Paul Manafort gets a slap on the wrist from the same Republican judge that put a Democrat in prison for 13 years, while in Idaho Republicans block laws to stop 13 year old kids to get married to older men- how can we reach across this extreme political divide?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Remember when a Democratic congressman was sentenced to 13 years in prison by Judge T.S. Ellis for corruption, including cash stacked in his freezer? So why did the same judge give international criminal schemer millionaire Paul Manafort a slap on the wrist? The Republican Party is showing us who they are and what they are all about. ---------- The corruption in Saudi Arabia continues, including trapping an American woman in the country, unable to leave the country. ---------- The patriarchy crisis for young girls continues as Idaho Republicans block a bill that would have raised the legal age of consent to marry to sixteen. Why are Republicans so adamant about keeping the legal age to marry low? Could it have something to do with patriarchy? Thom Hartmann asks Democratic Rep. Melissa Wintrow, who is fighting for young girls in Idaho and around the world. ---------- Thom reads from 'Don't Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times' by Irshad Manji, and then Thom welcomes Irshad Manji herself, author of 'Don't Label Me' for a brilliant conversation. How should we and should we not talk about our differences with people who are not like us? How shall we live in such divided times? ---------- Julie in Austin reminds Thom of the 'National Resources Management Act' that passed both houses of Congress last week. Mike in South Carolina (who is 80) and Thom both had grandfathers that called themselves socialists back before that was a dirty word. ---------- Luke Vargas with Talk Media news is again aghast at Trump's blunt and blind foreign policy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth, and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:23.0 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:24.0 | Remember the African American Democratic member of Congress |
| 0:28.0 | who was busted with stacks $100 bills wrapped up in tin foil frozen in his freezer. |
| 0:35.9 | The compartment above, you know, his refrigerator. |
| 0:38.3 | Remember the police went in there and it was all over television and oh my God look at this corruption this guy was |
| 0:43.8 | taking money under the table and he was a Democrat and he was sentenced to 13 |
| 0:49.6 | years in prison because his judge Judge T.S. Ellis, said, quote, public corruption is a |
| 0:57.5 | cancer. That would be the same judge sentencing a black politician to 13 years in prison who yesterday said |
| 1:07.0 | that the white corrupt you know businessman and politician maker on multiple continents including you know some of the worst |
| 1:15.2 | tyrants on earth Paul Manafort lived an otherwise blameless life. |
| 1:19.8 | The judge a Reagan appointee. |
| 1:24.4 | Surprise, surprise. |
| 1:26.2 | And this is the kind of judges. |
| 1:27.6 | I mean, they are, right now, |
| 1:28.6 | Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump and Mike Pence |
| 1:31.4 | are shoveling these people in their 30s with in many cases no |
| 1:36.1 | trial experience no judicial experience in some some of them haven't even tried |
| 1:40.2 | cases like Brett Kavanaugh shoveling them onto the federal bench. |
| 1:46.6 | It's nuts. |
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