Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/27/18 - Thom and Rep Mark Pocan field listener questions as the government shutdown continues. Thom speaks with Truthout.org's Candice Berndt on First Step Act. And what happened to "Politics Stops at the Water's Edge?" Is Trump violating the Hatch Act?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom reviews Thomas Friedman's recent opinion piece in The New York Times, "Time for G.O.P. to Threaten to Fire Trump" and ponders what's worse- Trump's crimes or his temperament? Why aren't Republicans outraged? A Democratic Prez could not get away with behaving the same way. And what happened to "Politics Stops at the Water's Edge?" Is Trump violating the Hatch Act? ----------- Thom welcomes Truthout.org's Candice Berndt, who has been looking at the 'First Step Act' that somehow just ends up helping rich criminals stay out of jail. -------- Callers try to put arch-Progressive Representative Mark Pocan against the wall, but he and Thom use their twin super-powers of facts and reason to escape. Timely and interesting calls. ------- Thom reads from his book 'Thresholds', from the chapter 'Sociopathic Paychecks.' --------- The fascinating conversation with Representative Mark Pocan continues. ------- Morris in Long Beach sings us towards justice.
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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 justice, believers, and peace, freedom in the American |
| 0:25.8 | way. |
| 0:26.8 | Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:29.0 | Have we reached the point? |
| 0:30.4 | I think we have. it is absolutely like essential for the |
| 0:37.3 | survival of the United States and frankly the world I mean we're talking about |
| 0:42.2 | everything from global warming |
| 0:43.4 | to international relations to avoiding world war three to avoiding another |
| 0:47.7 | second great depression I mean is it time now for even the Republicans, obviously it's time, but I mean will they pick it up, |
| 1:00.0 | for even the Republicans to say, you know, this guy is poison. |
| 1:03.4 | He is poisoning our body politic. |
| 1:06.7 | He lies every day. |
| 1:08.3 | He commits crimes right out in the open. |
| 1:10.9 | I mean, he goes to Iraq. |
| 1:12.1 | There's this law called the Hatch Act right the |
| 1:14.2 | Hatch Act says that you may not use government facilities or government |
| 1:20.8 | resources for political purposes. |
| 1:23.7 | You can't do it. |
| 1:25.5 | So at the very least, and there's this old saying that politics ends at the water's edge, |
| 1:31.4 | no American president of the best of my knowledge. And you know maybe |
| 1:36.2 | I'm missing one time that this happened or something but I don't think so. To the |
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