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Raheem, what's going on with the latest news regarding the UK ambassador to the United States?

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Yeah, it's a really important story, really fascinating sequence of events because of

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course, you know, whether or not people really still think about it, the United Kingdom is

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America's largest military ally, it is one of America's largest economic trading partners.

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And so the embassy, the ambassador, and the interoperationality, when you look at Five

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the bilateral information sharing intelligence sharing that goes on. That's a pretty big deal.

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There's a reason that the British Embassy is one of the largest in Washington DC.

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And it speaks to the factlessness and arrogance of the British government that for so long they have

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appointed ambassadors who are nasty about Donald Trump, who have said horrendous things,

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who have terrible things in their own past. And the latest to be floated for this

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plenipotentiary position is Lord Mandelson. Now, I don't necessarily expect everyone to remember

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or know who Lord Mandelson is, but in brief, he was one of the top advisors known as the Dark Lord

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to the left-wing Prime Minister Tony Blair in 97 onwards to about 2007. He was deeply responsible

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for Britain's social and economic decline. He was deeply responsible for drawing the UK

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Keir Starmer, the current prime minister, would shove somebody like Lord Mandelson to

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the embassy in DC and expect him to be taken seriously is a great affront to President Trump.

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It's a great affront to the American public and what they voted for.

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It shows a deep disconnect of Britain with America right now and I'm frankly

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embarrassed about that and apologetic actually to all of you about that. Lord Mandelson with

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his long standing, long reported by the way in case you're worried about any libel laws,

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links to Jeffrey Hepstein. Lord Mandelson who has said some of the most skull-duggarous things

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about Donald Trump, he simply would not be able, and by the way still pulls I believe a pension.

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from the European Union. So where do his loyalties lie? I don't think he would be an effective

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ambassador and now we're hearing that actually in a relatively unprecedented move, I did

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some research into this, it may be the case.

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that Donald Trump actually refuses is credentials, which is which is in the gift of the receiving

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country of an ambassador to do, but it's deeply unheard of. I think the last time you guys did it

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was some corruption scandal in Korea in early 2000s. And before that, it was Iran, Cuba,

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and before that it was Nazi Germany. So for that to be considered at that extent actually is

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a major, major diplomatic move that we need to pay close attention to. It tells you something.

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It tells you that it's not business as usual for this incoming Trump administration,

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and that they're just simply not going to put up with it anymore. They did that the first four

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years. They had terrible ambassadors. They had terrible situations diplomatically.

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We don't need another of those situations here. And Lord Mandelson represents that.

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In closing here, Raheem, we have 1,458, 38 days left.

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Let me see, 1,458 days of this Trump administration ago.

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That's a lot of time left on the clock.

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Raheem, what do you want to see done

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that has not yet been done or addressed?

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Things not just signed, but agency directives

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that you want to see the new Trump administration tackle.

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have put together a list yet, but I sure would like to resurrect Stephen K. Bannon's old

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whiteboard from his West Wing office that I believe ended up getting buried in the White

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House storage in the basement after he left in 2017.

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There are so many things left on that which remain unticked.

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I think we have to get our heads around the immigration issue, the legal immigration issue

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into the United States because there is such a scam going on with all of that as well.

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I also think, look, there are plenty of opportunities here, and I know that people like Elon Musk

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and Donald Trump are not gonna miss out on these.

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There are plenty of cultural opportunities, as America reaches its 250th anniversary,

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as you're hosting the World Cup.

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There are all these huge cultural events that are gonna be taking place over that thousand

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plus days that you mentioned, that I think you have to embrace, and I think you have

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into the American psyche over these next four years, too. Let's have a McDonnell Trump Day,

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a national cheat day, a MaHA cheat day for America. Changing the culture is as important as

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changing the politics. And there's lots of things that can happen between now and then.

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But listen, you say there's four years, they're not. There's like two years. You've got to get