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3 Martini Lunch

Hunter Biden Pleads Guilty, Charging School Shooters' Parents, GOP Senate Outlook

3 Martini Lunch

Radio America

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4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for three complicated martinis to close out the week. They discuss Hunter Biden deciding to plead guilty to federal tax charges, whether parents of school shooters ought to face criminal charges, and the forecast for this years U.S. Senate elections.

First, they focus on Hunter Biden abandoning his plan to go to trial and a subsequent plan to plead guilty without admitting guilt on federal tax charges. Now that he's simply pleading guilty, what does that mean for sentencing, the chances his father pardons him and more? Jim says it's all further proof of one thing - that the critics of Hunter Biden were right and Joe Biden and a lot of other Democrats and media apologists were wrong or flat out lying.

Second, they examine this week's horrific, deadly school shooting at a Georgia high school and mull over whether officials are right to charge the shooter's father with two counts of second degree murder and four counts of involuntary manslaughter for failing to keep guns away from his 14-year-old son who had already been evaluated as a possible threat. Are charges like this a good way to keep parents more vigilant and accountable for their kids' actions and for their own actions or does criminal blame belong solely with the killer?

Finally, they examine the U.S. Senate map this year. And while odds look favorable for Republicans to reclaim a slim majority, there are several other seats held by Democrats which should be vulnerable. But so far the GOP challengers are consistently trailing.


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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.

0:11.8

Happy Friday.

0:14.0

Glad we all made it.

0:16.0

As Jim was saying just before we rolled, it seems like a four-day work week that felt like about a month.

0:20.0

So buckle up as we get ready for the last couple of months of this

0:24.0

campaign and today we have three martinis and they're a little bit difficult

0:28.1

to classify it say the first one is mostly good but a little bit mixed the second one is

0:31.6

thought-provoking and the third one I would say is

0:35.4

trending bad, but has the potential for a turnaround. So we will find out. Let's dig into our first Martini. This one broke while we were

0:43.8

recording yesterday so we didn't have time to get to it but Hunter Biden is

0:47.9

deciding to skip his trial on the nine tax offenses that he faced in federal court out in California, and he just

0:56.4

decided to plead guilty. Now originally he was going to fight the charges. Then he and

1:01.9

his lawyers, led by Abby Lowell, decided to offer what's known as an

1:05.0

Alford plea where you don't actually admit guilt, but you plead guilty, you maintain your

1:10.4

innocence. And Andy McCarthy explained this a little bit on

1:13.6

NRO saying that criminal defendants do this a lot they think they lose the case

1:18.4

and they don't want this stiffer sentence so they plead to something lower and

1:20.9

and they get a lighter sentence and so forth.

1:23.2

So, but Jim this case first of all on the good side of this is that the evidence was pretty

1:30.1

lopsided against Hunter Biden here.

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