Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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Very glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

Congratulations, we've made it through another week of political upheaval, now less than four weeks until election day.

So today we have good bad and crazy martinis for you and

Jim for a good martini.

We head down to the great state of Florida.

We mentioned yesterday that Milton was not as powerful as once feared. It was being talked about as one of those once in a lifetime storms.

For some folks along the Gulf Coast and other places in Florida, it's really, really bad and there has been some loss of life

So we certainly don't want to minimize it, but thankfully it got a little bit weaker as it came ashore still a category three not quite as devastating as

initially feared yesterday Ron DeSantis the governor all over the place he's of

course been pretty much going non-stop for the past few weeks ever since Hurricane Helene came ashore

around the big bend up there in northern Florida and so he's got a lot of things on his plate trying to keep the people

updated taking questions from the media and of course he's got to take multiple

questions about climate change and the role that climate change allegedly played in

this particular hurricane first of all he said I don't believe the people who think that there are government officials who are engineering the hurricanes and steering the hurricanes.

And I also don't think this hurricanes the result of us using fossil fuels, which certainly doesn't make the left very happy.

But as he answered this question, he demonstrates the ability to have command of the subject,

which in Florida is critical.

So we're going to look at this in a couple of ways.

First, his command of history

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