Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/07/19 - Progressives hone their strategy as Trump continues to milk Latin American refugees for political gain. Author Greg Grandin joins to Thom to discuss what he calls the 'catastrophe' in central America from at least the CIA overthrow of an elected Nicaraguan government in 1954 through Reagan's sponsorship of death squads in the 1980s.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
0:00 - Thom welcomes Greg Grandin, author of 'The End of the Myth from the Frontier to the Border Wall'- a fascinating description of the way both secret and overt American intervention in Latin America has created the flow of refugees that Trump is exploiting for his own purposes. Listeners add their own fascinating dimensions as they chime in. ----16:02 - Thom reads from 'Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator' by Gregory B. Jaczko ----21:33 - Thom has a fascinating talk with listeners about Progressive strategy in responding to Trump's crazy. ----30:30 - The conversaton continues, as Congressman Mark Pocan responds to listener challenges. ----37:41 - Then- as the president's cabinet officials get $10,000 per month raises, even as many ordinary federal workers are out on furlough. Thom extends the conversation to the sometimes harsh economic reality Americans are facing. But hope is on the horizon as the blue wave continues to roll ashore... right? ----48:25 - Former Congressman Bob Ney from Talk Media News brings his insight on the constantly moving chessboard in Washington. ----54:46 - Callers close out the hour with theories and proposals.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you and boy, what a day we've been talking about the |
| 0:20.5 | media and how, you know, what a screaming disaster it is the |
| 0:24.4 | media is a huge issue and a subset of this huge issue frankly is you know how we |
| 0:31.2 | learn what we learn how we're figuring out what's going on for |
| 0:35.2 | example the situation in Guatemala what we don't know about this and why why that |
| 0:41.4 | allows basically the kind of |
| 0:44.0 | demagoguery that we've been getting out of Donald Trump. |
| 0:47.0 | Speaking of the media, we are super pleased. |
| 0:50.0 | On the line of this is Professor Greg Grandin, he's a professor of history at New York University, a member of the nation's |
| 0:55.3 | the nation magazine's editorial board, the author of numerous books including |
| 0:59.0 | his latest out in March of this coming year. |
| 1:01.4 | It's titled The End of the Myth from the |
| 1:03.1 | frontier to the Border Wall and an earlier book the last colonial massacre |
| 1:07.5 | details the nefarious history of the Border Patrol, particularly one of its |
| 1:10.3 | founding agents John Logan. The Nation.com is the website and your Twitter handle is Greg Granden, |
| 1:16.6 | G-E-G-G-G-G-R-A-N, D-I-N. |
| 1:18.7 | Professor, welcome to the program. |
| 1:20.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 1:22.4 | So, I read your piece and I've, you know, a few others. |
| 1:25.0 | There's this young woman Jacqueline and my Rosary Cal-Mankwin. |
| 1:30.0 | She's a member of the Ketchi people? |
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