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The Hartmann Report

When the Government Can Kill Without Consequences, What Is Left of Democracy?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

US Congressman Ro Khanna (CA Democrat) weighs in on recent congressional actions in a National Progressive Townhall Meeting. Listeners phone-in with compelling questions on unconstitutional actions, violence in International waters, student debt relief, exposure of the Epstein files and more.

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0:00.0

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1:16.2

Hey, welcome to our program.

1:17.7

I'm along with us, our buddy Congressman Roe Kana.

1:20.6

He represents the 17th District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

1:24.4

He's vice chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,

1:26.5

ranking member of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber Innovation, Innovative Technologies

1:32.2

and Information Systems, and a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability,

1:37.6

which has been dealing with the Epstein files. Kana.h.gov, K-H-A-N-N-d-h-h-n-a-d-h-h-a-d-h-ov is his website Repro-Cana over on blue sky. Congressman, welcome back to the program. You have been busy. You've been all over the place with these discharge petitions and everything else. What's on your plate right now? What's on your mind right now? Well, of course, we got the discharge petition. The law passed. I mean, the law passed

2:03.1

427 to 1, my Epstein Transparency Act and 100 to 0 in the Senate. It was the first blow,

2:10.1

really, to Donald Trump legislatively, where he had to sign it. He was going to face 70 defections,

2:15.6

and it's a real testament to the survivors. Over 1 thousand victims, the files will be released by December 16th to 18th based on federal law.

2:25.3

We're also working, Massey and I now on trying to stop the regime change war in Venezuela

2:30.3

and to get answers for these just unconscionable boat strikes where people who were

2:36.3

innocent and not threatened in any way were killed. I mean, it's not the American way of doing

2:41.2

business and it's a violation of the rule of law and the rules of war. So those are the two things

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