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The Hartmann Report

Guest-host Jefferson Smith considers the collective outrage after the frustrating Barr spin on the absent Mueller Report. Alex Lawson of 'Social Security Works' asks are we about to lose our public healthcare as Trump seeks it outlawed?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Democracy, Climate Change, Congress, America, News, The Hartmann Report, Thom Hartmann, Economics, Debate

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jefferson Smith continues to guest host during Thom's break. Jeff reframes the picture of our collective disappointment after the Barr report and how to rechannel our feelings of anger and frustration into constructive action. - Alex Lawson of 'Social Security Works' asks are we about to lose our public healthcare as Trump seeks it outlawed? So much for Obama Care! RIP good sense. - For the Book Club, Thom Hartmann reads from "The Truth about Social Security: The Founders' Words Refute Revisionist History, Zombie Lies, and Common Misunderstandings" by Nancy J Altman. - Listeners call in with inspiring questions and comments including Jennifer who queries whether women should go on strike and refrain from childbirth until our demands are addressed. - Talk Media News update from Venezuela to Capitol Hill with Ellen Rattner. - Jefferson Smith posits that the election of Barack Obama was an inflection point and compares the historical relevance to the geographic and economic changes during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartbin Show. Good morning, everybody. How you doing?

0:33.2

This is the Tom Harbin Show.

0:35.4

We are pleased that you're listening.

0:36.8

I am Jeff.

0:37.5

I am pleased and honored to be here.

0:40.5

For people who haven't been listening to us the last couple mornings, have access to no internet,

0:45.7

don't watch any TV, I've ever seen a newspaper in the last several days, the very quick fill in, is it over the last few days.

0:56.4

We have seen the closing of the last two year investigation

1:00.8

that offered its conclusions. We don't know exactly what those conclusions are. We know the top lines. The top lines were no provable charges on collusion, on coordination on conspiracy between on Strong evidence, indictable evidence, 37 indictments in fact, of Russian interference on American

1:26.1

elections trying to elect Donald Trump, the current president of the United States.

1:31.8

And then a jump ball, a punt, pick your own sports analogy if you like sports

1:36.2

analogies on whether or not there is obstruction of justice. And the question

1:41.2

then becomes, should opponents of the president dig in and continue to prioritize the release of that information.

1:56.6

The other background being happening just in the last 26 hours,

2:02.4

Mitch McConnell blocking the previously unanimous vote by the House to release the full report,

2:09.9

leaving us in the dark as to why Bob Mueller did not reach conclusion on obstruction of justice

2:17.0

and leaving us in the dark about what else was in the report. Leaving James Comey to say I am confused about the actions

2:29.2

of Bob Mueller and part of the question is the, and see I believe it's sort of the genius of Ann

2:37.2

not the tyranny of war, but the question that is still happening within the inside holes of Democratic strategy rooms

2:49.7

is whether to fight hard on the Mueller investigation,

2:54.7

whether to fight hard on getting the report out,

2:59.5

or whether to address instead or with a higher priority what the Department of Justice did the very next day,

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