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.

So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch.

And Jim, we start off with a double-fisted martini when it comes to the fight over funding

Homeland Security, one on the funding fight itself and one as it relates to the new Secretary

for Homeland Security, former Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. Let's take them one at a time.

Last night, Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Federman was on Hannity with Sean Hannity.

Federman is only, I think he's the only Democrat right now, voting to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats continue

to filibuster the overall bill. We've seen the TSA lines and so forth. But last night,

Sean Hannity asked him to expand on this. And one of the fun things about Federman is, is that even though he doesn't agree with us most of the time, when he does disagree

with his party, he not only disagrees, he blows up their narratives. Listen, I mean, why do they

want this shutdown? I truly don't know who's on first. I mean, with a lot of this, it's just a fundamental,

simple thing just to acknowledge that this is gone,

it should have never happened, but it's gone way too long.

We've all witnessed the kinds of chaos in our nation.

Do the right thing.

Put the country ahead of the party.

Now there's a huge rally, you know, another no King's kinds of protest.

So now it's also probably motivating some people in my party that they might be afraid

to reopen now because they are demanding these kinds of extremes, you know, what they think is the solution,

that there was ever going to be a solution.

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