• John Fugelsang joins Steph in the NYC Bureau at 9am ET / 6am PT for all three hours of “Fridays With Fugelsang”
• Laura Flanders joins Steph in the NYC Bureau at 9:05am ET / 6:05am PT to talk about the news of the day
• Christian Weller, economist with the Center for American Progress, calls in at 10:05 ET / 7:05am PT to talk about the economy, jobs, and the economic impact of Arizona’s new immigration law
• Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich) calls in at 11:05am ET / 8:05am PT to talk about financial reform
• Oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico was starting to ooze ashore, threatening migrating birds, nesting pelicans and even river otters and mink along Louisiana’s fragile islands and barrier marshes. The leak from a blown-out well a mile underwater is five times bigger than first believed.
• President Obama interviewed appeals court judge Sidney Thomas for a slot on the Supreme Court on Thursday, a sign the president’s search for a nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens has moved into a critical phase. Thomas, 56, is a liberal judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in San Francisco. His office is in Montana.
• FL Gov. Charlie Crist defected from the GOP on Thursday to run as an independent for U.S. Senate after months of being ripped by conservatives as too supportive of President Obama.
