Congressman Mark Pocan answers questions from callers on financial reality behind Trump's election, was economic anxiety the reason rural communities supported then candidate Trump or was it something more sinister.

Professor of history at Columbia Unversity and Director of the European Institute, Adam Tooze joins the show to discuss his new book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

Michael D'Antonio, author of The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence sits down with Thom Hartmann to discuss efforts by the vice president and his allies to make Mike Pence the 46th President of the Unite States. Do you think Vice President Mike Pence is going to make a presidential run?

Thom reads from The Shadow President - The Truth about Mike Pence - by Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner

Tom Perez is angry, Republicans won't like him when he's angry. Having just led the battle to get rid of Superdelegates which prevented Bernie Sanders from securing the nomination for president in 2016. now two years before the next presidential election the Democratic Party has gotten rid of Fossil money and superdelegates, are the Democrats setting the stage for a new social democrat to bring to lead the party to victory?

- Greg Palast is sueing Kansas's Kris Kobach over Voter Purges

With the mainstream media now openly discussing the possibility of the United States losing our Democracy under the Trump Pence Regime, will we be able to pull through and avoid authoritarian rule or will Trump seize the opportunity available and use war or some other disaster to implement a new dark chapter in American history where the elections are made up and the votes don't matter.

A call on voting rights prompts Thom Hartmann to reveal the real reason republicans, the morbidly rich and others are trying to get rid of your vote. It's how they get elected. Does republican leverage in an election go up as the voting population go down?

Professor Thomas DiLorenxo, acting as the Hand of the invisible Hand of the free Market, 'Drops the Call' on Medicare Public Schools and a debate with Thom Hartmann.

Jefferson Smith acts if Republicans are okayy with anything so long as they profit from it!

Congressman Ro Khanna answers a caller who feels that we should not be grieving John McCain because of the legacy of the Republican Senator in the Vietnam war and his work in the United States senate. Is it too soon to discuss the legacy of John McCain?

Anything goes Friday caller asks if Donald Trump has microchips in his body and as any good newsperson Jefferson Smith wants to find out too!

Greg Palast uncovers the way progressives fight against republican efforts to hand out our vote to the morbidly rich

Is it time to take back the word socialism and stop reactionary republicans from using it to invoke fear and misunderstanding. If socialism means providing the American people with education, housing, the social safety net, and strengthening those pillars which made the middle class strong, then maybe we should all be proud socialists.

Why does the Right want to preserve monuments to people who betrayed the United States? To answer, James S Robbins, author of a new book on why the right wants to save monuments to people who betrayed the United States.