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moved. immediate test for the new king as the uk starts a week-long bid g g goodbye to quen elizabeth ii. >> plus, russia is already striking back. >> and now the campaign stretch. primary season ends tuesday, opening an eight-week sprint to election day. we'll break down the midterm fight for control of congress. we begin, though, in scotland. as the united kingdom opens a week long farewell to queen elizabeth and as her son takes over the monarch. members of scotland paying their final respects to the longest reigning monarch as the queen lies at rest at st. giles cathedral. >> thi...

Ancestral ties to scotland. but also what the next stage of history will look like. so yeah, applause, john, i would say. affection, not much dissent, but concern that nicolas sturgeon will continue to call for a second independence referendum. >> you're watching live pictures. you're watching king charles iii, the queen consort entering the scottish parliament. they'll receive a motion of condolence for the death of queen elizabeth. our cnn contributors, sally and trisha, are with us as well as we watch this. forgive me if i need to interrupt as proceedings begin. we talked about this moment....

The senators collectively, and individually, have all said they felt they have had to rise to the historical moment. and so while there is politics here, we still are talking about a process that is kind of a hybrid. both a combination of law but also the politics that everybody is talking about. and so it's not true that they can just simply vote their kind of political baseline without -- without any kind of recourse. the oath that the senators take individually before the proceedings begin, specifically calls upon them to render impartial justice. so i think that's the place where we've got...

This is the same sort of deal. >> we heard from mr. bossert. he's come out with some words of criticism for president trump and the administration. do you think that there will be other former aides, advisers who are going to follow suit? >> well, i think at a minimum, as the proceedings begin, what we have is just the cover letter of the whistleblower's complaint, the unredacted, unclassified cover letter. he was careful only to put public news sources. think about that, there is enough in public news sources to cover this story. there is a whole appendix of classified stuff that the whistleb...