Congressman Mark Pocan responds to national town hall. Are the Epstein allegations a threat to Donald Trump? Will the next election wake us up from the fascist fog? How will we forgive and move on?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Congressman Mark Pocan answers listener calls on impeachment, raising minimum wage and traveling to inspect the imprisoned children at US facilities - Talk Media News correspondent Luke Vargas reports on tensions with Iran. - Epstein revelations increase scrutiny of Trump's immoral treatment of women, with a new rumor of a past rape charge. Leaving danger and drought, wouldn't any parent face the refugee risks to save their children? - Listeners report that some hospitals are dropping Fox News as it was inhibiting patients' calm and healing. Also the insidious impact of the Trump effect and right wing media on US citizens. - Thom reads from page 123 of the
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. And greetings by friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:23.2 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Let's check in with Congress and Mark Poccan. |
| 0:26.4 | He is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:28.8 | He represents the Second District of Wisconsin, brilliantly in the House of Representatives. His website is |
| 0:33.7 | Pocan. House. You can tweet him at Rep as in Representative Rep R.E. |
| 0:37.4 | Mark Pocan. Spilled just like it sounds. Congressman, welcome back. |
| 0:41.1 | Thank you, Tom tom glad to be here |
| 0:43.0 | great having you with us what's at the top of your mind here as we start this day |
| 0:46.9 | what are the issues that you think are you know important what's going on in congress |
| 0:50.7 | what are the things we should be attending to |
| 0:52.4 | well we're back for the next three weeks in Congress. |
| 0:54.0 | We're going to be passing a couple of authorizations, |
| 0:57.0 | the Intelligence and the National Defense Authorization. |
| 0:59.0 | A lot of progressive amendments we have to that. |
| 1:02.0 | We're hoping that we can get |
| 1:03.0 | added also will be passing the minimum wage increase in the next three weeks so |
| 1:07.8 | looking forward to that that's one of the priorities our caucus had the Democratic |
| 1:11.2 | caucus had and of course dealing with all the fallout of |
| 1:14.8 | the situation still at the border and the conditions for the children and I'll be going |
| 1:18.8 | on a coddell actually down to homestead down in Florida on Monday myself to look at the conditions first and |
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