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The Hartmann Report

PROCESSING THE IMPACT OF IMPEACHMENT

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in with insights on the meaning and impact of the historic impeachment of Donald Trump. For the Book Club Thom reads portions from "Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell Into Tyranny" by Edward Watts and "Treason & Betrayal: The Rise and Fall of Individual - 1" by Kenneth F. McCallion.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

Welcome back.

0:17.0

Tom Harbin here with you.

0:18.0

We were talking impeachment today and a lot of you,

0:21.0

apparently have a lot of things you want to say

0:23.4

let's start with Luke in St. Albans Vermont a Luke what's on your mind today?

0:26.9

Hi Tom thanks for taking my call

0:28.7

my pleasure show thank you

0:30.4

I agree with a lot of the politics of people who are opposing it but I just don't think

0:35.2

You know we understand the history of humanity well enough I mean we haven't this isn't new

0:41.9

We've seen how this stuff works out we know the danger of

0:45.6

precedent i personally would have been a big fan of impeaching george

0:49.1

bush for instance for torture for for line us into a war.

0:53.0

Exactly.

0:54.0

He's arguing with the third president to Lai us into a war.

0:57.4

He had the Spanish-American war where McKinley, you know, got his war with his little

1:01.8

conspiracy with the yelling newspaper guy.

1:04.8

Yeah, who sent a note to Frederick Remington saying,

1:07.1

get me the pictures, I'll give you the war.

1:09.2

And then you had Lyndon Johnson lying us into the war in Vietnam, and then you had

1:13.6

Bush and Cheney line us into the war in Vietnam and then you had Bush and Cheney

1:15.1

line us into the war in Iraq you would think eventually we'd say enough is

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