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The Hartmann Report

$400 Million Koch Brothers Donation - Free Podcast

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Congress, America, Thom Hartmann, Climate Change, Democracy, Debate, Economics, The Hartmann Report

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

0:04.0

Tom Harbin.com.

0:05.0

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy truth and justice,

0:10.0

believers in peace freedom and the American way.

0:13.2

Happy Monday.

0:14.7

Lindsey Graham is saying,

0:17.3

yeah, you know, the Republican Party

0:19.0

maybe should return Steve wins money. I think that there's a larger story here. Okay, just to put this in

0:27.2

context and bring you up to date and what's going on. The Koch brothers have

0:31.9

announced that they are going to spend $400 billion to rig the

0:38.7

ex well they wouldn't use the word rig to to win for Republicans in the election that's happening this

0:46.5

year. Now we have 50 states in the United States. 400 billion dollars is 8 billion dollars per state? No, that's, let's see, five goes into 40. I can't even do the math.

1:01.0

Eight times, yeah. I can't even do the math.

1:04.5

Eight times, yeah. It seems like.

1:05.6

Anyway, so 400, 400 billion dollars.

1:11.9

If you had a hundred billion dollars that would be two billion per state yeah

1:15.6

four that's eight billion dollars a state so they're gonna spend you know

1:20.2

obviously won't be eight billion dollars in each state which is even worse for

1:24.0

probably new york in california who knows but can you imagine if

1:29.3

any

1:30.0

liberal billionaire

1:32.3

was to say if i've been saying billions, I meant millions.

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