Guest host Jefferson Smith puts the post-Mueller impeachment question in a bigger frame- how should we respond to the union of Russian cleptocrats and American oligarchs taking control of our elections? Plus an analysis by voter suppression expert Paul S. Ryan.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 26 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Jefferson Smith carefully goes over the question of impeachment- where do we find ourselves and what should we be paying attention to? Should lawmakers impeach in the House now, or maybe later? Jeff from Fort Dodge wants to know whey we don't hear more about Republicans receiving money and favors from Russian oligarchs. Has the Republican Party been hacked? An expert on Republican voter suppression, Paul S. Ryan of Common Cause, sits down with Jefferson to consider what the Mueller hearings missed- a strong focus on defending our elections from Russian manipulations. A call to arms from Robin in Washington, and from Jeff- success is a process, not an event, and what is at stake is larger than just impeachment. Plus, Thom reads from the Mueller Report starting on page 134.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | It's 108 degrees in Paris. |
| 0:20.0 | The federal government is resuming executions. The Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee and the Republican Special Council |
| 0:29.0 | agree that Russia attacked and continues to attack and corrupt American elections. |
| 0:36.0 | The Republican head of the Senate though is blocking bills to stop that. |
| 0:41.8 | Current data suggests that the current president could win re-election even with a |
| 0:47.7 | resounding loss in the popular vote of as big as four points. |
| 0:51.3 | How you doing everybody? of as big as four points. |
| 0:55.4 | How you doing everybody? I'm Jefferson Smith. |
| 0:56.6 | It's an honor to be with you. |
| 0:57.4 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:58.7 | I'm sitting in for Tom. |
| 1:00.6 | And thank goodness and thank the Lord for you. |
| 1:04.0 | Thank you, the coalition of the benevolently irrational, the good people doing good things for no good reason. |
| 1:10.0 | You are priceless. |
| 1:12.0 | Definition of priceless worth a lot not for sale. I will |
| 1:16.1 | respond to yesterday's calls for impeachment and I'll tell you what I think as well and I will talk about what I think is well. |
| 1:23.4 | And I will talk about what I think is bigger than impeachment. |
| 1:26.8 | More important than a vote for articles of impeachment |
| 1:30.6 | in the United States House of Representatives. |
| 1:32.2 | More important for the history of |
| 1:34.8 | our country for the trajectory of bending the arc of history towards justice. |
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