Join Jim and Greg for Tuesday’s 3 Martini Lunch as they dig into President Trump urging the Senate to cancel its summer recess, Democrats in Minnesota endorsing a socialist for mayor of Minneapolis, and Hunter Biden’s blistering attack on high-profile Democrats.
First, they welcome President Trump's call for Senate Majority Leader John Thune to scrap the Senate's August recess so Republicans can push through dozens of judicial and executive nominations. They highlight how Democrats are using procedural tactics to stall confirmations and delay Trump’s personnel and judicial selections from taking office.
Next, they react to Minnesota Democrats formally endorsing socialist State Sen. Omar Fateh in the Minneapolis mayoral race. Fateh supports defunding the police and the Mamdani approach to "affordable" housing. Greg suggests Democrats have no problem with socialists, unless they're worried those socialists might lose. Jim says there doesn't seem to be anything that's too far left for more and more Democrats.
Finally, they go through Hunter Biden's profanity-laced podcast interviews, in which he rips the Democrats who encouraged and forced his dad to abandon his re-election bid. Hunter Biden took aim at Nancy Pelosi and her daughter, George Clooney, James Carville, David Axelrod, Jake Tapper, the Pod Save America guys and more. They point out that a decent amount of what Hunter said was true but he's the worst possible person to deliver the message.
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First, they welcome President Trump's call for Senate Majority Leader John Thune to scrap the Senate's August recess so Republicans can push through dozens of judicial and executive nominations. They highlight how Democrats are using procedural tactics to stall confirmations and delay Trump’s personnel and judicial selections from taking office.
Next, they react to Minnesota Democrats formally endorsing socialist State Sen. Omar Fateh in the Minneapolis mayoral race. Fateh supports defunding the police and the Mamdani approach to "affordable" housing. Greg suggests Democrats have no problem with socialists, unless they're worried those socialists might lose. Jim says there doesn't seem to be anything that's too far left for more and more Democrats.
Finally, they go through Hunter Biden's profanity-laced podcast interviews, in which he rips the Democrats who encouraged and forced his dad to abandon his re-election bid. Hunter Biden took aim at Nancy Pelosi and her daughter, George Clooney, James Carville, David Axelrod, Jake Tapper, the Pod Save America guys and more. They point out that a decent amount of what Hunter said was true but he's the worst possible person to deliver the message.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
and Jim Garrity of National Review.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Free Martini's coming up.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Hey, really glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition
of the Three Martini Lunch. We've got Hunter Biden today,
We've got the next mom Donnie as the Democrats officially
in Minnesota endorse socialist for mayor of Minneapolis, and we'll
talk about whether or not the Senate's going to get
a summer recess. Trump says no, because not enough of
(00:33):
his judicial nominees and other personnel have been confirmed yet,
and majority of leader John Thune is thinking about it.
So let's start right there. Good Martini from the Hill.
The President a couple days ago saying, on truth social quote,
hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many
victories over the past two weeks and indeed six months,
(00:53):
will cancel August recess and long weekends in order to
get my incredible nominees confirmed. We need them badly. Trump says,
So now John Thune saying he's open to that call,
he's considering the move. We're thinking about it, He says.
We want to get as many nominations through the pipeline
as we can, and he says it would be nice
to have Democrats act more according to historical precedents when
(01:16):
it comes to this quote, Trump's the first president in
history that hasn't had a nomination adopted by this point
in his presidency, either by unanimous consent or voice, not
a single one. Trying to get his team in place
is something that we're very committed to, and we're going
to be looking at all the options in the next
few weeks to try and get as many of those
across the finish line as we can unquote. And so
(01:38):
he says the government he's got to also focus on
government funding, National Defense Authorization Act, and other things that
could get done if he keeps members in town. Obviously,
members already have plans for next month. But Jim, when
Democrats are throwing up this many hurdles, their only reward
should be all right, We're gonna stay here as long
as it takes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, this is not too much to ask you, as
to mention previous episodes. Back when I covered the House,
you'd have votes on Monday, but it'd be after five
pm on Monday, and it would generally be renaming post offices. Right,
the work week really would begin Tuesday morning. It wasn't
unheard of to have votes on Friday, but the general sense,
(02:17):
but they would be definitely be done by noon and
early afternoon everybody could fly back to their districts. So
you're really looking at like three working days a year
of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Most of the time.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's not too much to ask most of these district
work periods because they're not recesses, Greg, it's district work period.
And look, they are doing the pancake breakfast meeting with
you know, the town council and the church bake sale,
and they're doing all kinds of apperiods. Okay, fine, you know,
but look, this is what their job is. And I
looked it up. Currently, according to the tracker for Nominees positions,
(02:51):
there are two hundred and sixty eight political appointees that
have been named and there are at various stages of
Senate confirmation. A whole bunch were reported out of the
committee favorably, and we're just waiting for a floor vote
on this. You know, Who's not God had a vote's
out of hearing held, but no committee vote. Who's that
Mike Waltz, who was supposed to be representative to the
United Nations like that was announced a while ago, and
(03:12):
they figured that you already, like I guess you would
have confirmation for National Security Advisor.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But he was in.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Like, people know who Mike Waltz is, and so what's
what's the hold up here? You go down the list, like,
for example, our potential ambassador to the Bahamas, herschel Walker,
who may have botched a couple of winnable Senate races,
but while in all like you know us Senate, if
you don't like herschel Walker, then get him out of
the country by making ambassador ambassador somewhere. Kimberly Gilfoyle supposed
(03:40):
to be ambassador. De Grease has been able to get
out there. They just this is a sort of thing
most if you want to say, oh, you know, they're
unqualified and they're Bothy donors. That's a bipartisan tradition going
back generations. Oh, by the way, because we don't know
how many spy thrillers have people seen a fancy embassy
party and Jennifer Gardner has to you know, sneak into
(04:03):
the vault in the you know, the US guy of
good news, having formerly been you know, the spousal attachment
to an embassy community. US taxpayer dollars do not throw
fancy embassy parties with I believe the exception of maybe
the Fourth of July party is that they basically they
use that so basically anything you've ever seen anything that's fancy,
which means if you're going to do any other, you know,
(04:23):
events beyond that one, you need to have a wealthy
donor who's willing to dip into their own pocket and
spend whatever it takes to do the appropriate stuff. So
that's why you have wealthy donors. And most of the time,
how much can the ambassador to Luxembourg screw things up?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know, we don't worry about this too much, but
in a lot of these cases it does seem ridiculous.
You look at the charts, the confirmation rate is significantly lower.
And if it was a democratic sending, like okay, well,
there'd been a real pain. This is a Republican Senate.
There really isn't that much excuse. Yes, the big beautiful
bill took up a lot of time and energy and
kind of mental bandwidth, but a lot of this stuff
is not that controversial. They should, you know, like I know,
(04:58):
there's like you know, confirmation process. Often there's an expedated
confirmation process, and there really should be a drive through lane.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Greg, we should just kind of just send them through.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Congratulations, are confirmed by the Senate, Get off your foreign capital,
get off to your job. Good to get to work,
because otherwise we have lots of acting people sitting around
doing two jobs and things like that. Guys, Marco Rubio
cannot run the entire federal government.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, yeah, but like Thune says, there was no unanimous consent.
There's no voice vote, which means somebody objects, which means
you got to go through a longer and longer process.
And if the nominees from your state and you don't
like this president, you don't like this nominee, you can
hold things up even longer. And so it's a more
convoluted process than a lot of us wish it was. Jim,
I seem to remember was an embassy party or some
(05:42):
other official building in Budapest where I did it was
a little more grizzly than the typical fancy party.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It does happen occasionally, and to the most badass thing
I can say in my life is I emphasize on
my last Ukraine, I did not go to Russian territory.
They cannot use me entraining the country illegally. Whether I've
ever liked snuck into a Russian embassy, well, that's another
story for another time.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
All right, all right, Jim onto our bad Martini. Now
it's a little bit of deja vu when it comes
to quote unquote Democratic socialists. We've talked a lot about
Zoron Mamdani in New York City and his path to
the Democratic nomination for mayor Andrew Quomo of course getting
(06:28):
back into the race four man race there, and we'll
have plenty to talk about that over the next few months,
I'm sure. But New York is not the only place
where this is happening. Fox News with the story Minnesota's
branch of the Democratic Party endorsed far left Minnesota State
Senator Omar FATA's campaign for mayor of Minneapolis. On Saturday.
(06:48):
Fata announced the endorsement from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party.
That's just the way they say the Democrats in Minnesota
on social media. He secured the endorsement over incumbent Mayor
Jacob Frye who's also a Democrat. Quote, I'm incredibly honored
to be the dfl endorsed candidate for Minneapolis mayor. This
endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with
broken promises, vetos and politics as usual. It's a mandate
(07:11):
to build a city that works for all of us,
which sounds really great. Like Mandani, he's a Muslim Democratic
socialist and he's also a member of Generation Why, son
of Samali immigrants, selected to the Minnesota Senate in twenty twenty.
He has pledged af elected mayor, he would raised the
city's minimum wage, increased the supply of affordable housing, and
we know from Mamdani what that actually means and how
(07:34):
they plan to do that, and combat what he calls
police violence. He has been on the record for literally
defunding the police. So Jacob Frye, he might remember he
was the mayor even back in twenty twenty when all
the George Floyd riots went down, and he was basically
trying to pander as much as he could in every
possible direction. But apparently that pandering not enough to keep
(07:56):
him in the good graces of the party. So jim
as I said in our email today, I'm starting to
think that the Democrats don't actually have a problem with
the socialists. They only have a problem with the socialists
that they feared might not win.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Look, I can understand if you're a Minneapolis resident lack
of faith in your current management. That part I don't
have a problem with. And the frustration with Frey, although, like,
to be honest, he did start out ludicrously pandering to
the left, and then they genuinely wanted him to abolish
the existence of the police department in Minneapolis, and he's like, oh, oh,
we don't really believe that. They're like, yes, we absolutely
(08:29):
expect that, and he couldn't go along, and he actually
alienated them by being insufficiently for the left. I am
not going to make what sticks me as a cliched
and honestly probably tasteless joke that this mayoral candidate will
say upon election, look at me, I'm the Captain now,
because it was resemblance to the actor who played the
(08:50):
Somali in the Captain Phillips movie.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Let's just kind of observe that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
If you're the Democratic Party, you can make an argument,
Oh you know what happens in New York City is
not reflective of Democrats across the country. It's a very
liberal area. Stop tagging us with their stuff. All right,
Los Angeles, all right, you know, Karen bass is a
nut job who flew halfway across the world when he
city was on fire, and she doesn't have any answers,
(09:15):
and they've only rebuilt a handful of homes in Palisades.
Don't pin that on us. After a while, you start
noticing this pattern here, that it's not just that these
are heavily democratic cities. These are heavily democratic cities that
have been probably badly managed and had worsening problems of crime,
of homelessness, of companies choosing to re locate their headquarters elsewhere,
et cetera. And all of this is happening, and Minneapolis
(09:39):
has had to share of that as well. And also
probably the bad policies make those who are most opposed
to them want to move out of the city, and
they'd either move out to the suburbs or they move
to other parts of the country Entirely. If you're the Democrats,
you don't need a guy in Minneapolis doing more of this.
You don't need to throw saying, oh, he's the Minneapolis
(10:01):
mom Dami first of all, that and a litter of
nickname like that is going to stick to him. Marion
Barry being the mayor of Washington, DC really either time,
But it was worse when he got re elected after
the crack. I know, I know, the witch set him up,
but they all at all like that was bad. But
it was tougher to say, oh, you Democrat running in Ohio,
you're just like Marion Barry.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
In Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But when so many cities that are deep blue and
are electing candidates who are not merely like, you know,
hard left of the party, but openly socialists are in
the case of mam Dami communist right like, this definitely
looks like a party that has decided there is no
barrier to the left. The Overton window just goes on
forever and they can just be as left wing as
they want to be. And that's really bad for the
(10:44):
amage of the Democratic Party if you're trying to win
in a place like Ohio, or winning statewide in a
place like North Carolina like or you're trying to win
a congressional seat in Omaha, Nebraska or something like that.
Because I do believe that you know, the news cycle
gets generated by conflict, hard crazy left wing mayors ten
to do controversial things that turn into national news nation
Why it develops that that influences the perception of what
(11:05):
the Democratic Party is and what it stands for. So
you might be saying, ah, you know, Minneapolis mayoral race,
what does it matter, Well, it's not just the Minneapolis
mayoral race. It's the same thing happening in Big City
after Big City. Is if the face of all kinds
of problems that generally got really bad during the pandemic
and you know, and George Floyd ryot Sin since then continuing,
it's that they keep choosing further options to the left
(11:28):
with the you know, I think is very predictable results
that are going to come from this.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Now, that's a good point, and it makes me think
of a couple of things. First of all, people who
are at least close to socialists, if not fullbl on socialists,
like AOC our media darlings. The party certainly doesn't try
to shun them from being a very prominent figure in
the party. And so from the media perspective and also
from the base perspective, they're perfectly fine with these people
(11:51):
that they think they can win. But it also this
is probably an indictment on public education to some extent,
but it's also an indictment on those of us who
remember the Cold War and forgetting the fact that you
probably have to be. Let's see, the Berlin Wall came
down in eighty nine, you probably got to be at least,
you know, seven eight nine to remember it. Well. You know,
people are forty five years old at minimum to remember
(12:12):
the Cold War now. And I feel like we're just
you know, hey, we won. Let's move on instead of
reminding people over and over and over again why that
system was so disastrous, so murderous, and ultimately collapsed. But
it doesn't just happen. You have to keep stomping it
out like a campfire, like Reagan says, you know, freedom's
only one generation away from extinction. And I don't know
(12:34):
that we've done a great job since the collapse of
the USSR to remind people why that was such a
bad idea.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Greg, I agree with everything you said, except the Cold
War in my head was just a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I know it feels like it right.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Althout considering Moscow?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Did it ever really end? It just went on hiatus?
Briefly went on sabbatical. That's how the Cold War, Yeah,
the eighties cold they're calling for your their foreign policy.
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Back, oh man, But it was thirty four years ago
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Martine Now and Hunter Biden has done multiple podcast interviews,
and I've got Carpal Tunnel from putting in the bleep
tone to these clips on a number of different things.
We're gonna have his thoughts, first of all, on a
(14:41):
number of Democrats, which is always fun. One of them
I'm just going to summarize because I really would have
Carpal tunnel if I tried to bleep them all. But
he was, of course on with Jamie Harrison, like we
talked about, and as I said last week, Man, it'd
be interesting if they actually talked about Pelosi, Chevin or
Dad out of the race last year. Well, it turns
out they did, at least to some extent. And here's
what Hunter Biden had to say about Nancy and Alexandra Pelosi.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And you would have the speaker emeritus that would say, well,
you know, I'm going to leave it up to but
I don't know. And uh and and they had already
made a decision. They clearly made a decision. And when
I say they, I mean the speaker. And you know,
I heard Alexander Pelosi say something call my my, like
(15:28):
put your big girl pants on to my mom or something,
and I kind of want to feel like saying, who
the fuck do you think you are. I would never
speak about your mom that way. I would never speak
about your father that way. I would never insult your
parents that way.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, given the number of f BOMs he did in
these two interviews, I'm pretty sure he does talk about
everybody that way. But in this other interview with a
more left wing podcaster, Hunter Biden went off on many
in the Democratic Party, which is very good popcorn material.
Let's start with George Clooney bleep him and everyone around him.
George Clooney is an actor, he's a brand. James Carvell
(16:02):
hasn't won a race in forty years. David Axelrod had
won success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama.
And that was because of Barack Obama. The Pod Save
America guys were junior speech writers on Barack Obama's Senate
staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him,
making millions. Anita Dunn has made forty to fifty million
dollars off the Democratic Party. And then he took aim
(16:23):
at Jake Tapper. Of course, in the wake of the book.
What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has
the smallest audience on cable news, and so Jim, he's
certainly right about Nancy Pelosi kind of having it both ways.
Before Biden got out, we had that clip of her
on NBC saying that, well, we're just going to let
him make his decision, and the guy says, well, he's
(16:44):
made his decision, he's saying in the race, and Pelosi says, well,
we'll just let him make his decision. And so you know,
this guy's clearly unhinged. He doesn't come off well in
these things, but he's not necessarily wrong about some of
the stuff. So it'll be interesting to see whether this
has much of a shelf life.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What do you think, so Greg to use one of
my cliches, there's just a lot to unpack here.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yes, these are my.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Suitcases behind me, because there's like people might say, ah,
you know, Hunter Biden coming out and doing podcast guys
is really the biggest news.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No, but it's delicious, it's so it is so not
just like past the popcord.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
The irony is is that a lot of what he's
saying and what his critics are shooting back at him,
they're actually true. And I kind of feel like the
Democratic Party has had like a lot of stifled raw
anger and emotions and now it's bursting out and now
it's kind of In the Dennis Leary classic The ref
there's a moment where he has a burglar who takes
(17:39):
a family hostage, realizes that the tensions in this family
have gotten so large that he know't look has to
worry about keeping them hostage, that they're all going to
like all on each other's and he just.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Kind of sits back and watches.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's how I feel right now watching the Democratic Party
in fighting. The first thing I'll just kind of observe,
you know, despite all of this, I feel like I
didn't hear a lot of Hunter Biden's voice and seeing
him speak very much over the controversies in the last
couple years. You watch these two podcast interviews, it is
kind of funny how he looks and sounds like a
younger Senator Joe Biden. The intonations, the mannerism. I never
(18:14):
thought they looked alike. And then you watch them sit
down listen to them interview. It is kind of interesting
to hear that old Biden there.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Two.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I'm very glad that Hunter Biden has identified what I
think we can all agree is, like the most the
biggest consequence and worst fallout from the election is that
Alexander Pelosi said something that hurt Joe Biden's feelings. That
really is that's a big deal and how dare she now?
The other thing, when he goes on this tirade about
(18:43):
everybody else in the Democratic Party, you and I are
kind of look at each other. He's not wrong, like
Carvel's known for ninety two. I guess he kind of
had a role in the ninety six campaign, but he's
pretty much been a full time talking head, reliable Democrat.
I'm sure some Democrats call him up for advice every now,
but he's not who he was, and so he can
(19:03):
kind of fairly ask, you know, does Carvel the guy
who's got his pulse on the public and what the
public wants all the time? David Axelrod Yeah, by the way, Like,
one of the lessons of presidential campaign politics is that
if your guy wins the presidential election, you become leat water.
You become even if you'll lose, you're very madel it, right,
you know, like you become a reliable talking head, you
(19:26):
get to write the campaign memoir, you get to probably
the Kennedy School will probably have you win to teach
for a semester. You've got sweet get corporate consulting, right,
you know, communications consulting. You've got sweet gigs for the
rest of your life. And if your candidate won. Now,
Karl Rove still writes a column for the Wall Street
Journal like this is a like, so like you shouldn't
(19:46):
be all that surprised if people still talk to David
Oxelrond Again that having been said, Axelrod's really big win
was two thousand and eight, where having you know, picking
a candidate with really, let's face it, no charisma, no talent,
and no in ability to give a speech or retail
Barack Obama, and then he managed to somehow eke Obama
(20:07):
over the top when all he had working for him
was the Great Recession and the collapse of the US economy.
So all that came down to ask ask the Rod's strategy.
Only that's now. Having said that, as far as democratic
strategists go, I think David wax Rod is pretty darn good.
And I think he was a guy who was sounding
the alarm about Joe Biden being too old to run
another term pretty early on and getting some grief about
(20:30):
it from the Biden White House. So like, you could
not like the guy, but he wasn't wrong. George Clooney
like like, oh, he's an actor, not a brand, sure,
and you're an artist hunter. Okay, you know, let's look,
George Clooney has given me several hours of enjoyment of
watching The Oceans eleven.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And Motions thirteen.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
We're just gonna pretend Oceans twelve didn't happen right, and
we're also going to observe that, like, you know, we
can all enjoy making fun of Batman. He did at
you had a great cameo at the end of Flash
where the idea that the timeline has been changed and
Batman is no.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Longer ben Affleck.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So we found all that when he goes after the
Pod Save America guys, you know, and it's it's a
fair gripe, you say, Oh, these guys were low level
staffers on the campaign. They've exaggerated their influence. And I
believe the quote is quote how arrogant do you have
to be to say to be Pod Save America? Like
we've designated them as the guys who are gonna save America,
you know, like four guys living in West Hollywood making
(21:30):
a million dollars a piece or more. Fact check true, Hey, Greg,
who's Hunter Biden? He put the entire country of Columbia
up his nose And though, oh, you're the guy who
you know, by the way, the Pod Save America guys
like you know what you responded this morning and went
off on their own thing. And if basically was like
m you know, maybe it's a fair criticism makes them
you are Hunter Biding, you were the biggest liability to
(21:52):
your dad the deal, and I'm exaggerating how angry they were,
but they're more more incredulous. Wait, Hunter Biden is giving
us grief, you know, the guy who is this walking liability.
But the thing was really shocking is the pond Save America. Guys,
Let's assume all your work was on the up and
up at every last one of your paintings were bought
by genuine art collect you know, like the just ripping
(22:14):
with sarcasm has to go through this. You're still a
guy who got every job in his life because of
who his dad was. And that's the sort of Washington
inside you know, insider crap that everybody.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hates and fact check true.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I also think it's kind of interesting, Greg, did you
know that from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four were
we allowed to point out that, like everything Hunter Biden
did in his whole life was like a job to
get access to his dad.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yes, we didn't point that out a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I mean we pointed that out like we were bad
people for pointing that out. We were rude, we were
uncouth for daring to observe. I mean I did a timeline,
and because like in the Harrison interview where Jamie Harrison
asked the really tough one first question is who are you,
Hunter Biden, which really says like the first you know,
like a deep existential question. But then the next one was,
(23:02):
so where did you go to school? Tell me about
your background. And I'm sitting there thinking like, aren't these
the kind of basic research you do before you start
the interview? You and I go to these interviews a
lot more prepared than that, And he goes into, yeah,
I worked for a bank. No, a bank in Delaware,
a bank in Delaware that wanted to stay on good
terms with Joe Biden, who, oh, by the way, I
believe at that time was chairman of the Banking Committee
(23:23):
or whatever it was. He was a very influential guy
on the Senate Finance Committee or stuff like that. Like
every job Hunter Biden has ever gotten has been about.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Access to his dad.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The pods of America guys have every right to say, look,
anybody who's going to take a shot on us, you
don't have the standing Hunter Biden. And it is just
if you're a Democrat, you've got to be saying what
does it take to get these guys to go away?
What does it take the Biden family to just ride
off into the sunset?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Enjoy?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Why are you coming forth to say everything that happened
twenty twenty four was the fault of everyone on Earth
except the Biden family, who you know, made the decisions
about whether Joe should run.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah, the thing that intrigues me about the first clip
there about Alexander Pelosi and the big girl pants and
Jill Biden. That just tells you how ugly this thing
got because it probably didn't start with Alexander Pelosi joining
her mom, either on the phone or maybe even in person,
and this obviously got to a point where she was
part of the conversations. And then it's at that point
(24:16):
it's not even about Nancy and Joe. It's Alexander and
Jill sniping at each other. So we're getting closer to
how ugly this got. We still don't know exactly what
Nancy Pelosi threatened to do if Joe didn't get out,
and that's I think the lingering question. We've had a
lot of books about the other stuff, but that's the
question I think that still needs to be answered.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
What could they do to Joe that you know, would
like embarrass him. He'd already embarrass himself, but what you know,
so we'll see. I'm looking forward to an original sin
partne from Jake Tapper, who you know, like.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh, by the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
But can just observe, Like if you're a Democrat and
let's say you've carried some water for the Democratic Party,
or you tried to defend Joe Biden from accusations of
being too how do you like Hunter Biden jumping out
and just pooping all over you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Just just you know, ripping into you every way possible.
What a bunch of ingrates.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
The upside of this is that everyone will hate the
Democratic circles will hate the Biden family, everybody, Republican CIRCLESI
already hated the Biden family, like give you my my day,
my word as a Biden, as if the word of
a Biden meant anything. Biden's name were going to be
mud for like a generation in American.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Politics, Yeah, no question about it. But get the popcorn.
Let's see if anybody responds to them, because if that happens,
then he'll have to respond to them, and you know
that's what makes politics fun. Jim anyway, have a great Tuesday.
See tomorrow, See Tomorrow, Greg, Jim Garretty, National Review. I'm
Greg Corumbus of Radio America. Thanks so much for being
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Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
Free Martini's coming up.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Hey, really glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition
of the Three Martini Lunch. We've got Hunter Biden today,
We've got the next mom Donnie as the Democrats officially
in Minnesota endorse socialist for mayor of Minneapolis, and we'll
talk about whether or not the Senate's going to get
a summer recess. Trump says no, because not enough of
(00:33):
his judicial nominees and other personnel have been confirmed yet,
and majority of leader John Thune is thinking about it.
So let's start right there. Good Martini from the Hill.
The President a couple days ago saying, on truth social quote,
hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many
victories over the past two weeks and indeed six months,
(00:53):
will cancel August recess and long weekends in order to
get my incredible nominees confirmed. We need them badly. Trump says,
So now John Thune saying he's open to that call,
he's considering the move. We're thinking about it, He says.
We want to get as many nominations through the pipeline
as we can, and he says it would be nice
to have Democrats act more according to historical precedents when
(01:16):
it comes to this quote, Trump's the first president in
history that hasn't had a nomination adopted by this point
in his presidency, either by unanimous consent or voice, not
a single one. Trying to get his team in place
is something that we're very committed to, and we're going
to be looking at all the options in the next
few weeks to try and get as many of those
across the finish line as we can unquote. And so
(01:38):
he says the government he's got to also focus on
government funding, National Defense Authorization Act, and other things that
could get done if he keeps members in town. Obviously,
members already have plans for next month. But Jim, when
Democrats are throwing up this many hurdles, their only reward
should be all right, We're gonna stay here as long
as it takes.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, this is not too much to ask you, as
to mention previous episodes. Back when I covered the House,
you'd have votes on Monday, but it'd be after five
pm on Monday, and it would generally be renaming post offices. Right,
the work week really would begin Tuesday morning. It wasn't
unheard of to have votes on Friday, but the general sense,
(02:17):
but they would be definitely be done by noon and
early afternoon everybody could fly back to their districts. So
you're really looking at like three working days a year
of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Most of the time.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's not too much to ask most of these district
work periods because they're not recesses, Greg, it's district work period.
And look, they are doing the pancake breakfast meeting with
you know, the town council and the church bake sale,
and they're doing all kinds of apperiods. Okay, fine, you know,
but look, this is what their job is. And I
looked it up. Currently, according to the tracker for Nominees positions,
(02:51):
there are two hundred and sixty eight political appointees that
have been named and there are at various stages of
Senate confirmation. A whole bunch were reported out of the
committee favorably, and we're just waiting for a floor vote
on this. You know, Who's not God had a vote's
out of hearing held, but no committee vote. Who's that
Mike Waltz, who was supposed to be representative to the
United Nations like that was announced a while ago, and
(03:12):
they figured that you already, like I guess you would
have confirmation for National Security Advisor.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
But he was in.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Like, people know who Mike Waltz is, and so what's
what's the hold up here? You go down the list, like,
for example, our potential ambassador to the Bahamas, herschel Walker,
who may have botched a couple of winnable Senate races,
but while in all like you know us Senate, if
you don't like herschel Walker, then get him out of
the country by making ambassador ambassador somewhere. Kimberly Gilfoyle supposed
(03:40):
to be ambassador. De Grease has been able to get
out there. They just this is a sort of thing
most if you want to say, oh, you know, they're
unqualified and they're Bothy donors. That's a bipartisan tradition going
back generations. Oh, by the way, because we don't know
how many spy thrillers have people seen a fancy embassy
party and Jennifer Gardner has to you know, sneak into
(04:03):
the vault in the you know, the US guy of
good news, having formerly been you know, the spousal attachment
to an embassy community. US taxpayer dollars do not throw
fancy embassy parties with I believe the exception of maybe
the Fourth of July party is that they basically they
use that so basically anything you've ever seen anything that's fancy,
which means if you're going to do any other, you know,
(04:23):
events beyond that one, you need to have a wealthy
donor who's willing to dip into their own pocket and
spend whatever it takes to do the appropriate stuff. So
that's why you have wealthy donors. And most of the time,
how much can the ambassador to Luxembourg screw things up?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
You know, we don't worry about this too much, but
in a lot of these cases it does seem ridiculous.
You look at the charts, the confirmation rate is significantly lower.
And if it was a democratic sending, like okay, well,
there'd been a real pain. This is a Republican Senate.
There really isn't that much excuse. Yes, the big beautiful
bill took up a lot of time and energy and
kind of mental bandwidth, but a lot of this stuff
is not that controversial. They should, you know, like I know,
(04:58):
there's like you know, confirmation process. Often there's an expedated
confirmation process, and there really should be a drive through lane.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Greg, we should just kind of just send them through.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Congratulations, are confirmed by the Senate, Get off your foreign capital,
get off to your job. Good to get to work,
because otherwise we have lots of acting people sitting around
doing two jobs and things like that. Guys, Marco Rubio
cannot run the entire federal government.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, yeah, but like Thune says, there was no unanimous consent.
There's no voice vote, which means somebody objects, which means
you got to go through a longer and longer process.
And if the nominees from your state and you don't
like this president, you don't like this nominee, you can
hold things up even longer. And so it's a more
convoluted process than a lot of us wish it was. Jim,
I seem to remember was an embassy party or some
(05:42):
other official building in Budapest where I did it was
a little more grizzly than the typical fancy party.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
It does happen occasionally, and to the most badass thing
I can say in my life is I emphasize on
my last Ukraine, I did not go to Russian territory.
They cannot use me entraining the country illegally. Whether I've
ever liked snuck into a Russian embassy, well, that's another
story for another time.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
All right, all right, Jim onto our bad Martini. Now
it's a little bit of deja vu when it comes
to quote unquote Democratic socialists. We've talked a lot about
Zoron Mamdani in New York City and his path to
the Democratic nomination for mayor Andrew Quomo of course getting
(06:28):
back into the race four man race there, and we'll
have plenty to talk about that over the next few months,
I'm sure. But New York is not the only place
where this is happening. Fox News with the story Minnesota's
branch of the Democratic Party endorsed far left Minnesota State
Senator Omar FATA's campaign for mayor of Minneapolis. On Saturday.
(06:48):
Fata announced the endorsement from the Democratic Farmer Labor Party.
That's just the way they say the Democrats in Minnesota
on social media. He secured the endorsement over incumbent Mayor
Jacob Frye who's also a Democrat. Quote, I'm incredibly honored
to be the dfl endorsed candidate for Minneapolis mayor. This
endorsement is a message that Minneapolis residents are done with
broken promises, vetos and politics as usual. It's a mandate
(07:11):
to build a city that works for all of us,
which sounds really great. Like Mandani, he's a Muslim Democratic
socialist and he's also a member of Generation Why, son
of Samali immigrants, selected to the Minnesota Senate in twenty twenty.
He has pledged af elected mayor, he would raised the
city's minimum wage, increased the supply of affordable housing, and
we know from Mamdani what that actually means and how
(07:34):
they plan to do that, and combat what he calls
police violence. He has been on the record for literally
defunding the police. So Jacob Frye, he might remember he
was the mayor even back in twenty twenty when all
the George Floyd riots went down, and he was basically
trying to pander as much as he could in every
possible direction. But apparently that pandering not enough to keep
(07:56):
him in the good graces of the party. So jim
as I said in our email today, I'm starting to
think that the Democrats don't actually have a problem with
the socialists. They only have a problem with the socialists
that they feared might not win.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Look, I can understand if you're a Minneapolis resident lack
of faith in your current management. That part I don't
have a problem with. And the frustration with Frey, although, like,
to be honest, he did start out ludicrously pandering to
the left, and then they genuinely wanted him to abolish
the existence of the police department in Minneapolis, and he's like, oh, oh,
we don't really believe that. They're like, yes, we absolutely
(08:29):
expect that, and he couldn't go along, and he actually
alienated them by being insufficiently for the left. I am
not going to make what sticks me as a cliched
and honestly probably tasteless joke that this mayoral candidate will
say upon election, look at me, I'm the Captain now,
because it was resemblance to the actor who played the
(08:50):
Somali in the Captain Phillips movie.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Let's just kind of observe that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
If you're the Democratic Party, you can make an argument,
Oh you know what happens in New York City is
not reflective of Democrats across the country. It's a very
liberal area. Stop tagging us with their stuff. All right,
Los Angeles, all right, you know, Karen bass is a
nut job who flew halfway across the world when he
city was on fire, and she doesn't have any answers,
(09:15):
and they've only rebuilt a handful of homes in Palisades.
Don't pin that on us. After a while, you start
noticing this pattern here, that it's not just that these
are heavily democratic cities. These are heavily democratic cities that
have been probably badly managed and had worsening problems of crime,
of homelessness, of companies choosing to re locate their headquarters elsewhere,
et cetera. And all of this is happening, and Minneapolis
(09:39):
has had to share of that as well. And also
probably the bad policies make those who are most opposed
to them want to move out of the city, and
they'd either move out to the suburbs or they move
to other parts of the country Entirely. If you're the Democrats,
you don't need a guy in Minneapolis doing more of this.
You don't need to throw saying, oh, he's the Minneapolis
(10:01):
mom Dami first of all, that and a litter of
nickname like that is going to stick to him. Marion
Barry being the mayor of Washington, DC really either time,
But it was worse when he got re elected after
the crack. I know, I know, the witch set him up,
but they all at all like that was bad. But
it was tougher to say, oh, you Democrat running in Ohio,
you're just like Marion Barry.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
In Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But when so many cities that are deep blue and
are electing candidates who are not merely like, you know,
hard left of the party, but openly socialists are in
the case of mam Dami communist right like, this definitely
looks like a party that has decided there is no
barrier to the left. The Overton window just goes on
forever and they can just be as left wing as
they want to be. And that's really bad for the
(10:44):
amage of the Democratic Party if you're trying to win
in a place like Ohio, or winning statewide in a
place like North Carolina like or you're trying to win
a congressional seat in Omaha, Nebraska or something like that.
Because I do believe that you know, the news cycle
gets generated by conflict, hard crazy left wing mayors ten
to do controversial things that turn into national news nation
Why it develops that that influences the perception of what
(11:05):
the Democratic Party is and what it stands for. So
you might be saying, ah, you know, Minneapolis mayoral race,
what does it matter, Well, it's not just the Minneapolis
mayoral race. It's the same thing happening in Big City
after Big City. Is if the face of all kinds
of problems that generally got really bad during the pandemic
and you know, and George Floyd ryot Sin since then continuing,
it's that they keep choosing further options to the left
(11:28):
with the you know, I think is very predictable results
that are going to come from this.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Now, that's a good point, and it makes me think
of a couple of things. First of all, people who
are at least close to socialists, if not fullbl on socialists,
like AOC our media darlings. The party certainly doesn't try
to shun them from being a very prominent figure in
the party. And so from the media perspective and also
from the base perspective, they're perfectly fine with these people
(11:51):
that they think they can win. But it also this
is probably an indictment on public education to some extent,
but it's also an indictment on those of us who
remember the Cold War and forgetting the fact that you
probably have to be. Let's see, the Berlin Wall came
down in eighty nine, you probably got to be at least,
you know, seven eight nine to remember it. Well. You know,
people are forty five years old at minimum to remember
(12:12):
the Cold War now. And I feel like we're just
you know, hey, we won. Let's move on instead of
reminding people over and over and over again why that
system was so disastrous, so murderous, and ultimately collapsed. But
it doesn't just happen. You have to keep stomping it
out like a campfire, like Reagan says, you know, freedom's
only one generation away from extinction. And I don't know
(12:34):
that we've done a great job since the collapse of
the USSR to remind people why that was such a
bad idea.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Greg, I agree with everything you said, except the Cold
War in my head was just a few years ago.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
I know it feels like it right.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Althout considering Moscow?
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Did it ever really end? It just went on hiatus?
Briefly went on sabbatical. That's how the Cold War, Yeah,
the eighties cold they're calling for your their foreign policy.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Back, oh man, But it was thirty four years ago
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Martine Now and Hunter Biden has done multiple podcast interviews,
and I've got Carpal Tunnel from putting in the bleep
tone to these clips on a number of different things.
We're gonna have his thoughts, first of all, on a
(14:41):
number of Democrats, which is always fun. One of them
I'm just going to summarize because I really would have
Carpal tunnel if I tried to bleep them all. But
he was, of course on with Jamie Harrison, like we
talked about, and as I said last week, Man, it'd
be interesting if they actually talked about Pelosi, Chevin or
Dad out of the race last year. Well, it turns
out they did, at least to some extent. And here's
what Hunter Biden had to say about Nancy and Alexandra Pelosi.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
And you would have the speaker emeritus that would say, well,
you know, I'm going to leave it up to but
I don't know. And uh and and they had already
made a decision. They clearly made a decision. And when
I say they, I mean the speaker. And you know,
I heard Alexander Pelosi say something call my my, like
(15:28):
put your big girl pants on to my mom or something,
and I kind of want to feel like saying, who
the fuck do you think you are. I would never
speak about your mom that way. I would never speak
about your father that way. I would never insult your
parents that way.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yeah, given the number of f BOMs he did in
these two interviews, I'm pretty sure he does talk about
everybody that way. But in this other interview with a
more left wing podcaster, Hunter Biden went off on many
in the Democratic Party, which is very good popcorn material.
Let's start with George Clooney bleep him and everyone around him.
George Clooney is an actor, he's a brand. James Carvell
(16:02):
hasn't won a race in forty years. David Axelrod had
won success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama.
And that was because of Barack Obama. The Pod Save
America guys were junior speech writers on Barack Obama's Senate
staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him,
making millions. Anita Dunn has made forty to fifty million
dollars off the Democratic Party. And then he took aim
(16:23):
at Jake Tapper. Of course, in the wake of the book.
What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has
the smallest audience on cable news, and so Jim, he's
certainly right about Nancy Pelosi kind of having it both ways.
Before Biden got out, we had that clip of her
on NBC saying that, well, we're just going to let
him make his decision, and the guy says, well, he's
(16:44):
made his decision, he's saying in the race, and Pelosi says, well,
we'll just let him make his decision. And so you know,
this guy's clearly unhinged. He doesn't come off well in
these things, but he's not necessarily wrong about some of
the stuff. So it'll be interesting to see whether this
has much of a shelf life.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
What do you think, so Greg to use one of
my cliches, there's just a lot to unpack here.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yes, these are my.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Suitcases behind me, because there's like people might say, ah,
you know, Hunter Biden coming out and doing podcast guys
is really the biggest news.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No, but it's delicious, it's so it is so not
just like past the popcord.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
The irony is is that a lot of what he's
saying and what his critics are shooting back at him,
they're actually true. And I kind of feel like the
Democratic Party has had like a lot of stifled raw
anger and emotions and now it's bursting out and now
it's kind of In the Dennis Leary classic The ref
there's a moment where he has a burglar who takes
(17:39):
a family hostage, realizes that the tensions in this family
have gotten so large that he know't look has to
worry about keeping them hostage, that they're all going to
like all on each other's and he just.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Kind of sits back and watches.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
That's how I feel right now watching the Democratic Party
in fighting. The first thing I'll just kind of observe,
you know, despite all of this, I feel like I
didn't hear a lot of Hunter Biden's voice and seeing
him speak very much over the controversies in the last
couple years. You watch these two podcast interviews, it is
kind of funny how he looks and sounds like a
younger Senator Joe Biden. The intonations, the mannerism. I never
(18:14):
thought they looked alike. And then you watch them sit
down listen to them interview. It is kind of interesting
to hear that old Biden there.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Two.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I'm very glad that Hunter Biden has identified what I
think we can all agree is, like the most the
biggest consequence and worst fallout from the election is that
Alexander Pelosi said something that hurt Joe Biden's feelings. That
really is that's a big deal and how dare she now?
The other thing, when he goes on this tirade about
(18:43):
everybody else in the Democratic Party, you and I are
kind of look at each other. He's not wrong, like
Carvel's known for ninety two. I guess he kind of
had a role in the ninety six campaign, but he's
pretty much been a full time talking head, reliable Democrat.
I'm sure some Democrats call him up for advice every now,
but he's not who he was, and so he can
(19:03):
kind of fairly ask, you know, does Carvel the guy
who's got his pulse on the public and what the
public wants all the time? David Axelrod Yeah, by the way, Like,
one of the lessons of presidential campaign politics is that
if your guy wins the presidential election, you become leat water.
You become even if you'll lose, you're very madel it, right,
you know, like you become a reliable talking head, you
(19:26):
get to write the campaign memoir, you get to probably
the Kennedy School will probably have you win to teach
for a semester. You've got sweet get corporate consulting, right,
you know, communications consulting. You've got sweet gigs for the
rest of your life. And if your candidate won. Now,
Karl Rove still writes a column for the Wall Street
Journal like this is a like, so like you shouldn't
(19:46):
be all that surprised if people still talk to David
Oxelrond Again that having been said, Axelrod's really big win
was two thousand and eight, where having you know, picking
a candidate with really, let's face it, no charisma, no talent,
and no in ability to give a speech or retail
Barack Obama, and then he managed to somehow eke Obama
(20:07):
over the top when all he had working for him
was the Great Recession and the collapse of the US economy.
So all that came down to ask ask the Rod's strategy.
Only that's now. Having said that, as far as democratic
strategists go, I think David wax Rod is pretty darn good.
And I think he was a guy who was sounding
the alarm about Joe Biden being too old to run
another term pretty early on and getting some grief about
(20:30):
it from the Biden White House. So like, you could
not like the guy, but he wasn't wrong. George Clooney
like like, oh, he's an actor, not a brand, sure,
and you're an artist hunter. Okay, you know, let's look,
George Clooney has given me several hours of enjoyment of
watching The Oceans eleven.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
And Motions thirteen.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
We're just gonna pretend Oceans twelve didn't happen right, and
we're also going to observe that, like, you know, we
can all enjoy making fun of Batman. He did at
you had a great cameo at the end of Flash
where the idea that the timeline has been changed and
Batman is no.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Longer ben Affleck.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
So we found all that when he goes after the
Pod Save America guys, you know, and it's it's a
fair gripe, you say, Oh, these guys were low level
staffers on the campaign. They've exaggerated their influence. And I
believe the quote is quote how arrogant do you have
to be to say to be Pod Save America? Like
we've designated them as the guys who are gonna save America,
you know, like four guys living in West Hollywood making
(21:30):
a million dollars a piece or more. Fact check true, Hey, Greg,
who's Hunter Biden? He put the entire country of Columbia
up his nose And though, oh, you're the guy who
you know, by the way, the Pod Save America guys
like you know what you responded this morning and went
off on their own thing. And if basically was like
m you know, maybe it's a fair criticism makes them
you are Hunter Biding, you were the biggest liability to
(21:52):
your dad the deal, and I'm exaggerating how angry they were,
but they're more more incredulous. Wait, Hunter Biden is giving
us grief, you know, the guy who is this walking liability.
But the thing was really shocking is the pond Save America. Guys,
Let's assume all your work was on the up and
up at every last one of your paintings were bought
by genuine art collect you know, like the just ripping
(22:14):
with sarcasm has to go through this. You're still a
guy who got every job in his life because of
who his dad was. And that's the sort of Washington
inside you know, insider crap that everybody.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Hates and fact check true.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I also think it's kind of interesting, Greg, did you
know that from twenty twenty to twenty twenty four were
we allowed to point out that, like everything Hunter Biden
did in his whole life was like a job to
get access to his dad.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Yes, we didn't point that out a lot.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I mean we pointed that out like we were bad
people for pointing that out. We were rude, we were
uncouth for daring to observe. I mean I did a timeline,
and because like in the Harrison interview where Jamie Harrison
asked the really tough one first question is who are you,
Hunter Biden, which really says like the first you know,
like a deep existential question. But then the next one was,
(23:02):
so where did you go to school? Tell me about
your background. And I'm sitting there thinking like, aren't these
the kind of basic research you do before you start
the interview? You and I go to these interviews a
lot more prepared than that, And he goes into, yeah,
I worked for a bank. No, a bank in Delaware,
a bank in Delaware that wanted to stay on good
terms with Joe Biden, who, oh, by the way, I
believe at that time was chairman of the Banking Committee
(23:23):
or whatever it was. He was a very influential guy
on the Senate Finance Committee or stuff like that. Like
every job Hunter Biden has ever gotten has been about.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Access to his dad.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
The pods of America guys have every right to say, look,
anybody who's going to take a shot on us, you
don't have the standing Hunter Biden. And it is just
if you're a Democrat, you've got to be saying what
does it take to get these guys to go away?
What does it take the Biden family to just ride
off into the sunset?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Enjoy?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
Why are you coming forth to say everything that happened
twenty twenty four was the fault of everyone on Earth
except the Biden family, who you know, made the decisions
about whether Joe should run.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
Yeah, the thing that intrigues me about the first clip
there about Alexander Pelosi and the big girl pants and
Jill Biden. That just tells you how ugly this thing
got because it probably didn't start with Alexander Pelosi joining
her mom, either on the phone or maybe even in person,
and this obviously got to a point where she was
part of the conversations. And then it's at that point
(24:16):
it's not even about Nancy and Joe. It's Alexander and
Jill sniping at each other. So we're getting closer to
how ugly this got. We still don't know exactly what
Nancy Pelosi threatened to do if Joe didn't get out,
and that's I think the lingering question. We've had a
lot of books about the other stuff, but that's the
question I think that still needs to be answered.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
What could they do to Joe that you know, would
like embarrass him. He'd already embarrass himself, but what you know,
so we'll see. I'm looking forward to an original sin
partne from Jake Tapper, who you know, like.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh, by the.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
But can just observe, Like if you're a Democrat and
let's say you've carried some water for the Democratic Party,
or you tried to defend Joe Biden from accusations of
being too how do you like Hunter Biden jumping out
and just pooping all over you.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Just just you know, ripping into you every way possible.
What a bunch of ingrates.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
The upside of this is that everyone will hate the
Democratic circles will hate the Biden family, everybody, Republican CIRCLESI
already hated the Biden family, like give you my my day,
my word as a Biden, as if the word of
a Biden meant anything. Biden's name were going to be
mud for like a generation in American.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Politics, Yeah, no question about it. But get the popcorn.
Let's see if anybody responds to them, because if that happens,
then he'll have to respond to them, and you know
that's what makes politics fun. Jim anyway, have a great Tuesday.
See tomorrow, See Tomorrow, Greg, Jim Garretty, National Review. I'm
Greg Corumbus of Radio America. Thanks so much for being
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