Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/28/19 - Today: The latest billionaire of the people wants to run as an independent so-called Democrat, but why do he and especially the banksters want Democrats to keep on protecting corporations instead of backing popular programs the common people want? And Bernie Sanders on what were possibly the real motivations of the Trump posse in causing the shutdown, and who might jump off the train? Plus: Roger Stone's trickster history.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 January 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
------- Thom's take - Medicare for all, free education, and the Green New Deal have a majority of American citizen support, and then some. So why do billionaires and banksters insist those ideas are not centrist? CEO-candidate Howard Schultz and corporate Democrat banksters want Democrats to continue to champion corporate interests over the common good. How should Progressive push back? ------- Senator Bernie Sanders and Thom analyze what may have been Trump's ulterior motives with the partial government shutdown?; weakening the FBI and consequently the Russia investigation? Proving libertarian ideas? Senator Sanders give his impression of Republican Senators looking for an exit from the Trump train. ------- In the wake of Roger Stone's indictment and media frenzy, Thom exposes the dirty trickster's political crimes that we must remember in order to understand the present situation. -------- Callers add dimension with their take on the day's politics. ------- Bob Ney with Talk Media News and his always-insightful chat with Thom on the latest headlines.
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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, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:23.0 | Why is it that the press, the media, you know, to a large extent, |
| 0:30.0 | and so many politicians, including Democratic politicians, say that it's a centrist |
| 0:38.6 | position to say that there's no way that we can have free health care for all Americans |
| 0:45.1 | there's no way we can have free college education for all Americans and there's no |
| 0:48.2 | way we can fund a green new deal. Why is that centrist? These are positions that more than, well more than half in the case of |
| 0:56.8 | health care more than 70% in the case of free education well over 65% of all Americans support. |
| 1:06.2 | So if you're just looking at it like a mathematician, |
| 1:09.5 | you know, okay, it's not a plurality, it's a majority. More than half of Americans want Medicare for all, want free college |
| 1:18.0 | for all. Very straightforward stuff and frankly would like a green new deal. |
| 1:24.8 | Now the details of the green new deal are not really clear enough the public polling |
| 1:28.6 | on that is really all that accurate because we haven't had much of a public debate about it. |
| 1:32.6 | But then into this confusion, steps Howard Schultz. |
| 1:39.3 | If you want to see, if you want to see Donald Trump reelected as president, then throw some money into a |
| 1:48.4 | Howard Schultz campaign, right? This guy, he says he's a Democrat for life, he's |
| 1:52.2 | he came in as CEO of Starbucks. |
| 1:55.6 | Not sure if he bought it or not, but, you know, |
| 1:57.2 | the whole story. |
| 1:58.2 | But anyway, he came into Starbucks when, |
| 2:00.1 | you know, it was a little company with a hundred employees |
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