Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/14/18 - The House Progressive Caucus leader Mark Pocan is getting down to business, and he's ready to take calls about it too. Luke Vargas knows what Theresa May coooked up for Brexit. And MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell talks about his new book 'Playing with Fire', and favorably compares Beto to JFK. Plus listener calls, and even Alexis Tocqueville phones in with his predictions from the 1800s.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Congressman Mark Pocan- the House Progressive Caucus leader- talks with the people about our expectations and aspirations as the Democratic blue wave washes over the House of Representatives. ----- Greg Palast is fresh back from getting arrested for facing Bryan Kemp in Florida as reporter, and sneaking into a Trump rally. ----- Foreign Correspondent Luke Vargas tells Thom what Theresa May cooked up for Brexit.... and how Venezuela plans to computer-track its citizens with Chinese technology. ----- Thom reads from 'Playing with Fire' by Lawrence O'Donnell. ----- MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell of television's "Last Word" program speaks about his new book, "Playing with Fire" and shares Thom's recognition of the striking similarities between Beto O'Rourke and the charismatic appeal of the late Robert F. Kennedy. ----- Howard in Indiana and Thom both quote Alexis de Tocqueville's predictions for democracy- he totally called it. And finally, Gary in West Virginia has some advice regarding pigs.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Three days my friends, my friends, Patriots, lovers of Democracy, Truth and Justice, Believers in Peace, Freedom, |
| 0:28.1 | and The American Way, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:30.9 | Huge show today, Congressman Mark Pocan is going to be with us. There's a lot in the news, but let's start with Congressman |
| 0:37.0 | Mark Pocan. Congressman Pocan is the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:41.0 | He represents the state of Wisconsin and the U.S. |
| 0:43.1 | House of Representatives, the second district. His website is Pocan. house. |
| 0:46.5 | Gov, you can reach him at Rep Mark Pocan via Twitter. |
| 0:49.7 | Congressman, welcome back. |
| 0:51.1 | Thanks, Tom. Glad to be here. |
| 0:52.4 | It's great having you with us. You're the Congressman, welcome back. Thanks, Tom. I'm glad to be here. |
| 0:53.0 | It's great having you with us. |
| 0:54.0 | You're the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. |
| 0:57.0 | I believe you guys are all starting to meet right now as Congress is preparing to come back into session. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, in fact, we had our first ever training of freshmen so far |
| 1:06.3 | and there's still I think a few races outstanding that we have some progressive |
| 1:10.0 | caucus endorsed candidates that |
| 1:11.7 | haven't officially been called but we've had at least 20 of the 50 or so people coming in are people that we've endorsed. |
| 1:18.6 | So about equivalent to the number we currently have in the caucus about 40%. |
| 1:22.6 | We had 13 of them at a training on Monday, |
| 1:24.5 | first time we've ever done that. |
| 1:26.2 | Great group of new folks coming in |
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