Should Al Franken Have Resigned?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 December 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Many topics today!. Trump wants to take server tips away, A day in the life of Joe Republican. How many would be happy to see their 14 yr old hit on by a 30 something? Special Guests: Larry Cohen (Board Chair of Our Revolution), Greg Palast (Journalist, Author, Filmmaker), and Bob Fritakis (Attorney, Author, and Professor of Political Science in the Social & Behavioral Sciences Department-Columbus State Community College).
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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, |
| 0:22.0 | believers in peace freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:25.0 | So glad to be back in Portland. Tom Hartman here with you live from Portland, |
| 0:30.0 | Oregon. |
| 0:31.0 | And a lot on the show today. Larry Cohen's going to drop by in about 25 |
| 0:36.6 | minutes or maybe 30 minutes and tell us about the Democracy Initiative. |
| 0:41.6 | Excuse me, he's the board chair of the Democracy Initiative. |
| 0:45.0 | He's going to be talking about what happened with the Unity and Reform Commission, |
| 0:49.0 | which he's a member of, which is reinventing the Democratic Party. |
| 0:52.0 | Greg Pallast will be with us at the top |
| 0:54.2 | of the next hour after that. |
| 0:56.0 | And I want to do a poll. |
| 0:58.6 | I want to get to that poll right after the first break on the show today at 20 minutes after. |
| 1:05.0 | I simply want to ask the question, |
| 1:10.0 | should Al Franken resign, |
| 1:12.0 | but we'll get to that in a few minutes. |
| 1:13.7 | Just hold on for that. |
| 1:16.0 | And, but I wanted to start out, this is something that, you know, this is a meme that is so important and so straightforward. |
| 1:26.8 | When this first was published, and my recollection is that it was published back in like |
| 1:31.3 | 2006 or 7 or something like that but the |
| 1:36.4 | copy that I've got right now is from 2012 it was reposted over at Daily Coase. |
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