Watching The Hawks co-host Sean Stone interviews Thom Hartman at the Sister Giant Conference, which took place March 28-29 in Los Angeles. Thom discusses how things are politically and economically and how things could be with progressive policies.

Flavia Jimenez, Advancement Project joins Thom. The private prison industry has grown more than 1700 percent since 1980 and it's made some executives very - very rich. But it's also torn apart families and bankrupted taxpayers. So how can we lock it up once and for all?

Adam Browning, Vote Solar, joins Thom Hartmann. It's not all fun in the sun in Hawaii right now. Why are Hawaiian utility companies trying to block solar power in the Aloha State - and how are residents fighting back?

Hughey Newsome, Project 21 & TJ Helmstetter, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC) & Jennifer Kerns, Washington Times / The Blaze all join Thom. On Tuesday - six progressive senators - including Senator Elizabeth Warren - Senator Al Franken - and Senator Bernie Sanders - sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler - asking them to block the proposed Comcast-Time Warner mega merger.

Republicans are trying to turn every business executive in America into a king - and the working-class into peasants. Fortunately - we can stop them.

The Bad! Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)! The Wisconsin Governor has found a way to celebrate Earth Day that even his buddies the Koch Brothers probably find acceptable: firing a bunch of his state’s environmental workers. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel - “Fifty-seven employees of the state Department of Natural Resources began receiving formal notices this week that they might face layoff as part of Gov. Scott Walker's budget for the next two fiscal years.” In other words - Happy Earth Day - now go find a new job. Not even Mother Nature could be that cruel.

Tonight’s Rumble talks the potential merger of Comcast and Time Warner, why Obama is continuing to support the TPP despite outrage from both sides, and whether Hillary Clinton with topple the 1%. Thom discusses how the private prison industry is benefiting from our failed immigration system with the Advancement Project’s Flavia Jimenez and how utility companies in Hawaii are threatening the state’s solar growth with Vote Solar’s Adam Browning. In tonight’s Daily Take Thom discusses how Republicans are trying to turn business owners into modern day kings.

And the Very Very Ugly! Michele Bachmann. During a radio interview this weekend, the former Minnesota Congresswoman claimed that the End Times were upon us and suggested that President Obama was helping bring them about.

Shahid Buttar, Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) joins Thom. All across America - law enforcement agencies are using a special technology to collect information from your cell phones. What is Stingray technology - how is it used - and why is everyone trying to keep it a secret?

Dahr Jamail, Truthout joins Thom Hartmann. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill five years ago - attorney Kenneth Feinberg was tasked with helping the victims of one of the worst industrial accidents in American history. But now those very same victims are bringing him to court. Why is that? And what should it tell us about the legacy of the Gulf Oil spill?

Scott Greer, The Daily Caller & Andrea Miller, People Demanding Action (PDA) & Nathan Leamer, R Street Institute all join Thom. First Utah brought back the firing squad - now Oklahoma is bringing back gas chambers. Shouldn't this be a wake-up call to all of us about how barbaric the death penalty really is?

Amtrak is one of the most popular government programs around. So why does American rail still lag behind that of other developed nations around the world?

Scott Greer, The Daily Caller & Andrea Miller, People Demanding Action (PDA) & Nathan Leamer, R Street Institute all join Thom. The richest 0.01 percent of all Americans made 42 percent of all donations to political parties and candidates. That’s right. Not the richest one percent or the .1 percent - the 0.01 percent!

Tonight’s Politics Panel discusses whether Hillary Clinton will become a populist, Governor Rick Scott’s suing of the government over Obamacare, and whether the Koch’s picked the right candidate. Thom discusses the fifth anniversary of the BP oil spill with Truthout’s Dahr Jamail and how prosecutors in St. Louis declined to prosecute a robbery case in order to keep the FBI’s Stingray program a secret. In tonight’s Daily Take Thom details how America’s infrastructure continues to crumble.

over four decades - the US Government has been waging a war on its own people.