FROM THE PROGRESSIVE TRENCHES
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 20 October 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Today, we hear from Progressives in the thick of it, with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and Representative Ro Khanna, both leaders of the House Progressive Caucus, put on the spot by Thom's thoughtful callers on the issues of today, and what tomorrow's next thing may be.
Congresswoman Jayapal gives her views- how do members of Congress plan to respond to a lawless president who is convicting himself right out in the open? What about the abandonment of the Kurds? What is the real cost if we don't pursue Medicare For All?
Then, Ro Khanna weighs in on the power of the congress - the chances of pressing for contempt of congress for executive branch officials who disrespect hearings, the extent of congress's war powers and power of the purse... and the ability to enforce impeachment - are we in a constitutional crisis already? Should Democratic presidential nominees be taking large corporate donations? And what about the superdelagates?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | It's kind of the end of a bad week for Donald Trump. |
| 0:19.0 | I mean, even those of us old enough to remember the spring of 1979 have probably forgotten |
| 0:27.3 | that that was when the United States Attorney General appointed a special prosecutor to look into his own |
| 0:36.1 | president's ownership of his peanut warehouse. Seriously, 1979, Jimmy Carter's, |
| 0:48.0 | Jimmy Carter's Attorney General, Griffin Bell, appointed Paul Curran, who was a Republican by the way, |
| 0:56.7 | as a special investigate, special counsel to look into whether or not Jimmy Carter had seen balance sheets for his peanut farm |
| 1:08.4 | which he had put in a blind trust which by the way by the time he left the |
| 1:11.6 | presidency was like wiped out but Jimmy Carter was in debt. |
| 1:18.8 | And now we have a president who's trying to force world leaders into his own failing Florida hotel |
| 1:26.9 | during its lowest occupancy season just to jack up the revenues of this |
| 1:31.1 | failing hotel that you know has some have suggested has a |
| 1:34.6 | serious bed bug problem the attorney general is spending 30,000 bucks on a |
| 1:39.7 | Christmas party at the president's hotel in Washington, D.C. while the Air Force is pouring |
| 1:44.0 | money into his failing Scotland property. And all that just seems to be fine |
| 1:50.4 | with the exact same Republican Party that was so hysterical in |
| 1:54.4 | 1979 that Jimmy Carter might know how much money he was losing on his |
| 1:58.6 | peanut farm while he was president that they demanded a special prosecutor look into it. |
| 2:07.0 | I mean how far have we fallen? |
| 2:16.0 | You had Mick Mulvaney yesterday saying, yeah, of course there's a quid pro quo. |
| 2:18.0 | And then today, well, I didn't mean it quite like that. |
| 2:21.0 | We've got Errodow Erdogan, the president of Turkey, telling a |
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