Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, we made it to Friday again.

Good for us.

Good for you.

We're so glad you're with us.

Grab a stool, a lot to get to today.

Don Lemon finally gets his wish.

He's been arrested. Now he's the centerpiece of the story again, which all narcissists love. We'll also take a closer look at Luigi Mangione, once again, getting help from the justice system, which he most certainly does not deserve. And we'll also be taking a closer look at dysfunction in Washington, D.C.

I know it's a big shock, but this has nothing to do with the federal government,

which has enough dysfunction of its own.

This is about the local government and the inability to remove snow.

And nearly 300 million gallons of poop headed down the Potomac River.

So just bear with us.

We'll get to all of it.

But first, we deal with the big news of Don Lemon this morning.

The news breaking today that he is arrested by federal agents in connection with his role in the storming of the city's church in St. Paul, Minnesota, a couple of weekends ago.

His attorney is Abby Lowell. Apparently, all Democrats have the same attorney in Washington.

I don't know. But anyway, he says Don Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles,

where he was covering the Grammy Awards.

Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done. The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable. There's no more important time for people like Don to be doing this work. Instead of investigating the federal agents who killed two peaceful Minnesota

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