Trump Says Houthis Standing Down, GOP's Senate Midterm Jitters, Biden's Painful Gaza Pier
3 Martini Lunch
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🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
First, they react to former President Trump announcing a suspension of U.S. military operations against the Houthis, after the group pledged to cease attacks on ships near Yemen. Is this the result of overwhelming U.S. force, a concession by the Iranians in hopes of reaching a nuclear deal, both, or something else?
Next, they examine growing Republican anxiety about the 2026 U.S. Senate midterms. Top GOP recruits in Georgia and New Hampshire say they will not run and things look a bit shakier than expected for incumbents in three other states. So, are Republicans just overreacting or is there cause for concern?
Finally, they vent over reports that 62 U.S. service personnel were injured in various ways while assigned to construct the pier designed to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Adding insult to those injuries, the pier was only operational for a short time and much of the aid was stolen by terrorists and never given to the people in need.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stool next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.3 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.3 | We have good, bad, and crazy martinis for you today, and we're going to be all over the |
| 0:21.7 | place. We're going to be taking a look at what appears to be is hopefully good news from the Middle |
| 0:26.1 | East, bad news, kind of following up on our conversation earlier in this week about Brian Kemp's |
| 0:31.4 | decision not to run for the U.S. Senate in Georgia. And then to look back at another, another Biden |
| 0:37.4 | failure on foreign policy. We just |
| 0:39.7 | talked yesterday about Afghanistan and how that's coming back to bite us. And there's another |
| 0:43.6 | one in the Middle East as well. So Jim, let's get right to it on the good martini. And yesterday |
| 0:50.7 | at the White House, the president was meeting with the new prime minister of Canada |
| 0:55.5 | and talking about their differences on a lot of things, including annexation and trade and |
| 1:01.1 | hopefully some areas of agreement as well. But the president decided that was the time to break news |
| 1:06.3 | that it appears our military operation against the Houthis in Yemen has been successful. |
| 1:12.6 | We had some very good news last night. The Houthis have announced that they are not, |
| 1:17.6 | or they've been announced to us at least, that they don't want to fight anymore. |
| 1:21.3 | They just don't want to fight. And we will honor that. And we will stop the bombings. |
| 1:31.1 | And they have capitulated. |
| 1:34.5 | But more importantly, we will take their word. |
| 1:38.4 | They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. |
| 1:41.5 | And that's what the purpose of what we were doing. |
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