Thom talks with author and the President of the Waterkeeper Alliance Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers decision to block the Dakota Access Pipeline. Then, in the Lone Liberal Rumble, Thom talks with Steve Beaman of the Society to Advance Financial Education (SAFE) and Alex Pfeiffer of The Daily Caller about Trump’s bribing ways, Capitol Hill’s new handout for Big Pharma, and the consequences of repealing Obamacare.

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Big Picture Politics Panel: Alex Pfeiffer, The Daily Caller & Steve Beaman, Society To Advance Financial Education(SAFE Financial). While he says he’s the master of the art of the deal, he’s really the master of the art of the BS. The latest example of this is the Carrier deal. Although Trump has celebrated it as an example of just one of the job-saving savvy he’ll bring to the Oval office, it’s not the success he says it is & is far from it. It now turns out that in exchange for $7 million in tax breaks, Carrier will keep just 730 factory jobs in Indiana 550 will still go to Mexico. Meanwhile, Greg Hayes, the CEO of United Technologies, Carrier’s parent company, now says it will use the savings to increase automation in its Indiana facility - in other words, use Trump's bribe money to kill off more American jobs in future years.

Big Picture Interview: Robert Kennedy Jr., Waterkeeper Alliance. So far, Donald Trump's choice of cabinet members has been - well - deplorable. He’s picked someone who wants to privatize Medicare to oversee Medicare as his secretary of Health and Human Services. He’s picked a bankster who foreclosed on a 90-year-old over a 27 cent underpayment to oversee banksters as his Treasury Secretary. And he's picked guy who thinks the KKK were just fine as long as they don't smoke pot to oversee our Civil Rights and marijuana laws as his Attorney General. But as bad as those picks were - they pale in comparison to Trump's latest choice for a cabinet member - especially if you care about the future of our existence as a species on this planet. Multiple sources now say that Trump has picked Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to regulate fossil fuels as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Not surprisingly, Pruitt is a climate change denier - either totally stupid about science or just happy to take all that petro-billionaire money to keep him in power. So, here were are - Global temperatures are rising faster than ever before - Arctic sea ice is at record lows - all signs point to runaway climate change becoming a reality within the decade - and the man who's now set to head up environmental policy for the next few years thinks there's still a "debate" about whether or not climate change is even real.

Big Picture Politics Panel: Anya Parampil, RT America & Siraj Hashmi, Red Alert Politics. With recount efforts now underway in Michigan - election officials have discovered something strange going on in Wayne County, the home of Detroit, and the largest single county in the state. In hundreds of precincts, there appear to be discrepancies between the number of ballots issued on election day and the number of ballots recorded in voting machine printouts, probably caused by electronic vote counting machines not working properly in poor neighborhoods on Election Day. Such widespread problems with electronic machines is a big enough story on its own, but what makes this a bigger deal is a Michigan law that says precincts with discrepancies between issued ballots and recorded ballots are ineligible for a statewide recount. As the Detroit News reports, this means that, “One-third of precincts in Wayne County could [now] be disqualified from an unprecedented statewide recount… Most of those are in heavily Democratic Detroit, where the number of ballots in precinct poll books did not match those of voting machine printout reports in 59 percent of precincts.” Why should anyone accept the results?

Big Picture Interview: Richard Eskow, The Zero Hour/Campaign for America's Future. Speaking of Trump cabinet picks - the next presidential administration is shaping up to be the richest in American history. The last time we saw this kind of plutocratic takeover of the government it led to the Great Depression. Are we about to witness a sequel to that disaster?

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Thom talks with Siraj Hashmi of Red Alert Politics and RT Correspondent Anya Parampil about Michigan’s potentially rigged election recount, Trump’s fake populism, and his push to privatize Native American land. Then, Thom talks with Richard Eskow, Zero Hour host and Senior Fellow at Campaign For America’s Future, about Trump’s billionaire cabinet, its similarities to the Gilded Age and if we’re lining up for another great depression.

In tonight’s Progressive Roundtable, Thom talks with Democracy Spring Director Kai Newkirk and Sarah Badawi of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) about the mistrial ruling in the case of Walter Scott, Trump’s review of the Army Corps of Engineers decision to divert the Dakota pipeline, and the #Pizzagate debate in the nation’s capital.

Big Picture Progressive Roundtable: Kai Newkirk, Democracy Spring/99Rise & Sarah Badawi, Progressive Change Campaign Committee(PCCC). Fake news is now literally putting people's lives in danger.

Big Picture Interview: Dr. Justin Frank, MD,, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science-George Washington University/Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Is Donald Trump crazy or craxy like a fox?

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Big Picture Interview: Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. It's almost like they have something to hide. With one Jill Stein-led recount effort already underway in Wisconsin and additional recounts pending in Michigan and Pennsylvania, supporters of Donald Trump are now taking legal action to stop what they say is a basless attempt to smear their candidate. In Pennsylvania, Trump himself has joined up with the local Republican Party to block Jill Stein's request for a recount. In Wisconsin, Trump Super PACS are doing the dirty work and have asked a federal judge to stop what they say is a violation of due process rights. Across the border in Michigan, meanwhile, Republican Attorney General Bill Scuette has asked the State Supreme Court to cancel an effort he and his office are calling a "frivolous request for a recount by an aggrieved party to silence all Michigan votes for president." So - IS Jill Stein's push for a recount just a useless exercise in self-promotion? Or is there actually a chance it could expose something big?

Thom talks with investigative reporter, author and director Greg Palast about his new film The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Jill Stein’s motivation for an election recount.
Then in the Big Picture Rumble, Thom talks with progressive media strategist Joel Silberman and Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com about the GOP’s Obamacare holding pattern, their loss of consciousness on climate change, and Obama’s call for women to register for the draft.

Big Picture Rumble: Joel Silberman, Media Strategist/Trainer/Author & Bryan Pruitt, RedState. If Republicans were a serious political party, they’d be celebrating the fact that a Democratic president signed into law one of their signature policy proposals. They’d also take seriously the opportunity to fix it now that the American people have given them the chance to do so. But Republicans aren’t a serious political party. They care about politics, not policy, and the “repeal and delay” scam they’re trying to pull off proves it