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.

Tom Hartman here with you.

And to open our show online with us,

our old friend Senator Sherrod Brown,

brilliantly representing the state of Ohio.

Brown dot Senate.gov is the website you can tweet him at

C.N as in senator Sen Sherrod Brown S H-H-E-R-R-O-D Brown.

Senator Brown welcome back to the program.

Thanks, good to be back and thank you always for your analysis.

I just thought what you said about the influence on climate change and the

other Republican Party change. I mean, they were never great, but they were pretty good on climate change. I mean they were never great but they were pretty good

on climate change a decade ago and there was you know there was not agreement of

human cause but there was a lot of different discussions and different sessions in the

party and the Koch brothers basically change that as they've done on the tax bill.

I mean you hear these stories on the tax bill that Republicans are calling their contributors and they're big big

contributors the gazillionaires the deck of millionaires it up and they're saying

don't call me for money again unless you pass my tax bill and that's why they're doing it and that's why they're writing it the

way they are you know 62% of the I know that the 62% of the benefits from

this tax bill go to the richest 1%.

And even the Bush tax cuts, what you and I talked about in the past,

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