Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/18/18 - From Dick Cheney to Trump, rich people have so often had their authoritarian fangs sunk deep in the veins of American working people. But are their economic ponzi schemes unraveling in front of our eyes?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Seven year old Jakelin Caal's death was brought about from dehydration after being denied water in ICE custody. Her death brings a human face to Donald Trump and Stephen Miller's inhuman border policies. How Neoliberal Economics are Creating a Financial Freeze. 2018 ends with the first month since November 2008 where not a single company has borrowed money from the United States high yield corporate bond market. ----------------------------- The Curious Case of Jerome Corsi. Thom interviews Jerome Corsi, author of Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Muellers Witch Hunt, and asks what may be the significance of his testimony to the special prosecutor. Jerome Corsi fashions himself a political prisoner under attack by the Mueller investigation for what he says are partisan reasons. ------------------------------------- VICE : How Bad a Criminal was Dick Cheney? Adam McKay, the writer & director of the new movie, VICE, exploring the vices of former vice president Dick Cheney, joins the program to answer the question.--------------------------------------- Larry Cohen of "Our Revolution" brings an update of the Democracy Initiative. ----------------------------------- Luke Vargas with Talk Media News gives his report.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back. I have a question. |
| 0:18.0 | If you're the Customs and Border Patrol |
| 0:21.0 | and you take a seven-year-old girl into custody who tells you that she has not ate or |
| 0:26.5 | drank anything in the last couple of days. How is it that you lock her up in a |
| 0:31.5 | freezing cold room overnight so that she dies? |
| 0:35.8 | We just have a seven-year-old girl die in the custody of our Border Patrol from dehydration. |
| 0:45.0 | When they arrested Dylan Ruff, |
| 0:49.0 | the guy who murdered about seven people, as I recall, in a church in South Carolina, |
| 0:51.0 | walked up to him with a gun |
| 0:52.0 | and just shot them in the heads. |
| 0:53.7 | When they arrested him, they drove him to Burger King on the way to jail so he could get lunch. |
| 1:00.4 | This is a seven-year-old girl from Guatemala who came here with her father to seek asylum. |
| 1:07.0 | They arrested them, they put her in a jail cell and she's dead in the morning. |
| 1:12.0 | Or she's in convulsions in the morning they fly her to the |
| 1:14.3 | hospital and she dies at the hospital but you know same effect what the |
| 1:19.2 | hell is going on in this country. This Stephen Miller, this bizarre mentality. It's not bizarre. |
| 1:27.0 | It's what our nation was founded on and built on, you know, white male |
| 1:31.2 | supremacy, but it has reached the point where we are treating people as if they're |
| 1:35.7 | not even human beings. |
| 1:36.7 | Donald Trump refers to these asylum seekers as animals. |
| 1:42.1 | These are not animals, these are human beings, these are people. This was a seven-year-old |
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