The Israel-Hamas Ceasefire, Karine Jean-Pierre's Pettiness, Biden's Pathetic Farewell
3 Martini Lunch
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
First, they express cautious optimism over the ceasefire deal, which they hope will bring home many of the remaining Israeli and American hostages. However, Jim remains realistic about the ongoing dangers, emphasizing that as long as hostilities are paused, Hamas will continue to manipulate the situation to their advantage.
Next, they highlight State Department Press Secretary Matthew Miller thanking the incoming Trump administration for its help in securing the ceasefire. When White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Miller's comments, she downplayed his remarks and tried to redirect the credit solely to President Biden, calling Miller a “random person” in the process.
Finally, they groan over President Biden's self-indulgent farewell speech that vastly overhyped his accomplishments, tried to settle some scores, and took aim at billionaire "oligarchs," the same people he had no problems with until a couple of them stopped supporting him.
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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. |
| 0:10.5 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | This is the last Thursday of the Biden administration. |
| 0:17.1 | Can you tell we're excited for Joe Biden to hit the bricks? |
| 0:19.6 | The problem is that he's staying in the headlines here all the way to the end. |
| 0:23.2 | And so we've got to keep talking about him in some ways today, maybe a little optimistically, |
| 0:29.9 | but in other ways, definitely not optimistically as we go from the ceasefire deal to his press secretary's final press conference |
| 0:37.3 | and a really odd way of |
| 0:38.6 | kind of dissing the press secretary over the state department and then we'll get to Biden's |
| 0:43.1 | ridiculous farewell speech last night. So Jim, let's kick it off. Yesterday, the president came out |
| 0:49.6 | in the White House flanked by Kamala and Tony Blinken, the Secretary of State, saying, |
| 0:55.2 | yay, we got a ceasefire deal here. |
| 0:57.3 | We've been working on this for eight months, and I've been steadfast, and we're going to get this done. |
| 1:02.5 | Let's, first of all, I get a sense of what's in this deal, if it in fact happens. |
| 1:07.1 | Here's Trey Yinks last night on Fox News with the hostage portion of it. |
| 1:10.6 | Now, if approved 33 |
| 1:12.2 | hostages, some dead and some alive would be released in the first phase of this deal. And if the first |
| 1:18.6 | phase goes forward as planned by day 16, we are told by an Israeli government official, phase |
| 1:24.5 | two would start to be implemented and ultimately see the remaining hostages |
| 1:28.8 | released from Gaza among that list included Israeli Americans, at least three of them, |
| 1:34.5 | that are believed to be alive. All right. So 33 hostages, 23 believed to be alive. And as far as |
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