Is the border refugee crisis a mass atrocity yet? Congressman Mark Pocan joins Thom to consider the brutalities at the Southern border and take listener phone calls. Bob Ney reports on driverless vehicles.
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Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
National town hall with Rep Mark Pocan and callers. - For the Book Club Thom reads from "A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy who Helped Win World War II" by Sonia Purnell - Thom asks callers how should the Dems deal with the fact that Trump's base loves his cruelty on the border? - Talk Media News report with former congressman now journalist, Bob Ney. - Mueller Report reading starting at page 121. - Thom is devastated by insights from the President of the American Academy of Pediatrics on how the children at the border have been emotionally traumatized. - Callers weigh in on the Nike Betsy Ross shoe controversy and significance of American flags.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the He also represents the second district of Wisconsin and the US House of Representatives. |
| 0:34.5 | Rep Mark Poccan is his Twitter handle, his website, |
| 0:38.3 | Pocan. house. |
| 0:40.3 | And Congressman, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:42.1 | Thanks, I'm glad to be here. And happy 4th of July. and sort of patriotic American values and I'm not sure what else but it is |
| 0:57.9 | being reported and I think just kind of common sense would indicate the way that the Trump administration, I mean |
| 1:05.4 | they've known for apparently a couple of weeks that this report from the Inspector General |
| 1:09.2 | that oversees the Border Patrol was going to come out and show that they've just got brutal |
| 1:14.2 | and cruel conditions going on down there and they're not trying to head it off or |
| 1:18.4 | change anything in any big substantial way it seems like their base, their white racist hate-filled base, is |
| 1:27.6 | actually delighted by the fact that these kids are in cages and women and |
| 1:32.4 | children are being told to drink out of toilets and |
| 1:34.2 | things. Rush Limbaugh yesterday said drinking out of a toilet is better than |
| 1:37.8 | what they're normally used to or words to that effect. So the base is |
| 1:41.8 | actually loving this and I think Trump is very happy with |
| 1:45.0 | this publicity. How do Democrats and for that matter how do Americans of |
| 1:49.2 | conscience who are shocked and horrified by refugees. |
| 1:52.8 | I mean these are not people coming here looking for a job. |
| 1:54.7 | These are people fleeing disasters in their own countries. |
| 1:58.6 | The disasters that were largely created by the United States |
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