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As the Republicans move to approve Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, people who may need to seek out abortion, are scared because Kavanaugh will remove the protections of Roe vs Wade should he ever get the power, One caller fears that just as our mothers and grandmothers paid the ultimate price for the criminalization of abortion, the nomination of Kavanaugh or any other Donald Trump Supreme Court pick will have our daughters paying that same price too.

Civil Rights Activist and author DeRay McKesson joins the Thom Hartmann Program in studio to talk about his new book On The Other Side of Freedom, "A meditation on resistane, justice, and freedom" as well as an intimate portrait of the Black Lives Matter movement from the front Lines. McKesson asks if we can create safety without arresting, locking people up, and without police, without prisons and without unarmed black people dying every week. Do you think Police abolition can work in the United States?

Caller asks Congressman Mark Pocan to help understand the apparent contradictions between doing what is right to stop Donald Trump, like Corey Booker did when he released sealed documents on Brett Kavnaugh which could have ejected him from the senate and playing by the rules we are trying to preserve that make our democracy so wonderful.

Brian Kemp. Georgia's current secretary of state and Gubernatorial hopeful under the Republican party for Georgia is working hard to guarantee his nomination by purging thousands of voters, mostly democrats and people of color, off the voter rolls.

Host of the Bill Press Show, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss his new book, Trump Must Go detailing why the sexist, racist, self proclaimed sexual predator, and pathological liar Donald Trump cannot remain in charge of the United States government. Did we leave anything out, what else makes you think Donald Trump must Go?

Could Human Extinction Be Part of Universal Cycle of Consciousness?

Given the increasingly dystonian policies of the Trump administration, like the separating of children from families, the revocation of passports of legal citizens, continued support for law enforcement's treatment of people of color, and much more... many are wondering if America has reached a fascist tipping point, Here to answer these questions is the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us vs Them Professor Jason Stanley.

A caller challenges Thom Hartmann on the merit of Tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and gets a lesson in economics detailing how tax cuts for the rich always come at the cost of the wages of working and poor Americans.

Some Democrats are suggesting working with Republicans to get things done, one poster from Democratic Underground posted what we at the Thom Hartmann Program are calling the "Progressive Hippocratic Oath" which lists out where progressives are not working with Republicans, the Trump administration or anyone else; these include working to lessen the rights of African Americans, the LGBT population, to give banks more profit at the expense of the people, in short, progressives are not willing to work with anyone to do any harm. In the age where our political divide is often talked about needing to be bridged, do you agree with this list or do you want to walk across the aisle?

As accusations of assault come forward against Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by Professor Christine Blasey Ford and now at least one other woman. A Caller joins the program to discuss how the last fifty years treated women and girls who spoke out against their accusers. Kavanaugh's nomination could swing our response as a society all the way back to the 1950s and erase the work of the MeToo Movement.

Ken Starr is still after the Clintons for “lack of moral character” but refuses to go after Kavanaugh, Donald Trump or conservatives and instead, decides to come out with a new book:Contempt: a Memoir of the Clinton Investigation, which retells the story of the prosecution led by Ken Starr acting as Independent Counsel. What would happen if Kavanaugh was forced to give up personal details and stories.

Caller belives that the unfair rises in the cost of life saving medicine by drug and pharmaceutical companies is the result of capitalist profit motive over human rights and well being. are pharmaceutical companies exploiting the people and how can we stop them?