This is the Tom Hartman program.

Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom and the American way.

It is Friday.

And so how about mid days with Mark.

Congressman Mark Pocan on for the hour taking your calls

uh... brilliantly representing the second district of was constant he's also the

co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus

uh... you can uh... find his website co-op-pocan ca n dot house dot gove you could tweet him at rap r e p mark p okay mare k a p mister k a p mister k a p mister k a mister k a mister ka mister ka mister ka mister ka mister ka mister ka mister ka mister mister ka mister Thanks. I'm glad to be here quite a week.

Indeed, and I don't know if you caught the news.

I mean, literally broke in the last four minutes.

Sean Spicer just resigned in protest over the appointment of Anthony Scaramuchi as the White House Communications Director.

I think there are a lot of people at Saturday Night Live right now who are very, very sad.

Yeah, Melissa McCarthy just lost a gig.

Yeah, yeah.'s uh... it's it's very strange it's very strange it's very very strange

so uh... you know i saw this story yesterday

uh... the first and first one i saw was on Huffington Post about how it was an analysis

of the New York Times interview and how Trump said, well, you know, you pay $12 a year for insurance starting when you get right out of

college and you pay that twelve dollars a year until your seventy and by then you actually

have some insurance

and i thought that's weird and then it turns out that back in may in an interview with

the economist he said the exact same thing except it was fifteen dollars a month

right and twelve dollars a year

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