Progressive democrats are coming out with a bold vision of what our immigration policy could be to fight the Republican tactic of ICE detention, deportation and family separation. Co Chair of the Progressive Congressional Caucus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to tell us about this new moral imagination on immigration.

Dr. Michael Mann, climate change export and author of The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening The Planet, joins the program to discuss the climate change tipping point and the domino extinctions that may have already started.

The way the media is covering the news today isn't good for America but it is good for their profits, shareholders and advertisers. Matt Taibbi joins the program to discuss how the profit motive is driving the press to drive us apart!

A conservative caller wants to know why progressives are working hard to abolish the death penalty but are working to keep abortion illegal. Positions that for him and other conservatives amounts to an apparent contradiction. Why is abortion morally and legally sound but the death penalty so morally disgusting that progressives have mobilized to put a legal end to it, for the conservatives that see abortion as murder, this might be a hard thing to figure out.

How much more corruption can we take from Trump and the Republican Party?

Why is calling universal healthcare often called medicare for all, are the two different, if so, how...and could Universal Healthcare cut corporations out of decisions between patients and doctors?

Is the profit motive killing journalism?

The use of the death penalty has been a source of much debate in recent years, is it time for America to abolish capital punishment and join the rest of the world? Mike Farrell, actor, human rights advocate and president of Death Penalty Focus joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the legacy of the death penalty and why putting the barbaric practice to rest will be a good step for our democracy!

The GOP Tax Scam resulted in a small but noticeable increase in paychecks for some workers but what many do not realize is that it is already building the structure to lower wages. Will the working class wake up in time to stop it or toil like dogs under tight wages, deregulation and policies that send jobs overseas?

Why do conservatives still believe that sexual preference, who we are attracted to is a choice, could it be that more than a margin of the people on the right who hate LGBT people are making their own choices as well?

General Motors admits what we all know, after receiving a massive tax cut, the auto maker is laying off thousands of American employees and closing it's plants. Wasn't this tax cut passed on the rationalization of trickle down theory?

Is the extinction of the human race the final domino to fall in a chain of extinctions and species die offs that may have always started? What can we do to save the planet before the domino ends all life on earth?

Donald Trump blamed Senator Sherrod Brown the closing of a General Motors plant after the president's own policies caused massive layoffs and instigated a trade war. Brown fought back challenging his political career in working the working class against Trump's faux populism. Which politician represents the interests of the working class to you and who will be able to keep the working class employed?

A new bill expanding the availability of medicare's low drug prices to every American is being introduced by Senator Jeff Merkley. Can this bill stop the greedy drug companies and let patients and would be patients get the care they need?

Do to Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen, over 85,000 children have already starved to death. Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Barbra Lee, and others are fighting to stop U.S. involvement in that genocide. "We cannot let them determine U.S. Military priority" Sanders tells Thom Hartmann and the audience that weapons contractors, pathological liars like Donald Trump, and the Saudi Royal family cannot led U.S. military policy.