This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

We've got a lot on the program today.

Congress has been kind of roiling here, although it looks like, well it doesn't look like,

they just passed in the House

of Representatives a vote on the Ukraine aid package and Israel and Taiwan.

So keep an eye on this. Mike Johnson is defying his own crazies and in fact the vote you know he got

30 or 40 Republicans and 30 or 40 Democrats who voted against him but basically the whole chamber

overwhelmingly you know more than 300 votes voted for the vote to move forward.

Marjorie Taylor Green and Matt Gates and crowd will no doubt now trying to evict him from the speaker's chair,

but you know obviously the Democrats are going to help him out with this. You know it looks like this is the end of the road for the Margar Taylor Green

show so stay tuned all right we got a lot to talk about today

Jesse Benton is a former senior aide to senator minority leader Mitch McConnell and a senator Rand Paul.

And he is in fact married to Ron Paul's granddaughter. And when he was working for Rand Paul, he bribed an Iowa politician, this was in 2011

to endorse Ron Paul's long shot presidential campaign and was busted for that, arrested, tried,

convicted and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

So Trump pardoned him. Right, of course he did.

And now he's in trouble again.

For his part in his November 22 conviction, for orchestrating a scheme to conceal a $100,000 donation

from a Russian national to Ron Paul's campaign. Russian businessman businessman Romenvellasinko,

Vasilenko, excuse me,

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