Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.

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

Three Martini's coming up.

It is Thursday and we're so glad you're with us on the Three Martini lunch.

Your stool awaits and we actually have a normal format today.

We have good, bad, and crazy martinis for conservatives and we have a special

champagne toast at the very end of our conversation today. And Jim, the good martini sadly comes

with a dark lining in terms of the conduct we've seen in the last 24 hours,

but with the story of George Floyd, which we talked about yesterday in one of our bad martinis,

there seems to be nearly universal assessment of what happened

here and that it was wrong. I mean a lot of times in these police involved shootings

there's a great debate about what happened. You go to Michael Brown and Ferguson

and some of these other situations

that we've talked about over the years.

And a debate rises up about whether the police officer

was justified in the conduct. I have heard literally no one justifying

the conduct of the officer in this case who had his knee on the neck of George Floyd.

And we're also finding out today that the officer involved who's been on the force since 2001 had a

dozen police conduct complaints but was never apparently disciplined and

so from right left and middle you've got everyone out there now saying that you can

see clearly on the video that what he did was wrong.

It was obvious that Floyd was in distress.

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