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blog thom hartmann to washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture in the year after the newtown sandy hook massacre at least one hundred children lost their lives thanks to unintentional gun violence is the time we start protecting our kids and treat guns like the dangerous weapons they are that and more tonight sloan liberal rubble and over the past six months along tens of thousands of unaccompanied children ever arrive here in the united states from central america what's causing them to flee their homes and try to seek refuge here in the u.s. and the sweltering heat and humidity of a miami summer could be coming to a town near you soon fortunately we can do something about that to prevent it right now right now to prevent unbearable summers future one that wants to take. video.

go back to the big picture on thom hartmann coming up in this all in h.b.o.'s hit series game of thrones the kings of western use a giant ice wall to keep barbarians from invading their country. and any barbarians threatening to invade japan so why is tepco building a giant ice wall its own the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant and dick cheney is about the last person who should be telling anyone how to run a country they are watching. in screwed news it's now a bit over three years since the fukushima nuclear power plant melted down in the wake of a massive tsunami but the problem is just keep on coming tokyo electric power or tepco the company that runs the plant is now stumbling through yet another part of the effort to keep the already dangerous situation from getting even worse on tuesday tepco officials announced that they were having a hard time constructing an ice wall that once fully up and running would stop clean water from the surrounding countryside from getting contaminated with toxic waste water from the plant so what exactly is an ice wall in the

let's have a warm welcome for a media pioneer great talk show host a great thinker great american thom hartmann. thank you and thank you so much i just want to speak about freedom of speech for a home to. a very brief story. i started in radio in nineteen. sixty seven at w i t l a am and f.m. lansing michigan as a country western d.j. and a few years later i got a couple stations in lansing and a few years later i was back there doing news and so this was probably sixty nine seventy seventy one somewhere in that time period at that time there was really no talk radio there were no voices there was nobody talking back to anybody there were you know we just report. and i was in the newsroom one morning news around eight or nine o'clock in the morning there was a. d.j. was on the air on the other side of the building and there was me and bob the news director and i don't think the engineer even come in yet step was. there and these two guys came in wearing virtually identical black suits black ties and shiny black shoes and we looked out the window and there's a state police car out there and they

flat out has not been paying attention what's been going on comes ok over our message board of thom hartmann dot com th fan at a dash one asks if anybody else realize that conservatives don't need to win in the debates and can still win the next election all they need to do is keep people confused just uncertain of doubt and uncertainty to prevent people from forming confident conclusions were voting about social responsibilities but conservatives are voting on financial issues you're absolutely right and in fact here's the let me lay it out for you really simple and this is these are the actual numbers about sixty five percent about two thirds of americans cannot tell you. who who controls which branch of congress which party controls or any of the nuance of for example the democrats control the senate but because they don't have sixty votes the republicans can veto anything they want sixty five percent of americans cannot tell you that ninety three percent of americans can't tell you that the guy in the white house is a democrat. so the republican strategy is really simple people don't kno