Thom discusses how California farms are watering their crops with oil field wastewater with Food and Water Watch’s Patty Lovera and how the media has and will treat the Bernie Sanders campaign with radio host Richard Eskow and writer Gaius Publius. Tonight’s Big Picture Rumble discusses how former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was indicted by a law he helped pass, why the DOJ is focusing on FIFA instead of white collar crime, and how Rush Limbaugh and Elizabeth Warren agree on something.

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work joins Thom Hartmann. The Coming Economic Crash...And What We Can Do About It .

Thom discusses the state of the U.S. and world economies with economist and author Richard Wolff in tonight's special hour-long discussion.

Benjamin Crump Esq., Parks & Crump, LLC/National Bar Association & Gianno Caldwell, Caldwell Strategic Consulting join Thom. 7 months after the killing of Tamir Rice - the Cleveland Police Department has announced a series of reforms aimed at fighting police violence. But do these reforms go far enough?

Patrick Hedger, American Encore & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC) & Kevin Martin, Project 21 join Thom. 9 more Senators signed a resolution today supporting debt free college in America. The proposal is popular - but what's the best way to pay for it?

America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire, joins Thom. The Justice Department has announced sweeping corruption charges against FIFA - the governing body of world soccer. So if the government can crack down on sports executives - why can't it do the same with the banksters?

Patrick Hedger, American Encore & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC) & Kevin Martin, Project 21 join Thom. thanks to a WTO ruling last week - we can’t know whether food has been processed outside of the US anymore - we can only know where it was packaged. So - is "free trade" killing our pets and poisoning the American people? Or are Americans being poisoned because our federal regulations on imports are too weak?

Thom discusses how the DOJ is spending time prosecuting FIFA executives while ignoring the crimes made by our nation’s banksters with attorney and radio host Mike Papantonio and whether the police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice will ever be charged with attorney Benjamin Crump. Tonight’s Rumble talks the new potential Time Warner merger, Bernie Sanders’ call for a transaction tax on Wall Street, and a call for free college from progressives in Washington.

Doug Hughes - a 61 year old postal worker from Florida - landed his gyrocopter on the Capitol's West Lawn on April 15. Hughes was arrested on the spot and sent back to Florida after an initial court appearance. This week a grand jury indicted Hughes on two felony counts and four misdemeanors - if convicted he faces 9 and a half years in jail and will have to forfeit his gyrocopter. Doug Hughes' was arraigned today - he plead not guilty to all six charges. Why did he do it? Here now with us to talk about the necessary role of nonviolent direct action in American democracy - Gyrocopter Pilot and Postal Worker Doug Hughes and Rachel Rye Butler - Democracy Organizer for Greenpeace USA.

Marc Harrold, Observations of White Noise & Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel & Austin Petersen, The Libertarian Republic join Thom. Is the modern American economy a 'moral' economy? One presidential hopeful isn't so sure.

America's Lawyer Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio joins Thom. The Senate voted to give the president "fast-track” authority. Are we watching the sun set on American Democracy?

Marc Harrold, Observations of White Noise & Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel & Austin Petersen, The Libertarian Republic join Thom. On Saturday - the Senate took no action to re-authorize section 215 of the Patriot Act. Section 215 authorizes collection of telephone records - but has come under scrutiny in the lead-up to this re-authorization vote. Numerous reports have found "dragnet" collection of Americans' phone records to be ineffective in catching terrorists - and the Second Court of Appeals recently ruled that the NSA's "dragnet" collection of phone records isn't even covered under the letter of the law. The Senate needed 60 votes in order to move forward with the "USA Freedom Act" that was passed by the House last week - but could only come up with 57 of the needed 60 votes. With that vote failed - America is one step closer to the end of the NSA's bulk metadata collection program.