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 today on the Wednesday. Three Martini's coming up.

So glad you're with us today on the Wednesday edition of the Three Martini lunch. Jim, we've got good bad and crazy Martini's today.

So back to the normal format, we will get to Gordon's Island in just a moment.

That's the bad martini. But let's start with the good martini. We've got a little bit of good news.

We'll see how much of a difference this actually makes if it in fact becomes law. But the US Senate

has passed by voice vote the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act. The House of

Representatives has passed its own version so they've got to be

reconciled and voted on again, but it looks like there's pretty much a broad-based

support for this even though President Trump has not given any indication

whether he would sign such a thing.

You would like to think so, but given how little he's said about Hong Kong over the past few

months, you have to wonder, but given what we saw in the Senate and the House a veto if he actually were to give

one might be overridden. So what does this thing actually do?

According to NBC News the bill would give the Secretary of State, currently Mike

Pompeo obviously. The Secretary of State, currently Mike Pompeo obviously, the Secretary of State

would have to certify at least once a year that Hong Kong retains enough autonomy

to qualify for special U.S. trading consideration that bolsters its status as a world

financial center. It would also provide sanctions against officials

responsible for any human rights violations in Hong Kong. In addition the

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