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The Hartmann Report

WHY A LITTLE INSURRECTION IS NO BIG DEAL TO REPUBLICANS

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.38 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

If they don’t keep the voter fraud myth alive, the entire Republican edifice will come tumbling down. Forty years of electoral victories in close races will be revealed as the product of a scam. For the next forty years the GOP will wander in the political wilderness.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program.

0:16.8

Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you a report from the Justice Department's Office

0:20.6

of Inspector General, the DHS OIG.

0:24.3

Just was released, NBC News grabbed a copy of it, and it's been reported on by Gabe

0:29.6

Ortiz over a daily co-s.

0:31.5

He's all over this topic and has been for years, and he's absolutely brilliant in his

0:35.4

reporting.

0:36.9

And he points out that, well, here's how Gabe puts it in his own words, it's brilliant.

0:40.9

He says the final report confirms that Jeff Sessions, who was the head of the, you know,

0:45.5

who Trump put in charge of DHS, in particular, as an evil, grinning participant in carrying

0:51.3

out this human and children's rights atrocity, or talking about separating children from

0:56.1

their families at the southern border when they're coming to this country, seeking a

0:59.4

asylum from violence in places like Guatemala.

1:03.0

When the U.S. attorney's expressed concern, Gabe writes about the ages of children being

1:06.7

taken from parents, and that some parents were not being immediately reunited with their

1:09.8

kids after being prosecuted and receiving time-served sentences, sessions instead encouraged

1:15.9

continued separations.

1:19.7

We need to take away the children.

1:21.5

This is from the notes from the meetings where Jeff Sessions was there.

1:24.8

These are supposed to be quotes from Jeff Sessions according to the Office of the Inspector

1:28.7

General.

1:29.7

Jeff Sessions, we need to take away the children.

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