THE LONG ROAD WE'RE ON
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 November 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As Progressive congressman Ro Khanna once again joins Thom, a fascinating discussion of the powers of Congress- are we building an Imperial Presidency based on the Republican-packed supreme court? Can pardons apply to impeachable crimes? Is the House oversight committee powerful enough to police federal government corruption?
Will the Roger Stone conviction of election crimes unlock the part of the Mueller Report we still have not seen? What would it take for the Senate to hold a secret impeachment vote? Will we ever repeal the so-called 'Patriot Act'?
Plus Thom reads from 'Why You Should Be a Socialist' by Nathan Robinson. And- Thom reprises his recent widely published article that charts how far down the road we are to an all-out oligarchy, and what to expect if we don't succeed in pushing back.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Congressman Rokata is here with us. |
| 0:19.0 | He represents the 17th District of California, |
| 0:22.0 | Silicon Valley area, and he is the Vice Chair. the His website, K-H-A-N-N-N-N-A-O-H-O-K-G-O-K-G-G-O-K-G-G-O-K-G-O-K-K-N-N-N-A-O-K-O-K-O-K-O-K-O-K-O-K-O-G, his and his-O-G, Why did Trump go to the hospital on Saturday? My most cynical take was that maybe he's |
| 0:46.2 | setting up a 25th amendment because the 25th amendment was passed in 65 after Kennedy was |
| 0:50.9 | shot to deal with what if he hadn't been shot in the head |
| 0:53.9 | what if he had just been shot in the chest or something he was out of |
| 0:56.8 | commission for six months |
| 0:58.2 | if there's no mechanism in the constitution for the vice president to take over |
| 1:01.9 | so let's put this in the constitution |
| 1:03.5 | so you know if Trump claims that he had a little mini stroke or something like that and |
| 1:07.9 | he leaves office it's just like his bone spurs you know got him out of |
| 1:11.0 | Vietnam in another medical deferment basically. |
| 1:14.4 | And then on the way out he pardons Stone and Maniford and Flynn, who could, you know, conceivably |
| 1:19.8 | in the future testify against him or his family and then Pence comes in and |
| 1:22.9 | pardons Trump and the whole Trump crime family and anybody else who might be able |
| 1:26.7 | to testify that Pence had any role in all this which is exactly what George |
| 1:30.6 | Bush the elder did in December of 92 on the advice of then attorney general |
| 1:35.8 | Bill Barr. |
| 1:36.8 | So that's our theory anyway what do you think? |
| 1:40.9 | Well I appreciate you pointing out Bill Barr's role in 92 the December |
| 1:44.4 | Christmas pardons that it let off anyone who was involved in Iran contract. I don't |
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