This is the Tom Hartman Program.

Well greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

and peace, freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you.

We are going to start our program today with this question, you know, is America, well

really is the Republican Party standing atop an ocean of blood?

How do we get America back to being that shining city on the hill that other countries want

to emulate?

It seems to me like we've got to start with gun violence.

We'll get to that in just a minute.

Debbie Hines is going to drop by our legal analyst and former assistant attorney general

for the state of Maryland and, you know, lawyer and all that sort of thing and she's

going to be given as a wrap up the closing arguments in the show in trial are happening

right now.

I wanted to just start out with basically, you know, my rant from Hartman report this

morning which, you know, I really think that this is increasingly this is who we are.

And it's a real tragedy that the Republican Party over 40 years has reshaped America.

We no longer trust our government.

We no longer are like, you know, one for all and all for one.

We're no longer, you know, my brother's keeper kind of thing.

We no longer care for each other or take care of each other.

Instead we've been infected with this bizarre libertarian notion of freedom and individual

liberty and all this kind of stuff which basically is code for, you know, the billionaires

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