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🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Today we hear the view from the Progressives in Congress with Ro Khanna and Mark Pocan- as Trump rolls out his fascist federal police, what can Congress do about the attack on our Democracy now- or what will be possible after the November election? And how should we be handling the growing Covid crisis?

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0:00.0	This is the Tom Hartman program.
0:15.0	To start out, Congressman Mark Poccan is with us.
0:19.0	Congressman Poccan, welcome back.
0:21.0	It's great to have you.
0:22.0	I want to start if I may with the
0:24.1	top story on the Washington Post right now. The headline, It was Like Being
0:29.0	Preed Upon. That's a quote. And then the rest of the headline reads,
0:33.0	Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them.
0:38.0	They show the video of it.
0:40.0	A Congressman Don Byer just tweeted,
0:42.0	who are these people?
0:43.1	They have no identification, other than a badge that says police.
0:47.2	Who are these people?
0:48.0	What agency do they work for?
0:49.2	Who gives them orders?
0:50.2	What are their use of force guidelines?
0:51.9	What is their jurisdiction in Portland?
0:54.2	This lack of accountability is unacceptable
0:56.6	from federal authorities.
0:57.6	We don't have secret police in the United States.
1:00.4	I'm curious, if you've been hearing about this,
1:02.2	what you think about this.
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