Enten: Most Americans have 'had enough’ of UK royal news

[0:00] It was a little less than 24 hours ago we were on this set with royal subject Richard Quest [0:04] who began a sentence with the phrase the beauty of monarchy and then Richard was concerned about [0:12] how that line might sound to my American ears. With us now CNN chief data analyst Harriet and [0:18] this isn't about me and my ears but American ears the beauty of monarchy. How much beauty do [0:24] Americans see in monarchy? The Americans do not see very much beauty of monarchy at all. In fact [0:29] they may see some ugliness in monarchy. What are we talking about here? Okay Americans who say [0:35] they a U.S. monarchy would be a good thing. Well guess what folks all the percentages on your screen [0:41] are less than the number five. Only two percent of independents want a U.S. monarchy. Just four [0:46] percent of Republicans want a U.S. monarchy. Just four percent of Democrats want a U.S. monarchy. [0:52] To put that into some perspective 12 percent of Americans believe that the U.S. faked the moon [0:58] landing back in 1969 and we're talking about a third to a sixth of that percentage who say that [1:03] the U.S. monarchy would in fact be a good thing. They believe that William Daniels played John Amos [1:08] back in the film 1776 for a reason. They do not want a monarchy here in the United States of America. [1:14] Right and then props to the independents here outshining both Democrats and Republicans on [1:18] this subject. How do Americans feel about royal news in general which gets a lot of coverage. [1:23] A lot of coverage and Americans are saying enough of this. Enough of this stuff. What are we talking [1:28] about? Okay we're talking about Americans on U.K. royal news. Look at this. Just 32 percent of [1:33] Americans care. 63 percent. Do you know to quote Stephen Aisman? We don't care. We don't care. We've [1:39] had enough of the royal news. The bottom line is this. When you're talking about more than three [1:44] and five Americans saying you know what go go to another channel. Go watch the BBC if you want some [1:49] room. I don't believe you. Surely Americans watch these big royal events that get broadcast in full [1:54] across every major network. Yeah okay you don't believe me John Berman but it's in the numbers [1:58] baby. It's in the numbers. Look at this. Viewership of major events. Viewership in Americans. Coronation [2:03] of Charles III. And this is across channels here in the United States. It was 10 million. Compare that [2:08] to what I believe is one of the most American events possible. How about the Super Bowl this past [2:12] year's Super Bowl. Look at this. 126 million. What is that? That's 12.6 times as many folks watching [2:19] the Super Bowl. A pure American event as opposed to the coronation of Charles III. I will note of course [2:24] that this was early in the morning but of course it was across all the major channels too. So I [2:28] believe that this is a just comparison. I mean this was just on one network. This was on just one [2:32] network and this was on what like five six seven eight networks but the Americans have had enough [2:37] and the bottom line is this. His mother had what was it like triple the audience for her coronation so [2:41] interest is declining as well. I'm kidding. I can feel my phone going off now already with concerns [2:47] perhaps over this segment but I will say we won the revolution 250 years ago and we won the [2:51] viewership battle again here. That's that's exactly right. 250 years baby. Yes Paul Giamatti as John [2:56] Adam. Tremendous. Okay. I cannot help noticing the readjustments to the east wing Mr. President. [3:06] Following your visit to Windsor Castle last year and I'm sorry to say that we British of course made our [3:13] own small attempt at real estate redevelopment of the White House in 1814. [3:18] Yeah it was the full on charm offensive yesterday from King Charles and his visit to the US as they [3:27] talked about that special relationship between the US and the UK which frankly has hit a rough patch [3:32] over the war with Iran. So during last night's state dinner at the White House the president said [3:37] the king is on his side. We're doing a little Middle East work right now too if you might know [3:44] and we're doing very well. We have militarily defeated that particular opponent and we're never [3:51] going to let that opponent ever. Charles agrees with me even more than I do. We're never going to [3:58] let that opponent have a nuclear weapon. They know that. But the king had his own view which he delivered [4:05] the delicate touch of British humor. We have had our moments of difficulty even in more recent history. [4:12] When my mother visited in 1957 not the least of her tasks was to help put the special back [4:21] into our relationship after a crisis in the Middle East. Nearly 70 years on it is hard to imagine anything [4:28] like that happening today. All right so in the group chat today Eleanor Muller White House economic [4:36] policy reporter at Semaphore. Terry Schilling president of the American Principles Project and Antoine [4:41] Seawright democratic strategist. Now Eleanor I want to start with you because we are living in the [4:46] age of I call it edgelord diplomacy. Like I as a reporter finding things out on Twitter. The Iranian [4:53] leadership posts their propaganda. It is all modern and online in a way that sucks. So it was actually [5:01] very weird to see this moment that is defined by restraint. Yeah we saw Trump do opt out of a lot of [5:09] things in the last couple of days that he normally does. He did not for example while the king was here [5:14] bring reporters into the Oval Office to field questions on every topic imaginable like he [5:19] usually does and so clearly he's walking a very careful line for him as far as many in this [5:25] relationship with the UK and that's what we heard from Republican senators all week that they want. [5:30] You know the number one thing they said they hoped would come out of this was an improved relationship. [5:34] Oh from Republican senators you heard this. Oh yes. Oh no say more what are they because obviously this [5:40] relationship has been damaged with Keir Starmer's response to the president's requests when it [5:46] comes to the war on Iran. Exactly and there's even more than that you know there's Trump's attacks on [5:52] NATO there's the administration's accusations that the British government is a censoring conservative [5:58] voices and I was speaking to Senator Collins yesterday she was getting in an elevator she was asked [6:03] what do you want to see out of Trump's visit with the king and she said you know mended bridges [6:10] improved relationships and so we'll see whether or not the camaraderie that we've watched in the last [6:14] 24 hours actually lasts beyond this week. Yeah although there were some CNN reports with leaked comments [6:21] from a British ambassador saying the U.S.'s only special relationship is probably Israel and I thought [6:28] that was a very telling kind of thing to leak right ahead of this meeting just knowing how sources in [6:34] Washington tend to operate. Well look Audie I think the United States and the UK have a 200 year friendship [6:41] it's spanned that course of history and it's going well and I think yesterday was a good reminder that [6:47] it seems not going well it seems like if you're Keir Starmer you're like this is not going well. I [6:52] understand okay but but what you just said about the online edgelord discourse is everyone wants to [6:57] build hysteria every little disagreement is going to be a mountain out of a molehill and I think it's [7:02] really important to reflect that we have a 200 year relationship with the UK they are our greatest ally [7:07] period no one comes close and um I think it's important just to know that you have friendships [7:12] you have relationships there's going to be ups and downs you're going to have disagreement points this is [7:15] one of those disagreement points President Trump's right to keep that because during the speech I [7:19] was sort of had my eye on JD Vance because he's always going to Europe and going to the UK and [7:24] being like this is a horrible place you have no free speech like everything is bad here um and it was [7:30] interesting because Charles and the monarchy fundamentally it's very limited the power that [7:36] they have yes and yet the White House they see something else speaking of the trolling here's the [7:41] White House uh Twitter feed uh where it says two kings which I think was designed to irritate you Antoine [7:49] it says two kings and it was like haha Antoine well that's certainly how I think that's certainly [7:55] how the president um wants to present and position themselves at times but a couple takeaways from his [8:01] remarks the king's remarks and I think are very important is that executive power is subject to [8:06] checks and balances yes that's a friendly reminder to the congress that they have an obligation and a [8:12] responsibility to be oversight to the executive branch and that democracy should be safeguarded we're having [8:18] serious conversations around democracy in this country and that's so important I also think [8:22] that democracy is not the will of one comments from the king we've seen this president we've seen [8:28] what government overreach looks like particularly in this iteration of this administration I think [8:33] his remarks yesterday were a friendly reminder to see the American people but also to the congress [8:38] his remarks about what we cannot tolerate going forward