This is the Tom Hartman program.

My friends, Patriots, Lovers of Democracy, Truth and Justice, Believers in Peace, Freedom,

and The American Way.

Tom Hartman here with you, and so pleased to be with you.

We've got quite a day today in our second hour.

Michael Mann is gonna drop by.

In our, you know, the world famous climate scientist

is being pursued and beaten and harassed by

right-wing billionaires across the planet and in our third hour Scott Carter

the executive producer of the Bill Maher show HBO's real-time with Bill Maher will be here and he's a playwright and he's done some

amazing work that we're going to be talking about and involving you in the conversation.

That'll be our third hour.

I want to open this first hour though

talking about the tax bill and the train crash or derailment as it were. The and in

fact let me start with with the train just just to get this out.

We, this train derailment yesterday was completely unnecessary.

Back a decade ago, in fact it was more than a decade ago. Congress put into place this thing called

positive train control. About half of all trains in the United States have it. About a third of all passenger

trains in the United States have it.

And basically, you know, how, you're, if you buy a 2,000, whatever,

actually I just, I rented a Prius at the airport

to a day before yesterday.

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