Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/22/19 - Wait a minute- Is Trump secretly trying to break the FBI with the government shutdown?? And in the new Conversations with Great Minds segment: After returning from Iraq to his native Alaska, reporter Dahr Jamail had a deep realization of what we are truly facing with ongoing climate disruption. In a deep dive, he and Thom put events into historical and scientific context as they look to the future. Plus: Senator Merkeley drops in.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Shutdown Crisis: Is Trump trying to break the FBI or all of government? Why is the GOP voting to give millions to Deripaska but won't end shutdown? Author Dahr Jamail talks in person with Thom on the subject of his new book 'The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption.' Dahr argues that we must ultimately take an attitude to our planet more like the indigenous peoples of the earth. Thom describes the history of the Maori and other ancient peoples and the steps their cultures passed through before learning to live in harmony with nature. In the book club, Thom reads a harrowing chapter from Dahr Jamail's new book ' The End of Ice. ' Senator Jeff Merkley speaks with Thom about the refugee family separations at the border and how the Trump regime took deliberate actions to harm. Luke Vargas of Talk Media News gives an update on Venezuela. Thom and listener callers analyze the impact of the shutdown.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:22.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:25.8 | I've gotten four or five variations on this, in Twitter, over on Facebook, and I even got |
| 0:30.4 | one in an email. |
| 0:31.6 | This guy writes, so why won't Pelosi and Schumer simply |
| 0:34.6 | passed legislation to reopen the government? And apparently the people who keep |
| 0:39.9 | asking this and you know with increasing frequency don't know that Pelosi and |
| 0:47.1 | Schumer have already passed legislation to open the government. |
| 0:53.2 | You know, it passed the United States Senate back in December, it passed the U.S. House just a few weeks |
| 0:57.5 | ago. |
| 0:58.5 | The Democrats are doing everything they can to open the government. |
| 1:00.9 | It is Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell who are keeping it |
| 1:04.8 | shut down which raises the question why why do you think that this is going on. Here's a couple of possibilities. Rachel Maddow floated the idea |
| 1:16.4 | that it's all about shutting down and destroying the FBI. The FBI opened an investigation of Donald Trump in the first weeks of his presidency, |
| 1:27.0 | perhaps even a few weeks before that, but right around the time of the election, |
| 1:32.0 | the FBI opened an active |
| 1:33.8 | investigation into whether Donald Trump was either wittingly or unwittingly an |
| 1:38.4 | agent of a foreign government. Now that's pretty serious stuff and that provoked things like you know right |
| 1:45.8 | wing talk show host howie car out of Boston he's writing this for the Boston Herald |
| 1:50.6 | this is like you know a major newspaper, a nationally syndicated or regionally |
| 1:55.0 | syndicated talk show host who has a very substantial audience when Louise and I lived in New |
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