New Year's Terrorism, The Shaky Federal Response, House Speaker Drama?
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
First, Jim and Greg document the horrific terrorist attack that occurred early Wednesday morning in New Orleans, where a driver deliberately plowed a rented truck through crowds on Bourbon Street and then opening fire on police officers and bystanders. The attacker was also found to have improvised explosive devices in his vehicle. Jim and Greg also examine the details of the Las Vegas car bombing and what we can glean from that.
Next, they express concern over the FBI’s initial, contradictory statements regarding whether the New Orleans attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism. They were also underwhelmed by how President Biden looked and sounded on Wednesday.
Finally, they look ahead to the start of the new Congress on Friday, focusing on the ongoing drama within the House GOP. They examine whether Republicans will unite behind Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House or whether internal divisions will create another intraparty struggle before the House can get to work. While acknowledging frustration over the previous government funding bill, Jim and Greg explain why there isn't another viable option for Republicans in the Speaker race.
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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. |
| 0:13.6 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:17.6 | And again, happy new year. |
| 0:19.0 | Hope you enjoyed all of our year-end specials. |
| 0:21.8 | Hope you enjoyed our predictions for 2025. Much more on that in just a moment. But as we also |
| 0:28.3 | mention in the disclaimer before Monday's episode that we would be talking about Jimmy Carter |
| 0:32.5 | when we got back to our normal fare here today on January 2nd. We did not anticipate even Jim in this prediction from 2025 that we'd be dealing with terrorism |
| 0:42.7 | on New Year's Day. |
| 0:44.3 | So the Carter plans have been pushed back at least till tomorrow. |
| 0:48.9 | We will do a Jimmy Carter special for sure. |
| 0:50.9 | Right now the plan is for tomorrow unless events intervene. |
| 0:53.9 | Today we're |
| 0:54.3 | going to be talking about, of course, the terrorist attacks in New Orleans, in Las Vegas, |
| 0:59.9 | and because things in Washington never run smoothly, we're going to talk on our final segment |
| 1:05.4 | about how House Republicans could make things very, very interesting tomorrow, or they could band together |
| 1:12.7 | and get the ball rolling here on the new Congress. So we will see about all of that. But Jim, |
| 1:18.3 | first of all, happy New Year to you. Great to be back with you. And I guess the first thing |
| 1:22.5 | we have to do is talk about terrorism. Three hours into the new year in New Orleans, central time. |
| 1:28.4 | This was an electric vehicle pickup truck that was just plowing right through Bourbon |
| 1:32.7 | Street, went around the police barricade, not the usual police barricade, but then just, you know, |
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