Can we walk and chew gum at the same time? Sitting in for Thom Hartmann today, Jefferson Smith considers which concerns we should prioritize in the wake of the Barr report and takes a deep look with journalist Marcy Wheeler.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jefferson Smith fills in for Thom Hartmann and announces Walk and Chew Gum Day. He considers whether our attention should be on Trump's corruption or the issues that are impacting people's lives and bringing down systemic corruption. - The unpublished Robert Mueller Report could be hiding Trump campaign lies. Journalist Marcy Wheeler discusses the Paul Manafort offer of a pardon and what effect that has had on the Mueller probe. - Thom reads from "The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America" – by Greg Grandin - Jefferson Smith analyzes the media discussion of the Bill Barr letter and competing priorities. - Thom Hartmann Book Club "The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s" by William Hitchcock - Jefferson Smith responds to callers questions on threats to end Obamacare, the need for Universal Healthcare and topics of the day.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program and I am Jeff Smith and you are you and today is Walk and Shugum Day. |
| 0:26.0 | We can do those things at the same time. |
| 0:29.0 | There is a significant national discussion going around the depth of corruption of this White House, |
| 0:36.4 | the degree to which the Mueller investigation covered elements of that corruption, the degree to which Bill Barr exposed or covered |
| 0:45.9 | up elements of that corruption, or exonerate or didn't exonerate that corruption, and |
| 0:52.3 | that is an important discussion and how we should be feeling |
| 0:55.0 | about the regulations with respect to the special counsel rules and what should |
| 1:02.2 | happen now what should Jerry Nadler do? |
| 1:05.0 | People still want to talk about how the legal process should weigh in on this president |
| 1:10.0 | with respect to his real estate dealings, his tax dealings, as far as I know he still hasn't released his tax returns. |
| 1:19.0 | How it should deal with campaign finance violation accusations and evidence. |
| 1:26.0 | And then there's the other truth. |
| 1:27.8 | The other truth is that ultimately prosecution is not the way we should pick a president or it shouldn't usually be the way we |
| 1:36.0 | get rid of one. We should try to make our decisions with democracy. History gives us |
| 1:42.1 | some lessons that heck the impeachment of Bill Clinton. |
| 1:46.0 | The efforts at removing Bill Clinton did not keep Democrats from winning congressional seats |
| 1:51.0 | and did not keep Bill Clinton from being a two-term |
| 1:54.8 | president. The arrest of the Watergate burglars happened six weeks prior, six weeks prior, to Richard Nixon not only |
| 2:08.8 | winning re-election, but with a historically large margin over George McGovern. |
| 2:14.0 | That ultimately the argument that has to be one is how can the country be made better? |
| 2:18.0 | How are the lives of the American people being made better? |
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