Strong April Border Numbers, Biden Cabinet Confessions, Pentagon-Airport Hotline Fail

3 Martini Lunch

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Join Jim and Greg for Tuesday’s 3 Martini Lunch as they examine big developments on President Trump's border enforcement, former cabinet officials dishing on Biden's decline while staying off the record, and an alarming communications failure between the Pentagon and Reagan National Airport that lasted three years - including the night of January's fatal mid-air collision.

First, they cheer April’s southern border numbers, with just 8,383 apprehensions reported—down 93 percent from April 2024. Jim says the stunning turnaround under President Trump is likely to be ignored by most media outlets now that the crisis is under control.

Next, they dig into a report featuring three former Biden cabinet secretaries who described the former president as “disoriented and out of it,” even observing his mouth agape during meetings. But the sources remain anonymous. Jim wants to know why these cabinet officials didn't invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Biden from office. Greg slams these anonymous cabinet officials as cowards for not putting their names on their statements, probably because they still have political ambitions.

Finally, they’re stunned by revelations this week that "a hotline connecting air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport and their counterparts at the Pentagon has been inoperable since March 2022." That means it also wasn't working on January 29, when an Army helicopter flew into the path of an American Airlines jet on approach for landing. The hotline was inoperable for nearly three years of the Biden administration and was not discovered until this month.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the three martini lunch.
0:04.9	Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:10.3	Three martini's coming up.
0:13.0	So glad you're with us for the Thursday edition of the three martini lunch.
0:17.2	We've got good, bad, and crazy martinis for you today.
0:20.2	We've got, first of all,
0:21.9	great numbers on the border again for April, much, much down from April 2024 and much
0:27.2	in line with what we've already seen in February and March, the first two months fully
0:32.1	under the Trump administration's control. We'll also have another disturbing twist in the
0:37.2	Biden decline story with anonymous
0:40.0	sourcing all over the place, I would add. And then also we have some very, very frustrating
0:46.3	news as it relates to that crash over the Potomac earlier this year, just a few days into the Trump
0:51.9	administration, something that should have been noticed a long time ago that potentially could have made a difference that night. So Jim,
1:00.4	just a quick follow up on yesterday's story. Judge Dugan has pleaded not guilty in Wisconsin
1:04.5	and allegedly helping that illegal escape her courtroom. She says she has immunity because
1:10.3	she's a judge. She can't be prosecuted.
1:12.4	So, you know, anything she does even outside her duties like that, apparently, you know, we're just
1:17.3	going to overlook that. If there is a granting of immunity, I look forward to the judge who says,
1:23.3	well, your honor, the chainsaw massacre that I committed was in the course of my official duties.
1:28.6	And as a result of that, I cannot be prosecuted for this.
1:31.4	By the way, for anyone wondering, you know, Jim and Greg are talking about the Tapper book again.
1:35.8	I just want to point out, like, this is like a phenomenal, like really expertly played rollout.
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