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Around 50 rural hospitals have closed nationwide - leaving millions of Americans without easy access to potentially life-saving healthcare. What's behind this string of shutdowns - and what can Republicans do to keep our hospitals open? Joining Thom for more on all of this is Mayor Adam O'Neal - Republican Mayor of Bellhaven, North Carolina.

Thom's guest for tonight's Conversations with Great Minds is one of America's most influential thinkers on muliticulturalism and race - Professor Derald Wing Sue. Currently a Professor of Psychology and Education at the Teacher's College at Columbia University - Professor Sue has been at the forefront of some the most forward-thinking scholarship on race relations in America. His book "Microaggressions in Everyday Life" is now considered a classic of its kind - and it won the inaugural UnityFirst dot com National Diversity and Inclusion Book Prize .Professor Sue is also the co-founder and first President of the Asian American Psychological Association. His new book - "Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race" - is a fascinating look into how we talk about race and racism.

Shelby Emmett, Attorney / Project 21 & George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom & Neil Sroka, Democracy for America all join Thom Hartmann. Mitt has called it quits. Earlier today - two-time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held a conference call - and told his supporters that he will not make a third run at the presidency. Romney reportedly said that it’s, “best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity” to become the Republican presidential nominee. This announcement comes just a few weeks after Romney first floated the idea of running again - which threw a wrench in the 2016 Republican nominee field. In the past few weeks - Romney had reportedly been working hard to gain support from his 2012 base - particularly from his donors - but apparently those efforts didn’t go so well. More importantly - Romney didn't have the hard-right billionaires who bankroll elections behind him. In today’s Republican Party - you have to have the likes of the Koch Brothers and Shelly Adelson behind you 100% if you want to have any chance of winning - and Romney just didn't have that support.