Welcome to the three martini lunch.

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

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the three martini lunch.

It's been a long week and it's going to be a long day today because we've got a lot to talk about. We're talking about the Heritage Foundation and their president, Kevin Roberts,

and what he had to say about Tucker Carlson. There's a lot to get to there. The whole debate over

Israel, who Tucker Carlson is platforming and so forth. A lot of different dimensions to that.

Also, late last night, President Trump

saying it's time for the GOP to nuke the Senate filibuster, not only to get the government back

open, but to get a whole lot of other things going, including nominations that Democrats have

been stalling. But we begin with comments the president said actually a little bit earlier in the week

after his meeting or in conjunction with his meeting with Xi Jinping in South Korea. And that is

that the president, this according to NPR, said that the U.S. would begin testing nuclear weapons again

for the first time in decades. His quote is, we've halted many

years ago, but with others doing testing, I think it's appropriate to do so. The president

told reporters aboard Air Force One. And so the article goes on to point out that the U.S.

has not tested a nuclear weapon since 1992. There are treaties about these things, whether it's underground,

above ground, outer space, underwater. You're not supposed to be doing it. There's a question,

though, of whether other countries are doing it somehow secretly, China in particular, but possibly

others as well. Jim, my issue here is less than geopolitical strategizing is our nuclear arsenal is really old.

I think most of it's from the 70s or earlier.

And it might be good to figure out if it works.

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