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America 250. | |
| Over a year of historic moments. | ||
| Only on the C-SPAN networks. | ||
| Democracy is always an unfinished creation. | ||
| Democracy is worth dying for. | ||
| Democracy belongs to us all. | ||
| We are here in the sanctuary of democracy. | ||
| Great responsibilities fall once again to the great democracies. | ||
| American democracy is bigger than any one person. | ||
| Freedom and democracy must be constantly guarded and protected. | ||
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We are still at our core a democracy. | |
| This is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom. | ||
| The Atlantic Council's Phil Dickinson joins us now to preview President Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom this week. | ||
| And it's actually President Trump's second state visit dating back to his first term this time though with a different monarch. | ||
| Phil Dickinson, how unusual is it for one head of state to have two state visits? | ||
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It's very unusual, unprecedented, in fact. | |
| I think this is one occasion where it's certainly fair to use that term. | ||
| It's only the fourth state visit by a U.S. president, and for two of those to be President Trump, that says something about just how important and significant that is, and just how eager the British government is to invest early and build good relationships with this administration. | ||
| You can't drop a history nugget without telling us the other two. | ||
| Who are the other two presidents by state visits? | ||
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President Bush in 2003 and President Obama in 2011. | |
| How did this one in 2025 come about? | ||
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So when the Prime Minister came and made his first visit to the White House in February earlier this year, in fact, it was the day immediately before the Oval Office meeting that President Trump had with President Zelensky. | |
| I think Keir Stamer would say that his Oval Office meeting went a lot better. | ||
| There was a lot more bonham and friendliness. | ||
| And the first sort of flourish that the Prime Minister did at the start of that was to pull out the letter from the King inviting the President to this state visit. | ||
| I think as soon as the election result was clear, number 10 in London would have been figuring out how best to build good relationships with President Trump, knowing that Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, is not necessarily cut from the same political cloth as the president. | ||
| You know, he's more of a buttoned-up lefty London lawyer type, which doesn't necessarily scan as very MAGA. | ||
| We're going to lead this here and take you live now to the U.S. House, where members are considering legislation on DC policing reform and Trump administration energy policy. |