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🗓️ 5 September 2020
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As progressive Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan joins Thom for a national town hall, GOP cranks and paid trolls try to overtake the discussion.
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0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, |
0:21.0 | truth and justice, believers in peace, Freedom, and The American Way. |
0:24.8 | Tom Harbin here with you broadcasting live from shelter in place, my home office in |
0:29.3 | Portland, and Congressman Mark Pocan is with us for the hour taking your calls. |
0:36.0 | If you're new to the program, Congressman Pocan is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive |
0:39.8 | Caucus. |
0:40.8 | The Big Cheese Progressive in Washington, D.C. also represents the second district of Wisconsin. |
0:46.0 | Pocan. pocan. house.gov is his website. You can tweet him at Repmark Pocan. And Congress in Pocan, you had Donald Trump in your |
0:54.8 | neck of the woods. How did that go? |
0:57.2 | He didn't bring multiple cans of kerosene. He just did what he's now got as a national campaign theme which is law and order. |
1:06.0 | He came to Kenosha where African American man was shot seven times in the back, |
1:11.6 | short range in front of his children, where white |
1:14.7 | vigilantes and militia were allowed to walk down the roads with guns and |
1:19.6 | killed two protesters. And he came to thank law enforcement rather than realizing that we |
1:26.2 | have a serious policing problem in this country including in my hometown of Kenosha that I went to yesterday |
1:32.4 | and saw the damage firsthand. |
1:34.8 | So you know the president didn't do anything for the people of Kenosha, he didn't bring any resources. |
1:38.6 | He just came, did a photo op, probably going to be a future commercial commercial part of his law and order message |
1:44.0 | but fortunately Joe Biden came to Kenosha where what they need is a message of |
1:48.6 | unity and reconciliation and I think that's what he came to do but you know Donald Trump continues to not |
1:55.0 | condemn the vigilantes the militia the people that came in from outside of |
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