The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann is an American talk news show on RT

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 hosted and produced by political commentator and radio host Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann is an American radio host, author, former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, and progressive political commentator. His nationally-syndicated radio show, The Thom Hartmann Program, airs in the United States and has 2.75 million listeners a week...

. It is produced, recorded and broadcast live by RT America, the Washington, D.C.-based affiliate of RT, syndicated by Free Speech TV

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 and carried on both Dish Network channel 9415 and local Public-access television

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 stations.

As with his overall political stance and his talk radio program, The Big Picture leans to the left-of-center in American politics and primarily focuses on American topics while mostly inviting progressive or left-liberal personalities. Hartmann has also interviewed right-of-center personalities.

RT personality Lucy Kafanov fills in for Hartmann when he is unavailable for broadcast.

Segments

• "Need To Know" - political news items
• "Screwed" - news items related to the economy
• "Best of the Rest of the News" - other items
• "Daily Take"
• "The Good, The Bad and the Very, Very Ugly" - comparison of good, bad and "very very ugly" events
• "Weekly Rumble"