Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three Martini's coming up.

So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini lunch.

The impeachment process officially beginning at least the trial phase in the U.S US Senate. We'll get to that a little

bit later in the podcast. We have our regular assortment. No we don't actually.

We have good good and crazy martinis today. And Jim let's start with the good one, which is a take off of yesterday's bad.

Yesterday's bad was the media treatment of the demonstrators in Richmond on Monday.

For Lobby Day, Gun rights supporters coming out they usually do

on lobby day but just in far bigger numbers this year because of the gun control

agenda of the Virginia Democrats we don't know exactly how many people were there.

The mainstream media set us about 15,000. I heard one spokesperson from the

Virginia Citizens Defense League today saying it was between 50 and 100,000 so whatever it was it's

probably somewhere in the middle we have one arrest and that was for wearing a

mask and some folks actually looked at the social media sites of the person arrested, and it seems dubious

that this person was really a defender of the Second Amendment.

So Jim, you've got Ralph Northam now saying, the governor of course, we're thankful that today passed without

incident. The team successfully de-escalated what could have been a volatile situation.

I will continue to listen to the voices of Virginians and do everything in my power to keep our common wealth safe.

There was nothing to de-escalate, nobody caused any problems, the people were there protesting peacefully.

I know a lot of SJW has got the vapors because people

brought their weapons who stood outside the the Capitol grounds there but in

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