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.

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

We're going to be talking about Tulsi Gabbard and Russiagate and Obama and his whole national security team.

A very tough Senate race in North Carolina shaping up for the Republicans to try and hold that seat.

And we'll be taking a look at what I believe is today's scheduled meeting between the Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Jolane Maxwell.

We'll see exactly what comes out of that meeting, if anything. But there's certainly a reason Jolaine Maxwell is doing that meeting, as Jim reports in today's morning, Jolton. So we'll see if she gets what she wants out of this. But let's start with yesterday at the White House. This is kind of, I guess, phase two, maybe phase three of the rollout. There was a

document release last week of classified presidential daily briefings, basically pointing out that

the Obama national security team had concocted, essentially, the idea that Trump and Russia

were colluding. Tulsi Gabbard went on Maria

Barteromo show on Sunday and then yesterday she gave a longer statement at the White House.

Here's what she had to say.

There is irrefutable evidence that detail how President Obama and his national security team

directed the creation of an intelligence community assessment that they knew was false.

They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election

to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true.

It wasn't.

The report that we released today shows in great detail how they carried

this out. They manufactured findings from shoddy sources. They suppressed evidence and credible

intelligence that disproved their false claims. They disobeyed traditional tradecraft intelligence

community standards and withheld the truth from the

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