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🗓️ 26 February 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. Hey, really glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
0:17.0 | Jim Garrity, of course, is away. He is in Ukraine. Keep reading the Morning Jolt. |
0:21.5 | Here in his place once again, we're very glad to have Andy McCarthy, former Chief Assistant |
0:25.3 | U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He is a contributing editor at National |
0:30.4 | Review Online and a Fox News contributor. He's also the author of Ball of Collusion, along with |
0:35.0 | several other excellent books. Andy, always good to have you |
0:38.2 | with us again. Thanks for your time. Greg, it's my pleasure. I'm just really wondering what's |
0:42.3 | Jim Skim on the Mineral Deal? I knew there was a reason he was over there. Now I understand |
0:49.5 | it all better. But yesterday, if you were with us, you know, we talked a lot about Elon Musk's email |
0:57.5 | and the legal ramifications of that. There's a couple more twists and turns that Andy has written |
1:02.3 | about. We won't go into a lot of detail about that today, but Andy, I know there's now officially |
1:07.9 | a name who's in charge of the U.S. Digital Service, which is the entity over |
1:11.6 | the Department of Government Efficiency. Her name is Amy Gleason, and as you write, it doesn't necessarily |
1:18.6 | make everything nice and neat, but it gets a little bit closer to the goal. |
1:23.8 | Yeah, it really indicates that no one is in charge of Doge, which of course, Musk is in charge of Doge. We all know that. But it's like they're trying to not have that as a paper reality. We did, as you say, Greg, covered it a lot yesterday. I'll just say this about it. Any judge, no matter whether friendly to the Trump administration, |
1:46.6 | unfriendly or completely agnostic, would have to look at this and say, why are they doing this? |
1:53.4 | And given what the legal stakes are, the sensible response to that is they know they have an |
2:00.0 | appointments clause problem. You know, you would think if |
2:03.3 | you're the judge, what they're worried about is that Musk is wielding such power that he should |
2:13.2 | have been nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate, and they know that that's a problem. |
2:19.1 | So what they're trying to do is minimize his role. But at the same time, the president |
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