WHAT HAVE THE PROTESTS ACCOMPLISHED?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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California progressive congressman Ro Khanna joins Thom Hartmann to answer listener questions in a national town hall meeting. The mobilization of people in the streets demanding police reform has garnered the necessary impetus to push through much needed legislation to go up for a vote.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome back. |
| 0:18.0 | This hour we're going to do a national town hall meeting with Congressman |
| 0:21.1 | Ro Kana. |
| 0:22.0 | He is the vice Chair of the Congressional |
| 0:23.6 | Progressive Caucus. He represents the 17th District of California, more or less the |
| 0:27.7 | Silicon Valley area in the US House of Representatives. His website is K-H-A-N-A-D-N-A-D-H-N-A-O-G-N-N-A-O-G-O-K-A-N-N-N-A-O-G-O-K-A, and you can tweet him at Rep Row, Ro, Ro, R-O-K-A, as an Representative, and Congressman Kana, |
| 0:43.2 | Kana, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:44.6 | It's great to have you. |
| 0:45.6 | A number of my callers, when I announced that you would be on taking calls, |
| 0:50.2 | asked me to ask you if the Progressive Caucus plans on doing in the next legislative session |
| 0:58.2 | the kind of theatrical performance art that got lots and lots of free media or earned media as the |
| 1:06.3 | phrase goes for their causes and sometimes actually produced results back in |
| 1:11.8 | the 2010 and 2012 Congresses by the Tea Party Caucus. |
| 1:17.0 | McComb, I appreciate that. I think we're open to doing something, were there sort of concrete suggestions of what they think. |
| 1:25.0 | It was just, why don't we see the Progressive Caucus on TV every day like we used to see the Tea Party Caucus? |
| 1:31.7 | I think that was the essence of the question. |
| 1:34.4 | Well, you know, I think it's fair. |
| 1:35.8 | I think the pandemic has made it harder, frankly, |
| 1:38.4 | just for Congress to be as visible. |
| 1:41.2 | I mean, there are a lot of people who are from California or Texas or |
| 1:45.2 | other parts who are not being able to travel in. We're having to vote remotely or |
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