Winter Comes for Summers
3 Martini Lunch
Radio America
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
First, they are disgusted as former Clinton administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers says he is "deeply ashamed" for maintaining a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after Epstein was known for trafficking girls. Summers now plans to withdraw from public life. He reportedly asked Epstein for advice on pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he was supposedly mentoring. Jim argues that it is important this information is public and that Summers should go away.
Next, they applaud Washington Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez for leading an effort to rebuke fellow Democrat Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia for announcing his retirement on the same day as the filing deadline for his seat in Congress. This leaves Garcia's chief of staff as the only Democrat in the race. Jim notes that the party that claims to be protecting democracy repeatedly shows contempt for it through stunts like this.
Finally, Jim vents about the nine Senate Democrats clearly or potentially positioning themselves for a 2028 presidential run. He says none of them appear likely to be competitive, but that will not stop several of them from jumping into the race anyway.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.9 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.2 | So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch. |
| 0:17.7 | And Jim, it's a very busy day. |
| 0:19.5 | We're going to get a house vote, I think, today on releasing the Epstein files. I'm still not sure why we need a vote now that Trump's in favor of it, but I guess we're going to go through that process. Anyway, it's going to pass probably by a wide margin. We're also going to take a closer look at Democrat, accusing Democrat of election |
| 0:39.5 | malfeasance. Retiring |
| 0:41.4 | Illinois Democratic Congressman |
| 0:43.3 | decided to announce he wasn't going to run |
| 0:45.4 | for re-election on the filing deadline day. |
| 0:48.2 | So his chief of staff could be the only |
| 0:49.4 | Democratic candidate. So we'll dive into that. |
| 0:51.6 | And yes, we're already |
| 0:53.4 | talking about 2028. And as Jim has written, |
| 0:56.6 | nearly 20% of the Senate Democrats are somewhat or very interested in running for president in |
| 1:04.9 | 2028. So Jim, I don't know if we're going to need the double debate nights like we did in 2020. |
| 1:09.8 | We had, I don't know what, two dozen candidates or something. But buckle up. It's going to need the double debate nights like we did in 2020 when we had, I don't know, two dozen candidates or something. |
| 1:12.8 | But buckle up. |
| 1:14.1 | It's going to be pretty full, it seems. |
| 1:15.6 | Oh, I got a lot to say on that one. |
| 1:17.9 | But I think the first thing that jumps to mind when you look at all of those Senate Democrats who are at least thinking about it, not ruling it out, leaving the door open or in some cases, you know, very transparently going |
| 1:28.4 | for it. More competition for our good friend, Irving Schmidlap, who is running for Senate in |
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