The Hartmann Report

Did America just get manipulated by the meat industry with a fake shortage scare that led to protection from legal liability and stay-at-home orders? If there was a meat shortage, why were we exporting so much meat to China?Food and Water Watch's Tony Corbo is on the line with Thom- why has Trump's trade agreement with China opened the door for the United States to import chicken meat from China?- and could this lead to low-wage Chinese factory workers processing American chickens and sending them back?And Caroline Henderson of Greenpeace USA has watched this president systematically take apart environmental regulations- she joins Thom to explain why on June 4th Trump instructed federal agencies to bypass environmental laws like the Endangered Species Act, and to ignore the economic benefit of protecting health. Is Trump's environmental agenda ultimately racist?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump’s rally in Tulsa this weekend and his moving the Republican convention to Florida both demonstrate that he is more than willing to take actions that will kill Americans in order to get his ego stroked and increase his chances of reelection.Weaponizing a virus for political purposes is a crime against humanity, and it is being committed right in front of our own eyes against our friends and neighbors, coworkers and family members.Congressman Ro Khanna answers listener calls.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

America has the worlds highest rate of infection and death from the corona virus, and Donald Trump and the Republicans are trying their best to pretend theres nothing going on. While Steve Mnuchin and Donald Trump are passing out hundreds of billions of dollars to each other and their good buddies while refusing to let the American people know who got what, the corona virus continues its deadly spread. Its now killing over 1000 Americans a day.The Covid crisis is proving that the Republican Party's libertarian theology that the free market will solve all problems is complete and utter BS. We have government to protect us from harms; if a persons house burns down, we dont wait for the free market to magically produce a fire department.And, the FDA has officially banned off-label use of hydroxycloquine for treating Covid. So why was Trump hawking it so aggressively?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Movement vs. Moment: How WE Can Stop Trump In Tulsa (w/ Joe Madison)Will Trump's visit to Tulsa be successful? It just might be unless we can turn this moment of anti-racism, into a movement, Joe Madison joins Thom with an answer that may surprise you. Have we moved from moment to movement? Is the political virus out to get you? Every movement has required sacrifice of some kind. Sacrifice can change a country – is that going to happen now? Joe Madison joined Thom on “loving day” to discuss what has happened in the past two weeks and its effect on the county.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are Conservatives Considering Going After Police Too? (w/ Julio Rivera)The brutality of police has gotten a lot of people on the side of Black Lives Matter... but did you ever expect Julio Rivera to be on our side? What grotesque police organization is forcing even the most dyed in the wood conservative to reconsider Donald Trump's special group of armed men? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Medea Benjamin has been thinking about the intersection between racism and militarism- could forces for peace be assembled to intervene in conflicts, much like we hope to change the approach of our police forces?The 13th amendment did not abolish slavery, it only limited it to those convicted of a crime. Why does America imprison people at rates far higher than any other developed country, and what does this tell us about the fundamental structure and history of our society?Meanwhile, the Trump Crime Family continues their epic grift- did Melania renegotiate her pre-nup with Trump as a condition to moving to Washington, D.C.?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What is up with Trump's plans to hold a rally on Juneteenth in Tulsa, site of a massacre and looting of a prosperous black neighborhood in 1921?Benjamin Dixon, of the Benjamin Dixon show joins Thom- can Trump win by doubling down on his racism? Or are many of his supporters finally over it?And, Thom welcomes Dr. Jhacova Williams of the Economic Policy Institute, who has uncovered a statistical link between places with high rates of historical lynching and high rates of police killings today.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What will it take to stop Republicans from maintaining structural racism in our voting? Yesterday we saw the Republicans number one voter suppression strategy on display, as black areas in Georgia suffering lines as long as six hours to vote- a racist crime against our democracy. Its time to criminalize voter suppression once and for all. Why are Republicans opposed to mail-in voting? Are they already planning on a 12th amendment election in November? And Thom checks in with big cheese Progressive Congressman Mark Pocan to find out how Progressives in Congress are fighting voter suppression. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Trump has just reopened 5000 square miles of ocean habitat to fishing, and legalized killing bear moms and bear cubs in Alaska. Jim Adams, of the National Parks Regional Conservative Association joins Thom with some deep background on the story.New Zealand is almost ready to declare themselves virus-free. Why didn't the United States do the same kind of aggressive testing and contact tracing they did? Has our government decided to go for 'herd immunity' even though so far only 3 or 4 percent of the population of the United States has had the disease? Is a second wave very likely?Plus Thom reads from 'A Deep History of Ourselves' by Joseph LeDoux, and 'Last Hours of Humanity- Warming the World to Extinction' by Thom Hartmann.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What practical steps should be taken in this moment to reform police departments? Should we be disbanding so-called 'police unions'?Dr. Robin Cooper, of the Commonwealth Association of School Administrators, joins Thom to talk about school districts asking police departments to take a hike.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.