Trump's Sloppy Speech, Coronavirus Cancellation Culture, Hanks Hunkers Down

3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's all-crazy and all coronavirus today on the Three Martini Lunch. Join Jim and Greg as they go through the three key points from President Trump's Oval Office address that were not consistent with administration policy and needed later clarification. They also dive into the rapidly growing list of college and professional sports events being cancelled or radically altered, most prominently the NBA suspending its season after Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tests positive for coronavirus. Finally, they comment on movie star Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson testing positive in Australia while feeling slightly under the weather and wonder how much patience Americans will have for a long-term quarantine when many patients don't feel that crummy and a lot of economic livelihoods are on the line.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Three Martini lunch.
0:04.6	Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.
0:09.4	Three Martini's coming up.
0:11.6	Sad to say they're all crazy, but something tells me you're probably not all that surprised,
0:18.0	given the news of the past 24 hours.
0:21.0	Jim, we've already had the emergency break on the stock market today, which is also not a big surprise
0:26.7	stocks, sharply down again. Last I checked here late morning, the Dow was down.
0:32.2	Around 8% were officially in checked here late morning the Dow was down.
0:32.9	Around 8% were officially in bare market territory and polls show that Americans are more worried
0:38.9	about the financial impact and the impact on their health and obviously both are of concern.
0:43.8	The president addressed the nation last night.
0:46.2	This is Martini number one.
0:48.8	I think those of us who present were taken it back fairly early on by the presentation.
0:55.2	The president seemed to rush it a little bit.
0:57.1	There were times he seemed to maybe not know where the sentence ended, gulped a couple of words, but the most important
1:04.4	thing is the content obviously, and the president had a lot of news in this speech.
1:10.2	One of the biggest ones, of course, was the 30 30 day travel ban on Europe starting at the end of this week.
1:16.0	So here is that clip as well as what he said after it, which gets us into our real crazy martini,
1:22.4	which is the president,
1:23.4	ended up saying several things in this speech, which had to be clarified because
1:26.8	they weren't exactly true.
1:28.2	To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.
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