Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 03/01/19 - Congressman Mark Pocan wraps up the week of bizarre happenings with Thom and gives hope to callers with news of progressive legislation regarding Medicare for All.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 1 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The weekly town hall with Congressman Mark Pocan goes into overdrive with a preponderance of wild news from the Cohen revelations, to the recent Vietnam summit, and a new hopefulness as the Democratic majority in Congress pursues investigations and promotes progressive legislation. - For the book club, Thom reads from "All the World's a Stage" by Dennis Weaver, recalling the actor's childhood escape from dust-bowl conditions during the Great Depression.- Continuation of Congressman Mark Pocan's national town hall. - Reality check on the recent summit in Vietnam. Thom gives historical context, and reads outraged statement from Otto Warmbier's family rebuking Trump for praise of dictator who murdered their son. - Talk Media News Luke Vargas gives theory of "mad man" negotiation being touted by right-wing radio as Trump's backfired ploy with Kim. Thom disputes.
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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, |
| 0:21.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:24.2 | Tom Harbin here with you, Donald Trump, |
| 0:26.0 | act from Vietnam now. |
| 0:28.0 | This is just so tragically incompetent. |
| 0:30.0 | So we'll talk about that as we continue through the program today, but Congressman Mark |
| 0:33.8 | Pocan, the co-chair along with Pramilla Jia Paul of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is on the line with us, |
| 0:39.7 | his website, Pocan. You can tweet him at Rep Mark Pocan, And he represents Wisconsin's second district. |
| 0:45.0 | Congressman, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:47.0 | He, Tom, thanks so much. |
| 0:48.0 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:49.0 | Congressman, I'm curious, I mean there's so much going on in Congress. |
| 0:52.0 | What are, in your opinion the things |
| 0:54.1 | that are really important that we should be paying attention to yeah this was a |
| 0:58.1 | really busy week you know on Tuesday we passed a measure to try to override the emergency declaration by the |
| 1:04.4 | president the fake emergency declaration we had the Michael Cohen hearing |
| 1:08.5 | which I think everyone around the country was watching but in middle of all that the new medicare for all bill was introduced she was |
| 1:14.4 | in middle of all that the new medicare for all bill was introduced with a hundred seven |
| 1:15.9 | co-sponsors the best |
| 1:17.7 | most comprehensive medicare for all bill ever introduced in the congress |
| 1:21.4 | a large number of different groups |
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