• Dean Obeidallah of SiriusXM Insight 121 calls in at 9:30am ET / 6:30am PT to compare Donald Trump to the Kardashians
• Michael Tomasky of “The Daily Beast” calls in at 10:30am ET / 7:30am PT to talk about the monster that Fox News created
• Comedy duo Frangela joins us in the Los Angeles Bureau at 11am ET / 8am PT for “Fridays With Frangela”
• GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Thursday defended his brother’s handling of the Iraq War and blamed President Obama for the rise of Islamic extremists in the Middle East, suggesting the decision to take out former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein “turned out to be a pretty good deal.”
• Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Obama’s law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how hard it could be for Republicans to dismantle the program.
• The U.S. has found it credible that ISIS used a “blistering agent” earlier this week against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, according to officials. But no determination has been made as to what type of chemical agent may have been used in the attack, which affected a small number of Kurdish fighters.
• Secretary of State John Kerry and several other U.S. officials will be in Havana today to officially raise the flag at the American embassy in Cuba.
