• Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) calls in at 6:30am Pacific to talk about health care reform.

• The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) President Gerald McEntee calls in at 7:30am Pacific to talk about their grassroots effort to get health care reform passed.

• Comedian Hal Sparks joins us in studio at 8:05am Pacific to talk about all things politics and pop culture.

• The White House shot down concerns yesterday that middle-class families may face a tax increase in order to combat rising deficits and a struggling economy. The concern came after the Obama administration’s two top money men floated the idea that tax increases to fund the nation’s economic recovery could extend into the middle class.

• Frustrated with the pace of bipartisan talks, Dem leaders yesterday promised to push a sweeping health care bill through the Senate whether they get GOP support or not.

• Former President Bill Clinton made an unannounced visit to North Korea this morning on a trip seen as a mission to win the release of two jailed American reporters and to ease tensions over Pyongyang’s recent nuclear defiance.