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Michael Goodwin, the greatest, finest columnist in America.

You can read his column every Sunday and every Wednesday in the New York Post,

and they're all up on the New York Post website and go read them all there.

Michael Goodwin. How you doing?

Good morning, Mark. Thank you.

Hey, we haven't talked in a while. The King's visit, you know, everybody just applauding,

bowing, standing ovations. Can these people ever do a no-kings protest ever again

after they fawned all over the actual king?

Yeah, that is funny, isn't it?

You know, it's all about theories.

It's all about name calling, and what can you create by way of an argument.

So, as you say, when the real king comes, not a problem.

But what about the, you wrote about our relationship with the British.

It has changed, hasn't it?

It has, and I think that Starmor, the prime minister, is a major problem.

But I think, you know, we're seeing it all throughout Western Europe, Germany and France included,

but the special relationship is a phrase that Winston Churchill coined to capture the long, long

history of these two nations together.

And, of course, World War II cemented that idea for a lot of people.

And yet, when the new British ambassador says he doesn't think that the special relationship is the same as it was, And he says, if America has a special relationship with any country, it's probably Israel.

And that to me, Mark, was such an astounding statement.

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