A wide net today: CNN candidate town halls- women's rights and the UN- the latest NAFTA changes- a character essay on Richard Holbrooke- the French yellow vesters- and is Netflix a form of birth control??
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 April 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom takes a look at the recent televised town halls of Democratic candidates- and considers their surprising statements. Who supports advancing toward an impeachment posture of our obstructionist head of state. And why is the media is not taking a more serious stance on Trump's disregard of Congressional subpoenas? ---------- Talk Media News' Luke Vargas just watched America water down a U.N. resolution against rape during times of war. And what is happening with the arrested reporters in Myanmar? -------- The latest developments in Trump's lackluster re-negotiation of NAFTA with the executive director of Public Citizen's 'Global Trade Watch', Laurie Wallach. ----------- Thom reads from the evocative new book 'Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American Century.' ----------- News from the ground on France's yellow vest movement from Parisian and Jacobin reporter Cole Stangler. ------------ Is Netflix related to the low birth rate? Trump's online ad spending targets old people. Also, details on Elizabeth Warren's student debt relief plan. ----------- Thom gets some thoughtful callers on the horn- What's up with that darn Mueller?- Trump's 'Promises Broken.' And how did the Democratic candidates do in CNN's town hall?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:18.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers, believers in peace freedom in the American way |
| 0:25.4 | Donald Trump is continuing to violate the law to break the law to defy the law |
| 0:36.4 | I mean the White House has now instructed Carl Klein not to testify before Congress. No you go don't don't this is the guy who supervised |
| 0:40.6 | getting a security clearance over the |
| 0:43.4 | objection of intelligence agencies over the objection of the FBI over the |
| 0:47.2 | objection of the CIA for Jared Kushner. Similarly Steve Minutian has ordered the Internal Revenue Service to defy the law and |
| 0:56.2 | not give Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee. |
| 1:00.4 | Carl Klein is saying, well, you know, I'm receiving subpoenas from two masters, |
| 1:05.8 | the executive branch and the legislative branch. Actually, he no longer works at the |
| 1:11.1 | White House. The Washington Post ran a headline on this |
| 1:14.1 | thing that says White House instructs official to ignore a Democratic |
| 1:17.7 | subpoena. This is a totally BS headline. There's no such thing as a |
| 1:21.7 | Democratic subpoena. This is a |
| 1:23.0 | congressional subpoena. It's a matter of national security. The Washington |
| 1:28.7 | Post is trying to make it like, oh this is just a partisan game. No, it's not. |
| 1:33.4 | This has to do with the nation's security. |
| 1:35.8 | And telling them no, having all these various people |
| 1:40.2 | saying no, no to Elijah Cummings, |
| 1:42.4 | no to the House Ways and means committee these are all simple |
| 1:45.1 | straightforward violations of the law and naked attempts to obstruct justice this is the |
| 1:50.4 | behavior of an authoritarian dictator |
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