Trump Cabinet on Track, The January 6th Pardons, Biden's Feckless Finish
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
First, they break down the unanimous confirmation of Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State and delve into the prospects for Trump’s other cabinet nominees. Even the most controversial picks are expected to be confirmed, but Jim and Greg also mention nominees who may face the toughest challenges. They also highlight the common trend in presidential administrations where not every nominee gets confirmed, offering historical perspective on the confirmation process.
Then they turn to Trump’s sweeping pardons and commutations for everyone convicted in connection with the January 6th Capitol riot. They agree with comments from Vice President Vance just days ago suggesting there's a significant difference between the violent and non-violent offenders that day. And while they understand defenders of Trump's decision pointing out a massive double standard in the Justice Department ignoring or going easy on rioters in the summer of 2020 or during Trump's first inaugural, Jim details why he believes pardons or commutations for everyone for the unrest at the U.S. Capitol is not the right call.
Finally, Jim shares his thoughts on Joe Biden’s actions in his final days in office, including a series of controversial pardons for family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Milley, and members of the January 6th committee. Jim critiques these pardons as an overreach of executive power, arguing that such actions betray the intentions of the Founding Fathers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.8 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.4 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.9 | So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:16.6 | Jim Garrity is back and Jim has been so long since we've talked. |
| 0:19.8 | We have a whole new president and everything. |
| 0:22.4 | You know, actually, no, actually this is a rerun. The show's, you know, Trump is president. |
| 0:28.7 | Ohio State win the presidency, win the national championship while Trump was president? |
| 0:33.1 | No, thankfully. 2014 was their previous one. So that's how we know this is new. And I figured a guy from Michigan would have that information to his fingertips. Yes, yes. Yeah, yesterday was my Iran-Iraq war |
| 0:42.7 | of college football. Michigan fans despise Ohio State and Notre Dame. We don't play Notre Dame |
| 0:48.1 | every year anymore, but for those of us old enough, the animosity is still there. The best news |
| 0:54.0 | of yesterday, away from politics politics was that the bears actually seemed to have won the Ben Junts and sweepstakes. |
| 1:00.1 | We'll see if that's actually confirmed. |
| 1:02.4 | Just, you know, we'll get off college football in a second listeners, but I should point out that that was the worst loss for Notre Dame since they lost to USC on Christmas Eve in 1988. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, that was actually a major continuity error in Dyehart because regular season college football on Christmas Eve, come on, you're well into the bowl season by that point. |
| 1:20.9 | And either of those schools were playing on Christmas Eve in their bowl game very often and |
| 1:24.4 | certainly not against each other. |
| 1:25.4 | The whole idea of the tidy bowl toilet bow and all these other, you know, bowls didn't come along to later on. So you can't, |
| 1:31.8 | you know, now it's traditional pretty much from like Thanksgiving to New Year's. You've got |
| 1:35.8 | companies you've never heard. Pop-Tart bowl is awesome. But otherwise, you know, so yeah, it's a little |
| 1:41.0 | before then, but maybe this is taking place in an alternate universe where both Notre Dame is a USC, right? |
| 1:47.3 | Yeah. |
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