those balls ok gotcha and will you sort of keep the show the same the same tone and tenor that tom hartman did or how might your show be different gentlemanly as tom was certainly a goal i want to take a page from larry king songbook as well because he seems like such a genuinely curious guy i don't think it'll take viewers long to figure out where i come down on most of the issues and that the big tom hartman shoes i'm feeling are basically my size too but i want to seem curious about topic too sure and surface something that you might not have seen elsewhere and. you know you're like you said they're big shoes to fill you've got to have goals when you walk into something like this right what do you hope to accomplish as the the new host now that you have such a platform the home run for me is when the viewer says oh i didn't realize that and i think with all of this fake nudes that we have to sift through in the course of a day there is a bigger need than ever for people who do what we do who are information curators just because it's on the internet almost means it's not true so the bar

i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't help big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests got a lot of voiced so that's how it is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i'm michel i've done are to you america i'll make sure you don't get railroaded and you'll get the straight talk in the straight news. questionable . in case you're new to the game this is how. the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington the washington post media the media. voters elected the businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. there's a real irony going. tobe a. responsible place in the people and there is always a. question always. or area no wholesale surveillance you feel you have already in while those who know and who do so as you use the internet has used to sell you a loyal and always always st

i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't tell big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money for work that's drowned out a lot of voice that's what is in the news culture in this country now that's where i come in. i mean it's still on r t america i'll make sure you don't get railroad you'll get the straight talk in the straight. complete. it is. a good. run of. the day. we will move to a story of success for once philadelphia reduced its incarcerated population by eighteen percent in just two years and. pretty pretty incredible my twenty nine team plans to reduce it by thirty four percent and this is thanks in part to a three point five million dollars macarthur grant they said because me god was our you could be god and then they were offered millions of us and they were like maybe it could be done. that would bring us up here to discuss with our senior criminal justice expert they only care about me. here only tell us about the land of

i'm the new guy darren fletcher the tom hartman handed off to me so graciously last week like tom i want to keep the big picture more light than heat genuine curiosity question more one change tom was here every weeknight and for now the big picture will be a weekly show so me to right here in washington every weekend at this time and then i escape to an island twelve miles out in the atlanta cough the rugged knowing going coast i live on block island rhode island which is also home to the us. safe first offshore wind farm since one thousand twenty five we had gotten our electricity from diesel generators burning a million gallons a year now five high tech windmills three miles offshore generate enough power for thousands of homes even though there are only several hundred on our twelve square mile island so our green energy feeds the grid the obvious motives for renewable energy are freedom from the geo political and economic uncertainty of fossil fuel and the environmental harm that even climate change deniers are having a tough time rebutting lately and jobs solar and wind employment

hello i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture as part of its cleanup efforts the company that runs the crippled fukushima power plant wants to dump almost eight hundred thousand tons of radioactive material into the ocean how could that possibly be safe as paul gunter just a moment and exxon mobil lied to the public for decades about the threat of climate change should we give it the corporate death penalty on this day mccall and eleanor goldfield internets big picture. is the american nuclear industry on its last legs all across the country right now reactor projects are failing and existing power plants are sinking deeper and deeper into the red all of a sudden the so-called energy of the future is starting to look at awful lot like a relic what's going on with us joining me now is paul gunter director of the reactor oversight project of nuclear fall welcome back thank you tom it's great having you with us so the big news in the nuclear world right now to utility companies

along tom hartman of washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the signs are everywhere are we nearing the end of capitalism and if so what comes next us economy is richer will. and we might finally have definitive proof that voter suppression won wisconsin for donald trump more on that tonight's politics panel and right now it's lost and. richard smith is officially out as c.e.o. of equifax he resigned today just a few weeks after his company one of the world's largest credit reporting firms revealed that it had suffered a massive security breach that exposed the personal information of one hundred forty three million americans to hackers which raises the question just how did a massive for profit corporation like equifax gain access to something such compromising information without the public's consent and what does this tell us about capitalism joining me now is richard wool visiting professor at the new school cofounder of democracy at work and the author of numerous books including capi

i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't help big picture . and when you question more find what you're looking for. the. dog. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. it's called the feel we go for you go to. everyone in the world should experience freedom and you'll get it on the open rolls. the old according to just. look up the modern world to come along for the iraq. war over. what is. definition of success for me i want to. live a fully charged and connected and contributing life for that means charge i want to have energy and i want to have your energy. and i want to be connected with the people i love my family my friends my team people we serve and i want to make i want to know i'm making a difference there's this myth that you know if you're really achieving a lot in life you must be miserable you know you must feel like you're scared all the time and work twenty four seventh's that's not true high performers to be able to maintain success for the long term take care of yourself and as you take care o

hello i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture donald trump ran for president on a platform of protecting social security but is he now trying to sabotage social security that and more in tonight's politics panel with julio rivera newkirk in just a moment and as ugly as his right wing nationalism could be now former white house chief strategist steve bannon had some legitimately good ideas about the economy does his ouster mean that we're stuck with so-called free trade for good i'll ask alan tonelson later on in the program. steve bannon's white house days officially over could trump soon find and up on the chopping block let's ask tonight's politics panel. with me for the night's politics panel our earlier a vera editorial director for reactionary times and progressive organizer with democracy spring thank you both for being with us tonight let's get started thank you so much thank you just in case you haven't heard the big news steve bannon is out at the white house dependi

i'm tom hartman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't go big picture. time . going to happen and when you question more and find what you're looking to see. the storm. will go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta emails and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied that the n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming

well i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture as part of its cleanup efforts the company that runs the crippled fukushima power plant wants to dump almost eight hundred thousand tons of radioactive material into the ocean how could that.

haul i'm tom hartman in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture the signs are everywhere are we nearing the end of capitalism and if so what comes next got a much richer. and we might finally.

instead we are listening to tom hartman. that is an economic theory for children. we need an economic theory for grown-ups. [applause] that says that wealth and economic well-being are not created by spending per se, but by saving, producing, and entrepreneurial skill. fed,entally, without the there would have been no housing bubble. people had become irrationally attached to the buying of houses, what would have happened, it was a mania, people went crazy. , who is notchwartz an austrian, even she says that if there is in a fed creating all the credit, where what all the money come from. would go up houses and interest rates would shoot way up. that would put an end to speculation in real estate. youead what happens when are the soviet commissar in charge of money and interest rates, you can just create money out of new air and the banks have a time to lynn, so you keep the solution going, but it is an illusion all the same. just like the homebuilder in the wonderful analogy to show how producers and investors get misled into engaging in projects that the economy'

tom. ♪ free falling >> a couple times i remember, just going, wo >>> we end with steve hartman on a roadtings in history. but it still is a familiar script. we witness the nightmare, meet the heroes, who risked their lives. and honor the victims. ♪ ♪ >> now it is supposed to fall on me to say something hopeful. life affirming. right? that's what i do. it's what i have done after just about every mass shooting. at this point, i would say i'm out of words. but i already said that last year. i may be a writer, but i have got nothing for you today. which i was so struck by what the onion printed. it may be satirical. but this article was a serious gut punch. the headline read no way to prevent this says only nation where this regularly happens. a phony quote from a madeup person who said this was a terrible tragedy. but some times these things just happen and there is nothing any one can do to stop them. it seemed topical. until i real ied it is the same article they have pub leshed after nearly every shooting since 2014. they changed the town. and the body count. but that's about it. let's