This is the Tom Hartman program.

Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy,

truth and justice, believers in Peace, Freedom, and The American Way.

Tom Harman here with you live from Portland, Oregon.

Our daughter is getting married this week, we're Louise and I I are here we're having a fine time

yes I'm broadcasting against a blank wall we're gonna do something about that tomorrow

but it's not a hostage situation

anyhow a hostage situation. Anyhow, strange news. First of all, I've really missed you and I had a wonderful, but I had a wonderful trip to Germany and you know this is the Salem International.org organization in fact one fellow his name is Mike heard me on Wednesday talking about this and he was in Germany and he came

over and spent a couple days and visited and everything. It was great. Nice guy to meet.

It works for American Forces radio in fact.

So anyhow, a lot going on and the main thing, everywhere I went while I was in Germany, everywhere I went people wanted to ask me about Donald Trump and about what are the Republicans doing and has America gone crazy.

And it wasn't just the, you know, this guy's gross. is the genuine concern that in his in his rush to quote America great again that he was

going to come out somehow just like you know destroy the economy or blow up the world order or crash the stock market and a lot of people

very very worried I mean worried to the point of like trembling in their

voices about what Trump might do with

North Korea and of course Trump just gave a speech at the United Nations

about North Korea so I in fact the details are pretty amazing.

There's a lot to get to today.

And we'll be getting to your calls too so you know feel free to to give us a

shout but here's what Donald Trump said this morning he said

let me start at the beginning. The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is

forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.

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