CAN BOLD PROGRESSIVES WIN THE 2020 ELECTION?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 September 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
California lawmakers pass bill banning private prisons. A VERY good thing!! ~ Thom reads from "An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics" by Greg Sargent ~ Adam Green from Bold Progressives offers his thoughts on the Democratic Debate. Did Progressive candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders come off on top? Making solid arguments for Medicare for All that can convince moderate voters on the fence about bold progressive ideas to vote their way. ~ Listeners call in with topics from Socialism to the Gold Standard. ~ Book Club reading "The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence" by Michael D'Antonio ~ Talk Media News correspondent Bob Ney clarifies the importance of the recent formalization of an impeachment inquiry by the Congressional Judiciary Committee.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:22.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:26.0 | Okay, just some news, some things to share with you, California. |
| 0:29.6 | This is fascinating and good news. California just banned private prisons |
| 0:35.0 | including ICE detention facilities. |
| 0:38.0 | This from Vice News, California just passed a bill banning all for-profit prisons and immigrant |
| 0:44.3 | detention facilities for-profit immigrant detention facilities in the state of |
| 0:49.2 | California according to the guardian it was Bill AB 32, Assembly Bill 32, and headed to Governor Gavin Newsom's |
| 0:57.0 | desk for signing. Assembly Monroe Bonta, who introduced the bill, said it is a stand against companies quote that only |
| 1:04.2 | care about the almighty dollar. This is a good thing and they're currently four |
| 1:08.4 | privately operated immigration detention centers in California. Two of them Mesa Verde in Baker's and run by the Geo Group. This is one of the biggest private prison companies in the country. |
| 1:25.0 | And together these two Geo Group facilities can hold 1, 1940 people. |
| 1:30.5 | So shutting down facilities by the state of California that are running purely for profit, |
| 1:37.0 | a really good thing. I mean this is like a really really good thing. |
| 1:43.7 | Meanwhile, Donald Trump is facing some serious legal challenges |
| 1:48.0 | as the federal courts have revived the Amoluments Clause case. |
| 1:51.8 | Now this was a lawsuit that was brought by |
| 1:55.4 | the Citizens for Ethics in Washington crew. |
| 1:58.3 | And a couple of people who are parties to the lawsuit who run restaurants in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:05.8 | And what they were alleging is that the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C. |
| 2:11.2 | is unfairly competing with them because the president of the |
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