Thom Hartmann

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37053
Democrats Refuse Trump's Wall Again
[[w/Guest Congressman Mark Pocan)

Donald Trump's border may be neglected to its initial roll as a chant to fire up his base as the new Democratic Party controlled house is holding strong against Donald Trump's plans to build a wall.

• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Pocan.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37054
54 Percent Of Mississippi Voters Reminded America Why Red States Come In Last

54 percent of voters reminded America why Mississippi is dead last on healthcare, income, high school graduates and more. And these voters did this by voting for an openly racist right wing republican. Why is it that states that vote red are the states that do the utter worst in these metrics? What does this say about rural America?

• EqualityTrust.org.UK
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37055
African Americans Need Democrats To Stop Police Violence

What policies are needed from Democrats as we head into the 2020 presidential fight? Van tells Thom and the Thom Hartmann audience that the most needed policy for African Americans is tackling police violence against African Americans. Can Democrats stop police violence legislatively in the run up to the 2020 election?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37056
The Policies Democrats Must Take In 2020 To Not Be Destroyed

What policies must Democrats adopt not just to win in 2020 but to not be destroyed?

• Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37062
Would You Betray Your Country For A Hotel In Moscow? Donald Trump Did!

What would it take for you to betray your country? Money, power? For Donald Trump all it took was a hotel in Moscow. Thom Hartmann discusses that the implications of Michael Cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress is revealing the price on Donald Trump's patriotism.

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37063
Yemen Proves U.S. Foreign Policy Can't Be Based On Defense Contractor's Sales [[Bernie Sanders)

Due to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen, over 85,000 children have already starved to death. Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Barbra Lee and others are fighting to stop U.S. involvement in that genocide. "We cannot let them determine U.S. military priority" Sanders tells Thom Hartmann ... the audience that weapons contractors, pathological liars like Donald Trump, and the Saudi Royal family cannot lead U.S. military policy.

Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance

• Sanders.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37064
Expanding Medicare's Low Drug Prices To All Americans
[[w/Guest Senator Jeff Merkley)

A new bill expanding the availability of Medicare's low drug prices to every American is being introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley. Can this bill stop the greedy drug companies and let patients get the care they need?

• Merkley.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37065
Senator Sherrod Brown vs Trump On The Working Class: Which Side Are You On?
[[w/Guest Sherrod Brown)

Donald Trump blamed Senator Sherrod Brown for the closing of a General Motors plant after the president's own policies caused massive layoffs and instigated a trade war. Brown fought back by contrasting his political career supporting the working class against Trump's faux populism. Which politician represents the interests of the working class to you and who will be able to keep the working class employed?

• Brown.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37066
The Extinction Domino Effect That Could Annihilate Life On Earth Has Already Started

Is the extinction of the human race the final domino to fall in a chain of extinctions and species die offs that may have already started? What can we do to save the planet before the domino ends all life on earth?

• Climate change risks 'extinction domino effect'
• The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Total duration minutes:

Attachment 37078
General Motors Proves Trickle Down Theory Only Works If You Shower With Gold Water

General Motors admits what we all know, after receiving a massive tax cut, the auto maker is laying off thousands of American employees and closing its plants. Wasn't this tax cut passed on the rationalization of trickle down theory?

• Straight from GM’s mouth: It's demand [[and not tax cuts) that creates jobs
• American Capitalism Isn't Working
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37079
Do Trump Voters Believe Sexuality Is A Choice Because They Are Choosing To Be Straight?

Why do conservatives still believe that sexual preference, who we are attracted to, is a choice? Could it be that more than a margin of the people on the right who hate LGBT people are making their own choices as well?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37080
How The GOP Tax Scam Is Already Lowering Your Wages

The GOP Tax Scam resulted in a small but noticeable increase in paychecks for some workers but what many do not realize is that it is already building the structure to lower wages. Will the working class wake up in time to stop it or toil like dogs under tight wages, deregulation and policies that send jobs overseas?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37081
Is It Time To Abolish The Death Penalty?
[[w/Guest Mike Farrell)

The use of the death penalty has been a source of much debate in recent years. Is it time for America to abolish capital punishment and join the rest of the world? Mike Farrell, actor, human rights advocate and president of Death Penalty Focus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the legacy of the death penalty and why putting the barbaric practice to rest will be a good step for our democracy!

• Commute CA Death Sentences
• DeathPenalty.org
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37082
How Greed, Laziness And Donald Trump Are Destroying News
[[w/Guest Joe Strupp)

Is the profit motive killing journalism?

Killing Journalism: How Greed, Laziness [[and Donald Trump) Are Destroying News and How We Can Save It

• MediaMatters.org
• ProPublica.org
• RevealNews.org
• NECIR.org
• TheMarshallProject.org
• JoeStrupp.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37083
How Universal Healthcare Could Cut Corporations Out Of Medicare

Why is calling universal healthcare often called medicare for all? Are the two different? If so, how...and could universal healthcare cut corporations out of decisions between patients and doctors?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37088
Is Republican Party Policy Leaving People With No Choice?

How much more corruption can we take from Trump and the Republican Party?

Their policy decisions are creating environments where people are feeling so hopeless they are taking drastic action...

• Student Borrower Protection Center
• Trump Administration Peppers Inboxes With Plugs for Private Medicare Plans
• More suicides under Conservative rule
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37089
Conservatives Keep Equating Abortion And The Death Penalty: Here's Why That Comparison Falls Apart

A conservative caller wants to know why progressives are working hard to abolish the death penalty but are working to keep abortion illegal, positions that for him and other conservatives amounts to an apparent contradiction. Why is abortion morally and legally sound but the death penalty so morally disgusting that progressives have mobilized to put a legal end to it. For the conservatives that see abortion as murder, this might be a hard thing to figure out.

Thom Hartmann explains and leaves our conservative friend a little closer to the right side of history on both issues. What do you think?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37090
How & Why The Press Makes Us Hate One Another
[[w/Guest Matt Taibbi)

The way the media is covering the news today isn't good for America but it is good for their profits, shareholders and advertisers. Matt Taibbi joins the program to discuss how the profit motive is driving the press to drive us apart!

• 'The Fairway' is now 'Hate Inc.'
• Rolling Stone
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37091
Have We Passed The Climate Change Tipping Point?
[[w/Guest Dr. Michael Mann)

Dr. Michael Mann, climate change expert and author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening The Planet, joins the program to discuss the climate change tipping point and the domino extinctions that may have already started.

The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

• The Insect Apocalypse Is Here
• MichaelMann.net
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37092
The New Moral Imagination Of Immigration
[[w/Congressmember Pramila Jayapal)

Progressive democrats are coming out with a bold vision of what our immigration policy could be to fight the Republican tactic of ICE detention, deportation and family separation. The Co-Chair of the Progressive Congressional Caucus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about this new moral imagination on immigration.

• A New Moral Imagination on Immigration
• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Jayapal.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37096
Christmas Is Not Under Attack But Refugees Are!

The Faux News network that brings you its annual report of the apparently decades long WAR ON CHRISTMAS is back at it again, this time complaining that the liberals are politicizing the apolitical Christian holiday celebrating the birth of a Jewish Palestinian socialist named Jesus Christ who would grow up to champion women's rights, taking care of the poor, the sick, and fighting for the rights of the imprisoned...

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37097
The Shrinking Difference Between Today's Working Class And Feudal Serfs
[[w/Guest Prof Richard Wolff)

Is Donald Trump's unplanned fumbling with an economy already experiencing its cyclical capitalist crisis pushing us toward the return of feudalism?

Capitalism's Crisis Deepens:
Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

• DemocracyAtWork.info
• RDWolff.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37098
The Congressional Black Caucus's New Chair & Diversity Of Tactics
[[w/ Congressmember Karen Bass)

The Congressional Black Caucus is looking to have a big impact on the next Congress, and Chair Congressmember Karen Bass talks about a "diversity of tactics" where the Congressional Black Caucus will go on the offensive, fighting to ensure victories for their representatives and simultaneously take the defensive position against assaults on civil rights by Donald Trump, the Republicans and others.

• Bass.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Total duration 21 minutes:

Attachment 37099
Does America Have To Choose Between Impeaching Trump And War with Russia?
[[w/Guest Stephen Cohen)

As the Mueller investigation into what some are calling #Russiagate continues to unfold, some like friend of the show and guest Stephen Cohen, are becoming concerned that the investigation, allegations, and 24 hour news cycle, are worsening tensions with Russia and leading to a place where we may have to choose between impeaching Donald Trump and war with Russia.

War with Russia?:
From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate

• TheNation.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Total duration 41 minutes:

Attachment 37102
The Life And Crimes Of George Herbert Walker Bush
[[w/Guest Lamar Waldron)

This week marks the burial of the 41st president of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. In the week since his passing, many in the press have taken this time to describe President Bush as a model president, statesman and in contrast to Donald Trump. But in looking at the past with rose tinted glasses we ignore how the Bush crime family led us to Donald Trump, and it is in that spirit that Lamar Waldron joins Thom Hartmann to go over the life and crimes of George H.W. Bush. The real story that is not being told on the corporate media.

The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination

• ‘Argo’ helps Iran’s dictatorship, harms democracy
• ThomHartmann.com

Bani-Sadr on Reagan's treason from the Argo article:

Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the “October Surprise,” which prevented the attempts by myself and then-US President Jimmy Carter to free the hostages before the 1980 US presidential election took place. The fact that they were not released tipped the results of the election in favor of Reagan.