• Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to tell us about her anger at the Blue Dog Democrats and their opposition to meaningful health care reform.
• Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) calls in at 8:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang joins us in studio at 8:10am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.
• President Obama sat down for a beer at the White House last night with a top African-American professor and the police officer who arrested him earlier this month. After the meeting, Sgt. James Crowley told reporters that the men had a “cordial and productive discussion” in which they agreed to move forward rather than dwell on past events. He said they plan to meet again.
• A key Senate committee won’t vote on its compromise health care overhaul plan before the upcoming month-long August recess, giving GOP-ers and some conservative Dems their desired slowdown in congressional action on President Obama’s top domestic priority.
• According to a new CNN Poll of Polls, 54 percent of Americans approve of how President Obama is handling his duties in the White House. That’s down 7 points from late June. In the same Poll of polls, 48 percent approve of how he’s handling the economy, and 43 percent approve of his handling of health care reform.
