Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/18/19 - Thom wants to know what the real crises are in America; as ordinary people are caught between corruption at the top sucking up much of what we work to create, and the coming squeeze of climate disruption and dwindling resources, what can we do to avert a dark future? And as some people make a whole lot and many people make very little, what is that doing to the lives of our fellow citizens?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Thom's take on Trump's declaration of emergency- what are the real problems in this country, and what could we be doing about it? --------- Thom asks his listeners what the actual ongoing American emergencies are, and he gets an earful. --------- Thom reads an excerpt from 'Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right'. --------- The conversation continues on what America's real emergencies are. --------- Thom reads from the new book by Richard Wilkerson and Kate Pickett - 'The Inner Level' --------- Howard in New York puts a bow on the supposed state of emergency and the pickle we're in with a corrupt sold-out Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers, and peace, freedom in the American way. The question |
| 0:25.8 | that I wanted to lay out is of all the crises that we are facing right now in |
| 0:31.0 | the United States. |
| 0:32.8 | Trump of course is asserting the brown people coming from Mexico |
| 0:36.0 | with drugs and gang tattoos, at least in his mind, |
| 0:41.1 | in his delusional paranoid mind. |
| 0:43.8 | That's our biggest crisis, right? |
| 0:45.4 | That's worth a national emergency. |
| 0:47.8 | Well, if you're going to have a national emergency, |
| 0:50.2 | what are the real crises? |
| 0:52.0 | And I think that this is an important question because if Trump gets away with his emergency |
| 0:57.8 | declaration, |
| 0:59.4 | and you know he kind of laid this out as did Alec Baldwin. |
| 1:02.6 | And Congress says, no, it's not really an emergency, sorry. |
| 1:07.1 | And then he vetoes that congressional resolution, |
| 1:10.2 | which undoes his declaration of emergency and then Congress fails to overturn his |
| 1:14.9 | veto, that means that he gets his emergency and then he can move a few billion |
| 1:20.1 | dollars around and he can you know build some more of his wall or whatever he |
| 1:23.5 | wants to do. But the question is what are the real crises that we're facing? I |
| 1:29.7 | mean if Trump is going to blow up the Constitution, if he's going to violate Article 1, Section 9, if he is going to blow up the Constitution if he's going to violate |
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