• Comedian Carlos Alazraqui joins us in studio at 6:05am Pacific to talk about the news of the day and promote his “Liberal Jesus” t-shirts.
• CNN’s John King, host of “State of the Union,” calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about health care and the latest on Iran.
• Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about the progress that Congress is making on health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to hang out and promote his one-man off-Broadway show coming this July.
• Iran’s supreme leader today rejected opposition claims that last week’s presidential elections were rigged, describing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s win as “definitive” and calling for an end to days of protest.
• The Senate yesterday passed a $106 billion spending bill that includes about $80 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, sending the bill to the White House for President Obama’s signature. The money will fund the wars through October.
• Key Senate Democrats are paring back subsidies designed to make insurance more affordable as they reach for bipartisan support on health care legislation. An outline circulated yesterday by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) also leaves open the possibility that there would be no direct government competition against private insurers.
