SNOWDEN WAS RIGHT
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 30 September 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Thom welcomes Oregon's Senator Ron Wyden- who is working to protect whistle-blowers as the co-chair of the Whistle-blower Committee. He's also behind a House investigation into the political activities of the NRA that has demonstrated how that organization worked to provide high-level political access to Russian agents.~ Thom reads from 'Treason and Betrayal- The Rise and Fall of Individual One' by Kenneth Foard McCallion. ~ Two newspapers so far are calling for Trump's resignation. Thom breaks down the significance. ~ Thom reads from a ridiculous Trump fundraising email that shows the president is in full freak-out mode. ~ And Thom's brilliant callers share their thoughts on impeachment.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:19.0 | On the line with us is Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, one of my two senators and I'm so glad he is |
| 0:25.0 | Widen dot senate.gov is the website you can tweet him at Ron Wyden and |
| 0:29.5 | senator welcome back to the program. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey Tom great now so like that you're back in Portland to stay. |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, well, we're loving it. |
| 0:37.0 | All three of our kids are here, grandkids, everything, so it's just, it's perfect. |
| 0:41.2 | So you have done some extraordinary research. You pride 4,000 pages of documents |
| 0:46.6 | out of the NRA. Strange goings on. Tell us about this. What did you learn about the connection |
| 0:51.6 | between the NRA the |
| 0:53.0 | republican party and russia |
| 0:56.0 | this really focused and we had the finance staff on the ranking democrat |
| 1:00.8 | and senate finance can you really dig into this and it really focused on the |
| 1:04.5 | run up to the 2016 election and I think when you unpack it call I think the real questions |
| 1:11.4 | about whether the NRA leaders may have violated tax laws |
| 1:15.9 | because the tax laws prohibit organizational resources being used for personal gain and in effect the National Rifle Association pretty much came |
| 1:25.3 | off of a foreign asset for Russia and the run-up to the election. |
| 1:29.8 | Huh, specifically how? What they did and it was very clever. |
| 1:36.0 | They worked to provide access to the American political system, these NRA insiders, to people at the very top of the organization |
| 1:47.0 | figured out a way to provide access to our political system to basically advance their personal business |
| 1:56.0 | interests. That's really what this was all about and of course they aren't |
| 2:01.1 | willing to hand over a check and that kind of thing but we basically |
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