Thom Hartmann comments on a Washington Post piece that quotes Pat Buchanan as saying Donald Trump is the future of the GOP and asks, how the party will reinvent itself?

Thom Hartmann shares a story about Vincent Smith, a right-wing organizer for the Paul Revere 2016 Final March to Restore America, who fatally shot his co-founder Charles Carter during a drunken argument.

Thom Hartmann debates Robert J. Smith, Senior Fellow-National Center for Public Policy Research, Website: www.nationalcenter.org, who argues farmers and ranchers in western states are being treated like serfs by the federal government which owns vast tracts of land.

Thom Hartmann says he will enthusiastically vote for Hillary Clinton, but he would rather have the old Democratic party of FDR and JFK.

Thom Hartmann debates Daniel Greenfield Blogger & Columnist-Front Page Magazine/Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center Website: http://sultanknish.blogspot.com (www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org), who argues Democratic Socialism is equated to Communism.

Thom Hartmann laments loss of the old Democratic Party to the new way Democrats, but makes clear he will take a moderate Democrat over a crazy Republican any day.

Thom Hartmann says Hillary Clinton isn't telling a true story about Bernie Sanders and his vote for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, or CMFA.

Thom Hartmann talks with Chad Marlow, Advocacy & Policy Counsel-ACLU where his focus is on privacy & technology
Website: www.aclu.org, about 6 States Introducing Legislation to Limit Surveillance and Protect Student and Employee Privacy.

Thom Hartmann comments on the United States Supreme Court agreeing to hear the corruption case of Virginia's former Republican governor Bob McDonnell, but not hear the case of Alabama's former Democratic governor Don Siegelman.

Thom Hartmann discusses a piece in Salon and how government works primarily for rich, white people in the United States and pretty much leaves others out and how it got this way.

Thom Hartmann says 170 of the nation's top economists endorse Bernie Sanders and there's no media coverage, but when statistician Nate Silver says Bernie can't win, they're all over it.

Thom Hartmann is joined in studio by Mike Lofgren, Former congressional staff member who served on both the House and Senate budget committees. His book about Congress, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, appeared in paperback on August 27, 2013. His latest book is The Deep State

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