Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/19/18 - Never a dull moment these days, just another Monday: the terms of a new NAFTA, Seth Arbamson's extensive study of the evidence for Trump's Russian connections, a lifesaving drug now costs thousands of dollars a dose, voting crimes, and will it be 'Beto for 2020'?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Thom considers whether Republicans may be guilty of violating not only traditional American values of democracy, but also federal laws including The Help America Vote Act. How should we be improving our voting systems? -------- Callers chime in with their support for Beto in 2020, and other thoughts. Jeanette in Mr. Vernon thinks Democrats will lose if they run another corporate Democrat- and not a Progressive like Beto- for president. -------- The company that makes a life-saving opiate overdose drug has raised the price from $440 to over $2000. What could go wrong? -------- Talk Media News headline time with Ellen Rattner. -------- Laura Wallach of Public Citizen's Tradewatch talks NAFTA 2.0 with Thom. -------- Thom reads from 'Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America' by Seth Arbramson. -------- And finally, Thom interviews author Seth Abramson as he lays out the accumulated evidence that our president is unduly influenced by President 'Thumbs Up and a Smile' Putin.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | So greetings my friends, |
| 0:20.0 | So greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of Democracy, Truth and Justice, |
| 0:26.0 | believers in peace, freedom in the American way. But I wanted to start with a piece |
| 0:30.2 | that I had a couple hours free on Sunday, so I just banged out this op-ed, but I actually called Bob Ney. |
| 0:39.0 | And Bob is in India right now hanging out with the Dalai Lama as he does this is his way of |
| 0:46.2 | keeping sane these days and wow having the ability to do that would be really sweet. So I called him up and I said, you know, |
| 0:53.9 | what's the deal with the Help America Vote Act? I mean, we are looking at what |
| 0:57.3 | happened with the election with Stacey Abrams and, you know, I think frankly she would have won I mean you know the margin of |
| 1:05.1 | victory the Brian Kemp claimed was as I recall 51,000 votes and he kept 55,000 people who were newly registered, about 70 to 80% of them |
| 1:17.8 | African Americans, kept them off the voting rolls, wouldn't let them vote. |
| 1:20.8 | And you know, Greg Palace has got all this video you can see |
| 1:25.5 | over his website, Greg Palace.com, of black people trying to vote in Georgia and |
| 1:32.1 | literally being told that they wouldn't even give them a provisional ballot. |
| 1:36.3 | So I was reading these stories and I looked up the Help America Vote Act, also known as H.R. 3295. |
| 1:45.0 | And this was in 2002, because the whole provisional ballot thing came out of the Help |
| 1:51.0 | America Vote Act. |
| 1:52.0 | So I read the Help America Vote Act. So I read the Help America |
| 1:54.4 | Vote Act. I just was in one particularly boring session at this meeting that I |
| 1:58.6 | was at and so I just sat there and read it on my phone. It's only 60 pages long and it's in only 60 pages long. |
| 2:03.8 | And it's in fairly plain English. |
| 2:06.4 | And the Help America Vote Act specifically, |
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