Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/01/19 - Today, a robust discussion on immigration from down south, Trump's wall fixation, and how Ronald Reagan used undocumented workers to bust unions. Then- from Trump's new Boeing Secretary of Defense, to Google's control of the information age- how is our government failing to do its duty to protect competition?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 January 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Thom calls out Trump for flagrantly violated the Hatch act by using a photo-op with the troops to trash talk the Democrats' lack of support for building a wall. But is this giant project practical or worth the effort? Callers, including a Texas rancher with waterfront on the Rio Grande respond thoughtfully on what impact this proposed project would really have. And Thom shows how Ronald Reagan's union-busting policies are really to blame for mass Hispanic immigration. --------- John Nichols drops in with his most recent article for The Nation magazine, an expose on Trump's acting Secretary of Defense. ------------ Thom reads from Ralph Nader's book 'Breaking Through Power- It's Easier than We Think.' ----------- Professor Robert Reich appears on the show to argue that we must return to enforcing antitrust laws to restore competition and save capitalism from itself.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:19.0 | Donald Trump went to Iraq and right in front of the entire United States and why this is not the |
| 0:26.1 | lead story in the news I don't understand violated the law. The Hatch Act says |
| 0:32.0 | basically you may not use federal property, federal facilities, federal |
| 0:37.8 | money for money-making businesses or for political activity. |
| 0:43.2 | Principally political activity. |
| 0:44.8 | This is why presidents, when they go overseas, |
| 0:47.6 | they don't talk about domestic politics. |
| 0:50.4 | They don't talk about the opposite party. |
| 0:52.3 | Trump goes over to Iraq and lies about the Democratic Party. |
| 0:55.0 | So the Democrats want an open border, which is not true. |
| 0:58.0 | It's simply a lie. |
| 1:00.0 | But just as soon as the word Democrats came out of his mouth he was in violation of the law |
| 1:15.0 | And everybody's like well I guess that's just what happens and they play the clip over and over on TV and a lot of Republicans are listening this going oh the Democrats want open border so oh the Democrats |
| 1:18.3 | don't want him to have really he broke the law and then he tweets out a picture of the of the Navy SEAL team that is |
| 1:28.0 | supposed to be top secret and outs them and then he tells us what a great sacrifice he had made to go there they had to |
| 1:35.8 | turn off the lights in the airplane and close the window shades really and then he |
| 1:40.6 | tells the troops he got them a 10% pay raise when he didn't. |
| 1:43.2 | He just makes this stuff up and lies about it? |
| 1:49.5 | How many lies? |
| 1:50.5 | I mean, you know, Hunter over Dilly Coz,es he asked how do you pick a Trump |
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