Fire & ICE in LA, Media Calls Riots Fun & Flames, Gillibrand's Midterm Misdirection

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg for this Monday edition of the 3 Martini Lunch where they discuss the riots in Los Angeles, the media’s spin on the riots as well as President Trump ordering the National Guard to help, and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s hypocritical new plan for putting Democrats back in the majority.

First, they are aghast at the general unrest in Los Angeles as ICE agents seek to round up criminal illegal immigrants. Although being just an eight-minute walk from the LAPD, it took two hours for police to respond to the attacks on the Roybal Federal Building. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and former VP Kamala Harris all claim overreach by President Trump for sending in the National Guard, but Jim and Greg note how the LAPD initially seemed disinterested in ending the violence. Now the LAPD itself is claiming to be overwhelmed.

Next, Jim and Greg disdain the comical media coverage of the ‘mostly peaceful’ LA riots. Local and federal sources say people are merely enjoying themselves as they watch fires burn, yet Jim has yet to see them enjoying chocolate and marshmallows around the burning cars. For some reason, Democrats are so afraid of appearing to be Trump supporters that they cannot stand by simple expectations of peace, law, and order.

Last, they scoff at Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s plans to bring Democrats back to power by urging moderate Senate candidates in 2026. She's a strange person to deliver that message after her history of pretending to be a moderate in the House and then immediately becoming a far left U.S. Senator. Jim blithely recalls Gillibrand’s pitiful and long forgotten attempt at running for president in 2020.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:05.0	Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.6	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.6	Really glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:17.4	So much to talk about today.
0:19.0	And I think you know what we're going to talk about.
0:20.8	It's been a three going on four days story now at these riots in Los Angeles in response to
0:26.5	perfectly legal ice raids of criminal illegal aliens. And we'll also be talking about the media
0:33.6	response. We'll be talking about the feckless Democratic leaders' response in California and
0:38.2	beyond. For a little change of fare later on, we'll have some lighthearted reaction to Kirsten
0:43.6	Gillibrand's new strategy for winning back the Senate for the Democrats in 2026. But Jim, before we
0:49.2	truly dig in here, the media, the left, not giving us a break even on the weekends, and certainly
0:55.7	not to start the week here. Greg, I don't know about you. I liked it better when Battle of Los Angeles
0:59.6	was a 2011 sci-fi film or a false alarm back in 1942 when they believed they had seen some sort
1:07.2	of attack from the Japanese in the skies over L.A., which, of course, gave that movie its title.
1:11.3	So, yeah, yeah, it's, you know, looking ugly out there in L.A.
1:14.5	And for those wondering, no, this is not a rerun from January.
1:17.6	The city is burning, but for a totally different reason this time.
1:21.6	Yeah, not a good one either.
1:22.8	Totally preventable.
1:23.7	But the left loves to light stuff on fire when they're not happy. And so that's what we're getting. And so we'll talk about all of that in just a moment. But first, we want to let
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