Kristi Noem Under Fire Over $220M DHS Contracts
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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First, they continue digging into how the Department of Homeland Security spent nearly a quarter of a billion dollars on advertising. The scrutiny intensifies as details emerge showing that only a small number of contractors were considered for the work, many of them with personal connections to outgoing Sec. Kristi Noem.
Next, they wince at the February jobs report, which shows a net loss of 92,000 jobs and the unemployment rate rising to 4.4 percent. Some experts note other key points, including that many of the job losses are in government. But Jim argues Republicans must avoid repeating a key mistake from the Biden era when it comes to the economy.
Finally, Jim and Greg are fascinated by the Blue Sparrow missile used in the strike that killed Ayatollah Khameini and dozens of other Iranian leaders last weekend. The technology behind the weapon is remarkable, but Jim still has one important question.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:12.9 | Hey, so glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:16.9 | We've once again made it to the end of a very busy week. |
| 0:20.0 | A week ago, we were not at war with Iran. |
| 0:21.9 | That's how much has happened in the last several days. We'll be talking about that a little bit today as well. |
| 0:26.9 | But Jim, we start with where we were talking yesterday. And we said that Christy Noem was on the hot seat at DHS. |
| 0:35.1 | We said that Trump was not happy with her testimony. |
| 0:38.0 | He really wasn't and that he was running out of patience. |
| 0:41.1 | Well, he ran out of patience around the same time we were discussing it yesterday. |
| 0:44.8 | And she has now been dismissed as the Secretary of Homeland Security. |
| 0:49.7 | It looks like Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is the president's choice to replace her. |
| 0:53.7 | He'll have to go through confirmation, of course, but I don't suspect that that'll be much of a problem. |
| 0:58.0 | Yesterday, we talked about the exchange between her and Senator Kennedy |
| 1:02.3 | and how they spent $220 million of taxpayer money. |
| 1:08.6 | I don't know if we gave the exact figure, but we said it was a lot of money. $220 million to put together all these TV spots, touting that Department of Homeland Security, part of that was probably recruitment for new personnel, given how much they wanted to ramp up internal enforcement. But still, close to a quarter of a billion dollars to make TV spots, that seems like a lot. That seems like way too much. |
| 1:28.4 | And so in addition to that, and Noeming and hauling and then suggesting that, yes, the president |
| 1:33.7 | was fully aware of what was happening here and how much was being spent. Senator Kennedy then asked |
| 1:38.7 | her, hey, was that a open bid process? She's like, oh yeah, oh yeah. Everything was decided by career professionals. |
| 1:45.3 | Everything was on the up and up. |
| 1:46.9 | Kennedy, though, later in the interrogation on Capitol Hill this week, not buying it. |
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