Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/02/19 - Politics starts with a bang as Elizabeth Warren debuts her Progressive agenda and likely presidential run. But can her issues get a fair hearing? Harry Reid says Trump is amoral. And Food and Water Watch raises the alarm over corruption at the USDA. Plus a few other things.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Elizabeth Warren appears ready to toss her hat in the ring with a campaign issues video. Thom considers her as the first authentically progressive candidate since Jimmy Carter. ------- Thom reads from 'Playing with Fire' by Lawrence O'Donell. ------- Will Elizabeth Warren be able to run on the issues, or will she be judged superficially? Thoughtful callers respond. And, how can we implement the Progressive's 'Green New Deal?' ------- Harry Reid's article in the NY Times asked 'is Trump immoral or amoral?' Thom thinks the Donald is a functioning sociopath. ------- Patty Lovera of Food and Water Watch on Trump appointee's dismantling of USDA regulations that protect the public. ------- Ellen Rattner from Talk Media News is here again with day's most interesting headlines!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Creetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:22.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:25.4 | Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:26.6 | Well, Elizabeth Warren has announced she's running for president, or at least she's exploring |
| 0:32.1 | running for president, which, you know, functionally is the same thing as saying, |
| 0:35.0 | yes, I'm running for president. |
| 0:37.0 | MS NBC this morning, I wasn't channel surfing, we just had it on MS NBC while we were getting up and getting dressed. |
| 0:42.0 | Their way of covering it was showing a clip. had it on MSMBC while we were getting up and getting dressed. |
| 0:43.0 | Their way of covering it was showing a clip of Elizabeth Warren getting beer out of the |
| 0:46.8 | refrigerator and speculating about whether she's enough of a Joe's six-pack. |
| 0:51.6 | Isn't that brilliant? Of course, you know it being one of the cable TV networks we can't talk |
| 0:57.7 | about issues so we got to talk about whether she drinks beer. |
| 1:03.0 | Michael Steele on MS NBC pointed out that, |
| 1:07.0 | yeah, she has already been proven on a national stage. |
| 1:10.0 | She has taken national hits and has bounced back. |
| 1:13.8 | My question to you is, do you think that Elizabeth Warren has what it takes to become |
| 1:18.2 | President of the United States? |
| 1:19.1 | I'm very excited personally by her announcement. I have long been a huge Elizabeth Warren fan. Her candidacy |
| 1:28.4 | probably more than anybody else has a chance, well not just chance, I think it's a certainty that Bernie's going to |
| 1:34.2 | run too so she and Bernie are going to be slugging it out for the left end of the |
| 1:38.6 | spectrum in the middle you know among kind of the more corporate Democrats, you'll have |
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