Do the Republicans even believe in democracy anymore? Is liberal democracy toast, as Putin stated in a major speech recently? Can a Democratic candidate replace the president that Jimmy Carter has called illegitimate? If so, who do you think can win?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Professor Cass Sunstein joins Thom to discuss Impeachment: A Citizens Guide: Impeachment is part of the constitution and seen as an essential section to protect the people; the Founding Fathers means that impeachment should be used for violation of a Presidents misuse of authority. - Thom reads from the Mueller Report, from page 114, what happened at the Trump Tower meeting. - Do the Republicans even believe in Democracy anymore, or have they really turned into a machine for the greed of the very very wealthy? - The Mueller report, from page 117, a description of the meeting between Russian representatives and Trump, Jr. - Who among the Democratic candidates do Thom's thoughtful listeners think is most likely to be able to beat Trump?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:18.0 | Jimmy Carter just came right out and said what I think has been the subtext basically of the Mueller |
| 0:27.6 | investigation and what a lot of us have been talking about for, well, ever since the election. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, here's Jimmy Carter saying it himself in his own words. |
| 0:38.6 | He lost the election and he was put in the office because the Russians interfere on his behalf. |
| 0:45.4 | It's just that simple. |
| 0:47.4 | And he was put in the office because a Russian's interfere |
| 0:50.8 | on his behalf. There you go. Donald Trump is not a legitimate president. He's an |
| 0:56.9 | illegitimate president. And, you know, I agree. I'll just say it out loud. |
| 1:02.4 | Donald, I do not believe that Donald Trump was |
| 1:04.7 | elected president of the United States, fair and square or honestly or whatever you |
| 1:09.2 | know whatever the word is and therefore I consider him an illegitimate president. I did not consider |
| 1:14.7 | my president. I mentioned this last last week you know just briefly but I want to |
| 1:19.3 | just throw that into the conversation and and Nate was able to find the video of him saying that. |
| 1:25.6 | It was a good one. |
| 1:26.6 | So anyhow, some of your thoughts on the Republican Party turning into no longer being a political party but merely basically a |
| 1:34.8 | power machine for billionaires and giant corporations and the legitimacy of |
| 1:39.2 | the Trump presidency. But first I wanted to bring in Professor Cast Sunstein. |
| 1:43.0 | He's the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard from 2009 to 2012. |
| 1:48.0 | He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. |
| 1:53.2 | He's the founder and director of the program |
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