Hamas Releases Last American Hostage, Trump & the Qatari Plane, Media Blame Shifting Over Biden

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Join Jim and Greg for the 3 Martini Lunch as they discuss the new pope, Hamas freeing the final American hostage, the Qataris trying to gift President Trump a new Air Force One, and Chuck Todd saying "sources" were the real "culprits" in perpetuating the the myth that Joe Biden was up to the job of president.

First, after a quick discussion on the new pontiff, they breathe a major sigh of relief at the news that Hamas has released Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage from the October 2023 attacks on Israel. Jim says this is undoubtedly good news and he hopes the U.S. keeps applying pressure until all the Israeli hostages under Hamas control are freed as well.

Next, as Trump heads to the Middle East, they urge caution as Qatar offers the president the gift of a luxury Boeing 747 as a new Air Force One. Jim points out that Boeing is woefully behind in producing the next generation plane for the president but says this is still a very bad idea. Questions are swirling about what the Qataris really want in return, but Jim and Greg are more concerned about how the plane could be bugged or compromise national security in some other way given Qatar's longstanding friendliness with terrorist groups and rogue regimes.

Finally, they get a kick out of longtime NBC News host Chuck Todd saying it's not the media who should be blamed for covering up Joe Biden's obvious decline. No, he blames it on "sources" close to Biden who assured him and other reporters Biden was just fine. It's the latest pathetic excuse for the media, who saw and heard Biden as often as he was in public and dutifully carried the water for Biden's fitness as he ran for re-election.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:04.9	Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.6	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.2	So glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.
0:16.8	Grab a stool.
0:17.4	We've got a lot to talk about today.
0:19.5	And Jim, it was a fire hose of possibilities to talk about today, especially since we had our special on Friday, which if you haven't heard it yet, our special on underreported stories so far in 2025. I encourage you to go back and check that out. But as soon as we ended recording on Thursday, we found out we had a new Pope, so we haven't had that to talk about yet. We also lost former Supreme Court Justice David Souter. It looks like the
0:42.5	Trump administration played at least some role, perhaps a key role, in getting everybody
0:47.4	to calm down between India and Pakistan, at least temporarily. Hopefully that continues. And so
0:52.2	many different stories to talk about today. But
0:55.3	what jumped out to you over the past few days? I was genuinely shocked. And I'm still recovering
1:01.9	from it today, Greg. I don't understand how we have the first American pope in the history of
1:10.4	the world, in the history of the world,
1:11.0	in the history of the Catholic Church.
1:12.8	And he's from Chicago.
1:14.8	And Saturday Night Live does not have a superfan sketch to open the show.
1:19.6	Now, I know Chris Farley passed away.
1:22.3	But you know, you can't tell me George went, Robert Smigel, and Mike Myers were busy.
1:27.9	And the other various
1:29.1	guest started like,
1:29.9	how did they not do a
1:31.3	da, Pope?
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