This is the Tom Hartman program.

Hey, happy Martin Luther King Day, happy snow day pretty much all across the country.

It's the Iowa Caucus Day,

we're going to find out

how weird the Republican Party is today,

an awful lot going on in the program today,

and we're live,

I, which is kind of incredible given how the weather has been here this weekend.

We'll see as the week goes on.

Tomorrow is going to get weird again here in the Pacific Northwest.

I got a lot to talk about.

I just wanted to share some quick thoughts on Martin Luther King Day in a few moments.

Also blackouts, people all across the country right now are experiencing blackouts.

Two pieces to this number one or three pieces really number one

Have you heard a single reference in any of the coverage of the storms that the cold that's hitting this country, about the fact

that in all probability this is as severe as it is because of global warming.

I realize it's cold and that sounds contradictory to warming but anyhow I'll get to that in a moment.

Number two did you know that you can power your house with an electric vehicle as long as it's not a Tesla

I'll tell you about that and and how's the Arctic blast treating you?

How's the weather where you live? You know so far knock wood we have kept our power in our

water but about a tenth of Portland over a hundred thousand people lost their power.

All right Donald Trump is making his final pitch to Republicans.

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