Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

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

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We made it to Friday again.

We'll take that as a good Martini.

We're glad you're with us for the three Martini lunch

as we head into the weekend here.

We have good, bad, and and crazy martinis for you and Jim let's start

with the good the details are still a little bit unclear but the big headline

here of course is that Israel has struck back at Iran. Last weekend of

course we saw the hundreds of missiles and drones. We chronicled that on Monday

that Iran sent to attack Israel, thankfully Israel's own missile defense system,

which we certainly generously helped to provide

as well as our coordinated efforts with them,

with the British, with the Jordanians and so forth.

Very successful in knocking down the vast, fast majority of those

weapons. Damage, very, very minimal. And it looks like fairly minimal damage in Iran as well.

We don't know for sure because the Iranians will tell you that Israel

didn't accomplish much regardless of what Israel actually accomplished. It looks

like there was a strike near Isfahan and some other locations and so what we are pretty sure of

is that there were not nearly as many projectiles flying east as there were flying

west so whether this was a message attack as some are saying or

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