Welcome to the three martini lunch.

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

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Very glad you're with us for the Monday edition of the three martini lunch.

Hope you had a good weekend.

Not sure Tucker Carlson had a great weekend.

Jim, he's now, according to some rumors, planning to sit down with Graham Platner. We'll see how that goes. But he did, in fact, sit down with the New York Times podcast. And, you know, we're not the biggest fans of the New York Times. But the New York Times did this dastardly thing with Tucker Carlson, Jim, where they quoted Tucker Carlson to Tucker Carlson.

And it led to some major problems for Tucker.

Let's start with Tucker's unhinged podcast from the day after Easter.

Now, this follows Trump's Easter message, basically declaring the threat of all-out war on Iran, which definitely rubs the people the wrong way. But Tucker apparently took it further than most.

And even when the New York Times had the video of him saying it, he still denied it.

You've been talking on your show about whether Trump is the Antichrist.

I have not said that.

On your show, the day after Easter, you noted he did not put his hand on the Bible

during his swearing and ceremony as president.

You said, and I'm quoting, maybe he didn't put his hand on the Bible because he affirmatively

rejects what's inside that book.

And then on a recent show, you went further saying, here's a leader who's mocking the gods

of his ancestors, mocking the god of gods and exulting himself above them,

could this be the Antichrist?

I actually did not say, could this be the Antichrist?

Here's a leader who's mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods,

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