• Rep. Pedro Pierluisi (D-Puerto Rico) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about Judge Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court and about the economy.
• Veteran political reporter Richard Wolffe calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about his new book, “Renegade: The Making of a President.”
• President Obama will arrive in Saudi Arabia today, his first stop on a Middle East trip that will include a major speech intended to repair a damaged U.S. image. The president will deliver the widely-anticipated address in Cairo, Egypt, tomorrow in hopes of reaching out to Muslims and begin a dialogue.
• Debris located early yesterday in the Atlantic Ocean off the northeast coast of Brazil is wreckage from the Air France jet that disappeared Monday, Brazil’s defense minister said. No survivors have been found.
• Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sought yesterday to hit back against Republican charges that she would let her background dictate her rulings, telling U.S. senators of both parties in private meetings that she would follow the law as a justice.
• President Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running for president. The federal government would reap about $250 billion a year if it treated health care benefits given to employees like wages and taxed them.
