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 Hartman here with you.

Well, it's really interesting.

Last night, Louise and I were kind of pulling shifts. I fell asleep around 10 and she was watching the, you know,

what was going on in the Senate on her, we were laying in bed and she was watching it on her

computer.

And I kind of woke up around, I don't know, 12, one,

whatever time it was, sometime in the middle of night.

And she was like, they were voting on the motion

to proceed to the vote

and or or whatever it was called

and uh... we listen to that for a little while and she fell asleep but i've

i woke up but you know i don't know three or something and it been, you know, I don't know, around three or something and it had been defeated, you know.

And so I woke her up and said, hey, I was defeated and she was like, oh, thank you.

I guess you can kind of tell that we don't have much of a life, you know, when you spend your night

following the Senate. But what I thought was most interesting was the three people who voted to stop this Republican debacle and the story behind it.

And there's actually a bigger story behind that.

And, uh, uh, uh, we did Paul Ryan. and uh...

it would be did paul Ryan

is in this story and then the the three people who voted no are in this story but

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