Will the crisis of the Trump presidency be a Progressive opportunity? And what actions are House Democrats taking with the biennial military spending bill coming up?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom considers the history of crises leading to change by American Progressive movements. ~~~ Renard Loke of the Independent Media Institute joins Thom to discuss his article 'How Indigenous Peoples Won a Landmark Victory Protecting the Amazon'. ~~~ Vice Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Ro Khanna joins Thom and his callers to fact check what is happening in Congress as negotiations around the biennial defense spending bill come into play.~~~ And finally, Talk Media News' Bob Ney on the story behind the census citizenship question, and another story you won't likely hear of elsewhere.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Tom Hartman here with you, your immediate support group for We |
| 0:18.7 | the People. |
| 0:19.7 | Jeffrey Epstein is he going to finally implicate Donald Trump who bought the teenage |
| 0:25.0 | Miss America contest and then bragged? I think it was to Howard Stern about how |
| 0:28.8 | he would go into their dressing rooms when they were naked and it wasn't that |
| 0:31.9 | exciting. |
| 0:32.8 | Right. |
| 0:33.6 | We have American concentration camps, we have voter suppression. |
| 0:37.5 | What's it going to take for Trump supporters to see the light? |
| 0:40.4 | Why is the IRS commissioner who is in charge of actually should be in charge of |
| 0:45.0 | releasing Trump's tax returns to Congress if the law was followed to Richard |
| 0:49.2 | Neal the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee? Instead this guy is |
| 0:52.3 | literally made a million, is making a |
| 0:54.8 | million dollars a year off a Trump property in Hawaii and Trump put him in charge of |
| 0:58.8 | the IRS. Tell me that there's not something really really stinky going on there. |
| 1:04.0 | Obviously Paul Gunter just talked about Chernobyl. |
| 1:06.5 | Gary and I just had an interesting conversation and I'd like to reprise this and put it out as a question. |
| 1:11.5 | He asked, is it possible that America can recover |
| 1:15.3 | from the Trump presidency and go back to something |
| 1:18.1 | that resembles normalcy, or is it |
| 1:21.0 | going to take a shock to the system before we see a change? |
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