A MOBSTER ON TRIAL?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
As the articles of impeachment head to the Senate, news comes that the Senate Republicans will not allow reporters at the trial- is this just the start of tactics that will be used to protect Trump?.. Meanwhile, as fresh evidence emerges around Trump's shakedown of the Ukraine, which Trump-connected operatives appear to have been considering having an American ambassador killed by the mob?- what we know about this emerging story.
And Congressman Mark Pocan joins Thom once again for a deep think on the news of the day- topics include... the last Democratic Presidential debate before the primaries begin- why is the corporate media trying to manufacture a fake split between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders?.. Focusing on defeating Trump rather than each other... Can Congress file a censure resolution against Pompeo?.. Messaging around the tax cuts for the rich... and fighting the influence of the influential in Washington for the sake of the rest of us.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | So a lot, a lot going on. |
| 0:18.0 | Nancy Pelosi is delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate. |
| 0:22.0 | Kevin McCarthy gave a long speech 15, 20 minutes ago, |
| 0:26.2 | talking about how this is just a, you know, |
| 0:30.0 | a witch hunt, right? The people who are going to handle the impeachment have been |
| 0:35.3 | named Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Zoe Lofgren, Hakim Jeffries, Val Demings, Jason Crow, and Sylvia Garcia. |
| 0:44.1 | Some of these folks, you know, most of us |
| 0:45.8 | are not all that familiar with. |
| 0:47.5 | For me, Garcia and Crow, I frankly |
| 0:50.0 | don't know anything about them. |
| 0:51.4 | So I, Lofgren, I believe, was in Congress during Bill Clinton's impeachment, but I may be wrong |
| 0:56.9 | on that, but I think she's been around for quite a while. |
| 1:00.0 | So we'll see where it goes but in the meantime as the Senate gets |
| 1:03.8 | ready for the trial |
| 1:05.3 | mich mich mccional has put into place another layer of cover-up |
| 1:09.9 | they're gonna make it almost impossible for reporters to report on the impeachment trial. |
| 1:16.2 | If nobody reports, you know, it's the old tree falls in the woods and no one hears it, does it make a sound? |
| 1:21.4 | You know, if the Senate holds a trial and there are no reporters in the Senate, do we |
| 1:26.4 | know anything about the trial? If the only way we can watch the trial is on C-SPAN. |
| 1:32.1 | This is breaking news. It's just it's kind of electrifying Capitol Hill |
| 1:36.4 | in the Washington Press Corps right now. Catherine Tully McManus wrote a piece |
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