Trump's Border Crackdown, Fauci's Puzzling Pardon, Trump's TikTok Proposal
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
First, they cheer a report from Border Czar Tom Homan that fewer than 800 people illegally crossed our southwestern border on Trump’s first day, the Coast Guard stepping up against sea-based migration, and once-defiant Democrats now supporting ICE deportations of criminal illegals.
Next, they react to The Spectator’s reporting on Fauci’s pardon, which protects him from prosecution dating back to the start of 2014. Why? The answer seems to be connected to Fauci's defiance of an Obama administration order against further gain of function research.
Finally, they discuss Trump’s public push for a TikTok sale, including his suggestion that the "United States of America" should control 50 percent of it. Does he want the government to have significant control over the app or is this merely a negotiating tactic? Either way, Jim says TikTok remains a national security threat and Trump needs to enforce the ban until a sale is actually imminent.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.9 | Very glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.1 | We have good, bad, and either bad or crazy or both in the third martini. |
| 0:22.5 | We'll leave it up to you, but let's start with our good martini. |
| 0:25.6 | And this one's got multiple facets to it. |
| 0:27.8 | But let's start with this part first. |
| 0:30.8 | It's what? |
| 0:31.4 | January 22nd. |
| 0:33.2 | It's been roughly 48 hours since Donald Trump has been sworn in. |
| 0:37.0 | And according to Bordersar Tom Holman, there's already very marked results when it comes |
| 0:43.6 | to illegal crossings at our southern border. |
| 0:45.9 | Because in two days, the last 24 hours, total apprehensions on the southwest border, 76. |
| 0:53.1 | Compare that to the 10 to 12,000 Biden had at one time. CBP1 releases, |
| 0:59.3 | zero. C-HNV, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela releases, zero. Total of 766 across the entire |
| 1:07.7 | southwest border. That is a game changer. It's definitely a game changer. Now, |
| 1:11.7 | those 10 to 12,000 a day, those were kind of peak Biden numbers, which got up to about 300,000 in a |
| 1:16.5 | month. Ever since he signed those executive orders about a year ago that he said he couldn't, |
| 1:20.8 | things have gotten much better. He had reversed a bunch of Trump executive orders. Then when |
| 1:25.3 | his political fortune started to dip, he put him back in place. |
| 1:28.1 | And magically, things got a little bit tougher at the border, but nothing like 766 per day. |
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