Cliffhanger in Kansas? Mike Lee Rips Lame Iran Briefing, Pelosi's Power on Display

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🗓️ 9 January 2020

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No good martinis but plenty to talk about today! Join Jim and Greg as they dissect Republican fears that the open U.S. Senate seat in Kansas could be at risk this year if primary voters nominated Kris Kobach, who lost the 2018 governor's race there. They serve up a double-barreled crazy martini as Utah Sen. Mike Lee fumes that Wednesday's Iran briefing offered few specifics and that national security officials told lawmakers not to debate the issue in public. But they're also surprised to see Lee planning to channel that frustration into support for the War Powers Act revisions restricting the ability of a president to order time-sensitive military action. And they have a lot of fun as House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith tells CNN that its time for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate only to go on Twitter a short time later to say he "misspoke" and whatever Pelosi wants to do is fine with him.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.5	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.6	Thanks so much for joining us on this Thursday edition of the Three Martini lunch.
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0:22.8	dot com slash Martini is where you need to go
0:25.6	to get that good deal.
0:27.0	Jim, we had two good Martinez yesterday.
0:30.2	Today we've got none, so I guess it all averages out and we're not going to talk about the
0:34.8	Royals today but I know a lot of people are very upset that the person who's sixth in line
0:39.8	to the throne might not be a full-time prince anymore and other people thought he
0:45.1	probably should have told his grandma but either way we're gonna move on with
0:48.0	actual real political stories today how are you you know always tell your
0:51.8	grandmother just a good blanket policy
0:54.7	at the very least keep her in the loop particularly when she's queen helpful helpful helpful not
1:01.2	been a good end of last year beginning of this year for Queen Elizabeth
1:04.8	but anyway let's talk about American politics we rebelled against them last I heard
1:09.1	so let's talk about the US Senate a little bit.
1:12.8	In fact, our first two Martinez deal with the US Senate today, really all three of them.
1:17.4	It's an election year.
1:18.7	2020, Republicans have to defend a lot of seats this time.
1:22.3	They were on offense for most of 2018, expanded
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