Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/10/19 - Will Trump use emergency powers to bypass Congressional disagreement over his wall obsession? What can be done to maintain the constitution's checks and balances, and what should Progressive strategy be?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Thom explores the potential dangers if Trump succeeds at gaining emergency powers and where it will end. Mark Pocan, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus takes listener calls on the politics of the government shutdown. Former Republican congressman Bob Ney of Talk Media News briefs Thom on the history of presidential use of Emergency Powers, and they consider the state of play of the ever-moving chess board.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.2 | believers in peace, freedom freedom and the American way |
| 0:24.4 | Tom Harbin here with you and if Trump gets away with his national emergency |
| 0:29.7 | if he actually makes this happen, if he pulls this off, what's next? This is a really |
| 0:40.0 | interesting question Naomi Klein is asking. |
| 0:43.0 | Spot on. |
| 0:44.0 | She's like, you know, what's to stop him from declaring emergencies over and over if this works? |
| 0:49.2 | If he wants to intensify state violence, if he wants to intensify surveillance, if he wants curfews, if he wants to intensify surveillance if he wants curfews if he wants |
| 0:55.1 | no protest zones if he wants to start imprisoning democrats I mean what's to stop |
| 1:00.5 | him if he wins this fight? Now here's what's particularly weird |
| 1:07.5 | about this and I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on this too, where this might go. |
| 1:14.0 | I mean what's the worst possible outcome of Trump just going completely nuts. |
| 1:19.8 | Keep in mind, if he were to declare a state of emergency, his ability to be petty and vindictive |
| 1:25.4 | would become virtually unlimited. |
| 1:28.9 | Now lest you think that's no small thing, California is the sixth I think largest economy in the |
| 1:36.0 | world. It's a major state in the United States. Population of I think around 38 |
| 1:41.7 | million as I recall something in that a neighborhood. |
| 1:44.1 | A lot of people. And California has been ravaged by wildfires as a result of climate change. |
| 1:49.7 | Donald Trump says it's because they're not raking the leaves in their forests but that's nonsense |
| 1:53.7 | he's been hallucinating. |
| 1:55.8 | But on Monday when Gavin Newsom, the new governor of California, was sworn in and this is |
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