Welcome to the three martini lunch.

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

Three martini's coming up.

Hey, so glad you're with us for the Friday edition of the three martini lunch.

As Jim Garrity mentioned yesterday, he is away today.

Should be back on Monday here in his place today.

And as Stepman of the Independent Women's Forum, and as it's always good to have you with us.

It's always great to be here. Well, let's talk about three important stories today. The big news out of

Washington is the Supreme Court decision on tariffs. We'll get to that in just a few minutes.

But let's talk about one on the global scale. I don't know how

much Olympic watching you have done. I have kind of jumped in and out at various times to see

some of the most impressive performances. And since it's kind of taped delayed over there in Italy,

you already know, going into prime time probably, who won in some cases. But yesterday, one of the

signature events of the

Winter Olympics, the women's figure skating long program, final round, and the gold medal goes

to American Alyssa Liu. And this is an important story. And as for a couple of reasons, first

of all because the international media has fawned all over American Eileen Gou, who has represented China

in these Olympics and has gotten kid glove treatment. Meanwhile, the American athletes keep

getting asked to say negative things about Trump and the United States and so forth. But in

addition to the United States winning this gold medal, and specifically with Alyssa Lou, the backstory of her family is amazing.

Her father was a pro-democracy, pro-freedom protester, and then fled the country after the

Tiananmen Square crackdown, came to the United States, built a life for himself.

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