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Three Martini Lunch: Injustice in Charlotte? Newsom’s Odd Parenting, Amazing Iran Rescue | Last Call

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4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Last Call, a look at the biggest stories Jim and Greg covered over the past week on the 3 Martini Lunch. This week, Jim and Greg break down how the Charlotte train murderer may escape true justice, the eyebrow-raising parenting confessions from Jennifer Siebel Newsom, wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and the […]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the three martini lunch.

0:05.1

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

0:10.8

Three martini's coming up.

0:13.3

Welcome to the last call of the week for the three martini lunch.

0:16.5

This is our weekly recap of the biggest stories of the week.

0:20.0

The conversations we highlight this week include a medical evaluation that the murderer of Arena Zarutka on that train in Charlotte last year is incompetent to stay in trial.

0:29.8

We'll also look at the disturbing and bizarre parenting advice offered by California first partner, Jennifer Newsom.

0:37.3

Then we'll remember the details of that amazing military rescue of the American airmen from Iran.

0:43.9

And in our chaser of the week, Lawrence O'Donnell of MS Now takes away the dumbest possible lesson from that amazing operation.

0:52.1

But we begin with the possibility of justice denied in Charlotte.

0:56.8

Let's start in North Carolina, Jim.

0:59.2

A lot of attention last year to the story of DeCarlos Brown Jr.

1:04.6

Murdering Arena Zarutka on the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina.

1:08.7

This happened, I think it was in August of last year.

1:12.5

It took a couple of weeks for there to get much media attention because the mainstream media

1:16.2

wouldn't touch it. I remember that was one of the last things Charlie Kirk was tweeting about

1:20.2

before he was murdered. So it was right around that time of the year. And now, even more frustration

1:25.0

in this case. Hat tipped to Bill Malusian, who's officially a congressional correspondent now, but he's also

1:31.0

on a lot of different other stories, immigration in particular.

1:34.3

But this one as well, to Carlos Brown Jr., the felon charged with murdering Irina Zerutska

1:39.4

on the Charlotte, North Carolina light rail, has been found, quote, incapable to proceed,

1:43.9

unquote, with his trial following a mental health evaluation, according to a motion filed in court yesterday.

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