The Hartmann Report

0:00 - When rich kid Trump spent all 400+ million dollars he got from his dad, who did he find in the early 2000s to keep bailing him out?  ----- 10:31 - Conservative white women, what are they thinking?   ----- 24:44 - Voter purge investigator Greg Pallast calls from Georgia, where he attempted to ask Bryan Kemp why he has purged ten percent of Geogian voters from the polls. &...

Thom's take on the many lies of Brett Kavanaugh- the murder conviction Judge Kavanaugh overturned. Who was dating Squi? Who refuted what? Legacy student or not? - - - Documentarian Jack Bryan describes his new movie Active Measures - The Russian Story, documenting Russian involvement in our politics from the 1930s to today. - - - Thom reads to us from 'The Fight for the Four Freedoms - W...

Chris Hedges engages with Thom on the subject of his latest book - 'America, the Farewell Tour' - how the decay of American society has led to isolation, alienation, and despair that manifests itself in self-destructive behaviors. Next- with Kavananaugh's nomination for King of the Court up in the air, what will it mean to have a reliable conservative court? Thom runs through the evidence and the...

First, yet another accuser piles on Brett Kavanaugh and the Rape-publicans. // Next, Thom interviews Professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, author of 'Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President' to see what evidence she's compiled that the Russians swayed our election in favor of Trump // Representative Mark Pocan takes listener from the swarm of outraged progressives....

 As a second and even a third woman comes forward with allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, Thom reaches out to Maya Raghu of the National Women's Law Group, originators of the Believe Survivors project. Listeners respond.  Thom reads from the forward he wrote for 'All The World's a Stage', the biography of Dennis Weaver. Bob Ney of Talk Media News brings his deep analysis of the headlin...

Jefferson Smith asks the big questions as Thom heads to California for the Bill Maher show.  Jodi Jacobson, president and editor in chief of Rewire News takes a look at the Kavanaugh hearing from a feminist perspective, and what lessons can be learned from it.  Jeff answers listener calls about the news of the day and muses deeply on where we are- or should- be going... with a big emphas...

Thom considers the impact of the pig and chicken sheds in which millions of chickens and tens of thousands of pigs drowned after Hurricane Florence passed over the Carolinas. Then, Thom's take on the continuing question of Kavanaugh's nomination and allegations he is an attempted rapist. Listeners open their hearts and stories as they respond. Could illegal abortion deaths be returning to America...

In Thom's take: As Trump's election all about racism and sexism, and not so much about "Economic Anxieties?" If so, then dp Trump voters mind much if Kavanaugh sexually assaulted someone or if Trump used the n-word? Why are so many despair deaths occurring in Trump-voter counties?  Listeners respond.  Thom reads from "Minority Leader" - by Stacey Abrams and "Taking Bullets" by Haki...

Thom starts the show with his take on the recent possibly criminal revelations of Paul Manafort and Brett Kavanaugh, and related twists and turns in the news. Next, Thom reads from "The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business" by Christopher Leonard. After that Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore (a member of the Progressive and LGBTQ Equality caucuses and a member of the Congre...

Thom confronts author, Bradley J. Birzer about his controversial new book, In Defense of Andrew Jackson, the treatment of American Indians and the comparisons between Jackson and Trump. In a study from his book- The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Thom examines Native American culture as well as a reading from Warrior Is by Harley and Robin L. Zephier on the subject of their Lakota ancestor who ki...

Thom analyses the corruption of the pharmaceutical business as drug companies flaunt ethics and do anything for money. Listeners call in with their often life and death experiences. With the approach of what may be a historically damaging hurricane, Thom examines the willful blindness of climate change by governments under the sway of Republican greed.  Davis Hammet, president of activist gro...

As we look back on the way the Bush administration used September 11th to try to build political capital, make their friends rich, and reduce our civil liberties, and as the endless war continues almost 17 years later, Thom looks back and also forward with Medea Benjamin from Code Pink, longtime antiwar activist, and author of the new article 'War Profiteers: The US War Machine and the Arming of R...

Today, Thom walks us through the great many surprising and not-so-surprising revelations resulting from the Kavanaugh hearings. And caller Kino wants to talk about Republicans he says are organizing to retire 'Uncle Donnie'.  Then, Thom sits down for a fascinating talk with Minister Jonathon Wilson Hartgrove to find out what evangelicals are feeling about our current president. From the body...

Representative Mark Pocan takes listener calls on Kavanaugh, collusion, and corruption in Washington. Dick Durban grills Kavanaugh with the pesky truth. Ellen Ratner brings us up to speed with the most interesting political headlines in just seven minutes: Bob Woodward's new book on Trump, Trump wants libel instead of free speech, what's behind the Kavanaugh hearing, Male 9-11 survivors with breas...

Today, Thom considers the implications of long-time Republican operative Bret Cavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court- who is this man and who would he really serve on the Supreme Court? We hear much of Congressperson Sheldon Whitehouse's statement at the Senate hearings. Callers respond. Then- Dawn Laguens from Planned Parenthood on the chances a Republican Supreme Court could make abortion i...

Today, Michael D'Antonio delves into the man who is America's vice-president in a conversation about, and a reading from his book 'The Shadow President- The Truth about Mike Pence'. In Thom's take- in the wake of the catch-and-kill practices of the National Enquirer, has this country become a nation of grifters at every level? Author and social critic Thomas DiLorenzo and Thom trade jabs on the ap...

Today- racism in 2018's America. First, radio personality Chauncey Devega wonders whether Trump voters would rather abandon democracy than share power with people of color? Then, Thom goes head to head with James S. Robins, an author who argues we should not remove confederate monuments. Listeners chime in with their experiences, views, and hopes. An Iowa caller points out the hypocrisy of villain...