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CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, from CNN. |
| 0:02.7 | I'm David Ryan with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, April 28th. |
| 0:07.0 | Thank you very much, everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | What a beautiful British day this is. |
| 0:14.0 | And it really is. |
| 0:17.0 | Your Majesty's members of the President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump officially welcomed King Charles and Queen |
| 0:23.0 | Camilla to the White House this morning. |
| 0:25.1 | Honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years |
| 0:32.9 | of American independence, but in fact no tribute could be more appropriate. |
| 0:39.3 | Later this afternoon, Charles will become just the second royal to address a joint meeting of Congress before a big state dinner later tonight. |
| 0:46.3 | This is not just pompant circumstance, though. There are a lot of thorny issues at play, notably Jeffrey Epstein-related accountability and the war with Iran. |
| 0:56.4 | And to make things even more potentially awkward, |
| 1:00.5 | the Financial Times reported this morning on leaked comments made earlier this year by the UK ambassador to the U.S. Christian Turner. |
| 1:03.8 | Turner said the special relationship for the U.S. is probably Israel, not the UK. |
| 1:09.1 | He talked about how nobody in power in the U.S. has really been brought |
| 1:11.9 | down by the Epstein scandal. A British source told CNN that the recording was of a private |
| 1:16.4 | conversation, which was never intended for publication, and that Turner's comments do not |
| 1:20.7 | reflect government policy. A lot coming up, including gas gets even pricier, and a major oil player |
| 1:27.4 | shakes things up. |
| 1:28.6 | Stick around. |
| 1:30.4 | Security program on spreadsheets. |
| 1:32.7 | New regulations piling up? |
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