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Your Congress and our Parliament are the twin pillars of our civilizations and the chief

among the many treasures that we have inherited from our predecessors. We like you, our staunch

believers, in the freedom of the individual and the rule of a fair and just law. These

principles are shared with our European partners and with the wider Atlantic community. They

are the bedrock of the Western world. The bedrock of the Western world from Queen

is the second address to a special session of Congress back in 1991. We are going to

devote the next hour one-on-one to geopolitics, geo-strategy and national security. But we

have to discuss the topic of the passing of a monarch that reigns for 70 years because

the individual we have in studio, a regular supporter of the show, spent some formative years

in the UK. We are delighted to have him in studio for the whole hour former member of the

Trump administration of the Cabinet Secretary of Veterans Affairs served two of our armed

services with distinction, Secretary Robert Wilkie, welcome in studio.

Thank you, doctor. And I'm going to take guest privilege here to describe the first time

I met her majesty. Please. My father was the liaison officer to the Royal School of

Artillery in Wiltshire, outside of Salzburg. And she was coming to bestow the Royal title

on the school and as the senior allied officer, we were, I see the allied officers family.

We received a visit from some of our strap hangers the night before telling the children

how to behave. It is press of royalty. You don't throw your hand out, you don't

talk. So she comes to the line and I've been told since then that she instinctively

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