California Chaos: High Speed Rail Fiasco & The Eric Swalwell Scandal
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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First, they fully support President Trump's frustration with someone leaking critically important and sensitive information during the mission to rescue two American aviators from Iran. But they also caution that trying to figure it out by targeting media who reported the leaks is likely to end in more frustration.
Next, they shake their heads in disbelief as officials in California insist $126 billion will finish the high speed rail project that is already way over budget and hopelessly behind schedule. Jim and Greg explain why this project has been such a mess and react to those with the gall to ask for even more taxpayer money.
Then, they examine allegations from a left-wing attorney claiming Eric Swalwell engaged in inappropriate relationships with multiple interns and required non-disclosure agreements. If some of these women go public, what will be the impact on Swalwell? Jim and Greg also react to President Trump endorsing Steve Hilton in the California governor's race.
Finally, Greg celebrates the University of Michigan winning the NCAA basketball title.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:17.1 | And Jim, we kind of start today where we started yesterday. |
| 0:19.8 | And that's with that amazing military |
| 0:21.4 | rescue of the down crew of the f15e finding the pilot and then filing that weapon systems officer |
| 0:28.1 | hiding in the crevice up in the mountains the misdirection and one of the things we talked about at the |
| 0:33.4 | very end of that conversation yesterday is it's a really cool story. Why do we know so much about |
| 0:38.5 | it? You said that it's probably somebody at the CIA or somewhere in the intelligence community |
| 0:42.6 | that wanted everyone to know about their contribution, not really their job. And also, it came |
| 0:48.8 | up yesterday. The president held a press conference on this. And he was not happy about the |
| 0:53.6 | leak. But it wasn't just |
| 0:54.6 | kind of spilling the beans about how the whole thing was conducted. Apparently, after we |
| 0:59.9 | picked up the pilot, we still had to pick up the weapon systems officer, and somehow it got |
| 1:04.6 | out into the media, oh, there's another one that we haven't gotten yet. That's a really big |
| 1:09.8 | problem beyond kind of the TikTok of how |
| 1:13.2 | this happened. So the president rightly incensed about this, but here's how he addressed it |
| 1:18.0 | yesterday in the White House press room. But we have to find that leaker because that's a sick person. |
| 1:23.8 | Probably didn't realize the extent of how bad it was. I can't imagine that the person did. |
| 1:28.3 | But we're going to find out it's national security. |
| 1:31.3 | And the person that did the story will go to jail if he doesn't say. |
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