NAVIGATING A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Progressive leaders Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan join Thom today for topics including... the likelihood of consequences for the Senators who supported Trump's conspiracy to overturn the election... the alternate reality created by right wing propaganda... Progressives running in 2021... Democrats getting their message across... being clear-eyed on confronting a Republican party that cynically only cares about power... and what the chances of another stimulus deal getting out during this session?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.8 | Congressman Rocana is on the line with us. |
| 0:19.4 | He is the Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:22.3 | Conna, K-H-A-N-N-A dot house dot gov is his website. |
| 0:26.0 | You can tweet him at rep as in representative rep, Rocana. |
| 0:29.1 | Congressman Conna, welcome back. |
| 0:31.2 | Great to be back on your show Tom and I am looking forward to taking all the calls with |
| 0:36.1 | listeners. |
| 0:37.1 | It's a really frustrating time on the hill right now where McConnell is basically standing |
| 0:41.9 | in the way of any relief for the American people. |
| 0:44.8 | It's a true tragedy. |
| 0:46.6 | On July 10, 1861, a resolution was introduced into the United States Senate to expel 10 members, |
| 0:55.3 | 10 members from states that had seceded from the union. |
| 0:58.7 | It passed the next day and they were expelled. |
| 1:01.9 | There was one member who wasn't from Arkansas because he refused to go along with the Confederacy. |
| 1:07.1 | But I'm thinking that these 106 Republicans who signed this letter to the U.S. Supreme |
| 1:14.6 | Court are engaging in seditious behavior. |
| 1:18.3 | And if not being expelled, I would favor expulsion, but I'm not a member of Congress and I can |
| 1:24.3 | say things on the radio that a person like yourself might be a little more circumspective |
| 1:28.6 | about. |
| 1:29.6 | And at the very least, at the very least, face some sort of a consequence, whether whatever |
| 1:37.8 | the congressional version of a slapping of the hand is, is there any talk among the |
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