IMPEACHING DEMOCRACY
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 21 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Jefferson Smith leads a collective meditation on what it means that Donald Trump has been impeached in the House of Representatives- what can happen next? Will Nancy be able to hold on to the articles since the Senate has said they will not have a fair trial? In a Senate trial, would any Republicans cross the line? What do their constituents really want? And in a bigger frame, what do we need to do to make our democracy more of a democracy and not less of one?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Donald J Trump has been impeached. |
| 0:21.0 | Those are the first words of the day. What are the next words? Who |
| 0:28.4 | will have the last word? And we welcome your phone calls. |
| 0:34.3 | What did we learn yesterday? |
| 0:37.9 | You will have some of the words. |
| 0:40.8 | What needs to happen next? What do we think about the John Dean |
| 0:46.1 | position, the Lawrence Tribe position? What should be completed, what should be |
| 0:50.5 | expected, what should be required before articles of impeachment are sent from the House of |
| 0:56.2 | Representatives to the United States Senate. |
| 1:01.3 | It's also thank you Thursday. What are we thankful for? I'm thankful to moderate freshmen. |
| 1:10.4 | I don't know what they'll do and what each of them will say or how they might vote on environmental protections in international trade. |
| 1:20.0 | I don't know what they might do about a health care for all proposal, but I know that they were |
| 1:26.4 | willing to risk political fire to stand up for the Constitution and to be sure that in this country there is at least one chamber |
| 1:36.4 | that is willing to hold the President of the United States accountable. |
| 1:39.8 | I am grateful for that. What are you grateful for? I'm Jefferson Smith and I am sitting in for the Tom Hartman show. |
| 1:47.0 | Jill from Belfair, you are the first caller on this |
| 1:53.8 | watching the Rachel Maddo show last night I had a concern and then I had a consideration |
| 1:59.3 | having to do with the impeachment trial in the House in the Senate because of the things |
| 2:06.3 | that Mitch McConnell has said and the things that others have said about that trial. |
| 2:11.4 | It's like the fix is in, it's like it's not going to be a |
| 2:13.5 | fair trial that's a concern and what my suggestion is is because like |
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