CORRUPTION ACROSS AMERICA
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 17 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Investigative journalist Greg Palast is hot on the trail of the twice stolen ninth district of North Carolina, where over 200,000 people have been removed from the electoral rolls, almost all of them people of color.
And then- the sensationalist coverage around Brett Kavanaugh only scratches the surface of Brett Kavanaugh's offenses, many of which go all the way back to the George W. Bush administration. Can we reopen the investigation into Brett Kavanuagh? Thom Hartmann reveals what you don't know about Trump's controversial Supreme Court pick.
And finally, are the insurance companies grabbing what they can get while they can get it? Callers from across the country call attention to the ways they've been screwed by insurance- all the while Republicans gradually dismantle Medicare in the background.
IRAN: Are We "Locked & Loaded"? Following the raid on oil fields in Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump is blaming Iran, while claims from Yemen say they were responsible. As oil prices rise by 10% in one day, yet the stocks for most oil companies climbed. Looking for profits? Jamal Abdi (Pres. National Iranian American Council) joined Thom to unpack what happened.
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| 0:23.4 | com today. Certain restrictions apply. This is the Tom Hartman program. And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. Well, we had an interesting |
| 0:44.3 | election in North Carolina's ninth. This was the election where the |
| 0:48.0 | original Republican candidate back a year and a half ago had hired a guy to go around collecting absentee ballots |
| 0:54.4 | from people and if they voted for Democrats throw their ballots away and so the |
| 0:59.2 | Republican victory was thrown out and a new election was held. |
| 1:04.3 | Donald Trump went down and held a rally and promoted the heck out of it. |
| 1:08.1 | And a lot of us thought Dan McCready the Democrat might actually win, but instead Dan Bishop, the Republican, won, and I put that in quotes by 4,000 votes. |
| 1:17.0 | Into this phrase, steps are, old buddy Greg Palace, the investigative journalist, |
| 1:22.9 | author, filmmaker, his most recent, the best democracy money can buy, |
| 1:26.7 | which you can see over on Amazon Prime and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:29.8 | Greg Palace.com is his website. |
| 1:31.7 | You can tweet him at Greg Underscore Palace, just like I'm Tom Underscore Harbin. |
| 1:35.5 | Greg, welcome back. |
| 1:37.1 | Glad to be with you, Tom. |
| 1:39.1 | So you're one of the best guys at telling the undisclosed story, the hidden history, what's really going on. |
| 1:45.4 | What actually happened in this election in the 9th District of North Carolina that allowed |
| 1:50.9 | a, or that caused or whatever the appropriate word is a Republican to win by a mere 4,000 votes. |
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