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And greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way. Tom Hartman

here with you. We've got a lot on the program today. Our one guest, pardon me. Congressman

Ro Khanna is going to drop by to take your calls. He's the vice chair, the Congressional Progressive

Caucus, and of course, represents California's 17th district, so in the U.S. House.

It's really, truly a remarkable day. You know, it's a remarkable time in the history of the United States.

But to start out, Sidney Blumenthal has an interesting column. He was one of Clinton's advisors back in the day.

I mean, Bill Clinton.

Well, actually, he was an advisor to Hillary as well.

In fact, it was his emails that initially got leaked by WikiLeaks.

And he starts out telling the story of King George III.

King George III was the guy who, you know, we fought the Revolutionary War against, I believe.

There was a transition

between King George II and George III that was right around the time of the revolution. I'm

pretty sure that George III, well, anyway, I'm not a scholar of British history, but here's the

story. George III apparently suffered from bipolar disorder. And he read Shakespeare's play about a mad king, King Lear.

And apparently, well, this is from his doctor. These papers were only released six years ago.

But this is from 1788, right? The year that we finished writing the Constitution and we were

selling the Constitution. The Constitution was written in 1787.

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