In tonight’s Politics Panel, Thom talks with Hughey Newsome, National Advisory Council at Project 21 Black Leadership Network, T. Neil Sroka, Communications Director at Democracy for America, and Scott Greer, Associate Editor at The Daily Caller about House Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s appearance at a white power rally, Pres. Obama threatening veto to save healthcare and the environment, the Koch brothers criminal justice reform plans, more shootings in America, the war in Afghanistan and if the United States is exceptional? Economist Richard Wolff talks Greece anti-austerity and elections in January. Thom gives his Daily Take on the greedy corporations sucking dollars from American taxpayers.

During yesterday's episode of Meet the Press - Chuck Todd revealed a startling truth about the state of our infotainment-driven corporate media.

Tyson Slocum, Public Citizen's Energy Program, joins Thom Hartmann.

Make a New Year's resolution to go on a diet, Harvard School of Public Health researchers say.