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The Hartmann Report

MEDEA BENJAMIN, DENNIS KUCINICH, and RO KHANNA

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Veteran activist Medea Benjamin reports to Thom live on the ground from Peru, where a presidential election showdown is underway between a political heiress and a humble common man representing the ordinary people.

Then- former Progressive Congressman Dennis Kucinich on what he learned fighting corporate power in Cleveland Ohio- and he's not afraid to give away the spoiler of his new book... he won.

Also, Progressive Congressman Ro Khanna answers listeners questions- what is holding up the Democratic agenda in Congress?

Will genuine Democracy prevail over the resurgence of faux populist fascism all over the planet? Will the end of Democracy arrive in America wearing its pants backwards?

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Well, we have a really big shoe for you on this beautiful day.

0:20.0

My dear Benjamin is going to be on the line with us live from Peru.

0:23.0

There's an election going on down there plus elections in Ecuador and Colombia

0:28.0

that have in some ways kind of echoes of what's going on here.

0:32.0

We'll get into that in the third hour.

0:34.0

Dennis Cacinich is also going to be with us as a new book out about corporate malfeasance.

0:38.0

That's pretty amazing.

0:39.0

First of all, Trump was not wearing his pants backwards yesterday

0:43.0

and yes, he did have a zipper.

0:44.0

Okay, just so that's out of the way.

0:45.0

It didn't look that way.

0:47.0

And there was a lot of having to lose silence.

0:50.0

I were like, what?

0:51.0

You know, when these pictures start to pop it up on the internet,

0:54.0

you know, because his pants were just so weird.

0:56.0

I mean, it's huge pant legs and all this kind of stuff.

1:00.0

My assumption, when I thought he was wearing pants without a zipper,

1:04.0

is that instead of just wearing a girdle, he had had a tailor,

1:08.0

I mean, guy's a billionaire, right?

1:09.0

He had had a tailor build a girdle into a pair of pants.

1:13.0

And so he would just pull them up, you know, like sweat pants kind of thing.

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