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The Big Picture

10:05

Rumble - Time to come clean in America about Saudi influence?

Jean Card, Jean Card Ink / U.S. News & World Report & Christy Setzer, New Heights Communications & Shelby Emmett, Attorney / Project 21 all join Thom Hartmann. Saudi Arabia is one of the most repressive regimes in the world - but that's not stopping American politicians from praising its former King Abdullah - who died last night at the age of 90. Isn't it time to come clean in America about Saudi influence, from being the 2nd largest stockholder in Newscorp/Fox to how they funded and promote Wahabism and Salafism?

01:50

News Is Not Terrorism

Andrew Lack - the newly installed Chief Executive of the Broadcasting Board of Governors - which runs American foreign news operations like the Voice of America - apparently has a problem with news. He told the New York Times today - “We are facing a number of challenges from entities like Russia Today which is out there pushing a point of view, the Islamic State in the Middle East, and groups like Boko Haram.”

57:29

Full Show 1/23/2015: Conversations with Norman Lear

In tonight’s Big Picture Rumble, Thom talks with Jean Card, contributor at U.S. News & World Report, Progressive strategist Christy Setzer, and attorney Shelby Emmett of Project 21 about Republican’s dual attack on abortion and social security, Glenn Beck preaching to the Pope, Saudi King Abdullah’s death and what it means for the U.S.-Saudi relationship and Kansas Gov. Brownback cutting school budgets.

57:20

Full Show 1/22/2015: The GOP’s Attack on Abortion

In tonight’s show, Thom talks with America’s Lawyer and Host of “Ring of Fire” radio, Mike Papantonio about the Alan Dershowitz rape accusations and the unfair justice system for the rich and the poor.

57:18

Full Show 1/21/2015: The Myth of Obama Moving to the Left

In tonight’s Lone Liberal Rumble, Thom debates conservative commentator Kris Ullman and Neil McCabe of Townhall.com and The Washington Mercury about Joni Ernst’s hypercritical SOTU rebuttal and the GOP’s Spanish-only immigration response, Citizens United 5 years later, Fox News’s faux pas, the Senate Intelligence committee trying to revive the torture and Panetta reports, and TPP – fast tracking jobs out of the country?