• Hal Sparks joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 6am Pacific for all three hours of “Humpdays With Hal.” Check out the video stream during the show at his LiveStream Page!
• Eric Boehlert, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, calls in at 7:05am Pacific to co-host Right Wing World.
• In a reversal of a long-standing ban on most offshore drilling, President Barack Obama is allowing oil drilling 50 miles off Virginia’s shorelines. At the same time, he is rejecting some new drilling sites that had been planned in Alaska.
• With the president of France at his side, President Barack Obama declared Tuesday he hopes to have international sanctions against Iran in place “within weeks,” not months, because of its continuing nuclear program. But he acknowledged he still lacks full support at the United Nations.
• Top Republicans are increasingly worried that GOP candidates this fall might be burned by a fire that’s roaring through the conservative base: demand for the repeal of President Barack Obama’s new health care law. Repeal is politically and legally unlikely, and grass-roots activists may feel disillusioned by a failed crusade.
• Failing US financial institutions must face the credible threat of government closure if reforms are to succeed, Paul Volcker, a key adviser to President Barack Obama, said Tuesday.
