This is the Tom Hartman program.

Well now that Tom Cole has come,

Republican Congressman Tom Cole has come right out and said that

elect Jim Jordan because he'll cut Social Security

and Medicare, you know the Republican wet dream ever since the 1930s. Let's leave

that aside for just a moment. It appears that there are more Republicans backing away from him than coming, you

know, rushing to his rescue and that in all probability what's going to end up coming out of

this is that there's going to be some

sort of a compromise candidate perhaps McHenry. But I'll keep you up to date on

that as it goes on right now. It's just you know speechifying on the floor of the

house.

Also it appears the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital has been caused by a

Palestinian terror group. I'll tell you about that in a moment. The house speaker drama

I was just talking about. Did Conservative hate radio fuel the attack on an

American Palestinian boy and also the Wisconsin Republican Party is holding

hostage pay raises to the university staff unless they end their diversity

programs. I guess the GOP is saying if you're not a racist we don't want to pay

you. Also how the fossil fuel industry pays for lies to school children, but to start out, the top two

stories right now in the United States are the efforts by the House of Representatives to elect a speaker

and the Republican Party just in complete disarray

and we'll see what happens

with regard to the the situation in Egypt or in Israel right now, the meeting with the

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