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believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

But I'd like to open the hour with a learning opportunity for all of us Americans about how

British politics works. There are all these headlines and all these newspapers

and particularly on websites that have an international audience

about Boris Johnson and Brexit and the Queen and

dissolving Parliament or pausing Parliament and words that I'm not even

familiar with.

So let's get our expert on all things British on

Victoria Jones who is a US citizen but was born in the United Kingdom. She is the

chief Washington analyst for the DC radio company. Her Twitter handle is Victoria Jones DC, spelled

just like you might think. Victoria, welcome back. Well, thank you very much.

Yes, confusing it is.

And in fact, I have a headline and a couple of lines from an editorial board that might surprise

you.

Okay. Go for it. Headline Boris Johnson's suspension of

Parliament is an affront to democracy. First sentence Boris Johnson has detonated a bomb under the constitutional

apparatus of the United Kingdom so that's something there and then it says in the third paragraph history has shown that

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