Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/15/19 - Bill Barr- a man with a history of hiding presidential crimes- is Trump's nominee for attorney general. Thom details Barr's history from covert CIA operative to mass incarceration cheerleader back as attorney general under partner-in-crime H.W. Bush. Plus, Progressive leader Ro Khanna holds court. And Brexit and how inequality is making us crazy.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Trump's latest candidate for attorney general goes before Congress, but who is this guy? Thom reminds us of Bill Barr's history as the former CIA lawyer and Bush insider who was the coverup artist for Iran/Contra. And how does rampant federal corruption tie into Pompeo and Pence seriously expecting Jesus to make all things new? ----- The Brexit deal is heating up, Luke Vargas has the scoop on British Prime Minister Teresa May's plans, and the response of opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. Plus: Bill Barr's crime coverup resume. ------ We hear briefly from Corey Booker at the attorney general hearing. And, more details on Barr's Bush/CIA inner circle career. ------ Progressive Caucus leader Congressman Ro Khanna takes perceptive listener calls on the politics of the day. ------ Thom reads from 'The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity, and Improve Everyone's Well-Being.' ------- Thom details how former CIA operative Bill Barr orchestrated the burial of the Iran-Contra crimes, and how during his former attorney general gig under HW Bush he helped create the massive levels of incarceration that begun in the 90s. We hear from thoughtful callers and Kamala Harris too.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:18.0 | The confirmation hearings for William Barr, the guy who engineered and basically ran the cover-up of Iran-Contra back in the day on |
| 0:28.4 | behalf of Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush, the guy who had started out as a lawyer to the CIA at the same time |
| 0:35.4 | that George Herbert Walker Bush was running the CIA, and then Bush brought him in as the |
| 0:41.4 | Attorney General in 1992 and then in 1993 when Lawrence Walsh the special prosecutor who was |
| 0:48.9 | looking into the crimes committed by the Reagan administration including the possibility that they flipped the election of 1980, |
| 0:56.0 | by cutting a deal with the IATOLA to hold the hostages that have been taken during Carter's presidency |
| 1:02.0 | throughout the entire election |
| 1:03.4 | cycle so that Carter would be humiliated and Reagan would win the election of |
| 1:07.2 | 1980 and in exchange for holding those hostages and then releasing those |
| 1:11.8 | hostages the Reagan administration sold weapons to the |
| 1:16.4 | Iranians because the entire Iranian military was made up of US stuff, right? |
| 1:22.4 | We overthrew Mosdek, we installed the Sean back in 54, |
| 1:25.6 | as I recall, and the consequence of that |
| 1:28.2 | was that the entire military, the Air Force, the planes, |
| 1:30.7 | the ships, the trucks, the half tracks, the, I mean you name it. |
| 1:35.0 | It was all US made and it could only be brought back to life with US parts |
| 1:40.0 | and it could only be maintained as lethal weaponry with U.S. weapons, with U.S. |
| 1:44.7 | bullets and U.S. missiles and U.S. and Iran was stuck. |
| 1:48.1 | I mean they had a hostile adversary on the other side of the border in Saddam Hussein |
| 1:51.6 | in Iraq. They were a Shia country, |
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