Mayor Bass Fails Los Angeles, Carter Funeral Intrigue, Biden’s 'Bonkers' Election Claim
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
First, Jim takes a deep dive into how Mayor Karen Bass is handling the wildfire crisis in Los Angeles. Despite emerging warnings about wildfire dangers, Bass chose to travel to Ghana and stayed there, even after the situation escalated. Her lack of candor and shaky public appearances since returning have also been painful to watch.
Next, they comment on Jimmy Carter's funeral - both what was said in the early parts of the service and the fascinating interactions - or lack of interactions - among current and former presidents and vice presidents and their spouses. The Biden-Harris, Trump-Pence, and Trump-Obama exchanges were of particular note.
Finally, Jim and Greg react to President Biden’s stunning claim in a USA Today interview, where he asserted that he would have defeated Donald Trump if he had stayed in the 2024 race. Even CNN dismissed his comments as “flat-out bonkers.” Jim points out how recent events and Biden’s actions over the last four years make it clear that he is not equipped to lead the country.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.7 | We've got bad, crazy, and crazy. |
| 0:19.9 | And so, Jim, let's dive right in. This is the subject |
| 0:23.0 | of your morning jolt, and it certainly jumps off from our bad martini yesterday. That's a |
| 0:27.3 | situation in Los Angeles, where, if anything, the fire has actually got worse because |
| 0:31.1 | new fires started yesterday, including one in the Hollywood Hills. The Pacific Palisades |
| 0:35.6 | fire is now consumed. As of last night, more than 15,000 |
| 0:39.0 | acres. Who knows what the number is now? There's the one up by Pasadena, and so the resources are |
| 0:44.3 | getting stretched thinner and thinner, political finger pointing going a lot of different directions |
| 0:48.9 | here. But Karen Bass is back from going to the presidential inauguration in Ghana. You mentioned yesterday that she was back in town, but her arrival didn't go well, and the rest of the day didn't get any better. |
| 1:01.7 | So let's talk about this a little bit. |
| 1:04.0 | First of all, she was at the airport. |
| 1:06.3 | It looks like she's in the jetway, and she has to wait for something to happen before she can move on to the next place. |
| 1:11.3 | So she's kind of stuck there with a TV reporter somehow has a camera on her. |
| 1:15.6 | Well past security. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm not sure exactly how that works. |
| 1:17.6 | But nonetheless, here's just the first 20 seconds of this awkwardness. |
| 1:21.9 | Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? |
| 1:26.6 | Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor? |
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