Marc Morano, Climate Depot.com, joins Thom Hartmann. Every second - 2.4 million pounds of carbon pollution are being pumped into the atmosphere - warming the planet - and having disatrous effects on the environment. Is this startling statistic enough to make climate change deniers wise up to the perils of global warming?

Tommy Christopher, Mediaite.com, joins Thom Hartmann. As Fiscal cliff negotiations continue...which way do you see the Republican Party going? Toward the Tea Party or toward the Party of Ike?

Eisenhower and his Party in 1956 understood that America is a center-left nation, and so they supported many of those positions. As President Eisenhower wrote to his brother, Edgar, in a 1954 letter: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. ((CHANGE)) Among them are HL Hunt (you possibly know his background), a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." It looks like that negligible number of "stupid" people has taken over the Republican Party today, led by the Hunt brothers' successors, the Koch brothers. The question for today, as the Republican Party infighting spills over onto the national stage, is whether they'll go back to the center-left positions of Eisenhower and start winning elections again, or if they'll double-down on stupid to satisfy the Kochs, Adelsons, Murdochs, and Limbaughs of their party...

Thom discusses whether the Republican Party will continue its current path of destruction or whether they will go back to the center-left positions of Eisenhower. Thom talks "fiscal cliff" negotiations with Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, climate change with denier Marc Morano of ClimateDepot.com and how the Saudi government influenced the presidential election with "The Nation's" Lee Fang. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom reveals Reagan's Welfare Queen.

Drones are supposed to be used in combat situations with our enemies - and yet we are using them freewillingly in nations that we're allies with. What kind of precedent are our government's actions setting for the future of drone warfare across the globe?

Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator & Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future & Adam Bitely, NetRightDaily.com join Thom Hartmann.

Marc Harrold, Libertarian Commentator & Roger Hickey, Campaign for America's Future & Adam Bitely, NetRightDaily.com join Thom Hartmann.

Dr. Hussein Ibish, American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) & Dylan J. Williams, JStreet join Thom Hartmann - Another view on the Middle East. Part 2

Dr. Hussein Ibish, American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) & Dylan J. Williams, JStreet join Thom Hartmann - Another view on the Middle East. Part 1

In tonight's "Bigger Picture" discussion Thom talks with a panel of experts about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Tonight's "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses Obama's "Fiscal Cliff" plan, the Saudi's influence on the presidential election and the fast food strike in New York. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom discusses Obama's Drone War.

As the fiscal cliff deadline looms large - can Progressives in Congress protect the millions of jobless Americans - while also forcing the wealthy elite to pay their fair share in taxes? We'll ask incoming Congressman Alan Grayson - from Florida's 9th Congressional District

Unsatisfied with his media empire in the UK and Australia and his several media holdings in the United States like The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, and Fox News, Rupert Murdoch wants more. The only thing standing in Murdoch's way of full-spectrum media domination in America are Federal Communication Commission rules that forbid one company from owning both a newspaper and a television station in one community. Murdoch already owns local television stations in both Chicago and Los Angeles. But according to sources within the FCC, Chairman Julius Genachowski is quietly planning to scrap those rules. Under pressure from major media moguls like Murdoch, who see big bucks and huge political power in a consolidated national and local media, Genachowski circulated a new order to other FCC Commissioners that would allow for cross-ownership of TV and newspapers in the nation's twenty biggest media markets. Today, only five corporations - one of which is Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp - own the majority of all the media seen, read, or listened to by Americans. If the FCC gets completely out of the way, then further consolidation will follow suit. Which is a huge problem for democracy. If there's one monopoly that's more dangerous than all of the others, it's a media monopoly.

Sarah Jaffe, Independent Journalist/The Atlantic, joins Thom Hartmann. Fast food jobs were once thought to be transition jobs for teenagers and college kids - but now - Americans of all ages are relying on them for income. Isn't it time fast food workers were paid a living wage - rather than the next to nothing wages they can barely survive off of now?

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