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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third

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Hello and welcome to Deep State Radio.

I am David Raskopf, your host, and we are joined by our two regulars, our friends,

our sources of sanity in a world gone mad.

Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law Center.

How are you doing today, Rosa?

I'm okay, David.

You're okay. That's not really super encouraging. And Ed Luce of the Financial Times. How are you doing today, Ed? I'm having a royal

day, a royal week. Yeah, I know you're having a royal week, Ed. Let me ask you a question. Well, let me ask

one to Rosa first. Rosa, were you invited to the president's garden party with the king?

You know, as a matter of fact, David, I'll have you know that I received an email which we

thought perhaps was a fishing attempt, but was perhaps actually a ticket, not to the garden party,

but to view the royal arrival at the White House.

I did not attend, however. I did not take my ticket.

All those MAGA donations paying off.

Well, I think the people being nice to me were the British embassy, not the White House somehow.

I see.

Well, I asked this question because it was kind of a leading question, because I know the answer to this.

Ed, were you at the Garden Party with the King and Queen of England?

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