Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/08/19 -- We must build a better world: After touching on Whitaker's hearing, and the ongoing Republican effort to stuff the federal courts with ideological judges, Thom dives deep with thinker Ocean Robins on the subject of ecological sustainability and healthy food choices. The discussion continues on climate science, before connecting it all to AOC and the Green New Deal.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
House Democrats are finally getting a crack at questioning Trump's latest Attorney General, meanwhile over in the Senate they're busy stuffing the federal courts with conservative judges.- Author and thinker Ocean Robins joins Thom for a fascinating discussion on our food system, environmental sustainability, and how to eat healthy. - Thom reads from his own book 'The Last Hours of Humanity- Warming the World to Extinction.' - After science stories, Thom discusses with his listeners the present state of the ongoing climate collapse. - Thom reads from 'The 31 Day Food Revolution' by Ocean Robbins. - Thom's take on the chances for the Green New Deal, AOC, climate change, and equality in our society. - Many topics discussed: public banking to fund the Green New Deal, San Francisco's public bank proposal, AOC for president, jobs created (or not) from the tax cut, Trump's lies, stock buybacks, memories of when we could be proud of our president, AOC's endorsements, global warming, candidates smeared or not smeared, and where is Beto - A quick but insightful run down of world headlines with Chief Foreign Corespondent Luke Vargas, a reporter for Talk Media News. - Loyal listener James says we're all just servants in the minds of the billionaires.
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| 0:15.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way to I'm Arman here with you. |
| 0:24.0 | If you Whitaker, whenever Republican questions him, he goes off on these long, oh the wonderful |
| 0:28.6 | stuff we did in the Trump administration, I am such a good guy and whenever a Democrat questions him |
| 0:33.9 | it's like well Congresswoman you have five minutes so I'm going to think very |
| 0:41.3 | carefully before I answer your question. |
| 0:46.0 | And probably he was having done on it. |
| 0:47.8 | She got seriously p. |
| 0:49.9 | Anyhow, the last two years of Barack Obama's presidency, |
| 0:53.7 | Mitch McConnell would not allow hearings |
| 0:56.3 | or made hearings very difficult on federal judges. |
| 0:59.8 | And in those last two years, two federal judges were, you know, made it through the Senate. |
| 1:06.5 | Obama appointees. |
| 1:07.9 | Everybody else, he appointed, you know, I think close to 100 federal judges or more than 100 federal judges but only two of them |
| 1:14.9 | ever had a hearing and Mayor Garland never had a hearing that was the Supreme Court. |
| 1:18.8 | This is what this is what Mitch McConnell did. |
| 1:21.6 | Yesterday one day Mitch McConnell did. Yesterday, one day, Mitch McConnell pushed through 44 lifetime |
| 1:27.2 | federal judges. |
| 1:29.0 | All of them from the Federalist Society, |
| 1:31.6 | so all of them, hardcore right-wing trolls, who will be on |
| 1:37.2 | our federal bench for the rest of their lives. |
| 1:40.8 | Nobody is talking about this and I find it shocking and obviously there's nothing we can do about it |
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