This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Hartman here with you.

Just to let you know where I was last week, I generally don't announce an advance where I'm going for security reasons and a few other things,

but we had a family reunion as it were

Louise and I and two of our kids and her brother and his wife went to Costa Rica

for the week to a nice little place on the Pacific Ocean side and just basically I mean frankly I was bored silly

It was nice. I mean I love spending time with my family and there was great food and everything and I wrote an op-ed

every single day so I had something to do but you know I don't know if it's a d d or what but I

just you know sitting in the sun all day just doesn't do it for me.

But we had a wonderful time.

It was a great trip.

It was a marvelous place to be.

And I'm so glad to be back here with you all.

And I can't even...

I guess I relaxed too much all right we got a lot to talk

about the top story in my op-ed today over at heartmail report.com and by the way I wrote a piece

every day last week I don't know if Jefferson mentioned them but you know

You can also find them at the home page some of my thought were pretty important things

First off the big news today the top headline on drudge and in many other places

is that Donald Trump either has to pay 454 million dollars to the state of

New York for years and years and years of repeated

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