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3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

Islamist Attacks, Iranian Sleeper Cells, & CNN 's Soft Coverage of Terrorists | Last Call

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Government, News, News Commentary

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Last Call, a look at the biggest stories Jim and Greg covered over the past week on the 3 Martini Lunch. This week, they discuss Thursday's terrorist attacks in Michigan and Virginia, reports that Iran may be activating sleeper cells in the U.S., and CNN's bizarre fumbling of the facts on last weekend's attempted terrorist attack in New York City.

First, they share their Friday discussion of the terrorist attacks at a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and an ROTC class at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. They highlight the impressive responses of synagogue security and the ROTC cadets, who prevented the respective attacks from being much deadlier. They also fume that the Virginia terrorist was let out of prison early after being convicted of providing material support to ISIS and permitted to stay in the U.S.

Next, they react to U.S. intelligence reports, which claim we intercepted encrypted messages designed to activate Iranian sleeper cells in the U.S. How significant is this threat? And wouldn't now be a good time to fund the Department of Homeland Security?

Then, they pull their hair out over CNN fmiserably failing to get the facts straight about last weekend's attempted terrorist attack in New York City. Even though the suspects  pledged allegiance to ISIS, CNN portrayed then as two teenagers who just happened to end up throwing bombs at demonstrators they didn't like.

Finally, in the chaser of the week, they highlight Washington state Democrats passing a 9.9 percent income tax on households grossing more than a million dollars per year. While the left may relish soaking the rich, there may be some unintended consequences for people of all political stripes.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:05.1

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

0:10.8

Three martini's coming up.

0:13.6

Welcome to the last call of the week for the three martini lunch.

0:16.7

This is our weekly recap of the biggest stories of the week.

0:20.2

Usually something good, something bad, and something crazy from this week's episodes.

0:25.0

But this was a tough week.

0:26.9

Today, you'll hear our discussions from the past week about the Islamist attacks against

0:30.4

a Michigan synagogue and a Virginia university's ROTC class, concerns that Iran is

0:35.7

activating sleeper cells in the United States, and CNN softening

0:39.4

the coverage on the guys arrested for an attempted terrorist attack in New York City last weekend.

0:44.8

And our chaser of the week, the left's push for a millionaire attacks in Washington State that could

0:49.4

soon have unintended consequences. But we begin with where the week ended, our Friday discussion of Thursday's

0:56.2

terrorist attacks. Let's start with the attack on the synagogue in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, one of the

1:01.6

larger Reformed Jewish synagogues in the country. It's known as Temple Israel. The attack was

1:07.8

carried out by a vehicular assault with a car apparently filled with explosives.

1:13.0

This guy was a naturalized American citizen originally from Lebanon.

1:17.6

Iman Muhammad Ghazali is his name.

1:19.8

Got into a shootout with the very well-armed and very well-trained security, thankfully, at this temple,

1:25.3

which had just undergone some FBI training a while ago, a few

1:28.8

weeks ago, and there's conspiracy theories now that this is all a false flag because there had

1:33.9

been that training with the FBI, which is utterly insane. Sheriff Mike Bouchard, Oakland County,

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