Thom invites Greg Palast, investigative reporter, to be the first of many voices to thoughtfully consider both the players and the game at this early stage of the run-up to the 2020 election.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 24 April 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Will Supreme Court endorse wilbur Ross' plans to require census-takers to verify they are citizens? And can census information be used to prosecute immigration laws? Investigative reporter Greg Palast has the story. ------ Thom reads from 'The Embattled Vote in America- From the Founding to the Present' a book published in September 2018 by Allan Lichtman ------- Thom leads a fascinating discussion of where we stand in the early build-up to election 2020. ------- Talk Media News' Ellen Rattner is keeping a close eye on the news- from Trump's plan to resist Congressional subpoenas, through the Hispanic Democrats, Trump's crimes, and the origin of the latest measles outbreak.
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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, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:25.7 | Right now on the line with this is our old buddy Greg Palace, the investigative journalist, |
| 0:29.0 | author, filmmaker his most recent work, the best democracy money can buy |
| 0:33.2 | Greg palace dot com is the website you can tweet him at |
| 0:37.4 | Greg underscore palace Greg welcome back |
| 0:39.6 | glad to be with you Tom so Greg over the last couple of years here on this program as as a fairly regular |
| 0:46.6 | effect i think you're probably our most regular contributor |
| 0:49.4 | even educating us about the yoman's work that Chris Kobak has been doing to make sure |
| 0:55.5 | that the black people can't vote young people can't vote old people can't vote |
| 0:59.4 | Hispanic people can't vote Asian people can't vote. |
| 1:02.7 | You've got a problem with that, right? |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, I do. |
| 1:05.2 | And that's pretty breathtaking. |
| 1:06.7 | But now it turns out that he's got his little pinkies |
| 1:10.1 | involved in the census. |
| 1:11.8 | Do I have this right? |
| 1:13.0 | Yes, that's exactly right. You know, I had a jump Chris Kobach to talk to him the first time |
| 1:18.0 | and he was always hiding from me. I had to pretend to be a local reporter, you know, kind of cheap guy in the whole bit but then he started calling me |
| 1:25.1 | trying to win me over you know full Harvard Yale Oxford graduate um... and he told me |
| 1:31.3 | that he was the one who put that little idea in in Wilbur Ross's head that's |
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