• Max Blumenthal calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about his new book, “Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered The Party.”
• Terry O’Sullivan, President of the Laborers International Union of North America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to talk about health care reform.
• Comedian John Fugelsang calls in at 8:30am Pacific to talk abou all things politics and pop culture.
• The U.S., Britain, and France today will accuse Iran of building a secret underground plant to manufacture nuclear fuel and demand that Tehran grant access to international weapons inspectors, The New York Times reported.
• The Senate Finance Committee defeated a Dem amendment that would have gradually closed the coverage gap in the Medicare drug benefit at the expense of drugmakers. Nonetheless, another proposal to shield seniors in Medicare private insurance plans from benefit cuts remained alive.
• Advocates for a public insurance plan, the idea that has generated the most passion in the health care debate, are pressing for a crucial test vote in the Senate Finance Committee.
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized yesterday after becoming ill in her office at the court. She had received a treatment for an iron deficiency and developed “lightheadedness and fatigue” about an hour later. She is expected to be released today.
