Welcome to the three martini lunch.

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

Three martini's coming up.

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

We've got Hunter Biden today.

We've got the next Mom Donani as the Democrats officially in Minnesota endorse a socialist for mayor of Minneapolis.

And we'll talk about whether or not the Senate's going to get a summer recess.

Trump says no because not enough of his judicial nominees and other personnel have been confirmed yet.

And majority leader John Thune is thinking about it.

So let's start right there. Good martini from the Hill. The president a couple days ago saying on truth social,

quote, hopefully the very talented John Thune fresh off our many victories over the past two weeks and indeed six months will cancel August recess

and long weekends in order to get my incredible nominees confirmed. We need them badly, Trump says.

So now John Thune saying he's open to that call. He's considering the move. We're thinking about it,

he says. We want to get as many nominations through the pipeline as

we can. And he says it would be nice to have Democrats act more according to historical precedents when

it comes to this. Quote, Trump's the first president in history that hasn't had a nomination

adopted by this point in his presidency, either by unanimous consent or voice. Not a single one.

Trying to get his team in place is something that we're very committed to.

And we're going to be looking at all the options in the next few weeks to try and get as

many of those across the finish line as we can, unquote.

And so he says the government's got also focus on government funding, National Defense

Authorization Act, and other things

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