their own system to blame. They need to get out of ukraine. Neil i dont know, you know, in this country, ambassador, as youre familiar. Theres a growing dissent, i wouldnt calling growing to the point of Being Toppling for the ukraine war effort, but many more republicans of late who said it, particularly in the house, that we want to follow every penny that goes to ukraine that were getting war weary here. I dont know if the same is happening in britain. I do know like in our country, ambassador, youre dealing with inflation and youre dealing with it, we are, and doubledigit inflation and thats weighed on the british people that theyve got the real financial distractions and that might be weighing on support for ukraine, as it is maybe in a small way in this country. Does that worry you . It doesnt worry me neil, about britain because the british people, the british government, parliament, full square behind ukraine and have made clear were going to go on supporting the ukrainian people as long as it takes and its a real bipartisan feeling in the u. K. , this support for ukraine. Yes, we have inflation. Yes, fuel costs are higher than we want them to be. But despite all of that, people really want to support the ukrainian people. Some people, some older people remember what happened in 1939, in 1940, they see the russian invasion of ukraine very much as a step on russian wouldbe dominance of europe and were determined that we dont want that to happen. I have to say when i go on the hill here in washington, i do still find very high levels of support overall. I think youre right, there are some members of congress who are worried about the way the money is spent, but when you talk across the peace on the hill, we find high levels of support indeed. Neil so when we saw Emmanuel Macron and speaking with xi jinping, and china could invade, thats a u. S. Obsession, im Para Phrasing poorly. But many in europe said no, no, no, thats not our views, those are his views. What did you make of that . President macron doesnt need any defending by me, but we share american names in the South China Seas and we want peace and he doesnt its pretty clear that when it comes to taiwan, he doesnt share. I dont want to speak for france and president macron. When it comes to britain we share american aims, and stability. And implying it isnt a european issue, i want to say, it is a european issue were with the United States, and we want to share peace and stability in the indopacific area as we want to work with the United States to do that in europe. Were not dividing the world into blocks. Were going to help for peace and stability. Neil quickly, the relationship that king charles has with president biden, i only ask that because im an expert on your country in relationships with president s because ive watched the crown all the episodes. [laughter] i know with some president s, its been a little dicey. How is this relationship . Well, this relationship is extremely good, neil. Id just say the crown is moving increasingly into fictionalized account of history just to put that on the table. The king and the president have known each other for many years thanks to their shared interest in environmentalism. So now theyre both Heads Of State and they can renew that friendship and the president talked to the king on the 4th of april. They had a very good conversation. The king invited the president to visit him, not just the government. Invited the president to visit him in the u. K. , which the president accepted and we hope that will take place soon. As i say, they share a very deep interest in energy, in environmentalism, lots to talk about. Neil yeah, including the new season of the crown, but i digress, ambassador, go ahead. No, no, could i just say that were delighted the first lady attended the coronation. No first lady has done this before. Neil big deal. It was the governor of california and chairman of the joint chiefs who attended the queens coronation for President Eisenhower so we were honored to have the first lady join us. Neil wellplayed. You swatted me away brilliantly. Ambassador, always a joy to have you on. Well see you. Neil were going to the Kentucky Derby. How the weather is shaping up there with a key horse now out of the race after this. N homes to combat todays rising prices. Lower your Monthly Payments with the three cs pay down your credit cards, pay off your car loan, consolidate your debt with a va home loan from from newday. seth hi, cecily. I just switched my whole family to verizon. cecily oh, its americas most reliable 5g network. seth and its only 35 a line. cecily not that youre bragging. vo with verizon unlimited for 35 a line, your family now gets disney , hulu, and espn . All three included. Verizon start making outdoor memories you will never forget. For less than 5. 00 a day, you can own your very own tracker offroad or a brandnew tracker boat, motor and trailer package. 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The winds going to come out of south about 10 miles per hour. We basically have a cap in place and a cap is about warm where the warm weather, warm temperatures thats preventing some storms from building in the area. That cap will be gone by this evening and later this evening, 11 00 is when we have the best chance to see some thunderstorms popping up in and around for the derby. Take a look at this. Weve got the warmest the hottest and the coldest back in 1940, and in 1957, and the wettest, they had 3. 15 inches of rain that goes back to may 5th of 2018. Not long ago. By the way a couple of horses in there verified, like the forecast and weve got sun thunder and cyclone mischief, fun weather related names for you. We are watching for the chance for severe storms to pop up over portions of texas level three out of five. Damaging hail in this. And des moines, level two, we could see some large hail as well. When youre talking large hail youre taking two inches in diameter from fort worth and dallas down to junction. Think about that, if youre holding a lime in your hand, think of that has a hail stone. And theres a lot of cold air in the Higher Elevations where the stones develop and get cold air and finally fall out of the storms. Look at this, threw new orleans, southern louisiana, southern mississippi, the storms fire up. By the time we get to 8 00 this evening, waco, over to dallas, fort worth and where were starting to see the storms pick up and could give us the larger hail as well. We wont stop there. As we go to sunday, most of the Energy Transfers up to the north and look at this, des moines now likely to see some strong winds here and weve got a level two out of five to see the chance for some severe weather. Maybe some twisting thunderstorms. But the hail is going to be a big concern here. Throughout sunday afternoon. Look at this, up and down portions of kentucky, over to West Virginia and now were dealing with severe weather, so its a day after the events go on. Nonetheless, tomorrow we could see large hail yet again, neil, so well have to watch closely and its going to start to warm up next week. Temperatures back in the 70s, 80s, and even 90s to the south. Neil what time were you in this morning . I get in early myself, but you were hours in, covering what was going on in england and everything else. Do you sleep . I tell you what, i needed more coffee. I came in at 4 00 and we start at 6 00. Im always happy to be with you and your team. Neil oh, man, just showing off. [laughter]. Neil he guilts us all out. The guy is a weather machine, doesnt stop. Thank you. Neil the worry about the border does not stop either, especially come thursday when something ends and those there worry about Something Else that just begins. 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