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The Hartmann Report

A Recruitment of Ideas Rather Than A Food Fight

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sitting in for Thom Hartmann, guest-host Jefferson Smith challenges listeners to invite new people to hear the show whether they agree or disagree with progressive politics. Also Jeff conducts a straw poll with callers on what would be their prediction of Donald Trump's choice of a running mate for the 2024 Election and why.

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0:00.0

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0:28.2

This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:48.0

Welcome back.

0:50.4

Well, George Santos might get removed from Congress.

0:53.3

I've always known George Santos would get removed from Congress.

0:58.1

It occurred to me that it might happen by the electorate when he came up for election in 2024.

1:08.2

And the question I had was how much embarrassment, what set of values would hold the Republican

1:23.6

majority in the House representatives to keep George Santos in their cynical need for their

1:34.0

razor-thin majority to hold? And knowing that it takes two-thirds to get rid of a member of Congress,

1:43.9

how can you hold on? How can you, what's the argument you can use?

1:52.6

The role of the function of the ethics ruling was that now it makes it harder for a Republican to

2:03.7

say, well, we need to do process. I have to say I'm a fan of Jimmy Raskin and he and I was a fan of

2:10.6

his vote on this. He voted against kicking George Santos out of Congress because he didn't want to

2:17.5

set a precedent that prior to a judicial body or another oversight body making a ruling and

2:25.4

actual finding a fact, it was just kicking people out office by Congress as a dangerous precedent.

2:29.6

And I agree with him. What I was surprised by was there weren't more Republicans getting him out of

2:36.6

there because he's one of the most famous people in the Republican Party and he's not famous for

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